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July 15, 2022

New York Gun Applicants Will Have Their Social Media Accounts Checked For 'Character And Conduct'

New York will officially begin enforcing a new law that requires gun applicants to list their social media accounts for review.
“Sometimes, they’re telegraphing their intent to cause harm to others [on social media],” Hochul noted during a press conference, according to AP News.

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Peter Kehoe, the executive director of the New York Sheriffs’ Association, is unsure whether deputies will enforce the law by going through people’s social media accounts.

“I don’t think we would do that,” Kehoe said, according to AP News. “I think it would be a constitutional invasion of privacy.”
https://blavity.com/new-york-gun-applicants-have-social-media-accounts-checked?category1=blavity-u-life-style&category2=news&item=5

July 14, 2022

Something that I find disturbing about the December meeting with the Kraken lady

Ghouliani and the overstock guy. They were “snuck in” by a Navarro staffer, who threw him under the bus, saying he knew nothing about it. I have a lot of what ifs. This seems like a gigantic security risk. A lower level staffer circumventing the normal procedures for people meeting with president???

July 14, 2022

Faux news has found a boogeyman they can latch onto in the rape of the 10 year old

You would think they would be contrite after proclaiming that the trauma this child went through was a fake story.
But no. Here’s how they are admitting that it is in fact true. By focusing on the monster.
Another article reported that the girl just turned 10 years old. So she was pregnant at 9 years old!

Ohio 10-year-old's alleged rapist is Guatemalan illegal immigrant:

The man charged with the rape of a 10-year-old girl in Ohio is a Guatemalan illegal immigrant, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) source told Fox News Digital on Wednesday.

And true to form they mention Biden’s policy. And for good measure announced that the doctor that came forward is facing HIPPA violations investigation.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ohio-10-year-olds-alleged-rapist-guatemalan-illegal-immigrant-ice-source.amp

July 11, 2022

MAGA Preacher Sean Feucht Scored Millions From His Trump-Loving Flock

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Feucht’s fusion of own-the-libs rhetoric and Christian zealotry is resonating. Newly released IRS records reveal that the once-humble praise singer is not only raising his national profile, he’s raking in enormous amounts of cash. Capitalizing on the notoriety of his 2020 Covid-lockdown protests, Sean Feucht Ministry Inc. ballooned in revenue from $280,000 in 2019 to more than $5.3 million in 2020, ending the year $4 million richer than it started.

(The accounting for this surge is curious: The ministry claims to have received zero dollars in contributions, despite Feucht avidly soliciting such gifts.)
Feucht — who, according to tax filings, is the sole employee of the ministry — also appears to have experienced a surge in personal wealth, raising eyebrows from ministry watchdogs.

The preacher recently bought a pair of extravagant homes, one in a glitzy gated community in Southern California and another on five acres in Montana, valued together at well over $2 million, according to property records reviewed by Rolling Stone.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/maga-preacher-sean-feucht-scored-millions-from-his-trump-loving-flock-1380126/

July 11, 2022

Joe Scarborough defends VP Harris

He said it on his show again this morning. I get so annoyed with how she is being presented.
A reporter on MSNBC was recently frothing at the mouth after VP Harris’ speech after Roe fell. Talking about this will give her opportunity to shine, she followed that with “we will have to see if she disappears or shrinks quietly again like she has in the past. I’m paraphrasing but it was some bullshit like that.”

https://twitter.com/JoeNBC/status/1543558556712067075

July 11, 2022

East Point Police: 'Friends, family, loved ones are being killed by friends, family, loved ones'

Doors cannot stop this.
Without guns, you would probably just have hurt feelings after an argument or black eye after a fist fight.

The East Point Police Chief say 100% of the shooting deaths so far this year are by people who know their victims

EAST POINT, Ga. — East Point’s police chief is urging gun owners to take a look at gun deaths in his city right now, and then realize how volatile arguments with family and friends can be.
So far in 2022, 100% of the gun deaths in East Point have been committed by friends, loved ones, and acquaintances of the victims in arguments and disputes that, the chief said Wednesday, could have been solved without gunfire.
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A nationwide study of the homicides in which investigators were able to identify whether there was a relationship between killer and victim found that in 2020, 79% of the killers knew their victims—and most of the homicides involved guns.
https://www.11alive.com/article/news/crime/east-point-police-gun-deaths/85-e7c4db70-0b97-4459-afc0-3df397f474c6

July 9, 2022

Metro woman with Alzheimer's arrested for domestic violence despite daughter not pressing charges

RIVERDALE, Ga. — A Clayton County woman with severe Alzheimer’s disease is behind bars after scratching her daughter during a confused episode, even though her daughter didn’t want to press charges.

Pamela Reynolds says she has been fighting to get her mother, Annie Reynolds, out of the Clayton County Jail since Friday after she says her mother was falsely arrested.
“She kept saying she didn’t want to go,” Pamela Reynolds told Channel 2′s Ashli Lincoln.

Police were called to the Reynolds home near Hwy. 138 and Taylor Rd. in Riverdale on Friday afternoon after 69-year-old Annie wandered away from the home and towards a busy intersection.After finding her mother incoherent and irate because of the Alzheimer’s, Pamela Reynolds says her mother scratched her and left marks on her arms.

She says Clayton County police saw those marks and, when paired with her mother’s erratic behavior, decided it was best to remove Annie from the home. “He said it was out of his control. He said the law states, when a person put their hands on you, they have to go to jail,” Pamela Reynolds explained.
https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/clayton-county/metro-woman-with-alzheimers-arrested-domestic-violence-despite-daughter-not-pressing-charges/OCKDCSICSRHH7ATTV6IJGVX5J4/

July 9, 2022

Sometimes I'm still taken aback by the stupidity of right wingers

Some of these dumbasses are asking liberals to explain how Shinzo Abe was killed in a country with strict gun laws.
Huh? Clearly these folks do not understand how numbers work.

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