Kash increases power level when under pressure. Reminds me of myself.
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Robert Redford dead at 89
Legendary actor Robert Redford has died. He was 89.
"Robert Redford passed away on September 16, 2025, at his home at Sundance in the mountains of Utah – the place he loved, surrounded by those he loved," his representative told Fox News Digital. "He will be missed greatly. The family requests privacy."
The Hollywood icon was best known for classics like "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and "The Sting."
Before he became the rugged screen icon of the 1970s, Redford grew up in Santa Monica, California.
Born Charles Robert Redford Jr. on Aug. 18, 1936, the all-American heartthrob started out studying art and chasing a future as a painter before turning to acting—eventually landing at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
Redford made early appearances on "The Twilight Zone," "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" and "The Untouchables" in the late 1950s and early '60s.
As for his Broadway career, Redford landed a breakout role in Neil Simon’s "Barefoot in the Park," first on stage and then on screen alongside Jane Fonda.
During his illustrious career that spanned five decades of film, Redford became an Oscar-winning director as well as an activist.
After skyrocketing to fame in the ’60s, Redford dominated the ’70s box office with back-to-back hits like "The Candidate," "The Way We Were" and "All the President’s Men." He capped off the decade with an Oscar win for best director in 1980 for "Ordinary People," which also took home best picture.
Behind the camera, Redford elevated independent film. He took on gritty roles and built the Sundance Film Festival from the ground up.
What began as a training ground for undiscovered filmmakers in the mountains of Park City, Utah – where Redford initially planned to open a ski resort – quickly transformed into the most important independent film festival in the world.
"For me, the word to be underscored is ‘independence,’" Redford told the Associated Press in 2018. "I’ve always believed in that word. That’s what led to me eventually wanting to create a category that supported independent artists who weren’t given a chance to be heard.
"The industry was pretty well controlled by the mainstream, which I was a part of. But I saw other stories out there that weren’t having a chance to be told and I thought, ‘Well, maybe I can commit my energies to giving those people a chance.’ As I look back on it, I feel very good about that."
By 2025, the festival had grown so large that organizers announced they would be relocating out of Park City.
Redford didn’t just play the leading man — he additionally took on politics with the kind of boldness that became his Hollywood signature.
In 1972, Redford took on an American political role in "The Candidate," playing an idealistic U.S. Senate hopeful whose idealism crumbled by the final scene. He delivered one of the most iconic final lines in political cinema, "What do we do now?"
Four years later, Redford starred as real-life Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward in "All the President’s Men," diving headfirst into the Watergate scandal.
Meanwhile, during Redford's acting career, he shared the screen with Hollywood icons including Meryl Streep, Tom Cruise and Paul Newman.
While Redford pulled back from acting in the '80s and '90s to focus on directing and building the indie film scene, he still starred in several popular films. He acted opposite Streep in the 1985 drama "Out of Africa," and nearly 30 years later stunned critics in the survival film "All Is Lost" in 2013.
His other directing efforts included "The Horse Whisperer," "The Milagro Beanfield War" and 1994's "Quiz Show," the last of which also earned best picture and director Oscar nominations. In 2002, Redford received an honorary Oscar, with academy organizers citing him as "actor, director, producer, creator of Sundance, inspiration to independent and innovative filmmakers everywhere."
Redford was married twice, most recently to Sibylle Szaggars. He had four children, two of whom have died – Scott Anthony, who died in infancy in 1959, and James Redford, an activist and filmmaker who died in 2020.
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/robert-redford-dead-89?msockid=2b4feb83bf4862f5175afe57be2a6311
I literally just watched Sneakers for the first time like 3 days ago…
Georgia Supreme Court declines to review lower court ruling disqualifying Fani Willis from Trump prosecution
ATLANTA — The Georgia Supreme Court Tuesday morning declined to review a lower court's ruling disqualifying Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from the 2020 election prosecution of President Donald Trump and eight of his co-defendants.
"The Supreme Court today denied the petition for certiorari," the Court wrote.
Three Justices Ellington, McMillian, and Colvin dissented from the decision. Chief Justice Peterson and Justice Land did not participate in the decision.
The decision means that the lower Court of Appeals' decision in December 2024 disqualifying Willis from the case remains in place, ending her role in the case.
She said in a statement she would now prepare to transfer the case file to the Prosecuting Attorneys' Council of Georgia, which would be the organization responsible for finding a new prosecutor and otherwise determining the case's next steps.
“While I disagree with the decision of the Georgia Court of Appeals and the Georgia Supreme Court’s divided decision not to review it, I respect the legal process and the courts," Willis said. "Accordingly, my office will make the case file and evidence available to the Prosecuting Attorneys Council for use in the ongoing litigation. I hope that whoever is assigned to handle the case will have the courage to do what the evidence and the law demand.”
