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- Are Fort Worth Police Running a Car Towing Racket? A Dubious and Violent Arrest Raises Questionstherealnews.com Are Ft. Worth police running a car towing racket? A dubious and violent arrest raises questions
Activist and influencer Carolina Ft. Worth suspected her city's police were operating a racket targeting the vehicles of downtown bar workers. Her attempts to investigate landed her in jail.
- Harris stretches lead over Trump in what could be significant increasewww.theguardian.com Harris stretches lead over Trump in what could be significant increase
While election almost certain to be decided by swing states, pollsters explain why growth in national polls is meaningful
- Helene death toll climbs with fatalities reported in 5 stateswww.washingtonpost.com Helene death toll climbs with fatalities reported in 5 states
The storm spiraled through multiple states after making landfall late Thursday in Florida. Damage was extensive across hundreds of miles.
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- 'Lazy and Mediocre' HR Team Fired After Manager's Own CV Gets Auto-Rejected in Seconds, Exposing System Failurewww.ibtimes.co.uk 'Lazy and Mediocre' HR Team Fired After Manager's Own CV Gets Auto-Rejected in Seconds, Exposing System Failure
An HR team was fired after their manager discovered their ATS system was auto-rejecting all candidates, including his own resume.
- Meet the First Tenured Professor to Be Fired for Pro-Palestine Speechtheintercept.com Meet the First Tenured Professor to Be Fired for Pro-Palestine Speech
Maura Finkelstein was terminated from Muhlenberg College following a pressure campaign that seized on an anti-Zionist Instagram repost.
- US offers $20m to help catch Iranian accused in plot to kill John Boltonwww.middleeasteye.net US offers $20m to help catch Iranian accused in plot to kill John Bolton
US says the Trump-era advisor is being targeted as revenge for the killing of General Qassem Soleimani
The US is offering a $20m reward for information leading to the arrest or conviction of Shahram Poursafi, a member of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) who is accused of plotting to assassinate former US national security advisor John Bolton.
The US State Department says that between 2021-2022, Poursafi was working on behalf of the IRGC's Quds Force to hire criminals to murder Bolton in Washington DC and Maryland. Poursafi is said to have been offering $300,000 for the job.
"Poursafi told the potential assassin - who actually became a confidential source for US investigators - that once he completed the Bolton murder, he would have a second assassination job for him," the administration statement reads.
When Bolton first learned of the plot in 2022, he was asked on CNN what went through his mind. "Well, I was embarrassed at the low price," Bolton responded. "I would have thought it would have been higher. But I guess maybe it was the exchange rate problem or something."
- How CNN, ADL & Others Amplified Smear Against Rep. Rashida Tlaib for Criticizing Campus Prosecutionswww.democracynow.org How CNN, ADL & Others Amplified Smear Against Rep. Rashida Tlaib for Criticizing Campus Prosecutions
We look at the smear campaign faced by the only Palestinian American in Congress and a vocal critic of Israel, Democratic Congressmember Rashida Tlaib, after she defended the rights of student protesters. Tlaib recently criticized Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel over charges Nessel filed again...
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20788895
> September 27, 2024 > > Guests > Steve Neavling - investigative reporter at Detroit Metro Times. > Prem Thakker - political correspondent and columnist for Zeteo News.
- The price of gold keeps climbing to unprecedented heights. Here's why.www.voanews.com The price of gold keeps climbing to unprecedented heights. Here's why
The New York spot price of gold closed Tuesday at just over $2,657 per Troy ounce
- Hundreds of Kansas City Tenants Will Strike to Demand Repairs, Rent Capsinthesetimes.com Hundreds of Kansas City Tenants Will Strike to Demand Repairs, Rent Caps
Tenants voted to withhold rent on October 1 in a rent strike that could catch fire nationwide.
- CNN Anchors Won’t Stop Lying About Something Rashida Tlaib Never Saidtheintercept.com CNN Anchors Won’t Stop Lying About Something Rashida Tlaib Never Said
The source of the quote corrected CNN anchors Jake Tapper and Dana Bash, but they kept accusing Rep. Rashida Tlaib of antisemitism anyway.
- New York City mayor charged with taking bribes, illegal campaign fundswww.aljazeera.com New York City mayor charged with taking bribes, illegal campaign funds
US prosecutors indict Eric Adams on federal charges that he solicited bribes from Turkish businessmen and officials.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been charged with bribery and taking illegal campaign contributions from foreign sources, an unsealed indictment has revealed, throwing the United States’ largest city’s government into turmoil.
In a five-count indictment on Thursday, Adams was charged with crimes such as conspiracy, wire fraud, and bribery. Prosecutors have accused him of offering favours and influence in exchange for luxury travel and airline benefits.
