Colin Kaepernick Criticizes Jay-Z for 'Serving the Culture Up' to the NFL

NBCNews.com:

Colin Kaepernick said he believes that Jay-Z’s recent comments about him speak to a “guilty conscience,” as the fallout between the former quarterback and the rapper deepens. Kaepernick responded as part of an extensive interview with NBC News after Jay-Z dissed the athlete during a recent concert. In July, Jay-Z took aim at Kaepernick, the former San Francisco 49ers star, mentioning him and his settlement with the NFL in an impromptu rap during a series of concerts at Yankee Stadium. 

 

“They run out of characters, had to bring back up [Kaepernick] again,” Jay-Z said, referring to people who have criticized him for a recent partnership with Target. “Buddy took a check, I ain’t even mad at him, but along with that check you have to sign a non-disparagement. I’m the one [the NFL] can’t control.” 

 

Earlier this year, Jay-Z drew ire when it was announced that he would sell an exclusive version of his “Reasonable Doubt” album at the retailer, which has been subjected to boycotts by Black shoppers after it rolled back its diversity, equity and inclusion practices. Kaepernick, on the other hand, is honoring the boycott despite the potential financial cost. A spokesperson for the former quarterback confirmed he would not be selling his upcoming memoir, “The Perilous Fight,” in Target stores. Target did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Well, dude has a book coming out that he needs to promote so Kaepernick will say pretty much anything to make some sales. Nonetheless, why he's taking shots at Jay-Z, who's done way more in support of Black folks than Kaepernick ever will, much less the fact that Kaepernick has made numerous attempts to get back in the NFL (despite name-calling them every chance he gets) since he last played in the league back in 2016, is just weird and self-defeating.

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Lindsay Clancy Defense Lawyer Suggests a Single Juror is Standing in the Way of a Not Guilty Verdict

Mediaite.com:

Lindsay Clancy’s defense attorney Kevin Reddington appeared to suggest on Thursday that a single juror is in the way of a not guilty verdict for Lindsay Clancy. 

 

Reddington addressed the court after Judge William Sullivan called jurors back into the courtroom to reiterate the definition of reasonable doubt. 

 

Reddington said:

The court has an instruction from the foreperson of that jury that’s been working for a week now saying that there’s one juror who refuses to listen to the law that you’ve given him or her on reasonable doubt, and I suggest, respectfully, that the soft instruction that you gave them, saying at the sidebar, can you listen to the law as I instruct you, does not focus on the issue. It is the question is not sufficient enough. 

 

It does not allow any foundation for a motion to remove the juror who refuses to accept your instructions on the law, on reasonable doubt. And if we come back here in a half an hour with a mistrial, because of a juror that has just spurned the instructions of this court, it’s a shame. It’s a real shame. And that’s why I object to the court’s ruling. I request that we have further inquiry. I request that — my motion is to remove this juror that refuses to listen to your instruction on reasonable doubt.

Clancy has been on trial for five weeks to determine if she can be held criminally responsible for killing her three children, Cora, Dawson, and Callan in January 2023. Clancy, who experienced postpartum depression and psychosis, has pleaded not guilty, and her attorney has argued she cannot be held responsible for strangling the children to death due to insanity. 

 

Clancy currently faces five potential outcomes: first-degree murder, second-degree murder, manslaughter, not guilty by reason of insanity, and not guilty.

If what Clancy's lawyer is stating is true then may God give that juror the willpower to hold the forth. Because Lindsay Clancy is a monster and a serial murderer who methodically strangled and killed her children one by one. And the day we allow post-partum depression, etc. to be an excuse to murder your kids is a wreckoning that I can't even begin to comprehend.

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2 House Democrats Vote to Rescue the Republican Legislative Agenda

Politico.com:

A pair of House Democrats voted to rescue the Republican legislative agenda Tuesday as GOP leaders faced an internal revolt, an extremely rare crossing of party lines that pushed a key procedural vote through a closely divided chamber. 

