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DOJ Internal Misconduct Shrouded in Veil of Secrecy​

Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz was busy this week, releasing three separate reports on Monday alone. Each detailed misconduct by a different assistant United States attorney: One finds a federal lawyer trying to use his position to avoid a drunk driving charge; another finds a government attorney getting drunk and physically belligerent at a meeting with foreign officials; the third, and most disturbing, finds an assistant U.S. attorney exposing his genitals “in a public place,” and sexually assaulting a “civilian” on a date.

Who were these federal prosecutors? The summary reports don’t say. A spokesperson for the Office of the Inspector General told RealClearPolitics that it could not release their names. RCP has filed a Freedom of Information Act request asking for their identities.

The Justice Department doesn’t hesitate to publicize the names of those it accuses of wrongdoing. At least when those accused do not work for Justice. Last Friday, for example, the DOJ office of Public Affairs issued a press release announcing that the department had filed a discrimination lawsuit against the owner and managers of a Milwaukee rental property. Though a court has yet to rule against those accused of harassing a gay, disabled tenant, the DOJ press release named them.

Compare that with “Investigative Summary” number 22-104, in which the inspector general determined that an assistant United States attorney was driving under the influence when he (or she) was pulled over by police. The investigation found that the prosecutor had tried to pull rank on the local cops, “referring to the AUSA’s title in an attempt to influence local police officers.” When that didn’t work, the drunk federal lawyer shouted obscenities and kicked the door of the police car.

 

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Homeland security has been secretly copying phones for nearly 2 decades​

Entering the US illegally and without scrutiny has become as easy as a short walk across the border.

But legally entering the country means that your basic constitutional rights are circumscribed. That legal loophole is what allows the Customs and Border Protection service to elude 4th Amendment protections against illegal searches and seizures.

Law enforcement agencies must show probable cause and persuade a judge to approve a search warrant before searching Americans’ phones. But courts have long granted an exception to border authorities, allowing them to search people’s devices without a warrant or suspicion of a crime.
CBP officials have relied on that exception to support their collection of data from travelers’ phones. Sens. Wyden and Rand Paul (R-Ky.) introduced a bill last year that would require border officials to get a warrant before searching a traveler’s device.

It turns out that CBP has been using this loophole to great effect. For an unspecified of time they have been surreptitiously copying the data from 10,000 people’s phones a year and storing the purloined information in a database for up to 15 years. 2700 agents have access to that data and can make connections not just between the individuals whose phones have been copied–they can also link people who aren’t in data on the phone through Facebook timelines or similar services.

It’s quite a treasure trove for the authorities, and until Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) forced the CBP to admit the existence of this program, it was hidden behind a veil of secrecy. Many of the details are still hidden.

 

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FOLLOWUP​

The Pentagon is investigating pro-American propaganda on social media, amid White House concerns. Reason covered a new report about these accounts—and their lack of resonance—earlier this month. Now, "the Pentagon has ordered a sweeping audit of how it conducts clandestine information warfare after major social media companies identified and took offline fake accounts suspected of being run by the U.S. military in violation of the platforms' rules," The Washington Post reports. "The U.S. government's use of ersatz social media accounts, though authorized by law and policy, has stirred controversy inside the Biden administration, with the White House pressing the Pentagon to clarify and justify its policies."

 

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This Should Terrify Every American: DOJ Harasses Citizens for Exercising Their First Amendment Rights [UPDATED]​

Earlier this year, the Alabama legislature passed the Alabama Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act, which became effective on May 8. It bans puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and surgery to alter the biological sex of a minor. A huge number of left-wing advocacy organizations immediately sued the state, and the U.S. Justice Department intervened in the lawsuit, echoing their claims that the new Alabama law violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

The Eagle Forum is not a party to the lawsuit. Yet the Justice Department has served what is referred to as a third-party subpoena on the Eagle Forum. This subpoena outrageously demands that the Eagle Forum and its members turn over all:

• information and communications it has or engaged in over the law and any predecessor bills;
• materials that were considered by the Forum connected to the legislation or any draft or model bills;
• documents concerning the Forum’s “legislative or policy goals, initiatives, and/or strategies relating to medical care or treatment of transgender minors, or minors with gender dysphoria”;
• communications with—and testimony, letters, reports, etc., sent to—state legislators or their staff; and any other government agencies and officials in Alabama over the legislation;
• communications with any other nongovernmental organizations over the legislation;
• internal minutes and records of meetings, polling and public opinion data, video presentations and speeches, newsletters and emails, and social media postings related to the legislation.

