Los Angeles Drops Radical ‘Decarceration’ Proposal After Backlash

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Los Angeles Drops Radical ‘Decarceration’ Proposal After Backlash

(Headline USA) Following a wave of backlash, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors dropped a controversial “decarceration” proposal that would have emptied out the city’s jails.

The move came in spite of already rampant crime in the city, fueled by George-Soros-backed District Attorney George Gascón’s refusal to prosecute certain criminals for political reasons.

A countywide effort to recall Gascón failed last year after many of the collected signatures were ruled out arbitrarily by the county registrar.

The “decarceration” proposal, which was to be debated during Tuesday’s board meeting, would have declared “the state of mental health services and overcrowding in the Los Angeles County jails a humanitarian crisis, requiring the County to move with all deliberate speed on meaningful solutions; and prioritize[d] decreasing the number of individuals entering the Los Angeles County Jails” through a number of measures.

One such measure would have required law enforcement to “cite and release individuals with aggregate bail amounts set at $50,000 or below” and “adopt a zero bail schedule for individuals accused of low-level offenses, infractions, misdemeanors, and felony offenses.”

After heavy criticism, Supervisor Hilda Solis, who originally introduced the proposal, said she would withdraw it, citing “concerns from a variety of stakeholders.”

“I introduced the motion on ‘Los Angeles County to Take Actionable Next Steps to Depopulate and Decarcerate the Los Angeles County Jails’ as a way to strike a balance with both justice-involved advocates and public safety representatives,” she said in a statement.

“… The intention behind my motion was for the Board of Supervisors to use the limited authority it has to safely depopulate,” she added. “Nonetheless, since the motion was published, my office has received concerns from a variety of stakeholders—those who feel the motion is not doing enough and those who feel it is doing too much.”

One of the critics of the proposal was Eric Siddall, the vice president of the Los Angeles Association of Deputy District Attorneys. Siddall argued that Solis’s radical “decarceration” proposal would make crime in the city even worse.

“The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors’ motion to gut parts of the criminal justice system without input from stakeholders is dangerous and recklessness,” he told Fox News.

“The authors sought no advice from those who know and understand public safety issues,” he continued. “They seek to lower the jail population without addressing the root causes of crime or protecting the public.”

Liz Cheney Could Use Trump Arrest to Boost Her 2024 Chances

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Liz Cheney Could Use Trump Arrest to Boost Her 2024 Chances

(Headline USA) Former Rep. Liz Cheney, RINO-Wyo., could use the indictment and arrest of former President Donald Trump to build momentum for a 2024 run, according to a new poll.

Support for Cheney has jumped significantly since news of Trump’s indictment broke last month. Before the indictment news, just 5% of Republicans voters said they supported Cheney. But now, 10% of Republican voters say they back her — which means she is in third place for the 2024 nomination behind Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

However, the poll also found that Trump’s support has skyrocketed in the wake of the indictment. Before the indictment, 43.8% of Republican voters said they would support him in the primaries. Now, 56.2% say they would back him — giving him a massive lead over competitors. DeSantis, for example, comes in only at 22.5% support.

Cheney is widely hated by Trump supporters and was ousted from the House of Representatives by Wyoming voters last November. She has since joined the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics as a professor of practice.

“Preserving our constitutional republic is the most important work of our time, and our nation’s young people will play a crucial role in this effort,” Cheney said in a statement. “I look forward to working with students and colleagues at the center to advance the important work they and others at the University of Virginia are doing to improve the health of democracy here and around the world.”

Cheney is reportedly weighing a 2024 presidential bid and hinted publicly that she would be willing to challenge Trump to make sure he doesn’t win the GOP nomination.

“I’m going to do everything I can to make sure he is not the nominee,” she said at the time. “And if he is the nominee, I won’t be a Republican.”

Trump was arraigned on Tuesday afternoon after being indicted by a grand jury in connection with a $130,000 “hush money payment” his campaign made to porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election.

Pentagon Study Reveals Recruitment Woes

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Pentagon Study Reveals Recruitment Woes

(Robert Jonathan, Headline USA) Amid recent recruitment woes, data suggested that the Defense Department may be losing a metaphorical battle of the bulge.

