San Francisco Commissioner Resigns After Viral ‘Doom Loop’ Tour

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San Francisco Commissioner Resigns After Viral ‘Doom Loop’ Tour

(Headline USA) San Francisco commissioner Alex Ludlum resigned this week, issuing a scathing letter that blamed Mayor London Breed and other Democrat city officials for the “doom and squalor” that has taken over the city.

Ludlum came under fire earlier this year after he launched the viral “doom loop” walking tour, which was designed to highlight downtown San Francisco’s rampant homelessness and open-air drug use. In his resignation letter, Ludlum said he does not apologize for the tour or for criticizing the “wide-ranging policies that permit an organized & malicious element to thrive in San Francisco.”

However, Ludlum conceded that “satire is a poor way to address the grave issues we face as a city.”

“I regret that my attempt to bring attention to the deplorable street conditions & rampant criminality in my neighborhood has been misconstrued as a mockery of suffering individuals,” he wrote.

Ludlum then directly addressed Breed, who appointed him to the Commission on Community Investment and Infrastructure.

“As Mayor, I hope you will continue to address these dire issues, and will have my full support in doing so,” he wrote. “As long as the open-air drug markets continue their daily operations, we will continue to witness the misery of suffering addicts, the withdrawal of pedestrians and office-workers, the ongoing closures of small businesses, and the stagnation of our rich cultural life. All of downtown will suffer until the markets are closed.”

In response, Breed’s office blasted the “Doom Loop Walking Tour” as a “mistake.”

“The decision to organize and publicize the tour was a mistake and a deep error in judgment,” Breed spokesman Jeff Cretan told the San Francisco Chronicle. “We are working every day to address the city’s challenges, and our focus remains on doing the work to move this city forward.”

AOC Admits Trump Tops Biden on Key Immigration Issue

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AOC Admits Trump Tops Biden on Key Immigration Issue

(Headline USA) Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., admitted this week that immigration is President Joe Biden’s “weakest issue.”

The self-described Democratic socialist was asked on Wednesday to grade Biden’s handling of the border crisis, and she pointed out that more asylum-seekers are being held in detention centers today than under former President Donald Trump.

“Immigration is arguably this administration’s weakest issue,” Ocasio–Cortez said in an interview with the New York Times.

“This is one area where our policy is dictated by politics, arguably more so than almost any other. There are very clear recommendations and suggestions that we have made to the administration to provide relief on this issue, and it’s my belief that some of the hesitation around this has to do with a fear around just being seen as approving or providing permission structures, or really just the Republican narratives that have surrounded immigration.”

Ocasio-Cortez was also asked whether she has any plans to visit the southern border, to which she said that a border visit is “something that we’re actively planning on.”

The last time Ocasio-Cortez weighed in on the border crisis was during the Trump administration, when she and several other freshman lawmakers visited a detention facility and posed for photographs while crying in front of chain-link fences. 

One user in her Instagram live asked why Ocasio-Cortez doesn’t “address the border crisis and the kids in cages like you used to,” leading her to go on a bizarre rant about climate change and white supremacy. 

“Are you for real?” Ocasio-Cortez responded. “It’s not a border crisis. It’s an imperialism crisis, it’s a climate crisis, it’s a trade crisis, and also, it’s a carceral crisis. Because, as I have already said even during this term and this president, our immigration system is based on our carceral system.”

Trump Co-Defendant, Black Voices Leader Harrison Floyd Exploring Run for Congress

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Trump Co-Defendant, Black Voices Leader Harrison Floyd Exploring Run for Congress

(Robert Jonathan, Headline USA) In a mic-drop moment on Wednesday, a day after his release from jail, Fulton 19 co-defendant Harrison Floyd announced that he was contemplating a run for Congress.

Floyd, the leader of Black Voices for Trump, issued the public statement outside the Fulton County courthouse where, last week, he had been deemed a flight risk and reportedly denied bond after driving from Maryland to face charges.

President Donald Trump and 18 others are accused of a racketeering conspiracy in the politically motivated case for their efforts to challenge the disputed outcome in the 2020 election.

News of Floyd’s detention aroused widespread public backlash, forcing county officials to reconsider the incarceration of Trump’s only black, male co-defendant. He was released on Tuesday, subject to a $100,000 bond.

“I would like to thank District Attorney Fani Willis for giving me what we call in our community a Negro wake-up call because she has reminded me that our country and the state of Georgia will not be able to be a righteous nation if we stand on pillars of corruption, racism, lying, and cheating,” he said.

During his remarks Wednesday, Floyd, a disabled Marine veteran, thanked God, his wife, and those who had been praying for him during his incarceration, as well as the donors who had contributed (as of Thursday afternoon) more than $287,000 to a GiveSendGo page set up to raise funds for his legal expenses.

After delivering his backhanded compliment to Willis—the highly partisan, ethically challenged DA at the heart of the Georgia lawfare campaign—Floyd offered his own spirutual take on the corruption that has overtaken politics in the Biden era.

“[W]hen we are governed men and women who are more concerned about things in the world rather than serving the citizens they’re sworn to protect, we end up going into more and deeper darkness,” he said.

“…[T]he only thing we can do is follow God and lead by example, and so I’m also announcing right now that I am exploring running for [a] congressional seat in Georgia,” he declared as he left the podium. “I’m coming back here to get things right.”

The would-be candidate did not specify which district he was eyeing.

Floyd is accused of attempting to solicit false statements from Ruby Freeman, the Fulton County election supervisor who was caught on camera pulling briefcases of ballots from underneath a table and scanning them repeatedly after the State Farm Arena had shut down on the evening of Nov. 3, 2020, due to a nonexistent water-main leak.

The allegations of impropriety against Freeman were never formally investigated, although Democrats have falsely claimed they were debunked.

Evidence showing the image scans of duplicate ballots and “pristine” pre-printed ballots without a clear chain of custody are likely to play a prominent role in the defense strategy, even though Fulton County illegally destroyed much of the hard evidence.

In a conversation with Steve Bannon on Real America’s Voice, Floyd seemed to hint that prosecutors were hoping to flip him in order to prevent the disclosure of damning evidence.

“To keep it frank and simple, Fulton County fumbled the cover up, and I am aware of what transpired, and they’re trying to put pressure on me, and others, to make sure the truth doesn’t come out,” he said.

However, “the truth always has a way of finding its way to the surface,” he added optimistically. “… I’m looking to being down here and fighting ‘the devil in Georgia.'”

Headline USA’s Ben Sellers contributed to this report.

Whitmer’s Office ‘Concealed’ Communications from Public Using Greek Code

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Whitmer’s Office ‘Concealed’ Communications from Public Using Greek Code

(Headline USA) Michigan Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s office allegedly attempted to hide communications from the public by corresponding in coded language, according to a lawsuit.

One email from consultant Andrew Leavitt to Whitmer’s senior energy adviser, Kara Cook, had to do with the Whitmer administration’s response to a local water crisis and was written in Greek alphabet font.

“Hot off the presses. As I warned there are some major red flags. It seems like we are back at square one having not learned from Flint,” the translated message, sent in 2021, reads.

The email was sent amid the Whitmer administration’s response to reports of lead in the Benton Harbor, Michigan, water supply. Residents of the town are suing Whitmer’s administration, alleging that officials downplayed the risks of the crisis publicly while privately relaying concerns.

The use of the Greek language and alphabet “appears to be calculated to conceal” those concerns, according to the lawsuit.

The plaintiffs in the case argue that “despite having clear information that there were increasing levels of lead in Benton Harbor’s municipal water, state and city defendants lied to residents that the tap water was safe and recommended remediation measures that they knew were ineffective.”

Whitmer claimed earlier this year that she has “always supported enhanced transparency when it comes to the government,” and even campaigned on a pledge to increase transparency during her 2018 campaign.

For example, she promised to reverse a policy that exempts the Michigan governor’s office from the Freedom of Information Act, saying, “Michiganders should know when and what their governor is working on.”

The coded message likely would not have been discovered had it not been for Benton Harbor’s lawsuit, since Michigan’s public records department is unable to electronically search for records that use Greek letters, according to the Washington Free Beacon.

Alleged CIA Serial Rapist to Use CIA-Linked Doctor to Claim His Victims Had ‘False Memories’

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Alleged CIA Serial Rapist to Use CIA-Linked Doctor to Claim His Victims Had ‘False Memories’

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Former CIA agent and alleged serial rapist Brian Jeffrey Raymond is claiming that his victims have “false memories”—a concept pioneered by the CIA to discredit victims of its MKUltra mind-control program.

Raymond, who is set to stand trial for allegedly drugging and sexually assaulting dozens of women, told the judge presiding over his case last week that he intends to have University of California-Irvine psychologist Elizabeth Loftus testify on his behalf.

“Dr. Loftus will inform the jury that suggestive activities can explain how it is that a person might go from having no memory of sexual abuse to later having “memories” of abusive acts, even where the memories are false,” Raymond said in a letter to the judge.

Loftus is a former advisory board member of the CIA-linked False Memory Syndrome Foundation, or FMSF, and she has reportedly testified on behalf of rapists such as Harvey Weinstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, Jerry Sandusky and Bill Cosby.

Among the other former CIA assets on FMSF’s membership ranks was none other than Jolyon West, who spearheaded MKUltra. The organization was dissolved in 2019.

As noted by MKUltra researcher David McGowan, the FMSF has been used to debunk alleged victims of government-sanctioned mind-control experiments and sex-trafficking operations.

“At the forefront of the movement to deny the validity of the stories told by countless survivors is the False Memory Syndrome Foundation, a group led by a truly vile coalition of CIA-funded psychiatrists and accused (and, in some cases, convicted) pedophiles,” McGowan wrote on his book about the subject, Programmed to Kill: The Politics of Serial Murder.

And according to investigative reporter Nick Bryant—the man who obtained and published Jeffrey Epstein’s book of contacts—the foundation was used to discredit victims of government-linked sex-trafficking operations such as the Franklin Scandal.

The Franklin Scandal was a 1980s- and early 90s-era operation where boys were trafficked from an orphanage in Omaha to high-profile politicians in Washington, D.C.

Loftus spoke at the FMSF conferences in 1997 and 2002, according to her résumé, which was attached to Raymond’s court letter.

As for Raymond, the FBI began investigating him in May 2020, when a naked woman was seen screaming for help from the balcony of his residence in Mexico City.

Raymond allegedly admitted to having sexual intercourse with her, but the woman reported that she had no memory of events after consuming drinks and food provided by him.

During the investigation, FBI agents allegedly recovered from Raymond’s electronic devices hundreds of photographs and videos created between 2006 and May 30, 2020, depicting at least 24 unconscious and nude or partially nude women.

Raymond initially pleaded guilty in July to two counts of sexual abuse and one count of transporting obscene material. But last September, he suddenly changed his plea and decided to take his chances at trial, arguing that he couldn’t have done everything prosecutors said he did, because he suffers from erectile dysfunction, according to the Daily Beast.

His trial is set for Nov. 8.

Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.

RFK Jr.: Biden’s COVID Vax Crusade Responsible for ‘Slaughtering Black Americans’

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RFK Jr.: Biden’s COVID Vax Crusade Responsible for ‘Slaughtering Black Americans’

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) In a brutal indictment that’s not likely to win President Joe Biden any support from his already eroding base of black voters, Democrat presidential contender Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the Biden regime’s tragically flawed response to the COVID pandemic was “slaughtering black Americans.”

At the same time, Kennedy strongly implied that the experimental vaccine the government pushed on the public was responsible for the country’s disproportionately high COVID death rates across all categories.

“We were told at the beginning of the pandemic that the people who were really going to get destroyed by COVID were going to be people in places like Haiti and Africa because they wouldn’t be able to get vaccines,” Kennedy said during an interview this week with Blaze TV’s Jason Whitlock. 

“But what really happened, black Americans were dying at the rate of over 3,000 COVID deaths per million population. The highest COVID death rates were blacks in this country,” Kennedy said.

By contrast, in Haiti “they were dying at the rate of 14 per million population” and “they only had a 1.3% vaccination rate,” Kennedy said, adding the same held true in Nigeria, where the COVID death rate for blacks was 15 per million population.

While conceding that part of the reason was that those countries have younger populations and COVID targeted the elderly, Kennedy said that explanation fell short of providing a whole answer. The vax realist noted that Japan has the world’s oldest population, but low COVID death rates.

“So why were American blacks dying at these extraordinary rates? Why did we have the highest death rates from COVID on earth?” Kennedy asked.

Those questions remain unasked, much less answered, and Kennedy laid blame on the Biden administration and vaccine booster Anthony Fauci, who has a “$4.2-billion budget” and “56,000 scientists at universities all over the world doing research on any question that he wants answered,” Kennedy said.

“Why wouldn’t you ask that question? Tell us why blacks in Haiti were dying at 1/200th the rate of blacks in America and we predicted that blacks in Haiti would die at 10 times the rate of blacks in America? Why didn’t it work out that way?” Kennedy asked. “What did we do wrong in this country that was slaughtering black Americans?”

Instead of providing answers, the Biden administration is actively preparing for another COVID “election variant” and pushing for renewed pandemic powers to enforce mask mandates, drive people back into their homes and pump out another vaccine.

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

Trump Assassination Attempt and War w/ Russia on 2024 Timeline, Carlson Forecasts in Explosive Interview

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Trump Assassination Attempt and War w/ Russia on 2024 Timeline, Carlson Forecasts in Explosive Interview

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) In their avarice to retain unchecked powers and protect a corrupt Biden regime, Democrats would be willing to start a full-blown war with Russia as a launching pad to steal the 2024 presidential election.

That was one of the bold assertions Tucker Carlson made in an explosive interview with Adam Carolla that took social media by storm on Wednesday. Carlson also claimed an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump was more than likely.

“What do yo think the future holds? Are they going to let Trump be president?” Carolla asked.

“Look, they protested him. They called him names. He won anyway,” Carlson said of Democrats’ ongoing efforts to sabotage the MAGA message.

“They impeached him, twice, on ridiculous pretenses. They fabricated a lot about what happened on January 6th in order to impeach him again. It didn’t work,” Carlson said.

“Then they indicted him. It didn’t work. He became more popular. Then they indicted him three more times, and every single time his popularity rose.”

Given that trajectory and the options that are left to prevent a Trump 2024 victory, the picture can take a dark and, in Carlson’s estimation, predictable turn.

“So, if you begin with criticism, then you go to protest, then you go to impeachment, now you go to indictment and none of them work — What’s next?” Carlson asked, and answered his own question.

“Graph it out, man. We’re speeding towards assassination, obviously. And no one will say that, but I don’t know how you can’t reach that conclusion,” Carlson said. The desire to see Trump permanently sidelined through even the most extreme measures is non-partisan and deep state driven, Carlson added.

“They have decided — permanent Washington, both parties have decided — that there’s something about Trump that’s so threatening to them, they just can’t have it,” Carlson said, noting that with the upcoming J6 trial, they are “trying to send him to prison for the rest of his life for complaining about the last election.”

Carlson said that given the conflux of events, “It’s hard to overstate how bad this is. I don’t know where it’s going, but there’s a collision that’s clearly imminent,” he told Carolla.