In other words, the Justice Department wants to turn the Eagle Forum inside out, forcing it to turn over its records on everything it does. This would let government lawyers paw through and scrutinize everything, including privileged communications and even personal discussions and communications with other private citizens and nonprofit organizations.

And there isn’t a single, justifiable reason for the department to do this. The Eagle Forum is not a party in the lawsuit. It is not a government agency. It is not the legislature. It has no power to vote to enact this (or any) legislation or sign it into law.

Keep in mind that the lawsuit is making a constitutional claim. The plaintiffs, including the Justice Department, are arguing that the statute as written violates the U.S. Constitution. So, what do the Eagle Forum’s polling data or social media posts have to do with that constitutional question? What do its internal records, its “policy goals, initiatives, and/or strategies,” or the communications of its members with state legislators have to do with that issue?

The answer is: absolutely nothing. None of the documents or information sought by the Justice Department has any relevance to whether the text of a state law violates the Fourteenth Amendment.




UPDATE: The Justice Department has issued a press release announcing that Jason R. Cheek, the department lawyer who served this harassing subpoena on the Eagle Forum of Alabama, has been appointed by Jay E. Town, the U.S. Attorney for the northern part of the state, to “serve as the district election officer for the Northern District of Alabama” in the upcoming November election. So Cheek, the lawyer who is trying to intimidate state residents who are members of the Eagle Forum for speaking out and engaging in the democratic process, is the “district election officer” who will be responsible for “handling any complaints of election fraud or voting rights abuses.” Given Cheek’s reprehensible conduct in this case, this is not an appointment likely to generate confidence in the electorate of Alabama that the Justice Department will handle such complaints in a non-partisan, unbiased, and fair manner.





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Puberty blockers and transgender operations for children is insanity.
The parents of these children are insane for trying to destroy a child's gender.
Doctors who prescribe these things are butchers and demonic individuals.

Far worse this administration is actually pushing this sick agenda, and American voters are as crazy as loons for voting for them. Sodom and Gamorrah were pikers compared to America's woke Democrat voters, and we will pay the price for it.

Now i am not some crazed religious lunatic, just a normal human being who is watching what is happening to the world in amazement. I have doubts about religion and the existence of a deity who watches over us and guides us. A believer with doubts I suppose. but if there is such a deity he/she/it, must be sleeping on the seventh resting. When awakened the sht is on.

 

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Inside the Aggressive Government Push to 'Nudge' You to Behave Correctly​

In an explosive interview ahead of the recent election of the new prime minister in the UK, Chancellor Rishi Sunak detailed how policymaking in the nation got outsourced to a group called Sage. He also recounted his objections to giving an unelected group with little to no transparency so much power.

Sage stands for Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies. In Sunak’s retelling, the group packaged policy prescriptions for Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his cabinet to implement. As the nation approached the most draconian pandemic policy, the lockdown, Sunak said that the PM’s office wanted to position the orders as following the science.

To do that meant “elevating Sage, a sprawling group of scientific advisers, into a committee that had the power to decide whether the country would lock down or not. There was no socioeconomic equivalent to Sage; no forum where other questions would be asked,” according to Sunak.
When the recommendations came from Sage, they effectively set the policy for the UK. Not even cabinet members would know how the group reached these decisions. As a result, Sunak says he pushed back on the narrative:

“In every brief, we tried to say: let’s stop the “fear” narrative. It was always wrong from the beginning. I constantly said it was wrong.” The posters showing Covid patients on ventilators, he said, were the worst. “It was wrong to scare people like that.” The closest he came to defying this was in a September 2020 speech saying that it was time to learn to ‘live without fear’ – a direct response to the Cabinet Office’s messaging. “They were very upset about that.”

If you take a deep dive into the Sage website, you will find the Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behaviours (SPI-B). The SPI-B’s job is to “provide advice aimed at anticipating and helping people adhere to interventions that are recommended by medical or epidemiological experts.” In other words, this team helps the other “experts” give you a “nudge” to behave. In fact, one of the members, Dr. David Halpern, leads what is officially called the Nudge Unit.

You may think the Nudge Unit sounds like something from a campy Austin Powers movie, but it is a terrifying reality. Where did it get such a horrific name? According to the Unit’s website, “It is called ‘nudge’ after the book by Richard Thaler [who went on to win the Nobel prize in economics] and Cass Sunstein, which set out how people are not the rational economic actors beloved of conventional economic theory – but can be influenced by “choice architecture” into making better choices in their own interests.” If you don’t know, Sunstein is the husband of Samantha Powers and was an advisor to President Barack Obama.

There is an entire cabinet department in the UK government focused on influencing citizens’ “choice architecture” so they make choices the government prefers. The authors of Nudge are explicit about the roadmap they have provided. In 2021, Thaler and Sunstein put out their final edition. From the description:

Since the original publication of Nudge more than a decade ago, the title has entered the vocabulary of businesspeople, policy makers, engaged citizens, and consumers everywhere. The book has given rise to more than 200 “nudge units” in governments around the world and countless groups of behavioral scientists in every part of the economy. It has taught us how to use thoughtful “choice architecture” – a concept the authors invented – to help us make better decisions for ourselves, our families, and our society.

 

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Inside the Aggressive Government Push to 'Nudge' You to Behave Correctly​

In an explosive interview ahead of the recent election of the new prime minister in the UK, Chancellor Rishi Sunak detailed how policymaking in the nation got outsourced to a group called Sage. He also recounted his objections to giving an unelected group with little to no transparency so much power.

Sage stands for Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies. In Sunak’s retelling, the group packaged policy prescriptions for Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his cabinet to implement. As the nation approached the most draconian pandemic policy, the lockdown, Sunak said that the PM’s office wanted to position the orders as following the science.

To do that meant “elevating Sage, a sprawling group of scientific advisers, into a committee that had the power to decide whether the country would lock down or not. There was no socioeconomic equivalent to Sage; no forum where other questions would be asked,” according to Sunak.
When the recommendations came from Sage, they effectively set the policy for the UK. Not even cabinet members would know how the group reached these decisions. As a result, Sunak says he pushed back on the narrative:



If you take a deep dive into the Sage website, you will find the Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behaviours (SPI-B). The SPI-B’s job is to “provide advice aimed at anticipating and helping people adhere to interventions that are recommended by medical or epidemiological experts.” In other words, this team helps the other “experts” give you a “nudge” to behave. In fact, one of the members, Dr. David Halpern, leads what is officially called the Nudge Unit.

You may think the Nudge Unit sounds like something from a campy Austin Powers movie, but it is a terrifying reality. Where did it get such a horrific name? According to the Unit’s website, “It is called ‘nudge’ after the book by Richard Thaler [who went on to win the Nobel prize in economics] and Cass Sunstein, which set out how people are not the rational economic actors beloved of conventional economic theory – but can be influenced by “choice architecture” into making better choices in their own interests.” If you don’t know, Sunstein is the husband of Samantha Powers and was an advisor to President Barack Obama.

There is an entire cabinet department in the UK government focused on influencing citizens’ “choice architecture” so they make choices the government prefers. The authors of Nudge are explicit about the roadmap they have provided. In 2021, Thaler and Sunstein put out their final edition. From the description:

It's still not as bad as the Taint Unit.

 

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New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern at the U.N.: ‘Disinformation’ Should Be Controlled Like Guns, Bombs, and Nukes​

Ardern’s authoritarian impulses were on display in her call for tighter regulations on Internet speech, although she insisted she values free speech and merely wishes to cleanse “disinformation” from international discourse.

Ardern portrayed the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, which New Zealand addressed with some of the heaviest lockdowns to be found outside of communist China, as a painful lesson that “schooled” mankind in the importance of “collective action.”

“It forced us to acknowledge how interconnected, and therefore how reliant we are on one another,” she said of the pandemic. “We move between one another’s countries with increasing ease. We trade our goods and services. And when one link in our supply chain is impacted, we all are.”

Ardern explicitly called for the collectivist “lessons” of the pandemic to be applied to climate change.

“The next pandemic will not be prevented by one country’s efforts, but by all of ours. Climate action will only ever be as successful as the least committed country, as they pull down the ambition of the collective,” she said.

Ardern called for stronger, more lavishly-funded “multilateral” institutions, expressing strong support for the World Health Organization, World Trade Organization, and Paris climate change agreement. She then somewhat paradoxically presented Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine as an example of an authoritarian regime simply ignoring global institutions to fulfill selfish ambitions.

 

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Most of the disinformation about the Corona Virus came from Dr, Faucci or the White House.

The masks were useless, the Vaccine was useless, closing the schools did more harm than good , sending people home or firing them because they refused the shot was useless. Ivermectin worked and we got disinformation about it that killed thousands.