 

Democratic Reps. Jared Golden of Maine and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington voted with most Republicans to set up debate on a series of GOP-led bills, including a resolution condemning socialism that party leaders want to use to hammer Democrats on the campaign trail.

The two Democrats were decisive in the 210-208 vote, where five Republicans had broken ranks over frustrations with how party leaders had handled an earlier vote on government spending. While House members routinely cross party lines on legislation, it is almost unheard for minority members to break ranks and vote for the “rules” the majority uses to set the floor agenda. Golden and Gluesenkamp Perez are both members of the moderate Blue Dog Democrats, and Golden is not seeking reelection in November.

Golden and Perez are receiving a ton of backlash from Dems for their votes, but not only do they deserve props for standing up for their constituents, but plenty of praise for representing what's left of the moderate wing of the Democrat party. A section that's literally on life support thanks to the Party's far-Left ideological takeover. Of course, who knows what happens from here, but this is also a huge win for Mike Johnson. And with Democratic leaders effectively surrendering control of the party to the DSA, abandoning centrists while protecting socialists shows a complete lack the courage to challenge the party’s leftward shift.

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Laura Loomer Takes the Bait, Makes Racist Rant Against Democrat Senate Candidate Angie Nixon

Newsweek.com:

Right-wing activist and Donald Trump ally Laura Loomer has defended calling a Democratic Senate candidate a "ghetto Black communist b****," following backlash including from Marjorie Taylor Greene who accused her of "nonstop insanity." 

 

Loomer made the remark in a series of X posts targeting Angie Nixon, a Jacksonville lawmaker and Florida U.S. Senate candidate. Loomer also derided Nixon's speech against resolutions honoring conservative activist Charlie Kirk as "Ebonics" and said she needed her "leash" tugged. 

 

The remarks quickly drew criticism online, including from former Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, who said she "1000 percent" denounced Loomer's comments and described them as racist.

With recent polls showing that there's a good chance Democrats could win back both the House and the Senate come this November, Republicans have turned their focus to affordibility (pretty tough when you still got a war with Iran going on), illegal immigration and Hasan Piker, the controversial, far-Left independemt pundit who's recently attached himself to (and campaigned with) quite a few DSA candidates of late. And its been working as a handful of Dems have openly expressed frustration at continuously being asked about Piker by the media of late. 

So with no real agenda outside of attacking Trump 24/7, what's the Democrat establishment to do but find a controversial tool on the Right as a counterattack to the Piker framing? Well, that's where Laura Loomer comes in, the longtime far-right political activist, idiot conspiracy theorist and of course, good buddy of President Trump who always gets in her own way when it comes to being taken seriously. And leave it to Loomer to take the bait, going after Nixon for all the wrong reasons and coming off as a total racist while at it. What a fool. And like night follows day, look for MSNOW, CNN, The View and all the popular progressive podcasts and pundits to counter Piker with Loomer and drag her name through the mud all the way up to November.

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Border Czar Tom Homan Defends Deportations to Haiti Amid Travel Warnings

Politico.com:

Border czar Tom Homan on Sunday defended the Trump administration’s ongoing deportations to Haiti despite the State Department’s own advisory warning Americans against traveling to the Caribbean country. In an interview with CNN’s “State of the Union,” Homan told host Dana Bash that the administration is simply complying with the end of Temporary Protected Status for Haitian migrants. 

 

“The temporary protective status is supposed to be temporary and as long as I’ve been around for over 40 years, it seems like it’s never temporary,” Homan said. “This is an order of the court. They were ordered removed and ICE is removing them.” The TPS program, first enacted by Congress in 1990, gave the Department of Homeland Security the power to allow migrants to stay in the U.S. due to unsafe conditions in their homeland as the result of a natural disaster, armed conflict or other “extraordinary and temporary” conditions. In June, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Mullin v. Doe that President Donald Trump could end the legal status of more than 1 million migrants who were permitted to live and work in the U.S. due to crises in their home countries. 

