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6 dead, 30 hurt in shooting at Chicago-area July 4 parade | AP News
HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (AP) — A gunman on a rooftop opened fire on an Independence Day parade in suburban Chicago on Monday, killing at least six people, wounding at least 30 and sending hundreds of marchers, parents with strollers and children on bicycles fleeing in terror, police said.
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6 dead, 30 hurt in shooting at Chicago-area July 4 parade | AP News
Via: Perrie Halpern • News & Politics • 60 Comments • 6 Likes • 2 hours ago“HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (AP) — A gunman on a rooftop opened fire on an Independence Day parade in suburban Chicago on Monday, killing at least six...”
HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (AP) — A gunman on a rooftop opened fire on an Independence Day parade in suburban Chicago on Monday, killing at least six people, wounding at least 30 and sending hundreds of marchers, parents with strollers and children on bicycles fleeing in terror, police said....
Trump Lives in 'Alternative Reality', Believes Election Fraud: Filmmaker
Via: JBB • News & Politics • 23 Comments • 5 Likes • 5 minutes ago“Alex Holder revealed new details about Donald Trump's state of mind in the months culminating in the Capitol riot.”
Then-President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting in the Oval Office with, from left, then-Vice President Mike Pence, then-Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, and then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, on July 20, 2020. AP Photo/Evan Vucci Filmmaker Alex Holder says Donald Trump lives...
Oil from U.S. reserves head overseas as gasoline prices stay high | Reuters
Via: Vic Eldred • News & Politics • 9 Comments • 4 Likes • 3 hours ago“More than 5 million barrels of oil that were part of a historic U.S. emergency oil reserves release aimed at lowering domestic fuel prices were...”
HOUSTON, July 5 (Reuters) - More than 5 million barrels of oil that were part of a historic U.S. emergency oil reserves release aimed at lowering domestic fuel prices were exported to Europe and Asia last month, according to data and sources, even as U.S. gasoline and diesel prices touched...
The force of the Supreme Court's right turn has shaken the country - CNNPolitics
Via: JBB • News & Politics • 118 Comments • 3 Likes • 3 minutes ago“The Supreme Court reached into every corner of American life, reordering intimate family choices, breaching the separation of church and state, and...”
By Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst & Supreme Court biographer Updated 9:33 AM EDT, Fri July 01, 2022 (CNN) The Supreme Court reached into every corner of American life, reordering intimate family choices, breaching the separation of church and state, and diminishing the steps government...
Highland Park Il Parade Shooting Leaves Six Dead, Dozens Injured
Via: John Russell • NEWSMucks • 100 Comments • 3 Likes • 2 hours ago“Multiple people have reportedly been shot after rounds were fired during a Fourth of July parade in the Illinois suburb Highland Park.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS A shooting at a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Ill. has left at least six people dead and 24 others injured, according to the New York Times. Reports indicate that shots were heard approximately 10 minutes after the parade had commenced at 10 a.m. CT. Authorities have...
Proud to be an American? Record low 38% of people say they're 'extremely proud' in new poll
Via: John Russell • NEWSMucks • 38 Comments • 3 Likes • an hour ago“American patriotism has been trending downward since 2015. Only 38% of U.S. citizens say they're 'extremely proud' to be American this Fourth of...”
Only 38% of United States citizens say they're 'extremely proud' to be American this Fourth of July. A new Gallup survey revealed a record-low level of extreme national pride as the U.S. battles rising inflation, increased mass shootings and differing opinions about the Supreme Court...
Despite rebukes, Trump's legal brigade is thriving - POLITICO
Via: JBB • News & Politics • 11 Comments • 3 Likes • 7 minutes ago“Their claims were dismissed as baseless, but many attorneys have never faced discipline and have found new business as go-to MAGA lawyers.”
Special report Despite rebukes, Trump's legal brigade is thriving Their claims were dismissed as baseless, but many attorneys have never faced discipline and have found new business as go-to MAGA lawyers. Rudy Giuliani listens to Sidney Powell, both lawyers for then-President Donald Trump,...
