$313,000 to Study Why Kids Like Japanese Comic Books

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$313,000 to Study Why Kids Like Japanese Comic Books

(By Adam Andrzejewski, RealClear Wire) The National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities is spending over $313,000 to study why minority children in the U.S. like manga, a genre of Japanese comic books, according to the Washington Free Beacon.

The funding goes to Queens College Graduate School of Library and Information Studies for a three-year study on why young black, indigenous, and people of color enjoy reading manga. Additionally, the Free Beacon reported, “The grant is aimed at closing the ‘knowledge gap’ for librarians who are ‘unfamiliar’ with manga and to identify manga titles popular with teenagers.”

The funding is part of the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program, which is meant to, “develop a diverse library and archival workforce” and “reduce equity gaps and address issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion” in libraries, according to the Free Beacon.

Queens College will partner with Manga in Libraries, which has in the past promoted books about transgender characters and bestiality, according to the Free Beacon.

There is no value in studying this. If Manga books are popular among kids, then libraries should carry more of them. Understanding the reason why is immaterial, and spending hundreds of thousands to do it doesn’t solve or ameliorate any racial disparities. In terms of closing the librarians’ knowledge gap, a librarian might be able to ascertain which books kids are enjoying by how often they are checked out.

There are hundreds of ways to promote libraries and reading to children, but spending over $313,000 doesn’t promote reading, make librarians more knowledgeable, or solve any of the litany of problems our country faces.

FBI Data on Active Shootings Is Misleading

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FBI Data on Active Shootings Is Misleading

(By John R. Lott Jr., RealClear Wire) Americans are constantly debating policing and gun control. But to discuss these issues, we have to depend on government crime data. Unfortunately, politics has infected the data handling of agencies such as the FBI and the Centers for Disease Control.

Last year, the CDC became the center of controversy when it removed its estimates of defensive gun uses from its website at the request of gun control organizations. For nearly a decade the CDC cited a 2013 National Academies of Sciences report showing that the annual number of people using guns to stop crime ranged from about 64,000 to 3 million. The CDC website listed the upper figure at 2.5 million.

Mark Bryant, who runs the Gun Violence Archive, wrote to CDC officials after a meeting last year that the 2.5 million number “has been used so often to stop [gun control] legislation.” The CDC’s estimates were subsequently taken down and now lists no numbers.

The FBI is also susceptible to political pressure. Up until January of 2021, I worked in the U.S. Department of Justice as the senior advisor for research and statistics, and part of my job was to evaluate the FBI’s active shooting reports. I showed the bureau that many cases were missing and that others had been misidentified.

Yet, the FBI continues to report that armed citizens stopped only 14 of the 302 active shooter incidents that it identified for the period 2014-2022. The correct rate is almost eight times higher. And if we limit the discussion to places where permit holders were allowed to carry, the rate is 11 times higher.

The FBI defines active shooter incidents as those in which an individual actively kills or attempts to kill people in a populated, public area. But it does not include shootings that are deemed related to other criminal activity, such as robbery or fighting over drug turf. Active shootings may involve just one shot being fired at just one target, even if the target isn’t hit.

To compile its list, the FBI hired academics at the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training Center at Texas State University. Police departments don’t collect data, so the researchers had to find news stories about these incidents.

It isn’t surprising that people will miss cases or occasionally misidentify them when using news stories, but the FBI was unwilling to fix its errors when I pointed them out. My organization, the Crime Prevention Research Center, has found many more missed cases and is keeping an updated list. Back in 2015, I published a list of missed cases in a criminology publication.

Unfortunately, the news media unquestioningly reports the FBI numbers. After 22-year-old Elisjsha Dicken used his legally-carried concealed handgun to stop what would have been a mass public shooting, an Associated Press headline noted: “Rare in US for an active shooter to be stopped by bystander.” A Washington Post headline proclaimed: “Rampage in Indiana a rare instance of armed civilian ending mass shooting.”

The CPRC’s numbers tell a different story: Out of 440 active shooter incidents from 2014 to 2022, an armed citizen stopped 157. We also found that the FBI had misidentified five cases, usually because the person who stopped the attack was incorrectly identified as a security guard.

We found these cases on a budget of just a few thousand dollars. Though we found that armed citizens had stopped eight times as many cases as the FBI claims, I make no assertion that we unearthed all of these stories. It is quite possible that the news media itself never covers many such incidents.

