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They should make Traitor Trump register as a sexual predator. Along with Insurrectionist, traitor, tax evasion criminal , mass murderer, and slew of other labels. But make all the labels official and legal.
Not really, his GOP and Magots will pay for it.
Jury finds Donald Trump sexually abused columnist E Jean Carroll
Verdict for first time brands a former US president as a sexual predator but as case is civil he will only face financial punishment
Jury finds Trump sexually abused E Jean Carroll – live updates
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/09/e-jean-carroll-wins-trump-trial-verdict
What? Can't break out the party hats? lol
That's a pretty quick jury. Unanimous.
emptywheel Retweeted
NEW: Milo Yiannopoulos used Marjorie Taylor Greene’s campaign credit card to buy a Kanye West campaign web domain, then transferred it to Ye the same day for $3,000 above cost, according to receipts & a person with knowledge. Me @thedailybeast https://t.co/eBriDWjZRJ
— Roger Sollenberger (@SollenbergerRC) May 9, 2023
The transactions occurred the same day Ye dined at Mar-a-Lago with Trump & white supremacist Nick Fuentes—a meeting Milo claimed credit for. Ye later reportedly fired him. But when Ye re-hired Milo last week, his campaign treasurer quit, citing potential criminality
— Roger Sollenberger (@SollenbergerRC) May 9, 2023
Proud to show their sponsorship of death. Making millions on the dead.
.@Rep_Clyde is a marketing genius!
— Donald J. Drumpf (@RealDonalDrumpf) February 16, 2023
His lapel pins got millions in free media.
And with all the mass shootings he's inspiring, his $25 million stake in a company that makes assault rifles is really paying dividends! pic.twitter.com/prBVRmu64j
Liz Cheney's new ad.
Gone to dead slow again. Like the whole market waiting for the CPI, not enough money flow. Lucky to get even a nickel or a six bits here depending which side. This morning might of been it. Now we all are just waiting.
GOP Gov Abbot frothing at the mouth to pardon this criminal murderer. Then the GOP will submit him for a congressional medal. Also frothing at the mouth to convict a doctor that saves the mothers life by an abortion.
Daniel Perry, convicted of murder for shooting a protester at a Black Lives Matter rally, appears for sentencing
By Nouran Salahieh, CNN
Updated 10:18 AM EDT, Tue May 9, 2023
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/09/us/daniel-perry-texas-sentencing/index.html
A US Army sergeant convicted of murdering a protester at a Black Lives Matter rally is set to be sentenced Tuesday morning – even as Texas’ governor has expressed plans to pardon him.
Daniel Perry shot and killed 28-year-old Garrett Foster in July 2020 at an Austin racial justice rally held following the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, which triggered nationwide protests against police brutality. Perry and Foster are White.
Prosecutors said Perry – who was stationed at Fort Hood and working as a rideshare driver to make extra money – initiated the encounter by running a red light and turning his vehicle into a crowd gathered at the protest. Foster was openly carrying an assault-style rifle and approached Perry’s car and motioned for him to lower his window, at which point Perry fatally shot him, prosecutors said.
Perry’s legal team argued his actions were justified as self-defense.
The jury convicted Perry of murder but found him not guilty on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, and a deadly conduct charge is still pending.
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Judge denies new trial for Texas man convicted of fatally shooting a protester at a 2020 Black Lives Matter rally
Shortly after Perry’s April 7 conviction, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said he wanted to pardon Perry and issued an unusual request for the state Board of Pardons and Paroles to expedite a review of the case before a sentence was handed down.
“Texas has one of the strongest ‘Stand Your Ground’ laws of self-defense that cannot be nullified by a jury or a progressive District Attorney,” the governor said in a statement on Twitter.
The governor can only pardon Perry if the Board of Pardons and Paroles recommends it, according to Texas law.
“The board will be commencing that investigation immediately” and will report to the governor with recommendations when it’s done, board spokesperson Rachel Alderete said following Abbott’s request. She didn’t specify how long the review would take.
Perry made comments about killing protesters on social media, documents show
Garrett Foster, left, pictured with his fiancee Whitney Mitchell, was fatally shot at a Black Lives Matter protest in July 2020.