Jayland Walker's family calls for justice and peace amid protests over fatal police shooting caught on video - CBS News
Via: Tacos! • News & Politics • 64 Comments • 2 Likes • 7 minutes ago“A preliminary medical report says Walker, who was unarmed at the time of the shooting, had more than 60 gunshot wounds.”
July 4, 2022 / 11:37 AM / CBS News Police release video from Ohio shooting Police in Ohio release bodycam video of Jayland Walker shooting03:30 A newly released video of police killing a Black man in Akron, Ohio, has led to angry protests throughout the city while his family calls for peace...
Rep. Lauren Boebert’s Terrible Take On Denmark Shooting Slammed As ‘Deadly’ Stupid
Via: Buzz of the Orient • News & Politics • 12 Comments • 2 Likes • 8 minutes agoRep. Lauren Boebert’s Terrible Take On Denmark Shooting Slammed As ‘Deadly’ Stupid US Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) seized on the recent mall shooting in Copenhagen as evidence that strict gun control laws don’t work. However, she failed to point out that it was Denmark’s first mass...
Protesters March Onto I-5 Through Downtown Sacramento - CBS Sacramento
Via: Texan1211 • News & Politics • 8 Comments • 1 Like • 46 minutes ago“Protesters walked onto Interstate 5 in Downtown Sacramento and blocked traffic on Fourth of July morning.”
By CBS13 StaffJuly 4, 2022 at 1:56 pm Filed Under:Downtown Sacramento, Interstate 5, protest, Sacramento News SACRAMENTO (CBS13) - Protesters walked onto Interstate 5 in Downtown Sacramento and blocked traffic on Fourth of July morning. The protesters appear to have been part of the "Bans Off...
Now more than ever, Democrats need Hillary Clinton | The Hill
Via: Texan1211 • Op/Ed • 26 Comments • 4 Likes • 8 hours ago“Hillary Clinton is the only prominent Democrat with the experience, the campaign infrastructure, the political know-how, and the proven track...”
by Douglas E. Schoen, opinion contributor - 07/03/22 9:00 AM ET The views expressed by contributors are their own and not the view of The Hill Earlier this year, I co-authored a piece for The Wall Street Journal that argued that a perfect storm in the Democratic Party is making a once...
Sacrifice: Remembering the 1st Minnesota at Gettysburg
Via: Kavika • News & Politics • 2 Comments • 4 Likes • 14 hours ago“More than a century and a half later, the nation they fought and died for remains, still imperfect, but still here.”
I was watching the 4th of July fireworks from Washington D.C. and thinking back on the history of the US and of my family which has a military history dating back hundreds of years. I remembered this article from a few years ago and being from Minnesota it always stuck in my mind. Historians...
Former Trump aide sues Va. school district for 'psychologically abusing, sexually exploiting' kids
Via: Vic Eldred • News & Politics • 5 Comments • 3 Likes • 4 hours ago“BREAKING: America First Legal, via our new Center for Legal Equality, has filed a massive lawsuit against Loudoun County VA Public Schools for...”
AVirginia school district is forcing parents to give up a guaranteed public education if they object to officials "psychologically abusing and sexually exploiting the children entrusted to their care," according to a former Trump administration official. Stephen Miller's America First Legal,...
Rescuing a film from obscurity
By: Vic Eldred • Op/Ed • 18 Comments • 2 Likes • 14 hours ago“ How dare you come down to our Southland and say a thing like that? You lying Yankee carpetbagger. Now, which side emerged victorious in the War...”
Have you ever been what is known as overtired? I know I was exactly that Saturday night when I drove home in a fierce rain storm from CT. I tried to sleep and then decided to grab a drink and check out TCM. Saturday night is the Film noir night on TCM. As soon as I was tuned in, almost on cue, a...
Joey Chestnut is chomp champ again in July 4 hot dog contest
Via: Buzz of the Orient • News & Politics • 8 Comments • 1 Like • 10 hours agoJoey Chestnut is chomp champ again in July 4 hot dog contest Joey Chestnut reacts after winning the Nathan's Famous Fourth of July hot dog eating contest in Coney Island on Monday, July 4, 2022, in New York. Chestnut at 63 hotdogs to win the men's division of the contest. (AP Photo/Julia...
