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Sex trafficking survivor slams Britt for inaccurate story in SOTU response

During the Republican response to the State of the Union on Thursday, Britt told a graphic story involving sex trafficking and rape to criticize Biden’s immigration policies.

“When I first took office, I did something different. I traveled to the Del Rio sector of Texas, where I spoke to a woman who shared her story with me. She had been sex trafficked by the cartels starting at age 12,” Britt said. “President Biden’s border crisis is a disgrace. It’s despicable. And it’s almost entirely preventable.” -snip

An independent reporter later revealed in a TikTok video that the woman in question was Romero, who met with Britt and two other senators in January 2023. The story Britt was referencing occurred during President George W. Bush’s administration, when Biden was still a senator. Romero testified before Congress back in 2015 about her experiences a decade earlier with sex trafficking in Mexico. -snip

Pretty standard Republican dishonestly tactics.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/19/un-staff-in-west-bank-accuse-israeli-authorities-of-campaign-of-harassment

In one of the most serious alleged incidents described in the documents, two Unrwa staff in a marked UN vehicle were stopped by soldiers at a temporary checkpoint in February 2024 as they tried to leave a Palestinian village near Bethlehem.

The soldiers, who “forcefully” removed the keys and “forced the staff to get out … at gunpoint”, then searched the vehicle and mocked the staff “making reference to the staff belonging to Hamas”. The staff were then instructed to kneel down, were blindfolded, handcuffed with plastic cable-ties and beaten before a senior officer intervened, the documents allege.

Insane if true. I usually give the IDF the benefit of the doubt in the sense I believe the accusations against them are often overblown, but here they act like glorified thugs.

It makes you question everything, including the accusations of anti-semetism from the usual sources and the insistence from Netanyahu that they are doing everything in their power to follow international and humanitarian concerns.

Originally posted by Adam_PoE
A bill that would remove all work hour restrictions on teenagers—including the prohibition on overnight shifts on school nights—received lawmakers' approval at its first committee stop over Democrats' objections. Republican Representative Linda Chaney's bill (HB 49) went before the House Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee. It proposes to roll back decades of state restrictions on child labor.

Kids want to work, she said, noting that teen workforce participation has dropped precipitously since Florida adopted its current guidelines in the 1930s. "This bill gets government out of their way to choose the path that is best for them," she said.

"There's going to be so much time for them to be an adult," said Democratic Representative Susan Valdés. She invoked a familiar theme that Republicans sounded as laws were passed restricting LGBTQ materials in schools. "Let kids be children."

Florida, where teens cannot choose to attend an all ages drag show with their parents, but can choose to work overnight shifts before school.

Republican Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill Friday authorizing teenagers to work more than 30 hours per week with their parent's approval.

The governor's signing of HB 49, which had garnered criticism from workers' advocacy groups, came without fanfare. In fact, his office announced the approval in a press release along with 24 other bills the governor signed Friday afternoon.

Under the law going into effect in a few months, employers could schedule teenagers to work for more than six days at a time. Homeschooled teenagers and those who attend virtual schools can now work without any of the limitations the state places on minors.

Look who's suddenly concerned about minors.

Go peddle your nonsense on Reddit.

Originally posted by Adam_PoE
Republican Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill Friday authorizing teenagers to work more than 30 hours per week with their parent's approval.

The governor's signing of HB 49, which had garnered criticism from workers' advocacy groups, came without fanfare. In fact, his office announced the approval in a press release along with 24 other bills the governor signed Friday afternoon.

Under the law going into effect in a few months, employers could schedule teenagers to work for more than six days at a time. Homeschooled teenagers and those who attend virtual schools can now work without any of the limitations the state places on minors.

It's so businesses can take advantage of teen workers. Ron DeSantis is looking out for his rich business buddies.

Isn't DeSantis best friends with two convicted child molesters? or is that another prominent Republican? Hard to keep track with so many.

