NYC Judge Orders Election Officials to Count Thousands of Mail-in Ballots Previously Declared Invalid For Not Having Postmarks

A Manhattan judge on Monday ordered election officials to count thousands of mail-in ballots previously declared invalid for not having postmarks or arriving after the June 23 primary.

Most of the ballots arrived at the elections board AFTER the primary election.

This is why President Trump has been speaking out against mail-in ballots.

It has been over a month since the primary and ballots are still being counted.

Now a judge is giving the post office massive power.

The New York Post reported:

A federal judge ordered election officials to count thousands of mail-in ballots throughout New York State that were declared invalid for not having a post-mark or arriving at offices shortly after the June 23 primary.

In granting the preliminary injunction Monday, Manhattan Judge Analisa Torres said the plaintiffs who brought the suit — including congressional candidate Suraj Patel and Brooklyn Assembly candidate Emily Gallagher — had proved that voters were disenfranchised and denied their constitutional rights after being encouraged to vote by absentee ballot during the coronavirus pandemic.

A major problem: Thousands of ballots that had stamps pre-paid by New York State were not post-marked by the Postal Service, particularly those coming from Brooklyn voters. But most other ballots were post-marked.

If such a post-marked ballot was not received by election officials by June 23, it was not counted.

“When voters have been provided with absentee ballots and assured that their votes on those ballots will be counted, the state cannot ignore a later discovered, systemic problem that arbitrarily renders those ballots invalid,” Torres wrote in her ruling.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/08/nyc-judge-orders-election-officials-count-thousands-mail-ballots-previously-declared-invalid-not-postmarks/

300 ISIS Terrorists At Large: Mass Prison Break In Afghanistan After Hours-Long Firefight

What could be the largest ISIS jailbreak in the terror group's history didn't take place in Iraq or Syria, but just happened inside Afghanistan, where ISIS is attempting to make a come-back at a moment the US-Taliban truce deal is taking shaky effect.

It happened Monday after the Islamic State attacked a large prison complex in the eastern city of Jalalabad in which nearly 40 people were killed, among these 10 ISIS members, but some 300 escaped jihadists still remain a large.

Some international reports listed that as many as 400 terrorists may have escaped.

t reportedly began by a car bomb attack, after which ISIS gunmen surged into the prison area and ultimately overran the guards. ISIS held the prison throughout much of the day Monday as national defense forces laid siege, leading to a huge firefight.

According to Reuters, hundreds escaped amid the chaos:

More than 300 prisoners were still at large, Attaullah Khugyani, spokesman for the governor of Nangarhar province, said, said. Of the 1,793 prisoners, more than 1,025 had tried to escape and been recaptured and 430 had remained inside.

“The rest are missing,” he said.

Jalalabad is an area known for heavy ISIS and other jihadist activity. The terror group got a foothold in central Asia years ago at the height of the Islamic State's short-lived territorial caliphate over western Iraq and eastern Syria.

At least 24 dead as Islamic State storm prison in #Jalalabad

Currently an Eid al-Adha ceasefire is said to be holding between the Taliban and the national government in Kabul, also amid broader talks aimed at securing a long term and final US troops exit.

Though there's been a number of ISIS prison break attempts in Syria of the past years, especially in Kurdish SDF-held territory, there's been nothing on this scale involving hundreds of escaped in a single day.

Afghan security forces are still reportedly hunting down the escapees, but at this point many of likely disappeared into the mountains.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/300-isis-terrorists-large-mass-prison-break-afghanistan-after-hours-long-firefight

Democrats Continue Whitewash Antifa Rioters as 'Peaceful Protesters'

On Tuesday, Democratic senators again whitewashed violent antifa rioters as “peaceful protesters,” demonizing President Donald Trump for “bad-faith nonsense” for daring to speak the truth about the violence of the rioters.

“What we’ve seen in Portland are peaceful protesters in need of protection from federal officers,” Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) said at a Senate hearing on “Protecting Speech by Stopping Anarchist Violence” hosted by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). She argued that any mention of the antifa violence plays into a nefarious Trump narrative aiming to dismiss protesters.

