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The Islamo-Communist revolution taking place on college campuses took another step forward overnight with the takeover of Hamilton Hall at Columbia University in New York City. Dozens of Hamas supporters who have been staging a campus ‘occupy protest’ against Israel and the United States smashed windows and stormed the building apparently unimpeded by law enforcement while hundreds more gathered outside the building to secure the entrances.
Screen image of Hamilton Hall takeover via Jessica Schwalb, X Twitter.
The attack came after a day of dithering by campus administrators.
Please visit the link to read the complete statement from President Shafik: https://t.co/aOqZVezkfe pic.twitter.com/G82lD4I9JS
— Columbia University (@Columbia) April 29, 2024
The action by the protesters took place 56 years to the day, April 30, 1968, when police forced an end to a week-long student occupation of Hamilton Hall. Since then, Hamilton Hall has been the sight of protest actions, such as a 1985 protest calling for divestment from South Africa.
April 30, 1968
Police arrest 86 students occupying Hamilton Hall—out of 700 arrests made as negotiations broke down. Faculty linked arms to protect studentsApril 30, 2024
As negotiations break down & faculty link arms again, students occupy Hamilton Hallpic.twitter.com/iuvlKojmp1— Prem Thakker (@prem_thakker) April 30, 2024
Taking over Hamilton Hall as done in 1968, Columbia students unfurl a banner that reads "Hind's Hall," in reference to Hind Rajab, a six-year-old girl killed by Israeli forces.
Hundreds of students cheer as the banner is revealed, erupting into chants to "Free Palestine." pic.twitter.com/Oi8WgdZmqf— Prem Thakker (@prem_thakker) April 30, 2024
A long banner, “Intifada”, hung from Hamilton Hall.
Intifada banner out of Hamilton Hall @Columbia pic.twitter.com/ZLgrKJdbyE
— Jessica Costescu (@JessicaCostescu) April 30, 2024
Occupied:
HAMILTON HALL HAS BEEN OCCUPIED @Columbia pic.twitter.com/xPWFdeEOX9
— Jessica Schwalb (@jessicaschwalb7) April 30, 2024
Smashing windows to secure the door with a u-lock:
Holy…. pic.twitter.com/42Lw4kaRHY
— Jessica Schwalb (@jessicaschwalb7) April 30, 2024
Doors being blocked:
Really being resourceful
Where is law enforcement ???? pic.twitter.com/cVlmT9Xc5F
— Jessica Schwalb (@jessicaschwalb7) April 30, 2024
A couple students intervened to prevent a door being blocked by protesters.
These men in the blue are heroes, preventing the mob from shoving another table in front of Hamilton pic.twitter.com/yO8MysQ9yi
— Jessica Schwalb (@jessicaschwalb7) April 30, 2024
No police after two hours:
There is absolutely no police anywhere despite several 911 calls from students pic.twitter.com/n57YGNFtGN
— Jessica Costescu (@JessicaCostescu) April 30, 2024
The peaceful counter-protesting students were assaulted by the mob:
Student is assaulted by mob. @NYPDDaughtry Many students have called the police but where are you???
We are in danger. pic.twitter.com/ghZWuMgb6y
— Jessica Schwalb (@jessicaschwalb7) April 30, 2024
Same chant as at GWU riot last night:
The mob shouts: I BELIEVE THAT WE WILL WIN! pic.twitter.com/b2Tuau1iI9
— Jessica Schwalb (@jessicaschwalb7) April 30, 2024
The student newspaper Columbia Spectator is doing a good job posting updates (excerpt):
BREAKING: Dozens of protesters occupied Hamilton Hall in the early hours of Tuesday morning, moving metal gates to barricade the doors, blocking entrances with wooden tables and chairs, and zip-tying doors shut.https://t.co/2m3Y0Urplj
— Columbia Daily Spectator (@ColumbiaSpec) April 30, 2024
At around 1:28 a.m., protesters draped a Palestinian flag from a window on the third floor. Minutes later, protesters used newspapers to cover the windows on the doors. Protesters unfurled a banner from the leftmost side of Hamilton, reading “Gaza Calls Columbia Falls,” at around 1:38 a.m.
From the Hamilton balcony, protesters unfurled another banner at around 1:40 a.m., reading “Hind’s Hall.” The name refers to Hind Rajab, a six-year-old Palestinian who was killed by the Israeli military in Gaza on Jan. 29.
“We will honor all the martyrs, all the parents, mothers, fathers,” protesters chanted. “We will honor all the martyrs, all the children, sons, and daughters.”
The protesters on the balcony led several call-and-response chants with those gathered outside the building. Protesters chanted “Columbia, you will see, Palestine is almost free” and “This building is now liberated.”
Following the chants, the protesters announced that they would occupy Hamilton until “Columbia meets every one of our demands.”
At around 1:56 a.m., protesters draped another banner from the top of the building’s facade that read “Intifada.”
Protesters began chanting “no divestment, no commencement” at around 2:23 a.m. Minutes later, protesters unfurled a fourth banner which read “Student Intifada” from a Hamilton window facing the Sundial.
UPDATE: Press release by the occupiers, “Resistance is justified in the movement for liberation”:
— CU Apartheid Divest (@ColumbiaBDS) April 30, 2024
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Several hundred pro-Hamas students, angered by an attempted arrest of a protester by police, rioted at George Washington University overnight, located a few blocks west of the White House in Washington, D.C. The students tore down barricades that had blocked off an earlier attempted ‘occupy’ protest on campus grounds at University Yard (U-Yard). The students retook U-Yard, erecting tents and planting Palestinian flags on the pile of barricades. A Palestinian flag and keffiyeh draped on a statue of our nation’s first President George Washington at the start of the protest several days ago were still desecrating America’s founding father.
The protest is part of an attempt to foment communist revolution in the U.S., using college campuses as a focal point, with an alliance of terrorist supporting communists and Islamists.
GWU had cleared the ‘occupy’ protest at U-Yard several days ago and was allowing only about twenty protesters to remain. The D.C. government refused to help, reportedly fearing bad optics. D.C. allowed the protesters to take over a city street in front of the campus area for the weekend. Like magic, dozens of tents looking just the ones at other campus protests sprung up on H Street.
Before the riot, GWU had sent out a statement to alumni Sunday night explaining their handling of the protest:
GWU administration sent out this update to alumni this evening on their flailing response to the sprawling protests pic.twitter.com/0lSP083Xqn
— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) April 29, 2024
Late Sunday night, campus police officers were prevented by the protesters from arresting one of the activists. A riot ensued where the barricades were torn down.
Around just before midnight the barricades surrounding the encampment fell at #GWU and people flooded into the plaza. Tossing the barricades into a pile in the center of University Yard. (
— Kent Nishimura (@kentnish) April 29, 2024
Video of the H Street weekend encampment before the riot, “Outside groups are providing all kinds of help to radical students”:
Encampment has taken over and closed H Street. Does @MayorBowser and @CMBrookePinto support anti-Semitism? pic.twitter.com/chOx7cVqz0
— CapitolIntel (@CapitolIntel) April 27, 2024
Pro-Hamas students at @GWtweets expanded their encampment tent on H Street in D.C., blocking the road. GWU requested that the @DCPoliceDept remove them, but @dcmayorsoffice opposed fearing negative publicity. Outside groups are providing all kinds of help to radical students. pic.twitter.com/AJoxSUmgXb
— Navid Mohebbi نوید محبی (@navidmohebbi) April 28, 2024
organizers call for protection of people’s encampment – protesters who have set up tents in H street
video: gabrielle mcnamee pic.twitter.com/x9mOdSUGQn
— tyler davis (@tylerrdavis_) April 27, 2024
Video of the “de-arrest” that set off the riot:
George Washington University now
COPS ATTEMPT TO ARREST STUDENT IN DMV SJP ENCAMPMENT AND COMMUNITY SUCCESSFULLY DEARRESTS!
COMMUNITY SUPPORT IS ESSENTIAL! ALL OUT TO GW pic.twitter.com/qhiWDHFYbe— Kholoud (@Kholoud24583790) April 29, 2024
Photos and videos of the torn down barricades. Heavy use of chanting to foment revolution on campus:
Students and community members have re-taken the George Washington University occupation in DC, breaking through barriers and piling them onto the middle of the occupied yard.
After the DC police attempted to arrest a student, the community also successfully de-arrested them. pic.twitter.com/yOQNyAb6Li
— The News Room (@TheNewsRoom0) April 29, 2024
current scene inside encampment, protesters standing on top of pile of pulled down barricades pic.twitter.com/Rvndf7RFzj
— tyler davis (@tylerrdavis_) April 29, 2024
GWU students have torn down the barricades surrounding their encampment and piled them in the middle of the U Yard quad on campus. pic.twitter.com/9pNkhvXcNO
— Andrew Leyden (@PenguinSix) April 29, 2024
“Say it loud and say it clear, liberation is near!”
protesters on street forming human chain to protect those inside U-Yard pic.twitter.com/8OoBHyXnUR
— tyler davis (@tylerrdavis_) April 29, 2024
more shots of tents across the entirety of U-Yard pic.twitter.com/WRcVIdivOG
— tyler davis (@tylerrdavis_) April 29, 2024
“From U-Yard to Palestine, globalize the intifada!”
At George Washington University. “Peaceful protesters” broke through the barricades and chant “globalize the intifada” pic.twitter.com/7at76fQSKB
— Ariiiiii (@mommysmaztoball) April 29, 2024
Protesters at GWU have smashed through the barricades and retake U-Yard. pic.twitter.com/ZRoOpfRoFs
— Andrew Leyden (@PenguinSix) April 29, 2024
“I believe that we will win!”
"I believe we will win"
What the students of George Washington University chanted during the pro-Palestine sit-in. pic.twitter.com/aEG3PH5FMr
— stand4justice (@JayZee1948) April 29, 2024
The student newspaper GW Hatchet is posting live reports:
IMAGES FROM THE SCENE: https://t.co/55ShsSZTeW pic.twitter.com/7yrQj0Vbgl
— The GW Hatchet (@gwhatchet) April 29, 2024
Action by police is expected in the morning–or not.
Until then, “Who’s not leaving? We’re not leaving!”
“Whose Not Leaving! We’re Not Leaving!”
Mood. 2am. GWU Campus. #FreePalestine pic.twitter.com/ABvhgENOiS
— #StopCopCity (@ChuckModi1) April 29, 2024
The post Breaking: Rioting Pro-Hamas Students Tear Down Barricades at George Washington University Just Blocks From White House; Palestinian Flag and Keffiyeh Draped on Statue of Nation’s First President appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
Emory University economics professor Caroline Fohlin went viral this week with video of her arrest as police cleared an illegal campus ‘occupy’ protest by Hamas supporters Thursday in Atlanta, Georgia. The shocking video of the female professor being forcibly taken to the ground by a police officer who needed a second officer to control the resisting Fohlin and then her hitting her head on the sidewalk was reposted and viewed millions of times worldwide.
Fohlin was one of two professors arrested at the protest Thursday. The other was Noëlle McAfee, the chair of Emory’s philosophy department.
Fohlin is married to Emory’s Dean of Admission, John F. Latting (He/Him/His).
Fohlin appeared in court on Friday where she was freed on $50 bond. Fohlin’s attorney Gregory Clement issued a statement Friday after her release stating she was not a protester and denying the charges against her, reported the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (scroll down) (excerpt):
All 23 people arrested at Thursday’s protest at Emory have been released from the Dekalb County Jail, records show.
Defendants were released on bond by 6:25 p.m., with all of them except two being released on signature bonds, which are cashless bonds usually used for minor or nonviolent offenses. Bonds were granted to the defendants Friday in magistrate court.
Among the first to be released Friday afternoon was Emory economics professor Caroline Fohlin, who is a tenured professor at the university. Fohlin was granted a $50 bond on a charge of simple battery against a police officer and disorderly conduct. Her arrest was caught on camera and went viral on social media.
“Caroline Fohlin was not a protester at Emory on April 25,” her attorney Gregory Clement said. “She emerged from her office, concerned only about the treatment of students on the quad. She looks forward to vigorously defending the accusations against her in court.”
Video clip of Fohlin admitting to hitting a police officer, “I impulsively hit him on the head very lightly to get his attention and they grabbed me and threw me to the ground and arrested me.”
https://twitter.com/HeidiBachram/status/1784149052310860262
Video clip of the arrest. Fohlin repeatedly cries out, “I am a professor!” Posted with video of McAfee being detained:
https://twitter.com/MichalSabra/status/1783716620302528790
Longer video posted by Atlanta News First of the arrest and Fohlin’s on camera admission. Fohlin said she was concerned for the safety of a protester who was being arrested, claiming she saw the officer’s knee on his neck and was trying get the officer’s attention. Fohlin asked the person recording her detention to call her husband John to help her.
Professor McAfee spoke to WXIA-TV about her arrest (excerpt):
Noëlle McAfee, the chair of the Emory Philosophy Department, spoke to 11Alive’s Brittany Kleinpeter about her arrest that, in the last 24 hours, has been broadcast worldwide.
She said she first saw a young protester thrown to the ground by officers, who were “pummeling them, just pummeling and pummeling.”
“The mother in me said ‘stop. Stop.’ And I made sure to stand four feet away from them, standing still, nonconfrontational, I said, ‘stop’ — one of the cops stood up and got right in front of me and said, ‘Ma’am, you need to step back, you need to step back,'” McAfee, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, said. “And I was watching them pummel somebody, I said, ‘no.’ And they arrested me.”
In comments to the Journal-Constitution (scroll down), McAfee slammed the Atlanta police (excerpt):
Noelle McAfee, chair of Emory University’s philosophy department, said she’s been concerned for the past year about Emory “clamping down on student dissent and spaces for expressing their ideas.” McAfee was detained after a Thursday protest and ticketed, but she was not booked into the DeKalb County jail.
She said the reaction to recent demonstrations by the university delegitimized and dismissed student voices, noting the characterization that protestors were outside actors and antisemitic.
“Calling in the Atlanta police is escalating things. Those are the true outside agitators,” she said.
A small peaceful, protest was reportedly held Saturday at Emory with no arrests.
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The White House Correspondents Association Dinner being held Saturday night is a D.C. institution first held in 1921 that awards reporters and raises scholarship money for journalism students. In recent decades the dinner has become a monster weekend bash for the media and the government officials they cover. Pre and after dinner parties and brunches bookend the dinner that has come to be known as the Nerd Prom. Media outlets vie with each other to get the best celebrity and government guests for their tables.
The dinner is traditionally attended by the president (since 1924)–who is roasted by a comedian (except Obama) and then makes his own speech written by joke writers. However that tradition was broken when President Trump refused to play the fool to the assembled government and media conspirators conniving to drive him from office. Trump did not attend the dinner once in the four years of his presidency, becoming the first president who did not attend at least one dinner. (Trump famously attended the 2011 dinner where Obama torched him, making some think that provided motivation for his 2016 presidential run. Video at end of article.)
This year’s dinner will be attended by senior Trump campaign advisor Chris LaCivita, according to People magazine which published a list of celebrity guests for the dinner. LaCivita is a guest of CNN, as is senior Biden campaign official Mike Donilon.
NBC’s table is stocked with senior Biden officials: Jeff Zients, White House chief of staff; Alejandro Mayorkas, secretary of Homeland Security; Janet Yellen, secretary of the Treasury; Bill Burns, CIA director; Ben LaBolt, White House communications director; Lisa Monaco, U.S. deputy attorney general.
But now, with Trump routinely leading Joe Biden in polling about six months from election day, the Democratic Party sent a press release to reporters this week warning this could be the “last” Correspondents’ Dinner if Trump is elected (hint, hint.)
Democrat rapid response director Alex Floyd posted, “NEW: @DNCWarRoom hopes everyone has a good time this weekend, because if Donald Trump wins in November, this Saturday could also be known as the *last* White House Correspondents’ Dinner. (But we’ll make sure that does not happen).”
NEW: @DNCWarRoom hopes everyone has a good time this weekend, because if Donald Trump wins in November, this Saturday could also be known as the *last* White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
(But we'll make sure that does not happen). pic.twitter.com/p2dYMOVujj
— Alex Floyd (@alexjfloyd) April 25, 2024
Happy White House Correspondents’ Dinner! (And We’ll Make Sure It’s Not the Last)
APRIL 25, 2024Ahead of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, DNC Rapid Response Director Alex Floyd released the following statement:
“We hope everyone has a good time this weekend, because if Donald Trump wins in November, this Saturday could also be known as the last White House Correspondents’ Dinner. To state the obvious: Trump is a thin-skinned narcissist who – despite spending seemingly every waking moment glued to his seat consuming cable news – is constantly attacking the free press and unable to handle a little good-natured ribbing. He skipped the White House Correspondents’ Dinner every single year he was in office because of his deep-seated insecurities and pathetic desperation to be liked by the same people he rails against – and that was before he outright banned members of his administration from attending at all. Fun and jokes aside this weekend, Saturday is also a reminder of what’s at stake with an angry, vengeful Trump on the ballot. He may be a punchline, but he is also a sad, vindictive wannabe authoritarian who shows no respect for the First Amendment – or the Fourth Estate.”
The press release then went on to list Trump bashing media reports to remind reporters suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome what life was like for them under a Trump presidency.
Trump is too thin-skinned and insecure to handle a little teasing…
Vanity Fair: “Trump Gets Roasted After Declining Third White House Correspondents’ Dinner”
Reuters: “Trump orders administration officials not to attend White House correspondents dinner”
NPR: “Trump Will Be First President In 36 Years To Skip White House Correspondents’ Dinner”
Washington Post: “With self-deprecation on menu for presidents at correspondents’ dinner, it’s no wonder Trump is skipping it”
Politico: “Trump’s Jokes Killed DC’s Sense of Humor”
… and has repeatedly stoked anger against the media and defended violent attacks on members of the press.
Vanity Fair: “Trump Campaign Denies Press Credentials for Several Journalists”
Trump: “The Fake News Media in our Country is the real Opposition Party. It is truly the Enemy of the People! We must bring honesty back to journalism and reporting!”
CNN: “Trump calls journalists ‘bad people’ at rally a week after newsroom shooting”
Politico: “[Trump] returned to scathing attacks on the news media just one week after a gunman killed five journalists at a Maryland newspaper. He derided the press as ‘fake news,’ ‘bad people’ and ‘so damn dishonest.’ ‘They’re fake,’ he said, pointing at the press area in the arena. ‘These are really bad people.’”
Associated Press: “Trump says media is ‘Enemy of the People’ after shooting, bomb plot”
New York Times: “In urging the crowd to vote for Representative Greg Gianforte, who is running for re-election and who was sentenced to anger management classes and community service for assaulting a reporter last spring, Mr. Trump jokingly warned the crowd to ‘never wrestle him.’ ‘I had heard he body-slammed a reporter,’ Mr. Trump said, noting that he was initially concerned that Mr. Gianforte would lose in a special election last May. ‘I said, ‘Wait a minute. I know Montana pretty well; I think it might help him.’ And it did.’ ‘Anybody that can do a body-slam,’ the president added, ‘that’s my kind of guy.’”
Reports like those above tend to create more Trump voters, even if they drive the likes of Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski to early morning fits of rage.
Note: Starting in 1999 and running straight through the early 2010s, this writer protested liberal media bias outside the dinner with the FReepers from Free Republic. Our gathering, while direct and passionate, will likely be looked back on with relief after Hamas supporting communists and Islamists protest this year’s dinner.
Paul Bond, formerly with The Hollywood Reporter, wrote about the FReepers’ tribute protest for Andrew Breitbart outside the 2012 dinner.
That’s so cool you remembered me and that story. Thanks for jogging my memory. Great having drinks with you guys that night as I typed out the story in the bar, as I recall. I’m surprised that story survived, as THR purged a lot of my old (and best!) stories a while ago.
— Paul Bond (@WriterPaulBond) April 27, 2024
Video of Obama torching Trump at the 2011 dinner:
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Cal Poly Humboldt, located on the coast in Arcata, about 280 miles north of San Francisco, shut down its campus on Friday after pro-Hamas/Communist activists took over President Tom Jackson’s office and set up an ‘occupy zone.’ One of the buildings was renamed “Intifada Hall” by the terrorist supporters. The school will be closed through May 10 with classes held online. Humboldt, which is a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI), reports it has 5,858 undergraduate students with fulltime tuition and fees for the year costing $7,864.
The school has acknowledged outside actors are in involved, saying, in a statement Wednesday (scroll down to April 24 at link), “There are unidentified non-students with unknown intentions, in Siemens Hall. This creates an unpredictable environment. In addition, all entrances to the building are barricaded, creating a fire hazard. Adding to health and safety concerns, many toilets are no longer working.”
The San Francisco Chronicle reported Saturday about 100 tents are spread around the occupied campus, “UPDATE: About 100 tents covered the lawns adjoining Siemens Hall and extended across the Cal Poly Humboldt campus Saturday as Pro-Palestinian demonstrators protest in defiance of the university’s orders to leave Friday evening.”
UPDATE: About 100 tents covered the lawns adjoining Siemens Hall and extended across the Cal Poly Humboldt campus Saturday as Pro-Palestinian demonstrators protest in defiance of the university’s orders to leave Friday evening.https://t.co/qwzCjiaaGO
— San Francisco Chronicle (@sfchronicle) April 27, 2024
Videos posted online show the takeover of the campus by pro-Hamas activists using Antifa tactics like using ‘riot shields’ to defend against police actions. Earlier in the week there were violent clashes with police on campus. (Police withdrew after battling the activists for several minutes.)
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1782614008832446863
Video posted Friday of riot shields being put together at the ‘occupied’ zone’.
The Cal Poly Humboldt comrades in their full splendor. pic.twitter.com/sd0SErN05E
— Kenji Tomari (he/his) (@dataredistro) April 26, 2024
Photos posted Friday:
https://twitter.com/NationalSJP/status/1783915081723421088
Video posted Saturday by “Stu” shows the aftermath of the takeover of the Siemens Hall administration building housing the president’s office. Property destruction, trash and graffiti–lots of graffiti, “BREAKING: A look inside “Intifada Hall” at Cal Poly Humboldt. Students have “occupied and barricaded” two buildings and have encamped around them.”
BREAKING: A look inside "Intifada Hall" at Cal Poly Humboldt. Students have "occupied and barricaded" two buildings and have encamped around them. pic.twitter.com/eFJxrDGADE
— Stu (@thestustustudio) April 27, 2024
More video posted by Ryan Burns from the Lost Coast Outpost shows what the pro-Hamas activists did to the president’s office:
Lost Coast Outpost filed a report on the occupation with photos and more videos that can be read at this link.
