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https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4612396-trump-seeks-to-blame-biden-for-potential-tiktok-ban/

Former President Trump is casting blame on President Biden for legislation that could potentially ban TikTok in the U.S., after the bill cleared the House last weekend as part of a larger foreign aid package.

“Just so everyone knows, especially the young people, Crooked Joe Biden is responsible for banning TikTok,” Trump said in a Truth Social post Monday.

Trump’s opposition to a potential TikTok ban represents a significant shift from the position he held while he was in office. The former president issued an executive order in 2020 seeking to force TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to sell its U.S. assets, though the order was later blocked in court.

The TikTok bill, which now heads to the Senate alongside legislation for long-sought aid to Ukraine and Israel, would require ByteDance to sell the app within roughly a year or face a U.S. ban.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/family-mourns-wisconsin-mother-of-10-whose-body-was-found-in-trunk/ar-AA1nsJaL?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=DCTS&cvid=43ddaa12a84e4d34a5f0452870906b7a&ei=53

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With homelessness on the rise, the Supreme Court weighs bans on sleeping outdoors

https://apnews.com/article/homelessness-supreme-court-oregon-fines-camping-ban-334d90536535ebb07ccb6d2dc76009c9

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court wrestled with major questions about the growing issue of homelessness on Monday as it considered whether cities can ban people from sleeping outside when shelter space is lacking.

The case is considered the most significant to come before the high court in decades on the issue as record numbers of people are without a permanent place to live in the United States.

In California and other Western states, courts have ruled that it’s unconstitutional to fine and arrest people sleeping in homeless encampments if shelter space is lacking.

A a cross-section of Democratic and Republican officials contend that makes it difficult for them to manage encampments, which can have dangerous and unsanitary living conditions. But hundreds of advocacy groups argue that allowing cities to punish people who need a place to sleep will criminalize homelessness and ultimately make the crisis worse as the cost of housing increases.

Dozens of demonstrators gathered outside the court Monday morning with silver thermal blankets and signs like “housing not handcuffs.”

The Justice Department has also weighed in. It argues people shouldn’t be punished just for sleeping outside, but only if there’s a determination they truly have nowhere else to go.

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SCOTUS to hear Firearms Policy Coalition lawsuit on ATFs rules for no serial number and "ghost" guns
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/22/us/supreme-court-ghost-guns.html
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-ghost-guns-regulation-1a29729cf1bee46590d82ac46ab7b8f4
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/22/supreme-court-will-hear-challenge-biden-administration-rule-ghost-guns/
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2024/apr/22/supreme-court-ghost-guns-law
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/supreme-court-ghost-guns-case/story?id=109493287
There were no serial number regulations in 1792 or 1868 and people frequently made their own guns in 1792 and 1868. sounds like someone is going to get blown the fuck out

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https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4612055-ai-generated-child-pornography-threatens-to-overwhelm-reporting-system-research/

Child pornography generated by artificial intelligence (AI) could overwhelm an already inundated reporting system for online child sexual abuse material, a new report from the Stanford Internet Observatory found.

The CyberTipline, which is run by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), processes and shares reports of child sexual abuse material with relevant law enforcement for further investigation.

Open-source generative AI models that can be retrained to produce the material “threaten to flood the CyberTipline and downstream law enforcement with millions of new images,” according to the report.

“One million unique images reported due to the AI generation of [child sexual abuse material] would be unmanageable with NCMEC’s current technology and procedures,” the report said.

“With the capability for individuals to use AI models to create [child sexual abuse material], there is concern that reports of such content—potentially indistinguishable from real photos of children—may divert law enforcement’s attention away from actual children in need of rescue,” it added.

Several constraints already exist on the reporting system. Only about 5 percent to 8 percent of reports to the CyberTipline result in arrests in the U.S., according to Monday’s report.

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https://amp.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article287955215.html
Who was in the wrong here?

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https://www.rochesterfirst.com/crime/rochester-man-arrested-accused-of-threatening-to-kill-law-enforcement-officers/

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — A Rochester man was arrested and accused of threatening federal law enforcement in messages sent to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives and the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office.

According to prosecutors, Eric Anthony, 27, sent an email to the ATF Thursday criticizing gun laws, the ATF, FBI, Monroe County Sheriff’s Office, and Rochester Police Department. In the email, Anthony allegedly threatened to kill law enforcement officers, and said if anything happened to him or his family, he would be “left no choice to impose my ‘hellish strategic move.’”

Anthony then allegedly faxed much of the same information directly to the MCSO.

Anthony was arrested and charged with intent to impede, intimidate, or interfere with such law enforcement officers while engaged in the performance of official duties, or with intent to retaliate against such law enforcement officers on account of the performance of their official duties. He faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine if convicted.

A detention hearing is scheduled for Tuesday afternoon.

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https://www.cleveland.com/business/2024/04/feds-sue-popular-convenience-store-charging-racial-discrimination-in-hiring-practices.html

Feds sue popular convenience store, charging racial discrimination in hiring practices

BALTIMORE, Md. -- Federal officials have sued the Sheetz convenience store chain, claiming the company discriminated against job applicants who were Black, Native American and multiracial.

The discrimination occurred, the federal government said, as the company automatically eliminated job applicants that Sheetz deemed to have failed a criminal background check.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed suit in Baltimore against the company and two subsidiaries, charging that the convenience store and gas station chain’s practices have a disproportionate impact on minority applicants and thus run afoul of federal civil rights law.

Sheetz on Thursday denied the charges.