“President Trump is deliberately trying to undermine the massive protests for racial justice by dismissing them as anarchists and antifa,” Hirono insisted. She condemned Trump for sending in federal law enforcement “outfitted as if for war.”

“To justify this unnecessary deployment of federal officers, President Trump and his administration have repeatedly portrayed Portland protesters as violent anarchists and members of antifa. But in the past four weeks, what we have actually seen are federal agents beating up on protesters,” the Democrat insisted.

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) also insisted that the violent mobs in Portland, Seattle, Chicago, and elsewhere were truly peaceful protesters.

“This argument that Americans exercising their right to peaceful protest are anarchists, terrorists, and agitators is bad-faith nonsense” by “the president and his enablers who are calling peaceful protesters anarchists and terrorists and sending para-military forces,” Wyden declared.

He called “talk about leftist anarchy” completely “baseless.”

Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) proved slightly more reasonable. He admitted that some of the protests have also involved violent attacks and condemned the “few” behind it. Yet he argued that “Trump’s forces did not arrest the violent few, they attacked the peaceful many.”

He spread a false narrative about Trump’s use of federal agents. The Trump administration sent in federal officers following more than a month of violent attacks on the federal courthouse. Last week, after Gov. Kate Brown (D-Ore.) agreed to send Oregon State Police to defend the federal courthouse, most of the federal troops withdrew.

Yet Merkley suggested that Trump had withdrawn the federal officers in shame after claims of law enforcement abuse. “After national coverage of these tactics, President Trump retreated, withdrawing his federal agents from Portland. The protests since have been peaceful celebrations focused on the message of the BLM movement,” he said.

After the federal officers left, however, the violence and threats against police continued, even while the violence did abate somewhat.

Rioters appear to have stopped firing mortar fireworks at the federal courthouse, but they continue to set fires near it. On Thursday night, rioters burned a severed pig’s head with a police hat on it. On Friday night, they torched Bibles in a bonfire near the federal courthouse.

Later in the hearing, Cruz asked acting DHS Secretary Ken Cuccinelli whether the riots had ceased following the withdrawal of many federal troops.

“As I noted, last night, the local police declared a riot,” Cuccinelli replied.

As for the claim that rioters do not identify themselves as antifa, that is flatly false. Some have openly advocated for the “abolition” of “the United States as we know it.” Andy Ngo, editor-at-large at The Post Millennial, has highlighted the arrests of many self-described members of antifa who engaged in rioting over the past few months.

After his opening remarks, Cruz shared a video highlighting the antifa violence and riots. Democrats cannot whitewash this violence.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2020/08/04/democrats-continue-whitewash-antifa-rioters-as-peaceful-protesters-n751250

Mississippi's GOP governor signs statewide mask order, argues: 'I want to see college football'

Gov. Tate Reeves says he hates wearing masks 'more than anybody,' but that the state needs a mandate.

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves (R) issued a mandate Tuesday requiring every citizen to wear a mask at public gatherings or while shopping for the next two weeks, arguing that the statewide order is necessary to stop the spread of COVID-19 — and to bring back college football.

Reeves held a televised press conference to announce his executive order regarding masks, where he declared, "I want to see college football. The best way for that to occur is for us all to realize is that wearing a mask — as irritating as that can be and I promise I hate it more than anyone watching today — is critical," the Mississippi Free Press reported.

According to YahooSports:

Reeves is not the first politician or public figure to cite college football as a reason for wearing a mask. Alabama coach Nick Saban even filmed a public service announcement for the school to promote wearing a mask so that the football season could happen. Saban's PSA came in May, over two months before Reeves' declaration.

The Clarion Ledger reported that up until Tuesday, Reeves had used a piecemeal approach to mask mandates, requiring them only in 38 of Mississippi's 82 counties before making a dictate covering the entire state.

The governor previously resisted issuing the statewide order, arguing that mask mandates are difficult to enforce and telling reporters last month, "I know a lot of you think we can snap our fingers and all of a sudden 100% of the people will comply and everything will be great."

Reeves also announced Tuesday a delay in school reopening for grades 7-12 in a handful of counties, saying, "We must pump the breaks in the hardest hit areas." Students and adults alike will be required to wear masks in schools.