Cal Poly Humboldt issued statements Friday closing the campus and offering amnesty from arrest and mitigation of disciplinary action for those who left by 4 p.m. The statements were posted on the school’s “Emergency” page.
Campus Closed Through the End of the Semester, Remote Instruction and Work Continue
April 26, 2024 – 12:30pm
Campus is now closed through May 10, and work and academic instruction will be remote as individuals continue to occupy Siemens Hall and Nelson Hall East. More details to follow about campus operations and remote work.The occupation of Siemens Hall and Nelson Hall East is causing ongoing inability to open other campus facilities. Since Monday night, protestors have attempted several times to break into multiple locked buildings with the intention of either locking themselves in, vandalizing, or stealing equipment. Vandalism and theft have continued across campus.
Campus Offers Chance to Leave Buildings with No Immediate Arrest
April 26, 2024 – 2:10pm
As part of an ongoing and urgent effort to protect life and safety in the ongoing crisis of occupied buildings, Cal Poly Humboldt is offering any of those currently in the buildings the opportunity to leave with a guarantee of no immediate arrest. This does not, however, eliminate University conduct-related sanctions or legal implications.Those who walk out peacefully by the deadline will not be immediately arrested and will be able to leave campus without being arrested. In addition, voluntarily departing in this way will be considered as a mitigating factor in University conduct processes and may reduce the severity of sanctions imposed.
This offer is open until 4 p.m., Friday, April 26. (Later extended to 5 p.m.)
The offer applies to both students and non-students who are currently occupying buildings and illegally camping around them.
The individuals inside the buildings were told about this opportunity earlier today. They are also being notified by email and other communications channels.
A number of individuals have continued to occupy Siemens Hall since Monday, and have made efforts to occupy other buildings on campus. While the situation is largely stabilized, there is continuing destruction of property and other lawlessness in the central part of campus. This has caused complex operational challenges that require the closure of other facilities on campus. The occupation is having a negative impact on other students, who are trying to complete classes at the end of the semester
The Cal Poly Humboldt campus is closed through the remainder of the semester, and work and instruction continue to be remote.
The school responded earlier Friday to the pro-Hamas activists’ list of demands which can be read at the “Emergency” page. The school would not commit to total amnesty:
4. Drop charges against and halt the harassment of student organizers by law enforcement.
University policy and conduct violations will follow established procedures, and there will be consequences for actions that violate policy or law. However, students who elect to evacuate the building and support efforts to clear the building will have their actions considered as a mitigating factor within those processes.
Background on Cal Poly Humboldt via Wikipedia (excerpt):
California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt (Cal Poly Humboldt or Humboldt[Note 1][7]) is a public university in Arcata, California. It is one of three polytechnic universities in the California State University (CSU) system and the northernmost campus in the system.
The main campus, situated hillside at the edge of a coast redwood forest, overlooks Arcata, much of Humboldt Bay, and the Pacific Ocean. The college town setting on the California North Coast, 8 miles (13 km) north of Eureka, 279 miles (449 km) north of San Francisco, and 654 miles (1053 km) north of Los Angeles is notable for its natural beauty. It is the most westerly four-year university in the contiguous United States. Humboldt is a Hispanic-serving institution (HSI).
The university is divided into three colleges: the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences; the College of Natural Resources and Sciences; and the College of Professional Studies.[6] It offers 58 bachelor’s degree programs, 14 master’s degree programs, 76 minors, and 4 credential programs.[3] Cal Poly Humboldt does not offer doctoral degrees.
The wave of pro-Hamas protests is being orchestrated by a global anti-Western Civilization alliance of Communists and Islamists. While issue is Gaza, as the saying goes, ‘the issue is never the issue, the issue is the revolution.’
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South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem (R), who has been mentioned as a possible Trump vice presidential pick, wrote in her new book that she shot and killed her “untrainable” and “dangerous” 14-month-old wirehair pointer hunting dog named Cricket after it killed a neighbor’s chickens and attacked Noem, as well as a killing a goat the same afternoon.
Noem spoke at a Trump rally in Ohio last month.
Noem’s book, No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward, is set for release next month, however The Guardian obtained a copy and published a report early Friday morning on Noem writing about killing her dog and goat.
Noem responded to The Guardian report Friday morning, “We love animals, but tough decisions like this happen all the time on a farm. Sadly, we just had to put down 3 horses a few weeks ago that had been in our family for 25 years. If you want more real, honest, and politically INcorrect stories that’ll have the media gasping, preorder “No Going Back””
We love animals, but tough decisions like this happen all the time on a farm. Sadly, we just had to put down 3 horses a few weeks ago that had been in our family for 25 years.
If you want more real, honest, and politically INcorrect stories that’ll have the media gasping,… pic.twitter.com/bKhpUkchHV
— Kristi Noem (@KristiNoem) April 26, 2024
According to a post by Noem, President Trump endorsed her book earlier this month:
My new book “No Going Back” is my unfiltered vision for America. We’re not going back to the old way of politics – and that’s a good thing!
Preorder your copy here: https://t.co/CCiw1mBkNa pic.twitter.com/6lyjcYkttV
— Kristi Noem (@KristiNoem) April 15, 2024
Excerpt from The Guardian report:
By taking Cricket on a pheasant hunt with older dogs, Noem says, she hoped to calm the young dog down and begin to teach her how to behave. Unfortunately, Cricket ruined the hunt, going “out of her mind with excitement, chasing all those birds and having the time of her life”.
Noem describes calling Cricket, then using an electronic collar to attempt to bring her under control. Nothing worked. Then, on the way home after the hunt, as Noem stopped to talk to a local family, Cricket escaped Noem’s truck and attacked the family’s chickens, “grabb[ing] one chicken at a time, crunching it to death with one bite, then dropping it to attack another”.
Cricket the untrainable dog, Noem writes, behaved like “a trained assassin”.
When Noem finally grabbed Cricket, she says, the dog “whipped around to bite me”. Then, as the chickens’ owner wept, Noem repeatedly apologised, wrote the shocked family a check “for the price they asked, and helped them dispose of the carcasses littering the scene of the crime”.
Through it all, Noem says, Cricket was “the picture of pure joy”.
“I hated that dog,” Noem writes, adding that Cricket had proved herself “untrainable”, “dangerous to anyone she came in contact with” and “less than worthless … as a hunting dog”.
“At that moment,” Noem says, “I realised I had to put her down.”
(SKIP)
Noem decided to kill the unnamed goat the same way she had just killed Cricket the dog. But though she “dragged him to a gravel pit”, the goat jumped as she shot and therefore survived the wound. Noem says she went back to her truck, retrieved another shell, then “hurried back to the gravel pit and put him down”.
At that point, Noem writes, she realised a construction crew had watched her kill both animals. The startled workers swiftly got back to work, she writes, only for a school bus to arrive and drop off Noem’s children.
“Kennedy looked around confused,” Noem writes of her daughter, who asked: “Hey, where’s Cricket?”
CNN gave a dramatic reading of The Guardian report:
You’ve got to see this thorough recap of what led up to Kristi “black heart” Noem, coldly shooting and killing her dog Cricket in a gravel pit.
Details you might have missed earlier was that a construction crew witnessed the entire deed. Then a school-bus drove up to the scene… pic.twitter.com/sfGhBzDppP
— Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline) April 27, 2024
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) posted a video Friday afternoon promoting rescue dogs:
Essentia is a lab/shepherd mix who was rescued from the southern border, where the border crisis affects everyone—even our canine friends. Please consider giving Essentia a great home by adopting her from Big Dog Ranch Rescue.https://t.co/2ATqP5DPQN pic.twitter.com/qMO8JD1zUw
— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) April 26, 2024
A podcaster named John Burk is one of the few to come to Noem’s defense, “I read the Noem hit piece. For clarity; in the book she described the dog attacking and killing a friend’s chickens on the way back from a hunting trip. Then when she tried to reel it in, it turned on her to attack. She referenced it as a worthless HUNTING dog. Folks, I’m not a fan of hers either, but context and the entirety of the statement matters. If the dog is untrainable and poses a risk to other humans, you’re risking a lawsuit if it bites someone. You need to put it down. It’s a hard situation either way, but that’s life. Take politics and emotion out of it, she wasn’t wrong. As for the goat, no idea. Didn’t even read that far because it was clear the author was full of it.”
I read the Noem hit piece. For clarity; in the book she described the dog attacking and killing a friend’s chickens on the way back from a hunting trip. Then when she tried to reel it in, it turned on her to attack. She referenced it as a worthless HUNTING dog.
Folks, I’m not a…
— John Burk (@NotJohnBurk) April 26, 2024
Burk added, “She said he wasn’t trainable and she’s trained hunting dogs before. So it really boils down to whether you believe it was or not. She made the call, so be it, but it wasn’t done out of spite like many are claiming. It makes literally zero sense into putting money and effort into raising and training a hunting dog just to kill it for joy.”
She said he wasn’t trainable and she’s trained hunting dogs before. So it really boils down to whether you believe it was or not. She made the call, so be it, but it wasn’t done out of spite like many are claiming. It makes literally zero sense into putting money and effort into…
— John Burk (@NotJohnBurk) April 26, 2024
David Limbaugh asked, “Why did Kristi Noem, a seasoned politician for crying out loud, publish that self damming revelation about her dog. That’s almost as bizarre as the act she confessed to”
Why did Kristi Noem, a seasoned politician for crying out loud, publish that self damming revelation about her dog. That’s almost as bizarre as the act she confessed to.
— David Limbaugh (@DavidLimbaugh) April 27, 2024
A popular MAGA meme maker posted a purported photo of Cricket with sharp criticism for Noem, “I don’t know who needs to hear this but “there are no bad dogs, only bad owners.” Cricket was only 14 month-old. Kristi Noem doesn’t deserve pets!”
https://twitter.com/ImMeme0/status/1783981106703794501
A common view that will put Noem in the hot seat for weeks (and months?) to come. At least she didn’t eat the dog like Barack Obama did (via Daily Caller):
“With Lolo, I learned how to eat small green chill peppers raw with dinner (plenty of rice), and, away from the dinner table, I was introduced to dog meat (tough), snake meat (tougher), and roasted grasshopper (crunchy). Like many Indonesians, Lolo followed a brand of Islam that could make room for the remnants of more ancient animist and Hindu faiths. He explained that a man took on the powers of whatever he ate: One day soon, he promised, he would bring home a piece of tiger meat for us to share.”
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Trump rattled Biden in their first debate, screen image, September 29, 2020.
President Trump has been pressuring Joe Biden to debate for months, with Biden not committing. At recent rallies, Trump has set an empty debate podium for Biden on stage.
https://twitter.com/TheConserv55806/status/1779306793186779242
Joe Biden gave an interview to not-so-shocking-anymore-jock Howard Stern on SiriusXM Friday morning–or as Fox host Dagen McDowell put it, “that was Fart Man interviewing old man.”
https://twitter.com/KarluskaP/status/1783893819684950418
Stern: “I don’t know if you’re gonna to debate your, uh, your opponent.”
Biden: “I am somewhere, I don’t know when. I’m happy to debate him.”
Senior Trump campaign advisor and chief operating officer of the Republican National Committee Chris LaCivita posted a reply to Biden on X Twitter, “Ok let’s set it up!”
