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July 25, 2022
Congressional staffers occupy Senator Schumer's office
https://twitter.com/andrewmarantz/status/1551585421242540037
July 25, 2022
Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/ghislaine-maxwell-moved-low-security-prison-florida-20/story?id=87367124
Ghislaine Maxwell moved to a low-security prison in Florida for 20-year sentence
Source: ABC News
Ghislaine Maxwell has been moved to a low-security federal prison in Florida to serve her 20-year sentence for sex trafficking, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP).
Maxwell, who has filed notice that she intends to appeal her conviction and sentence, is currently listed as an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution in Tallahassee.
She was moved on Friday, according to a source close to the defense. The facility is different than what Maxwells attorneys had requested. They asked that she serve her time in Danbury, Connecticut.
Maxwell, 60, was found guilty of conspiring with Jeffrey Epstein to recruit, groom and abuse minors.
Maxwell, who has filed notice that she intends to appeal her conviction and sentence, is currently listed as an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution in Tallahassee.
She was moved on Friday, according to a source close to the defense. The facility is different than what Maxwells attorneys had requested. They asked that she serve her time in Danbury, Connecticut.
Maxwell, 60, was found guilty of conspiring with Jeffrey Epstein to recruit, groom and abuse minors.
Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/ghislaine-maxwell-moved-low-security-prison-florida-20/story?id=87367124
July 25, 2022
Its hard being a teacher...
https://twitter.com/hiitaylorblake/status/1551373000100003840
July 25, 2022
Dallas Love Field shooting suspect shot by police, no one else injured
KDFWDALLAS - A woman who opened fire inside Dallas Love Field is now in the hospital after being shot by Dallas police officers.
The incident happened around 11 a.m. Monday near the Southwest Airlines ticket counter on the public side of TSA security. Images from SKY 4 show the entrance to the ticketing area blocked off with crime scene tape.
Dallas Police Chief Eddie Garcia said a 37-year-old woman who was dropped off at the airport went into the restroom, changed her clothing and then came out with a handgun. She fired several shots toward the ceiling before officers engaged her and shot her in the lower extremities.
The woman was taken into custody and taken to the hospital. No one else was hurt, the police chief said.
The incident happened around 11 a.m. Monday near the Southwest Airlines ticket counter on the public side of TSA security. Images from SKY 4 show the entrance to the ticketing area blocked off with crime scene tape.
Dallas Police Chief Eddie Garcia said a 37-year-old woman who was dropped off at the airport went into the restroom, changed her clothing and then came out with a handgun. She fired several shots toward the ceiling before officers engaged her and shot her in the lower extremities.
The woman was taken into custody and taken to the hospital. No one else was hurt, the police chief said.
July 25, 2022
Motion to oppose same-sex marriage forces rethink of Anglican summit
The GuardianThe archbishop of Canterbury has been forced into a last-minute rethink of plans to ask Anglican bishops to oppose same-sex marriage when they meet this week for the first Lambeth conference held in Canterbury in 14 years.
Liberal Anglicans and gay rights campaigners in the Church of England voiced outrage after the conference recently circulated a series of calls similar to motions for the 650 bishops and archbishops from around the world to consider.
They included one that calls for a reaffirmation of a position that upholds marriage as between a man and a woman, that legitimising or blessing of same-sex unions cannot be advised, and that it is the mind of the Anglican communion as a whole that same-gender marriage is not permissible.
The bishop of Los Angeles, the Right Rev John H Taylor, was among those aghast at the call, warning the conference was on course to register support for a position that divides, hurts, scapegoats and denies.
Liberal Anglicans and gay rights campaigners in the Church of England voiced outrage after the conference recently circulated a series of calls similar to motions for the 650 bishops and archbishops from around the world to consider.
They included one that calls for a reaffirmation of a position that upholds marriage as between a man and a woman, that legitimising or blessing of same-sex unions cannot be advised, and that it is the mind of the Anglican communion as a whole that same-gender marriage is not permissible.
The bishop of Los Angeles, the Right Rev John H Taylor, was among those aghast at the call, warning the conference was on course to register support for a position that divides, hurts, scapegoats and denies.
July 23, 2022
World's Oldest Murder Mystery Was 430,000 Years in the Making
The first known murder was just as brutal as any other. The attacker smashed the victim twice in the head, leaving matching holes above the victims left eyebrow. The dead body was then dropped down a 43-foot shaft into a cavewhere it lay for nearly half a million years.
Talk about your cold case.
Paleontologists pieced together the 430,000-year-old skull and reported their forensic analysis Wednesday in the journal PLOS ONE. Injuries to the skull represent the oldest direct evidence of homicide, the scientists say.
As for whether this was the first murder ever to occur, for sure thats not the case, says Nohemi Sala, lead author of the study. The scientists can describe this victim as a young adult, but the age and even gender are unknown.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/worlds-oldest-murder-mystery-was-430000-years-in-the-making
Talk about your cold case.
Paleontologists pieced together the 430,000-year-old skull and reported their forensic analysis Wednesday in the journal PLOS ONE. Injuries to the skull represent the oldest direct evidence of homicide, the scientists say.
As for whether this was the first murder ever to occur, for sure thats not the case, says Nohemi Sala, lead author of the study. The scientists can describe this victim as a young adult, but the age and even gender are unknown.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/worlds-oldest-murder-mystery-was-430000-years-in-the-making
July 22, 2022
Remember when people assumed we couldn't get a fair jury for the Derek Chauvin trial?
Remember when people assumed we couldnt get a fair jury for the Steve Bannon trial?
Perhaps people need more confidence in the judicial process and the professional abilities of the criminal justice prosecutors.
July 21, 2022
BREAKING: Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa is still dead...
https://twitter.com/steffdaz/status/1550224907845283841
July 21, 2022
Trump Wanted to Take Back Jan. 7 Speech Admitting Biden Would Be President
Source: Rolling Stone
The day after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, then-President Trump released a video finally, reluctantly agreeing to a transfer of power to the new Biden administration. As soon as two days after the release of the White House video, however, Donald Trump wanted a mulligan,.
A person with direct knowledge of the matter tells Rolling Stone that Trump told aides who were sticking by him that he wanted to deliver another speech to the nation, one in which he would double-down on the lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen via fraud.'
Read more: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-tried-give-new-speech-biden-president-1386264/
A person with direct knowledge of the matter tells Rolling Stone that Trump told aides who were sticking by him that he wanted to deliver another speech to the nation, one in which he would double-down on the lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen via fraud.'
Read more: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-tried-give-new-speech-biden-president-1386264/
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