Adams, a 64-year-old Democrat who became the first of the city’s 110 mayors to be criminally charged while in office, has denied the allegations and said he has no plans to step down as mayor.
- The US regime just executed another innocent black man.innocenceproject.org Marcellus Williams - Innocence Project
Marcellus Williams faces execution on Sept. 24, for a crime he did not commit. Read key facts about the case and act to stop this injustice.
More context:
https://innocenceproject.org/cases/marcellus-williams/
- “I Saw a Mirror”: Marcellus Williams’s Execution Enrages Palestine Solidarity Protesterstheintercept.com “I Saw a Mirror”: Marcellus Williams’s Execution Enrages Palestine Solidarity Protesters
Activists are drawing parallels between Missouri’s state-sanctioned killing of Marcellus Williams and U.S. backing for Israel’s war on Gaza.
Minutes after Missouri executed Marcellus “Khaliifah” Williams on Tuesday, his son, Marcellus Williams Jr., addressed a crowd of supporters that had gathered to grieve in front of the state prison in Bonne Terre.
Among them was Maha Odah, a Palestinian American activist with Al-Hadaf Kansas City, a Palestinian liberation organization, who had driven more than two hours to be there. When Williams Jr. began to grieve for his son’s stolen opportunity to know his grandfather, Odah thought of her own experience with loss.
“I saw a mirror,” Odah said, recalling moments spent with Williams’s family. “A reflection of these two systems that are both upheld by the U.S. that condemn Black and Palestinian men, our fathers, our grandfathers, and the rest of our families, at the mercy of those who continue to find ways to dehumanize us.”
- The JD Vance Dossier - We’re publishing the supposed Iran-hacked document. Here’s why.www.kenklippenstein.com Read the JD Vance Dossier
We’re publishing the supposed Iran-hacked document. Here’s why.
Behold the dossier. (link to dossier from article)
It reportedly comes from an alleged Iranian government hack of the Trump campaign, and since June, the news media has been sitting on it (and other documents), declining to publish in fear of finding itself at odds with the government’s campaign against “foreign malign influence.”
I disagree. The dossier has been offered to me and I’ve decided to publish it because it’s of keen public interest in an election season. It’s a 271-page research paper the Trump campaign prepared to vet now vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance. As far as I can tell, it hasn’t been altered, but even if it was, its contents are publicly verifiable. I’ll let it speak for itself.
“The terror regime in Iran loves the weakness and stupidity of Kamala Harris, and is terrified of the strength and resolve of President Donald J. Trump,” Steven Cheung, communications director for the Trump campaign, responded when I asked him about the hack.
This is not the Steele Dossier of 2016, with its golden showers and anti-Trump fanfiction. Unlike the Steele Dossier, which was both fraudulent and discredited, the Vance Dossier is factual and intelligently written. No Jason Bourne style capers appear, and there’s no sleaze. Instead, the Vance Dossier enumerates pretty reasonable liabilities as a then-contender for VP nominee, including:
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“Vance has been one of the chief obstructionists to U.S. efforts to providing [sic] assistance to Ukraine.”
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“Vance criticized public health experts and elected officials for supporting Black Lives Matter protests while condemning anti-lockdown [Covid] protests.”
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“Vance ‘embraced non-interventionism.’”
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“In 2020, Vance criticized President Trump’s airstrike killing Iranian General Qasem Soleimani, worrying it would continue to bog down America in the Middle East to the advantage of China. Vance suggested that the country had been entangled in wars in the Middle East so ‘financial elites’ could profit from the rise of China.”
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- Blinken Faces Calls to Resign Over Lie That Israel Is Not Blocking Gaza Aidwww.commondreams.org Blinken Faces Calls to Resign Over Lie That Israel Is Not Blocking Gaza Aid | Common Dreams
"When a senior American official lies to Congress in the middle of genocide so that the government can keep funding that genocide, he is deliberately flouting the law and prolonging the suffering of millions of innocent people."
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20724665
> Jake Johnson > Sep 25, 2024 >
- Columbia University updates guidelines: 'Zionist' as a pejorative classified as harassment
NEW YORK - Columbia University announced on Monday the revision of its anti-discriminatory guidelines, introducing new policies explicitly addressing the use of terms like "Zionist" when employed to target Jews or Israelis, in an effort to combat antisemitism and provide clearer criteria regarding harassment. The 73-page document prohibits coded language and includes a detailed checklist for students filing complaints.
Columbia's actions emulate those of other universities, such as NYU, which announced last month that anti-Zionist discrimination may violate its student conduct rules.