Ok let’s set it up ! https://t.co/wPMBiGi0IU
— Chris LaCivita (@LaCivitaC) April 26, 2024
Trump responded in Trump style on Truth Social Friday afternoon, “Crooked Joe Biden just announced that he’s willing to debate! Everyone knows he doesn’t really mean it, but in case he does, I say, ANYWHERE, ANYTIME, ANYPLACE, an old expression used by Fighters. I suggest Monday Evening, Tuesday Evening, or Wednesday Evening at my Rally in Michigan, a State that he is in the process of destroying with his E.V. Mandate. In the alternative, he’s in New York City today, although probably doesn’t know it, and so am I, stuck in one of the many Court cases that he instigated as ELECTION INTERFERENCE AGAINST A POLITICAL OPPONENT – A CONTINUING WITCH HUNT! It’s the only way he thinks he can win. In fact, let’s do the Debate at the Courthouse tonight – on National Television, I’ll wait around!”
The Commission on Presidential Debates, the bipartisan body that has overseen presidential debates since 1988, announced the schedule for the 2024 debates last November.
First presidential debate:
Monday, September 16, 2024
Texas State University, San Marcos, TXVice presidential debate:
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
Lafayette College, Easton, PASecond presidential debate:
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
Virginia State University, Petersburg, VAThird presidential debate:
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Trump is pushing for more and earlier debates as ‘early voting’ starts in some states before the first debate. The Trump campaign sent a letter to the debate commission on April 11:
Dear Members of the Commission:
We write today in agreement with the pending letter from television networks advocating for presidential debates to occur in 2024.
While the Commission on Presidential Debates has already announced three presidential debates and a vice-presidential debate to occur later this year, we are in favor of these debates beginning much earlier.
Here’s why:
1) Voting is beginning earlier and earlier, and as we saw in 2020, tens of millions of Americans had already voted by the time of the first debate. Specific to the Commission’s proposed 2024 calendar, it simply comes too late. Below are the estimates for how many Americans will have already voted by the date of each scheduled debate:
a. By the date of the first proposed debate, September 16, 2024, over 1 million Americans will have likely voted.
b. By the date of the second proposed debate, October 1, 2024, the number of Americans who will have likely cast a ballot will be over 3 million, an increase of 225%.
c. By the date of the third proposed debate, October 9, 2024, or 35 days out from election day, approximately 8.7 million Americans will have already voted.2) Americans were robbed of a true and robust debate in 2020. There were only two debates, and they happened much too late in the election calendar despite voting timelines having moved up exponentially.
In 2020, the Commission ceded to the wishes of the Biden campaign on every front, refusing to move up the dates of the debates, failing to reschedule the debate canceled by COVID-19, cutting off President Trump’s microphone over and over in the middle of a debate, and in the
case of the first debate, selecting a demonstrably anti-Trump moderator clearly positioned to aid Joe Biden. Fairness in such a setting is paramount and the Commission must ensure that the 2024 Commission-sponsored debates are truly fair and conducted impartially.The Commission must move up the timetable of its proposed 2024 debates to ensure more Americans have a full chance to see the candidates before they start voting, and we would argue for adding more debates in addition to those on the currently proposed schedule. We have
already indicated President Trump is willing to debate anytime, anyplace, and anywhere – and the time to start these debates is now.Former President Abraham Lincoln and former U.S. Senator Stephen A. Douglas held seven debates in their storied 1858 U.S. Senate battle in Illinois. Certainly today’s America deserves as much.
Sincerely,
Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita
Donald J. Trump for President Co-Campaign Managers
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President Trump visited construction workers at the site of the 1,388 foot tall JP Morgan office building going up at 270 Park Avenue in New York City Thursday morning before heading to court. Trump was well received by a large crowd of workers and others who heard about the early morning (6:30 a.m.) campaign stop.
Among those was a construction worker who had a blunt two-word message for Joe Biden.
Newsmax reporter Addison Smith posted video clips (now deleted) of his interviews with workers, asking about seeing so many Trump supporters in Manhattan and what their message is to Biden. One worker said, “Give it up,” while another worker was more explicit.
Reposting video by Addison Smith of Trump supporting construction worker telling Biden "f*""you!" Thursday morning in New York City. pic.twitter.com/UTyiAAndl9
— Kristinn Taylor (@KristinnFR) April 25, 2024
Joe Biden recently complained about seeing Trump signs with “F*** Biden” and routinely getting flipped off by children when he travels the country:
https://twitter.com/seanhannity/status/1781288770974691385
Video of Trump’s arrival posted by C-SPAN’s Howard Mortman:
Trump surprise early morning visit with Teamsters and construction workers 48th St. and Park Ave NYC pic.twitter.com/LB3SFTicvd
— Howard Mortman (@HowardMortman) April 25, 2024
Fox News carried the Trump appearance live and got a brief interview:
WCBS-TV reported on Trump’s remarks and a campaign handout to reporters about the visit (excerpt):
“I’m going to make a play for New Yorkers. They said, I just heard, there was a very good poll that came out. Normally, a Democrat will win New York. Biden is the worst president in history, we have some very bad people here, but we have the greatest people and they’re right behind me. They all want us to run, and we’re going to run very hard in New York,” Trump said to reporters. “They’ve taken my constitutional right away with a gag order. That’s all it is, it’s election interference, this whole thing is election interference.”
Trump’s campaign team also handed out a three-page document, titled, “Union Workers Paying the Price for Biden’s Failed Economic Policies.” Among the bullet points, Trump says, if re-elected, he will ban Chinese and foreign ownership of critical U.S. infrastructure and cancel Biden’s electric vehicle mandate.
Post visit interview with a Trump supporter by Addison Smith:
Black New Yorker to Biden:
“I don’t see you anywhere. I hope NY turns red because we’re NOT voting for you.” pic.twitter.com/LjtyHIGwyo
— Addison Smith (@AddisonSmithTV) April 25, 2024
Trump also told reporters he is looking at holding rallies in New York City.
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Activists with the leftist group Climate Defiance were thrown off the stage in a tumbled heap while disrupting an event honoring Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday. There are no reports of arrests or injuries.
Murkowski was being honored by the Bryce Harlow Foundation at an event held at the Marriott Marquis hotel in downtown D.C. near the convention center. Bryce Harlow was a Republican presidential advisor, Congressional staffer and lobbyist.
Video posted by Climate Defiance shows several activists holding a banner being bull-rushed in a tumble off the stage by security and what appears to be organizers. A woman in a black dress who seems to be Murkowski moves away from the mob to a far corner of the small stage.
The video was posted with this commentary, “BREAKING: We just shut down a gala honoring U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski. Murkowski is a murderer. She incinerates us to enrich her cronies. As Chevron’s top lobbyist gave her an award, we stepped in and stopped the ceremony. Respect us or expect us.”
https://twitter.com/ClimateDefiance/status/1780981172442415450
The group posted childish, hysterical statements explaining why it protested Murkowski:
Murkowski played a lead role in persuading Biden to approve the Willow Project. This monstrosity will transport 200,000 barrels of oil every single day. This is hideous. This is cruel and barbaric beyond description. (3/5)
— Climate Defiance (@ClimateDefiance) April 18, 2024
Murkowski claims to support climate legislation, but refused to step in and pass Build Back Better as Joe Manchin held the bill hostage for months. How does this woman sleep at night? How does she live with herself? Is there no limit to her depravity? Is there no limit?
(5/5)— Climate Defiance (@ClimateDefiance) April 18, 2024
Climate Defiance is very aggressive in their protests as video the group posted of a protest last month of Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) shows:
BREAKING: we just called Joe Manchin a sick fuck. We humiliated him in front of a herd of Harvard elites. He squared up. We held firm. Barbaric murderer, hideous fiend, he torches humanity and laughs. pic.twitter.com/1ajrQsKnbJ
— Climate Defiance (@ClimateDefiance) March 1, 2024
Rolling Stone praised the group:
Can confirm pic.twitter.com/NBtjUzJXUF
— Climate Defiance (@ClimateDefiance) April 16, 2024
The awards ceremony was announced months ago, giving protesters plenty of time to organize.
Mark your calendars for the 43rd Bryce Harlow Foundation Annual Awards dinner on April 17, 2024 at the Marriott Marquis! We’re honoring Sen. Lisa Murkowski @lisamurkowski and Dan Tate, the Co-Founder of Forbes Tate Partners @forbestate. Learn more at https://t.co/x5rEj2x2eg
— Bryce Harlow Fdtn. (@BryceHarlow) December 21, 2023
The announcement for the award:
Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) was selected to receive the prestigious Bryce Harlow Award, which honors an elected official whose career is built on championing the principles of integrity, dedication and professionalism — echoing the work and life of the late Bryce Harlow. Murkowski is Alaska’s senior U.S. Senator, is a third generation Alaskan proudly serving as the first Alaskan born senator. She was appointed in 2002, elected to a full six-year term in 2004, re-elected in 2010 in a historic write-in campaign, re-elected in 2016 and re-elected for another six-year term in 2022. Murkowski is a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, is Ranking Member of the Interior-Environment Subcommittee, member of Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee, and Vice Chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee. Known for her ability to work collaboratively and across the aisle to reach common sense solutions, Murkowski is a leader on energy and public lands issues, recognizing that sound national policy will promote job creation and economic growth, and higher standards of living and greater global stability. She holds both an Economics Degree from Georgetown University and a Juris Doctor from Willamette College of Law. Prior to serving in Congress, Murkowski was a commercial law attorney in Alaska Murkowski was born in Ketchikan and raised in towns across the state, including Wrangell, Juneau, Fairbanks, and Anchorage. She is married to Verne Martell and they have two grown sons.
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Isra Hirsi, the 21-year-old self-styled communist daughter of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) announced on X Twitter Thursday that she has been suspended by Columbia University in New York City for organizing a pro-Hamas occupation on campus grounds. Hirsi attends Barnard College, which is connected to Columbia.
Hirsi describes herself as an “angry black girl” with a communist hammer and sickle symbol on her X Twitter profile.
Hirsi posted, “i’m an organizer with CU Apartheid Divest @ColumbiaSJP, in my 3 years at @BarnardCollege i have never been reprimanded or received any disciplinary warnings. i just received notice that i am 1 of 3 students suspended for standing in solidarity with Palestinians facing a genocide…those of us in Gaza Solidarity Encampment will not be intimidated. we will stand resolute until our demands are met. our demands include divestment from companies complicit in genocide, transparency of @Columbia’s investments and FULL amnesty for all students facing repression”
those of us in Gaza Solidarity Encampment will not be intimidated. we will stand resolute until our demands are met.
our demands include divestment from companies complicit in genocide, transparency of @Columbia’s investments and FULL amnesty for all students facing repression
— isra hirsi (@israhirsi) April 18, 2024
Columbia University Apartheid Divest announced the suspension of Hirsi and two other Barnard students in a defiant statement issued Thursday morning:
https://twitter.com/taliaotg/status/1780995492832334317
Mother and daughter, image via Instagram:
Omar posted her support of the protest on Wednesday, complete with revolutionary raised fist emoji, “Columbia has always had an incredible history of students fighting for a more just world and it’s good to see that tradition continue. As NYPD surrounds young activists, I hope their concerns are heard by school administrators and they not be criminalized. In solidarity ”
https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1780663997361983668
The image Omar posted connected the occupation protest to a similar attempted campus takeover by radical leftist students in 1968. Hirsi stated in an interview Wednesday that was the case that was posted by the People’s Dispatch, “Isra Hirsi (@israhirsi), Barnard College junior and organizer with @ColumbiaBDS, is participating in an indefinite occupation of Columbia’s campus in solidarity with Gaza. Organizers have remained defiant under repression and pledge to stay until Columbia divests from Israel.” (Hirsi was wearing a COVID mask even though she was outside.)
