Biden to Pardon All Federal Convictions for Marijuana Possession

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President Biden will pardon everyone convicted on federal charges of simple marijuana possession, the White House announced Thursday, saying he intended to repair America’s “failed approach” to the drug.

The president also was expected to call on governors to pardon state-level convictions in a recorded video statement later Thursday.

“As I said when I ran for president, no one should be in jail just for using or possessing marijuana,” Mr. Biden said in a statement. “Too many lives have been upended because of our failed approach to marijuana. It’s time that we right these wrongs.”

The marijuana pardon, announced just a month before the Nov. 8 midterm elections, delivers a gift to the Democrats’ liberal base that has clamored for legalizing weed at the federal level and has been disappointed by the party’s failure to deliver on overhauling policing laws.

Some proponents of legalizing marijuana argue that convictions hit Black Americans disproportionately. (Read more from “Biden to Pardon All Federal Convictions for Marijuana Possession” HERE)

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US Buying Hundreds of Millions of Dollars of Drug to Treat Radiation Sickness

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As part of long-standing, ongoing efforts to be better prepared to save lives following radiological and nuclear emergencies, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is purchasing a supply of the drug Nplate from Amgen USA Inc; Nplate is approved to treat blood cell injuries that accompany acute radiation syndrome in adult and pediatric patients (ARS).

Amgen, based in Thousands Oaks, California, developed Nplate for ARS with support from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), part of the HHS Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR), as well as the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health.

BARDA is using its authority provided under the 2004 Project Bioshield Act and $290 million in Project BioShield designated funding to purchase this supply of the drug. Amgen will maintain this supply in vendor-managed inventory. This approach decreases life-cycle management costs for taxpayers because doses that near expiration can be rotated into the commercial market for rapid use prior to expiry and new doses can be added to the government supply.

ARS, also known as radiation sickness, occurs when a person’s entire body is exposed to a high dose of penetrating radiation, reaching internal organs in a matter of seconds. Symptoms of ARS injuries include impaired blood clotting as a result of low platelet counts, which can lead to uncontrolled and life-threatening bleeding.

To reduce radiation-induced bleeding, Nplate stimulates the body’s production of platelets. The drug can be used to treat adults and children.

Nplate is also approved for adult and pediatric patients with immune thrombocytopenia, a blood disorder resulting in low platelet counts. Repurposing drugs for acute radiation syndrome that also are approved for a commercial indication helps to sustain availability of the product and improves healthcare provider familiarity with the drug.

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Federal Agents Uncover Thousands of ‘Rainbow’ Fentanyl Pills Stashed in Lego Boxes

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A New Jersey woman was arrested this week after federal agents and New York City police officers found fentanyl packaged like candy and stored in LEGO boxes in her car.

The woman, Letitia Bush, was arrested on Sept. 28 when agents and police officers stopped her vehicle in the Lincoln Tunnel. The vehicle allegedly contained 15,000 “multicolored” pills and had an estimated street value of $300,000, according to WPVI.

Reportedly, Bush was in the backseat of the vehicle when police and agents showed up. She had two black tote bags and a yellow LEGO container. Inside the LEGO container were “brick shaped” packages covered in black tape next to LEGO blocks. Inside the black-taped packages contained the “rainbow” fentanyl pills, which were reportedly imprinted with “30 M” to resemble 30mg oxycodone hydrochloride pills.

New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget Brennan warned that the pills “look like candy” and began showing up on the West Coast earlier this year.

Frank Tarentino, the special agent in charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York Division said that the pills are similar-looking to “party drugs” and are “everywhere.”

“Rainbow fentanyl is a clear and present danger and it is here in New York City,” Tarentino said to Fox 5. “Approximately forty percent of the pills we analyze in our lab contain a lethal dose.” (Read more from “Federal Agents Uncover Thousands of ‘Rainbow’ Fentanyl Pills Stashed in Lego Boxes” HERE)

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CEO Arrested Just 1 Day After NYT Profiled His Firm as the Victim of an ‘Election Denier’ ‘Conspiracy Theory’

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Twenty-four hours after New York Times reporter Stuart Thompson attacked an “election denier” claim about an election software firm as a “conspiracy theory,” he was forced to report on its CEO’s arrest on suspicion of stealing data from poll workers and storing it in China.

On Monday, Thompson published a sympathetic portrayal of a Michigan election software company called Konnech and its CEO in an article with the title and subtitle, “How a Tiny Elections Company Became a Conspiracy Theory Target: Election deniers catapulted a Michigan firm with just 21 U.S. employees to the center of unfounded voter fraud claims, exposing it to vicious threats.”

Thompson, a technology reporter “covering misinformation and disinformation,” attacked what he called a “conspiracy theory” from “a group of election deniers” over the claim that Konnech has ties to China.