The Pentagon’s 2020 Qualified Military Available Study indicated that 77% of recruits were unfit to serve in the armed forces without a waiver of some sort.

“The state of America’s youth is not conducive to military service,” in part because “[h]igh fructose corn syrup was shoved down their throats by advertisers on [TV] commercial breaks,” PJ Media declared in reacting to the QMAS content.

Obesity, which is running rampant through the general population, was the primary—but not the only—issue.

“When considering youth disqualified for one reason alone, the most prevalent disqualification rates are overweight (11%), drug abuse (8%), and medical/physical health (7%),” the study summary noted.

The QMAS compilation also revealed that nearly 50% of the recruitment disqualifications were for more than one of these reasons.

In a perhaps related matter, the U.S. Navy recently erased fitness test assessment failures from service records as part of an effort to increase the retention rate for sailors.

Physically fit and clear-thinking potential recruits may also be unwilling to get bogged down in the pervasive far-left propaganda and related social-engineering that has found its way into the military as implemented by a DEI-obsessed, priority-perverse Biden administration.

In that context, late last month, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., warned that “woke activists in the Biden Administration are undermining military readiness, cohesion, and purpose.”

Making the situation worse in terms of national security, the inability to flatten the curve, as it were, comes at a juncture when the communist dictatorship in China is well on the way toward global dominance.

In a presumed recognition of missed recruitment goals, the U.S. Army recently announced a pre-boot-camp cram course. Other branches of the military may follow suit.

“A new program launched by the military branch coddles overweight, out-of-shape and intellectually challenged recruits in a 90-day training course that offers physical and academic instruction to wanna-be cadets before boot camp,” the New York Post reported last month. “… But veterans, former law enforcement officers and critics said the military hand-holding effectively lowers the quality of soldiers that end up serving in the Army.”

At least one recruitment hurdle—the military’s vaccine mandate—appears to have been removed for now. Facing a bombardment of already moot legal challenges, the Pentagon dropped the requirement in January.

Despite what Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., described as a “recruiting nightmare,” the DoD is hardly being pro-active in bringing back approximately 8,000 service members who were separated for declining the jab—or incentivizing them to reenlist.

During a congressional hearing, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told Gaetz that the ousted troops were merely welcome to seek reinstatement.

“I think it’s incumbent upon the individual to make that decision and reapply,” Austin said. “The mechanisms are there.”

Ex-Officials Claim Most Paralympians Are Faking Their Disabilities

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Ex-Officials Claim Most Paralympians Are Faking Their Disabilities

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) The Paralympics faced a possible scandal after several claims that athletes had faked the extent of their disabilities.

According to Breitbart, the International Paralympic Committee was demanding changes in the wake of the accusations.

Xavier Gonzalez, former chief of the IPC, presented evidence passed to him from former athletes, who shared stories of pervasive cheating.

The most ubiquitous issue was athletes exaggerating the seriousness of their disabilities in order to enter into events for which they otherwise would not qualify.

Gonzalez originally oversaw investigations into cheating. After stepping down from his leadership role in 2019, he now argues that a new team of investigators must replace him.

But the IPC has said it is resistant to a new investigative team, calling the extreme lengths to prevent cheating “unnecessary.”

Paralympic sports such as cycling, swimming and basketball has struggled in the past with rampant cheating.

The Spanish men’s basketball team in the 2000 games won gold, despite none of the players having physical or mental disabilities.

U.S. 12-time gold medalist Jessica Long, who had both legs amputated below the knee at the age of 2, spoke out about the cheating in a March 2020 interview with Sports Illustrated.

“I don’t want to seem like a poor sport, but I can’t watch this sport that I love continue to get destroyed like this,” Long said. “All of this is happening on a world stage, and no one in charge is doing anything about it.”

Several officials concluded that the “system does not work” to catch cheaters, and there were no repercussions in place when they were discovered.

“Trying to do things with classification to win an advantage is not a thing that the Paralympic movement can tolerate,” Gonzalez said.