Isra Hirsi (@israhirsi), Barnard College junior and organizer with @ColumbiaBDS, is participating in an indefinite occupation of Columbia’s campus in solidarity with Gaza. Organizers have remained defiant under repression and pledge to stay until Columbia divests from Israel. pic.twitter.com/jgQUV00CrE
— Peoples Dispatch (@peoplesdispatch) April 17, 2024
While her daughter was occupying the Columbia campus, Omar was grilling Columbia’s President Dr. Minouche Shafik at a House hearing on anti-Semitism at Columbia.
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN): “Have you seen anti-Muslim protests on campus? … Against Arabs? … Palestinians?”
Columbia University President Minouche Shafik: “No.”
Omar: “Have you seen a protest saying we are against Jewish people?”
Shafik: “No.” pic.twitter.com/U0qbvrCPZk
— The Recount (@therecount) April 17, 2024
Columbia student Eden Yadegar spoke earlier on Capitol Hill about pervasive anti-Semitism on campus:
"The same Jew hate that drove my family to the US has become normalized here."
WATCH Eden Yadegar recount the experience of Jewish students on campus at @Columbia University. pic.twitter.com/GG4XEL7TSu
— Rep. Burgess Owens (@RepBurgessOwens) April 16, 2024
Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) confronted Shafik on a anti-Semitic campus handout, “Columbia’s school of social work orientation glossary defines “Ashkenormativity” as a “system of oppression that favors white Jewish folx.” The radical Left has turned our universities into hotbeds for antisemitism.”
Columbia’s school of social work orientation glossary defines “Ashkenormativity” as a “system of oppression that favors white Jewish folx.”
The radical Left has turned our universities into hotbeds for antisemitism. pic.twitter.com/OeYQIIve5q
— Jim Banks (@RepJimBanks) April 17, 2024
Hirsi’s youthful leftist activism has garnered her awards and a Wikipedia page (excerpt):
Isra Hirsi (born February 22, 2003) is an American environmental activist. She co-founded and served as the co-executive director of the U.S. Youth Climate Strike.[1] In 2020, she was named in the Fortune’s 40 Under 40 Government and Politics list.[2] She is the daughter of U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar.
Early life and education
Hirsi protesting against gun violence in 2018
Hirsi was born on 22 February 2003 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and is the daughter of Somali American U.S. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar[3][4][5] and Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi. At the age of 12, she was one of the participants protesting for justice for Jamar Clark at the Mall of America.[5] Hirsi attended Minneapolis South High School,[6] from which she graduated in 2021. She became involved in climate activism after joining her high school’s environmental club in her freshman year.[5][7]Hirsi attends Barnard College of Columbia University as of fall 2021.[8]
Activism
Hirsi coordinated the organization of hundreds of student-led strikes across the United States on March 15 and May 3, 2019.[4] She co-founded the U.S. Youth Climate Strike,[5] the American arm of a global youth climate change movement, in January 2019.[9][10][11] She acts as the co-executive director of this group.[5][12] In 2019, she won a Brower Youth Award.[13] That same year, Hirsi received the Voice of the Future Award.[7] In 2020, Hirsi was placed on BET’s “Future 40” list.[14]Hirsi endorsed Senator Bernie Sanders for President of the United States in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries.[15]
New York City police were breaking up the occupation of Columbia Thursday afternoon:
#HAPPENINGNOW: At the request of @Columbia officials, we are on scene to disperse protestors who have erected an unlawful encampment on campus.
School officials had previously determined that the encampment and related disruptions pose a clear and present danger to the… pic.twitter.com/ZZ8VEAfAMd
— NYPD Deputy Commissioner, Operations Kaz Daughtry (@NYPDDaughtry) April 18, 2024
Happening now at Columbia University: President Minouche Shafik in an email said she has “authorized the New York Police Department to begin clearing the encampment” where pro-Palestine students are demanding the university divest from Israel pic.twitter.com/1DScJ8ys67
— Tyler Clifford (@_TylerTheTyler_) April 18, 2024
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President Trump is swarmed by supporters at fast food restaurants and bodegas where he spends a long time talking to them and reporters, as happened Tuesday evening in Harlem. In contrast, 81 million vote getter Joe Biden stopped by a Sheetz gas station in Pittsburgh Wednesday afternoon and was greeted by total silence, save for one supporter who met him at the door with a hug. Video of Biden’s entrance shows two children and their mother seated, silently watching Biden, with the sound of the in-store music heard quite clearly over the small talk by Biden and the supporter. There were no cheers, no chants of “Four more years!” Just muzak. With few supporters to talk to, Biden was in and out in just two minutes according to the pool report.
Video of Biden, accompanied by Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Ed Gainey (D) and Allegheny County Executive Sara Innamorato (D) was posted by WTAE-TV reporter Bob Mayo, who noted the store was given ten minutes’ notice on the visit and that Biden picked up an order of mostly turkey subs for construction workers at his next visit.
President Biden makes a stop at Sheetz with Mayor Gainey and County Executive Innamorato. #WTAE pic.twitter.com/pzYxplyPKQ
— Bob Mayo (@BMayo_WTAE) April 17, 2024
Complete video of the two-minute visit by Biden posted by C-SPAN’s Howard Mortman:
Biden visit a Sheetz gas station in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania pic.twitter.com/x0ba0UQHFJ
— Howard Mortman (@HowardMortman) April 17, 2024
The pool report says Biden posed for photos with customers and staff. Biden also repeated his lame ‘don’t jump’ joke to a reporter standing on a chair:
“Motorcade pulled into a Sheetz gas station mart for an OTR at 3:32 pm. POTUS, wearing aviators, entered the shop at 3:36, and was Immediately talking to customers and posing for a selfie. Then he went to the food counter, handed over some bills, picked up takeout bags. Went behind counter to pose for pics w employees. A reporter shouted: “Are you concerned the new steel tariffs will hurt your relationship with Xi Jinping?” “No!” He said. “Why not?” The reporter asked, standing on a chair. “Don’t jump!” He said. POTUS exited the store at 3:38. An aide walked behind him carrying a box of snacks. We are rolling again at 3:42.”
Photos of the Biden visit were posted by reporters:
President Joe Biden makes an unannounced visit to a Sheetz gas station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday. pic.twitter.com/sEtBdRZZjX
— Al Drago (@Al_Drago) April 17, 2024
President Biden took a stance Wednesday on an issue top of mind for the residents of battleground Pennsylvania, placing his marker in the Great Wawa-Sheetz Debate with a stop at a Pittsburgh Sheetz. pic.twitter.com/HVbISETQlh
— Betsy Klein (@betsy_klein) April 17, 2024
— Pennsylvania Capital-Star (@PennCapitalStar) April 17, 2024
The presidential limousine, known as “The Beast,” parked outside of a Sheetz gas station during an unannounced visit with President Joe Biden, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday. pic.twitter.com/XiTB2N8LnR
— Al Drago (@Al_Drago) April 17, 2024
There was no mention any Biden supporters outside the Sheetz.
The construction site Biden later visited with the turkey subs (no campaign law violations here):
Biden in Pittsburgh … pic.twitter.com/mBYJlC7hsc
— Howard Mortman (@HowardMortman) April 17, 2024
In contrast, Biden was greeted by two groups of protesters–conservatives and pro-Hamas activists forced into the same area–who loudly denounced Biden with respective chants outside the US Steel building in Pittsburgh where Biden gave a speech earlier Wednesday.
Protests outside Biden visit to US Steel building in Pittsburgh pic.twitter.com/jBf07UbLXH
— Howard Mortman (@HowardMortman) April 17, 2024
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Even as the U.S. was defending Israel from a sustained aerial attack by Iran and Joe Biden was speaking by phone to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, senior Biden administration officials were trashing Netanyahu and Israel in leaks to the media.
NBC News reported Biden has privately said he fears Netanyahu is trying to drag the U.S. into war while a senior administration official told NBC, “The Israelis don’t always make the best strategic decisions.”
Excerpt from NBC report headlined, “U.S. concerned Israel will respond to Iran without thought to potential fallout”
Some top U.S. officials are concerned Israel could do something quickly in response to Iran’s attacks without thinking through potential fallout afterward, according to a senior administration official and a senior defense official.
…President Joe Biden has privately expressed concern that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to drag the U.S. more deeply into a broader conflict, according to three people familiar with his comments.
…“I don’t think they had a strategy,” the senior administration official said. “The Israelis don’t always make the best strategic decisions.”
A week ago Biden threatened Netanyahu over aid to Israel over its conduct in Gaza trying to defeat Hamas, according to a White House statement issued April 4:
President Biden spoke by telephone with Prime Minister Netanyahu. The two leaders discussed the situation in Gaza. President Biden emphasized that the strikes on humanitarian workers and the overall humanitarian situation are unacceptable. He made clear the need for Israel to announce and implement a series of specific, concrete, and measurable steps to address civilian harm, humanitarian suffering, and the safety of aid workers. He made clear that U.S. policy with respect to Gaza will be determined by our assessment of Israel’s immediate action on these steps. He underscored that an immediate ceasefire is essential to stabilize and improve the humanitarian situation and protect innocent civilians, and he urged the Prime Minister to empower his negotiators to conclude a deal without delay to bring the hostages home. The two leaders also discussed public Iranian threats against Israel and the Israeli people. President Biden made clear that the United States strongly supports Israel in the face of those threats.”
A Marine is outside the Oval Office- meaning POTUS is inside – as Israeli officials tell Fox President Biden is on the phone with PM Netanyahu right now pic.twitter.com/uF6MlIqgnr
— Jacqui Heinrich (@JacquiHeinrich) April 14, 2024
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is currently speaking with US President Joe Biden, following the deliberations of the Security Cabinet and the War Cabinet. pic.twitter.com/v2oJqMSky4
— Prime Minister of Israel (@IsraeliPM) April 14, 2024
Saturday night Biden was acting like he is Israel’s best friend again.
Biden released a statement late Saturday night on the Iranian attack and his phone call with Netanyahu:
Earlier today, Iran—and its proxies operating out of Yemen, Syria and Iraq—launched an unprecedented air attack against military facilities in Israel. I condemn these attacks in the strongest possible terms.
At my direction, to support the defense of Israel, the U.S. military moved aircraft and ballistic missile defense destroyers to the region over the course of the past week. Thanks to these deployments and the extraordinary skill of our servicemembers, we helped Israel take down nearly all of the incoming drones and missiles.
I’ve just spoken with Prime Minister Netanyahu to reaffirm America’s ironclad commitment to the security of Israel. I told him that Israel demonstrated a remarkable capacity to defend against and defeat even unprecedented attacks – sending a clear message to its foes that they cannot effectively threaten the security of Israel.
Tomorrow, I will convene my fellow G7 leaders to coordinate a united diplomatic response to Iran’s brazen attack. My team will engage with their counterparts across the region. And we will stay in close touch with Israel’s leaders. And while we have not seen attacks on our forces or facilities today, we will remain vigilant to all threats and will not hesitate to take all necessary action to protect our people.
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Joe Biden meets with his national security team in the Situation Room at the White House to discuss the attack by Iran on Israel, April 13, 2024, White House photo.
