House Democrat Stacey Plaskett Reportedly Texted with Jeffrey Epstein During Michael Cohen’s Congressional Testimony

Mediaite.com:

Jeffrey Epstein appeared to be exchanging real-time messages with House Democrat, Del. Stacey Plaskett (Virgin Islands), during Michael Cohen’s 2019 testimony, and may have nudged the lawmaker’s line of questioning.

 

The documents, published by the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday, include messages highlighted in a new report by The Washington Post that were sent as Cohen detailed allegations that President Donald Trump manipulated financial records and directed hush-money payments, claims Trump denied.

 

As the hearing unfolded, Epstein appeared to be monitoring the proceedings closely, alerting his contact that Cohen had mentioned former Trump aide Rhona Graff.

 
Don't know much about Plaskett other than the fact that she's a loudmouth, professional race-baiter who once threatened independemt journalist Matt Taibbi with jail, claiming he committed perjury over rabid Lefty Mehdi Hasan's uncorrected error some years ago. Since she reps the Virgin Islands, Plaskett doesn't get a vote in the House, so she uses her time there to bully and intimidate white, male Republicans in the name of fighting back against 'white supremacy'...Hallelujah! That said, if we had any real media in this country they'd be investigating this matter further because Plaskett was clearly up to something dubious with Cohen and Epstein for a long time now.

RELATED: JP Morgan settles Jeffrey Epstein lawsuits with US Virgin Islands for $75m

John Beam, Football Coach From Netflix’s ‘Last Chance U’, Dies After Being Shot

APNews.com:

Oakland’s celebrated former football coach John Beam, who was featured in the Netflix series “Last Chance U” that showcased his success with players others wouldn’t gamble on, died Friday, a day after being shot on the college campus where he worked.

 

Police arrested the 27-year-old suspect Friday. Authorities said he knew the 66-year-old coach, and it was a targeted attack.

 

The shooting at Laney College rattled Oakland, with scores holding a vigil outside the hospital before he died. He was remembered as someone who would help anyone.

 
Remember watching Beam on Netflix's "Last Chance U" series, he was so beloved in his Oakland community, not just the football players. That said, wouldn't be surprised if this murder comes back to some disgruntled former player (or an associate of) simply because when it comes to the hood, no matter how hard you try, you can't please everyone and there's always some fool out there who when it comes problems, refuses to look in the mirror and would rather point the finger at you.

RELATED: Why Last Chance U Coach John Beam Is the 'Godfather' of Football in Oakland

IOC Discovers Differences Between Men and Women, Bans 'Transgender Women' (aka Men) from Female Olympic events

TheTimes.com:

The International Olympic Committee is set to announce a ban on transgender women in female competition early next year after a science-based review of evidence about permanent physical advantages of being born male. 

 

The IOC’s guidance to Olympic sports has until now been that transgender women can compete with reduced testosterone levels but leaves it up to individual sports to decide. That is now set to change under its new president, Kirsty Coventry, who has promised to protect the female category. 

 

The committee’s medical and scientific director, Dr Jane Thornton, last week presented to IOC members at a meeting in Lausanne the initial findings of a science-based review into transgender athletes and competitors with differences of sexual development (DSD) competing in female sport.

Honestly, the "trans" BS is just another immoral trope from people who don't believe in God, which not only makes it downright evil but says all you need to know about the state of today's Left. The same people who spout BS about 'gender-fluidity', gender being a 'social construct' and take no issue with allowing men in women's bathrooms. Indeed, today's Left is nothing but hating anything-Trump and woke trash and they're destroying women's rights in the process. And for a longtime, worldwide organization like the IOC to finally use common sense and bring back fairness to women's sports is not something that deserves a tat on the back--not until they take another step and strip these men of their medals and apologize to every female athlete who was cheated.

RELATED: Hilarious: Olympics To Ban 'Trans' Athletes After It 'Discovers' That Males Have Physical Advantages

Senate Advances Deal To Reopen Government, Fully Restore SNAP Benefits ,

FOXNews.com:

The Senate took a massive step forward on its way to reopening the government on Sunday, with a group of Senate Democrats caving and joining Republicans in their bid to pass a revamped plan to end the shutdown. 

 

Signs that the shutdown, which entered its 40th day, could be ending became more and more clear as the day went on, particularly with the unveiling of a bipartisan package of spending bills that lawmakers hope to attach to a modified bill to reopen the government. 

 

Eight Senate Democrats crossed the aisle to mark the first step in the GOP’s quest to end the shutdown. Many of the lawmakers that splintered from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., were among those engaged in bipartisan talks over the last several weeks.

