Monday’s PBS News Hour fell into the footsteps of its fellow public media outlet NPR, raising alarm over purported “hateful rhetoric” by the Republican Party against Muslims. The online title: “Anti-Islamic rhetoric from GOP politicians sparks concerns over religious hatred.” The opening graphic behind co-anchor Geoff Bennett read “Islamophobia in America.” Yes, after weeks of attacks on Jews and others by Muslims, “Islamophobia” remains the thing the elitist press wants to discuss. Geoff Bennett: More than two weeks into the war with Iran, Muslim Americans are confronting a new surge of hateful rhetoric here at home, amplified online and echoed by Republican lawmakers. Tennessee Congressman Andy Ogles posted that Muslims don't belong in American society. Florida Congressman Randy Fine wrote this: "We need more Islamophobia, not less. Fear of Islam is rational." And Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville paired images of 9/11 with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, saying -- quote -- "The enemy is inside the gates." Civil rights advocates and Democratic lawmakers have condemned the remarks as dangerous and openly bigoted. We're joined now by Maya Berry, executive director of the Arab American institute….When you hear and read some of the comments from Republican lawmakers right now, what stands out to you most? Maya Berry, Executive Director, Arab American Institute: I mean, to be honest, the initial response is just how broken our democracy is….the fact that it's coming from elected officials who have American Muslim constituents who should understand with greater clarity how their rhetoric is perhaps different than mine or yours, and yet they feel very comfortable continuing to engage in this, stoking fear and putting communities and individuals at risk. Berry is highly favored at NPR. In her capacity at the AAI, Berry has claimed on X that "Palestinians are regularly killed by Israel without consequence."  As usual, anti-Jewish hate crimes and violence were glossed over. Bennett: And you have some defending their remarks by pointing to these recent attacks allegedly carried out by Muslim men, the car ramming at a Michigan synagogue, the shooter at Old Dominion University last week. President Trump, who you mentioned, he was on Brian Kilmeade's FOX radio show last week. Take a listen to what he said. After a Trump clip, Bennett continued. Bennett: ….And there can be legitimate concerns about how people become radicalized and then carry out acts of violence. There's a separate question around how leaders address that without turning it into sweeping claims, derogatory claims about millions of Americans. Berry: Look, I'm not going to argue that someone who resorts to violence like we saw in the horrific attack in Michigan or the shooting in Virginia isn't perhaps sick in some way. There's something wrong there, without a doubt. The difference, though, is that no one would suggest that we engage in that kind of talk when we talked about the Sikh shooting, the temple shooting in Oak Creek [Wisconsin]. No one said that when there was a shooting in South Carolina. No one said that when we were talking about the devastating killing of congregants at the Tree of Life Synagogue or Charlottesville, Virginia, where Heather Heyer was killed, or the supermarket in El Paso…. Bennett: ….I want to ask you this, because in the past, party leaders have taken action against members of Congress for racist and extremist rhetoric. That was the case back in 2019, when Speaker, then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy booted Steve King off of his committees for racist rhetoric. Fast-forward to the present moment. There doesn't appear to be that same level of accountability. What's the impact of that? Wouldn’t a more relevant comparison be the treatment of Democratic House members Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI). Omar has spouted a lot of anti-Semitism both in and out of office, while Tlaib was censured by the House for defending the eliminationist chant "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” But as usual, Democratic rhetorical controversies involving anti-Semitism were ignored. A transcript is available, click “Expand.” PBS News Hour 3/16/26 7:36:09 p.m. (ET) Geoff Bennett: More than two weeks into the war with Iran, Muslim Americans are confronting a new surge of hateful rhetoric here at home, amplified online and echoed by Republican lawmakers. Tennessee Congressman Andy Ogles posted that Muslims don't belong in American society. Florida Congressman Randy Fine wrote this: "We need more Islamophobia, not less. Fear of Islam is rational." And Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville paired images of 9/11 with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, saying -- quote -- "The enemy is inside the gates." Civil rights advocates and Democratic lawmakers have condemned the remarks as dangerous and openly bigoted. We're joined now by Maya Berry, executive director of the Arab American institute. Thank you for being with us. Maya Berry, Executive Director, Arab American Institute: Thank you for having us, Geoff. Geoff Bennett: When you hear and read some of the comments from Republican lawmakers right now, what stands out to you most? Maya Berry: I mean, to be honest, the initial response is just how broken our democracy is. I feel it in a very personal way in terms of the targeting in the American Muslim community like this, the scapegoating of a community like this. But the fact that it's coming from elected officials who have American Muslim constituents who should understand with greater clarity how their rhetoric is perhaps different than mine or yours, and yet they feel very comfortable continuing to engage in this, stoking fear and putting communities and individuals at risk. Geoff Bennett: Does the rhetoric we're hearing now, does this represent an escalation or is this part of a longer pattern in American politics? Maya Berry: So I think that's a really important observation. Communities being scapegoated at different times for different reasons is certainly a pattern in our country. What's different here, and I would even suggest worse than what we saw post-9/11, is that after the terror attacks in 9/11 happened, you had elected officials, a president, who went to a mosque within a couple of days to get those attacks and said, do not target your fellow Americans. This is not who we are. This is not what we're going to do. Now, obviously, there are policies that ensued that securitized a community, that treated it as a potential security threat moving forward and that really harmed the relationship between those individuals and their fellow countrypeople. But what I would say is that, when the largest office of the land, the presidential bully pulpit, is being used to tell their fellow Americans, do not scapegoat those communities, that's very, very different than what we see today. The single largest crime -- or hate crime data that we had that targeted both actually Arab-Americans and American Muslims came after 9/11. The second largest numbers came after the 2015 and 2016 years, which is the beginning of President Trump's initial campaign and running for office. So there is certainly, I think, a decision among some that this rhetoric is helpful. It gives them viral moments. It helps them raise money. That, to me, is why I keep emphasizing that you should care about this because it is harmful to a community, but you should also care about this because I think it is indicative of how problematic and how fragile our democratic institutions are right now. Geoff Bennett: And you have some defending their remarks by pointing to these recent attacks allegedly carried out by Muslim men, the car ramming at a Michigan synagogue, the shooter at Old Dominion University last week. President Trump, who you mentioned, he was on Brian Kilmeade's FOX radio show last week. Take a listen to what he said. President Donald Trump: They're sick people. And a lot of them were let in here. They shouldn't have been let in. Others are just bad. They go bad, something wrong. There's something wrong there. Genetics are not exactly -- they're not exactly your genetic. It's one of those problems. Geoff Bennett: I want to ask you to respond to that. And there can be legitimate concerns about how people become radicalized and then carry out acts of violence. There's a separate question around how leaders address that without turning it into sweeping claims, derogatory claims about millions of Americans. Maya Berry: Look, I'm not going to argue that someone who resorts to violence like we saw in the horrific attack in Michigan or the shooting in Virginia isn't perhaps sick in some way. There's something wrong there, without a doubt. The difference, though, is that no one would suggest that we engage in that kind of talk when we talked about the Sikh shooting, the temple shooting in Oak Creek. No one said that when there was a shooting in South Carolina. No one said that when we were talking about the devastating killing of congregants at the Tree of Life Synagogue or Charlottesville, Virginia, where Heather Heyer was killed, or the supermarket in El Paso. There have been systematic ways in which our country has increasingly moved with some level of comfort with political violence that's really very alarming. There were two assassination attempts on President Trump. There was a legislator and her husband that -- killed in Minnesota. The question is, why do we take those individual incidents and understand there to be a problem that our country has to address and not suggest that we develop a different relationships with white supremacists, for example, who've engaged with those and start saying that we need to -- what went wrong? How do we take away their