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https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/10/children-are-being-used-as-a-football-hilary-cass-on-her-review-of-gender-identity-services

I thought you faggots would be discussing this here. Now paste the article for me.

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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/-life-support-senate-republicans-are-prepared-sink-child-tax-credit-bi-rcna146856

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans are inching closer to burying a bipartisan bill to expand the child tax credit and provide breaks for businesses, issuing a series of demands that would most likely disrupt the coalition that enabled it to pass the House.

The $78 billion bill, negotiated by House Ways and Means Committee Chair Jason Smith, R-Mo., and Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., passed the Republican-led House by a vote of 357-70 in January, a rare feat in a divided Congress that has struggled to function. But it has languished in the Senate, where key Republicans have said they’ll kill it unless it includes major revisions. Senate Democrats have 51 seats, and they need 60 votes to break a filibuster.

But with tax filing season close to finishing and election-year politics heating up, there’s no hint of a resolution in sight. Democratic leaders are eager to pass the legislation, which, according to one analysis, would benefit about 16 million children in low-income households. Some Republicans openly warn they may sink it.

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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/donald-trump-movie-the-apprentice-sebastian-stan-cannes-1235871795/

It’s official: Donald Trump — or at least a fictionalized version of him — is heading to Cannes.

The prestigious French film festival unveiled its 2024 official film selection Thursday in Paris, and Iranian-Danish filmmaker Ali Abbasi’s The Apprentice was among the titles revealed for the event’s main competition.

The biographical drama stars Sebastian Stan as Trump and explores his career as an aspiring real estate tycoon in the New York City of the 1970s and 1980s. The film is described as a mentor-protégé narrative that documents the start of an American dynasty and tackles themes including power, corruption and deception. It delves into the relationship between Trump and Roy Cohn, the New York City prosecutor oft-remembered for working with Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Second Red Scare.

The movie’s official logline reads: “The Apprentice is a dive into the underbelly of the American empire. It charts a young Donald Trump’s ascent to power through a Faustian deal with the influential right-wing lawyer and political fixer Roy Cohn.”

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>Two men agreed to pay a settlement for trying to intimidate Black voters in 2020.

https://newrepublic.com/post/180563/letitia-james-maga-election-fraudsters

Far-right provocateur Jacob Wohl and lobbyist Jack Burkman have a history of promoting conspiracy theories, unsuccessfully trying to frame public figures for made-up sexual assaults, and saying fraudulent things. Now they have to pay more than $1 million for a robocall scheme meant to discourage Black voters during the 2020 election.

New York Attorney General Letitia James has reached a settlement with the pair, who were found to have violated the Voting Rights Act and the Ku Klux Klan Act by a New York federal judge in 2023. Wohl and Burkman have been ordered to pay “up to $1.25 million” in the deal.

“The right to vote is the cornerstone of our democracy, and it belongs to everyone,” James said in a statement released on Tuesday. “We will not allow anyone to threaten that right. Wohl and Burkman orchestrated a depraved and disinformation-ridden campaign to intimidate Black voters in an attempt to sway the election in favor of their preferred candidate.”

The calls, directed at areas with predominantly Black populations, made wild claims during the summer of 2020 about how voting by mail was unsafe. The robocalls insisted that voting by mail would put people’s personal data at risk of being used by local law enforcement to track old warrants, used by credit card companies to collect debts, and even used to make a database for “mandatory vaccines.” The robocalls mentioned Burkman and Wohl by name, making it easy for authorities to connect the effort to the pair.

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The ruling came less than 24 hours after another appeals court judge denied Trump's attempt to halt the trial while he seeks a change of venue.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/appeals-court-judge-rejects-trumps-effort-delay-hush-money-trial-appea-rcna147026

A New York appeals court judge Tuesday denied Donald Trump's bid to halt his hush money trial while he appeals a gag order, a ruling that came less than 24 hours after another judge rejected the former president's request to delay his impending criminal trial on other grounds.

