Dallas man broke into museum, damaged art worth millions because he was âmad at his girl,â police say
A 21-year-old man was arrested Wednesday evening after allegedly breaking into the Dallas Museum of Art and damaging pieces worth upwards of $5 million.
Brian Hernandez broke into the museum shortly before 10 p.m. and began a destructive rampage, according to police. He allegedly broke into a display case and smashed a 6th century B.C. Greek amphora and a Greek pot dating to 450 B.C. and worth about $5 million.
Brian Hernandez is charged with criminal mischief and faces five years to life in prison.
Brian Hernandez is charged with criminal mischief and faces five years to life in prison. (Dallas Police Department)
Also smashed were a bowl from 6th century B.C., worth about $100,000, and a ceramic Caddo effigy bottle valued at about $10,000.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/dallas-museum-man-damaged-art-worth-millions
>A primetime speech that lasted 17 minutes
WASHINGTON â President Joe Biden on Thursday urged Congress to "finally do something" on gun control as he called on lawmakers to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines as the nation reels from three mass shootings in the last three weeks.
âAfter Columbine, after Sandy Hook, after Charleston, after Orlando, after Las Vegas, after Parkland, nothing has been done,â Biden said in a primetime speech that lasted 17 minutes from the East Room of the White House. âThis time that can't be true.â
Biden said that if Congress could not ban assault weapons, then they should raise the age to purchase those type of guns from 18 to 21. He also said that background checks should be strengthened and called for the passage of "Red Flag" laws which allow courts to remove firearms from those deemed a danger to themselves or others.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/06/02/biden-speech-gun-control/7484663001/
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Mason Aid looks for a Starbucks coffee shop on every road trip.
It's not for the coffee.
"I schedule bathroom breaks around Starbucks locations because I know that they have gender-neutral bathrooms," said Aid, who is nonbinary transmasculine. "That makes a big difference."
They've already started planning where they'll stop and how they'll present at rest stops on their 13-hour drive to Rocky Mountain National Park this summer.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/2022/06/02/gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender-queer-travel-safety/7398616001/?gnt-cfr=1
https://twitter.com/USArmy/status/1532484517885366291
Republicans still canât shake their Hillary Clinton obsession
Five years ago, Hillary Clinton joked about Republicans, âIt appears they donât know Iâm not president.â It's vastly worse now.
June 2, 2022, 1:05 PM EDT
By Steve Benen
In theory, former Attorney General Bill Barr finds himself in a difficult position. The Republican tapped special counsel John Durham to investigate the investigation into the Russia scandal, and the entire three-year effort is proving to be a fiasco. Durhamâs failed and misguided prosecution of Michael Sussmann this week was the latest embarrassment, but it doesnât stand alone.
It was against this backdrop that Barr turned to Fox News last night to brag about how âvery proudâ he is of the prosecutorâs work. The former attorney general added:
âWhile he did not succeed in getting a conviction from the D.C. jury, I think he accomplished something far more importantâŚ. I think he crystallized the central role played by the Hillary campaign in launching as a dirty trick the whole Russiagate collusion narrative and fanning the flames of it.â
In all likelihood, Barr knows better. Donald Trumpâs Russia scandal wasnât just some ânarrative,â launched as a âdirty trickâ; it was a genuine scandal about a Republican presidential candidate whose political operation sought, embraced, capitalized on, and lied about assistance from a foreign adversary â and then took steps to obstruct the investigation into the foreign interference.
Whatâs more, as the former attorney general also probably knows, Hillary Clinton and her campaign didnât âlaunchâ the scandal; federal law enforcement began scrutinizing the controversy on its own based on ample evidence.
But putting these relevant details aside, Barrâs on-air rhetoric last night was jarring for a reason: The Republican effectively made the case that Durhamâs pointless prosecution doesnât matter because the politicized special counsel investigation contributed to a partisan smear of Hillary Clinton.
Sure, federal prosecutors obtaining convictions is nice, but for Barr, fueling anti-Clinton theories is âfar more important.â
>https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/republicans-still-cant-shake-hillary-clinton-obsession-rcna31670
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The former attorney general isnât the only one thinking along such ridiculous lines. Two weeks ago, the editorial board of The Wall Street Journal published a bizarre piece with an over-the-top headline â âHillary Clinton Did Itâ â claiming that the former Democratic candidate âapproved a plan to plant a false Russia claim with a reporter.â
Predictably, the piece was a hit in Republican circles â despite being filled with painfully obvious falsehoods.
It might be tempting to think the humiliating demise of Durhamâs case against a former Clinton attorney might lead conservatives to shift their focus, but thereâs ample evidence pointing in the opposite direction. On Tuesday night, Sen. Marsha Blackburn published a tweet that read, simply, âInvestigate Hillary Clinton.â The Tennessee Republican â a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee â didnât say why, exactly, Clinton should be investigated, but itâs likely that Blackburn and those who retweeted her missive werenât overly concerned with sensible rationales.
A day later, former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens, a leading Republican Senate hopeful, also called for an investigation into Clinton, suggesting GOP leaders âwith a backboneâ should agree with him.
None of this is healthy.
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As regular readers probably recall, in Trumpâs first year as president, the Republican and his party couldnât shake their Clinton preoccupation. The then-president couldnât stop talking and tweeting about his 2016 rival. His aides appeared fixated on Clinton. Congressional Republicans even launched investigations related to Clinton.
By October 2017, the former secretary of state joked, âIt appears they donât know Iâm not president.â
The conditions persisted. In 2019, when Trump launched his re-election campaign, he excoriated Clinton seven times over the course of 30 minutes in his kickoff speech, apparently indifferent to the fact that she wasnât running. As Election Day 2020 grew closer, the then-president called for Clintonâs incarceration, pushed then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to uncover and release Clinton emails, and lobbied then-Attorney General Barr to prosecute Clinton for reasons unknown.
She wasnât on the ballot. Trump seemed desperate to run against her anyway.
After Trumpâs defeat, it seemed plausible that Trump and his followers would finally move on â if for no other reason than because they had fresh political targets, in the form a new Democratic president, a new Democratic vice president, a new Democratic Senate majority leader, et al. Clinton left office a decade ago, and it was finally time for obsessive GOP critics to find a new hobby.
And yet, here we are.
In February, Republican Sen. Josh Hawley suggested on Fox News that Clinton should be incarcerated. A month later, Trump filed an anti-Clinton lawsuit for reasons that defied comprehension.
Now, Barr, Blackburn, Greitens, et al. are reminding the political world that Republicans still canât shake their obsession, even when it would be in the GOPâs interests to do so.
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