citizenship? What's the denaturalization process? None of that happens, except when it is looking at American Muslims and sometimes Arab Americans. Geoff Bennett: Well, on that point, I want to ask you this, because in the past, party leaders have taken action against members of Congress for racist and extremist rhetoric. That was the case back in 2019, when Speaker, then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy booted Steve King off of his committees for racist rhetoric. Fast-forward to the present moment. There doesn't appear to be that same level of accountability. What's the impact of that? Maya Berry: No, to the contrary, there's no censure. There are no committees assignments being withdrawn. In fact, in the case of Congressman Randy Fine, the day he actually said starve them all is the day that he was appointed to the House Foreign Affairs Committee. And you have a situation where the House speaker, instead of saying this kind of rhetoric must stop, it's harmful to our fellow Americans and we ought not to engage in it, he said there's a legitimate fear about Sharia, demanding Sharia law in our country. Sharia law is something, a concept within like a moral or religious code that applies to me personally. It would never apply to you or anyone else if they weren't Muslim. It dictates things like our prayer or our marriage processes or burials. So this idea that we're going to take something like that and the speaker would suggest this is the reason why his members would get away with saying the kinds of things that they said is just intellectually dishonest and morally replicable. Geoff Bennett: Beyond the rhetoric, are you seeing signs that these attitudes are influencing policy? Maya Berry: Without a doubt. There have been some pretty, pretty significant setbacks in terms of basic civil rights protections and First Amendment protection rights. But I would focus more on -- at this point, frankly, I go back to Congress, because certainly I'm not suggesting the executive is working great. But the issue with Congress is, it's not just that a member tweets something that's reprehensible. Look at the remarks they're giving on the House floor. Look at the questions and comments they make during congressional hearings. It's not just about, like, they need to engage or behave in ways that are decent. It's really about a structural problem within the body itself. It's not passing budgets on time. It's not passing laws. There's no congressional oversight. Our country just went to war without a war powers resolution. But what do they find time to do? They find time to sit and tell us that we need to fear our fellow Americans. Geoff Bennett: Maya Berry, executive director of the Arab American Institute, thank you for your perspectives. Maya Berry: Thank you.

During Tuesday morning’s cable news morning shows on MS NOW and CNN, blame was placed on Republicans for the lasting DHS shutdown caused by Democrat protests of immigration enforcement and ICE funding. The hosts of CNN This Morning, CNN News Central, and, of course, MS NOW’s Morning Joe ignored the Democrats' impact on the shutdown, a growing media trend. In a tease for the News Central segment, CNN This Morning host Audie Cornish teed up the story as a Republican attack on Democrats: Okay, you guys, we want to talk a little bit more about the partial government shutdown affecting the Department of Homeland Security enters another week and as we mentioned earlier, very long lines at the airport as a result. So, Republicans want voters to blame Democrats. We're going to talk about how this is going to play out.    In a tease for CNN News Central, CNN This Morning host Audie Cornish minimized the Democrats impact on the DHS shutdown and impacts to the TSA. Instead, she stated "Republicans want voters to blame Democrats" for the shutdown. pic.twitter.com/UWdcdOu6s9 — Nick (@nspin310) March 17, 2026   An hour later in CNN programming, during the precursor to an interview with Republican Congressman Pete Sessions of Texas, Bolduan began to frame the segment as Democrats being the saviors who would end the shutdown just like they released the Epstein files: And now Democrats, today, are pushing ahead with a new move to try to force a vote that could end the shutdown. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is now telling fellow Democrats he's launching a discharge petition tomorrow. It would fund most of DHS, including TSA, while not approving new funding for ICE and Customs and Border Patrol. This tactic has worked for Democrats recently, a discharge petition, like in successfully forcing the vote to release the Epstein files.   