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First, they came for Peanut.

 



For those that aren’t on X, Peanut was a squirrel rescued as a baby seven years ago, and raised in captivity by Mark Longo. Peanut (and Mark) became an Instagram sensation with over a half million followers. Peanut lived with another rescued pet named Fred, who was a raccoon.

Mark runs a non-profit animal rescue and sanctuary. Someone decided to report Mark to NY State authorities for this.

The New York State police raided Mark’s home this week:

  • A total of 10 officers raided his house
  • He and his wife were not allowed to use bathroom alone
  • He was not allowed to feed his other rescue animals
  • They interrogated his wife about her immigration status
  • There were search warrants from 4 bureaucratic departments, including FISA.

This week, despite massive public outcry – both Peanut and Fred were murdered by the New York State Environmental police. Their crime was living in captivity.

To be clear:
“Based on the search results, it is extremely rare for squirrels to contract rabies. The data suggests that squirrels are not considered vectors of rabies and have never been known to transmit the disease to humans.”

In the end, this is not about a squirrel. It is all about government overreach, illegal and overbearing search and seizure, arbitrary and capricious bureaucracies.

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Has our republic really been reduced to murdering pet squirrels?

God save America

Get out and vote for Peanut…








Ah, yes, the Federal Reserve. A future Substack topic, to be sure.







Somehow, I missed this, Remy – It is close enough to Halloween to still be funny, though!





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Looking at the allegations of Fraud and Election interference.

Looking at the allegations of Fraud and Election interference. Hopefully for the next week or so we will be looking at voter fraud and election interference from the left. Why just the left?

It seems as if all we’re reading about is how the left have already attempted to cheat with early voting.

Officials discovered that a group called Black Fork Strategies, which operates across the state of Ohio, was and is being investigated by the Ohio Secretary of State over another alleged fraudulent voter registration campaign.

The Hamilton County Board of Elections has turned over several suspicious voter registration applications to the Ohio Secretary of State’s Public Integrity Division.

Hamilton County Director of Elections Sherry Poland recently held up an inch-wide stack of suspected fraudulent registrations at a recent board meeting. The registrations, turned in by Black Fork Strategies, appear to have all the same handwriting.

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Here we go again. Voter fraud in Colorado.

Here we go again. Voter fraud in Colorado. So, with thousands of votes already cast, there may be another case of voter fraud. Who would have thought?

Granted it’s only a dozen they caught, but that was enough for them to look at over 30,000. Will Trump win Colorado? Probably not, but this can affect close local, state, and Congressional races.

Voting by mail has become a contentious and politicized issue in recent years. Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold said in a news conference on Thursday that a criminal probe had been launched in the county.

Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold announced Thursday during a press conference that over a dozen mailed ballots were intercepted and cast fraudulently before the actual voters even had a chance to receive them.

“It appears that as of now approximately a dozen voters in Mesa County had their ballots intercepted before they arrived to them and cast without their knowledge,” she said.

The fraud was discovered during the signature verification process, when election staff compared signatures on the ballots to the voters’ signatures on file. When voters were contacted about the rejected signatures, in a process known as “curing,” election staff discovered that some of the ballots had been fraudulently filled out.

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You make the call. Afghan Accused of Election Day Terror Plot Worked for CIA.

You make the call. Afghan Accused of Election Day Terror Plot Worked for CIA. Was he going after Trump or Harris? The below article is a reprint from NewsMax.

An Afghan man accused of plotting a terror attack on Election Day previously worked as a security guard in Afghanistan for the CIA, NBC News reported Wednesday.

Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, was arrested on Monday in Oklahoma on charges of planning to kill American citizens on behalf of the terror group ISIS.

Court documents indicated that Tawhedi planned to attack on Nov. 5, Election Day, and he confirmed to authorities in an interview conducted after his arrest that he intended to target large gatherings of people and expected to die a martyr.

One senior administration official told NBC News that counterterrorism officials surmised that Tawhedi became radicalized while he was living in the United States. He entered the country in September 2021, according to court documents.

“Every Afghan resettled in the U.S. undergoes a rigorous screening and vetting process no matter which agency they worked with,” the official said. “That process includes checking against a full range of U.S. records and holdings.”

NBC News reported that Tawhedi passed two rounds of vetting with no derogatory information found and, according to a source, was first screened before he entered the U.S. on humanitarian parole.

Tawhedi was vetted again when he applied for a Special Immigrant Visa, for which he was eligible because he worked for the U.S. government. Although he was approved for the visa, an official told NBC News he had not yet completed it.

The Justice Department’s charging document said Tawhedi entered the U.S. on a Special Immigrant Visa “and is currently on parole status pending adjudication of his immigrant proceedings.”

But two U.S. officials with knowledge of the matter told NBC News that the charging document is incorrect and Tawhedi entered the U.S. on humanitarian parole, which usually entails much less rigorous vetting than a Special Immigrant Visa.

According to authorities, Tawhedi planned the attack with a juvenile co-conspirator, who was described as an Afghan national with legal permanent resident status.

The criminal complaint alleged that Tawhedi and his co-conspirator advertised the sale of the family’s personal property on Facebook before the planned attack. After a confidential FBI informant responded to inquire if a computer was still for sale, Tawhedi and the juvenile met with the source, who claimed he needed the computer for a new gun business he was starting.

Tawhedi and the juvenile were arrested Monday after meeting with the confidential informant and purchasing two AK-47 rifles, 10 magazines, and 500 rounds of ammunition.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., took to X on Wednesday to decry the Biden-Harris administration’s vetting process of the tens of thousands of Afghans who relocated to the U.S. following the withdrawal of American forces from the country in August 2021.

“Following the botched Afghanistan withdrawal, more than 77K Afghans were given humanitarian parole, with little to no vetting and no intent to know their whereabouts,” Johnson wrote. “Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi – the terrorist plotting an election day attack – was one of them.

“Whether it’s their open-border policies or failed foreign policy, this administration continues to risk American lives by allowing terrorists, murderers, rapists, and other violent criminals into our homeland.”

Tawhedi was charged with conspiring and attempting to provide material support to ISIS, which if he is convicted carries a maximum sentence of 20 years, and receiving a firearm to be used to commit a felony or a federal crime of terrorism, which carries a maximum sentence of 15 years.

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Killer drones. California Police have them, why not the Border Patrol?

Killer drones. California Police have them, why not the Border Patrol? In California the police have drones that are armed. Why not equip the Border patrol with this technology?

Recently there was a law passed that tried to take this crime fighting tool away from law enforcement. Newsom had another rare good deed. He vetoed the bill.

California law enforcement won’t be prohibited from using killer drones anytime soon, after Gov. Gavin Newsom this weekend vetoed AB 2681.

The bill, by Assemblywoman Akilah Weber, D-San Diego, would have made it an infraction offense to manufacture, modify, sell, transfer or operate a robotic device equipped with a weapon.

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Not a religious issue, but a moral life saving issue. Attacks on Pregnancy Centers & Pro-Life Groups.

Not a religious issue, but a moral life saving issue. Attacks on Pregnancy Centers & Pro-Life Groups. The leftists have for about 5-10 years been on the attack. But not until the Recent Supreme Court ruling get this bad.

At least 94 pregnancy resource centers and pro-life groups have been attacked and vandalized since a draft Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade was leaked in early May 2022. Pro-abortion domestic terrorists have claimed responsibility, and delivered on their promise of a “summer of rage“.

The wave of violence began within 24 hours of the release of a leaked draft of the Supreme Court opinion which would overturn Roe v. Wade on May 2, 2022. Pregnancy centers braced for more attacks and acts of vandalism after the Supreme Court issued its final ruling overturning Roe v. Wade on June 24, 2022. The Department of Homeland Security issued a memo the same day warning that “domestic violent extremists” would exploit the decision to commit acts of violence against various targets, specifically naming Jane’s Revenge.

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Yes Virginia, California has 24 new gun laws to keep you safe. NOT.

Yes Virginia, California has 24 new gun laws to keep you safe. NOT.

So, my friends in California can sleep safe now. They have 24 more-gun laws to protect them. Who cares if the other 50-100 laws are already on the books. Strength in numbers, I guess.

California is already No. 1 for gun control among states in the Union, according to Mike Bloomberg-affiliated Everytown for Gun Safety, yet Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed 24 new gun controls on Tuesday.

Two out of the last three years, despite all the extant gun control, FBI figures showing California led the nation in “active shooter incidents” in 2021 and 2023.

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DOJ put a bounty on President Trump?