Originally posted by Robtard
It's so businesses can take advantage of teen workers. Ron DeSantis is looking out for his rich business buddies.

Isn't DeSantis best friends with two convicted child molesters? or is that another prominent Republican? Hard to keep track with so many.

DeSantis wanted to appear tough on immigration to support his presidential amibitions, so the Florida Republican legislature rubber-stamped his anti-immigrant policies, causing migrant labor to leave the state. Now, they are scrambling to replace those workers with low-cost child labor to keep multiple industries in the state from imploding, so they do not face the wrath of wealthy Republican donors and voters.

The bill was supported by DeSantis megadonor and packaging and shipping magnate Dick Uihlein. Not only does it allow teenagers to work in previously forbidden construction jobs, but it also allows developers to raze coastal and historic buildings and replace them with structuress as large as zoning permits.

It's almost as if being an idiot and saying idiotic and offensive things can get you fired. Crazy...

Disney Reveals ‘Final Straw’ for Firing ‘The Mandalorian’s’ Gina Carano

What, this?

“Because history is edited, most people today don’t realize that to get to the point where Nazi soldiers could easily round up thousands of Jews, the government first made their own neighbors hate them simply for being Jews,” Carano wrote online at the time, “How is that any different from hating someone for their political views?”

Maybe not the best analogy, but it was still insightful. She's right, hatred is irrational, Republicans are a legitimate party with legitimate points that may be disagreed with, debated, contested, but hated is simply an act of dehumanizing.

A Republican candidate for state House of Representatives in Northern Kentucky was arrested and booked for strangulation Monday night. According to Kenton County Jail records, Brian Ormes was arrested by a Fort Wright police officer and booked into Kenton County Jail at 11:02 p.m. Monday on three charges: first-degree strangulation, menacing, and fourth-degree assault with no visible injury.

Ormes, 53, is a candidate for House District 67, located in Campbell County, and encompasses most of the city of Newport. The seat is currently held by House Democratic Whip Rachel Roberts, who is not seeking re-election. According to a bond decision from Kenton County District Court, Ormes is required to refrain from contacting the victim and to "stay out of all Walmarts" as conditions of his release.

According to a Fort Wright police report, three minors were playing with a ball by the bike aisle at the Valley Plaza Walmart. The ball almost hit Ormes' son, and the minors told police Ormes became angry and started following them around the store.

A police officer said in the report he saw security video footage of Ormes confronting a 17-year-old and punching him in the back of the head. Ormes then pushed the teen against a shelf and put his hand around the teen's neck.

Ormes was released from the Kenton County Detention Center on a $2,500 cash bond Tuesday. He is scheduled to be back in court April 16th.

Originally posted by cdtm
Maybe not the best analogy...

You're not as crazy as you make yourself out to be.

Originally posted by Patient_Leech
It's almost as if being an idiot and saying idiotic and offensive things can get you fired. Crazy...

Disney Reveals ‘Final Straw’ for Firing ‘The Mandalorian’s’ Gina Carano

I liked Gina in that role, but she's little more than a very good looking moron, she had chance, after chance, after chance to stop being an edge lord but she kept pushing. Being edgy was worth more than Disney cash.

As far as her "hatred" quote, she's obviously wrong as you can definitely hate someone for their political views if those views are deplorable. eg The very Nazi party she used as an example was a political party with views and beliefs that deserve nothing short of repulsion.

Originally posted by Adam_PoE
A Republican candidate for state House of Representatives in Northern Kentucky was arrested and booked for strangulation Monday night. According to Kenton County Jail records, Brian Ormes was arrested by a Fort Wright police officer and booked into Kenton County Jail at 11:02 p.m. Monday on three charges: first-degree strangulation, menacing, and fourth-degree assault with no visible injury.

Ormes, 53, is a candidate for House District 67, located in Campbell County, and encompasses most of the city of Newport. The seat is currently held by House Democratic Whip Rachel Roberts, who is not seeking re-election. According to a bond decision from Kenton County District Court, Ormes is required to refrain from contacting the victim and to "stay out of all Walmarts" as conditions of his release.

