New York Times:  “Two of the men found guilty of the assassination of Malcolm X are expected to have their convictions thrown out on Thursday, the Manhattan district attorney and lawyers for the two men said, rewriting the official history of one of the most notorious murders of the civil rights era.

“For decades, historians have cast doubt on the case against the two men, Muhammad A. Aziz and Khalil Islam, who each spent more than 20 years in prison. Their exoneration represents a remarkable acknowledgment of grave errors made in a case of towering importance: the 1965 murder of one of America’s most influential Black leaders.

“’It’s long overdue,’ said Bryan Stevenson a civil rights lawyer and the founder of the Equal Justice initiative. ‘This is one of the most prominent figures of the 20th century who commanded enormous attention and respect. And yet, our system failed.’

“As Republican politicians flock to Mar-a-Lago this fall to seek the former president’s support, they’ll be waited on by people whose presence many of them have railed against: foreign workers. Earlier this year, Mar-a-Lago sought up to 87 temporary foreign workers to cook, clean and wait tables this winter, according to job orders posted on the Department of Labor’s website. Pay for the positions, which run from October 2021 through May 2022, start at $11.70 an hour.”

“Citizen and Immigration Services’ guidelines permit employers to hire short-term temporary foreign workers if ‘there are not enough U.S. workers who are able, willing, qualified and available to do the temporary work.’ In July, when Mar-a-Lago first advertised the positions, unemployment in Florida was 5.1%. Mar-a-Lago’s reliance on foreign workers seems at odds with Trump’s stance on immigration. His White House tried to prevent employers from relying on foreign workers, but it did so by targeting permanent employees – not the temporary ones Mar-a-Lago uses” – Forbes.

A December rally that would’ve featured Donald Trump, Jr. as headliner was abruptly canceled when the bank handling credit card payments notified them that it would no longer do business with the PAC organizing it, the Missouri Independent reports.

The Defense of Liberty PAC, founded by former state Rep. Paul Curtman, hired payment processor WePay, owned by JPMorgan Chase, to handle credit card payments for the December 3rd events.  On November 9th, WePay notified the PAC they were canceling the contract.

“It seems you’re using WePay Payments for one or more of the activities prohibited by our terms of service,” a copy of the message, forwarded to The Independent, states. “More specifically: Per our terms of service, we are unable to process for hate, violence, racial intolerance, terrorism, the financial exploitation of a crime, or items or activities that encourage, promote, facilitate, or instruct others regarding the same.”

Associated Press:  “Federal health authorities on Wednesday confirmed the discovery of some frozen vials labeled ‘Smallpox’ in a freezer at a facility in Pennsylvania that conducts vaccine research.  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the vials ‘were incidentally discovered by a laboratory worker’ who was cleaning out the freezer.

“’CDC, its administration partners, and law enforcement are investigating the matter and the vials’ contents appear intact,’ CDC spokesperson Belsie González said in an email.  ‘The laboratory worker who discovered the vials was wearing gloves and a face mask,’ González wrote. ‘There is no indication that anyone has been exposed to the small number of frozen vials.’

“The CDC would not confirm where in Pennsylvania the vials were found.  Smallpox is a deadly, infectious disease caused by the variola virus that plagued the world for centuries and killed nearly a third of the people it infected. Victims suffered scorching fever and body aches, and then spots and blisters that would leave survivors with pitted scars.  The United States was able to end routine childhood vaccination against the disease by the early 1970s and said the last natural outbreak in the country occurred in 1949. In 1980, the World Health Assembly declared smallpox eradicated.”

“What I believe is unprecedented is for a member of House leadership of either party to be unable to condemn incitement of violence against a member of this body … what is so hard about saying that this is wrong?”

Voting is still underway but as of this writing the measure has accumulated enough yay votes to pass. 217 Democrats have voted yes, along with 2 Republicans. 201 Republicans have voted no. Evil white nationalist dentist Congressman Paul Gosar of Arizona has been formally censured and removed from his committee assignments for posting a video of him murdering AOC and Biden.

UPDATE 11/17/21 2:57 PM EST: Congress’s procedures can be kind of confusing and pointless, so the resolution has not actually been effected yet. This obnoxious “debate” period with MAGA members whatabouting anything and everything they can think of is even more tiring.

UPDATE 11/17/21 4:23 PM EST: The final vote has crossed the majority threshold and again at this point there are 218 Democrats and 2 Republicans having voted yes o HR 789 to strip Doctor Giggles of his committee assignments. May God have no mercy on his soul.