“Diversity and inclusion are essential parts of who we are,” company spokesperson Nick Ruffner said in a statement to The Associated Press. “We take these allegations seriously. We have attempted to work with the EEOC for nearly eight years to find common ground and resolve this dispute,”

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A transgender person has shared their experience after receiving an experimental new surgery that involves removing the entirety of their external genitals.

Adrian, 27, from Florida, is non-binary - meaning they do not conform to either male or female - and had the operation at a controversial gender clinic in Texas that has been dubbed 'Frankenstein's lab'.

It is one of a handful hospitals in the country that offer genital nullification surgery - a procedure which involves removing all external genitalia to create a smooth transition down from the stomach to the groin.

A small but hidden opening remains in order for urine to exit the body. Those born biologically female undergo a hysterectomy, which stops them menstruating.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13320773/non-binary-barbie-doll-genitals-mutilating-procedure-intimacy.htmle

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Marjorie Taylor Greene calls on Johnson to resign after foreign aid bills pass: ‘If he doesn’t do so, he will be vacated’
By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN
3 minute read
Updated 5:09 PM EDT, Sun April 21, 2024

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/21/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-calls-on-johnson-to-resign-after-house-approves-ukraine-aid/index.html


Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Sunday said House Speaker Mike Johnson “betrayed” Republican voters after the House approved new aid to Ukraine, threatening to call a vote for his ouster if he doesn’t resign.

“Mike Johnson’s speakership is over. He needs to do the right thing to resign and allow us to move forward in a controlled process. If he doesn’t do so, he will be vacated,” Greene said on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.”

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Family dine and dash in Swansea, getting children involved is what's makes it even more scummy. Making a child stay while the whole family "gets the credit card" from the car and then the kid running away is honestly a crazy plan.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/22/dine-and-dash-swansea-wales-bella-ciao-family/

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Link: https://www.thedailybeast.com/man-sets-himself-on-fire-outside-trump-trial

>The man who doused himself with accelerant and set himself ablaze outside Donald Trump’s Manhattan trial on Friday published an online manifesto, declaring that he self-immolated to warn the world about an “apocalyptic fascist world coup.”

>The self-immolating conspiracy theorist was identified by cops as Max Azzarello, a 37-year-old from St. Augustine, Florida, who was in critical condition on Friday afternoon. He declared online that his act was an “extreme act of protest ... to draw attention to an urgent and important discovery.”

>His Substack manifesto is a dizzying document that rails against cryptocurrency, New York University, the Clintons, and the world’s governments—warning readers that they are “victims of a totalitarian con” akin to a massive Ponzi scheme.

He mentions that Peter Thiel, famed billionaire homosexual immigrant, is behind much of the worlds suffering and it kind of makes sense seeing how evil Peter Thiel is.

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House Approves $95 Billion Aid Bill for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan
After months of delay at the hands of a bloc of ultraconservative Republicans, the package drew overwhelming bipartisan support, reflecting broad consensus.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/20/us/politics/house-vote-aid-ukraine-israel.html

The House voted resoundingly on Saturday to approve $95 billion in foreign aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, as Speaker Mike Johnson put his job on the line to advance the long-stalled aid package by marshaling support from mainstream Republicans and Democrats.

In four back-to-back votes, overwhelming bipartisan coalitions of lawmakers approved fresh rounds of funding for the three U.S. allies, as well as another bill meant to sweeten the deal for conservatives that could result in a nationwide ban of TikTok.

The scene on the House floor reflected both the broad support in Congress for continuing to help the Ukrainian military beat back Russia, and the extraordinary political risk taken by Mr. Johnson to defy the anti-interventionist wing of his party who had sought to thwart the measure. Minutes before the vote on assistance for Kyiv, Democrats began to wave small Ukrainian flags on the House floor, as hard-right Republicans jeered.

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https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/19/judge-trump-trial-sentence-00153440

A Washington, D.C., judge issued a dire warning Friday about the effects of the January 6 attack.

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan sentenced Scott Miller, a former Proud Boys leader who fought with multiple police officers while trying to storm the Capitol building, to 66 months in prison. This is one of the longest sentences that Chutkan has given. She cited Miller’s actions at the Capitol, as well as evidence that he held Nazi beliefs and thought that Washington, D.C., residents should be executed.

Previously, the longest sentences Chutkan had handed down related to the insurrection were 63 months long, given to two other violent offenders at the Capitol. Chutkan described the storming of the Capitol as “close to as serious a crisis as this nation has ever faced.”

“It can happen again,” Chutkan, who is expected to preside over Donald Trump’s criminal trial for trying to overturn the 2020 election, said Friday. “Extremism is alive and well in this country. Threats of violence continue unabated.”

Those threats have become normalized in Republican discourse, with right-wing figures across the country invoking violence and urging their supporters to arm themselves. The man behind it all, Donald Trump, has yet to face any consequences thanks to the Supreme Court holding up his case over questions of presidential immunity.

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I look forward to reading the Fox News and Newsmax article on this.

GOP operative’s conviction over illegal Russian contributions to Trump campaign upheld
The Hill
FILIP TIMOTIJA
April 20, 2024 at 2:01 PM

https://www.aol.com/news/gop-operative-conviction-over-illegal-180109584.html

A GOP political operative’s conviction over steering illegal Russian contributions to former President Trump’s 2016 campaign was upheld by a federal appeals court on Friday.

The District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the appeal of Jesse Benton, a veteran political operative.

Benton was convicted in late 2022. He had been charged with helping to orchestrate an illegal donation to the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee (RNC) for a Russian national, Roman Vasilenko.


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