According to a Fort Wright police report, three minors were playing with a ball by the bike aisle at the Valley Plaza Walmart. The ball almost hit Ormes' son, and the minors told police Ormes became angry and started following them around the store.

A police officer said in the report he saw security video footage of Ormes confronting a 17-year-old and punching him in the back of the head. Ormes then pushed the teen against a shelf and put his hand around the teen's neck.

Ormes was released from the Kenton County Detention Center on a $2,500 cash bond Tuesday. He is scheduled to be back in court April 16th.

Republicans love abusing the underage.

Originally posted by Adam_PoE

The Moscow Times: "Russia Building Village for Conservative U.S. Ex-Patriots"

Russian authorities will launch construction of a village outside Moscow for conservative-minded Americans and Canadians next year, the state-run RIA Novosti news agency reported Thursday. Russia has for years positioned itself as a bastion of "traditional" values in contrast with Western liberalism as its relations with the West have deteriorated over its 2014 annexation of Crimea and 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Timur Beslanguro, a migration lawyer at Moscow's VISTA Foreign Business Support, claimed that "around 200 families" wish to emigrate to Russia for "ideological reasons."

"The reason is propaganda of radical values: Today they have 70 genders, and who knows what will come next," Beslangurov said, echoing President Vladimir Putin's frequently deployed grievances against Western countries' comparative gender freedom.

The tragicomic tale of a down-on-his-luck Texan who reinvented himself as a renegade war hero in a fake Russian republic took an unexpected turn this week when he was abducted by Russian troops after being accused of being a CIA spy. Russell Bentley, also known as "Texas," is perhaps the last person one would expect to have pulled off cunning spycraft for the nearly 10 years he has been living among Russian fighters in Ukraine's occupied Donetsk region.

A Dallas native with a conviction on drug charges back home, Bentley briefly seized international headlines in 2014 when he was spotted in a cowboy hat with Russian fighters, and spewing Kremlin propaganda about "Nazis" in Ukraine. He obtained Russian citizenship in 2020 after remodeling himself as a combat-vet-turned-"journalist" for Kremlin-controlled media.

Originally posted by Adam_PoE
The tragicomic tale of a down-on-his-luck Texan who reinvented himself as a renegade war hero in a fake Russian republic took an unexpected turn this week when he was abducted by Russian troops after being accused of being a CIA spy. Russell Bentley, also known as "Texas," is perhaps the last person one would expect to have pulled off cunning spycraft for the nearly 10 years he has been living among Russian fighters in Ukraine's occupied Donetsk region.

A Dallas native with a conviction on drug charges back home, Bentley briefly seized international headlines in 2014 when he was spotted in a cowboy hat with Russian fighters, and spewing Kremlin propaganda about "Nazis" in Ukraine. He obtained Russian citizenship in 2020 after remodeling himself as a combat-vet-turned-"journalist" for Kremlin-controlled media.

LoL, his Russian buddies turned on him. What a retard.

Originally posted by Adam_PoE
Over the past week, a sensational story has torn through local and national media: a local nonprofit said homeless veterans under its care had been kicked out of upstate hotels to make room for migrants bused from New York City. But the story has fallen apart over the past 48 hours, culminating Thursday evening with state Assemblyman Brian Maher, who had been advocating for the veterans in national media and in the state Legislature, denouncing it as false.

The story began to unravel Wednesday when the manager of the Newburgh hotel that had purportedly displaced veterans reported it had no dealings with the nonprofit. According to Maher's account, he was taken for a ride by Sharon Toney-Finch, CEO of Yerik Israel Toney Foundation.

Then on Friday, two men currently staying at a homeless shelter in Poughkeepsie reported they were among a group of 15 recruited a few days ago to portray homeless veterans displaced from upstate hotels by incoming migrants. In interviews, the men said two people came to the shelter, saying they had work for 15 men between the ages of 40 and 60. They would be paid $100 for two or three hours of effort, and no heavy lifting would be involved.

