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When Nashville real estate broker and one-time House candidate Stewart Parks was convicted on Jan. 6 riot charges of trespassing and theft and sentenced to eight months in the Memphis Federal Correctional Institute, he expected the worst. “When I went in, the plan was I was just gonna keep my head down low and good time my way out,” Parks, 31, said. “I wasn't gonna tell anybody like, ‘Hey, I'm Jan. 6.’” Parks couldn’t hide his status, though, because when he was handed off to a Mexican American inmate leader to get him situated, the prison guard said, “Hey, he’s...

Natan Sharansky, one of the great heroes of the twentieth century, corresponded with Alexei Navalny, one of the great heroes of the twenty-first. Navalny, through his lawyers, managed to get a Russian copy of Sharansky’s famous memoir Fear No Evil. He read it in the gulag where he was killed on February 16, 2024. We know this because he sent Sharansky two letters: one in March and one in April of 2023. Today we are honored to publish these historic letters in their original, handwritten Russian and in English. (We are grateful to Anna Lyubarskaja and Rebekah Koffler for their...

The Russian prosecutor's office has warned Russians against participating in a mass protest in the centre of Moscow after the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny. -snip- According to videos and photos on social networks, people in other Russian cities were paying their respects to Navalny after news of his death spread.

VIDEODid Jamaal Bowman watch prank fire alarm videos such as these and get inspired by them to pull, not a fake fire alarm as the lowlife goofballs in the videos did, but a REAL fire alarm in order to INTERFERE WITH THE OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS? How pathetic is it that a congressman actually acts LOWER than the fire alarm prank goofballs? In addition he INTEREFERED WITH THE OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS. Will Bowman get the same treatment as the J6 protestors who were invited into the Capitol by the police and politely walked through its halls only to be...

J6 inmates treated even worse than regular inmates, which is saying a lot. Provocateurs were ginning up trouble on J6, MTG and others were denied access to inmates, who were put in solitary for requesting to see their lawyer, one inmate, elderly is going to lose his arm out of neglect, double standards because antifa and BLM were treated leniently etc., etc., etc.

Jacob Lang has been awaiting trial without bail in the D.C. jail for his involvement in the January 6 riot at the Capitol for almost a year, along with many others who have been charged with crimes connected to that day. With no trial date in sight, he and his fellow inmates languish in a jail they say is inhumane. The J6 prisoners’ complaints about filthy conditions and inhumane treatment resulted in a surprise inspection that found everything they were saying was true. As a result, over 400 prisoners were moved to different facilities—none of them J6 prisoners. Lang has...