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Off-duty CBP agent recalls racing from barbershop to Uvalde elementary school to save wife, daughter

Jacob Albarado, an off-duty U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent, was one of the many officers who rushed to the scene of the Uvalde school massacre last week, in his case, after receiving a terrifying text from his wife.
Albarado was at a barbershop when he received harrowing messages from his wife Trisha about a gunman at Robb Elementary School, where she teaches fourth grade.

Off-duty CBP agent recalls racing from barbershop to Uvalde elementary school to save wife, daughter | Fox Metro News
 
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Some Democrats voting in GOP primaries to block Trump picks

WASHINGTON (AP) — Diane Murray struggled with her decision all the way up to Election Day.

But when the time came, the 54-year-old Georgia Democrat cast a ballot in last week’s Republican primary for Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. While state law allowed her to participate in either party’s primary, she said it felt like a violation of her core values to vote for the Republican. But it had to be done, she decided, to prevent a Donald Trump -backed “election denier” from becoming the battleground state’s election chief.

“I feel strongly that our democracy is at risk, and that people who are holding up the big lie, as we call it, and holding onto the former president are dangerous to democracy,” said Murray, who works at the University of Georgia. “I don’t know I’ll do it again because of how I felt afterward. I just felt icky.”

Raffensperger, a conservative who refused to support the former president’s direct calls to overturn the 2020 election, probably would not have won the May 24 Republican primary without people like Murray.

An Associated Press analysis of early voting records from data firm L2 found that more than 37,000 people who voted in Georgia’s Democratic primary two years ago cast ballots in last week’s Republican primary, an unusually high number of so-called crossover voters. Even taking into account the limited sample of early votes, the data reveal that crossover voters were consequential in defeating Trump’s hand-picked candidates for secretary of state and, to a lesser extent, governor.

Some Democrats voting in GOP primaries to block Trump picks | AP News

My Comment. I can see this happening in Wyoming where Liz Chaney is running. Also in Alaska.
 
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bigredfish said:
This my surprised face :blankstare:

Michael Sussmann found not guilty of charges brought by Special Prosecutor John Durham
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Michael Sussmann found not guilty of charge brought by Special Prosecutor John Durham

Michael Sussmann was found not guilty of making a false statement to the FBI, a defeat for special prosecutor John Durham.
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I think I read about how some of the jury members were Clinton donors, or something. Seemed on par for the Liberal BS party antics.
 
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5 Democrat donors, and one lady whose kid is on same team as Sussmann’s kid at school… the rest were simply typical brain dead liberals.

Getting a fair trial with a Democrat defendant within 100 miles of the swamp is impossible. They’re all paid by the govt.
 
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To be expected from Broward county (Ft Lauderdale), where pedophilia among liberal Democrats, especially teachers, is considered normal.

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ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
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bigredfish said:
This my surprised face :blankstare:
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Wow, Durham could not even get a conviction on a simple lie. What a waste. If he could not do that, then anything else he states/leaks/prosecutes will be meaningless. Bummer.
 
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and those who would take our liberties lose again!

the Miami Herald Editorial Board
Tue, May 31, 2022, 2:22 PM·4 min read


In their frenzy to protect Donald Trump’s “free speech” rights to spread falsehoods on social media, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Republicans appear to have misunderstood — or flat-out ignored — the First Amendment.
That beloved 45-word amendment to the U.S. Constitution gets its fair share of mentions in political speeches. But, in Florida, it sometimes applies only to those who toe the line of the party in power. Disney learned that the hard way when it got blacklisted for opposing a parental-rights bill critics call “Don’t say gay.”
One group that really gets under the governor’s skin are Silicon Valley’s “Big Tech” firms, the so-called “woke” folks who banned Trump from Twitter, Facebook and YouTube after the Jan. 6 attacks on the U.S. Capitol last year. Despite warnings that he would run afoul of the U.S. Constitution, DeSantis pushed a bill through the Legislature that, among other things, fined social-media companies for de-platforming political candidates in the run-up to an election. Disney, which at the time hadn’t yet fallen from grace with Republicans, earned a special exemption for its mobile platforms.
Harsh words
To no one’s surprise, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently ruled that the law restricts tech companies’ First Amendment rights. In a decision ironically written by a Trump appointee, appellate Judge Kevin Newsom, the court dressed down Senate Bill 7072: “The government can’t tell a private person or entity what to say or how to say it.”
The court upheld most of a preliminary injunction imposed last year by U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle, who had even harsher words, saying the tech crackdown is “riddled with imprecision and ambiguity.”
 
Five of the jurors contributed to the Hillabeans campaign. Another one went to school with one of Sussman's kids. The Judge also went to school with Sussman and was appointed by Barach the Perfect.
 
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So, the prevailing opinion/theory is, the Sussmann trial introduced a LOT of evidence into the public record, regardless of the verdict. This much makes sense. There are many details now public that were only rumored or supposed before. Next indictment up for trial is Danchenko in Virginia. Likely to be much the same, present a practically air-tight case, and wait for the illogical verdict. After three or four of these low-level cases are on the record books, one of two things MIGHT happen:
a) They indict the lower-level court judges for corruption (possible, but not highly likely
b) They connect the dots from the earlier cases to take down higher-profile indictments

Either way, it seems like it's going to be a slow, very frustrating summer. :(
 
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Uvalde police, school district no longer cooperating with Texas probe of shooting

The Uvalde Police Department and the Uvalde Independent School District police force are no longer cooperating with the Texas Department of Public Safety's investigation into the massacre at Robb Elementary School and the state's review of the law enforcement response, multiple law enforcement sources tell ABC News.

A spokesman for Texas DPS, which is running the state's investigations, declined to comment.

The Uvalde police chief and a spokesperson for the Uvalde Independent School District did not immediately respond to requests for comment from ABC News.

According to sources, the decision to stop cooperating occurred soon after the director of DPS, Col. Steven McCraw, held a news conference Friday during which he said the delayed police entry into the classroom was "the wrong decision" and contrary to protocol.

Uvalde police, school district no longer cooperating with Texas probe of shooting - ABC News (go.com)

My comment: All I can say is WOW! Their lawyers must have told them to shut up.
 
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Oh no! How could he? The NYT must have had employees on the the jury

NEW YORK (AP) — The judge who presided over Sarah Palin’s libel case against The New York Times denied her request Tuesday for a new trial, saying she failed to introduce “even a speck” of evidence necessary to prove actual malice by the newspaper.

U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff made the assertion in a written decision as he rejected post-trial claims from Palin’s lawyers.

Her attorneys had asked the judge to grant a new trial or disqualify himself as biased against her, citing several evidentiary rulings by Rakoff that they said were errors. Those ranged from how the questioning of jurors occurred during jury selection, to how jurors were instructed when they asked questions during deliberations.

“In actuality, none of these was erroneous, let alone a basis for granting Palin a new trial,” the judge said.

Rakoff wrote that regardless of her post-trial motions, Palin was required at a trial earlier this year to show that an error in a published editorial was motivated by actual malice — a requirement in libel lawsuits involving public figures.

“And the striking thing about the trial here was that Palin, for all her earlier assertions, could not in the end introduce even a speck of such evidence,” he said.
 
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