“Using threadbare evidence, or none at all, the group suggested that a small American election software company, Konnech, had secret ties to the Chinese Communist Party and had given the Chinese government backdoor access to personal data about two million poll workers in the United States,” Thompson wrote.

One day later, Eugene Yu, the founder and chief executive of Konnech, was arrested for “suspicion of theft” of poll worker information that was found to be stored in China. (Read more from “CEO Arrested Just 1 Day After NYT Profiled His Firm as the Victim of an ‘Election Denier’ ‘Conspiracy Theory’” HERE)

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Major Holes Found in FBI’s Case Against Pro-Life Father, Documents Reveal

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New documents call into question two key components of the FBI’s charges against Mark Houck, the pro-life father of seven who was arrested by federal agents Sept. 23 for allegedly shoving a Planned Parenthood clinic escort.

The FBI charged Houck with two counts of assaulting a reproductive health care clinic escort in violation of the FACE Act, which makes it a federal crime to interfere with someone “because that person is a provider of reproductive health care.” Houck’s arrest by numerous federal agents made national headlines, but newly unearthed documents undermine some of the FBI’s charges against him.

Houck was praying near an abortion clinic when Bruce Love, who claims to be a longtime clinic escort, approached him and began behaving “extremely aggressively” and harassing Houck’s then-12-year-old son, his attorney, Peter Breen, told the Daily Caller News Foundation; Love was not escorting any patients at the time of the altercation, according to Breen.

Love only mentioned being shoved once in a prior criminal complaint about the incident, according to a copy of his private criminal complaint first obtained by the Federalist, but Houck’s federal indictment is for two instances of assault. The fact that Love only later mentioned a second shoving undermines the federal government’s decision to charge Houck with two counts of assault, according to Breen.

“Apparently Mr. Love is now claiming a second instance where he says he was knocked to the ground,” Breen said. “That is false. We look forward to some sort of evidence of that alleged other instance because if a crime had actually taken place we assume that Mr. Love would have put it in his private criminal complaint he brought to the Pennsylvania state courts.” (Read more from “Major Holes Found in FBI’s Case Against Pro-Life Father, Documents Reveal” HERE)

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Justice Department Scores Win Against Trump in Mar-a-Lago Raid Case on Special Master Appeal

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An appeals court has granted the Justice Department’s request to speed up its appeal of the appointment of the special master examining the documents obtained during the FBI raid of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort.

Trump opposed the DOJ’s efforts to expedite its circuit court appeal, with the former president’s lawyers saying this week that the timeline for DOJ’s appeal should be broadened and that oral arguments shouldn’t happen until January at the earliest. The appeals court panel appeared to reject much of that in siding with the Justice Department.

U.S. Circuit Judge Adalberto Jordan ruled Wednesday that DOJ’s “motion to expedite appeal is granted” and that the court clerk was directed “to expedite the appeal for merits disposition purposes.” A special merits panel will decide “when and how to hear oral argument,” but for now, the Justice Department’s initial brief is due Oct. 14, Trump’s response is due Nov. 10, and the DOJ’s reply to that is due Nov. 17.

The Justice Department argued to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit on Friday that its alleged inability to access nonclassified documents seized in the raid in early August was hampering its investigation into whether Trump improperly moved classified information out of the White House during his presidency. (Read more from “Justice Department Scores Win Against Trump in Mar-a-Lago Raid Case on Special Master Appeal” HERE)

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Woke Army General Rebuked for Twitter-Trolling Tucker Carlson, Right-Wingers

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An Army watchdog report has found a top general broke social media protocol by taking on Fox News host Tucker Carlson and other right-wingers on Twitter last year.

An investigation by the Army’s Office of the Inspector General found Maj. Gen. Patrick Donahoe, the former commander of the Maneuver Center of Excellence at Fort Benning, Ga., brought “negative publicity” to the Army for engaging in social media arguments over the military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for troops and criticizing Carlson’s critique of gender-based military reforms, according to the Washington Post and Task & Purpose.

Donahoe first clashed with Carlson in March 2021 after the top-rated TV personality criticized the Pentagon for making a “mockery of the US military” by introducing new hairstyles for women and flight suits for pregnant service members.

“While China’s military becomes more masculine as it has assembled the world’s largest navy, our military needs to become as, Joe Biden says, more feminine — whatever feminine means anymore,” Carlson said at the time.

In response, Donahoe posted a video of himself re-enlisting a female staff sergeant with the caption: “Just a reminder that @TuckerCarlson couldn’t be more wrong.” Several other Army leaders tweeted in agreement, leading Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) to write Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin regarding Donahoe and other military leaders’ public criticism of Carlson. (Read more from “Woke Army General Rebuked for Twitter-Trolling Tucker Carlson, Right-Wingers” HERE)

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Health Care Worker Illegally Fired for Christian Beliefs About Gender Identity, Lawyers Say

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After longtime physician assistant Valerie Kloosterman disclosed her religious beliefs about gender identity, a diversity program leader called her “evil,” her lawyers say.