- Be Better, Please: Melania Hawks "Book" and "Who Gives A Fuck" Christmas Ornamentswww.commondreams.org Be Better, Please: Melania Hawks "Book" and "Who Gives A Fuck" Christmas Ornaments | Common Dreams
After a long hiatus from public life, "priceless, timeless asset" and venal, vapid, gold-digging, rent-a-wife clothes horse Melania Trump has emerged to collect six-figure paychecks for briefly speaking to fellow-fascists, sell improbable "Merry Christmas, AMERICA!” trinkets, hawk a memoir - "My s.....
- Officials' grim request for those riding out Helene in Florida: Mark your bodies so we can ID youwww.nbcnews.com Officials' grim request for those riding out Helene in Florida: Mark your bodies so we can ID you
“I’ve lived here my whole life, and I’ve never been worried about a storm. I am worried about this storm,” the Taylor County sheriff said.
- Three Jersey City ‘cannabis cops’ are reinstated, but not allowed to carry their gunswww-nj-com.cdn.ampproject.org Three Jersey City ‘cannabis cops’ are reinstated, but not allowed to carry their guns
Jersey City could be facing approximately $5,000 in fines related to police officers Omar Polanco and Norhan Mansour.
Apologies for the AMP link. I can't figure out a convenient way to get a native link that includes the full article.
- Chappell Roan Says She’s “Voting For F@cking Kamala,” But No VP Endorsement & “F@ck Trump, For F@cking Real”deadline.com Chappell Roan Says She’s “Voting For F*cking Kamala,” But No VP Endorsement & “F*ck Trump, For F*cking Real”
Chappell Roan took to TikTok against to talk presidential politics & reveal she's voting for VP Kamala Harris
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20185803
> She says it in this new video: https://x.com/SaeedDiCaprio/status/1838960476199211454
- ‘A dying empire led by bad people’: Poll finds young voters despairing over US politicswww.semafor.com ‘A dying empire led by bad people’: Poll finds young voters despairing over US politics | Semafor
A new survey may help explain Joe Biden’s recent struggles with the under-30 set.
- Progressive US Lawmakers Call for Arms Embargo to Halt Israeli Escalation in Lebanonwww.commondreams.org Progressive US Lawmakers Call for Arms Embargo to Halt Israeli Escalation in Lebanon | Common Dreams
"We cannot continue to stand idly by while innocent civilians are being bombarded with our tax dollars," said U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20725066
> Jake Johnson > Sep 25, 2024
- ‘I will prevent World War 3’, Trump says | AJ #shorts
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- Fact-check: Tlaib did not say Nessel charged pro-Palestinian protesters because she’s Jewishwww.metrotimes.com Fact-check: Tlaib did not say Nessel charged pro-Palestinian protesters because she’s Jewish
The “blatant and hateful” false claims were peddled by a state lawmaker, the attorney general, and some media outlets
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, a Democratic state lawmaker, and some news agencies are falsely claiming that U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib said Nessel’s office only filed charges against pro-Palestinian activists at the University of Michigan because she’s Jewish.
The spurious claims stem from an interview that Tlaib did with Metro Times on Sept. 13. Tlaib, who was born in Detroit to Palestinian immigrants and is the only Palestinian American member of Congress, argued the charges were an unjust and heavy-handed response to peaceful civil disobedience.
Tlaib pointed out that Nessel, who has been in office since January 2019, has not filed charges against protesters opposed to racism, police brutality, water shutoffs, and environmental contamination.
Tlaib never once mentioned Nessel’s religion or Judaism. But Metro Times pointed out in the story that Nessel is Jewish, and that appears to be the spark that led to the false claims.
Shortly after the article was published, state Sen. Jeremy Moss, a Democrat who is Jewish, posted a screenshot of the story on X and claimed that Tlaib’s response was an attempt “to divide us into ‘good’ Jews she accepts & bad Jews.”
On Sunday, CNN host Jake Tapper followed up with a segment in which he falsely claimed that Tlaib said Nessel only filed the charges “because she’s Jewish and the protesters are not.” Tapper made the statement while interviewing Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and tried to get her to weigh in on his false claim.
