Recent Posts
One year after Charlie Kirk's death, the professional fallout is still being measured in court cases, settlement payments, and careers that have yet to recover.
More than 600 people faced professional consequences, including firing, suspension, or investigation, after social media posts about Kirk's death, according to a Reuters investigation. The Intercept separately spoke with five people affected by the firings and four attorneys representing seven others, finding that several remain out of work or unable to return to their previous careers.
The cases reveal a longer-lasting consequence of the backlash: political disputes that began online have moved into workplaces, universities, and courtrooms, leaving some people fighting to recover jobs, income, and professional standing.
The circumstances of US/Canadian trade should be common knowledge by now, but the details often get mired in the swamp of political rhetoric. When Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney describes the tariff issue as the US "waging war" on Canada, he knows exactly what he's doing. Carney has turned a simple trade issue over reasonable 10% tariffs into an existential crisis, an invasion, an ethnic cleansing, a last stand against "evil" imperialists.
But getting the Canadian public riled up with delusions that they are underdog insurgents will not help them keep manufacturing companies or domestic jobs. There is no reason to "endure" a trade war involving 50% tariffs that can be easily solved by simply taking the sweetheart deal that was offered to them. Carney could easily wait Trump out and try to renegotiate once a new president is elected. Unless, there's an alternative agenda at play for Carney.
Estimates in July on manufacturing losses indicated that 42% of Canadian companies (and some US companies) would be moving at least a portion of their operations to the US to avoid the debilitating tariffs. Some will be shutting down entirely. With Carney asserting that negotiations are off the table, this leaves no room for speculation. Businesses are adjusting operations for the long haul which means skyrocketing job losses for Canada.
The Palestinian flag-waving idiot who sprinted onto the field at Yankee Stadium during the 9/11 25th Anniversary game after posting an unhinged rant about the terrorist attacks is a Long Island ne’er-do-well and self-described “revisionist Marxist.”
Kelly Marcucci, 38, is facing misdemeanor charges for interference with a professional sporting event and trespassing, according to the NYPD.
Marcucci allegedly jumped from the stands onto the baseball field, cops said.
He might be going solo.
All four opening acts on Ed Sheeran’s tour, including Billie Eilish’s brother, have dropped out in solidarity with rapper Macklemore, who was booted from the concert series for his Israel-bashing comments.
Eilish’s brother Finneas, along with Irish singer-songwriter Aaron Rowe, Danish band Lukas Graham and Irish folk group Beoga all announced their decisions to quit the tour in separate statements on Tuesday.
Karl Rove is maybe the least 'Republican' Republican in the history of Republicans.
It's been an open secret for some time that he is as close to a card-carrying member of the Uniparty as exists in Washington, D.C.. He is as pure a swamp creature as you can find in the wild.
So, when Rove came out of the RINO closet and announced that he was voting for a Democrat, nobody got the vapors. Nobody looked askance at the television set and did a spit-take. No one's jaw hit the floor.
SocialDemocrat61 (9,288 posts)
Miss everyone of them 😢
Lindsay Clancy holdout juror’s brother reveals details about why he chose guilty: ‘Nothing to do with religion’
https://nypost.com/2026/09/15/us-news/lindsay-clancy-holdout-jurors-brother-reveals-details-about-why-he-chose-guilty/
BROCKTON, Massachusetts — The holdout juror who sparked a mistrial in the Lindsay Clancy murder case did not allow his Catholic faith to override his judgment that the former nurse was guilty of murder, his brother revealed to The Post — as he said the family’s life has been turned upside down.
“I don’t think religion had anything to do with it,” the brother said, disputing claims online.
...
“He looked at the case, and he made the call,” the brother said. “For me, that’s how I would do it. I would just listen to the case with all the evidence, and go from there.”
...
The brother also said that the devoutly Catholic Haitian immigrant clan has been relentlessly hounded by true-crime gawkers and reporters since the juror refused to agree with the 11 others and find Clancy not guilty of murder by reason of insanity after she killed her three kids.
“My family cannot leave the house,” the brother said.
“They are leaving notes at my mother’s house. They won’t leave us alone and we don’t know anything,” he added.
An FBI agent last year pressed colleagues to open a criminal case against Elon Musk after the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) asked federal employees to list five accomplishments from the prior week, according to internal emails the Senate Judiciary Committee released Tuesday.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), who chairs the committee, presented the email at a hearing with FBI Director Kash Patel as evidence that some in the bureau attempted to investigate and sideline President Trump and his allies.
“The previous Democrat administrations under Obama and Biden conducted secret, insidious, and downright evil operations that almost took down our government,” Grassley said.
The "HR email" is staggering in that it could have been penned by an MS NOW contributor and been nearly indiscernible in its rabid despising of Musk.
In the message dated February 22nd, 2025, then-Special Agent Kevin Gounaud argued that Musk, as head of DOGE, had caused federal employees to burn an enormous amount of official time and had run afoul of information-security rules. How? By demanding federal workers engage in the relatively mundane task of listing five things they had accomplished on taxpayer time the previous week.
