Ashli Babbitt’s Family Will Seek $10 Million From U.S. Capitol Police in Lawsuit

April 30, 2021

The family of Ashli Babbitt, the only person shot during the Jan. 6 breach of the U.S. Capitol, plans to sue the police department and the officer who fired the gun for at least $10 million, their attorney said.

Terry Robert, the family’s attorney told Zenger News’ David Martosko in a report first by published Newsweek, that they plan to sue both the Capitol Police and the officer for wrongful death, and will be seeking $10 million in damages in federal court.

The lawsuit comes after the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on April 14 that it would not file criminal charges against the officer who killed Babbitt.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia and the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division decided jointly not to pursue charges against the officer, who has not been publicly identified.

Babbitt, a decorated U.S. Air Force veteran, was unarmed when she joined others in storming the U.S. Capitol in Washington during a joint session of Congress in January.

An undated social media selfie photo shows Ashley Babbitt, also spelt Ashli. (Ashli Babbitt/Twitter)

The 35-year-old was shot while trying to climb through a broken window into the Speaker’s Lobby, adjacent to the House chamber.

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LAPD Union Asks NBA to Investigate LeBron over Tweet Targeting Cop

April 30, 2021

The Los Angeles Police Protective League (LAPPL), the union representing LAPD officers, has asked the NBA to investigate LeBron James over his tweet targeting a Columbus cop.

James came under intense fire last Wednesday after he posted a pic of a police officer present at the Ma’Khia Bryant shooting with a caption that read, “YOU’RE NEXT.”

James quickly deleted the tweet, but a screenshot remains.

‘#ACCOUNTABILITY’ LeBron James tweets pic of cop Nicholas Reardon who killed MaKhia Bryant, 16, and says: ‘You’re next’,

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Left Labeling Election Integrity Reforms As “Jim Crow” Is a Lie and Insulting to Black People

April 30, 2021

It’s insulting that politicians are trying to manipulate Black folks like me into thinking that voting reforms that protect our right to vote are somehow racist.
It’s a scare tactic and an attempt to rally support for a voting bill currently in Congress ironically called the For the People Act, or H.R. 1.
Free and fair elections are the cornerstone of our republic, and every citizen must be able to trust the voting process and its results.

As a Black woman who grew up in the segregated South, I’m shocked and appalled with the race-baiting from mostly White left-wing politicians who are throwing around the “Jim Crow” label to score political points in the debate over strengthening our voting laws.

To paraphrase Lloyd Bentsen’s line from the 1988 vice presidential debate with Dan Quayle: I knew Jim Crow. Jim Crow was no friend of mine. And these common-sense voting laws that states are adopting are no Jim Crow.

Frankly, it’s insulting that politicians are trying to manipulate Black folks like me into thinking that voting reforms that actually protect our right to vote are somehow racist. It’s insulting to be lied to, and—yes, I’m going to say it—it seems awfully racist to be thought of as so ignorant and gullible.

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These state election reforms are about one thing—making it easier for American citizens to vote, while making it harder for cheaters to cheat.

Yet everyone from President Joe Biden to The New York Times to Coca-Cola and those in Hollywood are labeling voting reforms adopted in Georgia and other states as voter suppression and the new Jim Crow. There’s even a Senate hearing this week being held around this lie called, “Jim Crow 2021: The Latest Assault on the Right to Vote.”

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Biden’s CIA Director Claims He Cut Ties With Chinese Communists, But His Group Maintains Links

April 30, 2021

Despite President Biden’s Central Intelligence Agency Director Bill Burns testifying he cut ties to a Chinese Communist Party-linked influence group, The National Pulse can reveal the controversial relationship between the Carnegie Endowment – formerly led by Burns – and the Chinese Communist influence group continued through 2021.

Burns became president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in March 2015 and claimed, during Senate confirmation hearings, that he merely “inherited” the think tank’s longstanding relationship with the China-United States-Exchange Foundation (CUSEF).

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Rudy Giuliani: FBI Raid Evidence ‘Exculpatory’ of Innocence

April 30, 2021

The FBI raided the residence of former President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, who says electronic evidence they already have, were already offered, and ultimately will be “exculpatory” of innocence for any crime for which they might be hunting.

“I’ve known about this for two years, Tucker,” Giuliani told Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight” of a potential raid, also noting in the interview his iCloud account was “unconstitutionally” raided during his defense of Trump during the impeachment trial.

“I could have destroyed the evidence, but I didn’t destroy the evidence because the evidence is exculpatory. It proves the president and I and all of us are innocent.

“They are the ones who are committing — it’s like projection — they’re committing the crimes.”

Among the crimes the former New York City mayor alleges is an “illegal” warrant for this week’s raid of his apartment and the raid of his iCloud account during the impeachment trial after Trump left office.

“They should be investigated for blatantly violating my constitutional rights, the president’s constitutional rights,” Giuliani told Carlson. “In the middle of the impeachment defense, they invaded, without telling me, my iCloud. They took documents that are privileged, and they unilaterally decided what they could read and not read.