Sure, many conservative pundits recently stated out loud that the shutdown would end this week after last Tuesday's elections. But I'll take it further in say that a wicked combo of SNAP benefits being cut and flights being cancelled around the country is what got some moderate Democrats to cave and vote to end the shutdown. Of course, the same Bluesky liberal hypocrites who blamed the GOP for 'taking food out of 42 million mouths' just a few days ago are now calling for Schumer's head on a platter for 'caving' and allowing the gov't to open back up, but hey that's politics for ya.

RELATED: BREAKING: Dems Finally Cave on Schumer Shutdown Clown Show; Newsom: ‘Pathetic'

Two Cleveland Guardians Players Indicted for ‘Rigging Pitches’ in Big Bucks Gambling Scheme

Mediaite.com:

Two Cleveland Guardians pitchers, Luis Ortiz and star reliever Emmanuel Clase, were indicted on Sunday for intentionally throwing bad pitches in order to enrich their gambling partners and themselves, according to prosecutors. 

 

Clase and Ortiz, according to the indictment, agreed to “rigging pitches” — either by throwing them poorly or at a certain speed — in return for kickback payments. Their co-conspirators bet on certain pitches being made, based on their inside information, and won at least $450,000, according to the prosecutors at the Eastern District of New York. 

 

Clase and Ortiz are facing charges of wire fraud conspiracy, conspiracy to influence sporting contests by bribery, money laundering conspiracy, and honest services wire fraud conspiracy. Ortiz was arrested on Sunday in Boston, while Clase, a native of the Dominican Repubic, has not been arrested.

The average MLB salary is $5M and yet these two clowns were out there destroying the integrity of the game so they could make more money. Unbelievable. Still, no matter what happens to Ortiz and Clase, lost in this nonsense is that it happened under Rob Manfred's watch, by far the worst commissioner in all of sports.

RELATED: Bryce Harper Allegedly Threatened By MLB Official After Rob Manfred Argument, Agent Claims

Judge Orders Trump Administration to Release Full SNAP Benefits by Friday

FOXNews.com:

A federal judge in Rhode Island on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to fully fund the nation's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) food aid program by Friday, rejecting the administration's effort to only partially fund the benefits program for some 42 million low-income Americans.

"People have gone without for too long," U.S. District Judge Jack McConnell said in court Thursday.

He scolded the Trump administration for failing to comply with the order he issued last week, which required the U.S. Department of Agriculture to fund the SNAP benefits programs before its funds were slated to lapse on Nov. 1, marking the first time in the program's 60-year history that its payments were halted.

Good. Regardless of who's side you're on when it comes to who to blame for this record-breaking gov't shutdown we're still in, the 42 million people currently on SNAP shouldn't have to suffer because of it. And while one could make a sound argument that there needs to be changes to SNAP, that needs to be done through legislation and is a totally different matter, which conservatives who don't have to worry about where the next meal is coming from need to stop barking about.

RELATED: When will SNAP benefits be paid? What to know for November

Supreme Court Recognizes There Are Only Two Genders, Clears Way for Trump Transgender Passport Policy

NYTimes.com:

The Supreme Court cleared the way on Thursday for the Trump administration to stop issuing passports that include gender identity markings selected by applicants.

The emergency order, which will remain in place as the case makes its way through the lower courts, marked the latest victory for President Trump before the Supreme Court.

The case, Trump v. Orr, stems from a Trump administration policy to change gender requirements for passport holders. The policy has been blocked since June, when a federal court temporarily stopped the administration from enforcing it while the court case continued. +No vote count was given, as is typical in such cases, but the majority offered four paragraphs of reasoning for granting the administration’s request.

Yeah, even in 2025 it's hard to believe that three Supreme Court justices sided with the perverse, Godless, anti-science, woke lobby and gave the OK to American citizens not having to put their sex at birth on passports. Indeed, it's almost like Joe Manchin was right when he said Joe Biden’s presidency was dominated by staffers who pushed far-left policies rather than the more moderate positions of his past.

RELATED: Trump administration asks Supreme Court to reinstate transgender passport policy

White Liberals Elect Zohran Mamdani as the Next Mayor of New York City

NPR.com:

Zohran Mamdani will be the next mayor of New York City, becoming the first Muslim and person of South Asian descent — as well as the youngest in over a century — to hold the position.

"The future is in our hands," Mamdani declared to roaring applause Tuesday night at a victory celebration in Brooklyn. "My friends, tonight we have toppled a political dynasty."