Garrett Foster, left, pictured with his fiancee Whitney Mitchell, was fatally shot at a Black Lives Matter protest in July 2020.
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Documents related to the case that were unsealed by a Travis County judge following Perry’s conviction show he had a yearslong history of making racist comments in messages and social media posts.
In a Facebook message from May 2020, just weeks before the shooting, Perry told a friend he “might have to kill a few people” who were rioting outside his apartment.
The documents also contain a May 2020 text sent by Perry that said, “I might go to Dallas to shoot looters.” Some messages included “white power” memes.
Daniel Perry walks into the courtroom moments before he was convicted of murder in the July 2020 shooting death of Garrett Foster at a Black Lives Matter protest, at the Blackwell-Thurman Criminal Justice Center in Austin, Texas, U.S. April 7, 2023. Jay Janner/USA Today Network via REUTERS
NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. MANDATORY CREDIT
Unsealed documents from the Daniel Perry case show he made comments on social media about killing protesters and Muslims
Perry wrote in a 2019 message that it was “to bad we can’t get paid for hunting Muslims in Europe.”
In a June 1, 2020, social media comment, Perry compared the Black Lives Matter movement to “a zoo full of monkeys that are freaking out flinging their sh*t,” the documents show.
Clint Broden, Perry’s attorney, criticized the release of the documents in a statement to CNN, calling it a political decision by prosecutors.
Broden said Foster also made social media posts advocating for violence and supporting riots, most of which can’t be made public due to Texas discovery rules.
A few posts are public, however, including a post praising the burning down of a Minneapolis police station in 2020.
CNN reached out to the governor’s office for comment on the social media posts. An attorney for the Foster family declined to comment on the unsealed documents.
CNN’s Rosa Flores, Andy Rose and Alisha Ebrahimji contributed to this report.
That was great, I got caught in the kold. Good times. Out of both this moment, determining which way it's going to go. Hope this action continues. Yesterday was pretty slow except for just a couple of half way hills.
Part of owning a gun should be the requirement to be in a trauma center/emergency room when they come in with torn up bodies and medical personnel trying many times unsuccessfully to save the masses. See if most of these gun right yahoos can be in there even 15 minutes.
I was once picking up my sister, we were going to do some errands and a gang shooting victims came in with adults and children. Many years ago and don't know the calibers, but less than 5 minutes being caught in the middle of it gave me memories that I've never forgotten. A new increased respect for my sister and the entire medical community that day. Needless to say, my sister worked 4-5 hrs over her 10 hr shift she was just finishing.
That goes for all these GOP gun glorifying mf's, anyone of them that would put out their gun memes and gun Xmas cards after meeting that requirement is a really sick bastard and definitely not qualified for any position.
‘Gun-loving’ ex-US army officer calls for gun control after witnessing Texas mall shooting
Steven Spainhouer described rushing to the shopping center after his son called and trying to help a girl who ‘had no face’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/08/texas-mall-shooting-us-army-witness-gun-control-laws
As an ex-police and US army officer, Steven Spainhouer is comfortable around firearms and goes so far as to describe himself as a “gun lover”.
But Spainhouer is now passionately arguing in favor of meaningful gun control after witnessing a rifle-wielding man murder several people before being shot to death by police outside a suburban Dallas shopping mall Saturday.
Texas mall shooting victims include grade-school sisters and young engineer
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“We need some action in our legislatures at the federal and state level for better gun control,” he said in an interview with MSNBC a day after the mass killing outside Premium Outlets in Allen, Texas. “And I’m saying that as someone who loves guns.”
Spainhouer described rushing to the shopping center after his son called him saying he had heard gunfire. He arrived before emergency responders and performed CPR on some of those who had been felled by bullets.
In a separate interview with CBS, Spainhouer recounted the horrors he saw first-hand.
“The first girl I walked up to was crouched down covering her head in the bushes,” he told CBS. “So I felt for a pulse, pulled her head to the side and she had no face.”
Investigators determined 33-year-old Mauricio Garcia had shot eight people to death and wounded seven others outside the mall in Allen. A police officer who had gone to the mall on an unrelated call fatally shot the attacker, and a law enforcement official later told the Associated Press that Garcia had expressed an interest in white supremacist beliefs before carrying out the mass murder.
