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Demovictory9's JournalStray dog that wandered into house during storm now being kept by family that lives there
Stray dog that wandered into house during storm now being kept by family that lives there
One of the homeowners, Emily Jokinen, was shocked when she came across the dog on their stairs.
“She was extremely terrified, cold, wet, visibly malnourished and walking with a limp,” Jokinen wrote in an Instagram post. “Upon checking security footage, we discovered that our front door didn’t latch correctly last night, the wind pushed it open and this little girl found her way in.”
Jokinen and her husband, Jack, decided to keep the dog, who is 9 years old, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. They named her Suzyn Pupman, playing off the name of longtime Yankees radio broadcaster Suzyn Waldman.
Jack is a big Yankees fan, he told the newspaper, and their other dog is named Jorge Pawsada after five-time World Series champion Jorge Posada.
The Jokinens, who have a 1-month-old daughter, said the dog’s medical requirements include treatment for ticks, fleas, a heart murmur and foot infections, according to The Inquirer. They are accepting donations to help cover the fees.
“She’s got a long road ahead of her, but we intend to give her a dignified life and a happy home for the remainder of her years,” Jokinen wrote. “I hate when people say ‘Everything happens for a reason’, but I really do feel like this happened for a reason.”
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-stray-dog-home-20191217-wslctm7crnentlv3aeyayatuey-story.html
What a bigot Tucker Carlson is,1950s level bigot. claims that immigrants make the Potomac "dirtier
New York (CNN Business)A conservancy group denounced Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Monday for claiming that immigrants make the Potomac River "dirtier."
"There's a time to speak truth against ignorance and to stand up for our values -- and that time is now," Hedrick Belin, president of the Potomac Conservancy, said in a statement.
Belin added, "We at Potomac Conservancy, a nonprofit land trust and leading clean water advocate in the region, feel compelled to respond to this groundless accusation not just because it's factually incorrect, but because it's racist plain and simple."
Carlson, whose rhetoric on immigration has generated outrage before, told The Atlantic for a profile published Sunday that immigrants are "almost exclusively" responsible for the littering in the Potomac River. Carlson did not provide any data to back up his claim, only telling the magazine that he knows, "Because I'm there. I watch it."
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/16/business/tucker-carlson-potomac-river/index.html
NYC settles w/ Jazmine Headley for 625K - the mom tazed/baby ripped away for sitting on floor
A year ago, New York City cops wrestled Jazmine Headley to the floor of a social services office, and forcibly wrested her 1-year-old son from her arms in a videotaped struggle that eventually culminated in an apology from Mayor Bill de Blasio. Now the city will fork over $625,000 for the incident, reports NBC News.
Headley sued the city in August, alleging she was "humiliated, assaulted, physically injured, threatened with a taser, brutally separated from her son, handcuffed, arrested, and jailed—all by employees of the City of New York."
Headley was seated on the floor after the center in Brooklyn ran out of available seating, and officers asked her to leave. When she demanded to see a supervisor, a struggle ensued and she can be heard in a bystander's video crying, "They're hurting my son! They're hurting my son!" All charged against her were eventually dropped.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/13/nyregion/jazmine-headley-video-settlement.html
$625,000 Settlement for Woman Whose Child Was Torn From Her Arms
Jazmine Headley sued over a confrontation with New York City workers that was captured in a widely seen video.
The video spread quickly online: Security guards and police officers pry a baby boy from his mother’s arms as she lies on the floor of a public benefits office in Brooklyn.
“They’re hurting my son!” the mother, Jazmine Headley, can be heard crying as she struggles to hold onto the boy while the officers try to arrest her. “They’re hurting my son!”
The episode, in December 2018, touched a nerve, capturing what New Yorkers who rely on public benefits say is the uncaring and even hostile treatment they often get from city workers who themselves feel pressure to follow rules.
The charges against Ms. Headley were ultimately dropped. Her public benefits, which had been stripped, were restored, and Mayor Bill de Blasio apologized to her publicly. Nonetheless, saying she was standing up for herself and others in similar circumstances, she filed a federal lawsuit against the city.
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Ms. Headley had taken the day off from her job cleaning offices on Dec. 8, 2018, to go to a public benefits office in Boerum Hill. She wanted to find out why the city had abruptly stopped paying for day care for her son, who was 1 at the time.
Unable to find a seat in the office’s crowded waiting room after about three hours, Ms. Headley sat on the floor next to her son’s stroller. When security guards told her to leave, she asked to speak with a supervisor.