The 34-year-old, Ugandan-born Democratic socialist defeated former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who ran as an Independent, and Republican Curtis Sliwa in Tuesday's election, according to a race call by the Associated Press.

Honestly, there are two ways to look at this. Against a narcissistic and corrupt figure like Andrew Cuomo and a bumbling Republican opponent like Curtis Sliwa, Mamdani (who was favored from the jump) was always going to win this race. Then there’s the more practical perspective: in a deep-blue state like New York, especially in NYC, a Republican winning the mayor’s office is damn near impossible. Either way, Democrats are absolutely giddy about yesterday’s major elections, while the GOP has even more reason to worry about the upcoming midterms. And now that the elections are over, the real question is: will we finally see an end to this insipid government shutdown?

RELATED: NYC fire chief announces resignation after Mamdani wins mayoral race

Trump Threatens to Halt U.S. Aid and Launch Strikes on Nigeria Over Christian Killings

BBC.com:

US President Donald Trump has ordered the military to prepare for action in Nigeria to tackle Islamist militant groups, accusing the government of failing to protect Christians. 

 

Trump did not say which killings he was referring to, but claims of a genocide against Nigeria's Christians have been circulating in recent weeks and months in some right-wing US circles. 

 

Groups monitoring violence say there is no evidence to suggest that Christians are being killed more than Muslims in Nigeria, which is roughly evenly divided between followers of the two religions. An advisor to Nigeria's president told the BBC that any military action against the jihadist groups should be carried out together.

Of course, Nigeria has a long history of corruption and violence that has left the country impoverished and unstable. Similarly, the U.S. has a long record of military interventions that often leave nations worse off once it withdraws. Adding to all this uncertainty, Trump’s tendency to bloviate makes it unclear how serious he truly is about launching missile strikes against a sovereign nation like Nigeria. But ironically, the ever-present oil factor may be the real reason he’s even considering such action.

RELATED: Nicki Minaj sends lefty fans into meltdown after she praises Trump for addressing persecution of Christians in Nigeria

Justice Department Investigating Fraud Allegations in Black Lives Matter Movement

APNews.com:

The Justice Department is investigating whether leaders in the Black Lives Matter movement defrauded donors who contributed tens of millions of dollars during racial justice protests in 2020, according to multiple people familiar with the matter.

In recent weeks, federal law enforcement officials have issued subpoenas and served at least one search warrant as part of an investigation into the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, Inc. and other Black-led organizations that helped spark a national reckoning on systemic racism, said the people, who were not authorized to discuss an ongoing criminal probe by name and spoke on condition of anonymity to The Associated Press.

It was not clear if the investigation would result in criminal charges, but its mere existence invites fresh scrutiny to a movement that in recent years has faced criticism about its public accounting of donations it has received. The recent burst of investigative activity is also unfolding at a time when civil rights organizations have raised concerns about the potential for the Trump administration to target a variety of progressive and left-leaning groups that have been critical of him, including those affiliated with BLM, the transgender rights movement and anti-ICE protesters.

These days when you think of BLM, you can't help but think about how their push for body cams on cops turned out to be one of the biggest self-owns of all time. Indeed, thanks to BLM requisite body cams not only protect citizens, but cops as well. And one can go to YouTube any day of the week to see the irony in that. That said, the evidence is widespread that BLM leaders were corrupt and pocketing money for themselves so there's no doubt that these chicks are in a shitload of trouble.

RELATED: BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors and wife dissolve joint biz, sell home as org reportedly in DOJ crosshairs

Joe Scarborough Shuts Down Vile House Democrat Who Claimed Trump ‘Took Advantage of Young Girls with Epstein’

Mediaite.com:

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough jumped on a Democratic lawmaker Friday for declaring that President Donald Trump “took advantage of young girls” when he was associated with convicted sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein. 

 

Rep. Seth Moulton’s (D-MA) comments came after Morning Joe’s Willie Geist asked, “What is the most effective message for Democrats in this moment?” 

 

“The Democrats are here to help working people in America, and Republicans are here to protect the billionaire class,” Moulton said. “And what you see time and again from this White House, you know, if you’re a criminal, you’re going to buy your way to freedom with Trump. If you are one of the people like him who took advantage of young girls with Jeffrey Epstein, then we’re going to sort of make that go away. I mean, fundamentally, Speaker Johnson —”

This isn't complicated. Moulton said, without evidence, that Trump took advantage of underage girls. To Scarborough's credit, the MSNBC host pushed back. Now, Trump should sue Moulton for defamation.

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