DOJ put a bounty on President Trump. The Department of Justice posted Routh’s reward letter to anyone who will finish the job and murder President Trump.

Knowing the crazies from the left that are out there, how many are now thinking about finishing the job the progressive Harris supporter started.

There was enough evidence to convict this leftist. It made no sense to release this letter.

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How funny is this? California passes a law that makes it illegal to make fun of Progressives.

How funny is this? California passes a law that makes it illegal to make fun of Progressives. Not making this up. Here’s the official language.

Newsom this week signed into law a bill that makes it illegal to ‘knowingly distribute an ad or other election communications that contain materially deceptive content, including deepfakes. Watch.

The Governor’s response.

Here’s the Babylon Bee’s response.

 

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Data backs up Trump on crime increase, violence up under Biden-Harris administration.

Data backs up Trump on crime increase, violence up under Biden-Harris administration.

Crime rates remained elevated last year under President Biden, according to Justice Department data released Thursday that challenges a prevailing media and White House narrative.

The data comes from a massive annual government-run survey of crime victims.

It found 22.5 of every 1,000 residents reported being the victim of a violent crime in 2023, and 102.2 per 1,000 reported facing a property crime.

“Violent crime increased by 37% under the Biden administration, compared to a drop of 17% under the Trump administration,” he said.

Mr. Trump’s campaign said the data showed “crime rates remain WAY UP under Kamala Harris — throwing a dagger straight through the heart of claims to the contrary by Democrats and their Fake News allies.”

The Washington Times has reached out to the White House and Ms. Harris’ campaign for response.

The Bureau of Justice Statistics runs the National Crime Victimization Survey, which annually reaches nearly a quarter-million people in 150,000 households.

It is one of two primary national tallies of overall crime rates. The FBI’s national crime reporting database compiles crimes reported to local police departments.

The FBI data suggested that crime reports had dropped over the past couple of years, but the victimization data suggests this is false.

The issue played out during the presidential debate Tuesday when Mr. Trump made crime rates a theme of attack on Ms. Harris.

“Crime is through the roof,” Mr. Trump said.

At that point, David Muir, the moderator for debate host ABC, stepped in to fact-check Mr. Trump using FBI data.

“President Trump, as you know, the FBI says overall violent crime is coming down in this country,” he said.

Mr. Trump said the FBI’s data was suspect, and Mr. Lott said he is right to be skeptical.

In 2020, 97% of police departments reported their data to the FBI, though 10% reported incomplete data. By 2022, 31% weren’t reporting data at all and another 24% were reporting incomplete data.

That means less than half of police departments were reporting complete data to the FBI, Mr. Lott said. A further issue is how often people report crimes to police.

ABC didn’t respond to a request for comment.

The Bureau of Justice Statistics data released Thursday says overall crime reporting rates remained the same from 2022 to 2023 but dropped significantly in some categories, such as robberies and motor vehicle thefts.

Mr. Lott said the victimization data showed significant improvements in several major crimes during the Trump administration. He said aggravated assaults fell by 24% under Mr. Trump but rose 55% under Mr. Biden, according to the data for 2023.

Robbery, which fell 6% under Mr. Trump, is up 63% under Mr. Biden. Rape, which was flat under Mr. Trump, is up 42% under Mr. Biden.

The FBI has better data for one crime: homicide. It is almost always reported, and the victimization survey has no way to measure it.

The latest full-year FBI data, covering 2022, showed a 6.1% drop in homicides from 2021.

Some experts said they don’t think either survey alone is a proper indicator of crime rates and said aggregating the numbers for a national picture doesn’t make sense. Those experts argue that there are too many regional factors.

Looking over a longer horizon, crime rates under Mr. Trump and Mr. Biden are much lower than in the early 1990s, when violent crime victimization neared 80 per 1,000 residents, or more than three times their current rate.

Both are statistically unchanged from 2022 but are significantly

higher than in 2020, the last year under President Trump.

The data said Americans aren’t reporting some of the most common crimes to police as often. Just 44% of self-reported robbery victims said they filed a police report last year, down substantially from 64% in 2022.

The numbers indicate that crime has risen under Mr. Biden and fell during the Trump administration, said John R. Lott Jr., president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, who has tracked the data over the years.

He said the new data undercuts claims by the Biden White House, Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign and news media figures that crime rates are falling. Their claims are based on FBI data.