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“Gov. Gavin Newsom is on track to survive a recall election in deep-blue California after initially causing Democrats severe heartburn, with veteran Republican insiders blaming GOP front-runner Larry Elder. The conservative talk-radio host motivated previously complacent rank-and-file Democrats – which neutralized Newsom’s biggest challenge of voter apathy – by catering to the Republican base with polarizing rhetoric and adamantly opposing mask and vaccine mandates amid a resurgence of the coronavirus. In a state where registered Democrats outnumber Republicans 2-1, Elder made himself the perfect foil for Newsom – enabling the Democratic incumbent to make the campaign about the GOP rather than his embattled leadership.”

“‘Newsom has successfully framed the race as him versus Elder, and Democratic voters are responding by voting,’ said Rob Stutzman, a GOP operative in Sacramento who advised former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Republican who succeeded Gray Davis after the Democrat was recalled from office in 2003. ‘Elder has no appeal outside of GOP voters.’ Elder, a 69-year-old whip-smart and engaging black Republican who is at times combative, is poised to finish first among candidates vying to replace Newsom in Tuesday’s recall. But it will be a Pyrrhic victory if fewer than 50% of California voters support removing the governor from office. A flurry of recent polling suggests that is exactly what will happen. ‘Before Elder, the race was all about Gavin, and our polls were looking very good,’ said a Republican consultant in California. ‘If the election had been four or more weeks ago, we would have won'” reports the Washington Examiner.

The identity of a victim of former Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert’s sexual abuse of children while he was a high school teacher and wrestling coach will be made public as part of a civil lawsuit the victim filed to obtain $1.7 million in hush money payments Hastert promised him, the Chicago Tribune reports.

The longest-serving GOP Speaker before Republicans lost control of the House in 2007, the morally and ethically-challenged Hastert served a 13 month prison term after accepting a plea deal for illegally withdrawing funds from a bank to pay for the silence of the victims of his sexual predation.  At least four boys, some as young as 14 years old, were abused by Hastert when he was a high school teacher.

In this case, the victim sought payment of a $1.7 million balance of $3.5 million Hastert promised to pay him to keep quiet about his molestation.  The judge ruled in favor of Hastert’s attorneys that since this is a breach of contract civil case and not a criminal case, the victim’s name should be made public as part of court filings.

Texas Tribune: “Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday night signed a bill into law that attempts to block a plan to store highly radioactive nuclear waste at a site in West Texas. House Bill 7 effectively bans highly radioactive materials from coming to Texas, targeting one company’s plan to build such a facility near the New Mexico border in Andrews County. But, the new state law may soon be in conflict with federal regulators. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is advancing the company’s application for a license to allow the high-level nuclear waste to Texas, and a decision from the federal agency could come as early as Monday, a spokesperson with the commission said.”

“The new law, which is effective immediately and was authored by Rep. Brooks Landgraf, R-Odessa, whose district the proposed facility would be located in, bars the transportation and disposal or storage of high-level radioactive waste in Texas. It effectively signals to the NRC and the company that the proposal will not be permitted under state law. Residents of Andrews County opposed the plan to bring the spent nuclear fuel to the area due to fears of an accident, environmental contamination and transportation through their communities; the county’s commissioners court adopted a resolution opposing high-level nuclear waste. Some oil companies opposed the plan too, given that the facility is proposed in the Permian Basin, one of the most productive oil fields in the world. Abbott has also consistently opposed the plan, writing in a letter to the NRC that the facility presents ‘a greater radiological risk than Texas is prepared to allow.'”

“Vaccine mandates have arrived. And so, too, has opposition led by Republicans. Nineteen Republican governors spoke out against President Biden’s announcement Thursday that American workers in large businesses must be vaccinated or face weekly testing. A half-dozen GOP governors threatened to sue, alongside the Republican National Committee. But the legal ground they have to stand on appears rather shaky, based on a century of Supreme Court precedent.”

“The crux of the debate is where one’s personal freedom lies in relation to the broader health and rights of the nation. About a century ago, in 1905, the Supreme Court was asked a similar question and sided with the vaccine mandates. In 1905, at the height of a smallpox outbreak and at a time when infectious diseases were the No. 1 killer in America, the court considered whether Cambridge, Mass., could force people to get vaccinated for it. A local pastor, Henning Jacobson, resisted, claiming and his son had bad reactions to earlier vaccines. He sued Cambridge and argued that ‘compulsion to introduce disease into a healthy system is a violation of liberty’ and that being forced to take the vaccine violated his 14th Amendment rights, which says that no state shall ‘deprive any person of life, liberty, or property.’ That was a relatively easy no for the court. In a 7-to-2 ruling in Jacobson v. Massachusetts, it decided that jurisdictions do have the right to require people to get vaccinated. Back then, the government was much more forceful about it, knocking down people’s doors to get them vaccinated, the New York Times says. Justice John Marshall Harlan wrote, rather presciently for today’s pandemic, that: ‘upon the principle of self-defense, of paramount necessity, a community has the right to protect itself against an epidemic of disease which threatens the safety of its members'” – Washington Post.

“Officials in Polk County confirm that a fifth cases of rabies has been confirmed in another animal. On Sept. 5 Polk County Animal Control responded to a home on Old Bartow Eagle Lake Road in Bartow, where the family dog was exposed to a bat while being walked by its owner. The dog’s owner called Animal Control officers who collected the bat carcass and sent it to the state laboratory in Tampa for testing. Three days later, the test results confirmed that the bat was infected with rabies. The dog is vaccinated, but out of an abundance of caution, it will remain quarantined inside its home for 45 days” WWSB reports.

It’s the county’s fifth case of rabies in 2021. The previous cases involved a bat, a raccoon and two foxes. Conservative pundits will no doubt advise listeners to ignore claims that he ground-breaking RNA vaccine technology used to create the Covid19 vaccine may also be applicable to the development of a rabies vaccine. Florida Trump supporters are advised to stock up on colloidal silver, Ivermectin and healing crystal sets.

Reuters: “A former associate of Rudy Giuliani who sought to dig up damaging information in Ukraine about U.S. President Joe Biden before the 2020 election, pleaded guilty on Friday to one criminal count in a campaign finance case. Igor Fruman told U.S. District Judge Paul Oetken in Manhattan federal court on Friday he would plead guilty. The changed plea could increase legal pressure on Giuliani, the one-time New York City mayor and U.S. Attorney in Manhattan who later became former U.S. President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer. Federal prosecutors have been examining Giuliani’s dealings in Ukraine, including whether he violated lobbying laws by acting as an unregistered foreign agent while working for Trump. Giuliani has not been charged and has denied wrongdoing. The Belarus-born Fruman and co-defendant Lev Parnas, a Ukraine-born businessman, had pleaded not guilty to concealing an illegal $325,000 donation to support Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign, and lying to the Federal Election Commission. Their case has drawn added scrutiny because of their work with Giuliani on matters related to Ukraine.”

News sites that report on stuff other than tweets by McDonald’s, tweets by Newsmax host Greg Kelly about McDonald’s, comments on QAnon websites, capybara invasions, bobbleheads sold by right wing websites, dumb shit that happens in Florida, dumb shit that happens in Missouri, make intentional mistakes or grossly misleading claims in headlines to troll readers like implying the New York City Fire Department is using chemical weapons on citizens, mock Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene’s alleged infidelity at any and every opportunity, or name George Soros the 2020 person of the year, among other weird shit but instead focus intensely on the business-tech circlejerk report that some BREAKING NEWS something happened to Apple in court on Friday.

“Hey Joe ??” – Top comment on the Breitbart article “Joe Biden Orders Vaccine Mandates”

“Are we ready for war?” – Top comment on the Gateway Pundit article “Biden Regime Drops Iron Fist on Private Sector: Will Require Vaccines or Weekly Covid Testing”

“What are Republicans in the House and Senate doing about these vaccine mandates? Are they 100% focused on these mandates and using every tactic and device to stop doing business as usual? Will they shutdown the government in protest? Or are they fundraising off the vaccine mandates and talking about the midterm elections? Hopefully this is the final reveal of who are really MAGA and who are really RINO” – Trending post on the QAnon Fan site GreatAwakening.win.

“It is clear that the government has forgotten that they work for their constituents. Any doubts I had about that were erased when I recently visited a State Department Passport office (three months after mailing in my passport renewal I still didn’t have my new passport despite paying for 6 week “expedited” service). I was treated better by Russian government employees in St. Petersburg back in 2019 than I was by the staff of the State Department in Houston: Barking orders, shaming people – clearly the attitude of the government employees was ‘you must conform’. The portraits of Biden and Kamala on the wall disgusted me” – Top comment on the Fox News article “Pence tells ‘Fox and Friends’ Biden vaccine mandate ‘unlike anything I ever heard from an American president’”

“So the Feds can order people to stop smoking. having sex, having babies, stop eating meat, corn, using electricity or anything else they want… stop reading the Bible, the Torah, learning Japanese? Think about this” – Top comment on Powerline article “Biden’s sweeping vaccination mandates“

“The Biden administration is releasing more than $25 billion in relief funds to health organizations from money Congress granted last year to cover financial losses from the Covid-19 pandemic – after mounting pressure from congressional lawmakers and medical groups who say hospitals aqre being financially pummeled by the surge in Covid-19 cases” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“This funding includes $8.5 billion from the American Rescue Plan for providers who serve patients in rural areas and are covered by federal programs such as Medicaid and Medicare, according to federal officials. An additional $17 billion is for a broad range of providers who can document revenue loss and expenses associated with the pandemic. About $7 billion remains in the fund to cover claims for the uninsured patients with Covid-19. Congress had approved about $187 billion in several spending bills dating to the Trump administration to help hospitals recover losses”

Rest assured, we will fight them to the gates of hell to protect the liberty and livelihood of every South Carolinian.

— Gov. Henry McMaster (@henrymcmaster) September 9, 2021

The Atlantic: “No matter their clout in Hollywood, filmmakers and actors have always been subject to bosses who decide which movies get to soar at the box office and which are left to languish. Now, more than ever before, that boss is Beijing. In 2020, the Chinese film market officially surpassed North America’s as the world’s biggest box office, all but ensuring that Hollywood studios will continue to do everything possible for access to the country. This also means China will assert itself more aggressively to control Hollywood. The country, which already places a quota on the number of foreign films that can be screened every year, banned them for nearly two months this summer because of celebrations for the 100th anniversary of the Communist Party’s founding.”

“Meanwhile, China’s film industry now churns out its own big-budget franchises, lessening the country’s dependence on the next Fast & Furious installment. The film industry has regularly shaped its productions to please Beijing; whenever Hollywood fails, it either issues self-flagellatory public apologies or remains silent on the matter altogether. (Universal, Disney, and the other major Hollywood studios I reached out to for this story all declined to comment or did not respond to my requests.) With studios now implementing their own limits on free speech, America’s supposedly gutsy, creative entertainment industry is at rapid risk of making preemptive self-censorship the standard. During the blacklist era of the 1940s and ’50s, Hollywood studios infamously submitted to domestic political pressure. Today, film censorship – the rise of which you can literally watch on screen – has become one of the most visible examples of American businesses bending their values to satisfy China, and a worrying harbinger for any industry that wants access to the country’s consumers. China has simply become too lucrative for Hollywood to resist.”

“Wayne Williams, the former Colorado secretary of state who’s newly in charge of Mesa County elections, said he hasn’t heard from Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters since the news broke that her office was under investigation. Williams said he hadn’t tried to reach Peters. ‘My focus is on trying to make the election work,’ he told Newsline on Tuesday. ‘I know the commissioners have made pleas to her to come in and start (running) the recording and motor vehicles side, but my focus is to run an election. That’s what I’m charged to do, and that’s what I’m going to do.’

“Williams, a Republican, is currently serving in a nonpartisan role on Colorado Springs City Council in addition to supervising Mesa County’s November election. Peters hasn’t been seen in Mesa County since Secretary of State Jena Griswold – Williams’ Democratic successor – announced Aug. 9 that she was investigating a ‘serious breach’ of election security protocols at Peters’ office. A few days later, Griswold accused Peters of allowing an unauthorized individual to attend a May software upgrade, known as a ‘trusted build,’ for Dominion Voting Systems machines. Peters is also under investigation by the 21st Judicial District attorney’s office and the FBI” – Colorado Newsline.