While the FBI claims that just 4.6% of active shootings were stopped by law-abiding citizens carrying guns, the percentage that I found was 35.7%. I am more confident that we have identified a higher share of recent cases, and our figure for 2022 was even higher – 41.3%.

The FBI doesn’t differentiate between law-abiding citizens stopping attacks where guns are banned and where they are allowed, but you can’t expect law-abiding citizens to stop attacks where it is illegal to carry guns. In places where law-abiding citizens are allowed to carry firearms, the percentage of active shootings that were stopped is 51%. For 2022, that figure is a remarkable 63.5%.

In order to follow the FBI’s definition, we excluded 27 cases because a law-abiding person with a gun stopped the attacker before he was able to get off a shot.

In an email I received in 2015, a bureau official acknowledged that “the FBI did not come across this incident during its research in 2015, but it does meet the FBI’s active-shooter definition.” The official noted they will miss active-shooter cases because the reports “are limited in scope.” Yet, the FBI database never added the incident.

When the Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler reached out to the FBI for comments on our earlier work up through 2021, they emailed: “We have no additional information to provide other than what is provided within the active shooter reports on our website.”

However, a researcher at Texas State University did respond to two of the cases we had identified in our earlier work. He argued that one case involving a shooting at a dentist office was excluded because it involved a domestic dispute and another at a strip club because it was a “retaliation murder.”

We list 14 examples where the FBI list includes shooting resulting from domestic disputes and three others where a shooting started after someone was denied entry to a lounge or bar. So why the double standard? Domestic disputes and “retaliation murders” are only included when they don’t involve permit holders stopping the attacks.

The FBI data on active shootings is missing so many defensive gun uses that it’s hard to believe it isn’t intentional. Errors can happen, but the failure to fix past reports shows a troubling disregard for the truth. The reality is that armed, law-abiding citizens are unsung guardian angels.

Little Support among Voters for Transgender Medical Procedures on Children

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Little Support among Voters for Transgender Medical Procedures on Children

(Tom Gantert, The Center Square) Few voters think children should undergo transgender interventions even with parental permission.

That’s according to the Center Square Voters’ Voice Poll of 2,500 registered voters across the U.S., conducted by Noble Predictive Insights.

The poll found that 58% of those surveyed are against medical interventions such as gender-changing surgery or puberty blockers for children younger than 18 years old.

There were just 10% who said children should have the ability to undergo these inventions if they choose and another 21% who said children should be able to undergo these interventions, but only with parental permission.

The poll found 62% of men and 54% of women were against gender-changing surgery or puberty blockers for children.

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Mike Noble, founder and CEO of Noble Predictive Insights, said it was noteworthy how little public support there is for transgender interventions of minors.

“What’s surprising—for how much you hear about it, how much it is in your face—you look at the public opinion data and there’s definitely not a majority who are in support of this,” Noble said. “Six in ten are saying, ‘That’s a non-starter.'”

There was support for gender-changing surgery or puberty blockers among those voters who identified themselves as “a strong Democrat.”

There were 22% of that voting bloc who said children should have the ability to undergo those inventions and another 40% who believe it should be allowed but only with parental permission.

Just 23% of “strong Democrats” were against the interventions and another 15% were unsure.

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Sixty-four percent of voters who said they had children under the age of 18 said minors should not be having these transgender medical interventions. And 40% of voters who said children should be able to have the medical interventions, with 25% of that group saying it needed to come with parental approval.

“The people who were the least on board were people who had children under the age 18,” Noble said. “The ones who are the most supportive are the ones who never had children.”

State legislatures across the country have debated laws either banning such procedures for minors or preventing such bans from being put in place, with laws varying widely.

States such as Texas, Missouri, North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Georgia and at least 10 other states have put restrictions in place, with many facing legal challenges.

California is leading a coalition of 20 mostly blue states, including Illinois, Michigan, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Oregon and Washington in opposing such restrictions.

The Center Square Voters’ Voice Poll was conducted by Noble Predictive Insights from July 31 to Aug. 3.

Unlike traditional national polls, with limited respondent count of about 1,000, Noble Predictive surveyed 1,000 registered Republicans, 1,000 registered Democrats, and 500 independents, culminating in a sample size of 2,500.

The margin of error for the aggregate sample was ±2.4%, with each political group independently weighted. For information about the methodology, visit www.noblepredictiveinsights.com.

Trump Pleads Not Guilty to Georgia Election Charges

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(Casey Harper, The Center Square) Former President Donald Trump plead not guilty Thursday to charges he faces in Georgia that he worked to overturn the state’s 2020 election results, according to court filings.

