Police nabbed the man suspected of gunning down six parade goers and wounding dozens more at a suburban Chicago <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/shooting-sends-4th-of-july-parade-into-chaos-multiple-feared-injured-or-dead">Fourth of July</a> celebration, <a href="https://twitter.com/NBCSky5/status/1544105507509739520?s=20&amp;t=4tGu5w_xitPDGfS0ucKwHQ">reportedly pulling him over</a> at an intersection in nearby Lake Forest after a massive manhunt.
The suspect was caught five miles north of Highland Park, where he is believed to have opened fire on a parade from a nearby rooftop. The massacre threw the affluent Chicago suburb into chaos and carnage, with dozens wounded in addition to the dead.
“This was very random, very intentional and a very sad day,” Sgt. Christopher Covelli, of the Lake County Major Crime Task Force, during a press update.
The Daily Wire does not name mass shooting suspects once they are in custody, as part of a policy aimed at depriving them of the notoriety they often crave.
Covelli said the gunman appeared to have taken up up a sniper position. Police recovered a high-powered rifle from the scene.
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The conditions of the injured ranged from serious to critical. Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering said the shooting has “terrorized” the city of 30,000.
“Firearm evidence was found on the rooftop of a nearby business, police commander Chris O&#8217;Neill said. The shooter used a ladder attached to the building on a wall in an alley to access the roof, said Christopher Covelli, spokesperson for the Lake County Major Crime Task Force,”<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/04/us/highland-park-illinois-shooting-july-4-parade/index.htmhttps:/www.cnn.com/2022/07/04/us/highland-park-illinois-shooting-july-4-parade/index.html"> CNN</a> reported.
According to one source, the suspect’s father is a former Highland Park mayoral candidate.
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker of Illinois expressed horror at the shooting in a statement Monday.
“There are no words for the kind of monster who lies in wait and fires into a crowd of families with children celebrating a holiday with their community,” he said.“There are no words for the kind of evil that robs our neighbors of their hopes, their dreams, their futures.”
The world-famous concert venue Ravinia is located in Highland Park, a city which has a sizable Jewish population and is situated roughly 30 miles north of Chicago.

At Least 6 Dead After Shooting At Fourth Of July Parade In Chicago Suburb

Got Him: Police Nab Suspected Gunman Behind Parade Massacre In Chicago Suburb

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ESPN columnist Howard Bryant seized the opportunity to trash America on July 4, the nation’s Independence Day, in a <a href="https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/34186311/baseball-barbecue-losing-freedom-fourth-july">column</a> for ESPN’s website, titled, “Baseball, barbecue, and losing freedom this Fourth of July.”
Outkick’s Clay Travis, in a <a href="https://www.outkick.com/espn-hates-america-on-july-4th-loves-woke-columnist-arrested-for-choking-his-wife/">column</a> bashing Bryant’s suppositions, described Bryant as a “man currently being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to opine on sports for ESPN, despite having no discernible talent whatsoever.”
Bryant started his diatribe by decrying Major League baseball requiring its 30 teams to wear Independence Day-themed baseball hats. “Next is the USA-themed socks, the marketing, the freedom-inspired spikes, gloves, wristbands, the inevitable paeans to the armed forces,” he complained.
“By now, we&#8217;re all numb to the spectacle,” he opined, continuing, “Grilling, baseball and fireworks, first replaced by symbols &#8212; and now by a country tearing itself completely apart. July 4, 2022, falls in the midst of devastation. It is Independence Day in America with independence under current and relentless assault.”
“The U.S. Supreme Court has run a chain saw through what two generations of Americans had known to be the legal baselines of their lives,” he hyperventilated, adding, “Tens of millions of women today do not feel freedom and certainly are not celebrating independence.”
“Ah, yes, just what we needed, a man arrested for assaulting his own wife standing up for women’s rights,” Travis commented, referring to Bryant’s <a href="https://www.masslive.com/news/2011/05/espn_writer_howard_bryant_agre.html">case in the past</a>.
Then this woke piece of business from Bryant: “The people who can become pregnant (italics added) who feel celebratory toward the Court may do so from the victory of their position, but it nevertheless remains true that the power of choice &#8212; and the right to privacy &#8212; has been taken from all of them.”
“The spectacle of all-white juries acquitting proud, admittedly guilty white killers of Black people largely predated your birth,” he wrote, then segued to the events of January 6, 2021:  “You tell yourself to not think about the utter, enraging hypocrisy, to resist the useless and flaccid equivalencies. (Imagine if Black people did that&#8230;)”
After venting about black players who knelt for the national anthem, Bryant charged, “If the past several years have reinforced anything, it is that there has always been a separate set of rules, a concierge lane, a front door exclusively for white America. Jan. 6 crystallized this truth.”
Then a bald-face lie: “When the barricades were overrun, and elected officials of both parties hid under their desks, and the cops were killed &#8230;”
Cops killed?
“A significant percentage of white America believes this country belongs to them,” he stated. “There are two rules in the United States, never directly articulated but rife with consequence when broken: Beyond what the mainstream, which is to say white America, determines to be acceptable, it is forbidden to express humanitarian compassion and concern for the people of Palestine &#8212; just ask Dwight Howard. And it is unacceptable to unequivocally advocate for Black people.”
Travis picked that apart:
<blockquote>This first “rule,” “it is forbidden to express humanitarian compassion and concern for the people of Palestine,” is barely disguised anti-Semitism. People express support for Palestine all the time. Huge parts of the Democratic party, in fact, now make it one of their baseline beliefs. &#8230; As for the second rule, it is “unacceptable to unequivocally advocate for Black people.” Are you kidding me? We had an entire NBA season played with “Black Lives Matter” emblazoned on the court.</blockquote>
Bryant concluded:
<blockquote>And that, you know so painfully well after more than a half-century in this land, is the difference. Black people have known it for centuries, and the alarm will always ring for the ones who have forgotten. You participate in the American dream at their pleasure. This is theirs, not yours, and thus they can trash the Capitol if they want because the Capitol building is theirs. After all, they came here to build a better life. The laws enacted in that building, before your ancestors fought to undo them, were in protection of them.
You? You were brought here to work.</blockquote>

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ESPN Writer Bashes America On July 4 With Woke Rant: ‘Numb To The Spectacle’

ESPN columnist Howard Bryant trashes America on July 4

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Students at a high school in New York City have created a<a href="https://www.change.org/p/high-school-for-law-public-service?redirect=false"> petition</a> to target the principal, who has been accused in the past of targeting white staffers for firing.
The students at the High School for Law and Public Service claim their principal Paula Lev, who hails from the Dominican Republic, has focused on “new furniture, plants and TV screens for the hallways” instead of more vital issues, and charge the school has disintegrated into “utter disorganization and insanity.”
“Sadly, improving the appearance of our school and making it the most visually appealing school has become more of a priority to the principal than focusing on providing quality education to our students,” they write.
Paula Lev came under investigation by the city Department of Education (DOE) in 2021 for allegedly telling a faculty member she “was going to get rid of all these white teachers that aren’t doing anything for the kids of our community,” a complaint filed with the  DOE’s Office of Equal Opportunity stated. The complaint also asserted Lev asked the faculty member to “conspire with her” in firing a white colleague,” <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/07/10/washington-heights-school-staffers-have-no-confidence-in-principal-paula-lev-after-race-flap/">The New York Post</a> reported.
In February 2021, Lev disparaged the motives of teacher Nick Bacon, the union chapter leader, who had filed a routine grievance about scheduling that affected teachers. Lev confronted Bacon in front of other teachers, snapping, “I wasn’t sure what your problem with me was, maybe it’s because I am a woman of color and you’re a white man?” The statement was confirmed by most of the school’s tenured members.
Lev later apologized but suggested Bacon read Robin DiAngelo “White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism.”
“We have had enough and cannot bear to witness the utter disorganization and insanity at our school, especially that we once proudly called home,” the students lament in their petition..
“Students and teachers are all facing the same problem: no one communicates and there is no transparency,” they charge. “Certain teachers are completely clueless and students can provide many examples that demonstrate there is no communication at all. &#8230; As students from the High School for Law &amp; Public, we are discouraged and prohibited from standing up to faculty and expressing our opinions.
“We are deeply dismayed to see this unfold at a school that had been blossoming before this principal took over,” they continue. “Happiness, pleasure, and contentment have now become filled with tears of agony and sorrow. Many of ‘our teachers and administrators’ whom we truly valued, are now gone.”
Referring to their former principal and other former staffers, they conclude, “In our petition, we call for HSLPS to be brought back to the state it was under Mr. Politis’ tenure, as well as to bring back Mr. Almonte, Ms. Carey, Ms. Emilio, and our former assistant principals under a different administration.”

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‘Utter Disorganization And Insanity’: Students File Petition Against Principal Accused Of Targeting White Staffers