As of Monday morning, there had been more than 200 mass shootings and 20 mass killings so far this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive.
That online resource defines a mass shooting as one in which four or more victims are either killed or wounded and a mass killing as one in which four or more victims are slain. The pace at which the US was on for the year as of Monday amounted to more than one mass killing weekly, much higher than it has been in recent years.
Spainhouer on MSNBC alluded to the condolences which Texas’s leading Republican politicians offered to the families of the slain. The messages echoed previous ones that came after a racist shooting at an El Paso Walmart left 23 dead in August 2019 and a separate gun attack at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, last year killed 19 students and two teachers.
US on track to set record in 2023 for mass killings after series of shootings
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Despite those mass killings in Texas as well as others across the US, Congress has been unable to substantially restrict access to high-powered guns. Meanwhile, the Republican-controlled state enacted a law which allowed Texas residents to legally carry guns without a license or training. A federal judge last year struck down one of the state’s few firearms restrictions, which barred people younger than 21 from carrying a gun.
And rather than impose limits on guns, which polling shows Americans generally favor, Texas’s state legislature is considering a bill that would require children in grade school to be given access to battlefield-style tourniquets and to be trained on how to use them to stop bleeding in case a mass shooter targets them.
The state’s Republican governor, Greg Abbott, went on Fox News on Sunday and insisted that the dearth of adequate mental health services was the true culprit for deadly mass violence both in his state and elsewhere.
Abbott’s remarks ran contrary to evidence that fewer than 5% of violent cases have mental health links. And Spainhouer bristled at the notion that anything other than actual gun control policies would curb the pace of mass killings in the US.
“When you get hit with an automatic weapon fire at close range, there is no opportunity for survival,” Spainhouer said to MSNBC. “I don’t know what the gunman’s problem was, but it wasn’t mental health that killed these people. It was an automatic rifle with bullets.”
He added: “I’m a gun lover. I have guns. But these [high-powered rifles] have got to get off the streets, or this is going to keep happening. We’ve got to stop that at some point.”
Maybe, already made some good buck this morning. We'll see if it continues. Of course it may make us think that it will, just to catch us and put us in the red. lol
After School Satan Clubs gain popularity amid legal victories
BY LEXI LONAS - 05/09/23 6:00 AM ET
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/3990175-after-school-satan-clubs-gain-popularity-amid-legal-victories/
“We’re definitely not interested in having children identify as Satanists,” says one volunteer who has been involved with the Satanic Temple for years.
After School Satan Clubs have been steadily increasing in popularity and are not likely to slow down as their supporters rack up media attention and legal wins fighting for free speech.
The clubs, associated with the Satanic Temple and currently only offered in primary schools, began at the beginning of 2020 and quickly gained attention from parents who wanted an alternative to religious clubs, according to June Everett, campaign director of the After School Satan Club.
“That’s kind of when things started blowing up. And I anticipate that every year moving forward is going to get busier and busier,” Everett told The Hill.
Last Monday, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania ruled in favor of the Satanic Temple and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which sued when a Northampton County school district would not allow the club to meet at on its grounds.
“In a victory for free speech and religious freedom, a federal court has ruled that the Saucon Valley School District must allow the After School Satan Club to meet in district facilities,” the ACLU announced.
The court also ruled students do not need signed permission slips to attend.
The Satanic Temple was founded in 2014 and says its mission is to “encourage benevolence and empathy, reject tyrannical authority.” A member should also use “practical common sense” and stand up for justice, according to its website.
There are congregations around the country, and they tell those interested that if their goals are to “sell my soul, get rich, join the Illuminati, etc.” they should “look somewhere else.”
While the clubs are controversial, mostly for their name and association with the Satanic Temple, students are not actually getting proselytized or instructions in devil worship.
“We’re definitely not interested in having children identify as Satanists,” said Rose Bastet, who has been involved with the Satanic Temple for four years.
Bastet is one of the After School Satan Club volunteers at B.M. Williams Primary in Chesapeake, Va. She started the process to get the club in the school back in October 2020.
