2022 CNN "Drug dealers turn to smuggling eggs"
close enough CNN, close enough
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/22/us/mexico-border-egg-smuggling-trnd/index.html

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https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/pritzker-signs-illinois-assault-weapons-ban/

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (CBS) -- Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed a statewide ban on assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines Wednesday night, after the state Senate and House approved the legislation.

The House voted 68-41 to approve the ban Tuesday afternoon. The bill passed 34-20 in the Illinois Senate on Monday.

The legislation took effect immediately with Pritzker's signature.

Before signing the bill, Gov. Pritzker raised the memory of the July 4th parade massacre in Highland Park last year – which left seven people dead and 36 injured, and left a 2-year-old boy parentless and wandering around.

The shooter used legally-purchased semiautomatic weapon.
Pritzker said the massacre was allowed to happen "all because our state and our nation have been held hostage by the NRA and their allies time and time again.

"After nearly every mass shooting, we've seen efforts to ban dangerous weapons thwarted – and then leaders send their thoughts and prayers, while the they throw their hands up – resigning themselves to the idea that gun violence is a sacrifice that Americans must accept," Pritzker said. "But it doesn't have to be that way."


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https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/01/06/great-salt-lake-utah-drying-up/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2023/01/07/utahs-great-salt-lake-could-dry-up-5-years-report-says/11003747002/

Without dramatic cuts to water consumption, Utah’s Great Salt Lake is on track to disappear within five years, a dire new report warns, imperiling ecosystems and exposing millions of people to toxic dust from the drying lake bed.

The report, led by researchers at Brigham Young University and published this week, found that unsustainable water use has shrunk the lake to just 37 percent of its former volume. The West’s ongoing megadrought — a crisis made worse by climate change — has accelerated its decline to rates far faster than scientists had predicted.

But current conservation measures are critically insufficient to replace the roughly 40 billion gallons of water the lake has lost annually since 2020, the scientists said.

The report calls on Utah and nearby states to curb water consumption by a third to a half, allowing 2.5 million acre feet of water to flow from streams and rivers directly into the lake for the next couple of years. Otherwise, it said, the Great Salt Lake is headed for irreversible collapse.

“This is a crisis,” said Brigham Young University ecologist Ben Abbott, a lead author of the report. “The ecosystem is on life support, [and] we need to have this emergency intervention to make sure it doesn’t disappear.”

https://www.wkbn.com/news/local-news/firefighters-fight-deadly-warren-house-fire/

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Shades of Trump's failed coup on January 6th 2021 is fresh in everyone's minds

https://apnews.com/article/jair-bolsonaro-brazil-government-caribbean-0c03c098a5e2a09ac534412c30ae8355

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro who refuse to accept his electoral defeat stormed Congress, the Supreme Court and presidential palace in the capital Sunday, just a week after the inauguration of his leftist rival, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Thousands of demonstrators bypassed security barricades, climbed on the roofs, broke windows and invaded all three buildings, which are connected through the vast Three Powers square in Brasilia. Some are calling for a military intervention to restore the far-right Bolsonaro to power.

Images on TV channel Globo News showed protesters roaming the presidential palace, many of them wearing green and yellow, the colors of the flag that have also come to symbolize the Bolsonaro government.

The incidents recalled the Jan. 6 invasion of the U.S. Capitol, something many political analysts and the judiciary Bolsonaro have warned about for months. But in this case it is likely that Congress and the Supreme Court had limited personnel inside the buildings on a Sunday.

Bolsonaro supporters have been protesting against Lula’s electoral win since Oct. 30, blocking roads, setting vehicles on fires and gathering outside military buildings, asking armed forces to intervene. Many believed election results were fraudulent or unreliable.

“This absurd attempt to impose their will by force will not prevail,” said Justice Minister Flavio Dino on his Twitter account. “The government of the Federal District has ensured there will be reinforcements. And the forces at our disposal are at work.”

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https://www.tampafp.com/white-house-spokeswoman-uses-misinformation-to-lash-out-at-florida-gov-desantis/?utm_source=reddit.com

>US President Joe Biden took a swipe at his "right wing friends" and said that if they need to work on taking on the federal government, they need some F-15 jets, not AR-15 guns.

>United States President Joe Biden on Monday took a swipe at his "right wing friends" and said those who argue they need assault weapons to fight the government need a much bigger arsenal to stand a chance.

>Speaking at the National Action Network's annual Martin Luther King Jr. breakfast in Washington, Biden said, "I love my right-wing friends who talk about the tree of liberty is water of the blood of patriots," he said.

https://www.indiatoday.in/amp/world/story/need-f-15s-not-ar-15-to-take-on-government-joe-biden-swipe-at-right-wing-friends-2322672-2023-01-17

https://nypost.com/2023/01/19/george-santos-boasted-about-brazil-drag-shows-in-2005/

Video shows drag-denier George Santos dressed in drag, boasting about drag shows

Video has emerged showing lying Long Island Rep. George Santos boasting about performing as a drag queen in Rio de Janeiro — despite his claims Thursday morning that he had never done any such thing.

The video shows Santos, clad in a black dress and sunglasses, speaking in Portuguese to an interviewer at the Pride parade in the Rio suburb of Niteroi in 2005.

“I do presentations at 1940 in Jacarepagua, I do Cascadura, I also did Cabaret Casanova in Gloria and I did one at Le Boy,” Santos says, naming well-known drag clubs in and around the city.

Santos then lauds the parade’s organization, saying: “The event is good, well-organized. I really love it.” He adds that he wanted to ride on a float in the parade, “but it was very small and there was no room to ride on top, so I’m with the crowd.”

When interviewer Joao Fraga responds, “It’s better with the crowd,” Santos answers, “Yes, look at these lovelies here,” before grabbing the man standing beside him.

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https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/trump-sold-his-dc-hotel-gop-spending-disappeared/

In June the Waldorf Astoria opened for business in downtown D.C.’s Old Post Office Building, replacing the Trump International Hotel, which for five years served as an assembly point for Republican officials, lobbyists and anyone who wanted to buy Donald Trump’s attention. Despite the fact that the Waldorf is in the same building and kept public and private spaces remarkably the same, political spending at the new hotel all but disappeared when compared to the years when it was owned by a sitting president.

From its opening in June to the midterm elections, Republican officials, candidates and fundraising committees have spent less than $2,000 at the Waldorf Astoria, according to FEC data. In the same five-month window during the 2018 midterms, Republicans spent more than 400 times that amount with $867K in disbursements to the Trump Hotel. After the property opened in 2016 Republicans spent $266K in its first six months alone. This is only a portion of the spending that took place at the time, as a number of wealthy Republican donors and dark money groups also spent money at Trump’s hotel, without any requirement to disclose that spending to the public.

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Look at the Vice photo

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11646353/HENRY-DEEDES-watches-Government-blocks-Sturgeons-Gender-Reform-Bill.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

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Extremely triggering footage of a creep liberal grabbing a girl through a drive thru

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/video-shows-washington-man-try-grab-barista-drive-thru-window-kidnappi-rcna66070

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Tracey Bernett was charged in November with felony counts of attempting to influence a public servant, forgery and providing false information about a residence
https://coloradosun.com/2023/01/08/tracey-bernett-resigns-colorado-legislature/
Democrat fraudster, Tracy Bernett (https://ballotpedia.org/Tracey_Bernett) was charged in November with felony counts of attempting to influence a public servant, forgery and providing false information about a residence. She was also charged with misdemeanor counts of perjury and procuring false registration.

The charges stem from a complaint filed in September with the Boulder County District Attorney’s Office by Theresa Watson, chair of the Boulder County Republicans. The complaint asked prosecutors to look into whether Bernett broke the law by casting a ballot in the June 28 primary while registered at an address where she doesn’t actually live.

Bernett on Nov. 3, 2021, changed the address of her voter registration from a 4,000-square-foot home in Longmont to a 700-square-foot apartment in Louisville, so she could run for reelection in House District 12, which leans heavily in Democrats’ favor, according to a nonpartisan analysis of election results dating back to 2016

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Republicans call for balancing the budget with spending cuts to accompany a debt ceiling increase.
Democrats refuse to negotiate, and demand the US continue to borrow money to pay off debt, without any attempts to balance the budget or reduce spending.
To meet their goals, democrats are taking money out of government worker and military retirement plans known as THRIFT, similar to a 401k in the private sector
https://abc7ny.com/debt-limit-treasury-department-congress/12718602/
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The US hit the debt ceiling set by Congress on Thursday, forcing the Treasury Department to start taking extraordinary measures to keep the government open and escalating pressure on Capitol Hill to avoid a catastrophic default.

The battle lines for the high-stakes fight have already been set. Hardline Republicans, who have enormous sway in the House because of the party's slim majority, have demanded that lifting the borrowing cap be tied to spending reductions. The White House countered that it will not offer any concessions or negotiate on raising the debt ceiling.

The announcement that the US has hit its debt ceiling follows the warning Yellen sent last week about the approaching debt limit, urging lawmakers to "act promptly to protect the full faith and credit of the United States." The extraordinary measures will buy Congress some time.

"Why wouldn't we sit down and change this behavior so that we would put ourselves on a more fiscally strong position?" McCarthy said.

The White House on Wednesday blasted the Arizona Republican's "stunning and unacceptable position" and once again rejected calls to reduce spending as part of a debt ceiling deal.
The White House on Wednesday blasted the Arizona Republican's "stunning and unacceptable position" and once again rejected calls to reduce spending as part of a debt ceiling deal.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-64342181?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA

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Democrats and fraud are like two peas in a pod
https://www.wsfa.com/2023/01/11/perry-county-commission-chairman-indicted-voter-fraud/
PERRY COUNTY, Ala. (WSFA) - Perry County Commissioner Chairman Albert Turner Jr. has been indicted for voter fraud.

According to the Alabama Secretary of State’s Office, Commissioner Albert Turner Jr. was indicted on felony and misdemeanor counts of voter fraud relating to the 2022 primary and general elections.