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In two years, Disney could lose the exclusive rights to Mickey Mouse.
The original version of Mickey Mouse appeared in 1928; at the time U.S. copyright law protected Walt Disney’s iconic character for 56 years, but Disney later pushed for the Copyright Act of 1976, extended protections to 75 years. Then in 1998, Disney lobbied for an extension that expanded their rights to 95 years.
“The most recent extension came through the Copyright Term Extension Act in 1998, known to many as the Mickey Mouse Protection Act because of Disney’s heavy lobbying in support of the bill,” <a href="https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-05-11/mickey-mouse-copyright-expiration-disney-under-attack-republicans">The Los Angeles Times</a> noted, adding:
<blockquote>From 1987 to 1990 — around the time the legislation was being voted on — the Disney Political Action Committee donated $146,519 to federal candidates, while Disney employees gave $474,083 to candidates, plus an additional $133,382 to political parties and other PACs, according to a 1991 <a href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-09-02-mn-1110-story.html">analysis by The Times</a>.</blockquote>
“You can use the Mickey Mouse character as it was originally created to create your own Mickey Mouse stories or stories with this character,” Daniel Mayeda, the ​​associate director of the Documentary Film Legal Clinic at UCLA School of Law, explained to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/jul/03/mickey-mouse-disney-copyright-expiry?utm_term=Autofeed&amp;CMP=fb_us&amp;utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1656854906">The Guardian.</a>  &#8220;But if you do so in a way that people will think of Disney – which is kind of likely because they have been investing in this character for so long – then in theory, Disney could say you violated my copyright.”
The original version of Mickey Mouse debuted in “Steamboat Willie,” appearing premiered at the Colony Theatre on Broadway on November 18, 1928. Since then the character has appeared in over 130 films.
“While this first rat-like iteration of Mickey will be stripped of its copyright, Mayeda said Disney retains its copyright on any subsequent variations in other films or artwork until they reach the 95-year mark,” The Guardian noted.
“Copyrights are time-limited,” Mayeda said. “Trademarks are not. So Disney could have a trademark essentially in perpetuity, as long as they keep using various things as they’re trademarked, whether they’re words, phrases, characters or whatever.”
Suzanne Wilson, the head of the U.S. Copyright Office, served as the deputy general counsel for the Walt Disney Company for nearly ten years.
“Disney has been very active in trying to extend copyright terms,” Mayeda concluded. “Successfully, they have had their term for Mickey and so forth extended, but I doubt that they’re going to be able to get additional extensions. I think this is going to be the end of the line.”
(Disclosure: The Daily Wire has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/introducing-dw-kids">announced plans</a> for kids entertainment content.)

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Over the weekend, actor Mark Hamill, mocked pro-life advocates in the wake of the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, catalyzing them to fire back hard.
Hamill, whose fame is dependent on his career as Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars franchise films, taunted pro-life advocates by tweeting a picture of The Joker from Batman and his lover, Harley Quinn.
“We will adopt your baby,” Hamill tweeted with the picture.
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We Will Adopt Your Baby <a href="https://t.co/IP4YC54YYa">pic.twitter.com/IP4YC54YYa</a>
&mdash; Mark Hamill (@MarkHamill) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarkHamill/status/1543317524908949504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 2, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Hamill’s taunt engendered responses such as these:
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It&#39;s easy for Mark Hamill to mock religious conservatives who want to adopt children. But does he make fun of his colleagues in Hollywood who do the same?
Adoption is a gift for many adults &amp; children
Shame on anyone who belittles adoption to score points in the abortion debate <a href="https://t.co/RM182Ub1bD">pic.twitter.com/RM182Ub1bD</a>
&mdash; Joel M. Petlin (@Joelmpetlin) <a href="https://twitter.com/Joelmpetlin/status/1543638669516574721?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 3, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The point is <a href="https://twitter.com/MarkHamill?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MarkHamill</a> is a really POS human being. He’s obsessed with abortion. Him and his wife tried to force their son’s baby mama to have an abortion. <a href="https://t.co/JJTfOTlopV">https://t.co/JJTfOTlopV</a>
&mdash; Rebecca Downs (@RebeccaRoseGold) <a href="https://twitter.com/RebeccaRoseGold/status/1543417127188709377?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 3, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Learning Luke Skywalker is a tone deaf a-hole is in no way a surprise if you understand the Jedi. <a href="https://t.co/lhK5NPWZz2">https://t.co/lhK5NPWZz2</a>
&mdash; Ben Domenech (@bdomenech) <a href="https://twitter.com/bdomenech/status/1543410544878575616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 3, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The fixation on this is super weird because &quot;we will adopt your baby&quot; is a statement directly tied to choice. They are asking women to choose to not abort by offering to adopt their baby. This doesn&#39;t contradict the system of choice &#8211; it operates within its boundaries. <a href="https://t.co/XVr4TakRbq">https://t.co/XVr4TakRbq</a>
&mdash; Noam Blum (@neontaster) <a href="https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1543367695265107970?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 2, 2022</a></blockquote>
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This is&#8230; Really bad. <a href="https://t.co/ZhLePUixND">https://t.co/ZhLePUixND</a>
&mdash; Larry O&#39;Connor (@LarryOConnor) <a href="https://twitter.com/LarryOConnor/status/1543407810960130049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 3, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Mocking those offering to adopt children rather than celebrating their killing. This is what you have become. <a href="https://t.co/IKbYFGT9B7">https://t.co/IKbYFGT9B7</a>
&mdash; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1543590449146896384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 3, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2016/09/11/hamills-pressured-me-to-have-an-abortion-nathan-hamills-ex/">reported</a> in 2016 that Maegan Chen, then 30, a former adult movie star, was suing in a California court to establish paternity, saying Hamill’s son Nathan, then 37, fathered the child and joined Hamill and his wife Marilou to pressure Chen to have an abortion.
“Mark Hamill told me that I shouldn’t bring a child into the world that nobody wants,” Chen told The Post, adding that Mark Hamill told her Nathan was “not ready to be a father.”
Chen said Nathan Hamill told her to end the pregnancy; she took two pills in order to do so, but they didn’t work. Chen showed the Post a text message after the pills failed that allegedly was sent by Nathan Hamill that stated, “If you keep it, we won’t hang out anymore.”
Other alleged texts from Nathan Hamill Chen shared:
“No money from a trust fund and no money from my parents. And you could be paying me child support if I have custody.”
“Just told my dad. My mom is really upset now. Today’s been a nightmare. I don’t know how I’m gonna last in this house with my family until July.”
Chen said she visited the Hamills in London and that Marilou Hamill arranged a medical appointment for her.
“I thought I was going to get an ultrasound of the baby, not a referral for an abortion,” she stated, adding that when she refused and returned to the United States, she received an email from an account linked to Mark Hamill written by Marilou, the CFO of Hamill’s production company, “Meagan, you blew it. &#8230; I don’t want you to think this is a money making endeavor because you will be extremely disappointed.”
A spokesman for the Hamills told the Post, “This matter is of a sensitive nature, as well as confidential, and as such, the Hamill family is unable to provide a comment at this time.”
Chen’s daughter Autumn was born on October 31, 2016, <a href="https://radaronline.com/videos/mark-hamill-son-nathan-in-child-custody-war-with-baby-mama/">Radar Online</a> reported in May 2017, adding, “On March 13, 2017, Nathan filed court documents in Clark County, Nevada, attempting to put the matter to rest legally.”
Chen stated, &#8220;Nathan originally told me he’d pay $500 a month in child support. Now he has blocked me on social media and blocked my email and phone number. &#8230; I have only seen him in court.&#8221;
&#8220;He is trying to run me down financially,” she claimed. “I had to sell my dog and cats, piano, and camera equipment just to pay for baby supplies and her stroller. &#8230; Whatever the court says is fair for child support, I’m fine with. But I want Nathan to put Autumn under his insurance. He needs to be responsible.
“As for Nathan, he&#8217;s claimed in court papers obtained by Radar that Chen lives in Nevada and is attempting to maintain a residence in California in order to get more money,” Radar Online reported.