The process took so long, according to Bastet, because the school was “giving us the runaround” and she believes “they were in the background looking for any way that they could prevent us from meeting.” The club was officially approved in February.
“They finally approved us, and that’s when it hit the news. And, oh, the media here just went insane,” Bastet said.
The school received a bomb threat days after the club had its first meeting. Although police said they couldn’t confirm the incident was connected to the After School Satan Club, Bastet said her name was mentioned in the threat.
“The local Christian mom groups, everything, they really stirred up a ruckus, making it seem like we were doing something nefarious,” Bastet said, adding “they tried to intimidate me by releasing my legal name.”
Everett said the clubs are excellent alternatives to Christian after-school groups for agnostics, atheists and religious minorities such as pagans, emphasizing that groups’ actual activities can encompass nearly anything.
Bastet said her club focuses on learning about different animals.
“One of our meetings a couple of months ago, we learned about Virginia native bats,” she said. “This last meeting, we had one of the parents in the club volunteer to bring in a bunch of bones and fossils that she and her husband have found in Virginia.”
The program could change this coming fall, as Everett says they are considering teaching some of the seven core tenets of the Satanic Temple in the clubs, but that plan has not been finalized.
The seven tenets include “compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason” and that “beliefs should conform to one’s best scientific understanding of the world. One should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit one’s beliefs.”
“We just came out with a book that is like the children’s version — or I should say a very sweet way to interpret — the tenets in a very understanding way that children could understand. So we might start actually using this book to talk to the kids about our seven tenets,” Everett said.
“We have a lot of big plans for next school year,” she added.
The Satanic Temple has looked into expanding into high schools but says it is difficult because students must be more actively engaged to keep the club running, as opposed to primary schools, where the groups are adult-run and easier to implement.
“That means that it has to be a student-led club. They usually have officers and they usually have to present it to the board and they have to have a sponsoring staff member. Basically, all the things that the younger kids aren’t old enough” to do, Everett said.
She added that a new partnership with the Secular Student Alliance should help expand the After School Satan Club’s reach.
“[Secular Student Alliance’s] specialty is really college level and high school kids. So with their partnership, we hope to use them to help us get into more high school and colleges,” Everett said.
Read the thread for list of books. Award winning, one "one of the best books of the year" by Parents Magazine. one with no reference to anything nude or sexual, Sleeping Beauty story, just ridiculous tyrant/Hitler/Putin/lying type policies and nothing but a power grabbing GOP created culture war.
1. On March 8, @RonDeSantisFL held a press conference & insisted Florida wasn't banning books, it was simply removing PORN
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) May 8, 2023
He based it on a survey of 23 school districts
But the survey was kept secret
Until now
The books Florida is banning as "PORN" is absolutely wild
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Used to be that they fought over the kids. Now they fight over the guns and shoot the kid.
It's not the guns it's the people behind them. The GOP created culture, the Xmas cards with their young children holding military weapons, the NRA's buying the GOP's favor, the political misuse. That's the people behind the trigger.
Neighbor shoots 14-year-old as kids play hide and seek outside, Louisiana cops say
BY TANASIA KENNEY MAY 08, 2023 4:47 PM
https://www.sunherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article275197271.html
A man faces aggravated assault and other charges after he’s accused of shooting a 14-year-old girl as she played near his property in Lake Charles, Louisiana, on May 7, deputies said. ARCHIVO DEL MIAMI HERALD
A 14-year-old was shot in the head as she played hide and seek, Louisiana deputies say. Now a neighbor is facing multiple charges. David V. Doyle, 58, was arrested Sunday, May 7, after the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office said he opened fire on a group of kids playing on his property and “unknowingly hit the girl.”
Deputies were called about a shooting at a home in Starks early that morning, authorities wrote in a news release.
They arrived to find a teen who was shot in the back of the head. Several kids were playing in the area and used a neighbor’s property to hide, according to the sheriff’s office. The property owner, identified as Doyle, told deputies he went inside and grabbed his gun after he saw shadows outside his home, the release said.
Doyle said when he went back outside, he saw several people running from his property and opened fire. He was arrested and charged with aggravated battery, four counts of aggravated assault with a firearm and illegal discharge of a firearm, deputies said. Doyle remained in jail as of May 8, online records show. The girl, who wasn’t publicly identified, was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, according to deputies.
GUN VIOLENCE IN U.S. Thousands of people in the U.S. die from firearm-related injuries every year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “In 2020, there were 45,222 firearm-related deaths in the United States – that’s about 124 people dying from a firearm-related injury each day,” officials said. That same year, gun-related injuries were among the leading causes of death in people ages 1 to 44 in the U.S., the CDC said. Authorities said the Louisiana shooting remains under investigation. Starks is about 155 miles west of Baton Rouge.
READ NEXT TEXAS 8-month-old fatally shot as mother and father fight over handgun, Texas officials say MAY 08, 2023 2:15 PM
8-month-old fatally shot as mother and father fight over handgun, Texas officials say
BY MITCHELL WILLETTS UPDATED MAY 08, 2023 2:24 PM
https://www.sunherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article275190431.html
A mother and father are facing charges after a fight over a handgun led to their infant daughter’s death, Texas officials told news outlets.
The 20-year-old dad and 21-year-old mom got into an argument in San Antonio, on April 12, about money and a pistol, WOAI reported. The dad had taken the gun, which belonged to the mom, and she wanted it back.
At some point during the fight, the dad got into a car, with the pistol tucked into his waistband, KSAT reported. Holding their 8-month-old baby in one arm, the mom reached into the vehicle with the other and tried to grab the gun.
The man kept hold of the weapon, and as they each struggled to pull it away from the other, it went off, shooting the mom and the baby, according to the station.
A bullet went through the mom’s hand and hit the baby girl, police told the KENS. The girl died at a hospital.
The mother was arrested after being released from the hospital, however, the dad ran from the scene, according to the outlet. He remained on the run until San Antonio police arrested him at a local motel on May 6, a San Antonio Police Department spokesperson told McClatchy News. He was arrested on a charge of injury to child resulting in serious bodily injury. The mother faces a similar charge, according to reports.
Don't hold your breath. Also more drilling, more supply is being worked on, demand will probably continue to increase, but that increased supply will overcome in my view. There's always climate event(s) or geopolitical events that can change the views.
Not the only source, many have the same outlook.
Moody’s Analytics has materially lowered its natural gas
price forecast, however. Henry Hub natural gas prices are
now expected to average $3.85 over 2023, down from the
$5.18 average we expected a month ago. The reopening of
all three trains at the Freeport LNG terminal has failed to
arrest the decline in U.S. natural gas prices. Significant
arbitrage opportunities remain for U.S. firms to process
natural gas and export it to Europe. This will lower European
gas prices over time and raise gas prices in the U.S. But it
will take longer for firms to arbitrage than we had previously
expected.
Wisconsin deputy killed responding to vehicle in ditch
Deputy Kaitie Leising was shot and killed by a possibly impaired driver
Department: "We will miss her infectious smile and personality"
Leising was the third officer killed in the last month in western Wisconsin
Devan Markham
Updated: MAY 8, 2023 / 09:58 AM CDT
Office Deputy Kaitie Leising, 29, was killed after gunfire was exchanged with a possible impaired driver while she was investigating a vehicle in a ditch. (Credit: St. Croix County Sheriff’s Office)
CHICAGO (NewsNation) — A St. Croix County Sheriff’s Office deputy was fatally shot Saturday evening in Glenwood City, Wisconsin, after responding to a vehicle in a ditch with a possibly impaired driver, according to police.
St. Croix County Sheriff Scott Knudson identified the deputy as 29-year-old Kaitie Leising, who had served with the department since 2022. Before working with the St. Croix County Sheriff’s Officer, Leising served with the Pennington County Sheriff’s Office in South Dakota for two years.
“Our love and condolences go out to the family of Katie Leising and all those with whom she served,” the media release said. “We will miss her infectious smile and personality. She will be missed by all she touched.”
Leising was investigating the vehicle in the ditch when gunfire was exchanged, killing her, the press release said. The suspect who allegedly shot Leising was identified by police as Jeremiah D. Johnson, 34.