- CNN's Tapper, Bash Urged to Apologize for 'Reprehensible' Lies About Rashida Tlaib
cross-posted from: https://expressional.social/users/Peter_Link/statuses/113195075987512155
> CNN's Tapper, Bash Urged to Apologize for 'Reprehensible' Lies About Rashida Tlaib > from #CommonDreams > > Brett Wilkins > Sep 24, 2024 > > "At this point, there is virtually zero chance that #CNN, #JakeTapper, and #DanaBash don't know that #RashidaTlaib never said what they are claiming," said one observer. > > https://www.commondreams.org/news/rashida-tlaib-false-allegations > > \#ProtestIsNotACrime > \#DefendStudentProtesters > \#EndTheOccupation #SettlersOut > \#PalestinianLivesMatter > \#FreePalestine #LetGazaLive > \#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism > \#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSea is #NotAntisemitic > \#JewHatredHurtsPalestine > \#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #politics #MiddleEast > \#USA #US #USPolitics #USElection #DanaNessel #GretchenWhitmer #ADL #Jewish #antiSemitism #DemocraticParty > \#media #news #press > @palestine@lemmy.ml @usa@lemmyml > @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel
- Man arrested on suspicion of murder after passenger fatally shot during bus hijack in Los Angeles, police saywww.cnn.com Man arrested on suspicion of murder after passenger fatally shot during bus hijack in Los Angeles, police say | CNN
One person is dead after a gunman hijacked a Los Angeles city bus overnight, leading police in a pursuit for more than an hour before the suspect was taken into custody.
- Nonprofit Files Criminal Charges Against Trump, Vance Over Springfield Lieswww.rollingstone.com Nonprofit Files Criminal Charges Against Trump, Vance Over Springfield Lies
A Haitian nonprofit filed criminal charges against Donald Trump and J.D. Vance over false claims they spread against immigrants in Springfield, Ohio.
cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5785682
> Let's hope it goes through. 🙏🙏
- Marcellus Williams executed in Missouri despite conviction doubtswww.aljazeera.com Marcellus Williams executed in Missouri despite conviction doubts
The 55-year-old was convicted in 2003 over the killing of Lisha Gayle in what appeared to be a burglary gone wrong.
Marcellus Williams, who was convicted of murder 21 years ago, has been executed in the Midwestern state of Missouri despite concerns raised over the integrity of the case.
The United States Supreme Court, the last body that could have overturned Williams’s death sentence, declined to intervene in the case on Tuesday.
Wesley Bell, whose office handled the original prosecution, had sought to block the execution due to concerns about the original trial.
“Even for those who disagree on the death penalty, when there is a shadow of a doubt of any defendant’s guilt, the irreversible punishment of execution should not be an option,” Bell said in a statement before the execution.
- Missouri Supreme Court allows Marcellus Williams execution to proceed, governor won't intervenewww.kcur.org Missouri Supreme Court allows Marcellus Williams execution to proceed, governor won't intervene
Without intervention from the U.S. Supreme Court, Marcellus Williams will be executed after 6 p.m. Tuesday. Gov. Mike Parson has said he will not grant clemency to Williams.
- Hilary Clinton accusses Student Protestors of being Foreign Agentstankie.tube Hilary Clinton accusses Student Protestors of being Foreign Agents
A free, general-purpose video sharing platform for the leftist community
- Caroline Ellison sentenced to two years after serving as star witness against FTX’s Sam Bankman-Friedwww.theguardian.com Caroline Ellison sentenced to two years after serving as star witness against FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried
Ex-Alameda CEO and ex-girlfriend of fallen crypto mogul pleaded guilty, but prosecutors signalled lenient sentence
Caroline Ellison, the former crypto executive and romantic partner of the disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, was sentenced to 24 months in prison in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday. Ellison was a central figure in the FTX bankruptcy saga and key witness for the prosecution in the $8bn fraud trial that ended with Bankman-Fried’s conviction.
Ellison served as the CEO of Alameda Research, which was the trading arm of the now defunct FTX crypto exchange. The collapse of FTX, once valued at $32bn, was directly linked to revelations that it was attempting to financially prop up Alameda with fraudulent accounting. Subsequent investigations and criminal charges found that both FTX and the hedge fund had used billions in customer funds for risky trades and lavish personal spending.
- CBO: GOP Social Security Plan Would Cut Benefits by Thousands, Not Extend Solvency
CBO: GOP Social Security Plan Would Cut Benefits by Thousands, Not Extend Solvency
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-social-security-cuts
from #CommonDreams Jessica Corbett Sep 25, 2024
"Their goal is to destroy our #SocialSecurity system," one advocate for seniors said of #Republican politicians.
\#politics \#USA #US #USPolitics #politics #USElections #DemocraticParty #Trump #KamalaHarris #Harris #Biden #press #news #media @usa
- 96% of Americans are concerned about the current state of the economy and more than a quarter are doom spending to deal with the stresswww.cnbc.com Gen Z and millennials are increasingly ‘doom spending.' Here's what it is and how to stop it
'Doom spending' is taking off among young people, as life goals such as owning a home or starting a family feel increasingly out of reach.
- Trump to rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Oct. 5, returning to site of assassination attemptwww.cbsnews.com Trump to rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Oct. 5, returning to site of assassination attempt
Donald Trump will return for a rally to the site of his first assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania.