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https://nypost.com/2023/11/17/news/onlyfans-model-says-george-santos-subscribed-i-rated-his-d/

OnlyFans model Leila Lewis claims Rep. George Santos was a subscriber — and that she once rated his manhood

An OnlyFans model has said lying Long Island Rep. George Santos was among those who subscribed to her X-rated content — and claimed she once “rated his d–k.”

Leila Lewis aired the allegation about the House member’s, well, member on social media hours after the House Committee on Ethics released a damning report detailing evidence that the 35-year-old Republican had blown some of his campaign cash on personal expenses — including OnlyFans subscriptions.

“This guy was subbed to me HAHAHAHA,” the porn star posted on X in response to news reports about the committee’s findings.

“I rated his d–k,” she alleged.

Asked by a follower to make the congressman’s rating public, Lewis responded: “I can’t find it I think he deleted his account.”

A rep for Santos didn’t immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment about Lewis’ claim.

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In order to address a "current gap in children's play areas for the neighborhood," the city of Seattle is building a new childrens playground.. at the north end of a gay/queer/lgbt nude beach
https://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2023/11/city-of-seattle-planning-addition-of-childrens-play-area-to-popular-nude-hangout-denny-blaine-park/
City of Seattle planning addition of ‘children’s play area’ to popular nude hangout Denny Blaine Park

With a wet El Niño Seattle winter around the corner, you might be thinking of warmer days on the Capitol Hill Riviera and hot summer visits to Dykekiki Beach — also known as Denny Blaine Park.

A new, little talked about plan could change the popular park’s place in Seattle’s cultures and communities that fully celebrate the city’s most public spaces.

On the table at Seattle Parks is a plan that calls for the creation of a small children’s play area in the park “to address,” the parks department says, “the current gap for play areas in the neighborhood.”

The kids play feature could also mark an important change for the park’s longtime destination for enjoying Seattle lake vibes in the nude. Seattle Parks is holding a community meeting on the planned project in early December.

Park visitor Jesse Miranda tipped CHS to the plan

“The disruption greatly worries beachgoers. While nudity isn’t inherently illegal in this state, a complaint of public indecency qualifies as a misdemeanor,” Miranda said. “Our space is being eliminated, and the announcement during winter was likely intentional to keep us uninformed.”

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Official Republican cope thread

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/16/europe/ukraine-giuliani-us-election-biden-russia-interference-intl/index.html
A sitting Ukrainian lawmaker who helped Rudy Giuliani smear Joe Biden during the 2020 US presidential campaign has been jailed on suspicion of treason, Ukraine’s State Bureau of Investigation announced Tuesday, in a statement accusing him of carrying out a Russian disinformation operation.

The statement did not name the lawmaker, but a source with the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) confirmed it was investigating Member of Parliament Oleksandr Dubinsky on suspicion of treason. The statement said the lawmaker “carried out information-subversive activities in favor of the Russian Federation” intended to destabilize and discredit Ukraine.

The SBU has also implicated two former Ukrainian officials in the pro-Russia scheme: ex-lawmaker Andrii Derkach and former prosecutor Kostiantyn Kulyk, who coordinated closely with Giuliani and other allies of former President Donald Trump to peddle false information about Biden and his family’s dealings in Ukraine during the 2020 campaign.

The US government previously sanctioned Dubinsky, Derkach and Kulyk, accusing them of being affiliated with a “Russia-linked foreign influence network” that tried to interfere in the 2020 election in favor of Trump and to undermine Biden. That sanctions announcement came during the final weeks of the Trump administration.

When Giuliani went to Ukraine in 2019 to try to dig up dirt on then-candidate Biden and his son Hunter Biden, Dubinsky was one of the people he met with. Giuliani has also met with Derkach, who was featured prominently in a conspiracy-tinged documentary released by the right-wing network OAN about the Biden family’s dealings in Ukraine.

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https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/15/media/elon-musk-antisemitism-white-people/index.html


Agreeing with an antisemitic post on his social media platform X, Elon Musk endorsed the claim that Jewish communities push “hatred against Whites.”

An X post Wednesday afternoon said: “Jewish communties (sic) have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.” The post also referenced “hordes of minorities” flooding Western countries, a popular antisemitic conspiracy theory.

In response, Musk said: “You have said the actual truth.”

The antisemitic conspiracy theory that Jews want to bring undocumented minority populations into Western countries to reduce White majorities in those nations has been espoused by online hate groups and echoed by Robert Bowers, the convicted killer of 11 worshipers at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018. It was the deadliest attack against Jews in American history.

Musk, in subsequent posts, said he does not believe hatred of White people extends “to all Jewish communities.” But he said the Anti-Defamation League “unjustly attacks the majority of the West, despite the majority of the West supporting the Jewish people and Israel. This is because they cannot, by their own tenets, criticize the minority groups who are their primary threat.”


It’s unclear what Musk was referring to. Antisemitic incidents in the United States reached a record high in 2022, according to the ADL. Although the ADL said the increase in antisemitism isn’t because of a single group, the organization noted that antisemitic activity coordinated by White supremacist groups doubled last year, according to a March audit.

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https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/depape-trial-verdict-paul-pelosi-18495685.php
https://abc7.com/david-depape-verdict-paul-pelosi-attack-trial/14070803/

SAN FRANCISCO -- A guilty verdict was declared on Wednesday for David DePape, the man charged with the attack on Paul Pelosi and convicted of federal assault and attempted kidnapping.

After one and a half days of deliberating, the jury returned to the courtroom with a unanimous decision.

The 43-year-old could face up to 50 years in federal prison. He showed no emotion as the judge read aloud his fate.

U.S. Attorney Ismail Ramsey says this verdict sends a strong message to the country.

"In America, one's free to believe whatever they want and engage in impassioned political debate, but this guilty verdict on all counts sends a clear message, that regardless of what your beliefs are, what you cannot do is physically attack a member of Congress or their family for their performance of their job," Ramsey said.

Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi released the following statement on behalf of the Pelosi family:


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https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/articles/czk291mmrzlo

Nigeria neva sign di New Partnership Agreement between di European Union and kontris wey dey part of di Organization of African, Carribbean and Pacific States (OACPS).

Di Federal goment of Nigeria reveal say nobody bin represent dem for di signing of di New Partnership Agreement between di European Union and kontris wey dey part of di Organization of African, Carribbean and Pacific States (OACPS).

According to statement wey di Ministry of Foreign Affairs bring come outside di goment say "di general public dey invited to note say Nigeria bin no dey represented for di signing ceremony wey hold for Samoa for Wednesday, November 15, 2023 and so neva sign di agreement."

Dem add say, "relevant Nigerian stakeholders dey currently look di instrument to make sure say wetin dey inside no go against Nigeria domestic laws."

Dis signing document bin turn wahala afta di Chairman of di Human and Constitutional rights committee, Sonnie Ekwowusi bin hala make goment press pause for di mata.

For interview wit local tori pipo, e tok say, "we dey tok say dis no fit happun becos LGBT dey illegal for Nigeria. Why go den turn to sign document wey get sometin to do wit di promotion of LGBT rights?

"E dey completely unacceptable and make we no sign, make Nigeria tok no, Namibia and Ghana don tok say dem no go sign".

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Israel has finished their month long siege of a civilian hospital in gaza which they claimed housed terrorist tunnels.
After confirming that they were able to kill all the children in the hospital in as slow and terrifying manner as possible, they finally decided to roll their tanks thru the front door.

They never did find the tunnels, but they did stage a couple of rifles, a radio and a computer near an MRI machine for a photo shoot.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/israel-says-it-found-evidence-of-hamas-activity-at-gaza-hospital/ar-AA1jXLwG
Israel released footage from Gaza’s largest hospital on Wednesday that it said proved the site was being used by Hamas militants, after searching buildings in an operation that carries high stakes for both sides of the war.

The footage showed the MRI wing of the sprawling Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, where Israel said it found AK-47s, grenades, military uniforms and a battle vest with the insignia of Hamas’s military wing. In a video, an Israeli military spokesman pointed to a laptop, a hand-held tactical radio and a set of discs as evidence of a Hamas command center in the hospital, although the laptop screen was blurred and he didn’t specify what was found on it.

Israeli military spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said Israeli troops also found Hamas military uniforms thrown on the floor

The Israeli military didn’t show evidence Wednesday of underground complexes or prove its allegations of a Hamas tunnel network connecting to the hospital, but said it was still in the process of combing through the medical complex.

Near the U.S. Capitol Wednesday night, about 150 protesters, calling for a cease-fire in Gaza, faced off with police at the Democratic National Committee headquarters. Arrests were made, the Capitol Police said on social media.

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Pick your favorite source:

https://apnews.com/article/las-vegas-high-school-brawl-arrests-7eff2a977a6b821b348157c28fe24dfd

https://nypost.com/2023/11/14/news/dad-of-las-vegas-teen-beaten-by-mob-defends-cops-delay-in-arrest/

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/15/us/jonathan-lewis-vegas-student-murder-charges/index.html

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>Another resolution to expel the indicted New York Republican is expected to follow nonetheless. Santos has pleaded not guilty and vowed to stay in Congress.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/ethics-report-rep-george-santos-wont-make-recommendations-house-action-rcna125421

WASHINGTON — The House Ethics Committee will release its report on Rep. George Santos before the end of the week, but it won't offer any recommendations on what members should do about the scandal-plagued Republican, the panel's chair said Wednesday.

"We are not going to make any recommendations to the House,” Ethics Committee Chairman Michael Guest, R-Miss., said. “That will be up to each individual member as to whether they feel like the information that’s obtained in the report, that is available in the public domain rises to the level of expulsion.”

Guest added that making a report recommending sanctions would have delayed the investigation into next year. The bipartisan committee had previously vowed to release the results of its investigation by Friday, Nov. 17.

Santos, of New York, said it would be “inappropriate” to discuss the pending report about him.

“Like I’ve said before, I’m staying in office,” Santos said Wednesday.

New York Republicans who led a failed effort this month to expel Santos, however, were clear they still want to see Santos gone no matter what the report says.

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Men who had been exposed to certain classes of pesticides had significantly lower sperm concentrations. The study, published Wednesday in Environmental Health Perspectives, included data from more than 1,700 men and spanned several decades.

“No matter how we looked at the analysis and results, we saw a persistent association between increasing levels of insecticide and decreases in sperm concentration,” said study author Melissa Perry, who is an environmental epidemiologist and the dean of the College of Public Health at George Mason University. “I would hope this study would get the attention of regulators seeking to make decisions to keep the public safe from inadvertent, unplanned impacts of insecticides.”

For decades, scientists have been trying to untangle puzzling questions over male fertility. Sperm concentrations are one of several factors that are a useful indicator. A report last year found that sperm counts were falling in every region of the globe and the pace of that decline was accelerating.

“There’s been some pretty, I’d say, convincing and sort of scary data on measures of male fertility over the previous 50-70 years, whatever it might be, from different places around the world suggesting sperm concentration is on decline and not just a little bit,” said John Meeker, a professor of environmental health sciences at the University of Michigan School of Public Health who was not involved in either of the recent studies. “It’s concerning.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/global-decline-sperm-concentrations-linked-common-pesticides-rcna125164

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House conservatives give Speaker Johnson a ‘mulligan’ in funding fight

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4310190-house-conservatives-speaker-johnson-mulligan-funding-fight/

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is getting a free pass from hard-line Republicans who are upset with his approach on keeping the government open with a “clean” funding extension, but are holding him to a different standard than former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) — for now.

“Everybody gets a mulligan,” said Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), who voted against the continuing resolution (CR).

Weeks ago, Gaetz led a group of eight Republicans who joined with Democrats to oust McCarthy from the Speakership in part because of how he pushed through a CR with the help of Democrats.

But the same members who rose up against McCarthy were much more forgiving of Johnson’s very similar move — even as they lament that the latest, two-step CR did not include spending cuts or set up the House to extract conservative policy concessions from the Senate and White House.

While they voted against the continuing resolution, no one is calling to snatch away Johnson’s gavel — and few are seriously questioning his leadership.

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Dwayne Johnson meets with US Senators to discuss military recruitment
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/dwayne-johnson-meets-with-us-senators-to-discuss-military-recruitment/4865947/

Can you smell what The Rock is cooking...inside the U.S. Capitol?

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson met with several U.S. Senators in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday to discuss his efforts to help with military recruitment.

The meeting featured Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL), Jon Tester (D-MT), Mark Kelly (D-AZ), Susan Collins (R-ME), Todd Young (R-IN), Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Tammy Duckworth (D-IL). Johnson's business partner, XFL CEO Dany Garcia, was also present.

Tester, who arranged the sit-down, according to NBC News, said Johnson is "going to advocate for people to join the military over a period of time."

“He’s got an incredible following, maybe the biggest," Tester added.

“I'm really pleased that he's helping with military recruitment,” Sen. Collins said. “I think he is a powerful influencer."


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Representative Chip Roy went scorched earth on his Republican colleagues on Wednesday, haranguing them for years wasted on inaction and chaos as opposed to doing their jobs.

The Texas Republican and Freedom Caucus member spent his time on the House floor on Wednesday shouting and wildly gesticulating at his caucus, condemning them for capitulating on promises by working with Democrats and lamenting the party’s transparently vacuous approach to building a border wall.

“One thing. I want my Republican colleagues to give me one thing. One. That I can go campaign on and say we did,” Roy said. “One!”

“Anybody sitting in the complex, if you want to come down to the floor and come explain to me one material, meaningful, significant thing the Republican majority has done besides well, ‘I guess it’s not as bad as the Democrats,’” Roy lamented.

The House GOP finally passed a stopgap spending solution on Tuesday, after months spent ousting their own speaker and bickering over who to replace him with. That bill is now headed to the U.S. Senate, where it will face another round of criticism, just two days ahead of a potential government shutdown.

On Tuesday, Roy argued that the latest bill is “precisely” what got former Speaker Kevin McCarthy booted from the job.

“I am sick and tired of it. I didn’t come here for second place. I didn’t come here for more excuses. I didn’t come here for the speaker of the House to assume the position, and in 17 days, pass a continuing resolution on the floor of this House through suspension of the rules,” Roy fumed during his speech on the House floor.

https://newrepublic.com/post/176957/republican-congressman-chip-roy-melt-down-republican-party-not-doing-much

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Trump fascist enabled violence spreads further in the Republican party as Senator tries to assault Union leader on live TV

https://apnews.com/article/senate-mullin-obrien-teamsters-fight-hearing-153e28d131973d1e10b539491c9e94a6

Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) on Tuesday nearly started a fistfight with labor union leader Sean O’Brien in the middle of a Senate committee hearing, after the two traded ridiculous, high school-level insults for several minutes.

Mullin, a member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, held up printed copies of past tweets by O’Brien that have mocked the senator. This was during a hearing theoretically focused on standing up to corporate greed.

“It says, ‘Greedy CEO who pretends like he’s self-made,’” Mullin read aloud from a tweet O’Brien posted in June. “‘Just a clown and fraud. Always has been, always will be. Quit the tough guy act in these Senate hearings. You know where to find me. Any place, anytime cowboy.’”

The senator, who is a former MMA fighter, then spoke directly to O’Brien, the general president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.

“This is a time, this is a place,” Mullin said. “If you want to run your mouth, we can be two consenting adults. We can finish it here.”

“OK, that’s fine,” O’Brien said. “Perfect.”

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San Francisco hosted APEC on Sunday, where Xi met with Grandpa Biden
The city literally turned the area into a potemptkin village, according to Reuters. Complete with a brand new skate park and dance squads.
According to Reuters, before the meeting was an open air stolen goods and drugs market loaded with hobos
According to Reuters, San Francisco is about 1% homeless, which according to Reuters is still better than LA and Oakland.. according to Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/san-francisco-patches-over-homelessness-drug-abuse-apec-2023-11-15/
San Francisco patches over homelessness, drug-abuse for APEC
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 14 (Reuters) - On a sunny Sunday before world leaders were scheduled to gather for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum, the United Nations Plaza, one of the epicenters of San Francisco's drugs and homelessness crisis, wore a festive air.

Until recently a bustling marketplace for stolen goods and open-air drug trade, the area had been spruced up with a brand-new skate park, and trainees from a dance company performed to a crowd. There was hardly a homeless person to be seen. Police officers and city officials watched too.
Tuesday, the day of U.S. President Joe Biden's arrival, Christopher Crandall, 50, who usually sleeps on the street in a part of downtown San Francisco west of the APEC convention center, said he'd noticed the city had planted new trees along the arterial Market Street.

He'd also seen waist-high gates going up on Tuesday morning in the area where he usually beds down. "I'm wondering if I will be able to sleep there tonight," he said.
California Governor Gavin Newsom, speaking at an event on Thursday focused on beautifying the state, said local, state and federal leaders had been discussing the issue for months.

"I know folks are saying, 'Oh, they're just cleaning up this place because all those fancy leaders are coming to town.' That's true ..."