Police said Johnson was “evasive” when Leising requested Johnson participate in field sobriety tests. After eight minutes of dialogue, Johnson turned toward Leising, drew a handgun and shot at her, according to the Wisconsin DOJ press release.
Man who went missing after texting 911 found dead
Leising discharged her weapon three times after being shot; however, none of the rounds hit the suspect and he fled into the woods, the report said. The exchange was captured on body cam footage.
Bystanders, who had stopped to help the vehicle in the ditch, attempted lifesaving measures on Leising, including driving her to the hospital. The report said Leising died at the local hospital.
Leising is survived by her wife and their son, Bring Me The News reported.
Other law enforcement officers searched the woods for Johnson. According to the report, a law enforcement officer saw Johnson, heard a gunshot and saw the suspect drop to the floor.
No law enforcement officers discharged their firearms during the search, the press release said. It also revealed that a handgun was recovered at the scene where Johnson was discovered dead.
According to Bring Me The News, Leising was the third officer who had been killed in western Wisconsin in the past month. Police Officer Hunter Scheel with the Cameron Police Department and Police Officer Emily Breidenbach with the Chetek Police Department were both fatally shot in early April.
All three fatalities happened in response to traffic incidents, Bring Me The News reported. The suspects in each case also died, the report said.
High Crime in Republican Cities Fueled by Guns, Inequality
BY ANDREW STANTON ON 5/8/23 AT 5:00 AM EDT
https://www.newsweek.com/high-crime-gop-cities-fueled-guns-inequality-1797939
Republicans have criticized progressive policies for fueling crime, but cities without those policies are also seeing high rates of crime.
In Tulsa, Oklahoma, a Republican-led city, "basic needs not being met" is helping to fuel crime, according to Dr. Tiffany Crutcher, the executive director of the Terence Crutcher Foundation.
Lower taxes in Republican areas may also lead to less funding for police, helping fuel crime.
Republican mayors rejected progressive criminal justice reforms embraced by their Democratic counterparts, but factors such as inequality and guns are still driving crime in larger conservative cities, experts told Newsweek...................
The problem is the GOP gun culture, the glamorizing and political enrichment, and not enough sensible rules and control. Mixed with the violence and hate that is being instilled by the extreme right backed by the GOP politicians, we have an out of control social mismanagement and US mini war zones. Along with supplying the cartels drug trade with the power and control with easy access and supply of guns mostly out of Texas.
Wow. In 4 minutes, former U.S. Marine Marksmanship Instructor and Arizona Sec. of State @Adrian_Fontes dismantles the right's Second Amendment lies. Watch this till the end. pic.twitter.com/KDesJCcfW1
— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) May 7, 2023
Eric John Diesel Retweeted
@AlwaysBAngieB Namaste, please find the unroll here: https://t.co/RcBgajDqsM See you soon. 🤖
— Thread Reader App (@threadreaderapp) May 8, 2023
Sorry, Marge. The shooter *who your gun fetish policies helped arm* wore a Right-Wing Death Squad patch and visited white supremacist sites. But go ahead and try and use this as a way to smear Hispanics. pic.twitter.com/s71A87GpdB
— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) May 8, 2023
As one response said, Alberta fires could reduce import supply from Canada. It will depend on what the fires do. Not sure what effect the Hammerfest plant supply off the EU market is going to do to the arbitrage process that's "taking longer than expected" which has direct effect on the price here in the US.
#natgas had a gap-up opening after the weekend, possibly due to the wildfire in Alberta and the news that $EQNR 's Hammerfest #LNG plant went offline due to a compressor failure. It is to remain offline until 19 May, bringing 0.7 Bcfd of supply off the EU market. $ung $boil pic.twitter.com/VTqivcvvZj
— NatGasCollector (@NatGasCollector) May 8, 2023
Eric John Diesel Retweeted
Literally terrifying! St. Louis Mo. pic.twitter.com/KHGSR3x8Cy
— Meidas_Charise Lee (@charise_lee) May 7, 2023
Wow. In 4 minutes, former U.S. Marine Marksmanship Instructor and Arizona Sec. of State @Adrian_Fontes dismantles the right's Second Amendment lies. Watch this till the end. pic.twitter.com/KDesJCcfW1
— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) May 7, 2023
Texas massacres, nothing to see here, move on. This guy still complaining? Geesh, what does he want, we sent him a thought and a prayer.