In his time as head of the IPC, Gonzalez investigated almost 100 athletes who had allegedly faked or overstated their injuries in order to compete.

However, the investigations were fruitless because of the lack of concrete evidence gathered, he said.

Google Workers Whine about Losing Perks Like Micro-Kitchens, Workout Classes

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Google Workers Whine about Losing Perks Like Micro-Kitchens, Workout Classes

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Google announced that it would be cutting back on needless expenses—such as office micro-kitchens, cafés and fitness classes—in an attempt to reduce costs, much to the chagrin of its employees.

Earlier this year, the company fired 12,000 employees as the tech giant found itself in a financially precarious situation, the Daily Wire reported.

A recent memo sent by Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat detailed the situation, stating that between the “challenging economic environment” and the company’s “incredible investment opportunities to drive technology forward,” Google must reconsider the way its spends money.

“Cafes, MicroKitchens and other facilities will be tailored to better match how and when they are being used. Decisions will be based on data,” Porat explained.

“For example, where a cafe is seeing a significantly lower volume of use on certain days, we’ll close it on those days and put more focus instead on popular options that are close by,” she continued. “Similarly, we’ll consolidate MicroKitchens in buildings where we’re seeing more waste than value.”

Employees’ access to fitness classes, company shuttles and other amenities also will be limited, based on use.

In the initial round of layoffs, 31 massage therapists and 21 members of the Trust and Safety Department were let go, along with the “Diversity Manager” and a “Diversity Specialist,” Porat said in the memo.

“Just as we did in 2008, we’ll be looking at data to identify other areas of spending that aren’t as effective as they should be, or that don’t scale at our size,” she added. “We will let Googlers know of any other changes that directly impact services they use.”

Google is not the only tech company looking to cut back on both staff and expensive amenities.

Twitter CEO Elon Musk laid off hundreds of Twitter employees and auctioned off several of the company’s luxury items—espresso machines, rotisserie ovens, commercial blenders, braising pans, pizza ovens and more.

Mainstream media companies such as Buzzfeed, Disney and CNN made sweeping layoffs earlier this year, citing losses due to high operating costs.

Four Biden Business Associates Reportedly Cooperating w/ House GOP Probe

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Four Biden Business Associates Reportedly Cooperating w/ House GOP Probe

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Four unnamed business associates of the Biden family are reportedly cooperating with House Oversight Committee’s investigation into the actions of both President Joe Biden and his son Hunter.

According to Breitbart, committee chair Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., is investigating the family for nine separate alleged violations, including money laundering and wire fraud.

“We are in communication with four former Biden family business associates,” Comer confirmed. “They are cooperating with our investigation. And I will tell you it’s very concerning.”

The probe has subpoenaed several records from banks the Bidens are associated with, as well as demanding cooperation from the family’s known associates.

Comer did not reveal who the four associates are, but one member is likely Eric Schwerin, who acts as Hunter Biden’s top financial advisor.

Schwerin may have provided documents to the committee as revenge for a possible double-cross Hunter Biden was planning to execute in 2019 as their relationship was on thin ice, Breitbart reported.

Comer’s investigations into the family also started to turn up hard evidence that the Bidens were into some suspicious business. In March, the committee discovered $1.3 million in Biden’s records, which appeared to be some kind of cut from a business associate.

“We believe the reason the family was receiving this money is because of favors that Joe Biden did as vice president and or as president,” Comer said.

Comer also announced that much of the money directly lining the pockets of the Biden family was coming from the Chinese Communist Party.

He said many of the materials revealed that now-President Joe Biden’s interests were related to his former position as vice president during the Obama adminstration.

“We believe the reason the family was receiving this money is because of favors that Joe Biden did as vice president and or as president,” Comer told Bloomberg last week.

Comer emphasized the importance of ethical standards for government officials, particularly in the executive branch.

“We need to know what is allowable and what isn’t allowable. We need to have strict ethics laws, and we need to significantly increase the disclosure laws in America,” he said. “I think this investigation is going to be very important to fix a problem before it gets out of hand.”

