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Mayor Brandon Johnson and his administration received complaints about unsanitary and unsafe conditions at a Pilsen migrant shelter as early as late October, more than a month before the death of a 5-year-old boy focused attention on the state of the facility, emails recently obtained by WTTW News show. On Dec. 17, 2023, Jean Carlos Martinez Rivero died at Comer Children’s Hospital after falling ill at a migrant shelter in the 2200 block of South Halsted Avenue. Then on Dec. 19, several other individuals were taken to the hospital from that shelter with respiratory illnesses, according to the mayor’s office....

SACRAMENTO – Saturday night's massive protest in Downtown Sacramento brought the California Democratic Convention to a standstill. More than 2,500 demonstrators flooded the streets, demanding Democratic leaders call for a cease-fire in Gaza. The protest originated as a sit-in demonstration inside the Safe Credit Union Convention Center building with about 200 people. However, it rapidly escalated, swelling to thousands as protestors called for democratic leaders to call for a cease-fire. Democratic leaders were in the midst of their party's convention, gearing up for next year's election as they decide who to support to fill the late Dianne Feinstein's seat. Sameena...

Synopsis: Vivek nails it when asked about Trump's use of the word "vermin" to describe people he doesn't like. He (Vivek) goes after CNN reporter for focusing on mere vocabulary words while our country and way of life are being destroyed before our eyes. See video at link.

The media in America is destructive, inhumane, utterly immoral, and has no conscience as a group whatsoever, and they are tearing this country apart through their lies and projection. Donald Trump has been the greatest friend Israel and the Jewish people have ever had in the Oval Office, and the only president to have a Jewish family, but to people who don’t like him, he is Hitler. Democrat media outlets like Media Matters and people like Joe Scarborough make a mockery of the Holocaust by calling their political opponents Hitler as they do to Donald Trump, while they repeat Hamas...

President Biden on Tuesday slammed former President Trump’s recent remarks in which he likened his political opponents to “vermin,” suggesting Trump’s rhetoric echoes language used in Nazi Germany. “In just the last few days, Trump has said it returns office he’s gonna go after all those who oppose him and wipe out what he called the vermin in America, quote the vermin in America — a specific phrase because it’s just a specific meaning,” Biden said at a fundraiser in San Francisco late Tuesday. “It that goes language you heard Nazi Germany in the 30s. That is [not] even the...

The Hamas terror group calls for mass rallies in the West Bank, Jerusalem and throughout the Arab and Muslim world on Friday in support of its fight against Israel. The group hails the achievements of its armed wing, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam, and calls on young Palestinians in the West Bank to “rise up and go out in roaring crowds,” and clash with settlers and soldiers in the area. It also addresses Arab Israelis, asking them to gather at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa compound, the Temple Mount, to prevent Jews from “desecrating it” and “building on it.”

WASECA, Minn. — The nation’s largest Muslim civil rights organization filed a lawsuit last week against the federal women’s prison in Waseca for violating the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The Washington, D.C.-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) complaint against the prison requests declaratory and injunctive relief for an incarcerated Somali-American Muslim woman who was photographed after her hijab was removed, then forced to carry that photo on her ID card. “Mrs. (Muna) Jama was often threatened if she did not comply with orders to remove her hijab — including threats to cut off her communication with her children,” CAIR legal...

Congress’ far-left “Squad” urged Israel to exercise restraint in the military response to a coordinated attack by Hamas militants who killed hundreds of Israeli civilians. Rep. Cori Bush, Missouri Democrat, said the U.S. “must do our part to stop this violence and trauma by ending U.S. government support for Israeli military occupation and apartheid” while Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar said Gaza “doesn’t have shelters or an iron dome” like Israel to protect its citizens. Their aggressively pro-Palestinian viewpoints underscore the range of pressures from within the Democratic Party being exerted on President Biden as he navigates this foreign policy...

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) on Sunday blasted Israel’s “occupation” policies while saying she grieves those killed as violence engulfed the region following Hamas’ unprecedented incursion from Gaza. Tlaib — the first Palestinian-American sworn into Congress back in 2019 — issued the statement slamming Israel as an “apartheid” state after some of her fellow “Squad” members sparked controversy Saturday for urging a ceasefire in the Middle East.

Presidential candidates Cornel West and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shared differing statements on the attacks on Israel this weekend. Both West, who is running as an independent, and Kennedy Jr., who is seeking the Democratic nomination, uploaded statements after the deadly attacks on Saturday, October 7. In a Saturday post shared on X, formerly Twitter, West said: "The escalation of the barbaric violence in the Middle East must stop. The vicious Israeli occupation and the ugly Palestinian retaliation results in the killing of precious innocent people on both sides. We must have a lasting peace based on justice! #TruthJusticeLove."

Israel’s Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer told CNN’s Dana Bash on Sunday that more than 600 people have been killed in Israel, and that the death toll is likely to rise. Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said Sunday that Israel destroyed around 800 targets in Gaza, including launching pads used by Hamas. The Palestinian health ministry said 370 Palestinians were killed there, and 2,200 others injured. No strangers to war with Israel, many Gazans are sheltering in their homes, with the vast majority lacking access to bunkers. The territory is one of the most densely...

Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib, an outspoken critic of Israel, has finally broken her silence on the unprecedented Hamas terrorist attack on Israel that has killed at least 600 Israelis and prompted Israel to officially declare war for the first time since 1973. Tlaib's office released a statement to the Detroit News on Sunday, more than 24 hours after Hamas launched thousands of rockets at southern Israel. "I grieve the Palestinian and Israeli lives lost yesterday, today, and every day," the statement reads. "As long as our country provides billions in unconditional funding to support the apartheid government, this heartbreaking cycle...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — For two years, it was the coronavirus pandemic. Then, it was Russia’s war in Ukraine. Throughout it all, the perils of climate change, poverty and inequality have steadily, increasingly thrummed through each convening of world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly. As the 78th session opens, there’s no single clear crisis set to dominate the General Debate, as none of the aforementioned ones have been resolved. The high-level meeting will be set against the backdrop of an ongoing war, new political crises in West Africa and Latin America, a lingering coronavirus, economic instability, widening inequality and...

From the White House to 10 Downing Street, political leaders live in some of the world's most iconic official residences. But in Canada, the fate of 24 Sussex Drive, home to the country's prime ministers for more than 70 years, is up in the air after it was allowed to fall into uninhabitable disrepair. The list of problems would turn away even the most ambitious buyer looking for a fixer-upper. The home that has welcomed the world's elite - from John F Kennedy to Princess Diana and Mikhail Gorbachev - now sits empty, a fire trap rife with asbestos, lead,...

Mayor Eric Adams said Thursday he has picked a handsomely paid “rat czar” out of thousands of applicants — but wouldn’t say who “she” is. The up-to-$170,000 position will go to a person who passionately “hates rats” and wants to wipe them out as the city’s rodent population soars, Adams said at a press conference in the Bronx. “We put out a call for a rat czar and we got thousands of responders. We dwindled it down to one person that we’re getting ready to announce. The first thing I asked her was, ‘How do you feel about rats?’” Adams...

I thought my fellow freepers might enjoy this...I was going through the vault on my old podcast clips and found this clip where I drunk dialed Presidential Candidate and New Hampshire nut job Vermin Supreme. Anyways, I promise to post plenty of other stuff on here and not just my stuff...but I thought this was funny and wanted to share with someone who could appreciate it! Enjoy!

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly a year since its inception, the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol will go public with its findings starting this week as lawmakers hope to show the American public how democracy came to the brink of disaster. What you need to know ahead of the hearing: WHEN WILL THE HEARING TAKE PLACE? The first of six hearings is set to go live at 8 p.m. EDT on Thursday. It will take place in a large House office building in the U.S. Capitol complex. HOW TO WATCH THE HEARING Several major networks...

It's a simple rule-of-thumb to follow when you have a rat problem, according to Corrigan, who has a Ph.D. in urban rats studies and advises cities, including the District. “The rats do not like to chew into bleach tasting anything,” he says. “If the outside of the can smells like bleach to that famous nose of theirs, they're like, 'Well, this ain't food.’”

Park Superintendent Cam Sholly first raised concerns last September about wolves dying near the park borderTwenty of Yellowstone National Park's renowned gray wolves roamed from the park and were shot by hunters in recent months — the most killed by hunting in a single season since the predators were reintroduced to the region more than 25 years ago, according to park officials. Fifteen wolves were shot after roaming across the park's northern border into Montana, according to figures released to The Associated Press. Five more died in Idaho and Wyoming. Park officials said in a statement to AP that the...

This will come as no surprise to anyone but New York City has a rat problem. The Rats method of rat control – documented in grisly detail online – isn’t for everyone, but it receives scores of requests from New Yorkers each year. In a city this rat strewn, it seems people are willing to try anything. On the other side of the fence we wait: eight people with eight dogs straining at their leashes, and me, standing there with my pants tucked into my socks, holding an iPhone. The dogs, all terriers, have quite literally smelt a rat, and...