The U.S. Capitol Police union leader is calling out the department for providing special financial and other benefits to Capt. Michael Byrd, the officer who fatally shot Jan. 6 protestor Ashli Babbitt, that were not given to fellow officers.

“What a slap in the face to the rank and file officers of the USCP, especially all who were on duty on J6,” U.S. Capitol Police union Chairman Gus Papathanasiou said in a statement Thursday to Just the News.

Just the News reported Wednesday that House Democratic leadership pressured the Capitol Police to provide financial and other assistance to then-Lt. Michael Byrd after the shooting that included a $37,000 retention bonus, help with $160,000 in private fundraising, housing, and a promotion to captain.

This assistance far surpassed the support given to other officers who were serving on the Capitol grounds that day.

Papathanasiou demanded that Byrd be forced to repay the amounts he was given that exceeded bonuses for other officers who served on Jan. 6, 2021, or that the department provide the same benefits to all.
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Nick Fuentes has been arrested and charged with battery, the Smoking Gun reports.

According to police documents obtained by the Smoking Gun, the 26-year-old Holocaust-denying Fuentes was arrested after a woman claimed that he maced her and shoved her to the ground outside of his house in Illinois.

"Marla Rose, a 57-year-old Berwyn resident, told cops that after seeing an online Fuentes post 'in regards to women’s rights' that declared, 'Your body my choice,' she decided to 'record a video' of Fuentes’s Berwyn property. While recording, Rose said, a female passerby 'encouraged her to speak with Nicholas, so she...rang his front doorbell.'"

Upon ringing the bell, Fuentes emerged from the house an immediately sprayed her with pepper spray and then pushed her down the stairs.
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The Biden administration has made a precedent-setting arrest related to anti-climate change activities this fiscal year, highlighted in a new report that shows a ramped-up enforcement effort against environmental offenses.

On Thursday, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a final report on enforcement efforts under President Biden, which detailed how climate-related penalties were enforced this fiscal year.

The EPA worked to implement the American Innovation and Manufacturing (AIM) Act, which requires the agency to reduce hydrofluorocarbons, a synthetic compound commonly used for refrigeration or air conditioning, by 85% by 2036.

The AIM Act led to the arrest of Michael Hart, of San Diego, in March on charges related to "smuggling potent greenhouse gases," highlighted in the EPA report. The charges marked the first-ever greenhouse gas-related arrest issued under the AIM Act, but according to an EPA press release from earlier this year, "it will not be the last."
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On today's @ConsciousStrength Show on @OfficialBadlandsMedia- Nate and I are doing to dive into the Gerson Therapy, developed by Dr. Max Gerson in the early 1900s.

It is quite a simple dietary protocol, yet very effective - and the estblishment hated him for it.

Going live in 30 min

https://rumble.com/v5wjjyq-the-conscious-strength-show-ep.-24-400-pm-et-.html

Six Republican senators in a letter to National Institutes of Health Director Monica Bertagnolli said they are “concerned about the transparency” of studies funded by the NIH, the federal agency responsible for conducting and supporting medical research.

Their public statement of concern follows an October New York Times report that a long-awaited study of puberty-blocking drugs had gone unpublished over fears that its findings would be “weaponized” by opponents of transition-related care for minors.

The letter is signed by GOP Sens. Bill Cassidy (La.), Tommy Tuberville (Ala.), Ted Cruz (Texas), James Lankford (Okla.), Markwayne Mullin (Okla.) and Mike Lee (Utah).
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will attend the Army-Navy football game in Landover, Maryland, next week with President-elect Donald Trump in a rare joint appearance by the two former political opponents, a source confirmed Friday.

Mr. DeSantis, who ran against Mr. Trump in the GOP primary before dropping out, will catch the game following conversations with the president-elect about a Cabinet position. 
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A New York City jury will consider a lesser charge for Daniel Penny in the choking death of subway performer Jordan Neely after jurors could not decide whether to convict him of manslaughter.

Judge Maxwell Wiley on Friday accepted the prosecution’s request to dismiss the second-degree manslaughter charge after jurors said they were deadlocked, according to the Associated Press. The jury will return next week to deliberate on the charge of criminally negligent homicide.
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Judicial Watch has filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Department of Justice seeking details of a reported meeting between Attorney General Merrick Garland and former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Mark Milley. During the meeting, the two reportedly discussed President Trump, with Milley allegedly urging Garland to take action against “far-right” militia groups.

