NYC Mayor Asks for Biden’s Help After Being Flooded With Biden’s Illegal Aliens

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New York City, like D.C., is experiencing a little of life as a border state after Biden’s unprecedented open borders surge of illegal aliens flooded the city.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday demanded the federal government help pay for what he said was a wave of asylum seekers pouring into the city, claiming its safety net was being strained by busloads of people coming from border states and elsewhere.

But as opposed to D.C., the problem in New York City is exacerbated by its “right to shelter” mandate, which means any homeless asylum seeker who comes to town, by any means, has to be put in a bed somewhere.

It worked in San Fran and it’s doing wonders for NYC.

“Currently, New York City is experiencing a marked increase in the number of asylum seekers who are arriving from Latin America and other regions. In some instances, families are arriving on buses sent by the Texas and Arizona governments, while in other cases, it appears that individuals are being sent by the federal government,” Adams said in a statement, adding that more than 2,800 asylum seekers had entered the shelter system in recent weeks.

Adams knows perfectly well that Arizona and Texas aren’t sending buses to NYC, they’re sending buses to D.C. But blaming Biden and, more accurately, the leftists who turned the federal government into a coyote busing program for illegals would be politically dangerous.

It’s safe to blame Ducey and Abbott, even though it’s a lie.

But the offices of both Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey denied Adams’ claim, saying in separate statements that they were in fact sending asylum seekers to Washington – but not to New York City.

In turn, a spokesperson for Adams responded to those pushback claims, saying that the governors “should have more compassion for those seeking asylum in this country,” and repeated the city’s request for federal assistance.

Doubling down on a lie with some virtue signaling is perfectly of this decade.

According to the New York City Department of Homeless Services, there were 28,885 individuals classed as a member of a “family with children” in the shelter system as of Sunday. That’s about 12% higher than the daily average in March, the last month for which such data are available, and also about 12% higher than this time last year.

Open borders work.

The Legal Aid Society slammed Adams for blaming the shelter crisis on asylum seekers, saying the real problems were bureaucracy and a lack of affordable housing.

Sure. Let’s just provide free housing and free everything to all of Latin America. And the rest of the planet. The Legal Aid Society will pay for it.

Meanwhile, Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin, who recently won the Republican primary in the race for New York governor, pinned the blame on the Biden administration.

“Their weak border policy is then made worse by what amounts to a travel agency flying the illegal immigrants to destinations all across the country, including New York,” he said. “The obvious consequence is that New Yorkers are now stuck dealing with the consequences. The solution is that the surge of illegal entry across our southern border needs to be shut down, the Remain in Mexico policy must be enforced.”

And we all know that’s not happening for some years now. Meanwhile America is being destroyed.

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DANIEL GREENFIELD

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BOYCOTT: Major Companies Providing Travel Expenses for Employees Seeking Abortions

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Consider BOYCOTTING them — how WOKE can they go!

These are the states where abortion rights are still protected after Roe v. Wade

Here are some of the prominent companies offering expanded assistance to staff in states curtailing abortion care.

These US companies will cover travel costs for employees who need an abortion

Microsoft

Microsoft (MSFT) extended its financial support for “critical healthcare,” including abortions and gender-affirming care, to include coverage for travel expenses for such services, after the draft opinion overturning Roe was first leaked.

Apple

The company’s existing benefits package allows employees to travel out of state for medical care if it is unavailable in their home state, according to an Apple (AAPL) spokesperson.

Meta

The tech giant intends to offer travel expense reimbursement “to the extent permitted by law” for employees seeking out-of-state health care and reproductive services, according to a spokesperson. “We are in the process of assessing how best to do so given the legal complexities involved,” the Meta (FB) spokesperson said in a statement.

Yelp

Yelp’s existing healthcare plan for US employees pays for women, family members and partners to travel out of states with strict abortion laws, such as Texas and Oklahoma, which ban abortions after 6 weeks.

“This ruling puts women’s health in jeopardy, denies them their human rights, and threatens to dismantle the progress we’ve made toward gender equality in the workplaces since Roe,” Jeremy Stoppelman, co-founder of Yelp (YELP), said in a statement Friday. “Business leaders must step up to support the health and safety of their employees by speaking out against the wave of abortion bans that will be triggered as a result of this decision, and call on Congress to codify Roe into law.”

Disney

Disney (DIS) employees who are unable to access medical care in one location will be given affordable coverage to access the same care in another location, according to a company spokesperson. The benefit covers family planning and pregnancy-related decisions.

Uber

Uber’s US insurance plans already cover reproductive health benefits, including abortion and travel expenses to access healthcare. The rideshare company will also reimburse any drivers sued under state law for providing transportation to a clinic through the app, according to an Uber (UBER) spokesperson.

Netflix

The streaming company offers travel reimbursement coverage for US full-time employees and their dependents who need to travel for healthcare treatments including abortions and gender-affirming care, a Netflix (NFLX) spokesperson told CNN. The company provides a lifetime allowance of $10,000 per employees (or their dependents) per service.

Bumble

Bumble (BMBL), a female-driven dating app, said Friday that it will support its employees’ ability to access “the healthcare services they need,” including abortion care. A Bumble spokesperson added that the company will donate to the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas and Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

“Abortion is healthcare, and healthcare is a human right. We are deeply troubled by the Supreme Court decision,” the spokesperson said in a statement.

Match Group

Dating app company Match Group (MTCH) in October established a partnership with Planned Parenthood Los Angeles to provide abortion access for its Texas employees and their dependents. The company is currently considering expanding that benefit to all its US staff, including remote employees in states with trigger laws that may soon ban abortions, according to a Match spokesperson. Match healthcare plans also help to cover travel and lodging costs for employees who need to travel to receive care, the spokesperson said.

Box.com

Box.com will cover employee travel and medical expenses incurred by employees while seeking reproductive services.

Levi Strauss

The denim company said through The Levi Strauss Foundation that it is providing grants to the Center for Reproductive Rights, Afiya Center and ARC-Southeast which provides direct assistance to women and communities in need of care. The company previously said that under its benefits plan, employees can be reimbursed for travel expenses for services not available in their home state, including abortion. Part-time staff and others who aren’t included in the company’s benefits plan are also eligible for reimbursement, it said.

Comcast-NBC Universal

Comcast (CCZ) has an existing healthcare travel benefit for all employees that covers up to $4,000 per trip, up to three trips per year, with a maximum coverage cap of $10,000 per year. The amount paid out depends on the type of health care procedure, but abortion care is covered, according to the company.

Warner Bros Discovery

Warner Brothers Discovery, which owns CNN, on Friday expanded healthcare benefits options to include expenses for employees and their covered family members who need to travel to access abortions and other reproductive care, according to a company spokesperson.

Condé Nast

The media company said Friday it will reimburse travel and lodging for employees who need abortion, infertility or gender-reaffirming services and cannot obtain them locally. CEO Roger Lynch said in an internal memo the Supreme Court decision was a “crushing blow to reproductive rights” and said the most powerful way the company can respond is through its content and journalism.

JPMorgan Chase

JPMorgan (JPM) on Friday said that its health care benefits have long covered abortion care. And starting in July, abortion will be included in the company’s health care travel benefit that covers services that can only be obtained far from home, according to spokesperson Joseph Evangelisti.

Nike

The sportswear company said in a statement that it covers travel and lodging expenses in situations where healthcare services are not available close to home, according to a statement Nike (NKE) released Friday.

“No matter where our teammates are on their family planning journey — from contraception and abortion coverage, to pregnancy and family-building support through fertility, surrogacy and adoption benefits — we are here to support their decisions,” the statement reads.

Starbucks

The coffee company is providing employees enrolled in its healthcare plan a medical travel benefit to access an abortion, according to a public letter to employees by Sara Kelly, Starbucks (SBUX) acting executive vice president of partner resources.
“We all need to process this in our own way, and as you do, here is what I want you to know: no matter where you live, or what you believe, we will always ensure you have access to quality healthcare,” Kelly said in the letter.

Dick’s Sporting Goods

For employees who live in a state that restricts abortion access, Dick’s will provide up to $4,000 in travel expense reimbursement to travel to the nearest location where care is legally available, the company said in a statement Friday. The benefit will be provided to any employee, spouse or dependent enrolled in its medical plan, along with one support person.  Note that Dick’s is also a non-supporter of the 2A and stopped selling firearms in their stores.

Kroger

The grocer’s healthcare package includes travel benefits of up to $4,000 to facilitate access for reproductive healthcare services, including abortion and fertility treatments, according to a Kroger (KR) spokesperson.

Alaska Airlines

Alaska Airlines said in a statement that it has always provided travel reimbursements for “certain medical procedures and treatments if they are not available where you live.”

“Today’s Supreme Court decision does not change that,” it said.

Goldman Sachs

Goldman Sachs (FADXX) on Friday extended its healthcare travel reimbursement policies to include all medical procedures, treatments and evaluations, including abortion services, in areas where a provider is not available near to where its employees live, a benefit that will be effective July 1, according to an internal memo obtained by CNN.

Zillow

Zillow (Z) said in a statement Friday that its health benefits cover a wide range of reproductive health services, including abortions. The company said that as of June 1, its health plan has been updated to include a reimbursement of up to $7,500 “each time significant travel is necessary to access health care, including reproductive services.”

HP

The technology company said in a statement that its existing healthcare plan covers a “wide range of reproductive health services,” including abortion and related travel costs.

HPE

Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which spun off from HP several years ago and moved its headquarters earlier this year from Silicon Valley to Texas, offers a medical plan that covers out of state care, including abortions and related travel expenses, according to a company spokesperson.

“Restricting a woman’s ability and choices in obtaining health care is inequitable and harmful to the advancement of women,” HPE CEO Antonio Neri said on Twitter Saturday.

Acccenture

Accenture’s existing healthcare plan includes “a full range of reproductive healthcare benefits” and travel assistance for “covered medial services” that are not located within 100 miles of an employee’s residence, a company spokesperson told CNN.

Chobani

The yogurt company updated its healthcare policy for employees in May, following the leak of the draft opinion on Roe, to cover transportation and lodging expenses for any employee or dependent (as well as one caregiver) who needs to travel to receive specialized healthcare, including abortions. The policy also includes reimbursement for childcare costs incurred from the travel, according to a memo Chobani COO Kevin Burns sent to employees in May, which was shared with CNN.

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TAKE ACTION: The U.S. House Voted to Redefine Marriage — Senators Threatening to Follow Suit!

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On Tuesday the House passed a bill to codify the redefinition of marriage in law. Senate Majority Leader Schumer is threatening to take it up in the Senate, and many Republicans are wavering.

TAKE ACTION: Click here to contact your Senators, and ask them to protect the definition of marriage in federal law!

Every House Democrat, and forty-seven House Republicans, just voted to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, which was approved in 1996 by overwhelming bipartisan majorities in both chambers of Congress (342-67 in the House, 85-14 in the Senate) and signed into law by President Clinton.

The so-called Respect for Marriage Act would also codify the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) to legalize same-sex marriage. Such a clear statement by Congress in favor of same-sex marriage would not only legislatively cement a harmful, anti-family policy, but would unleash further religious freedom violations and threaten the tax-exempt status of religious entities.

Even before Obergefell, examples of government coercion and prosecution of those with sincerely held beliefs regarding marriage were already numerous and growing. They include:

  • Barronelle Stutzman, the Washington state florist who was sued by the state and would eventually be forced to sell her business in order to avoid government confiscation of all of her personal assets, simply because she could not make custom floral arrangements for her long-time customer’s same-sex wedding.
  • Aaron and Melissa Klein, the owners of Sweetcakes by Melissa, who were sued by the state and fined $135,000 for declining to bake a custom cake for a same-sex wedding.
  • Jack Phillips, the Colorado baker who has been to the U.S. Supreme Court twice to defend his First Amendment right not to make expressive cakes celebrating same-sex marriages. He is now being sued a third time by the state because he cannot create a gender transition cake in good conscience.
  • Dick and Betty Odgaard, whom the Iowa Civil Rights Commission tried to force to rent their gallery space (a former church) to a same-sex couple for their wedding ceremony. As a part of a settlement agreement to end the litigation, Dick and Betty agreed to pay the couple thousands of dollars and to not host any more weddings.
  • Cynthia and Robert Gifford, who were fined $13,000 and ordered to implement staff re-education training classes that contradicted the couple’s beliefs on marriage. The couple had been willing to make their farm available for a same-sex wedding reception but not the ceremony itself.
  • A Methodist congregation that ceased making a pavilion located on church-owned property available for weddings after the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights held that the church was required to host same-sex weddings.
  • Atlanta fire chief Kelvin Cochran, who was suspended and ultimately fired from his job for authoring and giving away, on his own time, a devotional book that touched on the biblical model of marriage being one man and one woman.
  • Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk who declined to sign the marriage license (as then required by state law) for a same-sex couple. She was willing for her staff to sign the form, but that accommodation was not allowed by state law at the time. Writing about her case, Justice Clarence Thomas said, “those with sincerely held religious beliefs concerning marriage will find it increasingly difficult to participate in society without running afoul” of Obergefell “and its effect on other antidiscrimination laws.”
  • The (reportedly dozens) of magistrates in North Carolina that the attorney general forced to resign in 2014 for refusing to perform same-sex marriages. One finally won her case in 2018 for $300,000.
  • The judge in Washington state who was admonished by the state bar for daring to express his preference not to perform same-sex marriages.
  • The (Dis)Respect for Marriage Act increases the threat of legal liability of those who decline to affirm same-sex marriage.

In Bob Jones University v. United States, the Supreme Court looked to whether a school’s actions were contrary to a “fundamental national public policy” to determine whether tax exemption can be denied to that school. If this bill becomes law, the executive branch could argue that same-sex marriage is a “fundamental national public policy” to justify denial of tax-exempt status of schools and other entities that decline to affirm same-sex marriage.

Natural marriage is part of the very fabric of a free society. It is a pre-political institution that has existed for millennia. Nothing has changed; it is still in children’s best interest to be raised in homes with a married mother and father. Our nation’s laws should be shaped by what is best for society as a whole and especially for children. The 2015 Supreme Court ruling to try to redefine marriage was both procedurally and substantively wrong. Some homes are fatherless or motherless, and we salute the hard work of single mothers, single fathers, and blended and adoptive families who heroically serve their children. But the law should never be manipulated, by the courts or by Congress, to sanction intentionally fatherless and motherless family structures. It was wrong of the Supreme Court to overrule over thirty states that recognized natural marriage in 2015, and it is wrong for Congress to attempt to legislate the redefinition of marriage now.

Every American deserves respect and dignity, because each of us is created in the image of God. Respecting and acknowledging natural marriage, the biological complementarity of men and women, and the noted benefits of natural marriage to society as a whole and to children in particular do not undermine anyone’s God-given human dignity.

The (Dis)Respect for Marriage Act denies these realities by repealing the Defense of Marriage Act (which recognized natural marriage in federal law) and forcing every state to accept the definition of marriage of other states, pushing a “lowest common denominator” on all of the states. For example, should any state legislature or court choose to recognize polyamorous marriage, every state would be effectively forced to accept that new standard, without regard for the well-being of children and families.

It is vital that you reach out to your senators right now regarding this bill.

TAKE ACTION: Click here to contact your Senators, and ask them to protect the definition of marriage in federal law!

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DOJ VIDEO: Exposé of what really happened on January 6th during the U.S. Capitol Protests

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This exposé is actually what happened to President Donald J. Trump and all those who supported him on January 6th, 2021. The surveillance video (below) is from the U.S. Department of Justice of Justice of what happened on the Upper West Terrace doors on January 6th.

You can actually see for yourself what really happened?

Corruption at its finest?

President Trump and his supporters were set up by our own government.

A black capital police officer killed Ashley Babbitt who was supporting President Trump yet he was never investigated, referred for prosecution or convicted by a jury of his peers of this crime.

WATCH: 

©Dr. Rich Swier. All rights reserved.

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Why Does the Left Seem More Committed to Death Than to Life?

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Did you read in the news about the three mosques in the U.S. that were set on fire just the other weekend?

Did you hear in the mainstream media about the scores of attacks, including some firebombings, of the Planned Parenthood facilities by pro-life extremists?

Did you hear about the harassment of the pro-abortion politicians and judges for their pro-choice stance?

You didn’t? Neither did I, because none of those things happened. But the mainstream media has for the most part ignored the multiple churches and pro-life facilities that have been attacked in one way or another by pro-abortion forces in the last several weeks. Indeed, if they had been mosques or abortion providers, we would hear over and over about all this.

To add insult to injury, the loving services that the crisis pregnancy centers provide is being woefully distorted by many, including Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz and Senator Elizabeth Warren.

Senator Warren said last week: “In Massachusetts right now, those crisis pregnancy centers that are there to fool people who are looking for pregnancy termination help outnumber true abortion clinics by three to one. We need to shut them down here in Massachusetts, and we need to shut them down all around the country. You should not be able to torture a pregnant person like that.”

Pregnancy centers “torture” women? How blind can these people be? The crisis pregnancy centers, now in the cross hairs of the left, provide loving alternatives to abortion.

Through no help of the government, they provide millions of dollars of services—at no charge to the mothers they serve.

Micaiah Bilger of lifenews.com reports that “$266 million of free medical services and resources” are provided per year by these pregnancy centers.

The attack against pro-life churches and facilities was highlighted in the Capitol recently by Congressman Jim Jordan who read a litany of the dozens of attacks since the May 2 leak of the draft of the Dobbs decision. Yet a majority in the House of Representatives just voted against a measure to condemn these attacks.

Recently I spoke on a radio segment with Jim Harden, the president of Compass Care, a ministry that helps women with crisis pregnancies. Their center in Buffalo (technically, Amherst), New York, was firebombed on June 7th, and he told me that the perpetrators were “the pro-abortion terrorist group known as Jane’s Revenge. They’ve taken responsibility for scores of attacks on pro-life organizations since the leak of the Dobbs case.”

I asked Harden, isn’t it illegal to firebomb any building—say a candy factory, much less a charity providing loving services to those in need (although the left doesn’t view it as charity)? He answered, “An arson attack is just below murder in the criminal justice system because it carries too much potential damage and threat to life.”

He told our listeners that so far there have been no leads from the police or the FBI as to suspects. He said that friends in nearby offices were able to provide office space so that Compass Care could continue to serve the mothers in need. They did not miss a day serving, despite the firebombing.

In a follow-up call this week, he told me there have now been, all over the nation, “over 100 attacks where prolife people gather, with no arrests to date.”

His organization is dedicated to rebuilding the facility, which had to be gutted, costing $300,000-$400,000.

Crisis pregnancy centers are doing the Lord’s work, but today it is “open season” on them, thanks in part to the Marxist organization, “Jane’s Revenge.”

Meanwhile, there has been an on-going harassment against pro-life justices of the Supreme Court. These were illegal acts when the pro-death party was trying to intimidate them to change their opinion.

Now the left is even going after pro-life individuals at home.

Writer Alicia Powe notes, “An attorney who founded the Thomas More Society, a conservative Catholic law firm, was attacked as abortion activists threw smoke bombs and firecrackers at his house following the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade. The insurgents surrounded the home of pro-life lawyer Thomas Brejcha, in Evanston, Illinois.”

I’ve interviewed Tom Brejcha through the years. He once said of the pro-life cause in general: “This is a spiritual battle. This is not just a legal battle. And prayer is the ultimate resource. We need divine intervention…This is God’s work to protect the dignity and value of every human being.”

Is this the America the left is bringing to us, where the full force of government is on the side of death? This is indeed a spiritual battle. Our founders said that our first right granted by the Creator is the “right to life.”

But the left seems more committed to death than life.

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America’s Corrupt Two-Tier Justice System

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We are living under illegitimate banana republic style justice system, one for Republicans and one for Democrats. Conservatives get the book thrown at them while the progressives walk.

This destruction of our justice system is leading the downfall of our Republic.

America’s Insanely Two-Tiered Justice System Perfectly Encapsulated in Sentencing of Antifa Arsonist

By Bonchie | RedState, July 19, 2022:

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. A Black Lives Matter rioter gets off with a light sentence after doing something objectively worse than just about everyone who walked into the Capitol Building on January 6th.

This latest example may take the cake, though. Ayoub Tabri traveled from Alexandria, VA, to Philidelphia, PA, in 2020, torching a police car during the Black Lives Matter riots that occurred. That’s where a blatant example of America’s two-tiered justice system begins.

First, the government struck a sweetheart deal with Tabri, as they have with past Antifa arsonists (including the two lawyers who threw Molotov cocktails at cops), ensuring that he wouldn’t have to serve the mandatory seven-year minimum sentence. Already, that’d showed the DOJ was willing to work with violent BLM protesters in ways they refuse to work with even non-violent January 6th protesters, many of whom entered the Capitol out of confusion.

Prosecutors then requested an intermediate sentence of 37-46 months. Yet, Tabri didn’t even get that. Instead, the judge handling the case gave him just 364 days, amounting to less than a year for torching a police car during a riot. Meanwhile, grandmas who took selfies on January 6th believing they were allowed to be in the Capitol got more than that in solitary confinement.

But trust me, it gets worse when you find out the reason why that extremely lenient sentence was given. The following tweets have the official documents posted, but for more sourcing, see this piece from The Philadelphia Inquirer.

You see, Tabri holds a green card via the government’s lottery system, which is an insane idea in its own right. Why would the United States be giving out legal entry permits to people from foreign nations based on pulling names out of a hat? That seems rather dangerous and unfair.

But I digress, the defense argued that giving Tabri over 364 days would result in the revocation of his green card and lead to his deportation. To which any normal response would be “so what?” The judge agreed with the reasoning, though, sentencing Tabri in a way that would ensure it wouldn’t qualify as an aggravated felony under federal law and making sure he could remain in the country.

In other words, a violent arsonist who torched a police car during the BLM riots received an incredibly lenient sentence specifically because of his immigration status. Being an American citizen now denotes fewer rights than being a felonious immigrant. If that’s not a perfect encapsulation of the two-tiered justice system, then nothing is.

AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

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VIDEO: Can Republicans Retake the Senate?

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Recent Senate projections show an uphill climb for Republicans. However, that’s far from a guarantee for the Democrats.

In tonight’s In-Depth Report, Church Militant’s Joseph Enders breaks down the current chances of the GOP winning back the Senate.

The United States Senate is up for grabs in November. Thirty-four states are holding Senate elections this cycle, and RealClearPolitics is already predicting Republicans will wind up with 47 seats to the Democrats’ 46. This means seven seats are up for grabs. But three of these toss-up states — New Hampshire, Wisconsin and Arizona — have yet to hold their primary elections.

Jim Ellis: “It’s really hard to predict what’s going to happen because three of the states haven’t had primaries and there are contested primaries in each — Arizona and Wisconsin in August and New Hampshire in September.”

In Wisconsin, Republican incumbent Ron Johnson is fighting for his seat against leading primary challenger Mandela Barnes.

Jim Ellis: “He is one of the more underestimated candidates in the Republican stable. Back in 2016, he was supposed to lose to former senator Russ Feingold, who he had defeated in 2010. There were 33 polls conducted. Ron Johnson was losing in 32 of the 33, but won by three points.”

In Arizona, Trump-endorsed Blake Masters is up 10 points in GOP primary polls, but there is no recent polling on whether Masters can oust Democrat incumbent Mark Kelly.

Jim Ellis: “This is one of the premier contests in the whole country that will help determine which party will hold the majority in the new Congress, and all eyes will be on Arizona after that Aug. 2 primary.”

In New Hampshire, the most recent data has Republican Chuck Morse two points ahead of incumbent Democrat Maggie Hassan.

Jim Ellis: “They have the latest primary of all. The Republicans won’t have a nominee until Sept. 13. The state Senate president Chuck Morse is the leader right now, but it is a crowded field. I think Sen. Hassan is one of the most vulnerable Democrats on the ballot this year.”

With Vice President Kamala Harris’ tie-breaking vote, the upper chamber currently breaks 51 to 50 for the Democrats.

Jim Ellis: “The Senate is going to come down to one or two seats either way. And it’s very important as to which party has the majority. … But having that majority to control the agenda — to control the timing and to set the stage for 2024 presidential campaign — is extremely important.”

Though Republicans have more seats to protect in 2022, the Democrats’ slumping popularity provides a unique chance for the GOP to win back all of Congress on Election Day.

AUTHOR

Joseph Enders

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Both Sides Raising the Stakes in Election Process

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Georgia prosecutors are investigating all 16 Trump alternate electors in the 2020 election for alleged subversion of the Electoral College.  Critics say the alternate electors were following the established constitutional process for challenging disputed elections.

Meanwhile, the Democrats are ramping up an effort to commandeer the election machinery by getting Democrats voted in as elections officials all across the country. This is a new $80 million effort and it’s patterned after George Soros’ multi-million effort to get left-wing Secretaries of State and out-of-control progressive prosecutors who won’t prosecute into office.  The new effort is called ‘Clerk Work’ and it’s being spearheaded by the Run for Something PAC headed by a former Hillary Clinton campaign staffer.  The $80 million is coming from a Hillary Clinton-affiliated (c)(4), Chan Zuckerberg, LinkedIn, ActBlue, and others.  This follows another recently announced $80 million Democrat effort – the Alliance for Election Excellence – to schmooze local elections officials and give them ‘advice’.   One of the participants – the Zuckerberg-funded Center for Tech and Civic Life – teaches elections officials how to conspire with each other and the media.  Which could explain the recent spate of stories about how elections officials feel, oh so threatened by those mean Republicans.

But Team Red is also raising the stakes in the election process.  It was just announced a Constitutional Sheriffs association is teaming up with True the Vote to investigate election fraud claims in the 2020 presidential election and future elections.  Obama’s IRS couldn’t kill True the Vote and the organization is fresh off a stunning success with its ‘2000 Mules’ documentary showing extensive ballot trafficking occurring at COVID-era drop boxes.  Democrats LOVE those drop boxes and are trying to make them permanent, and now we know why.

The sheriffs’ initiative is raising money so law enforcement will have the resources to conduct surveillance of drop boxes, use artificial intelligence to analyze drop box video, and set up hotlines to report suspicious activity at drop boxes and polling places.  The Democrats are freaking out at the prospect elections just might become more secure.  You should read the hysterical Reuters article on the sheriff’s initiative.  If you didn’t know any better, you would come away believing the sky is falling.  Reuters is a hopelessly left-wing arm of the Democrat Party posing as honest brokers of the news.  They are anything but.

Team Red is continuing to enjoy success in getting common-sense election reforms adopted at the state level.  Missouri’s Governor recently signed a bill banning drop boxes and requiring voter ID which has been widely upheld in the courts.  Even Stacey Abrams will tell you voter ID laws are not racist.  The Democrats have lost the voter ID argument.  It’s all over but the shouting and, boy, do they continue to shout.  Missouri’s new law also stops indiscriminate mail-in voting and gets rid of electronic voting machines in 2024, requiring them to be ‘air-gapped’ from the Internet in the meantime.  This is a great victory for election integrity.

In case you’re one of the few Americans remaining who still believe the 2020 elections were the ‘most secure’ ever, have I got news for you.  The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled the use of drop boxes in the 2020 election was illegal and candidates are calling for the state’s 2020 election results to be decertified as a result.  In Arizona, newly released video shows ballot mules forging signatures on ballot envelopes.  Federal authorities have confirmed two Iranian nationals hacked into a state computer election system in the 2020 election.  There was illegal ballot harvesting in Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin, not to mention dirty voter rolls, nursing home fraud, and over a dozen more documented problems with the 2020 election.  None of this can seriously be disputed.

No wonder people are up in arms and demanding election integrity.  Citizen efforts to clean up the voter rolls are underway in Michigan, Maryland, and elsewhere.  Recent articles from Democrat-controlled media are howling about election integrity efforts from professional paid groups on the Right, but they miss the mark.  It’s the grassroots efforts that will eventually return us to free and fair elections.  Smear us all you want, but we know we’re right, and we’re not going away.  So, get over it.  Your days of cheating are coming to an end.

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REPORT: Biden Poised To Declare Climate Emergency To Ram Through Green Agenda

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President Joe Biden could declare a climate emergency as soon as this week, according to The Washington Post, in a bid to implement elements of his environmental agenda as climate legislation has stalled in Congress.

Leading Biden administration officials are debating ways to advance the president’s agenda, and the president is prepared to announce a number of new initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, reported the Post, citing three people familiar with the matter. The internal discussions come after Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia told party leaders last week that he opposes the plans to advance this month’s significant economic package that includes billions of dollars toward slashing carbon emissions and promoting green energy.

White House Economic Adviser Jared Bernstein told reporters at a press briefing Monday that Biden would work “aggressively to attack climate change.”

“Realistically there is a lot he can do and there is a lot he will do,” Bernstein stated.

“Unilaterally declaring a climate emergency will not reduce emissions by one molecule,” American Exploration & Production Council CEO, Anne Bradbury said on Twitter Tuesday. “In fact, many of the policies that could follow from declaring a climate emergency would increase emissions while driving up costs for American families.”

Democratic lawmakers are also calling on Biden to use his powers to enact further climate policies amid failed legislative action and the Supreme Court’s recent decision to limit the regulatory abilities of the Environmental Protection Agency.

On Monday, Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon said it was time for Biden to take massive, unilateral executive actions on climate change, even if the Supreme Court rules them unconstitutional.

“There is probably nothing more important for our nation and our world than for the United States to drive a bold, energetic transition in its energy economy from fossil fuels to renewable energy,” Merkley told reporters on Monday, according to the Post.

“This also unchains the president from waiting for Congress to act,” Merkley said, referencing the recent legislative impasse.

Meanwhile, Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, who chairs the Senate Finance Committee, said that lawmakers should continue to pursue legislation in a statement on Monday.

“While I strongly support additional executive action by President Biden, we know a flood of Republican lawsuits will follow,” Wyden said, according to the Post.

“Legislation continues to be the best option here,” he added.

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JACK MCEVOY

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CONGRESSMAN CHIP ROY: Biden Twiddles His Thumbs While Our Southern Border Is Under Siege

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There is an invasion at our border, and it’s past time to officially declare it.

We face an invasion organized by heavily armed and dangerous cartels making hundreds of millions of dollars moving human beings and narcotics for profit while purposefully terrorizing Texans, Americans and the migrants seeking to come here. This is an invasion that started a long time ago across both Republican and Democrat administrations, and it hasn’t slowed down. Jeh Johnson who was DHS Secretary under Obama said that 1,000 apprehensions per day was a “crisis.”

Today, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is encountering up to 8,000 per day at our southern border. This fiscal year to date, there have been over 1.53 million encounters at our southern border. This is a 77% increase over this point in 2019 — the year when the liberal media called our southern border “a crisis” and said our border was at a “breaking point.” In fact, in 2019, the highest monthly apprehension number was in May with 144,116. In May of 2022, there were 239,416.

But the apprehensions themselves are not the real story. While the Biden administration forces CBP to process several thousand per day and release them into the U.S. — contrary to federal law —our borders are not policed, resulting in over 800,000 known gotaways since the start of fiscal year 2021.

We don’t know who these people are or where they have gone, but we know CBP has apprehended roughly 50 terrorists between ports of entry. We know thousands of pounds of lethal Fentanyl have entered through our southern border and entered our neighborhoods, killing our kids. Indeed, 71,000 of the 107,000 Americans that died from opioid “overdoses” last year were Fentanyl poisonings. And we know CBP is completely overwhelmed.

Though every state is grappling with this invasion, Texas bears the brunt. Roughly 62% of encounters this fiscal year have occurred in Texas. Over 1.7 million of the roughly 11 million illegal migrants living in the U.S. are estimated to live in Texas — roughly 6% of the Texas population and more than the population of San Antonio.

Illegal migrants in 2021 were costing over $850 million to Texas, including $152 million to house criminal aliens for a year, even before Gov. Greg Abbott launched Operation Lone Star to try to stem the tide. Those operations are now costing Texas an estimated $3 billion.

For the ranchers and leaders of south Texas, the invasion is an everyday reality. In Brooks County, Texas, there were over 108 dead bodies found in 2021 and this year, they’ve encountered some 48 bodies — forced to use a “mobile morgue.” Ranchers often find dead migrants on their property; that is, in between the destroyed fences, damaged property and escaped livestock — all devastating to their livelihoods. Many ranchers now feel so unsafe that they require their kids to carry guns to protect themselves.

Now, folks in South Texas are standing up. A few brave south Texas leaders in six counties declared a local state of disaster due to the invasion in their communities. They were correct to do so and right in calling on Texas state officials to declare an invasion consistent with both the U.S. and Texas Constitutions.

Notwithstanding the musings of beltway pundits and legal eggheads who couldn’t survive on a ranch in the first place, “invasion” does not simply mean an organized army of redcoats. As noted by former Attorney General of Virginia, Ken Cuccinelli, “the Constitution makes clear that state governments are not impotent should the federal government continue to willfully refuse to carry out its constitutional obligations to the individual states.”

Similarly, the Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich issued a legal opinion regarding invasion writing, “no State should be put in the position that Arizona and other border states have been put in through the federal government’s recent actions. The federal government is failing to fulfill its duty under Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution to defend the States from invasion. The State Self-Defense Clause exists precisely for situations such as the present, to ensure the States are not left helpless.”

Texas, for its part has responded to the invasion with resources and taxpayer dollars — resulting in razor wire fences, DPS troopers, National Guardsmen, some arrests for trespassing, brief enhanced vehicle inspections that got the leadership of Mexico’s attention and a number of lawsuits in court. CBP is, part of course, grateful for the support and to have the backing of the Governor and the state.

Still, the crisis continues.

Over the two-day July 4th weekend in the Del Rio Sector alone, we encountered roughly 1,800 and saw roughly 400 known got-aways. Without declaring an invasion and ending the purposeful exploitation of our existing laws, the crisis will continue. Stopping the invasion requires that we recognize it, and act on it by turning people away and/or telling Mexico our ports of entry are going to be slowed to a standstill until they do their part.

In 1821, Stephen F. Austin, the “Father of Texas” brought 300 families to what is now Texas. There was no regular army to protect them, so Austin organized a group to provide protection from Comanches and eventually Mexican raiders — giving rise to the Texas Rangers. Texans did what sovereign states have done throughout history: we stepped up and protected our communities.

Today, Texans need to stand up again and protect our communities. Academics can argue in circles about the term “invasion” and debate possible liabilities incurred by the brave people who stand up to protect our borders; however, no amount of internal legal debate can protect ranchers in south Texas from ending up collateral damage to an Administration that scoffs at the rule of law.

We, Texans, must protect our families, our communities, and our state. The U.S. and Texas Constitution provides us with a path to put an end to this invasion to do just that.

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REPRESENTATIVE CHIP ROY

Rep. Chip Roy represents the 21st District of Texas.

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Law Firm Forces Out Own Lawyers Who Won Landmark Supreme Court Gun Case

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There is a reckoning coming. These fascists are pushing Americans too far.

Law firm forces out own lawyers who won Supreme gun case

‘We were given a stark choice’

By Art Moore, WND, June 27, 2022:

Two lawyers who successfully argued the landmark Supreme Court case affirming a constitutional right to be armed outside the home have been forced out of their Washington, D.C., law firm.

Amid pressure from clients and other attorneys at the firm, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, no longer will handle Second Amendment cases, Politico reported.

Former Solicitor General Paul Clement and Erin Murphy, who argued successfully before the Supreme Court in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen, said they had to resign.

“We were given a stark choice: either withdraw from ongoing representations or withdraw from the firm,” Clement said in a statement reported by Politico.

