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Source: Washington Post
Authorities are investigating a shooting with “multiple victims” at New Hampshire Hospital, a psychiatric facility in Concord, state police said Friday afternoon. The shooter is dead, according to the New Hampshire Homeland Security and Emergency Management Division, though its post on social media did not specify how that person had died. It was unclear how many people had been killed or injured. State police and emergency management investigators were at the scene shortly after 4 p.m., according to posts on their respective X accounts.
A suspect in the shooting at New Hampshire Hospital is deceased, the state’s Homeland Security and Emergency Management office said on social media.
“The situation at New Hampshire Hospital has been contained,” the office said, adding that the “scene remains active.”
Read more: https://wapo.st/47vtJHu
Another mass shooting.
Michigan DEM House -no more. Now it's TIED.
Michigan House will no longer be controlled by Dems, as TWO sitting state reps won their Mayoral races yesterday.
State Rep Lori Stone won her election Warren yesterday. Stone, 43, won Tuesday's general election with 11,876 votes, inching past city Human Resources Director George Dimas, who garnered 10,488 votes, according to unofficial results posted on the city's website.
Stone's win will shake up the state legislature, too. Stone was one of two Democratic state representatives vying for a mayoral seat in their respective cities. The other was in Westland, where Rep. Kevin Coleman won the mayor's seat there, according to unofficial results in Tuesday's election.
That will leave the Democratic-majority House temporarily split with 54 Democrats and 54 Republicans once they are sworn into their new roles.
more: https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/macomb/2023/11/07/warren-eastpointe-new-mayors-council-members/71384940007/
Putin withdraws Russia's ratification of global nuclear test ban treaty
Source: Reuters
Nov 2 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin on Thursday signed a law withdrawing Russia's ratification of the global treaty banning nuclear weapons tests, a step condemned by the organisation which promotes adherence to the landmark arms control pact.
The move, though expected, is evidence of the deep chill between the United States and Russia, whose ties are at their lowest level since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis over the war in Ukraine and what Moscow casts as Washington's attempts to stymie the emergence of a new multipolar world order.
Moscow says its deratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) is merely designed to bring Russia into line with the United States, which signed but never ratified the treaty. Russia will not resume nuclear testing unless Washington does, say Russian diplomats.
Nor, they say, will the move change the nuclear posture of Russia, which has the world's largest nuclear arsenal, or the way it shares information about its nuclear activities as Moscow will remain a treaty signatory.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-revokes-russias-ratification-nuclear-test-ban-treaty-2023-11-02/
Oh, great. More nuclear testing soon? Great!
'People Are Hurt and Scared': How a Muslim American Leader in Georgia Is Confronting the War
Nabilah Islam Parkes was the first Muslim American woman elected to the Georgia State Legislature. Here’s her message to Joe Biden.
Golden dome of the Georgia State Capitol seen through leaves.
Nabilah Islam Parkes, a former campaign strategist, became the first Muslim woman and the youngest woman elected to the Georgia legislature when she won one of the most competitive races in the state in 2022. | Seth Herald/AFP via Getty Images
By ALEXANDER BURNS
10/23/2023 05:17 AM EDT
The war between Israel and Hamas has torn through American politics, disturbed communities across the country and unsettled political coalitions in both parties. Over the past two weeks, Muslim American voters and leaders have been increasingly outspoken about their fears of violent backlash and political exclusion in this wrenching crisis.
Among many Muslim American Democrats, there has been a sense of frustration about the Biden administration’s handling of the conflict. On Thursday, President Joe Biden made his most explicit appeal to Muslim Americans in his speech from the Oval Office, denouncing Islamophobia and deploring the murder of a 6-year-old Illinois boy, Wadea Al-Fayoume, by a man allegedly motivated by anti-Muslim paranoia.
More:
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/10/23/muslim-american-leader-georgia-legislature-00122891
Farmington Hills man charged with making terrorism threat after anti-Palestinian post
Source: Detroit News
Detroit News
A Farmington Hills man has been charged with making a terrorism threat in connection with a post on social media that proposed violence against Palestinian residents of Dearborn, according to police.
Carl Mintz, 41, was arraigned Saturday in 19th District Court in Dearborn on making a threat of terrorism, a felony, and a misdemeanor malicious use of a telecommunications device.
Mintz's post was discovered after someone anonymously shared it with the Dearborn Police Department on Wednesday. He allegedly asked if anyone in Metro Detroit wanted to "go to Dearborn & hunt Palestinians," according to a screenshot of the post Dearborn police shared with The Detroit News.