That appellate decision overturned a ruling by Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee that would have allowed her to continue prosecuting the case if special prosecutor Nathan Wade resigned, which he did.
The early 2024 revelation of a romantic relationship between DA Willis and Wade, whom she had hired for the case, derailed proceedings against President Trump and the other remaining defendants.
The Georgia Court of Appeals ruled that Judge McAfee "erred" with his order to resolve the issue of whether the relationship created a conflict of interest in the case.
"The remedy crafted by the trial court to prevent an ongoing appearance of impropriety did nothing to address the appearance of impropriety that existed at times when DA Willis was exercising her broad pretrial discretion about who to prosecute and what charges to bring," the Court of Appeals order said. "While we recognize that an appearance of impropriety generally is not enough to support disqualification, this is the rare case in which disqualification is mandated, and no other remedy will suffice to restore public confidence in the integrity of these proceedings."
Willis had argued this was an "an utterly novel application of the standards for disqualification."
“No Georgia court has ever disqualified a district attorney for the mere appearance of impropriety without the existence of an actual conflict of interest," Willis argued in an earlier filing. "And no Georgia court has ever reversed a trial court’s order declining to disqualify a prosecutor based solely on an appearance of impropriety.”
Justice Pinson wrote in an opinion concurring with the majority's decision to not hear the appeal that, "If this question — whether conduct creating an appearance of impropriety alone is grounds for disqualifying a prosecutor — is presented by future cases, we may well need to take it up in one of them. But, in my view, that possibly cert-worthy question is not presented by this case, at least not as it appears before this Court."
Following the state Supreme Court's decision to let the appellate decision stand, defendant Michael Roman's attorney Ashleigh Merchant shared this statement with the 11Alive Political Team.
"This case has always been exceptional in how it was handled which is why it demanded such an extraordinary remedy," she said. "The lapses in judgement and the inability to accept responsibility for those lapses has infected this case from its inception. We hope this will finally close this chapter."
Steve Sadow, President Trump's lead attorney, also weighed in Tuesday morning.
"This proper decision should bring an end to the wrongful political, lawfare persecutions of the President," he said.
Not all Justices agreed with the majority's decision not to hear the appeal. In a dissenting opinion, Justice McMillian wrote that "the legal issue necessarily presented here whether an attorney can be disqualified based on the appearance of impropriety alone affects every single active lawyer in the State of Georgia."
She argued the Court should have heard the appeal in order to resolve lower court decisions "in conflict" with each other. Justices Ellington and Colvin joined that dissent but were unable to persuade a majority of the Justices of their perspective.
Justice Pinson, concurring with the majority, articulated that Willis' decision not to cross-appeal McAfee's ruling amounted to "taking as an unchallenged given both the trial court’s finding of a significant appearance of impropriety and that some kind of disqualification remedy was required to cure the harm caused by the prosecutors’ conduct."
Thus the only question for the state Supreme Court to settle would be whether the Court of Appeals was wrong in determining McAfee "erred" with his "one of you has to go" (as Pinson coined it) remedy for the appearance of impropriety. The state Supreme Court found there was no reason to review that narrower question.
"In short, rather than deciding any broader question about whether an appearance of impropriety can serve as an independent ground for disqualification of public prosecutors, the Court of Appeals’ decision appears to have resolved a narrow, case-specific dispute about the trial court’s choice of disqualification remedy," Pinson wrote. "If that’s the best reading of the Court of Appeals’ decision — and I think it is — that decision does not raise a question of gravity that warrants our further review.
"The question whether a trial court abused its discretion in choosing a particular disqualification remedy under the specific and unusual circumstances of this case is not a question of Georgia law at all likely to arise in future cases."
The Georgia Court of Appeals did not, however, throw out the whole case, as defense lawyers for President Trump and his co-defendants had sought.
But in upholding the appellate court's ruling disqualifying Willis and her office, the future of the election interference prosecution is thrown into serious jeopardy. Former DeKalb County DA Robert James told 11Alive last December the case would be transferred to the jurisdiction of the Prosecuting Attorneys' Council of Georgia.
It would be up to that third-party organization to assign a new prosecutor to take over the case – who would have autonomy to review the entirety of the case.
"There's no prosecutor's office in the state of Georgia that's going to get a case of this magnitude, of this import, and not say 'listen, we've got to tear it down to the studs and look at everything and make a determination of what we should go forward on and what we shouldn't go forward on,'" James said.
https://www.11alive.com/article/news/special-reports/ga-trump-investigation/georgia-supreme-court-da-fani-willis-disqualification/85-4eaa2e2b-6625-4ff7-89ea-f9efd5eefb50
Deep dig on Utah Armed Queers
https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/1967758989791465856
Secretary Marco Rubio
@SecRubio
America will not host foreigners who celebrate the death of our fellow citizens.