In the segment Cornish alluded to, News Central host Kate Bolduan treated Congressional Democrats as the saviors that will fund DHS, except for CBP and ICE, through a discharge petition, just like they did with the Epstein Files. pic.twitter.com/r5YzLafBNx — Nick (@nspin310) March 17, 2026   Bolduan was tough in the interview with Session, with questions on if he would be “open to funding TSA, FEMA, CISA and then debating funding for ICE afterward?” Her question ignored the reality that ICE was already funded. The shutdown right now was a tactic for reforms that has just ended up putting national security at risk. Bolduan ended the DHS shutdown part of the interview with: “It sounds like we are nowhere near breaking the stalemate, is what I take from this.” Next, on the premiere liberal morning talk show, Morning Joe, Katty Kay and Jonathan Lemire placed blame on Republicans, especially Senator Katie Britt of Alabama, for not agreeing with Senator Patty Murray’s (D-WA) bill that would still have not fully funded DHS. Kay read, “Last week, Senate Republicans blocked five separate bills proposed by Democrats to fund TSA and other non-immigration agencies. One of the proposals, from Democratic Senator Patty Murray of Washington, was killed by a Republican senator, Katie Britt of Alabama.”   Kay's introduction to the segment blamed Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) for blocking a funding bill. She ignored the actual reasoning for the shutdown, which was Democrat protests of immigration policy. pic.twitter.com/STxQEVT4AL — Nick (@nspin310) March 17, 2026   Kay and Lemire focused on Democratic Congressman Greg Casar’s (TX) confrontation at an airport in Texas with Senator John Cornyn (R-TX). The hosts made fun of Cornyn’s attempt to give the TSA workers Whataburger meals. Kay connected the burgers to how the shutdown is actually working for Democrats: Yeah, John. Burgers, paychecks, I think most TSA agents know which one they would rather have.  This has been interesting politically because I think initially some Democrats were worried about the framing of this. But in the last few days, as those queues and those lines have got longer during spring break travel, I think they have seen something shift and they think, well, look, if we can single out funding for the TSA agents and separate that from funding for ICE, this could actually work politically in Democrats favor. What are you seeing?   MS NOW's Morning Joe, unsurprisingly, continued to place blame on Republicans, as Katty Kay and Jonathan Lemire stated that the Democrats are winning the shutdown fight. https://t.co/Z98G9B2ptn pic.twitter.com/uY0eguMuJf — Nick (@nspin310) March 17, 2026   Lemire also parroted the talking point of republicans being in control of the Senate, while ignoring the existence of the filibuster vote threshold: But you're right. I think Democrats do feel like just, like the last funding fight, that they're on the right side of this.  That the Republicans are in control. They have both houses of congress. They have the white house. They're taking most of the blame. One wonders, though, how much longer this can last. The liberal cable networks refusal to blame Democrats for the shutdown is alike to the big three broadcast networks almost entirely ignoring the Democrat’s impact on the shutdown, as seen in a recent MRC Newsbusters study. The transcript is below. Click "expand": CNN This Morning March 17, 2026 6:48:52 AM AUDIE CORNISH: Okay, you guys, we want to talk a little bit more about the partial government shutdown affecting the Department of Homeland Security enters another week and as we mentioned earlier, very long lines at the airport as a result. So, Republicans want voters to blame Democrats. We're going to talk about how this is going to play out. (...) CNN News Central March 17, 2026 7:48:02 AM Eastern KATE BOLDUAN: The partial government shutdown of DHS has led to brutal and growing wait times at airports and led to hundreds of TSA agents now quitting. That shutdown now enters its second month.  At the center of the political stalemate is the future, and funding of ICE. And as with every shutdown, as we have seen of recent, Democrats and Republicans are currently and still blaming each other for not coming to the table to bring an end to this.  And now Democrats, today, are pushing ahead with a new move to try to force a vote that could end the shutdown. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is now telling fellow Democrats he's launching a discharge petition tomorrow. It would fund most of DHS, including TSA, while not approving new funding for ICE and Customs and Border Patrol.  This tactic has worked for Democrats recently, a discharge petition, like in successfully forcing the vote to release the Epstein files.  