NYC Health Dept. Encourages ‘Hooking Up’ amid Spike in STDs

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NYC Health Dept. Encourages ‘Hooking Up’ amid Spike in STDs

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) With sexually-transmitted diseases rising in New York City, the NYC Health Department reassured residents on Friday that a lifestyle of promiscuity with random strangers was safe, so long as partners were up-to-date on their COVID screenings.

“Hooking up can be healthy and as New York City continues to reopen, residents have reconnected,” the department wrote in a statement, as reported by the Daily Caller.

“However, new data show an increase in reported sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in New York City from 2020 to 2021, likely due to reduced STI screening and testing related to the COVID-19 pandemic and decreased STI transmission in 2020,” it warned.

According to the department, the “infrastructure” used to combat COVID could be repurposed to track STIs as well, thereby lowering risk for those who engage in casual sex.

“[G]etting frisky doesn’t have to be risky,” said the statement.

According to Sarah Braunstein, assistant commissioner for the Health Department’s Bureau of Hepatitis, HIV, and Sexually Transmitted Infections, the state is obliged to make sure that New Yorkers are sexually active.

“The sexual health and well-being of New Yorkers are key priorities for the Health Department,” she said, noting that the state has engaged in extensive “sexual health programming and services”

She said is essential that New Yorkers be “sexually healthy,” which means receiving “high-quality, affirming services and proven prevention and treatment interventions.”

The health department’s statement also included numbers regarding the spiking STI rates in the city.

“From 2020 to 2021, the chlamydia rate increased 13.2% among males and 5.2% among females in New York City,” it said. “The chlamydia rate among females ages 15 to 24 years was significantly higher than that for the overall female population.”

The epidemic of STIs is particularly bad among teenagers and prepubescent children.

“In 2021, approximately one-quarter (25%) of all female chlamydia cases in New York City were among females ages 10 to 19 years,” said the statement.

As children succumb to STIs, however, the state’s health department pledged to funnel more resources into fighting “racial and ethnic inequities in the distribution of STIs in New York City.”

Two Federal Judges to Stop Hiring Stanford Law School Clerks

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Two Federal Judges to Stop Hiring Stanford Law School Clerks

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Two federal judges have said that they will no longer hire law clerks who attended Stanford Law School after school officials appeared to tacitly condone the ambush of a visiting conservative colleague, the Washington Free Beacon reported.

In March, Stanford Law students shouted down Fifth Circuit Judge Stuart Kyle Duncan with the encouragement of activist administrator Tirien Steinbach, the assistant dean overseeing diversity, equity and inclusion.

Among the caustic remarks student protesters shouted at Duncan during his speech—which came at the invitation of the campus chapter of the Federalist Society—was, “We hope your daughters get raped.”

The two circuit court judges, James Ho and Elizabeth Branch, both of whom have also boycotted Yale Law graduates, made the announcement in a Saturday speech.

“We will not hire any student who chooses to attend Stanford Law School in the future,” wrote Ho, who also sits on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.

According to Ho, the actions of the students and the DEI dean should be considered “intellectual terrorism.”

He also suggested that the unwillingness of Stanford Law School to punish the offending students showed that the law school was not serious about enforcing the law.

“Rules aren’t rules without consequences. And students who practice intolerance don’t belong in the legal profession,” Ho said.

“How do we know everyone’s views will be protected if everyone’s views aren’t represented?” he added.

Ho said the problem of discrimination must be resolved quickly or the legal profession will continue to be deeply influenced by partisanship.

“Imagine that every judge who says they’re opposed to discrimination at Yale and Stanford takes the same path,” he said.

“Imagine they decide that, until the discrimination stops, they will no longer hire from those schools in the future,” he continued. “How quickly do we think those schools would stop discriminating then?”

Ho and Branch were two of 14 conservatives in the legal profession who boycotted Yale Law graduates in the wake of their March 2022 disruption of Kristen Waggoner, a religious liberty lawyer who has won several cases at the Supreme Court.

At the Federalist Society event, 120 students crowded into the room to shout down Waggoner, with some threatening to “literally fight you, b*tch.”