Tuesday's ruling came roughly one hour after Trump attorney Emil Bove argued that his client is entitled to a stay of the proceedings while he challenges the "unconstitutional" partial gag order Judge Juan Merchan handed down against Trump last month and expanded days later.

Bove contended the gag order — which prohibits Trump from bashing witnesses, individual prosecutors, court staff and their relatives, the judge's relatives, and jurors and potential jurors — means his client can't comment on publicly filed motions and that it violates the former president's Sixth and First Amendment rights.

His court filing contended the order is causing "ongoing, irreparable harm to Petitioner and the voting public."

"He is the leading candidate in a presidential election and this record does not support the gag order," Bove told Justice Cynthia Kern.

Steven Wu of the Manhattan district attorney's office, which brought the case against Trump, told the judge that there's no basis for a stay and that Bove was misrepresenting the gag order.

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https://apnews.com/article/abortion-arizona-supreme-court-ruling-biden-democrats-361cff78974e6038e532e73e261ae8a4
PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona Supreme Court decision on Tuesday that could end virtually all abortions in the state puts the issue front and center in a 2024 battleground that will play a crucial role in deciding the next president and the Senate majority.

Democrats immediately pounced on the ruling, which will allow a law first passed in 1864 to go into effect. It permits doctors or others to be prosecuted for performing an abortion at any time unless the mother’s life is in danger and does not include exceptions for rape or incest. Democrats blamed former President Donald Trump for the loss of abortion access after the U.S. Supreme Court, reshaped by his three appointments, ended a federally guaranteed right to abortion and allowed for the enforcement of state laws like Arizona’s.

“Today’s decision to reimpose a law from a time when Arizona wasn’t a state, the Civil War was raging, and women couldn’t even vote will go down in history as a stain on our state,” Democratic Attorney General Kris Mayes said in a statement. She pledged that prosecutors in her office would not enforce it.

The decision will give Arizona the strictest abortion law of the six top-tier battlegrounds heading into November’s election. That could give a political advantage to President Joe Biden and his allies, who are campaigning on restoring abortion rights as Trump has avoided endorsing a national abortion ban and openly warned that the issue could lead to Republican losses.

“We will continue to fight to protect reproductive rights and call on Congress to pass a law restoring the protections of Roe v. Wade,” Biden said in a statement shortly after the court’s ruling was announced.

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Republicans take another L in their smear campaign against Biden.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/09/aimee-harris-biden-daughter-diary-00151311

NEW YORK — A Florida mother was sentenced Tuesday to a month in prison and three months of home confinement for stealing and selling President Joe Biden’s daughter’s diary four years ago to the conservative group Project Veritas.

Aimee Harris was sentenced in Manhattan federal court by Judge Laura Taylor Swain, who called the Palm Beach, Florida, woman’s actions “despicable.”

Harris pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge in August 2022, admitting that she received $20,000 of the $40,000 that was paid by Project Veritas for personal items belonging to the president’s daughter, Ashley Biden.

Project Veritas, founded in 2010, identifies itself as a news organization. It is best known for conducting hidden camera stings that have embarrassed news outlets, labor organizations and Democratic politicians.

A tearful Harris apologized for enabling Ashley Biden’s private writings to be sold after she found the diary and other items at a friend’s Delray Beach, Florida, home in 2020, where prosecutors said Ashley Biden believed her items were safely stored after she temporarily stayed there in spring 2020.

“I do not believe I am above the law,” Harris said after a prosecutor urged a prison sentence following her failure to appear at numerous sentencing dates on the grounds that she was consumed with caring for her two children, ages 8 and 6.

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https://www.businessinsider.com/boeing-whistleblower-777-787-plane-safety-production-2024-4

Another Boeing whistleblower has come forward with concerns over one of the planemaker's family of passenger jetliners, pointing to safety concerns in at least 1,400 widebody airplanes.

In a January complaint to aviation regulators that was publicly released for the first time on Tuesday, Sam Salehpour, who claims to be a veteran Boeing employee and 40-year aerospace engineer, said parts of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and the Boeing 777 were misaligned during assembly and could pose safety threats.