Opinion | Christian Nationalists Are Excited About What Comes Next
Via: John Russell • NEWSMucks • 6 Comments • 1 Like • 4 hours ago“The shape of the Christian nationalist movement in the post-Roe future is coming into view, and it should terrify anyone concerned for the future...”
July 5, 2022, 5:00 a.m. ETCredit...Sollina Images/Getty Images By Katherine Stewart ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ms. Stewart has reported on the religious right for more than a decade. She is the author of...
Heavy rains, floods prompt evacuations of Sydney suburbs | AP News
Via: Perrie Halpern • News & Politics • 5 Comments • 1 Like • 6 hours ago“SYDNEY (AP) — Thousands of residents in Sydney suburbs were told to evacuate their homes on Sunday after heavy rains caused floodwaters to rise and...”
SYDNEY (AP) — Thousands of residents in Sydney suburbs were told to evacuate their homes on Sunday after heavy rains caused floodwaters to rise and rivers to overflow in what authorities called life-threatening emergencies. The Bureau of Meteorology issued a severe weather warning for heavy...
Chip makers are refusing to build new semiconductor plants in the U.S. unless Congress unlocks $52 billion in funding
Via: Nerm_L • News Viners • 4 Comments • 1 Like • 3 hours ago“Taiwanese semiconductor firm GlobalWafers joins Intel and TSMC in urging Congress to fund U.S. development.”
Nationalizing (or collectivizing) risk while privatizing profit has become the business model for what has been loosely termed the Liberal World Order. The World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and World Trade Organization has established a global expectation of publicly subsidized monetary...
Opinion | The Far Right and Far Left Agree on One Thing: Women Don't Count - The New York Times
Via: Lemuel G • Op/Ed • 37 Comments • 5 Likes • an hour ago • LOCKED“Tolerance for one group doesn't need to mean intolerance for another.”
The right’s position here is the better known, the movement having aggressively dedicated itself to stripping women of fundamental rights for decades. Thanks in part to two Supreme Court justices who have been credibly accused of abusive behavior toward women, Roe v. Wade, nearly 50 years a...
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Sean Treacy • 5 minutes ago • The force of the Supreme Court's right turn has shaken the country - CNNPolitics
"..." Of course, if you've actually read either case you'd know I'm correct. The Court in Casey completely ditched the Roe trimester framework and created an entirely new, "undue burden" standard with a new...
TᵢG • 7 minutes ago • Jayland Walker's family calls for justice and peace amid protests over fatal police shooting caught on video - CBS News"..." I am very supportive of our police; my brother-in-law is former SWAT, several cousins are officers, a couple of friends are officers. The police in general do a tough job, often dangerous and for little...
Drinker of the Wry • 12 minutes ago • Jayland Walker's family calls for justice and peace amid protests over fatal police shooting caught on video - CBS News"..." I haven't either. The coroner report will be important to learn if Jayland Walker was shot in the back while running or had he stopped and turned faced the cops.
JohnRussell • 14 minutes ago • Trump Lives in 'Alternative Reality', Believes Election Fraud: FilmmakerNice little rant. However, you are woke so you must be a communist or a godless heathen, therefore even though you are correct, you will be ignored by MAGA, the worst human pestilence this country has ever endured...
TᵢG • 18 minutes ago • Jayland Walker's family calls for justice and peace amid protests over fatal police shooting caught on video - CBS News"..." I do not know what your problem is Jeremy but my writing clear answers apparently does not fix it. Walker was unarmed when he was running because ... pay attention now ... he did not have a gun on him. Real...
Tacos! • 23 minutes ago • Jayland Walker's family calls for justice and peace amid protests over fatal police shooting caught on video - CBS News"..." So if you’re not a cop, you’re not allowed to be critical of them? Do you also think men don’t get an opinion on abortion? Or white people don’t get to talk about racism?