The Georgia indictment includes 41 charges against Trump and 18 of his alleged co-conspirators. Trump was processed in the local jail last week, and his mugshot quickly went viral online.

Trump also waived his arraignment appearance, which was scheduled for next week.

As the Center Square previously reported, Trump faces 91 total charges across indictments in New York, Florida, Washington, D.C., and now Georgia. Those charges are related either to Trump’s handling of classified documents, his alleged payments to Stormy Daniels, or his alleged work to overturn the 2020 election results.

Trump, who is far and away the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, has blasted the indictments as politically motivated attacks.

Republicans have also raised questions about coordination within the Department of Justice on the cases for both Trump and the president’s son, Hunter Biden, who faces his own legal woes.

“WE HAVE A DEPARTMENT OF INJUSTICE RIGGING THE ELECTION FOR CROOKED JOE!” Trump wrote on social media Wednesday along with a flurry of video posts on a range of topics.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, the local official behind the indictment who campaigned for the position pledging to go after Trump, is now under scrutiny.

House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, sent a letter to Willis demanding all records of communication with the Department of Justice to determine whether the charges were “politically motivated.”

“Turning first to the question of motivation, it is noteworthy that just four days before this indictment, you launched a new campaign fundraising website that highlighted your investigation into President Trump,” the letter said.

“Additionally, the forewoman of the special grand jury you convened to investigate President Trump earlier this year bragged during an unusual media tour about her excitement at the prospect of subpoenaing President Trump and getting to swear him in,” it added.

GOP Congresswoman: Staten Island Should Secede from NYC over Illegals Crisis

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GOP Congresswoman: Staten Island Should Secede from NYC over Illegals Crisis

(Robert Jonathan, Headline USA) U.S. Rep. Nicole Malliotakis apparently thinks it’s time for Staten Island to bid bye-bye to the Big Apple.

Malliotakis, a Republican who represents Staten Island and parts of Brooklyn in Congress, is — along with many of her constituents — outraged that Democrat Mayor Eric Adams plans to, for one thing, house illegal aliens in a closed Catholic school in the area, with an operating school down the street.

According to the second-term congresswoman, that shuttered facility was scheduled to reopen as a public school rather than be used as a shelter.

Adams, and his far-left predecessor Bill de Blasio, touted Gotham as a sanctuary city — at least in theory.

With 100,000 or so migrants actually showing up in NYC as a result of the Biden’s administration’s lawless open-borders policy, Adams has lamented that the city is running out of resources and has demanded help from the state and the feds.

Adams has already warned that the taxpayer-funded price tag associated with the influx could rise to $12 billion over time.

Despite prior pandering, Adams is now, to some degree, trying to discourage migrants from coming to NYC.

At a rally, Rep. Malliotakis called out Adams, and by extension the entire Democrat regime, for their failed role in the illegal immigration crisis.

“What we’re simply asking is for common sense. We want the mayor to end this. Stop doing what you’re doing and listen.”

Sounding somewhat like former President Donald Trump, she declared to the approving crowed, “Secure the damn border. We do not have a border. We do not have a nation… the other thing, if you’re not doing your job, mayor, then let Staten Island secede.”

She added that “we did not vote for your policies. We should not be subjected to your policies…let Staten Island secede.”

The congresswoman reaffirmed that that the proper protocol for purported asylum seekers is to apply for that status in the first safe country they reach rather than pouring into the U.S. illegally.

Malliotakis, who is the daughter of legal immigrants from Greece and Cuba, also condemned Gov. Kathy Hochul for exacerbating/incentivizing the problem by handing out more welfare-type benefits to migrants.

Malliotakis separately told NY 1 that the community is wary of crime that is associated with the current influx.

“They’re reading newspaper articles about two rapes that occurred at a shelter upstate, drug use outside of shelters where there were overdoses here in Manhattan.”

She also noted that “They’re reading articles — just yesterday, CNN reported that the FBI identified that there are migrants that are being smuggled by ISIS that they’re trying to locate. And they’re concerned about drug cartels smuggling not just humans, but also drugs and fentanyl.”

There is also a public health component, the lawmaker suggested.

“I’m sure [there’s] many people who are good people, but the reality is, is that they are not coming through the proper process,” she warned. “The proper process would allow for vetting, would allow for quarantine – and there are concerns about illnesses.”