The collision would most likely come through a full-blown war with Russia to create conditions that give unchecked powers to an administration heading into a presidential election with an incumbent who is increasingly seen as cognitively impaired and in declining physical health.

”They can’t lose. They will do anything to win. So how do they do that? They’re not going to do COVID again. They’ve already been exposed, that won’t work,” Carlson said. “They’re going to go to war with Russia is what they’re going to do. There will be a hot war between the United States and Russia in the next year.”

Doing so prior to the election would allow the administration “to declare war footing in order to assume war powers in order to win. I believe that and I think all the evidence suggests that’s true,” Carlson said.

Unlike the ongoing proxy war with Russia waged with seemingly limitless funding for Ukraine, Carlson predicted “an open battle with Russia,” triggered by a Tonkin Gulf-like scheme that would leave the world’s two largest nuclear powerhouses facing off with each other.

“This is insane, but they’re insane. These are people who think men can become women, who believe that face masks save you from COVID,” Carlson said. “These are not rationale people. Would they go to war with Russia? Of course they would.”

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

Another Dem. Governor Wants to Give American Jobs to Illegals

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Another Dem. Governor Wants to Give American Jobs to Illegals

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) Illinois Democrat Gov. J.B. Pritzker became the second sanctuary city enthusiast in as many weeks to push policies that could see illegal aliens snatching up jobs that otherwise might have gone to American workers.

Faced with an onslaught of illegal immigrants similar to what southern border states suffer on a regular basis, Pritzker said he wants to facilitate ways to put illegals to work on farms across the state.

“The best way for us to manage through this lengthy crisis is to tap into the extraordinary value that immigrants bring to our workforce,” Pritzker said during a Wednesday news conference, IPM News reported. “We have the jobs. We have the people. We just need authorization from Washington.”

Cities across Illinois, most notably the far-leftist, crime-ridden Chicago, have seen their budgets, resources and accommodations stretched thin thanks to the sanctuary city policies the state’s Democrat leaders have embraced. Residents and taxpayers have increasingly been forced to bear the brunt of the burden, as upwards of 13,000 illegals have descended on Illinois. Nearly all of the new arrivals are not legally authorized to work in the United States.

Pritzker, along with Chicago Democrat Mayor Brandon Johnson, in a letter this week urged Biden’s Department of Homeland Security to allow Illinois to sponsor illegals and expedite their work permits.

The proposal raised concerns for some state lawmakers about how farm owners would be able to police who was coming on their properties.

“There is nothing set up for this to work,” state GOP Rep. Charlie Meier told The Center Square. “The programs that we have that we use are vetted. We know who is coming, and we have some background on them.”

Even though Meier owns a farm and conceded it needed workers, he couldn’t support using illegals to fill the spots.

“The ones that we have here working, a lot of farms use, and we need workers,” Meier said. “It seems like you should have to come legally into this country to do that. That’s my opinion on that.”

New York Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul, whose state has faced similarly crushing impacts from a flood of illegals, earlier this week announced a jobs program for illegals and asked the Biden administration to give work authorization to the 100,000 illegal immigrants that entered the state. The request came as more 380,000 New York citizens are unemployed.

Similar to Hochul and Democrats around the country who have found their sanctuary city policies implode in their own backyards, Pritzker and Johnson want federal taxpayers to bail them out of their mess and policy changes to cover their shortcomings.

“Let me state this clearly: The city of Chicago cannot go on welcoming new arrivals safely and capably without significant support and immigration policy changes,” Johnson said, according to IPM.

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

Time’s Up: McConnell Faces Mounting Calls to Immediately Resign

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Time’s Up: McConnell Faces Mounting Calls to Immediately Resign

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is facing intense scrutiny from prominent leaders following his disturbing mental freeze on Wednesday. 

McConnell, 81, halted his address mid-sentence during a Kentucky press conference. In a now-viral video, McConnell’s eyes appeared to freeze and stare blanky for about 20 seconds, reigniting concerns about his fitness for office and prompting calls for his immediate resignation. 