Visa revocations are under way. If you are here on a visa and cheering on the public assassination of a political figure, prepare to be deported. You are not welcome in this country.
https://x.com/SecRubio/status/1967784061721776521
Tim Walz
@Tim_Walz
I’m running for reelection to continue serving as Governor of Minnesota.
We’ve made historic progress in our state, but we’re not done yet. I’m staying in the fight — and I need you with me.
https://x.com/Tim_Walz/status/1967936393747063151
Oliya Scootercaster 🛴
@ScooterCasterNY
NOW: Crowd outside of Courthouse cheer and hug as it's announced that terrorism charges against Luigi Mangione have been dropped.
https://x.com/ScooterCasterNY/status/1967947416465969391
Citizen Free Press
@CitizenFreePres
FANI WILLIS IS A CRIMINAL.
President Trump comments this morning on Georgia court decision.
https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1968013148033839616
Utah prosecutors will be seeking death penalty for Tyler Robinson in killing of Charlie Kirk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h9uRxIh74k
Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnson
BREAKING: Utah County DA reads the full text message exchange between Charlie Kirk’s assassin and his transgender boyfriend/roommate after committing the murder:
ROBINSON: "Drop what you're doing, look under my keyboard."
ROOMMATE: "You are joking right?"
ROBINSON: "I am still okay, my love. Shouldn't be long until I can come home, but I gotta grab my rifle still. To be honest, I had hoped to keep this secret till I died of old age. I am sorry to involve you."
ROOMMATE: "You weren't the one who did it, right?"
ROBINSON: "I am, I am, I'm sorry."
ROOMMATE: "I thought they caught the person."
ROBINSON: "No, they grabbed some crazy old dude, then interrogated someone in similar clothing. I had planned to grab my rifle from my drop point shortly after, but most of that side of town got locked down. It's quiet, almost enough to get out, but there's one vehicle lingering."
ROOMMATE: "Why?"
ROBINSON: "Why did I do it? I had enough of his hatred. Some hate can't be negotiated out. If I am able to grab my rifle unseen, I will have left no evidence. Going to attempt to retrieve it again. Hopefully they have moved on. I haven't seen anything about them finding it."
ROOMMATE: "How long have you been planning this?"
ROBINSON: "A bit over a week, I believe. I can get close to it, but there is a squad car parked right by it. I think they already swept that spot, but I don't want to chance it. I'm wishing I had circled back and grabbed it as soon as I got to my vehicle. I'm worried what my old man would do if I didn't bring back Grandpa's rifle. IDEK if it had a serial number, but it wouldn't trace to me. I worry about prints. I had to leave it in a bush where I changed outfits. I might have to abandon it and hope they don't find prints."
"How the F will I explain losing it to my old man? Only thing I left was the rifle wrapped in a towel. Remember how he was engraving bullets? The F in messages are mostly a big meme. If I see notice bulge U-W-U on Fox News, I might have a stroke, all right, I'm gonna have to leave it. That really F in sucks. Judging from today, I'd say grandpa's gun does just fine IDK. I think that was a 2K dollar scope."
"Delete this exchange. My dad wants photos of the rifle. He says, Grandpa wants to know who has what. The feds released a photo of the rifle and it is very unique. He's calling me, RN. Not answering. Since Trump got into office, my dad has been pretty diehard MAGA. I'm gonna turn myself in willingly. One of my neighbors here is a deputy for the sheriff. Again, you are all I worry about love. Don't take any interviews or make any comments. If any police ask you questions, ask for a lawyer and stay silent."
https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1968027527273718104
Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
🚨 BREAKING: It has just been confirmed that Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson "started to lean more to the LEFT, pro-gay and trans rights-oriented."
Robinson also told his transgender partner he took out Charlie because he was fed up with Charlie's "hatred." Sounds familiar.
He was dating the roommate, who is a man. Tyler Robinson's FATHER was seemingly disturbed about the relationship. The father appears to be a conservative.
How could a kid stray so far, so quickly? Who radicalized him?
https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1968020238030590015
Rapid Response 47
@RapidResponse47
"I have armed security seven days a week and it's unbelievable what happens every day in front of my restaurant," says a Memphis restaurant owner on crime.
"Without a doubt, [the federal deployment to Memphis] will help."
https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1967990302326841412
Rapid Response 47
@RapidResponse47
MEMPHIS RESIDENT: "I don't even feel safe anymore except for the places I know they have security guards… You really don't know how bad it is in Memphis… This has been needing to be done for a long time."
https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1968007914687513008
Mortgage rates drop to 3-year low ahead of Fed meeting
-The average rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage dropped 12 basis points from Monday to 6.13%, according to Mortgage News Daily.