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🔥President Trump reportedly has a plan to press ahead with mass deportations of illegal immigrants even if their home countries refuse to participate in the process.

NBC News reports that insiders say Trump will send illegals to Turks and Caicos, the Bahamas, Grenada, Panama or possibly elsewhere.

The move is designed to counteract a current trend of illegals simply being released back into the US after they’ve been ordered by a judge to be removed, purely because the governments where they came from refuse to facilitate their return.

For example, Venezuela, the second-highest source of illegal immigration into the US, stopped accepting deportation flights in February.

Since that time, untold numbers of Venezuelans have entered the country, including violent criminal gangs who have wreaked havoc in Aurora, Colorado among other places.

Trump may opt to attempt to strike a deal with Venezuela to accept deportation flights in return for a loosening of US sanctions on the country.

Or he may opt to send the flights elsewhere.
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NYPD investigators found a backpack in Central Park that they believe belonged to the suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a law enforcement official told CNN.

Investigators have yet to officially confirm the origin of the bag and are taking it to be forensically tested in a lab in Queens, the source said.

The bag was found in a second sweep of the park Friday evening, between some boulders just south of the park’s carousel, the source said.

https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/brian-thompson-unitedhealthcare-news-12-6-24#cm4dbfqbi00003b6mm4nzpujz

WATCH: Former Maryland State Police investigator suggests UnitedHealthCare CEO may have hired his own hit man

House Judiciary: Think your finances are private? Think again 👀

https://x.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1865122146462093667

Report: FINANCIAL SURVEILLANCE IN THE UNITED STATES:
HOW THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WEAPONIZED THE BANK SECRECY ACT
TO SPY ON AMERICANS

Trump promises to END endless wars and the globalist deep state warmongers that profit from human suffering. The Pentagon, State Department, and the national security complex will be significantly reformed under #Agenda47.

In Trump's own words: "World War III has never been closer than it is right now. We need to clean house of all of the warmongers and America-Last globalists in the Deep State, the Pentagon, the State Department, and the national security industrial complex."

https://x.com/JustinStillness/status/1865213473346785491

President Trump to triumphantly return to international stage at reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral, may meet with Zelensky

President-elect Donald Trump is set to triumphantly return to the international stage Saturday when he attends the re-opening of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris along with other world leaders.

Trump will be joined at the highly anticipated event by such global bigs as French President Emmanuel Macron, Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky and Britain’s Prince William.

President Biden is not attending the ceremony, instead sending his wife Jill to represent the US.
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YouTuber Tim Pool's lawsuit against Kamala HQ, which represents and posts on behalf of Kamala Harris' presidential campaign on X, reached a successful conclusion on Friday. While the details of the settlement have not been made public, Pool posted that he was "satisfied" with the result along with a screen capture showing that the allegedly defaming post from Kamala HQ had been deleted. In his suit against the campaign, Pool had asked for a retraction: the deletion of the post is essentially that.

"The lawsuit between I, Tim Pool, and The Kamala Harris Campaign has been resolved to my satisfaction," he said. "Thank You." One of the things his suit against the campaign alleged was that he had suffered "reputational harm" at the hands of the Kamala campaign. The deletion of their post, while it does not fully repair that damage, reveals that the campaign has been made fully aware of their falsehood against Pool.
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Alex Jones still must pay $1.3B Sandy Hook defamation verdict, appeals court rules

A Connecticut appeals court on Friday largely upheld a nearly $1.3 billion defamation verdict against conspiracy theorist Alex Jones in a case accusing the Infowars founder of spreading lies about the 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting.

A three-judge panel of the Connecticut Appellate Court found that a jury’s October 2022 decision to award $965 million in damages plus attorneys fees and costs to families of the shooting’s victims was not unreasonable given the mental anguish they suffered due to the lies by Jones about Sandy Hook.

In affirming the verdict, the judges found fault only with a portion awarding $150 million in damages under a state unfair trade practices law, finding that should be thrown out because it did not properly apply to the facts of the case.
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