Read more: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/wayne-county/2023/10/16/farmington-hills-man-charged-after-making-anti-palestinian-post/71203203007/
Note: this same guy SHOT another man in 2010 in a road rage incident, and he also has donated repeatedly to Republican candidates and the Republican Party. See “Carl Mintz, Farmington Hills, Mi as a donor in the Open Secrets donor lookup page. He also donated $ to Ryan Kelly, the Michigan GOP candidate convicted in the Jan 6 attack.
Road Rage arrest in 2010:
https://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/2010/04/farmington_hills_road_rage_sus.html
Farmington Hills man charged with making terrorism threat after anti-Palestinian post
Detroit News
A Farmington Hills man has been charged with making a terrorism threat in connection with a post on social media that proposed violence against Palestinian residents of Dearborn, according to police.
Carl Mintz, 41, was arraigned Saturday in 19th District Court in Dearborn on making a threat of terrorism, a felony, and a misdemeanor malicious use of a telecommunications device.
Mintz's post was discovered after someone anonymously shared it with the Dearborn Police Department on Wednesday. He allegedly asked if anyone in Metro Detroit wanted to "go to Dearborn & hunt Palestinians," according to a screenshot of the post Dearborn police shared with The Detroit News.
More: Check out this article from The Detroit News:
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/wayne-county/2023/10/16/farmington-hills-man-charged-after-making-anti-palestinian-post/71203203007/
Note: this same guy SHOT another man in 2010 in a road rage incident, and he also has donated repeatedly to Republican candidates and the Republican Party. See “Carl Mintz, Farmington Hills, Mi as a donor in the Open Secrets donor lookup page. He also donated $ to Ryan Kelly, the Michigan GOP candidate convicted in the Jan 6 attack.
His 2010 arrest for shooting someone: https://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/2010/04/farmington_hills_road_rage_sus.html
Does anyone else notice
That the Senate is still in recess, awaiting call if the chair;
And the extension that passed the House is NOT yet passed in the Senate.
And that with Feinstein gone, we now have 49 votes, not 50. Which means the Senate might have trouble passing it.
Now what?
Four more hours till midnight. And no Senate vote yet.
UAW Update
Just watched UAW President Shawn Fein address live on facebook.
As of noon today, another 7,000 auto workers will hit the picket lines. Fein called for strikes to begin at noon today at the FORD ASSEMBLY PLANT IN CHICAGO, and the GM Assembly Plant in Lansing, Michigan.
This brings to 25,000 the total number of UAW workers on the picket lines.
Fein asked for ALL workers to come join the picket lines to demonstrate against corporate greed- said all UAW supporters are welcome to come walk a picket line, just like Joe Biden did. He said Stellantis gave a new offer just moments before the press conference today, and that's why he was late to the facebook briefing. The Stellantis offer is being studied- and includes movement on several of the UAW's proposals- but they still are not at a point to settle.
more: https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/strikes-could-idle-more-detroit-three-auto-plants-friday-2023-09-29/
'Nothing good about it': DOD official says shutdown 'horrible' for US, good for Russia and China
‘Nothing good about it’: DOD official says shutdown ‘horrible’ for US, good for Russia and China
By DOUG G. WARE
Stars and Stripes-
WASHINGTON — A government shutdown would harm U.S. defenses, hurt troops and be welcomed by Russia and China, a top Pentagon official said Tuesday.
“It’s just horrible. There’s really nothing good you can say about it,” said William LaPlante, the Pentagon’s undersecretary of defense for acquisitions and sustainment.
LaPlante, who is a leader in matters such as military contracts, materiel readiness, the acquisition workforce and the defense industrial base, made his remarks during a discussion with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank that focuses on national security.
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2023-09-26/shutdown-pentagon-troops-defense-ukraine-china-11501692.html
Here's where abortions have increased so far in 2023.
BY: ELISHA BROWN - SEPTEMBER 11, 2023 10:43 AM
Seventeen states now ban most abortions, including Georgia and South Carolina, which have laws on the books against terminating pregnancies after six weeks. Despite hurdles, some patients are still able to get care elsewhere.
Abortions increased during the first half of 2023 in states bordering restrictive states and in those with protective laws, according to recent data released last week by the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive health research organization.
Hours after the right-wing U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and ended the country’s nearly 50-year-old constitutional right to abortion on June 24, 2022, a heavy-hearted state Sen. Mallory McMorrow (D-Royal Oak) was talking to a group of organizers. “Even though we knew it was coming, it was just devastating,”
..In Michigan, where voters in 2022 made abortion a constitutional right, there were 2,560 more abortions in the first half of this year.
More:
https://michiganadvance.com/2023/09/11/heres-where-abortions-have-increased-so-far-in-2023/
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