-That is the lowest level since late 2022.
Mortgage rates dropped sharply Tuesday, as investors in mortgage-backed bonds seemed to buy in ahead of a widely expected rate cut by the Federal Reserve.
The average rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage dropped 12 basis points from Monday to 6.13%, according to Mortgage News Daily. That is the lowest level since late 2022.
“The overall set-up is reminiscent of September 2024 when rates were doing the same thing for the same reasons ahead of Fed meeting with a virtual 100% chance of a rate cut,” said Matthew Graham, chief operating officer of Mortgage News Daily. “Back then, mortgage rates moved paradoxically higher after the Fed rate cut. The same thing could happen this time, but it’s by no means guaranteed.”
It also follows historical trends. In a video podcast for CNBC’s Property Play, Willy Walker, CEO of commercial real estate firm Walker & Dunlop
said there have been similar trends in the past.
“If you go back to 1980 and the nine Fed rate cut periods over that 45-year period, the ones where the Fed cuts in a recessionary environment end up pulling down the long end of the curve, pull down the 10-year, pull down the 5-year,” Walker said. “In those where it’s not a recession, which is like right now, it does not impact long-term rates. And so as much as I’m expecting us to see at least a 25 basis point cut, and then probably another 25 basis point cut, even if you take 50 basis points out of the short end of the curve, I don’t expect it’s going to impact the long end of the curve very much.”
He added that he thinks yields are well below where they will be two or three weeks from now.
“I don’t try to predict where rates are going, but I think people … might buy on the rumor and sell on the news. I think you probably see the 10-year sell off a little bit after the Fed actually announces their 25 basis point cut,” Walker said.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/16/mortgage-rates-drop-to-3-year-low-ahead-of-fed-meeting.html
FBI Kash obliterates Adam Schitt in real-time
https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1968048109038211368
Roughly 180 complaints filed against Texas teachers for alleged comments on killing of Charlie Kirk
Several school districts have already taken disciplinary action against staff for comments made about the Christian conservative activist’s death.
The Texas Education Agency is investigating roughly 180 complaints against teachers who have been accused of making inappropriate comments online about conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s death as several educators across the state have already been punished for allegedly doing so.
In the days since Kirk was shot and killed during an event he hosted at Utah Valley University, lawmakers and activists have called for the firings and removals of anyone mocking Kirk or celebrating his death.
On Monday, Gov. Greg Abbott alleged the complaints amounted to over 100 teachers, and that statements against Kirk “called for or incite violence” in a social media post.
The Texas Education Agency did not respond to questions about what policy or ethics code violation would be broken if a teacher made what was considered to be an inappropriate comment. The TEA provided a statement from agency commissioner Mike Morath, who said he would recommend the State Board for Educator Certification suspend the licenses of teachers who are disciplined.
“While all educators are held to a high standard of professionalism, there is a difference between comments made in poor taste and those that call for and incite further violence — the latter of which is clearly unacceptable,” Morath said.
At least six school districts across the state have already taken disciplinary action regarding staff comments on Kirk’s death, and others have been criticized by Republican lawmakers for not taking swift action. Klein Independent School District fired a teacher for comments he made online about Kirk’s death, and Ector County Independent School District fired a part-time tutor and placed another employee on administrative leave, according to a press release. Both districts said the fired employees’ comments did not reflect the “values” of their schools.
Critics have called the crackdown “authoritarian” and expressed concern that the comments are protected First Amendment speech. Zeph Capo, president of the Texas’ American Federation of Teachers union, said in a statement that the investigations “silence dissent” among school teachers.
“What started with lawmakers weaponizing their platforms against civil servants has morphed into a statewide directive to hunt down and fire educators for opinions shared on their personal social media accounts,” Capo said.
Several Texas lawmakers have become outspoken about teacher’s comments on Kirk, with some encouraging their removal or disciplinary action. The online pushback comes after two professors were fired before Kirk’s death over statements they made in videos taken of them unknowingly and posted online.
“The TEA takes a stand against teachers who condoned the assassination of Charlie Kirk,” Rep. Steve Toth, R-Conroe, said in a social media post on Friday. “These people are insanely hateful and violent and have no place in the lives of Texas Children.”
While the TEA investigates K-12 teachers, Texas legislators will inquire about how higher education faculty and staff are handling discussions of Kirk’s death and other subjects. On Friday, Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick announced two new committees, “honoring the life and legacy” of Kirk, would create reports on free speech and bias at state universities.
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https://www.texastribune.org/2025/09/15/texas-education-teacher-comments-charlie-kirk/