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TX hiding all the deaths from their forced birth program

Posted by DeathMonkey on Wednesday September 14 2022, @03:58PM (#12289)
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Texas health officials have missed a key window to complete the state's first major updated count of pregnancy-related deaths in nearly a decade, according to a report from the Houston Chronicle.

Officials say the data will now be released next summer, after the upcoming Texas legislative session. That means lawmakers likely won't be able to use the data until 2025.

Health officials say the reason they don't want to publish the data now is because it is not easily and readily comparable to other states' data, and they don't want there to be room for misinterpretation when Texas' data is released.

But politicians say the data is critical for understanding the role the state's abortion law could play in the future. State Rep. Ann Johnson (D-Houston), a member of the Texas Women's Health Caucus, spoke to the Houston Chronicle about the data delay.

"There are a lot of us that want to know whether or not pregnancy in Texas is a death sentence. If we've got a higher rate of maternal mortality, we sure want to figure it out," Johnson said. "You can't figure it out if somebody's sitting on the numbers, and that's my worry."

Texas delays publication of maternal death data until after midterms, legislative session

Texas is currently the 8th worst state in the union for infant mortality at 34.5 per 100k

If the numbers are terrible just cover them up!

Classified Nuke Secrets Retrieved from Mar a Lago

Posted by DeathMonkey on Thursday September 08 2022, @07:14PM (#12249)
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The FBI recovered a document describing a foreign government’s nuclear capabilities during its search of Mar-a-Lago, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday.

The Post, citing unnamed sources, did not identify the foreign government named in the document describing the country’s military defenses.

The content of the more than 11,000 government documents and photographs FBI agents recovered from Donald Trump’s Florida estate last month has not been revealed, but previous reporting from the Post indicated classified documents about nuclear weapons were among the items federal authorities were looking for.

As of now we've got the word of a few unnamed sources so a little grain of salt is likely warranted but c'mon, man, we all know it's true!

FBI found document on foreign nuclear defenses at Mar-a-Lago – report

Original Reporting at the Washington Post

90 Missing Classified Documents Amongst Haul from Mar a Lago

Posted by DeathMonkey on Friday September 02 2022, @03:39PM (#12191)
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Among the items the FBI retrieved were 90 empty folders marked classified or for return to the White House staff secretary or a military aide, according to the inventory list.

Where did those docs go; Donny?

FBI releases list of materials seized from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home

1-6 insurrectionist gets 10 years for assaulting police

Posted by DeathMonkey on Thursday September 01 2022, @08:48PM (#12184)
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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

Search Warrant for Trump's Mar a Lago residence published

Posted by DeathMonkey on Friday August 26 2022, @04:59PM (#12130)
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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.

60% of voters in Kansas are Pro-Choice

Posted by DeathMonkey on Thursday August 04 2022, @04:16PM (#11942)
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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

Insurrectionist who stormed Capitol with gun gets 7 years

Posted by DeathMonkey on Monday August 01 2022, @08:41PM (#11904)
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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

Louisiana Woman Forced to Endure Painful Labor of Dead Fetus

Posted by DeathMonkey on Thursday July 21 2022, @03:22PM (#11790)
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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

Woman forced to carry her dead fetus for 2 weeks

Posted by DeathMonkey on Monday July 18 2022, @06:26PM (#11753)
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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 and their pals try to censor 1-6 out of existence

Posted by DeathMonkey on Friday June 10 2022, @06:53PM (#11324)
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