These records supplement the material we’ve received from other House Committees related to their earlier probes of January 6th. The Select Committee is also aware that the National Archives has undertaken the process required by law for review of presidential records. 2/

— January 6th Committee (@January6thCmte) September 10, 2021

Axios: “Top Republicans are calling for a public uprising to protest President Biden’s broad vaccine mandates, eight months after more than 500 people stormed the U.S. Capitol to try to overturn the election. It has been decades since America has witnessed such blatant and sustained calls for mass civil disobedience against the U.S. government. J.D. Vance, a candidate for the GOP U.S. Senate nomination in Ohio, urged ‘mass civil disobedience’ to Biden’s plan to use federal authority to mandate vaccination for roughly two-third of America workers. ‘I have a simple message for America’s business community,’ Vance wrote. ‘DO NOT COMPLY.’

Several Republican governors say they’ll go to court to try to stop the mandate for federal employees, contractors and private employers with 100+ workers (enforced by OSHA). South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem told Sean Hannity: ‘In South Dakota, we’re going to be free… We will take action. My legal team is already working.’ A top House GOP aide tells me: ‘Every Republican in the country – especially those running to the right in primaries – is salivating over Joe Biden [igniting] the vax debate… Republicans think that he’s made even pro-vax conservatives into ‘anti-vax mandate’ Americans.’ An official close to Biden tells me the West Wing ‘knew there would be strong backlash. But unless someone took this on, we’d be in a pandemic forever.’ ‘Biden beat Trump by promising strong action based on science. He can’t let Abbott/DeSantis block tough action.'”

“House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and his leadership team are quietly working to prop up some of the GOP incumbents targeted by former President Donald Trump, putting the California Republican directly in the crosshairs of the right as he seeks to win back the majority” CNN reports.

“Half of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump for inciting the January 6 insurrection – Reps. David Valadao of California, Jaime Herrera Beutler of Washington state, John Katko of New York, and Fred Upton and Peter Meijer, both of Michigan – participate in a joint fundraising committee with McCarthy and his leadership PAC, which has raised roughly $100,000 for each of the five campaigns in the first half of the year. The committee – known as Take Back the House 2022 – has not raised money for the other five lawmakers: Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, Anthony Gonzalez of Ohio, Dan Newhouse of Washington state and Tom Rice of South Carolina, according to the latest Federal Election Commission filings. However, McCarthy’s leadership group, Majority Committee PAC, donated $10,000 to Gonzalez’s campaign at the end of March.”

Josh Mandel, who’s running for the Republican nomination for the Ohio US Senate seat being vacated by the retiring Ron Portman, posted a rather creepy video in which he stops while randomly driving through a cornfield, finds a Trump campaign sign in the middle of the field, and says President Joe Biden isn’t his president; Donald Trump is.

“PENDING TARGETS OR SUBJECTS OF INVESTIGATIVE INTEREST: (U//FOUO) Currently, the IOC is monitoring the suspected or reported travel of [redacted] subjects of interest from various field offices [redacted] and of [redacted] subjects were reported as not traveling to the NCR. As of 1000, the IOC had not confirmed the arrival for the rest of these subjects of interest in Washington, DC. PLANNED EVENTS: (U//FOUO) Per USSS, POTUS is expected to speak at an event on the Ellipse outside the White House…” says an internal FBI memo circulated at 10 am on January 6th, 2021 obtained by FOIA request, via NBC Washington’s Scott MacFarlane.

“Joe Biden told Americans when he was elected that he would not impose vaccine mandates. He lied. Now small businesses, workers, and families across the country will pay the price. Like many Americans, I am pro-vaccine and anti-mandate. Many small businesses and workers do not have the money or legal resources to fight Biden’s unconstitutional actions and authoritarian decrees, but when his decree goes into effect, the RNC will sue the administration to protect Americans and their liberties” – RNC Chairwoman Ronna Not-Romney McDaniel statement.