 

While Haiti was first designated part of the TPS program in 2010 following a massive earthquake, the State Department continues to have a Level 4 - Do Not Travel advisory for Haiti, citing the risk of crime, kidnapping, terrorism, unrest and limited health care. Last week alone, the United Nations estimated at least 47 people were killed and 22 others injured in an overnight gang raid on a neighborhood near Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital.

It’s kind of bizarre that the Trump administration is dumping hundreds, if not thousands, of Haitians (including children) back into a country it has long described as a “shithole country” and deemed unsafe to travel to (with good reason given the rampant gang violence there). But to be fair, Democrats are just as much to blame for this situation as Republicans. It starts with the Democrats’ grossly misguided use of TPS, which was originally intended to provide temporary protection to people following a natural disaster or other extraordinary circumstance while conditions in their home country improved. Instead, Democrats seemed less interested in actually improving conditions in Haiti than in grandstanding on the issue and using TPS as a political talking point to score points with their base. Then there’s the Haitian government itself, which has long struggled with corruption and has done little to effectively address the country’s widespread poverty, food insecurity and rampant gang violence. 

Finally, there’s Trump and his enablers. While SCOTUS has granted the administration the legal authority to end TPS (rightfully so), it appears to have done little to negotiate with other countries willing to take in these people or guarantee their safety upon return. Even more troubling, there seems to have been little effort by Trump and Co. to prioritize Haitians who have stayed out of trouble, earned an education or established legitimate careers while living in the United States. Whatever one thinks of TPS, treating everyone as though they have the same circumstances or deserve the same fate is hardly a thoughtful immigration policy.

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Iran’s Cyberwar Is Coming for the Home Front: Power and Water Plants Under Attack

FreeBeacon.com:

The latest phase of the Iran war has already hit the home front—even in countries that are not fighting. This week, news broke that Iranian hackers shut down a British power plant for several days last month at the same time water plants in 12 American states faced significant cyberattacks. The entry into the British plant, which was relatively unsophisticated, was nonetheless the most successful known attack of its kind. 

 

The power plant seems to have been a relatively minor one, so little damage was done. Power utilities in this country are often as small as British ones, and the distributed nature of the grid has previously afforded Americans some extra degree of protection. But that advantage may soon come to an end. 

 

Governments have long known about the threat of cyberattacks to critical infrastructure, the systems that control vital functions like the electrical grid, water treatment, health care, and transportation services. Warnings about an "electronic Pearl Harbor" or the newer variant, "cyber Pearl Harbor," have abounded since the first infrastructure was connected to the Web. Mitigating that danger is very difficult: An attacker may only need to find one vulnerability, and people invariably make mistakes in designing or employing systems. Small utility companies, moreover, tend to not have the resources to get top-line protection.

So while the lackadaisical and biased MSM debates whether Trump has truly “won” the war in Iran, independent media is warning about a far more serious threat: Iran’s use of cyberattacks, the potential destruction of critical infrastructure across America, and its efforts to enlist China’s help in retaliating against the United States. Yet another reason not to trust the liberal media.

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California Governor Gavin Newsom Signs ‘Stop Nick Shirley Act’ into Law

ContraCostaNews.com:

On Saturday, Governor Gavin Newsom signed the “Stop Nick Shirley” Act into law. 

 

Under AB 2624, it expands California’s Safe at Home program to employees of nonprofits that serve people navigating the immigration system. The law takes effect Oct. 1, 2027. 

 

The bill was given the nickname Nick Shirley Act introduced after YouTuber Nick Shirley began shooting videos and following immigration workers around while accusing them of fraud – similar to the daycare provider videos in Minnesota.

Liberal California and its wacky governor sign a bill that effectively silences journalists from exposing fraud. One would think that the msm as a whole would galvanize around and support Shirley on this latest display of radical, left-wing tyranny, while speaking up too for the 1st Amendment. But because Shirley is a conservative, that's not going to happen and that's why the media can't be trusted.

