UPDATE: In a post on X (formerly Twitter) the U.S. Capitol Police stated:
All buildings have been cleared at this time. The buildings have not been reopened.
The U.S. Senate office buildings in Washington, D.C. are on lockdown after reports of a potential active shooter. The U.S. Capitol Police issued a statement on the situation:
Our officers are searching in and around the Senate Office Buildings in response to a concerning 911 call. Please stay away from the area as we are still investigating. We will continue to communicate with the public here.
If you are inside the Senate Buildings, everyone inside should be sheltering in place as the report was for a possible active shooter. It should be noted that we do not have any confirmed reports of gunshots.
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Tanya Sue Chutkan, the US federal judge overseeing Donald Trump’s criminal case in Washington D.C., is an Obama appointee and donor, as well as an especially vocal Black Lives Matter (BLM) apologist who has now presided over many of the harshest over-sentences handed to Jan. 6 protestors. Chutkan, a 61-year-old born in Jamaica, also persistently tried to stymie the Trump administration between 2017 and 2021. Her husband Peter Krauthamer is also an Obama appointee.
Chutkan has prosecuted 38 people involved in the January 6th protests so far, with 19 sentences that “exceeded prosecutors’ recommendations.” Her rhetoric against the protestors was no less subdued. She argued:
“It has to be made clear that trying to violently overthrow the government, trying to stop the peaceful transition of power and assaulting law enforcement officers in that effort is going to be met with absolutely certain punishment.“
Chutkan has raged about the issue, claiming protesters, “soiled and defaced the halls of the Capitol and showed their contempt for the rule of law,” though her comments on Black Lives Matter were far more subdued. The D.C. judge called BLM rioters “people protesting, mostly peacefully, for civil rights,” referring to the widespread chaos and destruction in the summer of 2020 as: “People gathered all over the country last year to protest the violent murder by the police of an unarmed man.”
In 2017, Chutkan issued a restraining order against the Trump admin policy of prohibiting migrants from leaving detention facilities for abortions. She ruled immigration officials are required to transport migrants “promptly and without delay… to an abortion provider, in order to obtain any pregnancy or abortion-related medical care.”
The Obama judge also tried to block scheduled executions of rapists and murderers on death row, bizarrely arguing that allowing the executions would deprive the inmates of their ability to pursue challenges in the court.
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Tanya Sue Chutkan, the US federal judge overseeing Donald Trump's criminal case in Washington D.C., is an Obama appointee and donor, as well as an especially vocal Black Lives Matter (BLM) apologist who has now presided over many of the harshest over-sentences handed to Jan. 6 protestors. Chutkan, a 61-year-old born in Jamaica, also persistently tried to stymie the Trump administration between 2017 and 2021. Her husband Peter Krauthamer is also an Obama appointee.
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Ron DeSantis is getting ratioed on ‘X’ (formerly Twitter) for his mealymouthed and opportunistic response to the latest indictment of Donald Trump by Joe Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ). The Florida Governor attracted the ire of over 13,600 respondents at the time of publication, with the number of angry responses still ticking up by the minute.
DeSantis’s comments after the Trump indictment news were perceived as foolish at best, especially given the lawyer-turned-governor confessed he had not even read the indictment before releasing a statement:
As President, I will end the weaponization of government, replace the FBI Director, and ensure a single standard of justice for all Americans.
While I’ve seen reports, I have not read the indictment. I do, though, believe we need to enact reforms so that Americans have the right…
DeSantis also claimed in his comment: “Washington, DC is a ‘swamp’ and it is unfair to have to stand trial before a jury that is reflective of the swamp mentality.”
But the Florida governor has travelled to that very same swamp in the past few weeks, raising cash from the lawyers and lobbyists of Dominion Voting Systems.
Wait. You’re a LAWYER running for PRESIDENT & you couldn’t take a minute to read the docs, despite wanting to grift off this?
And DC is such a *swamp* you held fundraisers there last month in the law offices of Dominion Voting Systems’s lawyers?
X (formerly Twitter) users scoffed at the idea that a self-proclaimed “Bush 41 fanboy” was a plausible candidate to take on the swamp, while others urged him to “take a f***ing stand” instead of claiming he had not read the indictment and hiding behind “soulless legalese”.