Well : That takes care of Covid disinformation, now lets talk about this climate changing and EV selling and Solar panel and windmill bullsht information that the White house is putting out. The people putting out the disinformation are crying when true information is spread.

And now we are in a recession because of the disinformation from alleged "scientists".

 

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It's still not as bad as the Taint Unit.

We need a snort-laugh emoji. Stat.

 

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Inside the Aggressive Government Push to 'Nudge' You to Behave Correctly​

In an explosive interview ahead of the recent election of the new prime minister in the UK, Chancellor Rishi Sunak detailed how policymaking in the nation got outsourced to a group called Sage. He also recounted his objections to giving an unelected group with little to no transparency so much power.

Sage stands for Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies. In Sunak’s retelling, the group packaged policy prescriptions for Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his cabinet to implement. As the nation approached the most draconian pandemic policy, the lockdown, Sunak said that the PM’s office wanted to position the orders as following the science.

To do that meant “elevating Sage, a sprawling group of scientific advisers, into a committee that had the power to decide whether the country would lock down or not. There was no socioeconomic equivalent to Sage; no forum where other questions would be asked,” according to Sunak.
When the recommendations came from Sage, they effectively set the policy for the UK. Not even cabinet members would know how the group reached these decisions. As a result, Sunak says he pushed back on the narrative:



If you take a deep dive into the Sage website, you will find the Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behaviours (SPI-B). The SPI-B’s job is to “provide advice aimed at anticipating and helping people adhere to interventions that are recommended by medical or epidemiological experts.” In other words, this team helps the other “experts” give you a “nudge” to behave. In fact, one of the members, Dr. David Halpern, leads what is officially called the Nudge Unit.

You may think the Nudge Unit sounds like something from a campy Austin Powers movie, but it is a terrifying reality. Where did it get such a horrific name? According to the Unit’s website, “It is called ‘nudge’ after the book by Richard Thaler [who went on to win the Nobel prize in economics] and Cass Sunstein, which set out how people are not the rational economic actors beloved of conventional economic theory – but can be influenced by “choice architecture” into making better choices in their own interests.” If you don’t know, Sunstein is the husband of Samantha Powers and was an advisor to President Barack Obama.

There is an entire cabinet department in the UK government focused on influencing citizens’ “choice architecture” so they make choices the government prefers. The authors of Nudge are explicit about the roadmap they have provided. In 2021, Thaler and Sunstein put out their final edition. From the description:

Obama used the term “nudge” frequently when talking about his policies.

 

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Pentagon Purchased Mass Surveillance Tool Collecting Americans' Web Browsing Data​

Wyden wrote Wednesday to the inspectors general at the Departments of Defense, Justice, and Homeland Security, urging an investigation of their respective agencies’ purchase of the data, saying he had confirmed that “multiple government agencies are purchasing Americans’ data without judicial authorization.”

With regard to the military, Wyden said a whistleblower had come forward to his office who had revealed that a series of formal complaints had been filed “up and down their chain of command.” According to Wyden, the complaints implicate the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) in deals to obtain netflow data without a warrant.

“According to the whistleblower, NCIS is purchasing access to data, which includes netflow records and some communications content, from Team Cymru, a data broker whose data sales I have previously investigated,” said Wyden, the Senate Finance chair and longtime member of the Select Intelligence Committee.

Netflow records can reveal which servers users connect to, often thereby revealing specific websites they visit. The logs may also reveal the volume of data sent or received, and how long a user accessed a site.

Motherboard first reported in Aug. 2021 that Team Cymru, a threat intelligence firm, was working with internet service providers to obtain access to netflow records. The company informed the senator’s office at the time that it obtained “netflow data from third parties in exchange for threat intelligence.”

 

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The Justice Department Is Making a Great Case for Its Total Dissolution​

Matt Taibbi, a liberal, has written a lengthy post on Substack about how the DOJ has become unhinged in its investigative pursuits, finding avenues to circumvent search warrant procedures and allowing it to seize documents that would have otherwise been precluded. You all know about TAINT teams with the Trump raid. The group of federal agents that analyze everything taken from a residence, some of the stuff they review is protected by attorney-client privilege.

And it's no shock that the FBI picks unsavory characters to execute these extrajudicial operations, ensuring public support while covertly increasing its search power, which Taibbi noted was near universal by 2016. The War on Terror has provided years of judges giving the rubber stamp to constitutionally questionable surveillance and search warrants, and worse is that civil libertarians are clamming up because hating Donald Trump is the left's raison d'etre. Trump is only a chapter in this long, sordid tale of DOJ's corruption and malfeasance.