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NYC Socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani Posts Emotional Message Grieving Accused Knife-Wielding Killer

NYPost.com:

Mayor Zohran Mamdani publicly mourned an accused career criminal killer who died on Rikers Island this week — and the family of the victim slain in the sick, unprovoked attack is now livid, The Post has learned. 

 

Hizzoner said on X that he was “deeply saddened” by the in-custody death — the seventh so far this year at the troubled jail complex — adding that, “my thoughts are with his family and loved ones as they grieve this loss.” 

 

The inmate was identified as 41-year-old Clarence Woodward, an ex-con with nearly 30 arrests on his rap sheet, who was found unresponsive in his cell shortly after 5 a.m. Tuesday while awaiting trial for murder in the gruesome 2024 attack at a Bronx laundromat.

When you recall that it was radical, young progressives who turned out in droves to greatly assist in Mamdami becoming the mayor of NYC, you accept everything that comes along with it. And that includes a plethora of socialism, putting criminals first and tweeting condolences for murderers. What a disgrace.

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Lunatic Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner Vows to 'Blow Up' White House Ballroom

FOXNews.com:

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner said Tuesday he was going to keep a piece of President Donald Trump's White House ballroom as a paperweight "after we all blow it up." 

 

"In about 10 to 15 years, we are all going to be sitting here with smiles on our faces," Krasner said, according to video footage obtained by WCAU. "And I'm going to have a paperweight sitting on my desk. And do you know what that paper weight's going to be? It's going to be a piece of the ballroom after we blow it up." 

 

Krasner, who has previously called Trump a fascist and said he would hunt down Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, made the comments while speaking at George Washington's historic home in Philadelphia during the city's annual slavery commiseration, according to WCAU.

Krasner is a puppet of mega-rich, Far-Left donor George Soros, which basically means that he hates Trump and as a prosecutor his job is to put criminals first and victims last. Krasner is also a certified liar as a recent decison by the Democrat-dominated Supreme Court showed when they recently found that he was so quick to falsely concede error in murder cases (in attempting to free convicted murderers) that it tasked the Pennsylvania Attorney General with checking to make sure he's not lying. Nonetheless, besides being a total loon and an all-around douchebag, why a local city D.A. would continue going after the Feds can only mean that Krasner has aspirations to run for the Senate (or even the Governor's seat) sometime soon. And what's a better strategy for winning a Congresional seat than total TDS and nothing else?

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SCOTUS Hands Trump Election Takeover Victory

CNN.com:

The Supreme Court on Monday permitted President Donald Trump to move forward with a controversial executive order targeting mail ballots, but the decision will almost certainly not be the final word in whether the administration can actually implement its far-reaching plan. 

 

At the center of the dispute is an executive order Trump signed in March that gives the US Postal Service an unprecedented role in deciding whether to send mail ballots — a move that has followed years of the president making baseless claims about illegal voting by mail. 

 

But the Supreme Court’s order, which came over the dissent of three liberal justices, doesn’t resolve the legality of Trump’s proposal. The president’s plan for the USPS remains blocked on a nationwide basis. And further court action is almost certain to put Trump’s executive order before the justices again, potentially within a few days. Overnight, the Trump administration asked a lower court to clear another hurdle still blocking implementation of the president’s USPS directives.

SCOTUS’ finding that the states lacked standing was based on the circumstances when their complaints were filed in April, when neither a proposed nor final regulation existed and the alleged harms were considered hypothetical. Those circumstances have now changed, as both proposed and final regulations are in place, allowing the plaintiffs to identify specific provisions and explain how they would be harmed if the rule takes effect. The Court appears to be signaling that the facts are materially different now and that the standing question could therefore produce a different outcome. The timing may also be significant, given that the Trump administration announced its final rule on Friday, just before the Court issued its decision. With roughly 75 days remaining before the election, the next question is whether Judge Talwani or another liberal judge will attempt to block or delay implementation of the final rule in the coming days or weeks.

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