Shortly thereafter, Kloosterman’s employer fired her, despite her unblemished 17-year record of conscientious patient care at a clinic.

Kloosterman’s attorneys are asking the University of Michigan Health-West (UMH-West) to reinstate her, grant a religious accommodation, and spare others from “similar discrimination.”

First Liberty Institute, a nonprofit public-interest law firm, represents Kloosterman. This summer, First Liberty won two U.S. Supreme Court rulings upholding religious freedom and has asked the court to consider hearing two more such cases this fall.

Kloosterman, a 42-year-old married mother of four (including triplets), was dismissed more than a year ago. She turned to First Liberty in a last-ditch effort to get her job back, said Jordan Pratt, senior counsel at the firm’s office in Washington, D.C. (Read more from “Health Care Worker Illegally Fired for Christian Beliefs About Gender Identity, Lawyers Say” HERE)

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34 US Political Prisoners Suffering Torture in D.C. Jail Write Letter Detailing Horrendous Conditions, Demand Transfer to Guantanamo Bay

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Thirty-four political prisoners from the January 6 protests are suffering horrendously in a Washington, D.C. jail. Last week, they wrote the following letter (an image of the actual letter is shown below) detailing their torture at the hands of sadistic guards, and other inhumane treatment:

When one considers a society that distinguishes itself upon the standards of a “First World Country” allocation among the other numerous Nations around the globe, while informing its citizens that they belong to a country that ensures “Liberty and Justice for All”, it’s difficult to imagine then, that The United States of America, supposedly the wealthiest Nation on the planet, would subjugate its own citizens to that of incarceration and injustice instead, all while administering medieval standards of living to the agonizing occupants of its “Correctional Facilities”.

A more accurate terminology to describe the facility and the staff that this letter has escaped the clutches of that you now read, would be to call this location an “Evisceration Facility”, of the body, mind and soul, operating as an abomination to The Law and to its Nation’s Government, which ironically lies only a handful of blocks away.

For nothing is being corrected within the forsaken concrete walls of The District of Columbia Jail. Its woeful captives are all but slowly murdered in every way except for their very soul being ripped from their famished chests on behalf of this mercilessly sinister institution.

As prisoners of this Jail, we have witnessed the horrendous treatment and have been personally afflicted by the hellacious conditions this Jail insists on tormenting its traumatized guests with.

Though words will always fall short of an accurate depiction of the magnitude of pandemonium that every prisoner within these walls has had no choice but to endure, what follows is a collection of repeated offenses this Correctional Facility habitually submits upon its captives. For if this pale dungeon of Human Rights Violations dared to summon any honesty of hard choice pertaining to the abhorrent atrocities that take place behind these unforgiving doors, they should erect a sign above the front gate that says, “Abandon All Hope, Yee Who Enter Here”.

The destitute and desperate prisoners of 1901 D St. SE, Washington D.C. 20003 have and will continue to endure a combination of any and all of the following:

Begging for Help / Water / Medical Aid / Mercy through a 4 inch by 10 inch window of cold metal doors

No Visitations

No Religious Services

No Attorney Access

Mail delayed 3-4 months prior to delivery

Laundry returning with brown stains, pubic hair, and or reeking of ripe urine

Worms found in salad of “Meals”

Inadequate calorie count of “Meals”

Complete lack of nourishment in “Meals”

Loss of Head Hair due to malnourishment of “Meals”

Loss of Eye Sight due to malnourishment of “Meals”

Suffering from Scurvy due to malnourishment of “Meals”

Blatant extortion via commissary in order to maintain health and or body weight

Rust in the Water

Rust in jagged metal desks in Cells

Rust on metal cages near face on small windows of Cells

Black Mold on walls of Cells

Black Mold on floors of Cells

Black Mold in vents of Cells

Broken Sinks in Cells

Broken toilets that either wont flush or repeatedly explode in Cells

Cockroaches in Cell / Cell Block

Mice in Cell / Cell Block

Black Mold on floors and walls of showers in Cell Block

Black Sewer Flies in the Shower

Denial of basic cleaning equipment to sanitize Living Space

Denial of personal grooming allowed, forced to use Nair on head and face that leaves chemical burns on skin

Stuck in Cells for 9 days without shower

Improper Medical Care

Medical Care arriving months later, or none at all!