Joe Biden returned to the White House Saturday afternoon after abruptly canceling his weekend at the beach in Delaware to deal with the attack on Israel by Iran. Shortly after Biden arrived at the Oval Office the White House called a travel/photo lid.
C-SPAN video shows the 81-year-old Biden shuffling the short distance from the driveway to the Oval Office. Reporters were kept far away from Biden.
After Iran launches drones to attack Israel, Pres. Biden returns to White House to meet with his national security team. pic.twitter.com/FsPEWhz9NI
— Howard Mortman (@HowardMortman) April 13, 2024
Independent reporter Andrew Leyden posted photos he took of Biden as his motorcade approached the White House that show a stern-faced Biden in the back of the Secret Service vehicle driven from Joint Base Andrews after he flew back from Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
The @POTUS has returned early to the White House to deal with the Iran attack on Israel today. pic.twitter.com/ZOkQ9C8yYA
— Andrew Leyden (@PenguinSix) April 13, 2024
Biden arrived at the Oval Office at 5:02 p.m. EDT with no plans to address the nation. Reporters were kept far away so they could not question Biden. Biden is set meet with his national security team in the Situation Room. Note: Kamala Harris is spending the weekend in Los Angeles with her husband and is participating in the meeting via remote.
President Biden is IN the Oval Office, the pool says, not expected to speak from there currently.
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) April 13, 2024
As Iran launches drones toward Israel, the WH announces that President Biden will gather in the Situation Room this afternoon with his national security team. Earlier he was briefed by NSA Sullivan & Deputy NSA Finer. pic.twitter.com/5U7kgHxNj1
— Margaret Brennan (@margbrennan) April 13, 2024
“White House called a travel/photo lid at 5:13pm.”
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Joe Biden will return to the White House Saturday afternoon, interrupting a weekend vacation at the beach in Delaware, the Biden press office announced:
“The President is returning to the White House this afternoon to consult with his national security team about events in the Middle East.”
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Biden took off for his Rehoboth Beach, Delaware home Friday night with plans to not return until Sunday night, even as he told reporters earlier Friday that he expected Iran to attack Israel “sooner rather than later”:
NEW: Biden tells me “my expectation is sooner rather than later” when I asked how imminent is an attack on Israel from Iran. Asked what his message is to Tehran, he warned, “Don’t.”
He reiterated U.S. commitment to helping Israel defend itself.
— Weijia Jiang (@weijia) April 12, 2024
#BREAKING: President Biden says he expects an attack by Iran "sooner rather than later."
Says Iran will not succeed and that the US is devoted to the defense of Israel.
In a message to Iran, Biden says, "Don't!" pic.twitter.com/XNEqXZslbn
— Moshe Schwartz (@YWNReporter) April 12, 2024
TGP reported earlier Saturday that Biden had only one day of work (this Monday) at the White House scheduled over the next nine days even as the Middle East teetered on the edge of war between Iran and Israel after Israel reportedly killed several senior IRGC officers in an April 1 airstrike at a building in Syria that Iran claimed was a diplomatic facility.
On Saturday, Iran seized control of a cargo ship with alleged ties to Israel, in the Straight of Hormuz. The MSC Aries is reported to have a crew of 25.
MSC confirm that the MSC Aries container ship has been seized by Iran in Strait of Hormuz. MSC statement below: pic.twitter.com/MCAKiQKzBT
— James Landale (@BBCJLandale) April 13, 2024
This screenshot from a video provided to AP by a defense official shows a helicopter raid against a vessel near the Strait of Hormuz. According to reports, IRGC boarded the Israeli-linked ship, MSC ARIES.https://t.co/Mb1qEdh1zy https://t.co/7XTorffHC5 pic.twitter.com/CiXOdn8BI3
— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) April 13, 2024
The video:
#NEW: Video of the hijacking of the MSC Aries by the IRGC pic.twitter.com/AlANlpbAYM
— Michael A. Horowitz (@michaelh992) April 13, 2024
Biden National Security Spokesperson Adrienne Watson posted a statement condemning the seizure:
“We strongly condemn the Iranian seizure of the Portuguese flagged, British-owned MSC AIRES in international waters. The crew is comprised of Indian, Filipino, Pakistani, Russian & Estonian nationals. We call on Iran to release the vessel & its international crew immediately. Seizing a civilian vessel without provocation is a blatant violation of international law, and an act of piracy by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization. It must be condemned unequivocally, & we will work with our partners to hold Iran to account for its actions.”
We strongly condemn the Iranian seizure of the Portuguese flagged, British-owned MSC AIRES in international waters. The crew is comprised of Indian, Filipino, Pakistani, Russian & Estonian nationals. We call on Iran to release the vessel & its international crew immediately.
— Adrienne Watson (@NSC_Spox) April 13, 2024
It must be condemned unequivocally, & we will work with our partners to hold Iran to account for its actions.
— Adrienne Watson (@NSC_Spox) April 13, 2024
Saturday afternoon, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan posted he spoke with his Israeli counterpart, “This morning, I spoke with my Israeli counterpart, National Security Advisor Hanegbi, to discuss events in the Middle East. During the call, I reiterated the United States’ ironclad commitment to the security of Israel.”
This morning, I spoke with my Israeli counterpart, National Security Advisor Hanegbi, to discuss events in the Middle East. During the call, I reiterated the United States’ ironclad commitment to the security of Israel.
— Jake Sullivan (@JakeSullivan46) April 13, 2024
The Pentagon also released a statement Saturday on a phone call between Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant:
“Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III spoke with Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant today to discuss urgent regional threats and reiterated unwavering U.S. support for Israel’s defense. Secretary Austin made clear that Israel could count on full U.S. support to defend Israel against any attacks by Iran and its regional proxies.”
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Riddhi Patel, the pro-Palestinian activist seen on video threatening to murder the Bakersfield, California mayor and City Council members at a public meeting Wednesday, broke down in tears in court Friday as she was arraigned on 18 felony counts. Patel is being held on $1 million bond after pleading not guilty.
In fiery remarks to the council in support of a ceasefire in the Gaza war on Israel, Patel, 28, spoke of revolution, guillotines and threatened murder at Wednesday’s meeting.
Patel spoke twice during the meeting Wednesday in support of a ceasefire resolution in the Hamas war on Israel. Her first remarks began with mention of her belief Jesus would kill the City Council members (“You guys are all horrible human beings and Jesus probably would have killed you himself”), and ended with mention of violent revolution and her hope the City Council would be killed by guillotine one day (“I remind you that these holidays that we practice, that other people in the Global South practice, believe in violent revolution against their oppressors. And I hope one day somebody brings the guillotine and kills all of you motherf***ers!”)
Her second remarks included opposition to a proposal to use metal detectors for City Council meetings and ended with her saying, “We’ll see you at your house, we’ll murder you!”
Patel’s remarks went viral after video clips were posted by Libs of TikTok, “WILD: Unhinged Pro-Palestine protestor Riddhi Patel threatens to M*RDER Bakersfield Mayor Karen Goh (R) in a psychotic rant during a city council meeting. Patel is being charged with 16 felonies and is being held on a $1 million bail.”
WILD: Unhinged Pro-Palestine protestor Riddhi Patel threatens to M*RDER Bakersfield Mayor Karen Goh (R) in a psychotic rant during a city council meeting.
Patel is being charged with 16 felonies and is being held on a $1 million bail. pic.twitter.com/09PeBCWoNz
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 12, 2024
A video posted by KGET-TV Friday night shows Patel in tears in court:
Patel’s bio at the Center for Race, Poverty and the Environment, where her position is listed as Economic Development Coordinator, reads:
Riddhi joined the Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment in September of 2020. She was born and raised in Bakersfield, CA and attended Stockdale High School. She then went on to achieve a Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience from Saint Louis University in 2017. After returning to Bakersfield in 2019, she began volunteering for the Bernie 2020 campaign where she found organizing. After the campaign ended, she quickly found a home in the Sunrise Movement, co-founding the local Sunrise Movement hub in Kern County with other local organizers.
Through her advocacy for common sense statewide setbacks to protect frontline communities across the state, she found CRPE in the fall of 2020. She prioritizes highlighting the intersectionality that comes with the environmental justice movement to achieve collective liberation for all oppressed communities. In her spare time, she enjoys holding elected officials accountable, watching endless amounts of movies, television series and sports, and enjoying time outdoors with her family and friends.
The Bakersfield Californian reported on the charges (excerpt):
The 10 counts of threatening with the intent to terrorize are in regard to five City Council members — Andrae Gonzales, Bruce Freeman, Ken Weir, Manpreet Kaur and Patty Gray — as well as Mayor Karen Goh, City Clerk Julie Drimakis, Assistant City Clerk Sara Ortega, City Attorney Ginny Gennaro and City Manager Christian Clegg, according to the complaint The Californian requested from the Kern County District Attorney’s Office.
At Friday’s hearing, Court Commissioner Sally Ackerknecht granted a protective order that restricts Patel from going within 500 yards of the 10 individuals’ homes, businesses or schools that they attend or have events at. Patel is also ordered to stay 500 yards away from City Hall North and South if she posts bail, which is currently set at $1 million.
For the eight counts of threatening certain public officials, the complaint lists Gonzales, Freeman, Weir, Kaur, Gray, Goh, Clegg and Drimakis as the victims. Clegg and Drimakis are not elected officials, however, the complaint refers to them as such.
The other two City Council members who attended Wednesday’s meeting, Bob Smith and Eric Arias, are not considered victims because they did not feel threatened, DA spokeswoman Daniela Gonzaga said in an email to The Californian.
The next hearings for Patel are on April 24 and 25.
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Riddhi Patel, the pro-Palestinian activist seen on video threatening to murder the Bakersfield, California mayor and City Council members at a public meeting Wednesday, broke down in tears in court Friday as she was arraigned on 18 felony counts. Patel is being held on $1 million bond after pleading
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Joe Biden’s schedule for the next nine days has him only putting in one full day of work at the White House. Three days are set to be spent campaigning in Pennsylvania and five days are scheduled for vacation in Delaware.
Biden at Rehoboth Beach, August 2023, file image.
As the Middle East teeters on the brink of war between Iran and Israel that could involve the U.S., Biden told reporters, “I’m always concerned about Americans,” as he boarded Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews for a weekend at the beach in Delaware.
Asked if he is worried Iran will kill Americans, Biden told press pool he is always concerned about Americans. He's off to Delaware for weekend. pic.twitter.com/9Yi7lMRbHA
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) April 12, 2024
The White House said that traveling with Biden is Marc Gustafson, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for the White House Situation Room, indicating a concern the Middle East could blow up while Biden is on his beach weekend.
Biden arrived at his vacation home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware Friday night where he will stay until Sunday night. Monday he has two state level meetings at the White House. Tuesday he travels to Scranton for campaign events. On Wednesday, after overnighting in Scranton, Biden heads to the Pittsburgh area. After returning to the White House Wednesday night, Biden heads right back to Pennsylvania for two more campaign events in Philadelphia on Thursday, after which he returns to the White House. On Friday, Biden takes off for his family home in Wilmington, Delaware where “he will remain throughout the weekend.”
All this effort by Biden in Pennsylvania comes after President Trump is scheduled to spend just one day campaigning in the Keystone State with a rally in the town of Schnecksville, located north of Philadelphia, on Saturday night.