“It was disturbing to witness law students whipped into a mindless frenzy,” Waggoner said following the incident. “I did not feel it was safe to get out of the room without security.”

AOC Accused of Using ‘Burner’ Twitter Account to Spew Violent Threats

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AOC Accused of Using ‘Burner’ Twitter Account to Spew Violent Threats

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., is facing questions about a now-deleted Twitter profile that she was allegedly using as a “burner” account, the Daily Wire reported.

Twitter user Niko House exposed the account, @zazasmoka, which routinely replied to his tweets about AOC, often using first-person pronouns as if posting the personal responses of the New York congresswoman.

According to House, the account subsequently deleted the tweets.

The user of the account also spent time attacking the Daily Wire—and specifically Matt Walsh, the director of the documentary What is a Woman?

“Zaza Demon” reacted violently in response to a tweet Walsh wrote about the danger of transgenders.

“You are a hateful little freak and I can’t wait until you piss off a trans person that actually is as unhinged as you say they all are … can’t be a bigot if you’re no longer breathing,” wrote “Zaza.”

Walsh returned fire after the account was exposed, calling on Ocasio–Cortez to repudiate the stochastic terrorism espoused by the burner account.

“You need to come out and denounce this kind of rhetoric or we can only assume that you support it,” he wrote.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor–Greene, R-Ga., also questioned who the true operator of the account might be, suggesting that it could be AOC.

AOC has so far declined to respond.

In the past, however, she has not shied away from attacking her social media opponents.

For example, in March, the Heritage Foundation filed a complaint against Ocasio–Cortez with the House Ethics Committee, alleging that she falsely accused Libs of TikTok creator Chaya Raichik of “lying and disseminating disinformation” during a House Oversight Committee this month on Big Tech’s suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story.

Legal Experts, Trump Blister Bragg for Leaking Indictment

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Legal Experts, Trump Blister Bragg for Leaking Indictment

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) Less than 24 hours before former President Donald Trump was scheduled to be arraigned in New York City, a host of legal experts ripped Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg for leaking details of the indictment to mainstream media allies.

Trump took a step further, calling for Bragg to “indict himself,” for the egregious and illegal activity.

“D.A. BRAGG JUST ILLEGALLY LEAKED THE 33 points of Indictment,” Trump posted Monday night on Truth Social. “There are no changes or surprises from those he leaked days ago directly out of the Grand Jury. No Crime by Trump. What a MESS. Bragg should resign, NOW!”

Famed legal analyst Alan Dershowitz agreed with the former president’s reasoning, and said that Bragg or somebody from his prosecuting team likely committed a serious crime.

“The only crime is that somebody criminally leaked the indictment before it was supposed to come out,” Dershowitz told OAN.

“New York penal law provides for a year or five years in jail for any grand juror, any prosecutor, interpreter, police officer who discloses any aspect of an ongoing grand jury proceeding. So DA Bragg has a crime in front of him, committed by one of his people, and he’s not investigating it.”

Michael Isikoff, Russia hoax fake news perpetrator, broke the leaked details for Yahoo News.

“Trump to be formally arrested and charged with 34 Class E felonies for falsification of business records tomorrow,” Isikoff wrote. “But he will not be handcuffed, placed in a jail cell or subjected to a mug shot, per a source debriefed on Tuesday’s procedures.”

Bragg has repeatedly denied that any leaks came from him or his office, despite the limited possibilities that they could have come from any other source. That didn’t stop CNN’s Don Lemon from picking up the cheerleading for Bragg and running with it.

“We don’t know if the DA leaked that information. That is speculation,” Lemon insisted during his show Monday night.

“Well we don’t have that information, so — well, it’s not speculation,” corrected Trump attorney Alina Habba. “We don’t have the information, so it came from their office.”

Fox News host Jesse Watters claimed that Bragg’s Bragg’s office had committed “unlawful grand jury disclosure” in leaking the indictment information.

“That’s a felony,” Watters said. “There’s actually more evidence that Bragg committed a felony than Trump did.”

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