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US Catholic Bishops expected to advise denying communion to pro-abortion politicians

April 30, 2021

United States bishops are considering formalizing their opposition to pro-abortion Catholic politicians receiving communion as they continue to speak out against President Joe Biden, a Catholic, over his support for abortion.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, scheduled to hold a national meeting in June, is considering approving a draft document that would advise Catholic politicians who support abortion not to receive communion. The consideration of the document comes as Biden continues to advocate for liberal abortion policies that directly conflict with the teachings of his faith, specifically, that all human life is sacred from natural conception until natural death.

According to Archbishop Joseph Naumann of the Archdiocese of Kansas City, who chairs the USCCB’s Committee on Pro-Life Activities, advocacy for abortion constitutes a “grave moral evil.” Naumann told The Associated Press that “Because President Biden is Catholic, it presents a unique problem for us.”

“It can create confusion … How can he say he’s a devout Catholic and he’s doing these things that are contrary to the church’s teaching?” Naumann asked. The Catholic Church’s Code of Canon Law teaches that those who are “obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to holy communion.”

According to the USCCB website, “The body of bishops meets typically twice a year for a General Assembly to transact its business and address matters of concern within its civil and canonical mandates.” This year’s USCCB Spring General Assembly will take place from June 16-18.

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BIDEN EFFECT: GM Flees To Mexico To Invest $1 Billion In Electric Vehicles

April 30, 2021

Humiliating news for the Biden regime, which hopes to invest $174 billion in domestic EV production

General Motors announced on Thursday that it will be investing some $1 billion into electric vehicle production in the country of Mexico, dealing a humiliating blow to the Biden regime, which has begged companies to “Buy American” and “Make It In America.”

The Biden regime’s plans to invest $174 billion into the production of electric vehicles, as Biden called for on Wednesday, and somehow transfer the entire U.S. vehicle fleet to electric-only powertrains suffered a severe blow on Wednesday after General Motors’ announcement.

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College professors caught gloating about teaching Marxism, social justice to students

April 30, 2021

‘I mean, it’s all social justice, all day, every day,’ one of the professors, Gina Harris, said before a high school board meeting

Two professors at Roosevelt University in Illinois, who also serve on the school board for a local high school, were caught on a hot mic recently gloating about how they promote Marxist ideology to their college students.

The leftist educators, Gina Harris and Ralph Martire, were joining a February school board meeting for Oak Park and River Forest High School via Zoom when they began candidly discussing their “social justice” and Marxist advocacy, West Cook News reported.

“I mean, it’s all social justice, all day, every day. I get to talk about the things I love all the time. All day [at my day classes], all night of my night classes,” Harris said gleefully about her time teaching at the university. “I’m really living the life over here.”

Harris, who reportedly teaches “middle school theory and practice” to future educators at Roosevelt, called social justice “a part of everything” and a “foundation.”

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Maricopa County Election Audit on Pace to Be Done by Deadline

April 30, 2021

The 2020 election audit taking place in Arizona’s largest county is on pace to be done by next month’s deadline, an official said on April 28.

“The count is picking up significantly every day and with the additional shifts that we’re planning to put on, and other improvements in the process, we’re on a pace to get the job done in the time we have here at the coliseum,” former Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett, the state Senate’s liaison for the Maricopa County audit, told reporters.

Bennett was speaking outside the Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix, where contracted workers and volunteers are reviewing 2.1 million ballots cast in the 2020 election. The audit also includes a review of 385 tabulators and other machines used last year.

Bennett wasn’t able to provide an update on how many ballots have been audited; as of April 28, the number was just shy of 100,000.

The Senate has reserved the arena for the audit until May 14.

“We’re doing things that will get us to a number of ballots per day that will allow us to be done with the counting by May 14,” Bennett, a Republican, told reporters.

The audit started on April 23. A judge on April 28 rejected an attempt by Democrats to halt the process.

Epoch Times Photo — Some of the 2.1 million ballots cast during the 2020 election are brought in for an audit ordered by the Arizona Senate, at the Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix, on April 22, 2021. (Ross D. Franklin/AP Photo)

Democrats assert that Cyber Ninjas and the three other firms that the state Senate hired to carry out the audit aren’t properly trained and haven’t installed proper security procedures.

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China bans binge-eating videos as part of new law prohibiting food waste

April 30, 2021

Chinese lawmakers have enacted legislation that will allow authorities to crack down on various kinds of food waste, including videos of binge eating, in an effort to conserve resources and promote responsible consumption.

Ratified by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC) on Thursday, the new law prohibits vloggers and social media influencers from creating content in which they eat, or pretend to eat, excessive amounts of food. Anyone who makes such videos now risks a fine up of up to 100,000 yuan ($15,451).

Some Chinese content creators reportedly make hundreds of dollars in donations by hosting livestreams, known as a ‘mukbang’ shows, in which they binge on enormous amounts of food or alcohol. Earlier this month, China’s corruption watchdog called on video-sharing platforms to crack down on the ‘shows’, saying they encouraged food waste.

Additionally, the law will allow restaurants to issue fees to diners if they leave large amounts of food uneaten. The legislation also protects consumers from deceptive marketing that leads to food waste. Vendors can be fined if authorities determine that their advertising encourages customers to order more food than they really need. Food providers that are found to be wasteful face a maximum fine of 50,000 yuan ($7,731).

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