Tacos! • 25 minutes ago • Jayland Walker's family calls for justice and peace amid protests over fatal police shooting caught on video - CBS News"..." There is evidence that he may have fired once while he was driving the car. I haven’t seen any evidence that a round hit a police car, or an officer, or came anywhere close to them. Some people here talk as if...
TᵢG • 26 minutes ago • The force of the Supreme Court's right turn has shaken the country - CNNPolitics"..." You must be laughing at your own rhetoric: "almost completely rewrote" is indeed laughable given R v. W was substantially upheld by the SCotUS in '92 in that the R v. W right of a woman to choose to have an...
Dismayed Patriot • 29 minutes ago • Trump Lives in 'Alternative Reality', Believes Election Fraud: Filmmaker"..." Exactly. But that appears to be why his right wing religious conservative sycophants elected him and continue to support him, because they want to demolish our nation that they don't see catering to their...
Dismayed Patriot • 42 minutes ago • Trump Lives in 'Alternative Reality', Believes Election Fraud: Filmmaker"..." That's not really the problem, it's the bevy of enablers who faun over him and try to accomplish the petulant child's every whim even if it means organizing a violent insurrection in order to make the cry-baby...
CB • an hour ago • Trump Lives in 'Alternative Reality', Believes Election Fraud: FilmmakerThey're yes men. Dutiful lieutenants letting the 'devil' do the dirty work because he (Trump) has the clout to sustain the political push-back! I remember once hearing in an interview or rally Trump uttering he is...
CB • an hour ago • Trump Lives in 'Alternative Reality', Believes Election Fraud: FilmmakerDonald Trump trades on a theme. That is, to get his way he looks for a weak spot or 'suspicion' and then like a good builder pounds away at it. You can even see it happening here on NT, for example. Mention Donald...
Sean Treacy • an hour ago • The force of the Supreme Court's right turn has shaken the country - CNNPolitics"..." Lol. Casey almost completely rewrote Roe in 1993, and its been litigated constantly since. And of course none stated they would overturn it because that alone would have cost them their seat It sure would....
Texan1211 • an hour ago • Protesters March Onto I-5 Through Downtown Sacramento - CBS Sacramento"..." I will assume some may. What I do not assume is that they have some right to use the roads their taxes paid for in ways not designed by the builders, or have some right to prevent others from using the roads...
Sean Treacy • an hour ago • The force of the Supreme Court's right turn has shaken the country - CNNPolitics"..." They better amend the Constitution. House Republicans eye 15-week abortion ban after Roe ruling I know Biden is unpopular, but do you really expect the Republicans to have 60 Senators, the Presidency and the...
evilgenius • an hour ago • Opinion | The Far Right and Far Left Agree on One Thing: Women Don't Count - The New York Times"..." It's a TERF article and a stupid one at that. Standing up for trans-women doesn't dilute the work needed for other women's rights. It's just a way to look down at a smaller minority group to make (the author...
arkpdx • an hour ago • The force of the Supreme Court's right turn has shaken the country - CNNPolitics"..." The government could always arrest and jail you without Miranda. Miranda rights only involve your rights prior to being interrogated by the police and the use of that questioning. "..." Of course you...
Jeremy Retired in NC • an hour ago • Jayland Walker's family calls for justice and peace amid protests over fatal police shooting caught on video - CBS News"..." So, let me get this straight, SOMEBODY shoots from a car, you don't know who, then one gets out an runs, in your ⋅ up head, the one that is running is unarmed all because they DIDN'T shoot at officers?...
TᵢG • an hour ago • Trump Lives in 'Alternative Reality', Believes Election Fraud: FilmmakerHe will say anything to get his way. Liars do not need to believe their lies; in fact, knowing they are making falsehoods is the definition of lying. I do not buy the notion that Trump believes the profoundly...
TᵢG • 2 hours ago • The force of the Supreme Court's right turn has shaken the country - CNNPoliticsRegardless of solution, it is clear that the SCOTUS is more influenced by ideology / beliefs than the founders anticipated. Adding more justices would itself be based on politics so that would be a mess. Plus, as...
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