Given that an escape from New York would require a significant change in the law to allow Staten Island “an opportunity to self-govern,” Malliotakis observed that “The reality is the City Council and the state Legislature would need to let Staten Island go. I hope they do reconsider this…I hear all the jokes all the time that they would love to get rid of Staten Island. Well, this is your opportunity.”

Malliotakis ran against de Blasio for mayor in 2017 but lost in a landslide, albeit winning a massive 70% of the vote in her Staten Island home base.

“Staten Island has always been an odd fit within the five boroughs, sitting on the outskirts of New York City with a predominantly conservative Republican population that butts heads with the rest of the city,” the New York Post explained.

“Nobody wants a migrant shelter in the middle of a neighborhood near a school,” Staten Island Borough President and former GOP Congressman Vito Fossella told the Post. “It’s not just Republicans, it’s also Democrats. If we can’t say no to this, maybe we should go off on our own.”

In a roughly similar possible scenario, rural, conservative Oregon is seeking to break away from the Portland-dominated state and join Idaho

During a recent appearance on Fox Business to discuss the ongoing emergency, Malliotakis slammed “absolutely useless” Chuck Schumer, the U.S. Senate majority leader, for failing to take up a border security bill that passed the U.S. House.

Malliotakis also maintained that illegal aliens are displacing American citizens at about 200 venues across the city, including from nursing homes.

Did Corrupt Obama Judge Collude w/ FBI on Giuliani Defamation Verdict?

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Did Corrupt Obama Judge Collude w/ FBI on Giuliani Defamation Verdict?

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) An Obama-appointed judge appeared to be working in tandem with the FBI as part of a lawfare attack against former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who acted as former President Donald Trump’s lawyer in his efforts to challenge the disputed 2020 election.

It was unclear whether U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell was deliberately working with the deep state to deny due process to Giuliani, a former federal prosecutor, or if she was just following her own partisan instincts by finding him guilty for failing to produce evidence that Giuliani said the FBI had confiscated.

Specifically, Giuliani allegedly failed to give over all of his electronic devices, noted investigative reporter Joe Hoft.

On Wednesday, Howell ruled by default judgment that Giuliani was legally liable for defaming two Georgia election workers, Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, in the aftermath of the heavily disputed election. The case will now go to trial to determine just how much Giuliani must to pay in damages.

Under normal legal standards, the burden must fall on the plaintiffs to prove the falsity of the claims, as well as the material damages they incurred and the intent of willful negligence in the case of private citizens (which might be debatable for two public officials enmeshed in allegations of election rigging).

But none of those standards seemed to matter in Howell’s courtroom. According to the D.C. judge, Giuliani bore the burden of proof after violating her orders to produce the necessary evidence against the two workers.

Adding insult to injury, Howell likened the court case to the 2020 election and its aftermath, chiding Giuliani—who is also one of the 19 co-defendants in the Fulton County lawfare campaign being waged by District Attorney Fani Willis—for daring to investigate reports of corruption in the electoral system.

“Just as taking shortcuts to win an election carries risks—even potential criminal liability— bypassing the discovery process carries serious sanctions,” Howell wrote.

Giuliani contended that the FBI had taken the materials in question as part of a foreign-influence investigation related to his efforts to expose the Biden–Burisma scandal in Ukraine, Politico reported.

That probe did not result in any charges against Giuliani.

Nonetheless, “The FBI took every electronic device in my apartment and my law office,” Giuliani said at a May hearing for the defamation lawsuit.

He pointed out that given his extensive litigation background he knew better than to try to cut corners when it came to the discovery process, but that he was incapable of furnishing what he did not have.

“I’ve been dealing with this for 50 years,” he said. “I understand the obligation. . . There’s nothing I want to hide. I’d like them to see everything.”

The ruling was “a prime example of the weaponization of our justice system, where the process is the punishment,” said Ted Goodman, one of Giuliani’s advisors.

“This decision should be reversed, as Mayor Giuliani is wrongly accused of not preserving electronic evidence that was seized and held by the FBI,” he added.

Headline USA’s Ben Sellers contributed to this report.

Biden Continues Campaign of Insults and Snubs to Maui Wildfire Survivors

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Biden Continues Campaign of Insults and Snubs to Maui Wildfire Survivors

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) The Biden administration put on a double-bill display of its utter disregard and contempt for Maui wildfire survivors and victims, while the snoozer-in-chief prepared for the grueling exertions of yet another vacation.

In a continued insult to victims who are still struggling to find loved ones among the ashes while trying to rebuild their lives and homes, Biden’s Federal Emergency Management Administration offered a bureaucratic, jargon-filled defense of the White House’s response to the tragedy.