Starting Monday, Trump will be in New York City for the start of the Biden administration orchestrated Democratic Party show trial put on by Democrat Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg over alleged campaign related payments to stripper Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal.
Biden’s schedule as released by the press office:
On Saturday, the President has no public events scheduled.
On Sunday, the President and the First Lady will return to the White House.
…7:30 PM THE PRESIDENT and THE FIRST LADY depart Rehoboth Beach, Delaware en route to the White House
…8:25 PM THE PRESIDENT and THE FIRST LADY arrive at the White House South Lawn
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On Sunday, the President and the First Lady will return to the White House.
On Monday, the President will host Prime Minister Mohammed Shyaa Al-Sudani of the Republic of Iraq for a bilateral meeting.
Then, the President will host Prime Minister Petr Fiala of the Czech Republic for a bilateral meeting.
On Tuesday, the President will travel to Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Then, the President will participate in two campaign events.
On Wednesday, the President will depart Scranton, Pennsylvania and travel to the Pittsburgh area, Pennsylvania. In the evening, the President will return to the White House.
On Thursday, the President will travel to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Then, the President will participate in two campaign events.
In the evening, the President will return to the White House.
On Friday, the President will travel to Wilmington, Delaware where he will remain throughout the weekend.
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A luxurious London pub and boutique hotel owned by celebrity British chef Gordon Ramsay has been taken over by a gang of squatters who are threatening legal action if an effort is made to remove them, according to reports that place the value of the property at 13 million pounds sterling (About $16.2 million.)
On tomorrow's front page: Gordon Ramsay’s £13m pub taken over by squatters with brazen gang even threatening to take legal action against TV chefhttps://t.co/esisyDpr8B pic.twitter.com/EQozVJRX7C
— The Sun (@TheSun) April 12, 2024
Excerpt from the UK Sun report:
The gang, said to be made up of at least six “professional squatters”, used Ramsay’s own kitchen appliances to barricade themselves in and have glued shut the locks.
Photos show the swanky bar area of the venue — which had been temporarily closed for a handover — resembling a tip, with debris sprawled everywhere and a squatter crashed out on a leather sofa.
Ramsay, 57, was about to sign over a multi-million pound lease to new partners when the gang broke in to the York & Albany pub and boutique hotel near Regent’s Park, central London.
The TV chef — who was embroiled in a legal battle over the venue back in 2015 — called the police last Wednesday but has been unable to remove the squatters from the 19th-century building.
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They have also slapped a legal notice on the front door, saying they are entitled to stay there as it “is a non-residential building”.
They claim that the law which prevents squatting is not applicable because it “was NOT designed or adapted, before the time of our entry, for use as a place to live”.
Incredibly, they then threaten legal action, suggesting that if anyone tries to enter “by violence” they could end up in jail for six months.
They warn: “Take notice that we occupy this property and at all times there is at least one person in occupation.
“That any entry or attempt to enter into these premises without our permission is therefore a criminal offence as any one of us who is in physical possession is opposed to such entry without our permission.
“That if you attempt to enter by violence or by threatening violence we will prosecute you.
“You may receive a sentence of up to six months’ imprisonment and/or a fine of up to £5,000.”
The note, signed by “The Occupiers”, also warns: “If you want to get us out you will have to issue a claim for possession in the County Court or in the High Court.”
End excerpt. Please read the complete Sun report at this link for more including photos of the squatters.
Background on the property via Yahoo!Life/ the Evening Standard (excerpt):
The historic Regent’s Park pub that was at the heart of a court battle between Gordon Ramsay and the building’s owner is on the market with a guide price of £13 million.
Film director and actor Gary Love bought the freehold of the derelict former coaching inn in 2007 from the Crown Estate. He leased the premises to the celebrity chef on a 25-year term where Mr Ramsay opened the York and Albany hotel and gastropub.
Mr Ramsay claimed that the lease for the premises had been signed with an effectively forged signature, alleging his father-in-law, who was then CEO of his company, had used a ghost writer machine to sign his name on a document that made him personally liable for the rent.
Mr Ramsay was unsuccessful in his action and remained bound by the lease.
Ramsay’s website lists restaurants he owns around the world:
Now internationally renowned and holding 7 Michelin stars, Ramsay has opened a string of successful restaurants across the globe, from Singapore to the United States. These include a Le Pressoir d’Argent in Bordeaux; six restaurants in Las Vegas (including Gordon Ramsay Hell’s Kitchen at Caesars Palace, Gordon Ramsay Fish & Chips at The Linq, Gordon Ramsay Steak at Paris, Gordon Ramsay Pub and Grill at Caesars Palace and Gordon Ramsay Burger at Planet Hollywood); two restaurants in Atlantic City (Gordon Ramsay Steak at Harrah’s and Gordon Ramsay Pub and Grill at Caesars); two ventures in Versailles (Gordon Ramsay au Trianon & La Veranda); Bread Street Kitchen by Gordon Ramsay in Dubai; Bread Street Kitchen in Sanya, China and Bread Street Kitchen in Singapore.
In the UK, the Gordon Ramsay Restaurants has locations across major cities including London, Edinburgh, Manchester & Liverpool. These include iconic brands such as Lucky Cat, Gordon Ramsay Bar & Grill, Bread Street Kitchen, Heddon Street Kitchen, Street Pizza and Street Burger.
More from Ramsay, who is 57 years old:
While best known as a celebrity chef now, Ramsay is successful in a variety of other ventures outside of food and television. Most notably as a published author, Ramsay has released a number of books, many of which have become bestsellers around the world; including his autobiography, Roasting in Hell’s Kitchen. Aside from this, Ramsay has a global partnership with WWRD (Waterford, Wedgwood, Royal Doulton), which offers quality home and lifestyle products as well as HEXCLAD offering high performance cookware.
In 2006, in recognition of all that Ramsay has contributed to the industry, he received an OBE (Order of the British Empire awarded by Queen Elizabeth II). Since then, Ramsay and his wife, Tana, set up the Gordon and Tana Ramsay Foundation in 2014, to make a meaningful difference to the charities that are important to them. You can find out more about the Gordon and Tana Ramsay Foundation here.
Now, Ramsay splits his time between Los Angeles and South London, where he resides with his wife, Tana and six children, along with their dogs, cats and tortoise.
Ironically, Ramsay was the host of the reality show Hotel Hell that ran for three seasons over 2012-2016. Ramsay tried to revitalize rundown establishments like this one in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia:
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A luxurious London pub and boutique hotel owned by celebrity British chef Gordon Ramsay has been taken over by a gang of squatters who are threatening legal action if an effort is made to remove them, according to reports that place the value of the property at 13 million pounds sterling (About $16.
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Gordon Ramsay, promotional photo.
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Gordon Ramsay's York and Albany pub in Regents Park, London, image via Wikipedia.
A mass stabbing attack at the Westfield Bondi Junction Shopping Centre in Sydney, Australia took place Saturday afternoon local time. Several people, including a baby, were reported wounded in the attacks, with several reported killed. The knifeman was reportedly shot and killed in the mall by a policewoman who quickly responded to reports of the attack.
Screen image from a viral video shows a man holding a large knife on an escalator.
Video of the knifeman stalking shoppers:
BREAKING – 'Multiple casualties' in a stabbing attack at Westfield Bondi shopping centre in Sydney
— Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) April 13, 2024
At a press briefing Saturday evening local time, police reported that five people were killed and several other wounded were taken to hospital, including a young child. Police said the knifeman is believed to have acted alone, however they said they do not have any information on him as of the briefing, nor do they have evidence of a motive. The policewoman shot the man when he turned and raised his knife at her.
An NSW Ambulance spokesman said eight victims were transported to hospital and six were declared dead at the scene. These numbers could change as more information is developed.
WARNING: Photos and videos from the mall show victims bleeding out. Others show some people defending against the knifeman or running to the danger and the policewoman with the slain attacker.
https://twitter.com/OzraeliAvi/status/1779053801657586124
WATCH: Video shows the suspect, who was later shot dead by police, on an escalator armed with a knife, he stabbed multiple people at Westfield Bondi Junction Shopping Centre in Australia.
— AZ Intel (@AZ_Intel_) April 13, 2024
#GraphicWarning#WATCH : Inside visuals of Sydney shopping centre after stabbings reported at Westfield Bondi Junction.#Australia #BondiJunction #Sydney #JUSTIN #BREAKING_NEWS #Stabbing pic.twitter.com/dGiaKVnvZm
— upuknews (@upuknews1) April 13, 2024
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In this viral video the policewoman can be seen running toward the attacker, accompanied by civilians armed with a plastic chair. (Translation of the comment over the reposted video by journalist Steven Nabil reads, “urgent Armed attack on Westfield Bondi Mall in Sydney, Australia”)
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هجوم مسلح على مول ويستفيلد بوندي في سيدني استراليا pic.twitter.com/zq0XUdBvqF
— Steven Nabil (@thestevennabil) April 13, 2024
Video of NSW Police briefing:
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A mass stabbing attack at the Westfield Bondi Junction Shopping Centre in Sydney, Australia took place Saturday afternoon local time. Several people, including a baby, were reported wounded in the attacks, with several reported killed. The knifeman was reportedly shot and killed in the mall by a pol
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A pro-Palestinian activist was arrested at a Bakersfield, California City Council meeting Wednesday after threatening to murder Mayor Karen Goh (R) and City Council members during a public comments session. Riddhi Patel, 28, was taken into custody at the meeting and was being held on $1 million bond as of Friday afternoon. Last month, pro-Palestinian activists smashed a glass door and injured a police officer after being removed for disrupting a City Council meeting. (UPDATE at end of article.)
Patel spoke twice during the meeting Wednesday in support of a ceasefire resolution in the Hamas war on Israel. Her first remarks began with mention of her belief Jesus would kill the City Council members (“You guys are all horrible human beings and Jesus probably would have killed you himself”), and ended with mention of violent revolution and her hope the City Council would be killed by guillotine one day (“I remind you that these holidays that we practice, that other people in the Global South practice, believe in violent revolution against their oppressors. And I hope one day somebody brings the guillotine and kills all of you motherf***ers!”)
Her second remarks included opposition to a proposal to use metal detectors for City Council meetings and ended with her saying, “We’ll see you at your house, we’ll murder you!”
Video clips of Patel’s remarks was posted by Libs of TikTok, “WILD: Unhinged Pro-Palestine protestor Riddhi Patel threatens to M*RDER Bakersfield Mayor Karen Goh (R) in a psychotic rant during a city council meeting. Patel is being charged with 16 felonies and is being held on a $1 million bail.”
WILD: Unhinged Pro-Palestine protestor Riddhi Patel threatens to M*RDER Bakersfield Mayor Karen Goh (R) in a psychotic rant during a city council meeting.
Patel is being charged with 16 felonies and is being held on a $1 million bail. pic.twitter.com/09PeBCWoNz
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 12, 2024
Excerpt from Bakersfield.com report:
A protester arrested inside Bakersfield City Council chambers Wednesday night is accused of 16 felony counts after she made a threatening comment to council members and the mayor.
Riddhi Patel, 28, was arrested and booked into jail on suspicion of eight counts of threatening with intent to terrorize and another eight counts of threatening certain city officials during her comments on enhanced security at the meetings.
These upgrades, used on a trial basis at the previous City Council meeting on March 28, would permanently include metal detectors and bolstered security at future City Hall meetings. They were unanimously approved by the council later in Wednesday’s meeting.