In fact, DeSantis is increasingly signaling that he believes Trump’s actions on January 6th 2021 were wrong, trying to have it both ways by parroting Democrat talking points that he “didn’t do anything” to stop it while suggesting at the same time that the state should not necessarily “criminalize” the former president’s actions.
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Ron DeSantis is getting ratioed on 'X' (formerly Twitter) for his mealymouthed and opportunistic response to the latest indictment of Donald Trump by Joe Biden's Department of Justice (DOJ). The Florida Governor attracted the ire of over 13,600 respondents at the time of publication, with the number of angry responses still ticking up by the minute.
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For the second time since 2011, a major U.S. credit rating agency has downgraded its credit rating for the U.S. government from AAA to AA+. In a press release Tuesday, Fitch Ratings stated:
The rating downgrade of the United States reflects the expected fiscal deterioration over the next three years, a high and growing general government debt burden, and the erosion of governance relative to ‘AA’ and ‘AAA’ rated peers over the last two decades that has manifested in repeated debt limit standoffs and last-minute resolutions.
Fitch Ratings also cited the “…limited progress in tackling medium-term challenges related to rising social security and Medicare costs due to an aging population…” as a reason for the downgrade. Fitch said it expects “…the general government (GG) deficit to rise to 6.3% of GDP in 2023, from 3.7% in 2022, reflecting cyclically weaker federal revenues, new spending initiatives and a higher interest burden.”
Most troubling, the ratings firm projected the U.S. economy would slip into a recession in fourth quarter of 2023 and the first quarter of 2024, citing a slowing consumption, lagging GDP growth, and a sluggish labor participation rate.
The Fitch downgrade alongside its warning of economic recession is a blow to President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign which has recently rolled out a new messaging campaign touting the success of “Bidenomics.” A recession hitting the U.S. economy in 2024 could tilt the electoral map in favor of Republicans who hold a narrow majority in the House of Representatives and are seeking to regain control of the Senate and White House.
The U.S. government’s debt rating was downgraded from AAA to AA+ by the credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s in 2011.
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For the second time since 2011, a major U.S. credit rating agency has downgraded its credit rating for the U.S. government from AAA to AA+. In a press release Tuesday, Fitch Ratings stated:
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The United Kingdom’s ‘Conservative’ Party has implemented new diversity quotas and guidelines for selecting candidates – would-be Members of Parliament (MPs). The targets include age as well as ethnicity and gender.
Diversity quotas are in place even before candidates are considered as the party’s “Sifting Committee,” which is responsible for sorting through applicants after applying for the position, must have specific characteristics:
“The Sifting Committee must comprise a minimum of one woman and one young person under the age of 30. The additional Association members of the Committee should reflect the different interests of the constituency, i.e. should have a balance of gender, age and ethnicity.”
After the initial sift, the Selection Committee must “recognise their responsibility” to ensure that candidates are chosen in a way that “displays diversity and variety and which has a due regard to the local profile of the constituency” and guarantees a balance of genders.
The selection rules also state that the process must be “inclusive and free from discrimination” and “fully acknowledge and embrace diversity,” except when considering female candidates, in which case “some degree of positive discrimination is permitted.” The rules add that anything considered “indirect discrimination” is prohibited; meaning, any requirement that could have a “disproportionate impact” on one group.
Former President Donald Trump highlighted the Conservative’s shift to the “far left” in an interview with Nigel Farage earlier this year. More recently, the party expelled a mayor for ‘repenting‘ after attending a Pride event.
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The United Kingdom's 'Conservative' Party has implemented new diversity quotas and guidelines for selecting candidates – would-be Members of Parliament (MPs). The targets include age as well as ethnicity and gender.
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The National Pulse is delighted to announce its newest hire, former Trump admin Treasury official William Upton, as Junior Editor with a special focus on U.S. political news. Upton joins a growing team of staff writers and contributors since the 2023 relaunch of The National Pulse, including the Pulse+ subscription, and the all-new Pulse+ mobile app.
Upton, 36, has worked in public policy and communications in Washington, DC for 15 years. In that time he served as a public affairs political appointee at the United States Treasury Department under Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin during Donald Trump’s Presidential administration.