GUNS IN AMERICA
Uvalde teacher who survived the mass shooting feels 'abandoned' by the school district
Arnulfo Reyes told his 11 students to play dead when a gunman entered his classroom and started firing. He was the only survivor in room 111.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/uvalde-teacher-survived-mass-shooting-feels-abandoned-school-district-rcna80708
Arnulfo Reyes, 46, a teacher at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas, was injured in a mass shooting a year ago. Courtesy; Jordan Vonderhaar for NBC News
May 7, 2023, 6:01 AM MDT
By Alicia Victoria Lozano
UVALDE, Texas — Arnulfo Reyes, the sole survivor of Classroom 111 at Robb Elementary School, says the district where he taught for more than a decade “abandoned” him in the year since a gunman killed 11 of his students and left him with injuries, both emotional and physical, that will never fully heal.
He has heard only twice from Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Superintendent Gary Patterson, with each phone call lasting less than five minutes, Reyes said. Patterson’s predecessor, Hal Harrell, waited a month after the May 24 massacre to contact him.
“I refused him, because he had a whole month to visit me,” Reyes said.
Neither Patterson nor Harrell, who was the superintendent at the time of the shooting, responded to requests for comment. A spokesperson for the school district did not reply to multiple phone calls and emails.
“They’ve never really given support,” said Reyes, 46. “They just forgot us.”
The 19 children and two teachers who died. Reyes lost 11 of those students in his fourth grade classroom.Chandan Kanna / AFP via Getty Images file; NBC News
The school district has been criticized for renewing contracts for several employees and administrators who were accused of mishandling communications with parents the day of the shooting. Parents have also complained about being silenced during heated school board meetings and being banned from school district property.
Although several parents sued the school district and police for how they handled the shooting, including waiting 77 minutes before they entered the two classrooms where the gunman was holed up and shooting with a high-powered rifle, Reyes chose not to. He said suing would not benefit his recovery.
Instead, he and more than a dozen other plaintiffs filed a civil claim against the deceased shooter, his family and companies that made security and communications equipment used in the response.
“They should have protected the school a long time ago before it even happened,” Reyes said of district officials. “I don’t think they’ll change, unfortunately.”
He is seeking at least $1 million in damages, which could rise as he accumulates more medical bills, said his lawyer, Mark DiCarlo.
Reyes has undergone 11 operations since the rampage in Uvalde, about 80 miles west of San Antonio. Nineteen students and two teachers were killed, unleashing a torrent of grief, anger and lingering questions in the close-knit community.
As law enforcement officers waited in the hallway for more than an hour for a better-equipped Border Patrol SWAT team to arrive, Reyes lay on the floor of his classroom surrounded by dead and dying children.
He wondered when help would come and hoped at least some of the students he told to play dead survived. None did.
Reyes was shot multiple times in an arm, his back and a lung. A titanium rod connects his elbow to his wrist, where the bone was shattered. Sleep eludes him. Most days, the only interaction he has with people is during one of his many medical appointments.
Reyes, who lives alone with his Chihuahua, has spent most of the year secluded from the greater community, rarely leaving his home and only occasionally allowing close friends and family members to visit, he said. He shops for groceries early in the morning before customers, with their sideways glances and hushed whispers, fill the aisles. He said he hates being the subject of gossip, and he has shied away from media interviews in recent months.
Locked away in his home, Reyes questions whether he could have done something differently on that gruesome day. He has replayed the afternoon countless times in his mind, sometimes breaking into sobs and crying until he is exhausted.
“I try to keep myself busy with little projects, just trying to change my mindset to think about the happy times I had with them — how they acted, how they talked,” Reyes said. “Sometimes it does beat me. I sob and try to let it out.”
The feeling he cannot shake, he said, is that of abandonment, by the responding law enforcement officers who waited more than 70 minutes to take down the shooter and then by the school district that has been absent during his recovery.
“I thought they would have been more caring, more compassionate,” he said. “I feel like I never even worked for them, like I’m nobody. I’m nobody to them.”