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‘POS Human Being’: Mark Hamill Mocks Pro-Lifers With Joker Tweet. They Pummel Him.

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Younger men who either don’t want or fear having children, no longer confident that the women in their life can abort their babies because of the SCOTUS decision overturning Roe v. Wade, are surging in their desire for vasectomies.
Urologists and staff at medical offices around the country have noticed an increase in demand for vasectomies.
“A vasectomy is permanent male sterilization,” Dr. Puneet Masson, Assistant Professor of Urology and Director of the Male Fertility Program at Penn Fertility Care, <a href="https://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/kansas-city-urologist-says-vasectomy-consults-have-increased-by-900-since-roe-v-wade-decision">stated</a>. “That being said, life changes—it’s a very dynamic process.”
“Dr. Alex Shteynshlyuger, director of urology at New York Urology Specialists in Midtown Manhattan, estimated that calls about vasectomy procedures to his office have soared by more than 500 percent this week with many consultations booked for July and younger men jumping on the bandwagon,” the <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/07/01/younger-men-seek-vasectomies-in-the-wake-of-roe-v-wade-ruling/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&amp;utm_medium=SocialFlow&amp;utm_source=NYPTwitter">New York Post</a> reported.
“Staff at medical offices told The Post that they have been stunned by the number of childless, younger men asking about the procedure during which the tubes that carry sperm are cut or blocked,” the Post added.
“This week, we have had a lot of people calling to try and get in for a vasectomy,” said Isis Thomas, an office manager at Mercy Hospital Oklahoma City declared. “We have had a lot of younger generations trying to get in and get that done for sure &#8230; we normally have in one day of people calling and trying to get in maybe five to six patients, but this past week, we’ve had 15, 16 people call in a day.”
In Salt Lake City, Utah, urologist Dr. Blake Johnson, cited the leak of the Supreme Court ruling in May, saying, “Since the actual decision, we’re all of the sudden booked out until September. It’s way up.”
Dr. Christian Hettinger. a urologist in the Kansas City area, <a href="https://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/kansas-city-urologist-says-vasectomy-consults-have-increased-by-900-since-roe-v-wade-decision">said</a> earlier this week, “One of our office managers said get ready. Since Friday, we’re up 900% in people looking to get a vasectomy.&#8221;
“Typically, it’s about three phone calls over a weekend, over this past weekend it was 50 calls looking for vasectomies,” he revealed.

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A 15-year-old girl in a public park with a man was shot and killed by her father in Iran in a suspected “honor killing.”
Ariana Lashkari, 15, was murdered by her father Mohammad Kazem Lashkari, 43, who admitted he had killed her on June 27 in Nurabad but claimed it was an accident.
“After an argument, Ariana went to my mother&#8217;s house and I could not control my anger,” Mohammad Lashkari told police. “I went there with my shotgun to scare her. I really did not mean to kill my daughter. I fired involuntarily.”
But one of the young girl’s relatives told human rights activist Masih Alinejad, “Ariana was a quiet girl who went to school every day and returned, a joyous girl full of hopes. This girl was very kind and caring.”
“All of her friends and classmates adored her. Ariana was a girl that didn&#8217;t enjoy being oppressed by her father and others,” the relative continued. “She wanted to choose her own lifestyle and have a free mind. But accepting her views was hard for her father. And others who constantly said ‘Your daughter is acting up’ helped this tragedy and led to this father murdering his beloved child.”
“I&#8217;m still in shock from this tragedy,” he lamented. “Not only me but the entire city is in shock.  It&#8217;s unbelievable to see that Ariana is now gone.”
“The regime, as always, is trying hard for this tragedy not to get published or shared in the media,” the relative charged. “I hope this innocent girl&#8217;s blood is not going to be trampled on like many other girls who have been murdered in this way.”
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Aryana’s father believed his daughter’s lifestyle was against family’s honor so on Monday he shot his 15 yr old daughter in heart in the city of Noorabad in Iran. Listen to a relative: Aryana Lashkari was a cheerful schoolgirl. Her classmates loved her. <a href="https://t.co/Kr5g9voNEQ">pic.twitter.com/Kr5g9voNEQ</a>
&mdash; Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih) <a href="https://twitter.com/AlinejadMasih/status/1542443403237097475?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 30, 2022</a></blockquote>
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“In Iran the punishment for murder is usually death,” <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10972323/Iranian-father-shoots-dead-15-year-old-daughter-suspected-honour-killing.html">The Daily Mail</a> pointed out. “However, the murder of a child or grandchild by their father or paternal grandfather is an exception and carries a maximum sentence of ten years.  In Iran 15 to 18 per cent of murders are so-called honor killings. Up to 62 per cent of murders of women are committed by a family member.”
In February of this year, <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/video-iranian-man-walks-grinning-while-carrying-severed-head-of-17-year-old-wife/">video was published</a> showing a grinning Iranian man walking through the streets of Ahvaz in southwest Iran while carrying the severed head of his 17-year-old wife, whom he had reportedly murdered with his brother in an “honor killing.”
Sajjad Heydari carried the head of his wife Mona Heydari in one hand and a blade in the other, East2West News reported, according to <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/02/08/iranian-man-carries-wifes-head-after-honor-killing/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&amp;utm_source=NYPTwitter&amp;utm_medium=SocialFlow">The New York Post</a>.
“Mona, who also was Sajjad’s cousin, had been forced to marry him when she was just 12 years old, according to the Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran,” The Post noted.
The couple had a three-year-old son. That fact was reportedly used to pressure Mona to stay despite domestic abuse and a wish for divorce, but she escaped to Turkey. “Her father helped the husband, who is his nephew, to bring the woman back to the country,” <a href="https://www.iranintl.com/en/202202060032">Iran International</a> reported.
Only days after her return, “Sajjad and his brother allegedly tied her hands and chopped off her head. Her body was dumped before her husband paraded through the streets with her head,” the Post reported. The two men have reportedly been arrested.
After the Rokna news agency published the video of Sajjad Heydari walking through the streets with his wife’s head, Iran&#8217;s media watchdog reportedly shut the news agency down.

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Iranian Father Murders 15-Year-Old Daughter With Shotgun In Suspected ‘Honor Killing’