Lead Paint inside Cell / Cell Block

No Access to Discovery

No Legal Support such as laptops, printers, copiers

Denial of Legal Mentors

Vaccine Requirements for Visitations

Vaccine Requirements for Visitors

Vaccine Requirements for Haircuts

Vaccine Requirements for Religious Services

Vaccine Requirements for speaking with Lawyers in person

C.R.T. Propaganda on Tablets

Re-Education Propaganda on Tablets

Lack of Legal Documentation on Tablets

Racially Biased information on Tablets

Removal of Internet Access / Booster for Educational Tablets

Solitary Confinement for 25 ½ hours or more at a time

Outdoor Rec denied arbitrarily

Entry to Congressmen & Women who came to check on us Denied

Repeatedly Mocked and or Insulted for our skin color or “Religious” documentation

Compared to “Beasts”, “Dogs” and “Hogs” by “The Final Call” Magazine

Politically mocked by staff with Democrat, Black Lives Matter, Kamala Harris, Joe Biden related attire

Sent to “The Hole” if we express any political views whatsoever

Racially Profiled by Guards

Sleeping on the job by Guards

Denial of hot water by Guards

Prevented from attending court dates by Guards

Homosexual and or Verbal Assaults by Guards

Maced by Guards

Physically Harassed by Guards

Assaulted by Guards

Cell Invasions in the middle of the night by Guards

Grievous Beatings by Guards

Threatened with and or Nearly Stabbed with “12 Inch Knives”

Trials Postponed for at least 6 Months or almost a Year

Bond / Bail continually Denied

Removal of Internet Access of Clear Tablets

Removal of Access to Attorney

Removal of Access to Law Library

Removal of Access to Worship Services

Removal of Access to Grievance Forms on Tablets

It is because of this extensive report of complaints and afflictions upon those held prisoners here in the District of Columbia Jail, that not only compel us to alert the world of the diabolical conditions this “correctional facility” continues to crush all of its detainees with, but also as political prisoners on American soil, who have been unjustly and unfairly incarcerated, relentlessly burdened by selective prosecution, slandered and vilified by mainstream and social media, deliberately accosted with death threats from within the jail and received threats upon our homes and families through the mail, ALL extending from a political nature or affiliation, We hereby request to spend our precious and limited days, should the government continue to insist on holding us captive unconstitutionally as pre-trial detainees, to be transferred and reside at Guantanamo Bay, a detention facility that actually provides nutritional meals, routine sunlight exposure, top notch medical care, is respectful of religious requirements, has centers for exercise/entertainment for its detainees despite the fact that those residents are malicious terrorists, real members of the Taliban, and few are United States Citizens, instead of remaining trapped within the wretched confines of cruel and unusual punishment of the DC Jail.

Signed by:

1. Brian Mann (Pro se) #378522
2. Pete Schwartz #377185
3. Brandon Fellows #377943
4. Jeffrey McKellop #376887
5. Andrew Taake #378837
6. Scott Fairlamb #376877
7. Daniel Caldwell #376977
8. Ryan Nichols, Sr. #376795
9. Joseph Padilla #376981
10. Guy Reffitt #376682
11. Troy Smocks #376973
12. Chris Quaglin #378835
13. Sean McHugh #378159
14. Shane J. Jenkins #377186
15. Dominic Pezzola #376366
16. Edward Lang #376444
17. Peter F. Stager #376784
18. James McGrew #377892
19. William Chrestman #376795
20. Ronnie Sandlin #377783
21. Nathaniel Degrave #376789
22. Jorden Mink #377184
23. Cleveland Grover Meredith, Jr. #376201
24. Alan Byerly #378160
25. Thomas Ballard #378839
26. Julian Elie Khater #377187
27. Marshall Neefe 378836
28. Jonathan Mellis #376907
29. Robert Gieswein #376980
30. Kelly Meggs #376780
31. Jessica Watkins #376520
32. Kenneth Harrelson #377692
33. Garrett Miller #377321
34. David Dempsey #378838







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CEO of “Pollchief” Election Software Arrested for Storing Confidential Data From California Election Division in China

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Los Angeles County prosecutors have accused the chief executive of a small Michigan software company of compromising the personal information of hundreds of county elections employees.

Eugene Yu, 51, was arrested early Tuesday just outside Lansing, Mich., after prosecutors alleged he improperly stored the information on servers in China, according to Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón. Yu, who is the chief executive officer of a company named Konnech, is expected to be extradited to Los Angeles in the coming days, Gascón said.

Los Angeles County awarded Konnech a contract in 2020 to store employee payroll and scheduling data using its PollChief software, according to Gascón. Under the five-year contract valued at nearly $3 million, Konnech was not supposed to store information outside the U.S., Gascón said.

“Konnech allegedly violated its contract by storing critical information that the workers provided on servers in China,” Gascón said. “We intend to hold all those responsible for this breach accountable.”

It did not appear any of the information had been sold, and Gascón said Yu’s alleged actions had not compromised an election’s integrity. (Read more from “CEO of “Pollchief” Election Software Arrested for Storing Confidential Data From California Election Division in China” HERE)

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