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A former New York City police officer and Marine Corps veteran, who swung a flagpole at police before tackling one officer and yanking his gas mask off during the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced to 10 years in prison Thursday, the longest sentence handed down so far among the more than 860 people charged in the insurrection.

Thomas Webster, 56, of Goshen, N.Y., was the first riot defendant facing the felony charge of assaulting an officer to try his luck with a jury. Twelve others have pleaded guilty to a similar charge. Webster took the witness stand at his trial and testified that he was acting in self-defense, saying D.C. police officer Noah Rathbun had instigated the fight.

Video showed Webster yelling at police on the Lower West Plaza of the Capitol, as officers struggled to maintain a perimeter outside the building. Rathbun then pushed Webster in the face — Rathbun testified his hand slipped off Webster’s shoulder — before Webster swung and smashed a Marine Corps flagpole on a bike rack and then tackled Rathbun. Webster pulled the officer’s gas mask off, causing Rathbun to begin choking on tear gas, the officer testified.

The jury took three hours before finding Webster guilty in May of the assault and four other felony charges.

NYPD cop who assaulted police receives longest Jan. 6 sentence yet: 10 years

AFFIDAVIT IN SUPPORT OF AN APPLICATION UNDER RULE 41 FOR A WARRANT TO SEARCH AND SEIZE

Apparently they had ALREADY siezed damn near two hundred classified documents from him BEFORE they even searched Mar a Lago!

The government is conducting a criminal investigation concerning the improper
removal and storage of classified information in unauthorized spaces, as well as the unlawful
concealment or removal of govermnent records. The investigation began as a result of a referral
the United States National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) sent to the United
States Department of Justice (DOJ) on Febmary 9, 2022, hereinafter, "NARA Referral." The
NARA Referral stated that on January 18, 2022, in accordance with the Presidential Records Act
(PRA), NARA received from the office of former President DONALD J. TRUMP, hereinafter
"FPOTUS," via representatives, fifteen (15) boxes of records, hereinafter, the "FIFTEEN
BOXES." The FIFTEEN BOXES, which had been transpotted from the FPOTUS property at
1100 S Ocean Blvd, Palm Beach, FL 33480, hereinafter, the "PREMISES," a residence and club
known as "Mar-a-Lago," fmther described in Attachment A, were reported by NARA to contain,
among other things, highly classified documents intermingled with other records.

Kansas voters just rejected a forced birther amendment by a surprisingly large margin.

58.8% to 41.2% with 96.7% of the vote counted.

Turnout was surprisingly high too, rivaling the most recent Presidential election.

Voters in Kansas decide to keep abortion legal in the state, rejecting an amendment

The first Capitol rioter to go on trial was ordered to spend more than seven years behind bars -- the longest sentence yet in a Jan. 6 case -- for obstructing Congress and threatening his two children to keep them quiet, among other crimes.

Guy Reffitt, a Texas member of the Three Percenters militia group, was sentenced Monday by US District Judge Dabney Friedrich in Washington. He was convicted by a jury in March.

Texas Militia Member Given Seven-Year Term in Longest Jan. 6 Sentence to Date

A woman in Louisiana was forced to endure a "painful" and hours-long labor to deliver a fetus that was not viable, her doctor wrote in an affidavit supporting a legal challenge to the state's abortion ban.

The case was highlighted before District Judge Donald Johnson on Monday, who is considering whether to allow the enforcement of the ban.

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision overturning Roe v. Wade on June 24 triggered a Louisiana law that immediately outlawed abortion with no exceptions for rape or incest. There are exceptions for "medically futile" pregnancies and if there is substantial risk of death or impairment to the mother.

"Doctors are unsure what counts as a 'medically futile' pregnancy," she said, according to The Advocate. "This is not academic."

She pointed to the case of Dr. Valerie Williams, an OB-GYN in New Orleans, who was prevented from performing a dilation and evacuation (D&E)—an abortion procedure—to remove a non-viable fetus from a patient whose water broke while she was 16 weeks pregnant.

"A D&E would have lasted approximately 15 minutes," Williams wrote in the affidavit posted on Twitter by reporter Sam Karlin.

"After our consultation, the patient expressed that this was her preferred option, since she was already traumatized from her experience and felt that an induction, which would require labor and delivery of the fetus, would be too much for her."

But the hospital's lawyer had advised against it, according to the affidavit.

"Going back into that hospital room and telling the patient that she would have to be induced and push out that fetus was one of the hardest conversations I've ever had," Williams wrote.

Louisiana Woman Forced to Endure 'Painful' Labor to Deliver Nonviable Fetus

The same surgical procedure that is used to treat a miscarriage is also used for terminating pregnancies. New Texas anti-abortion laws have doctors nervous to perform procedures for miscarriages, forcing this woman to carry her dead fetus in her womb for two weeks.

Woman forced to carry her dead fetus for 2 weeks due to anti-abortion laws

Fox was so afraid of the Jan 6 hearing they ran Tucker Carlson without ads instead just in case his viewers might accidentally learn something if they flipped around during commercials.

Truth Social is immediately banning anybody who dares mention it.

Newsmaxx showed the video in the background but talked over it.

Boy, they sure are running scared from something that's no big deal!

Firearms killed more children and adolescents in 2020 than car accidents, which had long been the leading cause of death for youngsters, a Washington Post analysis has found.

The change was caused by a 30 percent increase in gun deaths for people 19 and younger in 2020. Gun deaths continued to outpace cars for that age group in 2021, The Post found, as the rate of gun killings increased an additional 8 percent.

Guns killed more youngsters than cars for the first time in 2020

Firearms now exceed motor vehicle crashes as the leading cause of injury-related death for people ages one to 24, a new analysis shows

Guns Now Kill More Children and Young Adults Than Car Crashes

Protesting outside of an abortion provider's home: FREE SPEECH!
Protesting outside the home of the person who decided that protesting outside of homes is protected by the 1st Amendment: Throw 'em in jail!!!

UPDATE: Oh yeah, they're all-in on this shit!

You may have had a credible argument it was just the nutjob wing a couple minutes ago...

House GOP says protesting outside justices’ homes is illegal

Top House Republicans accused the White House and Democrats of encouraging illegal activity, asserting that recent pro-abortion-rights protests outside the homes of Supreme Court justices are unlawful.

“I’m disappointed that this White House is still encouraging people to break federal law and go and protest in front of the houses of Supreme Court justices, as Jen Psaki encouraged yesterday,” House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) said in a press conference on Wednesday.

Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows

We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,” Justice Alito writes in an initial majority draft circulated inside the court.

There is still time for this to be reversed by the court but what do you think?