Asked during a Wednesday press briefing if the administration had any plans to increase what was widely panned as an insulting $700 per household in emergency assistance, compared to the high cost of living on the island and the continued inflationary impacts of Bidenomics, the bottomline answer was not any time soon.

 “The 700 figure, critical needs assistance, is really just that amount of funding for some of the very immediate needs that individuals have,” FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell said, before launching into a bureaucratic explanation about how the rate adjusts annually based on inflation and can run upwards of $40,000 per household. But Maui residents shouldn’t expect anything else anytime soon.

The chump change Biden has sprinkled on survivors and news that the penny pinching would continue received a fierce public backlash.

“Our government is putting FEMA officials up in a $1,000 per night luxury hotel in Maui. They’re sending billions weekly to Ukraine. Illegals get five-star luxury hotels in New York City,” wrote political strategist podcaster Joey Mannarino.

“Yet the Hawaiians who lost everything got $700 and Joe Biden dozing off listening to their officials brief him on the damage. Marie Antoinette treated her subjects better than this government treats us.”

One islander who had been left destitute by the wildfires had a crystal clear message for the Biden administration’s insulting $700 payoff.

“I have no money anymore. I think Joe Biden should take his $700 and get back on the fucking plane and go home,” the local fumed.

“The utter contempt this government has for the American people is absolutely disgusting,” Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., said in response to Biden’s shameful Maui response.

The contempt continued with efforts from White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre, who insisted during a Wednesday press briefing that the disaster response had been strong and effective.

While offering the administration credit for a “robust” hurricane response, Fox News Peter Doocy wondered “did you guys realize the initial Hawaii wildfire response was not that good? Or is it just easier for people to get help from the White House when the president is not on vacation?”

The question threw the insurrectionist mouthpiece into a gaslighting frenzy, who claimed, “Your question is wrong, is flawed, in many, many ways.”

The president had reacted to the wildfires in record time, she claimed, with an admonishment to “Let’s not forget, there were more than 600 federal employees on the ground” ready to assist.”

That likely did little to assuage the grief and mounting troubles for Maui residents.

“I haven’t had anybody call me back,” said the same resident who offered travel tips to the president. “We haven’t had anything. Everybody feels that way.”

Mark Pellin is an editor at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/sabrepaw70.

Woke School’s Head Women’s Lacrosse Coach Disciplined for Defending Women’s Sports

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Woke School’s Head Women’s Lacrosse Coach Disciplined for Defending Women’s Sports

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) After Oberlin College’s head women’s lacrosse coach defended women’s sports from transgender athletes, the far-left school moved to discipline her, ostensibly to increase her sensitivity toward underserved populations, Legal Insurrection reported.

Coach Kim Russell shared a social media post in March, congratulating female NCAA swimmer Emma Weyant, who came in second to transgender swimmer Lia Thomas in an important race.

Russell’s post called the second-place swimmer the “real winner” since she was the best-performing woman in the pool, despite Thomas’s formal victory.

In response to the post, Oberlin’s administration forced Russell to undergo a series of “training” sessions, at which Russell was demeaned and harassed.

Some of the sessions involved controversial “restorative justice” methods that allowed Russell’s own players to confront and belittle her with impunity, effectively subverting the coach–athlete relationship.

In order to counter the woke assault on her freedom of speech, Russell partnered with the Independent Women’s Forum, an organization working to save women’s sports from the encroachment of transgenderism.

In the above video, IWF released audio recordings of some of Russell’s “retraining” sessions with Oberlin administrators, which appeared to confirm Russell’s portrayal of the meetings as a witch hunt and an attempt at character assassination.

“I was not just chastised,” Russell began, recounting one of the meetings in particular. “I was burned at the stake. I was stoned. I was basically told I was a horrible person, and it was heartbreaking, really.”

Further, the IWF created a documentary detailing Russell’s story. In the film, the lacrosse coach spoke of her love of the game and of her students, but she also told of her pro-women’s-sports social-media post.

According to the film, one of Russell’s own lacrosse players reported the post to Oberlin’s athletic director, triggering the investigation and the series of disciplinary meetings.

Newsom Blames Judges for Calif. Homeless Scourge after Literally Inviting Them

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Newsom Blames Judges for Calif. Homeless Scourge after Literally Inviting Them

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom blamed the far-left state’s judges for its current homelessness debacle, despite those judges being largely Democrat appointees.