“The expected large scale pattern evolution from the weekend into the middle of next week remains on track. Guidance consensus shows flat mean flow as of early Saturday steadily becoming more amplified as a deepening upper trough heads into the eastern U.S., downstream from a Pacific upper ridge that reaches western Canada and the northwestern U.S. by Monday. Within the eastern trough, some models continue to show an upper low closing off and taking a path somewhere within an area from the Great Lakes/southern Canada into New England, supporting at least moderately strong southern Canada into Northeast U.S. low pressure, which could undergo some redevelopment during the overall system’s life span. This storm remains a prominent weather focus due to its timing right before Thanksgiving” says an NOAA advisory bulletin.

Ok, Brandon 🤣

Pretty hard when our “conservative” state leaders caved to @staceyabrams — gave her everything she wanted + more. Why didn’t you fight for all of us then instead of fighting us now? You guys are too focused on fighting Trump, instead of stopping Biden & saving GA. https://t.co/j83JBTeJg1

— David Perdue (@DavidPerdueGA) November 17, 2021

CNN reports decrepit alcoholic Nazi Steve Bannon has pleaded not guilty to contempt charges.

Dominant whipping fetishist Steve Scalise, licking his lips in fervid delight, sent this message demanding obedience from the submissive Republican slaves in his bondage on Wednesday:

It is not known yet how many of the floor-licking cucks will please their sadistic master, but one thing is for certain: There will be howls of pain and forbidden pleasure at the climax.

He started with “The halls of this hallowed Republic have become darkened with the smut and filth of corrupted justice,” and went downhill from there.  For the record: the residences and offices of Project Veritas and its leaders were raided by the FBI last week as part of an investigation into items stolen from Ashley Biden, daughter of President Joe Biden, which PV founder James O’Keefe has acknowledged he was offered before they were published online by a third party.

“Former U.S. Sen. David Perdue delivered his sharpest comments yet about a possible primary challenge to Gov. Brian Kemp, saying Wednesday that divided Republicans feel the ‘people in power haven’t fought for them’ during the 2020 elections. Once a staunch ally of Kemp, Perdue has been seriously considering a primary challenge against Kemp for weeks. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported in October that Perdue was calling donors and operatives to build support for a possible campaign against the first-term Republican governor” AJC reports

“Perdue, who was defeated by Democrat Jon Ossoff in January’s runoff, told Martha Zoller of WDUN on Wednesday that Georgia Republicans need to be unified as tough 2022 elections loom. U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock is standing for a full six-year term in the Senate and Stacey Abrams is expected to launch a second bid for governor. ‘The fact that your phone is blowing up and my phone is blowing up, tells us something. We have a divided party in Georgia right now,’ Perdue told Zoller. ‘Forget about me. It’s divided. And a lot of people feel like that people in power haven’t fought for them and caved in to a lot of things back in 2020 that didn’t have to be done.'”

Perdue also lost because he failed to show up to a debate against Ossoff when he didn’t want to miss a Trump rally scheduled for the same night. Also pledged to oppose certifying the 2020 election when he almost certainly would not have been legally a current member of the United States Senate to vote against it on January 6th even if he had won (Perdue’s term expired on the 3rd and it took until the 20th for the special election result to be certified in state and Ossoff to be worn in). Kemp is piece of shit too, but this is some pretty lame pandering to the MAGA base.

“US District Judge Royce C. Lamberth sentences Jacob Chansley, the ‘QAnon Shaman,’ to 41 months in prison on one felony count of obstruction of an official proceeding. Chansley must participate in drug testing and mental health treatment. He’ll also have to pay $2,000 in restitution. Judge Lamberth does not impose an additional fine, finding he is not able to pay one” – WUSA.

Video taken by Fox News outside the Kenosha County, Wisconsin courthouse on Wednesday morning shows an unnamed, totally based MAGA patriot complying with sheriff’s deputies after they inform him they’re within 1,000 feet of a school and he can’t be carrying a weapon there without a concealed carry permit. They didn’t have to pry it from his cold dead hands after all, since he willingly walked with them so they could run his license to check for outstanding warrants.

“The Florida House has approved legislation asking the Governor to develop a state workplace safety plan, handing the issue off to the Senate. The measure (HB 5B), passed Wednesday, would give Gov. Ron DeSantis until Jan. 17 to develop a plan for Florida to seek federal approval for a state counterpart to the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration.”

“Leaders in Florida’s Republican-led Legislature initially framed the measure as a way to bypass vaccine mandates from a ‘weaponized’ federal agency, although state occupational safety agencies must be at least as strict as OSHA. Land O’Lakes Republican Rep. Ardian Zika, the bill’s sponsor, has tied the bill to ‘freedom,’ telling members the proposal would benefit both employers and employees and allow them to grow economically. ‘Florida knows Florida better than Washington, D.C. will ever know Florida,’ Zika said. ‘We have a responsibility as Floridians to ensure that Florida remains the launching pad for the American dream.’ The bill passed 76 to 38, with only Miami Democratic Rep. James Bush crossing party lines to vote in favor of the measure. No Republicans besides Zika spoke in favor of the bill during debate, but many Democratic Caucus members lined up to oppose the bill, calling it a waste of time” – Florida Politics .

Washington Post:  “Sherrilyn Ifill was 10 years old when a New York City police officer shot and killed a boy her age in her Jamaica, Queens, neighborhood. She heard parents mourning his death at the bus stop on the way to school, talking about his family at the grocery store. Four decades later, she presided over one of the U.S.’s preeminent civil rights groups as the nation grappled with a new racial reckoning, from police violence to voting rights to equity in education. Ifill, 58, will step down as president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund in the spring of 2022, she told The Washington Post.

“Her longtime deputy, Janai Nelson, 49, will succeed her, the organization said; an official date for the transition has not been set. Since taking over the LDF in 2013, Ifill presided over massive growth in the organization. Its staff grew from 55 employees, mostly attorneys, to more than 150, expanding into new grass-roots organizing and communications departments. The LDF created its own historical archive to document legal milestones and trailblazers of the civil rights movement. It established an internal think tank, the Thurgood Marshall Institute, to research civil rights law and structural racism.

“A law professor by training, Ifill grew the LDF’s budget by a factor of five — from $12 million to $60 million — and added nearly $100 million to its endowment fund. Her time as president and director-counsel began as the Supreme Court in 2013 struck down election law preclearance requirements from the 1965 Voting Rights Act, a ruling that experts say opened the door for increasingly stringent voter restrictions in Republican-controlled states. It ends after landmark victories against President Donald Trump and his administration: suing the then-president to defeat a commission on voter fraud, Attorney General William P. Barr on a policing commission, and Postmaster General Louis DeJoy over planned mail slowdowns ahead of the 2020 presidential election.”

“President Joe Biden is asking the Federal Trade Commission to look into behavior from energy companies as prices at the pump hover around a seven-year high. In a letter to Chair Lina Khan Tuesday, Biden said there’s ‘mounting evidence of anti-consumer behavior by oil and gas companies.’ The letter noted that prices at the pump have remained high despite a decline in the price of unfinished gasoline. ‘This unexplained large gap between the price of unfished gasoline and the average price at the pump is well above the pre-pandemic average,’ the letter said. The letter added that the ‘two largest oil and gas companies in the United States’ – which are Exxon and Chevron based on market capitalization – are on track to almost double their net income compared with 2019 levels, while the two have also announced stock buybacks and dividend hikes” – CNBC.

USA Today:  “More than 100,000 Americans died from drug overdoses during the 12 months following the COVID-19 lockdowns, the most overdose deaths ever recorded in a one-year span, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics estimates released Wednesday show 100,306 drug overdose deaths during 12 months ending in April. That represents a jump of 28.5% from the 78,056 deaths during the same period one year before.

“The provisional data, which includes cases still under investigation, provides the first full picture of the impact ofstay-at-home orders many states implemented mid-to-late March 2020 to limit spread of the COVID-19 virus. Although states began to ease restriction weeks or months later, some in recovery struggled to maintain sobriety, while others turned to drugs to cope.
Experts say the drug overdose deaths spiked as people felt isolated, lost jobs or struggled with the emotional toll of loved ones afflicted with COVID-19.

“‘Two forces here are the negative economic impact of the pandemic as well as the emotional impact,’ said Dr. Paul Christo, associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. ‘That led a lot of people to use drugs of abuse to cope.’ While prescription painkillers drove the nation’s overdose epidemic in the last decade, they were supplanted by heroin and more recently by fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid. Fentanyl was developed to treat intense pain from ailments like cancer but has increasingly been sold illicitly and mixed with other street drugs.”

MACDONALDS has had REAL problems for a LONG time: faulty McRib, no Onion Rings, SPORADIC availability of Seafood and McShakes, an Unmotivated and surly (often) Workforce. The CEO instead spends his time Apologizing for TELLING THE TRUTH? If I Weren't a "nice guy" I'd BOYCOTT pic.twitter.com/bzVVMRcwQE

— Greg Kelly (@gregkellyusa) November 17, 2021