Collin Rugg, co-founder of Trending Politics, took to Twitter on Wednesday to voice scorching criticism. “America is quickly becoming a country controlled by power hungry grandparents who refuse to give up their power,” he said before drawing attention to McConnell’s $35 million net worth. 

Twitter personality “Travis_in_Flint” expressed embarrassment over McConnell’s leadership and questioned his ability to govern effectively.

“We are a national embarrassment,” he said. “These people are running our country into the ground. How are we still allowing this? Mitch McConnell isn’t even fit enough to answer questions, but he leads the Senate Republicans. Why would anyone vote for this?”

In contrast, Biden rushed to defend McConnell in statements to NBC News. “Mitch is a friend, as you know — not a joke. … I know people don’t believe that the case, but we have disagreements politically, but he’s a good friend,” Biden said after speaking about Hurricane Idalia and the Hawaii wildfires.

McConnell in recent weeks cautioned House Republicans not to impeach Biden amid growing evidence of alleged corruption and bribery.

However, prominent voices continued to call for McConnell’s resignation. Outkick host Clay Travis and commentator Mark Levin both opined that McConnell should step down from his leadership role within the Senate GOP due to his apparent health issues.  

“Mitch McConnell isn’t well. Joe Biden isn’t well. Dianne Feinstein isn’t well. John Fetterman isn’t well. This is all just very sad,” Travis stated before demanding age limits. Levin’s stance was clear: “Time for Senate GOP to remove McConnell from leadership.”

Comedian and Trump supporter Terrence Williams echoed this sentiment, highlighting the lack of immediate medical assistance during the episode.  

“It’s time for Mitch McConnell to go,” Williams proclaimed. “This is sad to see. He is not fit to stand up or lead the GOP. These people are sick.”

‘Playing Politics’: N.Y. Attorney General Slammed over Trump Org. Witch Hunt

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‘Playing Politics’: N.Y. Attorney General Slammed over Trump Org. Witch Hunt

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) New York Attorney General Letitia James has found herself facing backlash after releasing yet another legal attack against the Trump Organization. 

In preparation for a civil trial scheduled for October, James claimed that former President Donald J. Trump and his family had allegedly overinflated their finances by billions of dollars since 2011. 

The attorney general specifically pointed out that Trump had purportedly increased his net worth by an annual average of $812 million to $2.2 billion over the span of 10 years. James’s civil case against Trump is separate from the four existing indictment cases against the leading GOP candidate for president.

Despite the allegations brought to light by James, she quickly came under intense scrutiny from various quarters. On the Monday edition of Fox and Friends, host Brian Kilmeade accused James of “playing politics” by forcing Trump to appear on trial. 

Political commentator Mercedes Schlapp echoed Kilmeade on Wednesday. During a segment on the alleged corruption embroiled President Joe Biden.  

“When you look at the Democrats, they went forward aggressively against the Trump organization and the Trump family,” Schlapp said before blasting law enforcement for turning a blind eye to Biden emails where he used three different aliases.   

Political commentator Charles Downs took to Twitter to criticize James for her perceived shift from allowing “lawlessness to reign in the NYC streets” in 2020 to leading what he called “witch hunts” against Trump and his supporters. 

Skepticism grew bigger from Trump supporters, with Sergio Saita expressing a sentiment that the allegations were reaching a point of incredulity. “They don’t know what else to come up with at this point mate,” Saita said on Twitter. 

Another user questioned the legitimacy of James’s prosecution, implying a potential political motivation and highlighting her attempt to link the case to a federal one rejected by the DOJ.

Even the aspect of race entered the conversation, with one Twitter account, DreamWeaver, suggesting a racial angle by questioning whether the district attorneys involved in bringing charges against Trump were disproportionately black. “It’s starting to appear to be a racial attack,” the account said.

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