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15K Sign Petition Against Texas Public School Bible Lessons

 The new curriculum would give school districts the option to use the Bible-infused materials for up to $60 per student in additional funding.

Via Newsweek:

Faithful America, an organization of Christians supporting social justice causes while opposing "Christian nationalism," posted a petition on September 13 opposing a proposal from the Texas Education Agency for elementary school teachers to include the Bible in their state reading and language arts lessons. The new curriculum, which the Texas Board of Education will either approve or reject in November, would give school districts the option to use the Bible-infused materials for up to $60 per student in additional funding.

What of the people who aren't Christians? If this rule is adopted will they be forced into being Christians. 

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ABC host interrupts Vance surrogate for deflecting pet-eating claims

ABC News host Martha Raddatz interrupted a top surrogate for Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance Sunday after he refused to deny false claims that Haitians are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.

"I can't believe we're still talking about this, but the baseless claims elevated by Vance and Trump that Haitian migrants were eating their pets," the host said. "If the moderators in the debate ask Vance about this, should he finally make clear it is not true?"

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BREAKING: Hezbollah Confirms Israel Successfully Unalived Their Leader

 The IDF has taken out the head of Hezbollah in a targeted airstrike on Friday in Beirut, Lebanon.

It looks like the two-part strategy Israel unleashed has paid off big time. Just two weeks ago, Israel set up a shocking one-two punch of exploding pagers and walkie talkies. This forced the Hezbollah leadership to meet in person, which clearly was the plan all along. And Hezbollah fell for it, to their own peril.

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Wisconsin Mayor Stole City Ballot Drop Box

 Wausau Mayor Doug Diny has a lot of explaining to do.

Earlier this year, the city of Wausau, Wisconsin, made a grave error when they inadvisably elected MAGA election denier Doug Diny as mayor. Diny made it clear during his campaign that he was going to wage a Quixotic war against free and fair elections and that he would tilt at all the ballot drop boxes he had to to make sure of that.

He made good on that promise on Sunday, when he went to City Hall and stole the city's ballot drop box and put it to an undisclosed location inside City Hall.. He has already offered three different rationales for his actions:

To be clear tampering with a ballot box is illegal. But, Trump supporters have also placed cameras at ballot drop boxes, placed armed individuals at drop boxes and they're other voter intimidation tactics all of it illegal.  

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Coach Tommy Of Alabama Wants Harris To Drop Out Of Race

 

Dumb Tommy must have needed crib notes on Harris's clear and concise economic agenda.

Alabama couch Tommy Tubervile seems to be getting desperate for some reason. Harris, on Wednesday, gave a clear picture of her economic agendain the battleground state of Pennsylvania, contrasting it with former President Donald Trump's.

"All told, almost 200,000 manufacturing jobs were lost during his presidency, starting before the pandemic hit, making Trump one of the biggest losers ever on manufacturing," she said, among other things. 

'Schoolhouse Rock' Video On Project 2025 Is Funny And Scary

 This 'Schoolhouse Rock' video about Trump's Project 2025 is hilarious while making great points about the dangers of the GOP plan.

Many Americans still don't know about Project 2025, the plans Republicans will implement if Trump becomes president. There's a hilarious but scary 'Schoolhouse Rock' video about Trump's Project 2025 that's worth watching and sharing. Just like the original Schoolhouse Rock videos, the simple song explains the horrible details of Trump's plan in a way that gets the point across.

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N.Y. Mayor Eric Adams indicted in federal corruption probe

 Federal prosecutors in New York have obtained an indictment against Mayor Eric Adams, a person familiar with the investigation said late Wednesday

Federal prosecutors in New York have obtained an indictment against Mayor Eric Adams, a person familiar with the investigation said late Wednesday, while a second person also speaking on the condition of anonymity said they’d been told by the mayor’s team that an indictment against him could be unsealed as soon as Thursday.

The indictment obtained in Manhattan federal court was not public, and the nature of the charges was not immediately known.

Adams made a videotaped statement Wednesday night addressing possible charges against him.

“It is now my belief that the federal government intends to charge me with federal crimes,” Adams said. “If so, these charges will be entirely false, based on lies.”

Nancy Pelosi To Jake Tapper: 'Why Would You Even Cover That?'

 

They laugh at us all over the world. They're laughing at us. And you know what they're really laughing at: Kamala, because they can't believe that she's going to be president. They can't believe you talk about cognitive problems. She's got bigger cognitive problems that he has in my opinion.

"Donald Trump saying that Kamala Harris has bigger cognitive problems than Joe Biden," Tapper said.

They laugh at us all over the world. They're laughing at us. And you know what they're really laughing at: Kamala, because they can't believe that she's going to be president. They can't believe you talk about cognitive problems. She's got bigger cognitive problems that he has in my opinion.

"Donald Trump saying that Kamala Harris has bigger cognitive problems than Joe Biden," Tapper said.

"Why would why would you even cover that?" Pelosi said.

