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Masked group marches through Ohio neighborhood with swastika flags

The governor of Ohio and city officials in Columbus are speaking out after a group of masked individuals marched through the streets of the Ohio capital city Saturday dressed in black and holding flags with swastikas on them.

The unidentified people were spotted around 1 p.m. walking through the Short North neighborhood, according to Columbus ABC affiliate WSYX. Images and videos of the marchers went viral on social media sites.

The Columbus Police were dispatched, and the investigation is ongoing.

"We will not tolerate hate in Ohio," Ohio Republican Gov. Mike DeWine said in a statement on the social media platform X on Saturday evening. "Neo-Nazis their faces hidden behind red masks roamed streets in Columbus today, carrying Nazi flags and spewing vile and racist speech against people of color and Jews. There were reports that they were also espousing white power sentiments."

He added, "There is no place in this State for hate, bigotry, antisemitism, or violence, and we must denounce it wherever we see it."

"The Columbus community stands squarely against hatred and bigotry. We will not allow any of our neighbors to be intimidated, threatened or harmed because of who they are, how they worship or whom they love," the City of Columbus said in a statement Saturday evening. "We embrace tolerance and acceptance, and derive great strength from our diversity. It is who we are as a people, and it is precisely what has enabled us to grow and thrive and reach new heights of excellence. Together, we reject the cowardly display reported in the Short North earlier today, and we will continue to monitor the situation in partnership with the Columbus Division of Police to ensure the safety and security of our city."

Columbus City Attorney Zach Klein echoed those sentiments in a statement posted on X.

"To those involved in the neo-Nazi march in the Short North today, take your flags and the masks you hide behind and go home and never come back," he said. "Your hate isn’t welcome in our city."

Last week, a group of masked demonstrators were seen waving Nazi flags outside a production of "The Diary of Anne Frank" in Howell, Michigan.

The protesters were asked to move and there were no arrests.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/masked-group-marches-ohio-neighborhood-004600236.html

>>22002434

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Trump transition team compiling list of current and former U.S. military officers for possible courts-martial

The Trump transition team is compiling a list of senior current and former U.S. military officers who were directly involved in the withdrawal from Afghanistan and exploring whether they could be court-martialed for their involvement, according to a U.S. official and a person familiar with the plan.

Officials working on the transition are considering creating a commission to investigate the 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan, including gathering information about who was directly involved in the decision-making for the military, how it was carried out, and whether the military leaders could be eligible for charges as serious as treason, the U.S. official and person with knowledge of the plan said.

“They’re taking it very seriously,” the person with knowledge of the plan said.

The Trump transition team did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Matt Flynn, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for counternarcotics and global threats, is helping lead the effort, the sources said. It is being framed as a review of how the U.S. first got into the war in Afghanistan and how the U.S. ultimately withdrew.

resident-elect Donald Trump has condemned the withdrawal as a “humiliation” and “the most embarrassing day in the history of our country.”

It is not clear, though, what would legally justify “treason” charges since the military officers were following the orders of President Joe Biden to withdraw all U.S. forces from Afghanistan.

A 2022 independent review by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction blamed both the Trump and Biden administrations for the chaotic U.S. withdrawal in 2021.

Trump first reached an agreement with the Taliban in 2020 to withdraw all U.S. forces from Afghanistan, roughly 13,000 troops, and release 5,000 Taliban fighters from prison. The Biden administration then completed the withdrawal and badly overestimated the ability of Afghan government forces to fight the Taliban on their own.

Trump’s choice for secretary of defense, Fox News personality Pete Hegseth, has criticized the withdrawal, saying the U.S. lost the war and wasted billions of dollars.

In his book “The War on Warriors,” Hegseth wrote, “The next president of the United States needs to radically overhaul Pentagon senior leadership to make us ready to defend our nation and defeat our enemies. Lots of people need to be fired. The debacle in Afghanistan, of course, is the most glaring example.”

Hegseth calls the withdrawal a “humiliating retreat” and says leaders at the Pentagon were not held accountable for the deadly attack at Abbey Gate, which killed 13 U.S. service members and roughly 170 Afghan civilians. Nor were they held accountable for a subsequent U.S. airstrike in Kabul that officials thought would kill the Islamic State group leader behind the suicide attack but instead killed 10 innocent Afghans, including seven children, he wrote.

“These generals lied. They mismanaged. They violated their oath. They failed. They disgraced our troops, and our nation. They got people killed, unnecessarily,” he wrote. “And, to this moment, they keep their jobs. Worse, they continue to actively erode our military and its values — by capitulating to civilians with radical agendas. They are an embarrassment, with stars still on their shoulders.”

The transition team is looking at the possibility of recalling several commanders to active duty for possible charges, the U.S. official said.

It’s not clear the Trump administration would pursue treason charges, and instead could focus on lesser charges that highlight the officer’s involvement. “They want to set an example,”said the person with knowledge of the plan.

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-transition-team-compiling-list-035251121.html

Apparently, this baker made a killing — and now, it’s killing sweet childhood memories.

Sinister rumors about the beloved cheery nursery rhyme “The Muffin Man” are being whisked around on social media, leaving a bad taste in slack-jawed mouths worldwide.

Parents stunned by sick truth behind beloved nursery rhyme: ‘Childhood shattered’

“Which nursery rhyme is about murderer?,” began UK-based content creator, @NotMrSpock_Fact, in a trending TikTok tell-all. “The one you’re probably thinking of is ‘The Muffin Man.’”

Yes, according to urban legend, the kindly confectioner of Drury Lane — who got an unforgettably hilarious shout-out from the Gingerbread Man during the interrogation scene in “Shrek” —was a kiddie killer.

In the viral vid, which has scared up over 1.1 million views, the TikTokker explains that the true identity of the Muffin Man is said to beFredrick Thomas Linwood, a serial slaughterer who allegedly killed a slew of children in the 1500s.

“He was a baker,” said the social media whistleblower, “So, his method of doing to was tying bits of string around a beautiful, tasty muffin anddrawing the children in with it before he killed them.”

It’s stomach-churning scuttlebutt with a possible ring of truth.

A muffin master-chef did, in fact, live on Drury Lane in London’s West End, per the London Museum. The storied breadwinner sold inexpensive baked goods to the disenfranchised folks of the then-raggedy neighborhood.

“It was a very poor area and had a terrible reputation,” claim the experts. “Many people went there to drink, gamble and sometimes even commit crimes.“

And while it’s unclear whether our once-beloved Muffin Man partook in any murderous depravity, growing suspicions of his unsavory sins are causing social media audiences to spiral.

Online outrage surrounding the sweets slinger is eerily similar to the fallout that ensued after Jane, a separate TikTok bubble-buster, unveiled the truth about the iconic “It’s raining, it’s pouring, the old man is snoring,” nursery rhyme.

“Do you know what it means?” questioned the smiley blonde in a popular post.

“The old man liked a good drink,” she said. “‘It’s raining, it’s pouring,’ refers to the alcoholic drinks being poured very liberally — like it’s raining cocktails and shots.”

And as if that shocking revelation wasn’t sobering enough, a tribe of Spanish-to-English translators recently shattered the hearts of millennials everywhere by decoding the lyrics of ‘90s dance hit, the “Macarena.”

“It’s the cheater’s theme song,” groaned a disenchanted detractor, after learning that the buzzy ditty openly promotes adultery.

Muffin Man fans are, too, now lamenting over his distasteful lore.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/parents-stunned-sick-truth-behind-161052688.html

>>22002565

Can SOMEONE please stop the shorts of this stock! FFS!

What happed to the 70.00 +

Major Trump Media Shareholder Offloads Nearly Entire Stake

ARC Global Investments and its founder Patrick Orlando have offloaded nearly their entire stake in Trump Media & Technology Group and are no longer major shareholders in the Truth Social parent, according to a recent regulatory filing, marking the latest stakeholder in the company to dump their shares.

ARC Global and Orlando hold 30,147 shares of Trump Media as of Nov. 14 after previously holding just over 11 million shares in September, decreasing their stake from 5.4% to 0.01%, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing late Thursday.

It’s not immediately clear when the shares—valued at $308 million as of Friday’s share price—were offloaded, though Orlando and ARC Global indicated in the filing that unspecified actions requiring them to report a change in their stake took place on Sept. 30.

Shares of Trump Media have increased by over 3% to nearly $28 as of around 3 p.m. EST on Friday, valuing ARC Global and Orlando’s remaining stake at around $850,000.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2024/11/15/major-trump-media-shareholder-offloads-nearly-entire-stake/

>>22002762

KEK

Had same thought

Another Name for McMaggots?

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