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#1 Supreme Court Weighs Whether to Gut Key Provision of Landmark Voting Rights Act - Lawrence Hurley for NBC News, Peter Konieczko, WXII 12 News, Clayton Perry 704-231-4809, Rep. Jonathan L. Jackson/The Washington Post, Victor Oaktree, and Mike Kole on X
The conservative-majority Supreme Court on Wednesday will consider whether to eviscerate a key provision of the landmark Voting Rights Act in a congressional redistricting case from Louisiana. The justices, who expanded the scope of the case over the summer, will hear oral arguments on whether states can ever consider race in drawing new districts while seeking to comply with Section 2 of the 1965 law, which was enacted against a backdrop of historic racial discrimination to protect minority voters...
#2 FDA to Big Pharma: The Peter Marks Pipeline - Tracy Beanz & Michelle Edwards, UncoverDC, Vigilant Fox, Drogon, Children's Health Defense Canada, BooksByTara, and mickey/Aaron Siri on X
As society moves forward from the deadly experimental mRNA COVID-19 “vaccine” rollout, a clear picture has emerged that requires clearheaded scrutiny. At the center of this unfolding smoke-and-mirrors narrative is Dr. Peter Marks, former director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER). Once regarded as the chief architect of Operation Warp Speed’s vaccine approvals, Dr. Marks has now quietly transitioned to a top executive role at Eli Lilly—a pharmaceutical giant that stands to benefit from pandemic-era regulatory acceleration...#3 ‘I Love Hitler’: Leaked Messages Expose Young Republicans’ Racist Chat - Jason Beeferman and Emily Ngo for Politico, Simpleton, JD Redding, Leo Barca - NLT, DC_Draino/Snow Bear, and Jan Cingel on X
Leaders of Young Republican groups throughout the country worried what would happen if their Telegram chat ever got leaked, but they kept typing anyway. They referred to Black people as monkeys and “the watermelon people” and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies and driving them to suicide and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery...
#4 Major Airports Refuse to Show DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s Video Blaming Democrats for the Government Shutdown - Ayesha Ali for ABC News, FOX26Houston, Lexington Herald-Leader, FOX 5 Atlanta, edwin swain, and Tyler Fingert on X
Major airports across the country -- including in New York City, Chicago, and Atlanta -- are refusing to play a video featuring Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem blaming Democrats for the impacts of the government shutdown. Many of the airport representatives said their facility's policies bar the showing of political content. Some also pointed to the Hatch Act, a law that restricts the political activities of federal employees as well as some state and local employees who are involved in or work in federally funded programs. The roughly 30-second video began rolling out to airports last week, according to DHS...
#5 Trump Says Us Will Not ‘Waste Our Time’ Helping Argentina if Milei Loses - Ione Wells for BBC, 13 news, Ramón Solà, LB Finanzas, Luis Emilio, and Corta on X
President Donald Trump has acknowledged that a $20bn (£15bn) US lifeline to help calm Argentina's currency crisis is an attempt to sway legislative elections this month in the South American nation. Welcoming Argentina's libertarian leader Javier Milei to the White House, Trump warned that the US would not "waste our time" with helping Argentina if Milei's party did not prevail. Milei praised Trump for his peacemaking efforts and said the US president's policies would lead to "prosperity". Argentina's financial turmoil comes ahead of national midterm elections on 26 October, seen as a test of voters' desire to continue backing Milei's cost-cutting, free-market reform agenda...
#6 Supreme Court Rejects Alex Jones’ Appeal of Sandy Hook Shooting Defamation Judgment - NPR for The Associated Press, Toronto Sun, karen cortez, Lovable Liberal, and his Old English sheepdog/Gigi/jrowdy/Riley, Chris Shoffner, apulapu, price van ray, and The General/price van ray on X
The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal from conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and left in place the $1.4 billion judgment against him over his description of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting as a hoax staged by crisis actors. The Infowars host had argued that a judge was wrong to find him liable for defamation and infliction of emotional distress without holding a trial on the merits of allegations lodged by relatives of victims of the shooting, which killed 20 first graders and six educators in Newtown, Connecticut. The justices did not comment on their order, which they issued without even asking the families of the Sandy Hook victims to respond to Jones' appeal. An FBI agent who responded to the shooting also sued...
#7 Federal Judge Rules in Favor of Allowing SCOTUS Case Over Trans Athletes to Proceed After Attempt to Dismiss - Jackson Thompson for Fox News, Erik Hoffmann, David L Wagner, and Lampe Outpost on X
The legal defense to "save women's sports" scored a big win in its Supreme Court battle over transgender athletes this week. After an Idaho trans athlete tried to have the potential landmark SCOTUS case dropped, a federal judge struck down the attempt to dismiss it and ruled that the case should proceed. U.S. District Judge David Nye, appointed by President Donald Trump in 2017, rejected former Boise State trans athlete Lindsay Hecox's motion to dismiss the case. The trans athlete started the legal battle in 2020, but tried to have it dismissed in September after the Supreme Court agreed in July to hear the case...
#8 Florida Judge Temporarily Blocks Transfer of Miami Land for Trump’s Presidential Library - CBS, shreela, The Saratogian, Rex_Tudor_Coup, and Evie on X
A Florida judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked the planned transfer of prime downtown Miami land for Donald Trump's future presidential library. The move by Circuit Judge Mavel Ruiz came after a Miami activist alleged that officials at Miami Dade College violated Florida's open government law when they gifted the sizable plot of real estate to the state, which then voted to transfer it to the foundation for President Trump's planned library. "This is not an easy decision," Ruiz said Tuesday when explaining her ruling from the bench. "This is not a case, at least for this court, rooted in politics," she added...
#9 Cheryl Hines Tensely Clashes With the View Cohosts Over Husband Robert F. Kennedy Jr. - Joey Nolfi for Entertainment Weekly, DeniseInColorado, PrincipioVerbum/Chief Nerd, Veriety, Conservative Librarian, MAHA Action, and Papa Hemingway on X
Curb Your Enthusiasm actress Cheryl Hines didn't curb her defenses for husband Robert F. Kennedy Jr., during a tense interview with The View cohosts about her husband's trajectory as the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services. As Hines sat at the Hot Topics table to promote her new book, Unscripted, she exclaimed that her husband is "completely different from anyone I've met in my life," to which Joy Behar quipped, "That's for sure." That set the tone for the remainder of the discussion, as Hines then confronted the cohosts about their past criticisms of Kennedy, ranging from his "brain worm," as Sunny Hostin calls it, to repeated concerns over his qualifications to hold such a high position in the U.S. government under Donald Trump...
#10 Trump: Might Cut Federal Funds if NYC Elects Mamdani - James Morley III for Newsmax, CityDeskNYC/AI Arabiya English, Eric Daugherty, Ron Smith/Sportsfreak217, and Alex Joffe on X
President Donald Trump reiterated his threat Tuesday that New York City Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani would not get federal funds if elected next month. In remarks carried live on Newsmax, Trump compared his administration's support of New York City to that of Argentina, where U.S. aid is contingent on the country adopting favorable policies. "It's a little like New York. We have a problem, we have a communist who's 33 years old, he doesn't know a damn thing, he's never worked a day in his life. And he's sort of caught on. I'm not going to send a lot of money to New York. I don't have to," the president said...
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