Anonymous ID: 236560 May 14, 2018, 12:37 p.m. No.1409091   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9165

New: Former Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid underwent surgery for pancreatic cancer this morning. A source says they caught it early, via @MichelleRindels

 

https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/former-sen-harry-reid-undergoes-surgery-for-pancreatic-cancerEW

Anonymous ID: 236560 May 14, 2018, 1:04 p.m. No.1409351   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9358 >>9387

First Lady Hospitalized – Melania Trump Underwent Kidney Surgery

 

Posted on May 14, 2018 by sundance

 

First Lady Melania Trump underwent a kidney surgery at Walter Reed Medical Center on Monday, according to a statement released by The White House.

 

Statement from the White House:

 

This morning, First Lady Melania Trump underwent an embolization procedure to treat a benign kidney condition. The procedure was successful and there were no complications. Mrs. Trump is at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and will likely remain there for the duration of the week. The First Lady looks forward to a full recovery so she can continue her work on behalf of children everywhere.

 

Statement from the Communications Director about First Lady Melania Trump

 

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-communications-director-first-lady-melania-trump/

 

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/05/14/first-lady-hospitalized-melania-trump-underwent-kidney-surgery/

Anonymous ID: 236560 May 14, 2018, 1:13 p.m. No.1409421   🗄️.is 🔗kun

No, it's not a bike rack: Art installation on Daley Plaza is a line of mock AR-15s

 

Glance at it quickly and you might think it’s a bike rack. But look closer and you’ll see that the art installation at Daley Plaza includes a line of mock AR-15 military-style rifles.

 

Purposely set up in one of the busiest pedestrian spots in the Loop, the short-term exhibit “Chicago Gun Share Program,” resembles a Divvy bike-share docking station and invites visitors to consider how easy it is for people get their hands on weapons, said Norm Bilow, of the Chicago-based advertising agency Escape Pod. The agency, along with the Brady Campaign and Center to Prevent Gun Violence, created the exhibit that went up last week and will remain in the Loop until Wednesday.

 

“It’s pretty easy these days to get a weapon of war,” Bilow said of the exhibit, filled with 10 replica black and blue rifles. It doesn’t help, he says, that gun laws vary from state to state.

 

The art exhibit comes as a gun control bill in Illinois took a dramatic turn Monday when Gov. Bruce Rauner rewrote it to reinstate the death penalty for mass killers and people convicted of killing law enforcement officers. The death penalty provision was tacked on to an existing gun control proposal by lawmakers’ to create a 72-hour “cooling off” period before someone could buy a semi-automatic assault weapon. Under current law, the waiting period to purchase weapons like an AR-15 is 24 hours.

 

It’s illegal in Illinois to sell, purchase, carry or own fully automatic rifles except for those in law enforcement, the military and federally licensed gun dealers.

 

The installation at as custom made out of steel and took four months to create, said Nicholas Berg, of Ojo Customs. His company was commissioned to bring the idea to life and make it “baseball bat proof” to withstand any form of protest.

 

Berg said the replica AR-15 rifles stay in place to make sure children trying to play with the weapons don’t get hurt. And though the design is loosely based on a Divvy docking station, he said he didn’t consult with anyone from the bike-sharing program. Divvy declined to comment on the exhibit.

 

For Berg, the exhibit is meant to provoke people and get them talking about gun reform. He said people typically talk about gun laws after a mass shooting, but he wants the exhibit to change that.

 

“I saw an opportunity to take advantage of having that conversation without tragedy being tied to it,” Berg said.

 

The exhibit also includes a screen that allows people to donate to the Brady Center, which is lobbying for expanding background checks for gun sales, banning assault weapons and other stricter gun laws.

 

The Brady Center has been behind recent lawsuits that targeted online gun sales and manufacturers of firearms. The D.C.-based group also has a goal to cut the number of gun deaths in half by 2025.

 

That goal is one of the reasons the Escape Pod got involved with the exhibit, Bilow said.

 

“We live in Chicago, where there is a lot of gun violence,” he said.

 

In Chicago, at least 862 people have been shot so far this year, according to data compiled by the Chicago Tribune.

 

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-daley-center-gun-exhibit-20180514-story.html