Free Chat Friday
Free Chat Friday, Week 18
Good morning, News Viewers, and Happy, Happy Friday. So, you guessed it…You’re stuck with me today. I will not even pretend to fill the big shoes Ms. Rachel has (I wear a size 5 so, MORE
Month: May 2023
In case you missed it:
Liveblog - ICYMI: May 04, 2023
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Civil Rights
Man Dies on NYC Subway From Chokehold
Jordan Neely died on a New York City subway after a man put him in a chokehold for several minutes while two others held his arms down. The incident has been ruled a homicide by MORE
Sedition
Four Proud Boys Members Found Guilty of Seditious Conspiracy
Dominic El Pendejo Pezzola was not convicted of seditious conspiracy STAND BACK AND STAND BY Four members of the far-right Proud Boys have been found guilty of seditious conspiracy by a jury in Washington, DC, for MORE
SCOTUS
Harlan Crow Picked Up the Tab for Uncle Clarence’s Grandnephew’s Private School
Buried in a report that ProPublica recently released, documents show that billionaire, Harlan Crow, picked up the tab for Extreme Court Justice Uncle Clarence’s grandnewphew’s private school tuition. Clarence had taken legal custody of Mark MORE
Coffee Talk
Coffee Talk
Good morning, class, today at NV’s Thursday free chat session, we’re going to talk about rock and roll, the Hall of Fame, Rage Against the Machine, Frank Zappa, Prince, Tipper Gore, Ronaldo Ray-gun, censorship, and MORE
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Liveblog - ICYMI: May 03, 2023
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Groomers
Police Officer/Church Youth Leader Arrested for Child Sex Crimes
THE THIN BLUE LINE LE††UCE PREY NOT A DRAG QUEEN YORK COUNTY, S.C. — According to his arrest warrant out of York County, the allegations against Erickson Douglas Lee were for incidents reported between December MORE
TFG
Trump Will Offer No Defense in Rape Trial, His Lawyer Says
The lawyer, Joseph Tacopina, had earlier told the judge that Mr. Trump would not come to court to testify in the civil case. Mr. Trump, who is again running for president, traveled to Scotland this MORE
Daily Shootings
Shooter in Atlanta Kills One, Injures at Least Three
One person was killed and at least three others injured in another mass shooting, today’s in Atlanta’s midtown. Police are still looking for a gunman who was reportedly shooting at Northside Hospital Midtown medical office. MORE
Economy
Louisville McDonalds Employed 10 Year-Olds Who Worked Sometimes Until 2 AM
From the state that once employed children to work in coal mines, the US Department of Labor said Tuesday that two 10-year-old children were found working at a Louisville, KY, McDonald’s restaurant — sometimes until 2 a.m. MORE
SCOTUS
Extreme Court Documents Show that Justice Sandra Day O’Connor Helped W Win the 2000 Election
Justice Sandra Day O’Connor provided the early framework that steered the outcome in the dispute over the 2000 presidential election and ensured George W. Bush would win the White House over Al Gore, Supreme Court documents released on Tuesday MORE
The GQP Clown House
Tucker Carlson’s Producer Reveals Conversations About Brokering McCarthy’s Position as Speaker of the House on the Fox Show
Tucker Carlson’s producer Abby Grossberg disputes Tucker’s claims that he knows nothing about her suing him over a toxic and misogynist work environment. “I know nothing about her. I never met her,” Carlson said last MORE
Daily Shootings
Person Believed to Be the Man Accused of Killing 5 Neighbors in Texas is Apprehended After Manhunt
Authorities said that Mr Oropesa was found hiding under laundry in a closet at his sister’s house that had been previously searched following a fresh tip to an FBI tip line, reported The Houston Chronicle. INDEPENDENT A MORE
Tinfoil Hat Theories
Wisconsin Supreme Court Won’t Order Hospital to Use Ivermectin For COVID
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s conservative-controlled Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a hospital could not be forced to give a deworming drug to a patient with COVID-19. The panel ruled 6-1 in favor of Aurora MORE
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Liveblog - ICYMI: May 02, 2023
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Education
Federal Judge Rules Pennsylvania School District Must Allow After School Satan Club
In a Monday filing, issued in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and shared by the ACLU, a judge found that “here, although The Satanic Temple, Inc.’s objectors may challenge the MORE
Broken Clock
McCarthy Now Supports Ukraine Aid
At a news conference in Jerusalem, a reporter who identified himself as Russian suggested that Kevin McCarthy personally didn’t “support the unlimited and uncontrolled supplies of weaponry and aid to Ukraine.” Despite loud MAGA opposition MORE
Congress
Watch Live: The Senate Judiciary Committee Holds Hearing on Supreme Court Ethics Reform
Join News Views for a Live Discussion on the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing on the Extreme Court ethics reform. However, Chief Justice Roberts will not show up for the event because he declined to testify MORE
Talk o Tuesday
Talko Tuesday: May 02, 2023
Good morning, News Viewers, and Happy Tuesday. Damn, I have our local news on and just awful…third stabbing in less than a week in Davis, CA. I don’t know how much anyone knows about Davis, MORE
Celebrity Death Watch
Canadian Folk Music Icon Gordon Lightfoot Dead at 84
Canadian folk music icon Gordon Lightfoot, whose evocative and poetic songs are etched into the musical landscape of Canada, has died at the age of 84, at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto, according to his longtime MORE
News
Six Confirmed Dead in Rural Illinois Dust Storm
Wind gusts up to 45 mph across farm fields in rural Illinois caused a multiple car pile up resulting in six confirmed fatalities and at least 30 transports to hospitals. “It’s been very dry across MORE
PORN
Marjorie Taylor Greene Wants to Ban Pornhub, ‘I Don’t Even Know Why it Exists’
Marjorie Taylor Greene is disgusted that websites like Pornhub exist, and even more horrified that Hunter Biden may have used them. Raw Story reports that the Republican from Georgia shared her newfound knowledge of the MORE
In case you missed it:
Liveblog - ICYMI: May 1, 2023
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Abortion
Feds: Hospitals That Denied Emergency Abortion Broke the Law
WASHINGTON — Two hospitals that refused to provide an emergency abortion to a pregnant woman who was experiencing premature labor put her life in jeopardy and violated federal law, a first-of-its-kind investigation by the federal MORE