Patel’s remarks on the matter came during the public comment portion of the meeting, during which she lambasted the proposed security upgrades.
“You guys want to criminalize us with metal detectors,” Patel said. “We’ll see you at your house, we’ll murder you.”
KGET-TV reported four pro-Palestinian activist were charged this week after a police officer was injured and a glass door smashed during a protest at a March 27 Bakersfield City Council meeting (excerpt):
Gabriela Lynn Mota, Lorena Salinas, Lance Mack and Ashley Vega have been charged in connection to a meeting March 27 during which protesters clashed with police at the front doors of city hall after being removed from chambers. A glass door broke and an officer was injured, police said.
Mota and Salinas are both charged with felony resisting arrest, and Salinas also faces a felony count of vandalism, court records show. Additionally, both face misdemeanor counts of remaining at the scene of a riot and resisting arrest.
Mack and Vega are charged with misdemeanor counts of resisting arrest and remaining at the scene of a riot, records show.
Patel’s remarks are at about 2:30:15 and 2:49:45 in the City Council live feed video:
The language of the communist includes talk of revolution, threats and intimidation, followed by revolution and murder. It is a sign the U.S. is well into a slow-rolling communist revolution when an activist is bold enough to publicly threaten officials with revolutionary death to their faces.
UPDATE via KGET (excerpt):
A pro-Palestinian protester arrested after telling the Bakersfield City Council, “We’ll see you at your house, we’ll murder you,” has been charged with 18 felony counts.
Riddhi Patel, 28, is charged with eight counts of threatening a public official and 10 counts of making terroristic threats, according to court records. Held on $1 million bail, she’s due in court at 3 p.m.
Friday night update: Patel pleaded not guilty and is due back in court at 9.am. April 24, with bail set at $1 million, reported KERO-TV’s Sam Hoyle (excerpt):
You might remember our story from earlier this week regarding the woman who threatened to kill several city council members. I’m Sam Hoyle, your neighborhood reporter, Riddhi Patel appeared in court on Friday, for a felony arraignment. She is facing 18 charges, 10 of them threatening with intensive terrorizing, eight of which threatened a public official. Patel did plead not guilty, her bail was set at $1 million. She is due back in court on April 24 at 9 am for one hearing and then her next hearing is set for April 25 at 8:30 am.
During the arraignment hearing several people in the gallery were there in support of Patel.
…as part of the felony arraignment hearing, the judge presiding over the case did say that if Patel were to bond out she must stay at least 500 yards away from several city buildings as well as the victim’s name in the case, namely the city officials that she allegedly threatened in Bakersfield.
KGET video report shows Patel broke down in tears in court:
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A pro-Palestinian activist was arrested at a Bakersfield, California City Council meeting Wednesday after threatening to murder Mayor Karen Goh (R) and City Council members during a public comments session. Riddhi Patel, 28, was taken into custody at the meeting and was being held on $1 million bond
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Palestinian-American Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) had a meltdown when confronted by a Fox News reporter on Wednesday about an Islamic Al-Quds Day rally in her Dearborn, Michigan district last Friday where the crowd chanted “Death to America!” As of Wednesday, Tlaib had not issued a statement on the rally.
Excerpt from Wikipedia on Al-Quds day, “Quds Day (lit. ’Jerusalem Day’), officially known as International Quds Day (Persian: روز جهانی قدس, romanized: Ruz Jahâni Quds), is an annual pro-Palestinian event held on the last Friday of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan to express support for Palestinians and oppose Israel and Zionism.[4] It takes its name from the Arabic name for Jerusalem: al-Quds. The event was first held in 1979 in Iran, shortly after the Iranian Revolution.”
Fox News Congressional Correspondent Hillary Vaughn caught up with Tlaib as she was walking with a staff member to an elevator in a House office building. Vaughn repeatedly, but respectfully, asked Tlaib about the “Death to America” chants at the rally in her district. Tlaib kept repeating that she doesn’t talk to Fox News, and “I don’t talk to people who use racist tropes.” Tlaib also accused the network of being “Islamophobic.”
Vaughn: Congresswoman Tlaib?
Tlaib: I don’t talk to Fox News! I don’t talk to Fox News!
Vaughn: At a rally in your district people were chanting ‘Death to America’, do you condemn…
Tlaib: I do not talk to Fox News!
Vaughn: But do you condemn chants of ‘Death to America’?
Tlaib: I don’t talk to people that use racist tropes.
Vaughn: Why can’t you just say whether or not you condemn people chanting ‘Death to Amer…’ Why are you afraid to talk to Fox News?
Tlaib: Fox News is not, not, listen to me, using racist tropes towards my community is what Fox News is about and I don’t talk to Fox News.
Vaughn: Is ‘Death to America’ racist?
Tlaib: I don’t talk to Fox News.
Vaughn: Is chanting ‘Death to America’ racist?
Tlaib: Talk about your guys’ racist tropes. You know, you guys know exactly what you do. And I know you’re ‘Islamophobic’, but you guys gotta go deal with it on your own self, you’re not gonna use me.
Transcribed by TGP.
Video of the Dearborn rally posted by MEMRI, “At International Al-Quds Day Rally in Dearborn, Michigan Protesters Chant “Death to America!”; Speakers at the Rally: America Is One of the “Rottenest Countries” on Earth; Israel Is ISIS, Nazis, a Cancer.”
At International Al-Quds Day Rally in Dearborn, Michigan Protesters Chant “Death to America!”; Speakers at the Rally: America Is One of the “Rottenest Countries” on Earth; Israel Is ISIS, Nazis, a Cancer pic.twitter.com/B6hMlaKfi5
— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) April 7, 2024
Note: The video of Vaughn confronting Tlaib first aired on Jesse Watters Primetime:
Rashida Tlaib REALLY doesn't want to talk to Fox News! pic.twitter.com/7HAXXn7SKR
— Jesse Watters (@JesseBWatters) April 11, 2024
The post Rep. Rashida Tlaib Has Meltdown When Confronted by Fox News Reporter on ‘Death to America’ Chants at Rally in Her Dearborn, Michigan District (Video) appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib Has Meltdown When Confronted by Fox News Reporter on 'Death to America' Chants at Rally in Her Dearborn, Michigan District (Video) | The Gateway Pundit | by Kristinn Taylor
Palestinian-American Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) had a meltdown when confronted by a Fox News reporter on Wednesday about an Islamic Al-Quds Day rally in her Dearborn, Michigan district last Friday where the crowd chanted "Death to America!" As of Wednesday, Tlaib had not issued a statement on the ral
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President Trump flew into Atlanta Wednesday for a high dollar fundraiser and on the way stopped by a Chick-fil-A in the Vine City neighborhood where he was warmly received by workers and HBCU (historically black colleges and universities) students. Videos posted by the Trump campaign, RSBN and C-SPAN captured the visit.
The videos that are sure to shake up the Biden-Harris campaign show the friendly interaction between Trump and Black women working the counter at the Chick-fil-A and the hero’s welcome given Trump by Black supporters at the restaurant.
When Trump walked in he greeted the workers, ordering 30 milkshakes and chicken for customers while engaging in conversation that brought smiles to their faces.
Short video by the Trump campaign’s Margo Martin: “”Can I have 30 milkshakes and also some chicken? We are going to take care of the customers. Is business good? (Yes.) You’re making a lot of money? (Yes!) Everyone can get rich, right? (Yes! Laughter.) Thanks very much.”
President @realDonaldTrump stops by Atlanta Chick-fil-A and orders milkshakes! pic.twitter.com/ATGL3iWnlL
— Margo Martin (@margommartin) April 10, 2024
Longer version posted by C-SPAN’s Howard Mortman:
"What good looking people. Wow. That was worth it…. Can I have 30 milkshakes. And also some chicken. We're going to take care of the customers. Business is good? Making a lot of money? Get rich, right?
— Trump at a Chick-fil-A in Atlanta pic.twitter.com/bN3CWDOfBm
— Howard Mortman (@HowardMortman) April 10, 2024
A Trump supporter posted a screen image of the workers reacting to Trump, “Yep! And we’ve all seen people forced to stand near presidents – and they aren’t smiling. Those big, beautiful smiles aren’t forced. They’re sincere & it makes me so happy! I met Trump in the ’90s. He has a special way about him, you can’t help but smile when he talks to you!”
https://twitter.com/SuspndedAgain1/status/1778100789765906438
More clips by Margo Martin, “How you doin’ Trump? I love you man! I love you!”
https://twitter.com/margommartin/status/1778097794542170278
Trump hugs supporter who said, ““I don’t care what the media tells you, Mr. Trump, we support you!”
“I don’t care what the media tells you, Mr. Trump, we support you!” pic.twitter.com/q49RpivIbD
— Margo Martin (@margommartin) April 10, 2024
Another C-SPAN video gives context to the hug. The woman is a Trump supporter who was with a group of students from HBCUs Clark Atlanta, Spelman, Morehouse and Morris Brown. (55 second mark after Trump touts Congressional candidate Brian Jack.)
HBCU students with Trump at a Chick-fil-A in Atlanta.
Trump: "We took care of those colleges…Come here, let me give you a hug …We took care of the Black colleges and universities. They're taken care of now. She understands that. Biden did nothing for them. I did everything." pic.twitter.com/5Lfn1kSyzf
— Howard Mortman (@HowardMortman) April 10, 2024
Reporter Marc Caputo noted one of the likely reasons for the stop at this particular Chick-fil-A, “A major reason Trump specifically stopped by this Chick-fil-A in Atlanta: it’s on the route from the airport to the Fulton County jail where Trump had his mugshot taken On the way to the jail, Trump saw all these folks cheering him on” (Also, in the video, Trump says the franchise owner is a member of one of his clubs.)
A major reason Trump specifically stopped by this Chick-fil-A in Atlanta: it’s on the route from the airport to the Fulton County jail where Trump had his mugshot taken
On the way to the jail, Trump saw all these folks cheering him on
— Marc Caputo (@MarcACaputo) April 10, 2024
Atlanta flashback video recorded August 24, 2023 and reposted Wednesday by the Trump campaign, “Today, President Trump returned to Vine City, Atlanta. The last time President Trump traveled down Joseph Lowery Boulevard, he was on his way to fight another Biden-directed Witch Hunt.”
Today, President Trump returned to Vine City, Atlanta.
The last time President Trump traveled down Joseph Lowery Boulevard, he was on his way to fight another Biden-directed Witch Hunt. pic.twitter.com/yo8zObLgrI
— Team Trump (Text TRUMP to 88022) (@TeamTrump) April 10, 2024
Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter Patricia Murphy reported on the political dynamics of the fundraiser, “Republicans you’ll see at Trump’s Atlanta fundraiser today: Former Sens. Kelly Loeffler & David Perdue, Brian Jack, Bill White, LG Burt Jones. Republicans you won’t see: Gov. Brian Kemp, SoS Brad Raffensperger, AG Chris Carr. No coincidence.”
Republicans you’ll see at Trump’s Atlanta fundraiser today: Former Sens. Kelly Loeffler & David Perdue, Brian Jack, Bill White, LG Burt Jones. Republicans you won’t see: Gov. Brian Kemp, SoS Brad Raffensperger, AG Chris Carr. No coincidence. https://t.co/Mv4CI13YWQ
— Patricia Murphy (@MurphyAJC) April 10, 2024
The post Trump Warmly Greeted at Atlanta Chick-fil-A by Workers and HBCU Students from Spelman, Morehouse (Video) appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
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