Prior to his appointment by President Trump, Upton worked on a variety of issue areas including state and federal tax policy, protecting religious and political rights for Christians in the Middle East, and U.S. technology policy.
Raheem Kassam, The National Pulse’s Editor-in-Chief, remarked: “Upton is one of the best sources and most combative public communicators out there. I couldn’t be more delighted to welcome such a renowned truth teller, freedom fighter, and intellectual heavyweight to The National Pulse. We couldn’t grow in this way without our subscribers and supporters, so I want to add a massive thank you to those who choose to fund real news.”
The National Pulse is delighted to announce its newest hire, former Trump admin Treasury official William Upton, as Junior Editor with a special focus on U.S. political news. Upton joins a growing team of staff writers and contributors since the 2023 relaunch of The National Pulse, including the Pulse+ subscription, and the all-new Pulse+ mobile app.
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A Federal grand jury impaneled in Washington, D.C. has handed down a sealed indictment of former President Donald Trump over his alleged incitement of an “insurrection” on January 6th, 2021. Special prosecutor Jack Smith recently sent Trump a target letter accusing the former President of the United States of violating three federal statutes.
The indictment handed down by a grand jury, impaneled in a city that voted for Joe Biden 92.15 percent to Donald Trump’s 5.40 percent, is not yet available for public scrutiny at the demand of Joe Biden’s Department of Justice.
Ahead of the announcement of the indictment former President Trump posted on Truth Social:
“I hear that Deranged Jack Smith, in order to interfere with the Presidential Election of 2024, will be putting out yet another Fake Indictment of your favorite President, me, at 5:00 P.M. Why didn’t they do this 2.5 years ago? Why did they wait so long? Because they wanted to put it right in the middle of my campaign. Prosecutorial Misconduct!”
– Donald J. Trump, 2023.
Jack Smith – the special prosecutor at the DOJ married to Michelle Obama’s documentarian – has developed a reputation for pursuing high profile cases that make headlines but do not always hold up under closer court scrutiny. One of Smith’s most high profile cases prior to his two indictments of former President Trump was a corruption case against former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell which ended with the DOJ declining to retry McDonnell after the Supreme Court States).
The charges:
Count 1: 18 U.S.C. § 371 (Conspiracy to Defraud the United States)
Count 2: 18 U.S.C. § 1512(k) (Conspiracy to Obstruct an Official Proceeding)
Count 3: 18 U.S.C. §§ 1512(c)(2), 2 (Obstruction of and Attempt to Obstruct an Official Proceeding)
Count 4: 18 U.S.C. § 241 (Conspiracy Against Rights)
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A Federal grand jury impaneled in Washington, D.C. has handed down a sealed indictment of former President Donald Trump over his alleged incitement of an "insurrection" on January 6th, 2021. Special prosecutor Jack Smith recently sent Trump a target letter accusing the former President of the United States of violating three federal statutes.
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Attorney General Merrick Garland’s hand-picked prosecutor, the foreign-dwelling G-man married to Michelle Obama’s documentarian, may well have handed Donald Trump the 2024 election with today’s indictment
Attorney General Merrick Garland’s hand-picked prosecutor, the foreign-dwelling G-man married to Michelle Obama’s documentarian, may well have handed Donald Trump the 2024 election with today’s indictment show more
An inquiry by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) into a government contractor using Israeli spy software to monitor U.S. citizens has discovered it was doing so on behalf of the FBI itself.
Reporters discovered that Landmark spy software developed by Israel’s NSO Group, blacklisted by the Joe Biden government as a national security threat in 2021, had been purchased and deployed by government contractor Riva Networks later the same year.
It now transpires that one of Riva Networks’ clients was the FBI.
Like the White House, the FBI claims it had no clue the contractor was using Landmark to geolocate U.S. citizens in Mexico without their consent, and Director Christopher Wray has cancelled the contract. Yet reporters seeking more information about the secretive nature of the bureau’s dealings with Riva Networks are now being stonewalled.
Government lawyers responding to efforts by The New York Times to sue to the FBI for “documents related to the bureau’s purchase of NSO tools and… documents about the bureau’s relationship with Riva Networks” have told the courts the FBI’s relationship with the contractor should be protected from scrutiny, because they “either already do, or may in the future, offer other products… used for investigative purposes.”