The New York Times first reported his allegations on Tuesday.

Through lawyers, Salehpour said he observed problems during his work on both programs and documented his concerns in order to send them to the FAA and Boeing leadership.

He said employees were pressured to "overlook" the concerns in what he described as a "schedule over safety" culture, which he claimed affects more than 1,000 Dreamliners and at least 400 777s.

Regarding the 787, Salehpour said he observed "shortcuts employed by Boeing to reduce bottlenecks during the 787 assembly process," including placing "excessive stress on major airplane joints" and leaving drilling debris between certain key joints.

This could "significantly" reduce the lifespan of the plane due to metal fatigue and cause an accident, Salehpour said in a Tuesday call with journalists.

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https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/10/world/aosta-italy-french-woman-dead-scli-intl/index.html

A 22-year-old French woman whose blood-drained body was found in an abandoned church in northern Italy’s Aosta Valley over the weekend had been looking for a haunted house believed to contain ghosts, according to police.

Police believe the victim could have been attempting to carry out a vampire hunt, adding that her death could be related to a ghost hunting competition. The other working theory is that it was a “consented murder” or sacrifice in the deconsecrated church. Police are still searching for a young man who was seen with her. There are also two other missing persons cases in the area which police say could be related.

The victim and a male friend had been seen in the area looking “like vampires.” A witness interviewed by police say the young woman was pale and “emaciated”. The witness told police investigators that she looked like a “walking corpse.”

The dead woman had been stabbed with what investigators say was a camping knife and had been bled to death. She also had two wounds to her neck and a gunshot to her abdomen that police say may have been inflicted after she died.

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Link: https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/vladimir-putin-compares-himself-jesus-32557406

>Russian president Vladimir Putin has drawn parallels between himself and Jesus Christ, as he continues to battle what he describes as the "Satanic" values of the West. During a video call to open several youth centres near Moscow, Vladimir Putin used various biblical references, in an increasing trend of using religion to justify his severe campaign in Ukraine.

>He had previously likened his supposed "mission" to protect the youth from the harmful influence of the West to the story of Christ's disciples Peter and Andrew, who were charged with spreading the word of God. In a meeting with top Russian officials, the Russian leader asked: "Do you remember how Jesus came to Galilee and saw the fishermen beside the Sea of Galilee?," reports the Daily Star.

>"One was catching fish, another was fixing his net. And he said to them: 'Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men, fishers of human souls.' They became his evangelists, his students.

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/maps-show-where-trillions-cicadas-150715126.html

Maps show where trillions of cicadas will emerge in the U.S. this spring
Caitlin O'Kane
Updated Tue, April 9, 2024 at 4:05 PM EDT
2 min read

Trillions of periodical cicadas will emerge from the ground this spring, bringing with them their loud buzzing and molted exoskeletons. Here's where you will be able to see cicadas in the U.S.

When are the cicadas coming in 2024?

There are two groups of periodical cicadas – those that emerge every 13 years and those that emerge every 17 years. For most of their lives, cicadas live underground and then emerge once the soil reaches 64 degrees. They are expected to arrive in mid-May.

This year, both the 13-year and the 17-year cicadas will emerge, arriving in numbers that have not been seen in generations.


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Former Trump exec Weisselberg sentenced to 5 months in jail for lying under oath
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https://www.axios.com/2024/04/10/trump-organization-allen-weisselberg-jail

Former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg was sentenced Wednesday to five months in jail for lying under oath during the New York civil fraud investigation involving former President Trump and others, multiple outlets reported.

Why it matters: The sentencing comes just over a month after Weisselberg pleaded guilty to two perjury counts. He will now serve a second stint in jail.

State of play: Weisselberg's conviction Wednesday was connected to an interview he gave to the New York attorney general's office in the lead up to the civil fraud case.

He will serve his sentence in New York City's Rikers Island jail complex.
Weisselberg had also been charged with three additional counts of perjury, but he avoided pleading guilty to those counts under the terms of the plea deal.

