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#1 Conservative Lawyers Call New Hegseth Comment an ‘Admission of Guilt' - David McAfee for Raw Story, Tracy Solomon, MinisterOfAntiMalice, JoeMyGod, Greg Perkins, and Bill Wolf on X
Pete Hegseth was put on notice over the weekend by two conservative lawyers, including a former prosecutor, who said the Defense Secretary's defense to a major new scandal "makes no legal sense" and is not really "a defense."Observers' eyebrows were raised after it was reported by the Washington Post in a bombshell story that Hegseth ordered the killing of two survivors of one of the controversial drug vessel bombings. Some analysts questioned whether it was murder or even a war crime....
#2 FDA Links 10 Children’s Deaths to COVID-19 Vaccines. Doctors Want Proof - ABC News, Rob Schneider/Jan Jekielek, Bret Weinstein/Jeffrey A Tucker, Chief Nerd, James Woods/Ian Miller, and Nicolas Hulscher, MPH/Emily Kopp on X
The top vaccine chief at the Food and Drug Administration sent out a memo saying the FDA will seek a stricter review and approval protocol for vaccine trials. In the memo on Friday, Dr. Vinay Prasad claimed a new review of records linked 10 children’s deaths to the Covid vaccine. “These deaths are related to vaccination (likely/probable/possible attribution made by staff," Prasad wrote. No information about how the conclusions were reached was shared in the memo, nor were they made public or published in a peer-reviewed journal. The memo was first reported by a PBS Newshour correspondent and later obtained and posted online by the Washington Post...
#3 Long COVID: Vax, Spike, Clot, Repeat - Tracy Bdanz and Michelle Edwards for The HighWire, UncoverDC, Erich Hartmann, VaccineMole, Sayer Ji, and bitolaman on X
A recent peer-reviewed study has emerged with findings that quietly confirm that the dreaded and debilitating Long COVID is the result of the experimental COVID-19 injections, not the virus itself, as many would like us to believe. Tellingly, every single vaccinated participant in the study was found to have fibrinolysis-resistant, Thioflavin-T-positive amyloid microclots circulating in their blood. Yes, you read that correctly: 100% of the participants were vaccinated. And yet, the authors frame these findings in the familiar language of “Long COVID” from the virus, a narrative choice that, upon closer inspection, reveals that Long COVID occurred almost entirely in those heavily vaccinated, without any lab confirmation of previously being infected with SARS-CoV-2. Thus, as pointed out by Nicolas Hulscher, MPH...#4 Luigi Mangione Will Appear in Court as His Attorneys Seek to Have Key Evidence Tossed From State Murder Case - Nicki Brown and Kara Scannell for CNN, New Rules50, AVOCAT NUTA STEFAN, FOX56 NEWS WOLF-TV, Gothamist, Erik Uebelacker and Gabrielle Mediak on X
Luigi Mangione, the 27-year-old accused of killing a health insurance company executive in a brazen attack that sparked a national debate, will appear in court Monday as his attorneys seek to have his diary entries and other key evidence tossed from his state murder case. Mangione was arrested at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania following a days-long manhunt after United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, 50, was fatally shot December 4, 2024, on a busy sidewalk in midtown Manhattan. During the arrest, law enforcement recovered several pieces of evidence from Mangione’s backpack that authorities say tie him to the killing. Mangione’s lawyers argue police illegally searched his bag without a warrant, so that evidence should be barred from the state’s case. Prosecutors denied the defense’s claims and agreed to a hearing on the matter...
#5 Trump Commutes Prison Sentence for Former Private Equity Executive David Gentile - Josh Boak AP/ABC, Turnbull, Jeffrey Augustine, AI B, Kyle Griffin, and Jacqueline Sweet/Kenneth P. Vogel on X
President Donald Trump has commuted the prison sentence of former investment manager David Gentile, who was convicted of defrauding investors — the latest in a series of clemency actions Trump has taken in white-collar criminal cases. Gentile had reported to prison on Nov. 14, just days before Trump commuted his sentence, according to a White House official who requested anonymity to provide details of the clemency action. Gentile had been the CEO and co-founder of GPB Capital, which had raised $1.6 billion in capital to acquire companies in the auto, retail, health care, and housing sectors...
#6 Internet Service Providers Warn of Mass Disconnections in Supreme Court Battle With Record Labels - John Fritze for CNN, CSPAN, Reuters Legal, Howard Bashman, Courts Matter Illinois, and Liana West on X
The Supreme Court will hear arguments Monday in a major copyright dispute that internet service providers warn could force millions of Americans offline and turn companies that provide connectivity into “internet police.”At issue are peer-to-peer file-sharing protocols like BitTorrent that allow users to download pirated music. The nation’s largest record labels are attempting to hold internet providers liable for copyright infringement because they declined to cut off online access to users they knew were downloading bootlegged music...
#7 Brother of Alleged DC Gunman Rahmanullah Lakanwal Was a Platoon Leader in Elite CIA-Backed ‘Zero Unit,’ Ex-Squad Official Says - David Propper for New York Post, punisher 1, Pasquali Pellegrino, Grett Grabel, Daniel Hochleutner, and Lost on X
The brother of alleged DC gunman Rahmanullah Lakanwal was a platoon leader in the same elite CIA-backed “Zero Unit” as his sibling, an ex-official in that squad said Thursday. Lakanwal, 29, and his brother both served in the southern province of Kandahar, said a resident of the eastern province of Khost who identified himself as a cousin of the accused shooter, according to The Associated Press. While Lakanwal began as a security guard for the unit in 2012, he later ascended to a team leader and GPS specialist, said the cousin, who did not want to be publicly identified. The former official from the unit, who also did not want to be identified, said Lakanwal’s brother was a platoon leader, AP reported...
#8 The Agriculture Secretary Says Snap Changes Are Coming - Jude Joffe-Block for npr, Minding My Black Business, InquiringFinds, KHOU 11 News Houston, IamLegend, and Melony L. Dennis on X
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins is promising big changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which currently helps almost 42 million Americans buy groceries. In recent media appearances, she stated that the attention on SNAP during the government shutdown "has given us a platform to completely deconstruct the program" and said details about structural changes to the program would be released this week. Rollins has made a case for sweeping changes to SNAP by asserting her agency uncovered "massive fraud" in state data the agency demanded, and has emphasized statistics suggesting wrongdoing without providing the underlying data or details...
#9 Trump Doubles Down on Calling Gov. Tim Walz ‘Retarded’: ‘There’s Something Wrong With Him’- New York Post, mwaite613@yahoo.com, George, Fearless45,
Minnesota Department of Human Services/Raymond F., and Truth Teller on X
Tim Walz took aim at Donald Trump's criticisms of the Somali community when pressed on whether he took responsibility for failing to stop fraud in Minnesota, as several within the community were charged in connection with a fraud scheme...
#10 Music City Miracle: A Look at an Unusually Contentious Election in the Volunteer State - Chad Pergram for Fox News, MainStreetUSA, BRICS, Chandler WT, Washington Examiner, and #TuckFrump on X
We’ll know Wednesday morning if a special election in Tennessee is truly a referendum on country music, pedal taverns, and bachelorettes. Or, if we can divine a deeper political meaning from the results of the special election in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District. Democrat Aftyn Behn is trying to tip the scales in favor of her party in a district which President Trump carried by about 20 points and former Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., won by a similar percentage last fall...