“Anyone who knows us and our views regarding professional responsibility and client loyalty knows there was only one course open to us: We could not abandon ongoing representations just because a client’s position is unpopular in some circles.”

Kirkland spokesman Jon Ballis told Politico he hoped the firm could continue to work with the two attorneys on matters not related to guns.

The announcement of the dropping of gun cases and the resignations took place on the day the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to strike down New York’s law requiring anyone who wishes to obtain a concealed-carry permits to demonstrate a “proper purpose” to have weapons outside the home.

Politico noted that one decade ago, Clement left Atlanta-based King & Spalding after the firm distanced itself from Clement’s work to preserve the Defense of Marriage Act. Signed by President Bill Clinton in 1996, DOMA defined marriage as the union of one man and one woman and allowed individual states not to recognize same-sex marriages recognized by other states.

At the time, Clement explained: “I resign out of the firmly held belief that a representation should not be abandoned because the client’s legal position is extremely unpopular in certain quarters. Defending unpopular clients is what lawyers do.” The Supreme Court overturned DOMA in 2013 in a 5-4 ruling.

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Pamela Geller

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Lia Thomas’ ‘Woman of the Year’ Award Is More of the Left’s War on Women

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There is a real war on women, and it’s by feminists and the Left. This is the real war on women: Fox News reported Friday that “the University of Pennsylvania nominated swimmer Lia Thomas for the NCAA ‘Woman of the Year’ award.” The award is supposed to recognize female student athletes who have done great things. The NCAA nomination page says: “Established in 1991, the award recognizes female student-athletes who have exhausted their eligibility and distinguished themselves in their community, in athletics and in academics throughout their college careers.” In announcing the award, UPenn said that NCAA member schools “are encouraged to celebrate their top graduating female student-athletes by nominating them for the NCAA Woman of the Year Award.” Amid all this self-congratulation, one important fact has been overlooked: Lia Thomas is not a woman. Lia Thomas is a man.

Women must realize: the left is stripping us of everything that is uniquely ours. Women are being robbed of every good thing in our lives. First and foremost? Motherhood, our greatest joy and source of happiness. Our marital rights are being stripped, masculinity is rendered “toxic” (trust me, that hurts women), romance has been demonized, and femininity has been rendered politically incorrect (for proof of that, see how Victoria’s Secret has been killing its own brand).

Young women are being robbed of the greatest gifts life has to offer. And they don’t know it. But they’re unhappy and they don’t know why. It’s overwhelmingly depressing, these poisonous fruits of “women’s liberation.” The epidemic of single motherhood, the breakdown of the American family, the street vernacular of “bitches and hos,” the emasculation of men, the bone-crushing responsibility of one woman being mother, father, breadwinner, chief cook and bottle washer we owe to the feminists.

The destroyers have been at war against American values for forty years, and Lia Thomas, “Woman of the Year,” is just the latest proof that they have succeeded. Women have been diminished and dehumanized, all under the guise of “liberation” and “feminism.” All this shows the power of the art of propaganda.

The family is the basic building block of any successful society. Children born out of wedlock are more likely to struggle in school or suffer emotional and behavioral problems. Yet today, over fifty percent of births in this country to women under thirty are outside marriage. And an astronomical forty percent of women are not married when they have children. Back in 2016, Child Trends reported that “40 percent of births in the United States occur outside of marriage, up from 28 percent in 1990.” Since then, the percentage of births outside of marriage has only increased.

In the documentary, Oral Sex Is the New Goodnight Kiss, Sharlene Azam, a Canadian filmmaker, says, “If you talk to teens [about oral sex], they’ll tell you it’s not a big deal. In fact, they don’t consider it sex. They don’t consider a lot of things sex.” In the documentary, teenage girls talk casually about their sexual experiences and even their forays into prostitution. One girl sums up the new attitudes: “Five minutes and I got $100. If I’m going to sleep with them anyway because they’re good-looking, might as well get paid for it, right?”

This is how the phony feminist movement empowered women. More like enslaved women. Those men-hating parasites have ruined the glorious exaltation of women in 20th-century America.

I know. I grew up in it. All one has to do is watch movies from the twenties, thirties, forties, fifties, and sixties (before the left’s rout of American culture) to catch a glimpse of the status of women and see the seismic change in the dynamic between women and men. In those films, women were treated with respect and equality. We were then formidable, respected, treasured, and above all… revered. It was as good as it gets. Relationships had depth and were serious stuff. Look at today’s films. There is no dynamic between the sexes. It’s two people playing with sex toys.

The Femarxist movement uses “equalization” as a means of empowering castration by the female at the top while emasculating males at the bottom. The transgender craze is the apotheosis of this movement.

All this is no surprise, of course. A breakdown of sexual mores and a flouting of convention is part and parcel of the agenda in every society to which socialism has come. And here we are.

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Pamela Geller

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SMOKING GUN: Joe Biden Lied, Had Dozens of Meetings with Hunter Biden’s Business Partner

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Is anyone going to enforce the law in this lawless rogue regime?

Overwhelming Evidence: Joe Biden Lied, Had Dozens of Meetings with Hunter Biden’s Business Partner

By Matt Margolis, PJ Media, July 17, 2022:

Joe Biden has repeatedly denied having any knowledge of his son’s business dealings or ever speaking to him about them. Yet over the years, evidence has surfaced that suggests Biden was a key power player in Hunter’s schemes.

Now, according to Hunter Biden’s personal calendar, which was found on his abandoned laptop, we know that between 2008 and 2016, Hunter met with his dad at least 30 times at the White House or the vice president’s residence after returning home from overseas business trips. As The New York Post notes, these meetings “raise questions about whether Hunter was relaying messages to his father on behalf of foreign clients, and cast new doubt on the president’s repeated denials that he had any role in his son’s shady overseas business dealings.”

Further incriminating Joe Biden is the fact that Eric Schwerin, the president of Hunter Biden’s investment company Rosemont Seneca Partners, was “named as a calendar invite recipient on 21 of 30 listed meetings, with a green check frequently indicating his confirmed receipt of the invite for meetings with the vice president.”

Previously released visitor logs from the Obama administration indicate that Schwerin visited the White House 19 times between 2009 and 2015.