The two unhoused men were Douglas Tery, 55, and William, 52, who asked that his last name not be used. Tery and William were among the 15 who agreed to participate in the Wednesday event. They waited two hours for transportation, during which time William, who is on parole, asked the recruiters if the opportunity involved anything illegal. "They said, 'No, it's above-board,'" he said.

A veteran who spread a false story blaming White House immigration policies for harming homeless veterans was charged with stolen valor and fraud this week after months of investigation into her charity work by the FBI. Sharon Toney-Finch, 43, founder of the Yerik Israel Toney Foundation in New York, was charged by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York with multiple counts of fraud. She could face more than 30 years in prison if convicted of all the charges.

Toney-Finch came under national scrutiny in May 2023 after her organization claimed that 20 homeless veterans under its care had been kicked out of a Newburgh, New York hotel to make room for incoming migrants being housed through county funding. New York state lawmakers introduced legislation to stop the evictions. But as the story gained national attention, hotel officials said they had no record of the veterans in question, and Veterans Affairs officials said they had no record of any direct work with the charity.

Between July 2019 and September 2023, Toney-Finch engaged in a scheme to defraud donors to her charitable organization by falsely claiming that donation funds would be spent solely to support homeless military veterans, when—in fact—she spent the funds on personal expenses. She further falsely claimed that she was injured in and survived a terrorist attack on a vehicle convoy in Iraq in March 2010, and that she is a Purple Heart recipient.

Between March 2016 and the present, Toney-Finch knowingly obtained hundreds of thousands of dollars in disability benefits from the V.A. by fraudulently representing that, during her military service in Iraq, she sustained combat-related injuries during a mortar attack in February 2010 and a vehicle rollover that occurred in March 2010.

Between August 2021 and the present, Toney-Finch has falsely claimed that she is a Purple Heart recipient in statements made to donors to her charitable organization, an application to the New York Department of Motor Vehicles to obtain a vanity license plate, and an application to the National Purple Heart Hall of Honor to obtain a medallion and recognition on their website. Toney-Finch has also used, possessed, and exhibited a military discharge certificate that had been altered to reflect falsely that she is a Purple Heart recipient.

Toney-Finch, 43, of Newburgh, New York, is charged with wire fraud, which carries a maximum potential sentence of 20 years in prison; theft of government funds, which carries a maximum potential sentence of 10 years in prison; stolen valor, which carries a maximum potential sentence of one year in prison; and altering military discharge paperwork, which carries a maximum potential sentence of one year in prison.

Fox News has yet to mention her arrest, despite having devoted dozens of segments to her false claims.

"Fox News has yet to mention her arrest, despite having devoted dozens of segments to her false claims." -Adam_PoE

Don't hold your breath for that.

An NYPD public-information officer shot a driver with his service pistol and then fled in a road-road incident in south Jersey last month, authorities said.

New York City cop Hieu Tran, 27—whose job includes snapping photos of events for the Police Department's social media accounts—appeared grim-faced in Manhattan court Friday, where he agreed to extradition to the Garden State to face attempted-murder charges.

Tran, of Yonkers, is accused of pulling up his white SUV beside a yellow truck at an intersection in Voorhees around 11:15 p.m. May 17th and firing at it at least three times, according to authorities and a criminal complaint detailing surveillance footage from the scene.

Originally posted by Adam_PoE

The Moscow Times: "Russia Building Village for Conservative U.S. Ex-Patriots"

Russian authorities will launch construction of a village outside Moscow for conservative-minded Americans and Canadians next year, the state-run RIA Novosti news agency reported Thursday. Russia has for years positioned itself as a bastion of "traditional" values in contrast with Western liberalism as its relations with the West have deteriorated over its 2014 annexation of Crimea and 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Timur Beslanguro, a migration lawyer at Moscow's VISTA Foreign Business Support, claimed that "around 200 families" wish to emigrate to Russia for "ideological reasons."