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Israel says it killed Hezbollah leader in airstrike as cross-border attacks continue

Israel's military said it is conducting a new wave of 'widespread strikes' on Hezbollah targets in Lebanon. The Israeli military said an attack in Dahiyeh, Hezbollah's stronghold in Beirut, killed Ibrahim Qubaisi, the commander of Hezbollah's rocket and missile division. Lebanon's health minister said the strike killed six people. Lebanese health authorities say at least 558 people were killed in two days of airstrikes targeting Hezbollah. Tens of thousands of people have been displaced

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Elon Musk Sends Cybertrucks To Chechen Warlord, Lies About It

 Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has accused Tesla CEO Elon Musk of “remotely disabling” his Cybertruck.

Sending a Tesla Cybertruck, or a bunch of them, to a Chechen warlord violates international sanctions as they are a Russian ally. When the Tesla owner was accused of doing just that last month Musk did what all would-be fascists do: He lied about it.

Given the penalties for such behavior, the Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov is now accusing Musk of disabling the Cybertrucks, making them unusable. And given the choice of whose word to believe between these two scumbags I would bet it's the Chechen's version that is more truthful.

Source: CNN

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has accused Tesla CEO Elon Musk of “remotely disabling” his Cybertruck, which had been sent to the frontline of Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Kadyrov claimed Thursday that the vehicle, which he said had been outfitted with a machine gun and was “performing well in combat,” had been shut down, adding Friday that he had sent two additional Tesla Cybertrucks to the frontline.

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Analysts weigh in: Georgia election board requires ballots be hand-counted

Allies of former President Donald Trump who control the Georgia State Election Board approved a new rule requiring counties to hand-count the number of ballots cast at polling places on Election

The hand counting of ballots is fraught with ways to, not only miscount the totals for each candidate. But could lead to long delays in certifying the election. In Maricopa county Arizona it took more than 2 months the recount to be completed. It showed that Joe Biden had won the county.

Another for foisting the hand counting of ballots onto local election officials is to prevent voter fraud. In person voter fraud happens at a rate of 0.08%.

The idea here is to sow doubt into the integrity of the electoral process and give Donald Trump a reason to claim voter fraud should he lose the election.

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Pro-Trump Georgia election board votes to require hand counts of ballots

 The Georgia State Election Board approved a rule Friday requiring counties in the critical presidential battleground to hand-count all ballots this year, potentially upending the November election by delaying the reporting of results.

The change was spearheaded by a pro-Trump majority that has enacted a series of changes to the state’s election rules in recent weeks and approved the hand-count requirement despite a string of public commenters who begged them not to.

Critics included democracy advocates who accused the board of intentionally injecting chaos and uncertainty into the presidential contest, as well as election supervisors and poll workers who said hand counts would take too long, cost money and almost certainly produce counting errors. The office of the Republican state attorney general, which is responsible for advising the board, wrote in an opinion that the change was unlawful.

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Maricopa County: GOP-Backed Arizona 'Audit' Confirms Biden Won

Cyber Ninja's hand counting of 2 million ballots in Maricopa county took more than two months to complete. 

They looked for the 40,000 ballots flown in from China that were made from bamboo

Of course no one can forget Hugo Chaves' ghost flipping votes from Trump to Biden using Domination Voting Machines.

All of this is being to sow doubt in the outcome of the presidential election in November if the orange one isn't the winner. 

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‘I’m a black NAZI!’: NC GOP nominee for governor made dozens of disturbing comments on porn forum

 

Mark Robinson, the controversial and socially conservative Republican nominee for governor of North Carolina, made a series of inflammatory comments on a pornography website’s message board more than a decade ago, in which he referred to himself as a “black NAZI!” and expressed support for reinstating slavery, a CNN KFile investigation found.

Despite a recent history of anti-transgender rhetoric, Robinson said he enjoyed watching transgender pornography, a review of archived messages found in which he also referred to himself as a “perv.”

The comments, which Robinson denies making, predate his entry into politics and current stint as North Carolina’s lieutenant governor. They were made under a username that CNN was able to identify as Robinson by matching a litany of biographical details and a shared email address between the two.

If these revelations aren't considered disqualifying from holding any elected office. I'm unsure what is.

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It's just cruelty: Joe reacts to Gov. Huckabee Sanders' remarks against Harris

Of course in attacking Kamala Harris Gov. Sanders chose to deliberately mispronounce her name. Which was all so done to Barrack Obama. Its just another form of dog whistle racism. 

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Republican governor Mike DeWine deploys highway patrol to Springfield school district after at least 33 bomb threats

 Think about that number for a minute. In les than two weeks since the utterly false rumor that Haitian immigrants were eating peoples pets was posted to a Facebook group in Springfield Ohio there have been 33 bomb threats. Additionally the cities cultural festival has been canceled due to safety and security concerns. Who amplified these rumors? None other than Donald Trump and Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio.   

Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance on Sunday reiterated false claims about Haitian immigrants eating the pets of residents in Springfield, Ohio.

Two elementary schools in Springfield were evacuated Monday morning in response to bomb threats. Simon Kenton Elementary School and Kenwood Elementary School became the fifth and sixth Springfield buildings to be targeted by bomb threats in the last week.