During the 2020 presidential campaign, Biden also denied having any knowledge of Hunter’s dealings with Ukrainian energy company Burisma, which gave Hunter an $83,333-per-month position on their board, despite his having zero experience in the energy sector, while his father was the Obama administration’s point man on Ukraine. Yet, in 2019, a photo was leaked showing the Bidens golfing with Hunter’s fellow Burisma board member Devon Archer. White House visitor logs also show that Devon Archer and Chris Heinz, both co-founders of Rosemont Seneca, visited the White House in 2009 and 2011.

Documents reviewed by Just the News and the Government Accountability Institute earlier this year also showed that Joe Biden was very much financially involved with Hunter and even allowed his son to pay some of his bills. And emails and text messages show that Joe Biden’s involvement included “diverting one of his tax refunds to his son, rubbing elbows with [Hunter’s] foreign clients and even directly referring a friend who wanted to ‘do some work’ with his son.”

Joe Biden was often referred to as “Pop,” the “big guy,” and “my chairman” in certain delicate communications, and these communications show that Biden looked to Hunter and Schwerin to help expand his wealth after leaving the vice presidency in 2017.

“Hardly a day goes by without another revelation about how intimately involved Joe Biden was with his son Hunter Biden’s corrupt foreign business dealings. The fact that Joe was in meetings with senior foreign leaders on behalf of Hunter and his business associates while Vice President further proves that Joe has been lying to the American people,” Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) told the New York Post. Stefanik has promised to investigate Hunter Biden should Republicans win back the House in November.

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Pamela Geller

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Judge Blocks Biden’s LGBTQ Guidance that Allows Transgender in Girls’ Sports and Bathroom Access

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Pushback. Finally.

Judge Blocks Biden’s LGBTQ Guidance that Allows Transgender in Girls’ Sports and Bathroom Access

By Jim Hoft, July 17, 2022:

A Trump-appointed judge in Tennessee temporarily blocked Biden’s woke LGBTQ policy on Friday, including transgender workers and students to use gender-appropriate bathrooms, and participate in sports teams, Reuters reported.

U.S. District Judge Charles Atchley Jr. ruled in favor of the 20 state attorneys general who sued the Biden administration saying the directives infringe on states’ freedom to establish laws governing transgender.

The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Knoxville by Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery last August and was joined by Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, and West Virginia.

In the ruling, Judge Atchley prohibited the federal agencies from enforcing the orders issued by the Biden regime regarding the treatment of LGBTQ people.

More from Reuters:

A coalition of 20 Republican attorneys general brought a lawsuit last year against the federal government, noting that they stood to lose significant federal funding as the Biden directives were in conflict with their own state laws.

Atchley agreed with that, writing in his order that the states “cannot continue regulating pursuant to their state laws while simultaneously complying with Defendants’ guidance.”

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Pamela Geller

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Black Lives Matter Mob Rallying for Monster Confronted By One of His Victims

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This happens all too rarely and it’s a shame because it allows leftists and the media to turn their latest monster into a martyr with soft-focused photos and sketches.

Arabella Yarbrough says she thought she and her 2 kids were going to die Wed. night, after she says Tekle Sundberg fired these shots through her apt. She says she called police. Sundberg was shot and killed by MPD ending a 6hr standoff. More on this, tonight at 10. @kare11 pic.twitter.com/4x0ITgBkoZ— Deevon Rahming (@DeevonRahming) July 17, 2022

What started as a rally for a man shot and killed by Minneapolis Police quickly took a turn after the mother of two nearly hit by bullets while inside her apartment showed up to share her story on Saturday afternoon.

Arabella Yarbrough was cooking food for her children Wednesday night when she says Tekle Sundberg fired bullets into their home, nearly hitting them. Police responded and helped Yarbrough escape when according to police, Sundberg also fired at officers. That led to a six-hour standoff outside the building that lasted until MPD snipers killed the 20-year-old early the next morning.

“I literally had five minutes to live while he had six hours to choose life or death. The police stated they did not want to kill him,” Yarbrough told Fox 9.

Activists are still “demanding answers”.

People gathered Saturday afternoon to honor Andrew ‘Tekle’ Sundberg while demanding more answers after he was shot and killed by law enforcement on Thursday morning.

The answer here is pretty obvious. The only question here is “What the hell is wrong with you people”.

Two Minneapolis police snipers shot Sundberg early Thursday morning, ending a six-hour standoff that began when police were called to the apartment complex at around 9:30 p.m. on a report of shots being fired inside the building. A mother with two young children called 911 and told dispatchers someone was firing shots through their apartment.

Minneapolis police spokesman officer Garrett Parten said the fatal shots were fired around 4:30 a.m. following six hours of negotiating with the man, who had barricaded himself inside an apartment on the 900 block of 21st and East Franklin Avenues in the Seward neighborhood.

According to a search warrant, while officers were attempting to evacuate the building, “officers started taking fire,” prompting them to leave the building and call the Minneapolis SWAT Team.

More answers are clearly needed, as to why this took six hours.

But the idiots who adopted him and their lawyer still insist that Tekle should still be alive and shooting at people.

His parents, Cindy and Mark Sundberg, adopted Tekle from Ethiopia when he was just four years old.

“My heart goes out to that woman (Yarbrough). She went through a very traumatic event with those bullets coming through her house,” said Mark Sundberg.

Along with their attorney, they empathized with the terror Yarbrough felt that night, but say their son should still be here.

“It’s two different incidents. It’s the shots going through her (wall) and what we are here for, when Tekle was shot,” said Mark Sundberg

I’m thinking it’s the same incident. Much like Hitler invading Poland and shooting himself in the Fuhrerbunker.

 “We can do both things. We can feel terribly for this woman, but also remember that Tekle should be here with us and he should be alive and we can ask the Minneapolis Police Department to do better,” said the Sundberg family attorney, Jeff Storms.

The MPD should do better. It shouldn’t take six hours to put down a gunman who’s shooting at people. That’s a worse record than Uvalde. It should take 15 minutes or less.

Do better.

AUTHOR

DANIEL GREENFIELD

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