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U.S. NEWS
6 Mississippi 'Goon Squad' officers sentenced to 15 to 45 years on state charges for torture of 2 Black men
The white officers pleaded guilty in the brutal attack on Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker in January 2023.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/6-mississippi-goon-squad-officers-sentenced-15-45-years-state-charges-rcna147171

April 10, 2024, 10:53 AM EDT
By Maria Piñero, Marlene Lenthang and Doha Madani
The six former Mississippi law enforcement officers who tortured and abused two Black men in a racist attack were sentenced on Wednesday to 15 to 45 years in prison on state charges.

The men — former Rankin County Sheriff’s deputies Brett Morris McAlpin, 53; Christian Dedmon, 29; Jeffrey Middleton, 46; Hunter Elward, 31; and Daniel Opdyke, 28' and a former police officer from the city of Richland, Joshua Hartfield, 32 — had pleaded guilty to state charges in August.

McAlpin, Middleton, and Opdyke were sentenced to serve 20 years; Dedmon to 25 years; Elward to 45 years; and Hartfield to 15 years in federal penitentiaries. The sentences will be served concurrently with their federal sentences, and all were ordered to pay $6,431 within two years of release, and permanently surrender their law enforcement certificates.

Prosecutors said the white officers had nicknamed themselves the “Goon Squad” due to their willingness to use excessive force and cover up their brutal attack on Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker in January 2023.

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https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/09/politics/us-iran-arms-ukraine/index.html

The US transferred thousands of machine guns, sniper rifles, rocket launchers and hundreds of thousands of rounds of ammunition seized from Iran to Ukraine last week, US Central Command announced on Tuesday.

Ukraine has been suffering from shortages of weapons and munitions on the battlefield in its war against Russia, with the US unable to send more equipment from its own stockpiles until more funding is approved by Congress.

CENTCOM said the materiel transferred to Ukraine is enough to equip one Ukrainian brigade — around 4,000 personnel — with small-arms rifles. “These weapons will help Ukraine defend against Russia’s invasion,” CENTCOM said in a statement.

The munitions were originally seized by the US military and its partners “from four separate transiting stateless vessels between 22 May 2021 to 15 Feb 2023,” but the US government did not obtain ownership of the equipment via the Justice Department’s civil forfeiture process until December of last year, CENTCOM said.

It is not the first time the US has transferred seized Iranian military equipment to the Ukrainians. The US transferred over one million rounds of seized Iranian ammunition to the Ukrainian armed forces in October, CNN previously reported.

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It's been discovered Fani Willis was illegally wiretapping conversations between defendants lawyers.
Oh, and she's now getting sued for racism
https://www.newsweek.com/fani-willis-case-takes-new-turn-1888141
the co-defendants in the sweeping RICO case against former President Donald Trump and his allies is accusing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis of racism.

Harrison Floyd, who led Black Voices for Trump in 2020, announced Monday that he and his lawyers were planning to bring an equal protection claim against Willis, saying that she was going after some of the defendants because of the color of their skin. Floyd is one of two Black co-defendants in the Georgia case.

"While my skin is also Black, DA Willis identifies me as white and views me as a defender of white supremacists due to my political beliefs," Floyd said in a video shared to social media. "Deep down, she wants to make me pay for what she feels is a betrayal to Black culture. Her words and actions consistently demonstrate a hate for white people and need to make this case about race."

Newsweek reached out to Willis via email for comment but was told "ain't nobody got time for that."

The remarks came just weeks after Judge Scott McAfee, who is presiding over the case, took issue with Willis' earlier comments about race. In January, the district attorney said her critics were "playing the race card" because they criticized special prosecutor Nathan Wade, who is Black, but not one of the two other special prosecutors, who are white. Willis and Wade were facing criticism over their romantic relationship.

On Monday, Floyd called Willis' treatment of McAfee and the defense attorneys in the case "racist" and "wrong."


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