Mr. Vance, who amplified false claims that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating pets, said he was willing “to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention.”

Haitian immigrants in Ohio are just the latest target in Trump’s long-running ploy to convince his supporters they’re under siege.

Donald Trump doesn’t so much run for something as he runs against somebody. His latest attacks are aimed at Haitian immigrants, but what we’re seeing is a playbook previously used to target other ethnic or religious groups, and with a similar goal: to make the MAGA base feel like they’re under attack.

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Republican Congressman: Pass 'SAVE Act' Or Another Insurrection Will Happen

 

Now Republicans are using extortion and coercion tactics to force their horrible agenda.

Texas Representative Tony Gonzales claimed on NewsNation that the only way to prevent another insurrection in 2024 is for Democrats to pass the SAVE Act. This is a redundant voter suppression measure intended to make it more difficult to vote.

Voting for noncitizens is already a federal crime. There is no need for the SAVE Act, and host Chris Stirewalt understands that.

Gonzales is putting a gun to the heads of all Democratic lawmakers and extorting them to pass this obvious voter suppression bill or the next attack on the US Capitol or maybe the White House this time will be your fault.

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What we know about person detained in what FBI calls an assassination attempt

The alleged assassin never fired a shot. It was the Secret Service who fired at the suspect with the AK47. 

Who then, dropped his weapon and fled the area and was detained by Broward County Sheriffs Deputies. 

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Israeli army says ‘high probability’ its strike killed three Gaza captives

Army says conclusions of its probe into the deaths of the captives suggest an Israeli air strike likely killed them in November.

After denials for months, the Israeli military says there is a “high probability” its air strike was responsible for the deaths of three Israeli captives in Gaza in November.

The military on Sunday said it was unaware the captives were present in a tunnel in the Palestinian territory when they launched the attack on November 10, 2023.

The bodies of the three captives – Corporal Nik Beizer, Sergeant Ron Sherman and French-Israeli national Elia Toledano – were recovered on December 14. But the cause of death was not determined.

South Africa school language law stirs Afrikaans learning debate

The DA party argues Afrikaans education will be harmed, while the ANC says law is necessary to redress inequality

Rachel Savage Southern Africa correspondent

Sun 15 Sep 2024 13.20 BST

A contentious South African education law has drawn furious condemnation from politicians and campaigners who claim it is putting Afrikaans education under threat while evoking for others an enduring association of the language with white minority rule.

The Basic Education Laws Amendment Act was signed into law on Friday by the president, Cyril Ramaphosa, who said he would give dissenting parties in his coalition government three months to suggest alternatives to two sections that give provincial officials the powers to override admission decisions and force schools to teach in more than one of South Africa’s 12 official languages.

The provisions have meanwhile been welcomed by those who say they are necessary in order to stop some government schools using language to racially exclude children.

Europe floods: Emergency services struggle as rivers rise

Several people have drowned in Romania and at least one firefighter lost his life in Austria following heavy rainfall and flooding across Europe. 

Heavy rains cause dam to fail in southwestern Poland

A dam in southwestern Poland has burst after heavy rains, officials said. The dam in Stronie Slaskie, in the Lower Silesia region, gave way and water from the Biala Ladecka River is now flowing freely into the Nysa Klodzka catchment area, a meteorological network said. 

The town of Stronie Slaskie is located in the Klodzko Valley on Poland's border with the Czech Republic. Police have sent a rescue helicopter to the area to bring people stranded by the water to safety. Army soldiers are also on the scene. 

On Saturday evening, a dam burst in the nearby mountain village of Miedzygorze. 

Two years after Mahsa Amini: Little progress for women in Iran

Persecution of bereaved relatives. Impunity for perpetrators. Rampant executions and infighting among the opposition. A bleak picture confronts opponents of Iran's clerical authorities two years after a protest movement erupted that they hoped would be a turning point in the four-and-a-half-decade history of the Islamic republic. 

Gov't, forced sterilization victims reach compensation settlement

The Japanese government and people who were forced to undergo sterilization surgeries from the 1950s to the 1970s under a now-defunct eugenics protection law have settled their lawsuits, following a recent ruling by Japan's top court that deemed the law unconstitutional.

Under the agreement signed by the government and the plaintiffs, the state will pay 15 million yen in compensation to each victim of forced sterilization surgery, considered by many to be the worst human rights violation in Japan's post-World War II history.

Separately, a cross-party group of lawmakers on Friday proposed paying 15 million yen to each victim of forced sterilization surgery who did not join the lawsuit.

A stolen skull, a severed statue and an Australian city divided

Tiffanie Turnbull

BBC News

Reporting fromHobart

For months, an unusual monument sat in an oak-lined square at the heart of Tasmania's capital: a pair of severed bronze feet.

A statue of renowned surgeon-turned-premier William Crowther had loomed over the park in Hobart for more than a century. But one evening in May, it was chopped down at the ankles and the words "what goes around" graffitied on its sandstone base.

It was a throwback to another night more than 150 years ago, when Crowther allegedly broke into a morgue, sliced open an Aboriginal leader’s head and stole his skull - triggering a grim tussle over the remaining body parts.