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s &#8220;workaround&#8221; for the Supreme Court&#8217;s ruling last week that states can restrict abortions is to terminate pregnancies on federal land &#8212; which presumably could mean abortion clinics in national parks.
The New York Democrat raised the bizarre prospect while <a href="https://grabien.com/story.php?id=384005?utm_source=cliplist&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=cliplist20220701&amp;utm_content=story384005">railing against the Hyde Amendment</a>, which bans the use of federal funds to pay for abortion, except to save the life of the woman, or if the pregnancy arises from incest or rape.
“I will say, on a policy response, we should — we need to be working on repealing the Hyde Amendment in Congress right now,” Ocasio-Cortez pronounced. “I am proud to say that we have successfully started to take the steps to repeal the Hyde Amendment. &#8230; repealing the Hyde Amendment will allow the federal government to invest in access to reproductive care on — in any place that has federal jurisdiction, including places with federal jurisdiction in red states.&#8221;
“I have brought up, for example, the prospects of increasing abortion access on federal lands in red states,” Ocasio-Cortez declared. “There are workarounds around this. We can start exploring this now.”
Ocasio-Cortez had initially called for using public lands for on July 24, <a href="https://twitter.com/ohheyjenna/status/1540509529493872640">ranting at a rally</a> in New York City’s Union Square, “One of the things that we know too, is that there are also things actions at President Biden’s disposal that he can mobilize, aren’t there? I’ll start with the babiest of the babiest of the baby steps: Open abortion clinics on federal lands in red states right now.”
Federal lands include national parks, forests, wildlife refuges, conservation areas, monuments, wildernesses, historic sites, memorials, battlefields, recreation areas, wild and scenic rivers, seashores and lakeshores, and trails, according to the <a href="https://www.doi.gov/blog/americas-public-lands-explained">U.S. Department of the Interior</a> (DOI).
“Our national parks are America’s crown jewels, inspiring awe and wonder. Iconic locations like Yosemite and Yellowstone attract visitors from all over the world, but our public lands are so much more than just the big 61 national parks,” DOI writes. “They’re also scenic rivers, national marine monuments, national battlefields and wildernesses.”
“With more than 400 national parks, 560 national wildlife refuges and nearly 250 million acres of other public lands managed by Interior, there’s at least one public land near you,” DOI adds.
Ocasio-Cortez has referred to national parks as examples of Democratic Socialism; in 2018 she tweeted, “Back home after a lovely few days off enjoying US examples of Democratic Socialism, like: Acadia National Park.”
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Back home after a lovely few days off enjoying US examples of Democratic Socialism, like: &#8211; Acadia National Park &#8211; Café Co-ops (Def Top 5 best breakfast sandwiches I’ve ever had 🍳) &#8211; Supporting worker-owned businesses &#8211; Bonus: Spotted a <a href="https://twitter.com/PPact?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PPact</a> helping people, per usual✌🏽💜 <a href="https://t.co/xmiYXutfpS">pic.twitter.com/xmiYXutfpS</a>
&mdash; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1031202702871683072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 19, 2018</a></blockquote>
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A Seattle street preacher says he was arrested for simply reading his Bible at a public park near a Seattle Gay Pride event.
Matthew Meinecke was surrounded by Seattle police officers and taken to the police station, where he was fingerprinted before being released.
“So at this point we can no longer stand by,” a police officer told Meinecke as he arrested him. “The risk that you pose for public safety by remaining here can be mitigated if you leave, it’s your last chance.”
“I don’t want to leave because I’m not in danger,” Meinecke responded. 
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SPD has enough resources to send 10 police officers to arrest a preacher reading his Bible in a public park. Because it&#39;s such a horrible crime now! <a href="https://t.co/pytbNDel9I">pic.twitter.com/pytbNDel9I</a>
&mdash; The Seattle Preacher (@mattteamjesus) <a href="https://twitter.com/mattteamjesus/status/1541307230099714049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 27, 2022</a></blockquote>
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One Seattle Pride event featured several men <a href="https://protestia.com/2022/06/26/children-watch-on-as-seattle-pride-event-featured-naked-men-on-bikes-clothing-optional-water-fountain-party/">riding their bicycles naked</a> as some children watched; during another event some men <a href="https://twitter.com/KatieDaviscourt/status/1541193654970220546">paraded around naked</a> in front of children, according to footage posted of the event.
Meinecke posted a <a href="https://twitter.com/mattteamjesus/status/1540586926645854208">video</a> of Bibles that he said had been seized from him and ripped as one person yelled at him, “Get the f*** out of here! Get your holy water off my ovaries, b****! Get the f*** out!”
One person yelled at Meinecke to “forget about your imaginary fairy in the f***ing sky.”
“I was at the Seattle Center, reading the Bible, not aggressively preaching, not stirring people up, not anything,” Meinecke said. “People throwing things. People vandalizing our property. I think about 10 police officers showed up.”
“Your job is not to silence me and move me,” the street preacher said of the police. “Why are they so offended by words? I just believe in using the word of God.”
Pointing to his heart, he continued, “So if those words are so offensive then the problem is here. The problem is in you.”
“Meanwhile we have a bunch of naked people walking around over here, not even 200 feet away,” he noted. “Naked grown men around little children.”
In a video, Meinecke stated, “We’ve got a city full of crime. We’ve got needles all over the place. Lawless homeless camps everywhere. We’ve got assaults. We’ve got broken glass. We’ve got Antifa running the place. But they’ve got time to send in ten police officers to arrest a street preacher reading his Bible in a park.”
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/EXCLUSIVE?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#EXCLUSIVE</a>: Earlier today, <a href="https://twitter.com/SeaCityAttorney?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SeaCityAttorney</a> not filing obstruction charge against street evangelist <a href="https://twitter.com/mattteamjesus?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@mattteamjesus</a>. He was arrested twice last week for preaching during <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RoeVsWade?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#RoeVsWade</a> rally + <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SeattlePride?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SeattlePride</a>. Far left extremists ripped up his Bible and assaulted him. But they got away. <a href="https://t.co/S4rFlHnKaH">pic.twitter.com/S4rFlHnKaH</a>
&mdash; Jonathan Choe Journalist (@choeshow) <a href="https://twitter.com/choeshow/status/1542037394202865664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 29, 2022</a></blockquote>
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“I love the police. I have no problem with the police at all,” Meinecke <a href="https://twitter.com/choeshow/status/1542046166098911234">stated</a>. “I mean, I’ve preached to the police, but it’s only salvation. It’s only the gospel. &#8230; I believe that police are fallible human beings just like anyone else and worthy of criticism like everybody else.”