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An inquiry by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) into a government contractor using Israeli spy software to monitor U.S. citizens has discovered it was doing so on behalf of the FBI itself.
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Thousands of non-suspecting people are falling for fake, artificial intelligence (AI)-generated girls posting provocative photos online, with many ‘virtual influencers’ amassing hundreds of thousands of followers and subscribers.
One “girl” called Milla Sofia claims to be a “virtual influencer and fashion model” from Finland and is followed by over 50,000 people on Instagram, 100,000 people on TikTok, and just under 15,000 people on Twitter. Her profile states, “whether it’s the catwalk or the digital landscape, my passion lies in showcasing the latest trends and pushing the boundaries in the ever-evolving fashion industry.”
The profile does not hide the fact she is an “AI creation” but appears so lifelike that most people following her across various social media platforms are yet to realize that she doesn’t exist. Comments on her post from men regularly read: “You are so irresistible whatever colour that you are wearing Divine Millia Sofia,” or “You look marvellous, amazing pretty, beautiful, gorgeous, stunning and breathtaking.”
The rise of virtual influencers serves as a “puzzling new turn in the road to AI content,” states Victor Tangermann from Futurism, adding, “If we follow human influencers for a parasocial taste of a glamorous lifestyle, why would we follow a bot instead?”
AI is developing an increasingly dominant grip on society despite its recent introduction. The technology is being used, among other things, to lure Russian soldiers into giving strategic information to the Ukrainian army and comedians who admit to being “out of ideas.”
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Thousands of non-suspecting people are falling for fake, artificial intelligence (AI)-generated girls posting provocative photos online, with many 'virtual influencers' amassing hundreds of thousands of followers and subscribers.
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MSNBC is using the death of Beau Biden, Joe Biden’s eldest son, to excuse the President’s participation in his son Hunter’s business dealings with Ukrainian oligarchs and other foreigners. The far-left cable network suggests the senior Biden wasn’t thinking straight because he was “sad” about the death of his firstborn child. Biden himself has used Beau’s death a number of times, even going so far as to suggest he was killed in Iraq. In reality, though sad, Beau died from a glioblastoma.
“As far as Hunter Biden goes, there’s no doubt, I mean, it’s pretty clear, even those close to the Biden family suggest that some of his behavior was pretty unseemly – that doesn’t make it illegal,” said MSNBC host Jonathan Lemire.
Lemire, who also works for POLITICO, added: “…we don’t know the role that then-Vice President Biden may have played [in Hunter’s business]”. He then conceded: “…maybe he’s guilty of turning a blind eye to some of his son’s behavior.”
“We should put this in context: This is a time when Beau Biden, the President’s other son, was ill and then dying and then passed away, so perhaps he was not as attentive to what he should have been here,” he added.
Washington Post associate editor Eugene Robinson was wheeled out to echo this sentiment: “You could certainly argue that at some point, if Hunter Biden put President Biden on the speakerphone like 20 times, you could certainly ask whether at some point President Biden might have said ‘Hey, quit putting me on speakerphone, you know, are you having a business meeting, like, what is that about?’ – but the context is that this was a sort of very fraught and sad time for the Biden family, and we know how important family is to the President.”
Whether this is a truly accurate description of President Biden is an open question, however, given his history of pointedly refusing to acknowledge the existence of his seventh grandchild , Hunter’s stripper lovechild, Navy, who was denied the right to bear the Biden surname in a lengthy court battle.
Morning Joe defends Biden & Hunter's working relationship:@Lemire: "We should put this in context; this is the time when Beau Biden, the president’s other son, was ill & dying & then passed away. So perhaps he wasn’t as attentive to what he should have been"@Eugene_Robinson:… pic.twitter.com/N47jSklbrC
MSNBC is using the death of Beau Biden, Joe Biden's eldest son, to excuse the President's participation in his son Hunter's business dealings with Ukrainian oligarchs and other foreigners. The far-left cable network suggests the senior Biden wasn't thinking straight because he was "sad" about the death of his firstborn child. Biden himself has used Beau's death a number of times, even going so far as to suggest he was killed in Iraq. In reality, though sad, Beau died from a glioblastoma.
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