His fear keeps him mostly homebound, and he wonders whether anyone would come to his rescue if he were in a car accident or experienced a medical emergency. He is ambivalent about returning to work in a school district that has banned angry parents from board meetings and seemingly offers few resources to survivors.
Reyes said his sole comfort is knowing he is a champion for his students and the others at Robb Elementary.
“I have to be a voice for my 11 students,” he said. “But I do mean all of them. We have to be a voice for them.”
That's the whole challenge, see how many crumbs one can pick up. You know the house always wins, doesn't mean we can't pick a few wins from them on the way though.
Portions from Moody's Analytics Weekly Outlook May 4, 2023
Energy
Moody’s Analytics has not materially changed its oil price
forecast in response to the OPEC+ decision to lower oil
output. Brent crude oil is expected to average a little more
than $88 over 2023 and $90 by year’s end. Oil prices had
fallen by $10 after the failure of Silicon Valley Bank, but the
action by OPEC+ put a floor under prices. The cut will
balance the oil market by the end of the second quarter.
The oil market has been in surplus for roughly a year. The
global economy’s recovery from the pandemic boosted oil
demand, but oil supply has grown by even more over the
last 12 months. Russia has offset virtually all its lost Western
oil sales by turning east, although that dynamic has largely
played out. Meanwhile, soaring prices gave global producers
the incentive to crank up output. Global releases from
strategic petroleum reserves also added to the oversupply. A
reawakening Chinese economy was expected to push the oil
market from surplus to deficit in the second half of the year,
but the OPEC+ cut will stabilize the oil market even if that
doesn’t materialize.
Moody’s Analytics has materially lowered its natural gas
price forecast, however. Henry Hub natural gas prices are
now expected to average $3.85 over 2023, down from the
$5.18 average we expected a month ago. The reopening of
all three trains at the Freeport LNG terminal has failed to
arrest the decline in U.S. natural gas prices. Significant
arbitrage opportunities remain for U.S. firms to process
natural gas and export it to Europe. This will lower European
gas prices over time and raise gas prices in the U.S. But it
will take longer for firms to arbitrage than we had previously
expected.
Wage pressures;
.....One notable exception to the relative stability involves
energy states, which are riding a solid pickup in hiring amid
increased drilling to a smaller gap between openings and
hires.....
......The actions of OPEC+ had little
impact on the outlook for oil prices, although recent
developments have shifted the near-term outlook for
natural gas prices downward......
New but not new. That Saudi and Trump/family relationship is pretty dirty and most likely traitorous, at the least not in the best interest of this country.
Jack Smith isn’t *just now* investigating Trump’s Saudi-funded golf tournaments. The NYT reporting says that the subpoenas issued an unknown amount of time ago. This isn’t a new development. It’s an already in progress thing that we’re just now belatedly learning about.
— Palmer Report (@PalmerReport) May 5, 2023
they are. I have interviewed hundreds of students. they are traumatized, both by the preparation for and the specter of gun violence in school. it is unconscionable to make them live this way https://t.co/Et4MTAdUTb
— Fortesa Latifi (@hifortesa) May 5, 2023
Took the loss on the last trade 2.70-71, with two trades evened out. Bulk of trades nice and green. I'm ok with today.
Might be all the ones trying to average down and holding, we all were bidding down as it plummeted and held. We look at $2 ng, oversold heavy, it's got to go up, right? If it wasn't for such bad ass decay, we would all be sitting pretty. It will be hard for the producers and onward to make the profit or even break even if this stays much longer. Something got to give.
Didn't let go when I should of I guess, not enough cents. lol Adding 2.71 Not much time left, hope it isn't just staircasing down again.
Stepped away from NG screens, missed that last hump. See if it will give another. Entered 2.74-75 &75-76
Did you think I’d show up to the hearing on Supreme Court ethics without receipts? pic.twitter.com/QjdF7T0rIl
— Sheldon Whitehouse (@SenWhitehouse) May 2, 2023
The lawsuit in which Fox News argues AGAINST Bartnicki w/MMFA is going to be epic. https://t.co/UEGTQCfPZL
— emptywheel (ticmharc) (@emptywheel) May 5, 2023