Scenes from the 45th annual Seattle Pride Parade, Sunday June, 30, 2019. (Genna Martin, Seattlepi.com)

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Two legendary powerhouse athletic programs are reported to be leaving the Pac-12 conference and joining the Big 10.
USC and UCLA are reportedly readying an exit that would be implemented as early as 2024, as first reported by <a href="https://twitter.com/wilnerhotline/status/1542559346453729281" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jon Wilner</a> of the Mercury News. The Athletic’s <a href="https://twitter.com/BruceFeldmanCFB/status/1542563902302461957" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bruce Feldman</a> confirmed much of Wilner’s report; a source told  <a href="https://twitter.com/Brett_McMurphy/status/1542576356684288000" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brett McMurphy</a> of Action Network, “It&#8217;s not official yet, but I’d put it at 90 percent.”
<a href="https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/34173688/source-usc-ucla-considering-move-pac-12-big-ten">ESPN</a> reported that the formal announcement could come in the next 24 hours.
“We just got Sooner’d and Horn’d,” mourned a high-ranking university official at another Pac-12 university  in reference to Texas and Oklahoma leaving the Big 12 conference for the SEC last year.
The two schools have to complete the formal notification process and must apply to the Big Ten, and a source informed ESPN that the process has already been initiated.
“The biggest obstacle in such a move had long been UCLA leaving behind Cal because it meant breaking away from UC system, per sources,” Pete Thamel, college football senior writer for ESPN noted. “ One Pac-12 source said they were ‘stunned’ UCLA would make that move.”
“I was always of the opinion that UCLA couldn&#8217;t leave Cal,” a Pac-12 source opined. “There&#8217;s no more political state than that or system than that. That was very surprising.”
“USC and UCLA have grant of rights that are tied to the current Pac-12 television contract, which expires after the 2023 football season and 2023-24 school year,” ESPN noted. Thus the schools could enter the Big 10 for the 2024-25 season while suffering no financial penalties.
“USA Today&#8216;s <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2022/05/20/pac-12-big-ten-big-12-revenue-fell-pandemic/9855686002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Steve Berkowitz</a> also wrote in May how the most recent payouts to the Pac-12 member schools, which fell from $33.6 million in 2020 to $19.8 million in 2021, ‘were the lowest among the Power Five by a significant margin,’” <a href="https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10040548-usc-ucla-reportedly-planning-to-leave-pac-12-for-big-ten-by-2024">Bleacher Report</a> noted.
Conference revenue projections for later in the decade estimate the SEC and Big Ten reaping roughly double of certain other Power 5 leagues. “Those financial pressures left USC and UCLA with the choice of bullying the Pac-12 for unequal revenue shares or going elsewhere and having a seat at the table for the long-term,” ESPN noted.
USC has won the Pac-10 football championship a whopping 37 times; UCLA and Washington are tied for second with 17 championships. UCLA has won 11 college basketball national championships, the most of any university.

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The GOP congressman who said he will lead Congressional investigations into the allegedly shady foreign dealings of Hunter Biden and Joe Biden’s awareness of them granted a 2022 GOP victory issued a statement declaring his determination to aggressively pursue the Biden family.
Rep. James Comer (R-KY), the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, cited the bombshell 2018 voicemail between Joe and Hunter Biden that was revealed this week as an additional reason he would target the Biden family.
“Evidence continues to mount that Joe Biden is the ‘Big Guy’ and received a cut from his family’s suspicious foreign business deals,” Comer told <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10966711/GOP-Rep-James-Comer-Joes-voicemail-Hunter-proof-knew-sons-foreign-deals.html">The Daily Mail</a>.
President Biden has consistently denied discussing his son’s foreign business dealings; on April 5 then-White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2022/04/05/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-jen-psaki-april-5-2022/">answered</a> “Yes” when asked “The President has said that he never spoke to his son about his overseas business dealings.  Is that still the case?”
Yet the voicemail featured Joe Biden speaking to his son about a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/12/business/cefc-biden-china-washington-ye-jianming.html">New York Times story</a> revolving around Hunter&#8217;s dealings with the Chinese oil company CEFC.
“&#8217;Hey pal, it&#8217;s Dad. It&#8217;s 8:15 on Wednesday night. If you get a chance just give me a call. Nothing urgent. I just wanted to talk to you,” Biden told his son in the voicemail. “I thought the article released online, it&#8217;s going to be printed tomorrow in the Times, was good. I think you&#8217;re clear. And anyway if you get a chance give me a call. I love you.”
“We’ve uncovered evidence revealing the [commingling] of Hunter and Joe Biden’s finances and the voicemail unearthed recently is just further proof Joe Biden knew about his son’s wheeling and dealing with foreign adversaries,” Comer asserted.
Hunter&#8217;s abandoned laptop revealed he made a multi-million deal with CEFC after bragging about his family connections; the Times&#8217; 2018 story noted CEFC chairman Ye Jianming “courted the Biden family and networked with former United States security officials.” The Times continued, “Mr. Ye is in Chinese custody and is under investigation for unspecified crimes. The trial and conviction in New York last week of <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/05/business/cefc-china-patrick-ho.html">one of his top lieutenants, Patrick Ho</a>, showed that company officials used bribery to win oil and energy contracts in Africa.”
“Last year, as American authorities <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/21/business/china-energy-cefc.html">closed in on Mr. Ye’s company,</a> the first call made by one of his emissaries in custody was to Mr. Biden’s brother,” The Times noted.
“We will continue to investigate the Biden family’s shady business deals as more facts emerge,” Comer stated. “If Americans entrust Republicans with the majority, we will use the power of the gavel to get answers about the Biden family’s pattern of placing profit over country to determine if President Biden is compromised by these deals.”

