Manor Township resident Bruce Imel and his daughter, Kaitlyn, were wrapping up a ride on a sight-seeing bus in Dubai on Feb. 28 when they heard a boom. They looked over to see a cloud of smoke.
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“A DOJ source told the Miami Herald that agents found her to be credible—and that they would not have interviewed her four times if they thought she was lying.”
@jkbjournalist.bsky.social bringing it home
www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
Tomorrow marks the 61st anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama. It also marks the 60th anniversary of the Supreme Court first upholding the Voting Rights Act.
We have gotten so, so far away from a Court that cares about democracy.
New from me at @brennancenter.org:
a set of graphs of US jobs data
NEW US JOBS DATA:
Non-farm Payrolls: -92k
Unemployment Rate: 4.4% (+0.1%)
Prime Age (25-54) Employment-Population Ratio: 80.7% (-0.1%)
Average Hourly Earnings: +0.4%
Over 120 people have been hospitalized due to measles in Utah alone. "It is, at this time a real threat in our state and something we can do to stop it," said Dr. Leisha Nolen, state epidemiologist… pleading for people to get themselves and their children vaccinated.” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died.
New from 404 Media: Proton Mail, the privacy-focused email service, gave authorities data that let the FBI unmask an anonymous 'Stop Cop City' protester. It was payment data linked to the anonymous email account. From that, FBI ID'd them, then tracked their movements www.404media.co/proton-mail-...
Sounds a lot like what Murdoch said to the Bancroft family 2 decades ago...
Some gubernatorial CF takeaways? Stacy Garrity would need 7,000 more donors than she's had over her entire career giving $250 to match one Mike Bloomberg check to Josh Shapiro. And Shapiro dropped $84k on "presidential-level service in private aviation."
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PA VOTER FRAUD PROVEN only it's a Trump supporter who voted by mail in Bucks County *and* in person in Florida (after moving) in the 2020 presidential election.
Matthew Laiss had unsuccessfully argued that Trump's pardon of persons accused of fraud around presidential electors covered him too.
⛽️ Pittsburgh-area gas prices rose 17 cents yesterday with more increases likely on the way because of the Iran war. www.axios.com/local/pittsb...
The front page of LNP | LancasterOnline for Thursday, March 5, 2026.
The front page of LNP | LancasterOnline for Thursday, March 5, 2026:
The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students — and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"
WWLD ... what would Locutus do?
The front page of LNP | LancasterOnline for Tuesday, March 3, 2026:
The front page of LNP | LancasterOnline for Tuesday, March 3, 2026:
It’s the first Tuesday of the month, so I’m nattering again. As always the newsletter is free and almost worth it.
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this is a Black Mirror, season 1 episode
The front page of LNP | LancasterOnline for Monday, March 2, 2026:
The front page of LNP | LancasterOnline for Monday, March 2, 2026:
U.S. union membership rates held fairly steady. But the Bureau of Labor Statistics notes that comparison to prior years is more difficult because the government shutdown affected their data.
A woman who told the FBI she was victimized by Jeffrey Epstein while a young teen on Hilton Head Island in the mid-1980s has accumulated a record of criminal charges, drug dependency and domestic turmoil, an investigation by The Post and Courier reveals.
Screenshot of Rep. Lloyd Smucker's Facebook post about the Iran operation. The text is: "As the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, Iran can never have access to nuclear weapons. Iran has repeatedly ignored opportunities to resolve the matter through diplomacy. President Trump took decisive action to ensure Iran cannot possess these weapons or missiles capable of delivering nuclear payloads that pose a threat to America and the world. God bless our military men and women who bravely defend our freedom."
U.S. Rep. Lloyd Smucker post on the Iran attack:
Photo of a man sitting on an electric mobility scooter holding a cardboard sign that reads, "WAR. Distraction 4 Guilty President." The photo was taken around 10 a.m. in Penn Square, Lancaster, Pa., Feb. 28, 2026.
Penn Square in Lancaster, Pa., around 10 a.m. Saturday.
“It’s difficult to understand the scale of the problem, but OpenAI itself estimates that more than a million people every week show suicidal intent when chatting with ChatGPT.”
don't forget Charlie
The meeting’s participants included Kurt Olsen, a White House lawyer charged with reinvestigating the 2020 election, and Heather Honey, the Department of Homeland Security official in charge of election integrity.
Several high-ranking US election officials -- including the DHS official in charge of election security -- attended a summit last week where prominent election deniers called on Trump to declare a national emergency to take over the 2026 midterms.
New, @dougbockclark.bsky.social @propublica.org
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children said it received over a million reports tied to AI-generated child sexual abuse material in just nine months.
“Just as there was no emergency justifying the unilateral imposition of worldwide tariffs, there is no election emergency that permits the president to ignore Article 1, Section IV of the Constitution, which assigns election lawmaking authority to the states and Congress,” says Cato’s Stephen Richer
Cover of The Lancet:
@thelancet.com
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The front page of LNP | LancasterOnline for Friday, Feb. 27, 2026:
The front page of LNP | LancasterOnline for Friday, Feb. 27, 2026:
