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so why was the last bread locked?
curious and curiouser
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/02/27/transgender-activists-storm-iowa-capitol-as-lawmakers-debate-removing-gender-identity-as-protected-class/
Transgender Activists Storm Iowa Capitol as Lawmakers Debate Removing ‘Gender Identity’ as Protected Class
Transgender activists stormed the Iowa Capitol on Thursday as lawmakers consider a bill that would eliminate “gender identity” as a protected class from state civil rights law.
“Hundreds of Iowans again packed the Iowa Capitol rotunda to protest the bill, waving pride flags, holding signs and chanting ‘no hate in our state’ and ‘you represent us.’ A line of protesters led out the building’s door as more people waited to be let inside,” the Des Moines Register reported.
The massive protest followed a week of “heated debate” on the legislation, called House File 583, according to the report. That legislation would remove “gender identity,” — the false concept that one can identify or become a different sex than they were born as — as a protected class from the Iowa Civil Rights Act. The Iowa Civil Rights Act shield Iowans from discrimination in education, employment, housing, and more.
The hearing was the public’s final opportunity to weigh-in on the legislation, according to the report. The Republican-control House and Senate are expected to vote on the bill on Thursday and send it to Gov. Kim Reynold’s (R) desk for final approval.
“Trans rights activists storm the Iowa State Capitol as lawmakers consider a bill to remove gender identity as a protected class,” women’s sports advocate Riley Gaines said in a post to X, accompanied with a video of the pro-transgender protesters. “You CANNOT protect both sex and gender identity in law as they directly contradict each other. Stay strong, Iowa GOP.”
According to the Des Moines Register, state troopers blocked off the hallway outside the committee room where the hearing was set to take place, “hoping to avoid a repeat of Monday when protesters’ chanting drowned out testimony during a subcommittee hearing and troopers arrested two people as they attempted to push the crowd back.”
The Iowa Civil Rights Act was enacted in 1965 and outlaws discrimination based on race, creed, color, sex, national origin, religion, and disability. Lawmakers added protections for sexual orientation and gender identity to the law in 2007, when Democrats were in control of the state legislature and the governor’s office.
House File 583 would additionally require birth certificates in Iowa to reflect the biological reality of a person’s sex at birth and would redefine “sex” to mean “the state of being either male or female as observed or clinically verified at birth.”
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it's all sooo tiresome!
https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-leaked-footage-shows-how-violent-ny-prisons-have-become-since-dems-halt-act
EXCLUSIVE: Leaked Footage Reveals How Violent NY Prisons Have Become Since Dems Passed HALT Act
The footage, leaked to The Daily Wire, appears to show a montage of violence at Green Haven Correctional Facility, including a fatal stabbing.
Graphic footage obtained by The Daily Wire appears to showcase how violent New York prisons have become for inmates, correctional officers, and other workers since the Democrat-backed HALT Act took effect in 2022.
A source, who wishes to remain anonymous out of fear of retribution, leaked the alleged footage from Green Haven Correctional Facility, wishing to expose how dangerous conditions are as 15,000 correctional officers and sergeants across the state remain on strike.
“I send this footage to you to help the public understand what it is we face and why we are on strike,” the source said. “This is not about money. It’s about how the liberal agenda has destroyed our justice system.”
As The Daily Wire previously reported, the strike began on February 17, with officers asking for the HALT Act to be repealed and to have other safety measures put into place, including stopping mandated shifts that officers say can sometimes last days at a time.
The footage, the source said, “shows staff at Green Haven Correctional Facility being attacked and inmates assaulting, even slashing each other’s faces.”
The video opens up with an inmate slicing the face of a woman who went to the prison to visit the inmate, according to the anonymous source.
EXCLUSIVE: Graphic footage from Green Haven Correctional Facility exposes the violence Corrections Officers are subjected to in NY prisons while @GovKathyHochul threatens to arrest them for "illegally" striking. She's more worried about prisoners’ "rights." pic.twitter.com/KKY4HEXBFZ
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) February 27, 2025
Additionally, footage starting at the 02:09:00 mark appears to show the fatal stabbing of 30-year-old inmate Jarrett Frost, The Daily Wire was told. The incident took place in June 2022, months after the HALT Act took effect.
“HALT has stripped us of our ability to incentivize good behavior among the inmate population and deter them from attacking us,” the source added. “We have been deprived of our authority to control the inmates that we are charged to supervise, are swallowing our pride, and losing our souls in the process.”
Another segment seems to show a male inmate, who is leaving a shower, being attacked by another inmate. He’s seen violently seizing on the ground, and The Daily Wire is told the victim suffered brain trauma.
“It’s just the tip of the iceberg,” the source said of the footage.
The Daily Wire reached out to the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) for comment on Thursday, but has yet to receive a response.
Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul (NY) during a press conference on Tuesday repeatedly denigrated officers for going on strike, saying that she doesn’t know what officers want from her and blaming them for current safety risks. The governor also confirmed that she’s making legal moves to have striking officers arrested.
“Has anyone been arrested?” a reporter asked the governor, to which Hochul responded, “The proceedings have started. I think we have 380 people on the first list through the attorney general’s office and they’re being served by state police as we speak. This is in violation of law.”
The governor suggested that she had state troopers serve papers with the threat of arrest to striking officers as a scare tactic, but since they didn’t back down, she’d continue down the path to having these officers arrested “in batches.”
During the presser, the governor brought up Marcos Gonzalez Soler, who serves as Deputy Secretary for Public Safety, for more details on the legal proceedings. He suggested all 15,000 would be addressed legally if need be.
“We will go to catch every single one of them until they’ve returned to work,” Gonzalez Soler told the media.
A source told The Daily Wire that Hochul’s administration has been using “scare tactics” to try to get officers back to work.
“Hochul has been aggressive with her scare tactics, having administrative personnel call staff at home, ordering them to return to work,” the source said. “Even those on sick leave, worker’s compensation leave, pre-approved vacation time, and bereavement leave are receiving these phone calls; being told that if they fail to report that they would be considered AWOL, docked two days pay for each shift missed and lose their health insurance.”
“Many of us cannot afford to lose our jobs and health insurance, many of us live paycheck to paycheck,” they continued. “But in spite of this fact, we cannot continue to face the long mandated hours in violent, unsafe prisons.”
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https://justthenews.com/nation/culture/initial-autopsies-gene-hackman-and-wife-shows-no-external-injuries-following
Initial autopsies of Gene Hackman and wife shows no external injuries, following unexpected deaths
Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa were found dead in their Santa Fe home on Wednesday, after sheriff deputies responded to a request for a wellness check of the couple, who reportedly had not been heard from for two weeks.
The initial autopsy of the late Hollywood actor Gene Hackman and his wife showed no external injuries or trauma to either person, the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday.
Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa were found dead in their Santa Fe home on Wednesday, after sheriff deputies responded to a request for a wellness check of the couple, who reportedly had not been heard from for two weeks.
Authorities are investigating the deaths as "suspicious" because of the circumstances surrounding their deaths. Hackman's body was found on the floor in a mudroom and Arakawa's body was found on a bathroom floor near a space heater. Pills were scattered on the counter near where Arakawa's body was found and both showed signs of decomposition.
"It's not normal to find two people deceased in the residence," Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza said Thursday. "That's concerning. And then there was also a dog that was in a kennel that was also found deceased."
Official autopsy and toxicology reports are still pending, the sheriff’s office said, but foul play is not currently suspected. Carbon monoxide and toxicology tests have also been requested for both Hackman and Arakawa, per CNN, though the initial investigation found no immediate signs of a carbon monoxide leak or natural gas leak.
Mendoza also said there was no obvious sign of a struggle and no items were missing.
The final autopsy and medical examiner's report could take up to 4-6 weeks to come in.
Hackman, who died at 95, is survived by his three children who he had with his ex-wife.
https://thepostmillennial.com/hooded-gunman-opens-fire-on-state-accident-insurance-fund-ceo-in-oregon
Hooded gunman opens fire on State Accident Insurance Fund CEO in Oregon
The suspect left the scene on foot, police believe, and has not yet been apprehended.
State Accident Insurance Fund CEO Chip Terhune who shot at by a hooded gunman who opened fire on him near his Lake Oswego, Ore. home. The suspect wore "all dark clothes with a possible hoodie or ski mask," while carrying a "light-colored object," Lake Oswego Police said.
The suspect left the scene on foot, police believe, and has not yet been apprehended. Windows and doors of Terhune's home were shattered in the gunfire. The shooting took place at about 4 am on the morning of February 21. Terhune said that he believed at first that someone had been throwing rocks at his home.
He also sent an email to staff, The Daily Mail reports, letting them know that the company "received an email threat purporting to be from the person(s) responsible."
"At around 4 a.m., I heard what I thought were rocks thrown at my house, but discovered they were gunshots," Terhune said in the email, per OregonLive. "An investigation is underway, and we don’t know if this was specifically targeted to me." Local outlet KPTV said that Terhune elaborated and said that "although it does not target any specific employee, the email references knowledge of employee and relatives' names and addresses."
The sender, Terhune said, also included "a list containing some of this information sourced from internet searches, including many inaccuracies." The list that came with the threatening email was sent on to employees as well. Terhune advised staff to keep their wits about them.
It was on December 4 that UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thomson was gunned down in cold blood on a Manhattan street. The suspect in that killing, Luigi Mangione, was arrested days later in Pennsylvania and is in prison awaiting trial.
Since his arrest, he has become something of a folk hero to those who have problems with health insurance companies and believe in vigilante justice. He launched a fundraiser to help pay his legal expenses and the amount donated has already well surpassed half a million dollars. He may face the death penalty.
The State Accident Insurance Fund has been in business in the state of Oregon since 1914. They are "Oregon’s not-for-profit workers' comp insurance company and say they "protect Oregon employers and workers with exceptional, affordable coverage."