When she walked away from the guards, they and police officers who had been called in grabbed her. She was arrested and charged with resisting arrest, acting in a manner injurious to a child, obstructing governmental administration and trespassing.
“By the end of the day, Ms. Headley had been humiliated, assaulted, physically injured, threatened with a Taser, brutally separated from her son, handcuffed, arrested, and jailed — all by employees of the City of New York,” her lawsuit said, noting that the guards and police officers should have been trained in how to defuse such situations.
trump voter sentenced for illegally voting
https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article238208449.htmlGustavo Araujo Lerma, who was convicted by a jury in August of passport fraud, voting by an alien and aggravated identity theft, had sought a sentence of 34 months, while federal prosecutors asked for 45 months to “reflect the seriousness of the offense.”
He could have faced a maximum sentence of 15 years, but U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez agreed to the government’s recommendation after delivering a stern lecture to Lerma, who continued insisting to the end Tuesday that he hadn’t really done anything that wrong.
For the past 20 years, prosecutors say, Lerma voted illegally in federal elections and was an avid Trump supporter who sent money to the Republican Party and was rewarded for his fealty with letters of thanks from the president, former Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus and current RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel.
Lerma, a Sacramento resident and former auto mechanic who prosecutors say was born in Mexico in 1955, is believed to have married his wife there and had children in that country. Then, they say, he came to the United States and remarried his wife in Los Angeles so he could — purportedly as a U.S. citizen — provide legal status to his family members.
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Man accused of illegally voting in five federal elections
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KYMA, KSWT, KECY) - A Mexican national who spent more than 20-years living under the assumed identity of a U.S. citizen will spend almost four-years in a federal prison.
In August, a jury found 64-year-old Gustavo Araujo Lerma guilty of aggravated identity theft, making false statements on a passport application, and five counts of illegal voting in a federal election. On Tuesday a judge sentenced him to three-years and nine-months behind bars for his crimes.
Lerma insists he is an American named Hiram Enrique Velez. His defense claims there is no proof he's a Mexican citizen. Lerma claims he was found on the streets of San Antonio, Texas when he was five. He says he has no knowledge of where, when, or to whom he was born.
However, prosecutors say Lerma was born in Leon, Mexico in 1955. They say he bought a birth certificate and social security card in 1992, and assumed a false identify. Prosecutors say he used that identity to get a fraudulent passport, and then used that passport to fly back and forth between the U.S. and his hometown in Mexico.
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Prosecutors say he used his fake documentation to register to vote. They say he cast illegal ballots in at least five federal elections.
During his trial Lerma told the court, he supports President Donald Trump, and has donated to the Republican Party.
https://kyma.com/news/2019/12/10/illegal-immigrant-sentenced-for-impersonating-u-s-citizen-for-more-than-20-years/
Bill Barr Is Threatening To Take Down Any FBI Official Who Investigates Election Interference
https://www.politicususa.com/2019/12/14/bill-barr-threatening-to-take-down-any-fbi-official-who-investigates-election-interference.htmlAfter his own inspector general report debunked the so-called “deep state” conspiracy theories pushed by Donald Trump, attorney general William Barr has been running a public relations campaign to convince the American people that the IG’s findings are all wrong.
Not only is Barr trashing his own IG report, but he’s also using his PR blitz to send a threatening message to FBI officials who investigate foreign election interference.
“He did a whole TV blitz to basically say that his own agency, the FBI, was spying on the Trump campaign, something that the inspector general said did not happen,” MSNBC’s Joy Reid said on Saturday.
Reid said that the attorney general’s media campaign is also sending a message to FBI agents that “if you go ahead and investigate foreign interference in our election, William Barr may come after you.”
Video shows North Carolina sheriff's deputy violently slamming child to floor, twice
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/video-shows-north-carolina-sheriff-s-deputy-violently-slamming-child-n1102191?cid=public-rss_20191214
https://twitter.com/WRAL/status/1205605846098628615
A North Carolina sheriff suspended a deputy who was caught on tape violently slamming a middle school student onto the floor, twice, officials said.
The troubling incident happened at Vance County Middle School, about 45 miles north of downtown Raleigh, with the school reporting it to district officials on Thursday.
A judge ordered up to 234,000 people to be tossed from the registered voter list in a swing state
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/12/14/judge-ordered-up-people-be-tossed-registered-voter-list-swing-state/A Wisconsin judge ordered the state to take as many as 234,000 people off its registered-voter list Friday because they may have moved — a decision that could impede residents of this swing state from voting in next year’s presidential election.