But Reeves wants to press forward with keeping most schools open, tweeting Monday, "I've said it before and I will say it again: We cannot ignore the severe damage that extended school closures do to kids. I know that these days the public conversation favors noise over nuance — but this is nuanced."

I’ve said it before and I will say it again: we cannot ignore the severe damage that extended school closures do to… https://t.co/hInjs8azcs

— Tate Reeves (@Tate Reeves)1596505818.0

According to the Associated Press, Mississippi's Health Department reported the state had more than 62,000 reported cases of COVID-19 as of Monday night and 1,753 deaths from the virus. Earlier this week, WTOK-TV reported that "director of the Harvard Global Health Institute Ashish K. Jha predicts that Mississippi will become number one in the nation for COVID-19."

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https://www.theblaze.com/news/mississippi-gop-governor-mask-mandate

India: 16-year-old TikTok star Siya Kakkar dies by suicide, leaving social media users shocked

Siya Kakkar had 1.1 million TikTok fans and her dance videos were quite popular

Indian TikTok star Siya Kakkar committed suicide, according to Indian media reports. Coming a few weeks after Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s death by suicide, news about Kakkar has left Indians shocked, with many taking to Twitter to discuss mental health among youngsters.

With over 1.1 million fans on the video sharing app, the Delhi girl was quite a popular face on TikTok. She was very active on her social media channels, and would regularly post dance videos on her accounts. Her manager Arjun Sarin reportedly said she seemed fine till last evening. In fact, she had posted a dance video on Wednesday evening too.

Update: Police seize phone of Siya Kakkar

Delhi Police has reportedly seized the phone of 16-year-old TikTok star Siya Kakkar, who committed suicide at her home in New Delhi on June 25.

However, according to India Today, the police have been unable to unlock the device and will take the help of family members to get into it and explore her call records and other details. Police will also question Kakkar’s friends regarding the incident. A post-mortem has already been done, police say.

“Siya died by suicide at her residence in New Delhi at around 9pm on June 25. She lived with her family. Her family is in shock and has requested privacy. No suicide note has been recovered,” the Deputy Commissioner of Police told India Today Television.

Reports say that Kakkar had been staying home due to the current COVID-19 lockdown in India and had been feeling depressed for a couple of days prior to her death.

• Jennifer Barretto, News Editor

Tweep @CharuPragya posted: “16-year-old TikTok star #SiyaKakkar commits suicide. She had 1.1 million fans on TikTok and 91,200 followers on Instagram. What could go so terribly wrong in her promising young life that she ended it? Let’s work to make youngsters strong mentally and emotionally!”

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https://gulfnews.com/world/asia/india/india-16-year-old-tiktok-star-siya-kakkar-dies-by-suicide-leaving-social-media-users-shocked-1.1593090905660

==NYT Writes ZERO Articles On New George Floyd Video After Hyping Case For Over 2 Months

Chris Menahan==

The New York Times spent over two months hyping the hell out of George Floyd's alleged death at the hands of police but didn't write even one single article on the new video leaked by The Daily Mail which destroys their entire narrative.

As of 4 p.m. EST on Tuesday, a search of the NY Times' archive shows plenty of articles mentioning George Floyd but only one single mention of the video being released – a reprint of an Associated Press article (devoid of all the bombshell details) which merely mentioned the video was leaked but doesn't show the video or even link to it.

The Times did not bother to tweet the article out, nor share it anywhere prominent on their website.

A search of the URL on Twitter shows one single result (from someone criticizing the Times for not sharing the video), which is something I've never even seen before from a Times article.

As I reported on Monday, the video leaked to The Daily Mail shows Floyd resisted arrest, said he couldn't breathe while standing up breathing, refused to go into the police's SUV squad vehicle because he claimed he was "claustrophobic" even though he was seen sitting comfortably in his own SUV just minutes earlier, asked police to place him on the ground, lied and told police he was not on drugs despite being high on fentanyl and meth, and lied and claimed his mother just died to try and avoid arrest even though she died two years earlier.

http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=61627