Specifically, Newsom complained that the state’s left-wing judges are refusing to allow law enforcement officers to clear away homeless encampments from the state’s streets, Breitbart reported. The admonishment came in the wake of Newsom’s own disastrous policy failures addressing the homeless crisis, which he in large part helped to create.

Assured that his solutions would solve the state’s homeless problem, Newsom doubled-down when he was facing a 2021 recall election and literally invited the nation’s homeless population to camp out in California.

“It’s about getting people off the streets, out of incidents of crisis, and meeting people where they are and to the extent that people want to come here for new beginnings and all income levels, that’s part of the California dream,” Newsom said at the time.

“We have a responsibility to accommodate and enliven and inspire, and California’s dream is still alive and well,” he boasted.

The proclamation drew a swift rebuke from Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva.

“We are trying to keep our heads above water, and he goes and says that?” Villanueva continued. “When he invites the rest of the nation’s homeless to California, that is the death wish.”

The state’s homeless problem has only gotten worse since Newsom’s invitation, despite his administration pouring $22.3 billion in new housing and homelessness spending since taking office, including one plan to build thousands of tiny homes across the state.

“These encampments in California are unacceptable,” Newsom said during a January photo-op that saw the governor purportedly rolling up his sleeves to clean up the mess he created. “The dirty streets in the state are unacceptable. We have to do more. We have to do better.”

Newsom’s latest criticism that tried shifting blame onto leftist judges came via a recent Tweet, wherein he sided with tech billionaire Elon Musk, who recently called for a boycott of Latham and Watkins, a law firm that is suing the City of San Francisco on behalf of homeless people.

According to the governor, courts are blocking the state from shepherding the homeless to state-sanctioned camps.

“Courts must also be held accountable,” he wrote, not holding himself accountable. “Enough is enough.”

Newsom neglected to mention that the judges making such decisions are primarily of the same political opinion as him. Some of them even got their jobs because of woke DEI policies.

In San Francisco, for example, the city was blocked from clearing homeless camps last December by U.S. Magistrate Judge Donna Ryu. She was appointed in 2010 by judges in the Northern District of California during President Barack Obama’s push to hire more women and minorities.

The appeal to Ryu’s ruling is being heard by a Ninth Circuit court, consisting of one Trump appointee and two Biden appointees.

In Los Angeles, where homelessness problems are nearly as bad, an appointee of Bill Clinton, U.S. District Judge David O. Carter, ruled in 2012 that the city and the county must provide public housing for the homeless.

Though his ruling was later overturned by the Ninth Circuit, his opinion has opened up new legal pathways to more thorough than ever welfare programs.

Carter, who tried and failed to run for Congress as a Democrat, has also written opinions that were used extensively by the January 6 Committee, and are also being used for state and local prosecutions of former President Donald Trump.

Raphael Warnock’s Georgia Church Starts Evicting Low-Income Residents Again

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Raphael Warnock’s Georgia Church Starts Evicting Low-Income Residents Again

(Headline USA) Sen. Raphael Warnock’s, D-Ga., church has started evicting low-income residents from the apartment building it owns once again, according to the Washington Free Beacon.

The issue became a flashpoint during Warnock’s 2022 reelection campaign after it was reported that Ebenezer Baptist Church, from which Warnock still collects a paycheck, evicted six residents who were behind on their rent. 

The criticism forced the church to temporarily halt its eviction efforts, but Fulton County court records show it is once again trying to forcibly eject residents. At least four residents who fell behind on rent by less than two months have been served eviction notices by the building, the records show.

One of the residents currently facing eviction is a Vietnam veteran, Phillip White. He was served an eviction notice in March over $192 in unpaid rent, according to court records.

Warnock has repeatedly denied that Ebenezer Baptist was evicting disadvantaged residents, saying in 2022 that reports about the notices were “vicious and venomous” attempts to “sully Ebenezer Baptist Church” and the “church of Jesus Christ.”

“There have been no evictions, full stop,” he said.

The Democrat even campaigned against evicting people who are struggling.

“Unemployment benefits have expired, rent is due today, and many Georgia families are at risk of eviction in the middle of a pandemic,” Warnock wrote on social media in August 2020. “My opponents are supposed to be serving the people in Washington, but they’re clearly only concerned with serving their own interests.”

“He said there would be no evictions,” White said in response. “He knew that was a lie. What he was really saying is there would be no evictions until after the election.”

The apartment building, Columbia MLK Tower, has received more than $15 million in federal and state funding to shelter the “chronically homeless.”

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