"The reason is propaganda of radical values: Today they have 70 genders, and who knows what will come next," Beslangurov said, echoing President Vladimir Putin's frequently deployed grievances against Western countries' comparative gender freedom.

A network of Russia-based websites masquerading as local American newspapers is pumping out fake stories as part of an AI-powered operation that is increasingly targeting the U.S. election, and a former Florida police officer who relocated to Moscow is one of the key figures behind it.

The following would have been a bombshell report—if it were true:

"Olena Zelenska, the first lady of Ukraine, allegedly bought a rare Bugatti Tourbillon sports car for $4.8M while visiting Paris for D-Day. The source of the funds was supposedly American military aid money. Experts pointed out strange anomalies on the invoice posted online. Bugatti issued a sharp denial, calling it 'fake news,' and its Paris dealership threatened legal action against the people behind the false story."

Jackson Hinkle's post about the fake Bugatti purchase got 6.5 million views alone. Hinkle, a recent guest of Tucker Carlson's X show, was named as X's top spreader of fake news in 2023.

An elderly evangelical pastor is facing federal charges for assaulting his wife on an airplane because she got upgraded to first class and he did not. The ugly physical attack occurred July 2nd aboard Alaska Airlines flight 275 from Seattle to Anchorage, after Roger Allan Holmberg, 75, verbally abused his spouse and flipped her the bird in front of a cabinful of horrified travelers.

According to the complaint, a passenger who was sitting in first class next to Holmberg's wife, who is not identified by name in the filing, said things began to go south shortly after the 3.5-hour flight got underway. In the first of three separate incidents, Holmberg, who was flying coach, confronted his wife at her seat, the complaint states. "How the hell did you get the upgrade," Holmberg demanded of her, says the complaint. "I'm a gold point member," Holmberg's wife replied.

According to an off-duty cop witness, Holmberg struck his wife in the head when he returned to her seat in first class for a third time. According to the wife, Holmberg has a history of physical abuse.

Originally posted by Adam_PoE
A Republican candidate for state House of Representatives in Northern Kentucky was arrested and booked for strangulation Monday night. According to Kenton County Jail records, Brian Ormes was arrested by a Fort Wright police officer and booked into Kenton County Jail at 11:02 p.m. Monday on three charges: first-degree strangulation, menacing, and fourth-degree assault with no visible injury.

Ormes, 53, is a candidate for House District 67, located in Campbell County, and encompasses most of the city of Newport. The seat is currently held by House Democratic Whip Rachel Roberts, who is not seeking re-election. According to a bond decision from Kenton County District Court, Ormes is required to refrain from contacting the victim and to "stay out of all Walmarts" as conditions of his release.

According to a Fort Wright police report, three minors were playing with a ball by the bike aisle at the Valley Plaza Walmart. The ball almost hit Ormes' son, and the minors told police Ormes became angry and started following them around the store.

A police officer said in the report he saw security video footage of Ormes confronting a 17-year-old and punching him in the back of the head. Ormes then pushed the teen against a shelf and put his hand around the teen's neck.

Ormes was released from the Kenton County Detention Center on a $2,500 cash bond Tuesday. He is scheduled to be back in court April 16th.

A Republican political candidate slapped one teenager and choked another at a restaurant Sunday in Miami-Dade County, and it was all caught on camera, according to police. George Bardmesser is a Russian-American attorney who is campaigning for Sunny Isles Beach commissioner. Police officers responded and handcuffed Bardness, 59, who wore a shirt promoting his campaign.

In a video, Bardmesser is seen approaching a group of teenagers who were eating, putting one in a chokehold while his back is turned, and then slapping a second teen, authorities said. Several bystanders intervened before police arrived.

Bardmesser, who has been charged with child abuse, is running on a law and order platform.

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