The case centers on a letter that the state Elections Commission sent in October to hundreds of thousands of voters, asking them to respond if they were still at that address or to update their registrations if they had moved.
Conservatives filed a lawsuit alleging that to avoid fraud, the commission should have thrown out the registrations of voters who did not respond to the mailing within 30 days, the Associated Press reported. The Elections Commission, composed of three Republicans and three Democrats, is challenging the suit by arguing that it has the legal power to manage the registered voter list and that removing people now would cause confusion if some of them had not actually moved.
President Trump won Wisconsin by fewer than 23,000 votes in 2016. Republicans and Democrats alike are closely watching this court case for its potential impact in 2020, while liberals worry that the voters who would be removed are more likely to be Democrats.
Some of the highest percentages of voters whose registrations were on the line were in Milwaukee, Madison and areas with college campuses, where residents tend to vote Democratic, an analysis by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel found. More than half of the Elections Commission’s letters went to municipalities where Democrat Hillary Clinton won more votes than Trump in 2016, the newspaper reported.
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Although the three voters who sued the Elections Commission with the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty in November requested an injunction that would force the commission to delete the voter registrations, the Journal Sentinel reported that Malloy went a step further: He issued a writ of mandamus, which orders a government agency to do its job.
Man punches children in brutal, unprovoked assault in Target
https://nypost.com/2019/12/13/man-punches-children-in-brutal-unprovoked-assault-in-target/A thug punched a five-year-old boy in the face and attacked an 11-year-old in a Target store in California.
Jeff Hardcastle, 51, has been sentenced to nine years behind bars for the unprovoked and brutal assault, which knocked the youngest boy off his feet.
In the disturbing CCTV footage, the two youngsters were in the video games section when Hardcastle launched his attack.
After he hit the first child he marched up to the five-year-old and smacked him in the face, sending him flying across the aisle.
A passer-by ran to the child and grabbed him by one arm and one leg and pulled him away from his attacker.
Officers suspect Hardcastle was on drugs by the way he was behaving.
Blind Man Asks Facebook Group for Descriptions of Their Dogs and Gets Internet Gold in Return
Blind Man Asks Facebook Group for Descriptions of Their Dogs and Gets Internet Gold in ReturnHow would you describe your dog? What’s their personality? How soft are they? What other animals do they look like?
This is what Stephen Shkuratoff of Calgary, Canada, wanted to know. Shkuratoff is a devoted dog lover and a blind man. He is also a member of the Facebook group Dogspotting Society — a place for members of different Dogspotting groups to discuss their own dogs and get to know other group members.
Dogspotting is what it sounds like — a Facebook page where you can post photos and videos of random, adorable dogs you spot out in the world. Often Dogspotting posters let their photos do the talking, just providing written information on the dog’s name and where they were spotted.
To be able experience more of the canine cuteness Dogspotting has to offer, Shkuratoff posted a sweet ask on the Dogspotting Society Facebook page.
“I love being a member of this group!” Shkuratoff’s post reads. “I am blind and was hoping to ask for more dog descriptions. Personality traits are more helpful than colors. Like how soft the dog is, for example. Bonus as always for dogs full of kisses and snuggles. Thanks for making me feel included. Hope no one minds me asking for descriptions a lot recently.”
No one in the group minded, instead they were eager to share creative descriptions of their pooches. Shkuratoff received over 2,000 responses to his request.
“When I say I love you, he winks at me. His tail is long and it’s like a whip, you need to step aside or you get bruised. He has smooth short hair and floppy ears. From tip of his nose, to the end of his tail- he takes up 3 couch cushions and I’ve been sitting on a folding chair.” Karen Steffens-Trimblett wrote about her pit bull-boxer mix Duke in response to Shkuratoff’s post.
Like Steffens-Trimblett’s description, many of the responses Shkuratoff received read like love letters to the dogs described.
“Maze is a little muscle-packed turbo charged tank. She’s endlessly excited and ridiculously stubborn. Her ears are like velvet and her belly is smoother than a marble. I love the spot above her lip and under her nose where they meet. That spot is so soft and has such a unique feel. Her tail knocks over anything in its path. She is the destroyer of worlds,” another Dogspotting Society member wrote about their pup.
https://people.com/pets/blind-man-asks-facebook-group-dog-descriptions/
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