Suppose we don't push back, and Taibbi noted this as well. In that case, it could be the final chapter regarding our civil rights, and the endgame could be us having a security state that might not look like Putin's Russia on its face but has all the machinations of it underneath.

 

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The city — run by Democrats for the last 70 years — is now a complete mess. The homeless are everywhere, drug addicts openly shoot up on the streets, and crime has soared.

“Shootings have occurred every day of the week and at any given hour of the day since May 31 – with nearly every corner of the city impacted,” the Daily Mail reported on Wednesday.

More than 750 people have been shot since the end of May — that’s a span of just 121 days, so an average of more than six a day.

The crime wave has hit nearly everyone in the city. Just last week, a Temple University graduate was murdered by a masked gunman while walking down the street, and a 14-year-old football player was killed after leaving a school scrimmage.

This week, a video captured a horrifying moment when an armed carjacker on a bicycle ambushed a mother, 48, and her teenage daughter, 14, in their own driveway.

PHILADELPHIA: After 70 Years Of Democratic Leadership, ‘Birthplace Of Liberty Is Cesspool Of Murder’ | The Daily Wire

www.dailywire.com

 

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Big Brother watching? Government agencies buying cell phone, internet data to track Americans​

One of the latest revelations about this controversial public-private partnership came from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to "defending civil liberties in the digital world."

EFF recently obtained a trove of records through Freedom of Information Act requests on local and state police departments, as well as federal entities, purchasing a cellphone tracking tool that can monitor people's movements going back months in time.

The tool, Fog Reveal, is a product of the company Fog Data Science, which claims it has "billions" of data points about "over 250 million" devices that can be used to learn where people work, live, and associate.

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Also in July, the Heritage Foundation filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration demanding the release of all documents related to DHS' contract with Babel Street, a Virginia-based data mining and surveillance company.

The contract concerns a Babel Street product capable of retrieving and copying data both from online sources and from apps running on the smartphones and other devices of billions of people worldwide.

In announcing its lawsuit, Heritage expressed concern about DHS working with private companies to monitor Americans' social media accounts and the prospect of government agencies searching and aggregating the data.

Other federal departments and agencies have partnered with data brokers. The FBI last year released its own contracts with Venntel, although they were heavily redacted. The documents showed the bureau paid $22,000 for a single license to the Venntel Portal.

For critics, legislation is necessary to ensure the government doesn't infringe on the rights of citizens.

"Law enforcement's exploitation of our private digital data is dangerous and unconstitutional," said Mackey. "This harmful surveillance is only possible because there is no federal law that ensures that everyone can control their private data. It's past time Congress acted to protect our private information from both private and government surveillance."

Some senators are reportedly pushing for legislation that would limit the ability of law enforcement agencies to buy data to track people's whereabouts without a warrant.

Many of the federal government purchases aren't meant to surveil Americans inside the U.S.

 

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Outsourced censorship: Feds used private entity to target millions of social posts in 2020​

In its own after-action report on the 2020 election, the consortium boasted it flagged more than 4,800 URLs — shared nearly 22 million times on Twitter alone — for social media platforms. Their staff worked 12-20 hour shifts from September through mid-November 2020, with "monitoring intensif[ying] significantly" the week before and after Election Day.

The tickets sought removal, throttling and labeling of content that raised questions about mail-in ballot integrity, Arizona's "Sharpiegate," and other election integrity issues of concern to conservatives.

The consortium achieved a success rate in 2020 that would be enviable for baseball batters: Platforms took action on 35% of flagged URLs, with 21% labeled, 13% removed and 1% soft-blocked, meaning users had to reject a warning to see them. The partnership couldn't determine how many were downranked.

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits Congress from passing any laws that abridge free speech, and courts have ruled that prohibition extends to federal agencies funded by the legislative branch. Participants were acutely aware that federal agencies' role in the effort strayed into uncharted legal territory.

For instance, SIO's Renee DiResta said in a CISA Cybersecurity Summit video in 2021 that the operation faced "unclear legal authorities" and "very real First Amendment questions." She joined SIO from a firm exposed by The New York Times for creating "a 'false flag' operation" against Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore.