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In a typically lame attempt at comedy, late-night host Stephen Colbert mocked the Supreme Court’s recent decision in the case of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/it-is-just-incredible-to-know-that-i-did-nothing-wrong-joseph-kennedy-celebrates-scotus-win-for-religious-freedom">high school football coach who prayed on the field</a>.
He got roasted.
“If the Supreme Court is going to allow prayer in the middle of a high school football field, they should allow high school football games in the middle of a church,” Colbert taunted.
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If the Supreme Court is going to allow prayer in the middle of a high school football field, they should allow high school football games in the middle of a church.
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Colbert was referencing the <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/breaking-supreme-court-affirms-religious-liberty-rules-in-favor-of-public-high-school-football-coach-punished-for-praying-after-games/">Court’s decision</a> in Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, which revolved around Joseph Kennedy, the Washington state public high school football coach who was placed on administrative leave by the school district and banned from participating in the football program for praying on the field after games.
Justice Neil Gorsuch <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/21-418_i425.pdf">wrote</a> in the majority opinion, “Here, a government entity sought to punish an individual for engaging in a brief, quiet, personal religious observance doubly protected by the Free Exercise and Free Speech Clauses of the First Amendment. And the only meaningful justification the government offered for its reprisal rested on a mistaken view that it had a duty to ferret out and suppress. Religious observances even as it allows comparable secular speech. The Constitution neither mandates nor tolerates that kind of discrimination.”
“Kennedy’s private religious exercise did not come close to crossing any line one might imagine separating protected private expression from impermissible government coercion,” Gorsuch added.
Colbert’s tweet engendered derision on social media as his supposed comedic genius got dragged.
“I miss comedy that wasn&#8217;t just college sophomores thinking they just discovered arguing.”
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I miss comedy that wasn&#39;t just college sophomores thinking they just discovered arguing. <a href="https://t.co/N8XWCkJzn6">https://t.co/N8XWCkJzn6</a>
&mdash; Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) <a href="https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1542291508476477441?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 29, 2022</a></blockquote>
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“Gold. You can understand now why they give this guy $15 million a year.”
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Gold. You can understand now why they give this guy $15 million a year. <a href="https://t.co/ZCmmxyyJyl">https://t.co/ZCmmxyyJyl</a>
&mdash; David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) <a href="https://twitter.com/davidharsanyi/status/1542196918092066816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 29, 2022</a></blockquote>
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“Alexa, show me a dumb*** attempting to connect things that literally have nothing to do with each other whatsoever, which will then prove his dumb*** audience nodding in approval is even dumber than he is.”
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Alexa, show me a dumbass attempting to connect things that literally have nothing to do with each other whatsoever, which will then prove his dumbass audience nodding in approval is even dumber than he is. <a href="https://t.co/Zt6wasDJhj">https://t.co/Zt6wasDJhj</a>
&mdash; Steve Deace (@SteveDeaceShow) <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveDeaceShow/status/1542211956676984837?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 29, 2022</a></blockquote>
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“As a pastor&#8217;s kid and former high school football player I could totally get on board with with [sic] this.”
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As a pastor&#39;s kid and former high school football player I could totally get on board with with this. <a href="https://t.co/zUBrxwhrnr">https://t.co/zUBrxwhrnr</a>
&mdash; Barnabas Piper (@BarnabasPiper) <a href="https://twitter.com/BarnabasPiper/status/1542214302207188995?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 29, 2022</a></blockquote>
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“This is moronic.”
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This is moronic. <a href="https://t.co/D7n0pcOYMu">https://t.co/D7n0pcOYMu</a>
&mdash; Chad Felix Greene 🏳️‍🌈 (@chadfelixg) <a href="https://twitter.com/chadfelixg/status/1542292072027258881?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 29, 2022</a></blockquote>
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In March, Colbert was bashed after he <a href="https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1501158360368001026">pontificated</a> from his elitist perch in the face of rising gas prices, “Today, the average gas price in America hit an all-time record high of over $4/gallon. OK, that stings, but a clean conscience is worth a buck or two. It’s important. I’m willing to pay $4/gallon. Hell, I’ll pay $15 a gallon b/c I drive a Tesla.”

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