 

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Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), and Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) warned us about Kristen Clarke. Cruz called the radical lawyer “completely unfit to serve,” but serve she does as the Biden Administration’s chief of the civil rights division of the Department of Justice (DOJ). Her department is where equal justice now goes to die.

Clarke considers her calling in Biden’s Justice Department one of score-settling for past decisions, holding contemporaries responsible for historical injustices, and chasing ghosts of the past.

She greenlit the federal case against Mark Houck, a Pennsylvania Catholic pro-life author, whose seven children screamed for mercy for their “best friend,” their dad, as an estimated 20-25 FBI agents trained their rifles on him after beating on the family’s door at seven in the morning last Friday. According to LifeSiteNews, Houck was already aware that the Feds were after him and had offered to come in and talk with them. But gun-toting agents dragged him out and took him to a federal facility.

Radical DOJ Lawyer Kristen Clarke Targeted Pro-Life Dad and Other Conservatives

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Look at her picture. Nuff said.

 

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SF grocery store shut down due to rat infestation created by the birdseed lady​

The San Francisco Chronicle has more on the Tarlov’s battle with the birdseed lady:

Tarlov said she first noticed the local resident using a small shopping cart to unload piles of bird seed at the doorsteps of neighborhood restaurants in April 2020, when the restaurants were closed due to pandemic restrictions.
“I saw her dropping enormous amounts of bird seed in multiple locations in front of all the closed restaurants,” Tarlov said. “I thought, ‘This is terrible. The restaurants are going to have rat infestations.’”
When Tarlov told the resident to stop, Tarlov said the resident spit on her in retaliation. Tarlov said she believes the resident also began leaving ground up tortilla chips across the street from the store’s loading dock.

Janet Tarlov said she now spends part of her day sweeping up the birdseed left behind by this one woman so it won’t provide more food for rats. She has collected as much as 30 lbs in a single day. Here’s a photo she took showing just one of the bird seed dumps in a local parking lot.

To be clear, this story about the birdseed lady isn’t all coming from one store owner. Others in the neighborhood have been aware of the problem for the past two years.

Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, whose district includes Glen Park, called Canyon Market’s forced closure “completely unfair” and said the issue is not limited to one store. Mandelman said his office has been trying to get the Health Department and others to address the issue “for months.”
“There is a rat problem in the neighborhood and it appears to be related to a person distributing mass quantities of bird seed every single day,” Mandelman said in an interview Thursday, adding that the resident has been cited by police “at least once.”

I feel bad for the Tarlovs who seem like conscientious business owners who are understandably upset that their reputation is being sullied because of the irresponsible actions of one individual. It’s also not fair to local residents who not only have to deal with the rats but also with not having a grocery store for a few days. And it’s all because one individual can’t be stopped from behaving in a way that harms everyone.

The birdseed woman may not be homeless but it sure sounds as if she has some mental problems. And just like every other person with mental problems wandering the streets of San Francisco (or Los Angeles), the city’s default position is to do nothing until it creates a big enough crisis to make the local news. Then, finally, the city might stir itself to do something about the actual problem. In this particular case, it has taken two and a half years just to put out some rat bait. How much longer will it take to stop the birdseed lady from creating this problem for an entire neighborhood?

 

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Enemies list? Fed-backed censorship machine targeted 20 news sites​

"The definition of 'disinformation' is now any reported facts that go against the world view of the political establishment," Breitbart News Editor in Chief Alexander Marlow wrote in an email.

The consortium "relies on innuendo and insinuation to imply we are not trustworthy and thus should be censored" rather than accusing Breitbart "of publishing inaccurate stories," he said. The company is being targeted for "having a massively powerful platform that leads the political conversation every single day."

"We're in the middle of what I would call the 'Great Suppression,'" Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton told Just the News. He was suspended by Twitter for several months for comments on hydroxychloroquine.

"Censorship is a civil rights issue," he wrote in a text message. "Not only do we have the right to speak, but we have the right to petition the government and be free from retaliation."

"This is the destruction of American liberty right before our eyes," conservative activist Pamela Geller wrote in an email. She called it "more than just campaign rhetoric ... This is a fascist regime aiming to criminalize political dissent."

Human Events senior editor Jack Posobiec said "the crooked scumbags that run the regime target me so often" because they are "terrified" of him.

"We are not going to stop fighting for freedom until their entire edifice [is] torn down," he vowed.

The consortium report said it identified domains that were "linked to by more than 500 tweets or retweets" in multiple incidents, and further explained the role some of them allegedly played in an appendix on "additional partisan news outlets."