But this move this time, like others, would require Democrats to win over a number of Republicans to get this to the floor. Joining me right now is Republican Congressman Pete Sessions of Texas. Congressman thanks for coming in. Texas has seen some crazy wait times at airports. In Austin, though I know not in your district, the security lines we've seen video reached outside the terminal. Facing that and the reality that TSA workers are quitting now, are you open to funding TSA, FEMA, CISA and then debating funding for ICE afterward? REP. PETE SESSIONS (R-TX): I think we all recognize that there's a political difference here. Our friends that were Democrats years ago wanted to defund ICE. This is not a new issue. This is not a new issue because these same types of arrangements have happened for years. I am not open to that. We must understand that ICE has a role and a function. And I think that the negotiation that took place several weeks ago about the changes that would be made should have been significant enough to get my fellow Democrats, my friends, back on with some bit of reliability. They've also seen a change - a change at the top. Kristi Noem came and testified. It was a hearing that really ended up, I think, showing the American people some of the frailties of the policies. I think those will be corrected. I think that effective with Sen. Markwayne Mullin, who will become the director, that there will be a different viewpoint perhaps as is seen by the American people in their hometown. But no, I believe we need ICE. We've got to have them. There has to be someone who will go and be on the front line to take criminals out of this country. BOLDUAN: Why is buying more time to have that debate, at the same time getting people paid and back to work at America's airports, not an ok compromise though? SESSIONS: Well, I voted yes. Generally speaking, you look at the people who vote yes and then question why people vote no. The people that vote no are those people that did not want the compromise. I think that the fight should now take place over who is going to be the secretary, and that will be Markwayne Mullin. And he is a United States senator who knows each of these people. He will speak with clarity about the issues. I spoke with Mr. Markwayne Mullin yesterday about my ideas about the job and performance that he will be doing. He was very open to hearing from me. I think I made sense to him. I want to be able to explain to my constituents what ICE has as not just a policy but how they're going to play these things out, and I want to know where they're going to go and what order they're going to do them in. So, I think that that's really the crux of the matter. This is simply a political battle that should be one that would be done professionally and in - and looking at the secretary. I think the president made the change. That should be the opening that would be necessary politically for the Democrats to seize upon. Ok, now let's renegotiate. And I think that's what needs to take place; not holding up federal workers. BOLDUAN: It sounds like we are nowhere near breaking the stalemate, is what I take from this. (...) MS NOW’s Morning Joe March 17, 2026 7:42:21 AM Eastern KATTY KAY: Chicago Midway Airport, though, with a plane coming in to land. And more US airports are seeing extremely long security lines amid the partial government shutdown that's now in its fifth week.  Last week, Senate Republicans blocked five separate bills proposed by Democrats to fund TSA and other non-immigration agencies. One of the proposals, from Democratic Senator Patty Murray of Washington, was killed by a Republican senator, Katie Britt of Alabama. It comes as the New York Times reports, a growing number of TSA employees have picked up second jobs, sometimes calling out sick just to do so, after missing their first full paycheck. That was last Friday. So far, more than 300 officers have quit.  This was the scene at the airport in Fort Lauderdale yesterday. Amazing lines. Other big hubs are also reporting painfully long queues like Houston, Atlanta, Newark, Laguardia in New York.  Meanwhile, a tense back and forth erupted yesterday outside the airport in Austin between two Texas lawmakers, Democratic Congressman Greg Casar and Republican Senator John Cornyn got into it after Cornyn arrived to deliver burgers to TSA agents working without pay due to that partial government shutdown. Cornyn has blamed Democrats for blocking the DHS funding bill.  Casar, a Democrat who represents Austin, arrived at the airport first and was talking to reporters when Cornyn showed up. Take a watch. (...) 7:44:50 AM KAY: Yeah, John. Burgers, paychecks, I think most TSA agents know which one they would rather have.  This has been interesting politically because I think initially some Democrats were worried about the framing of this. But in the last few days, as those queues and those lines have got longer during spring break travel, I think they have seen something shift and they think, well, look, if we can single out funding for the TSA agents and separate that from funding for ICE, this could actually work politically in Democrats favor. What are you seeing? JONATHAM LEMIRE: Yeah. First of all, Cornyn in the political fight for his life right now - KAY: Yes.  LEMIRE: - Not surprised. He probably welcomes some sort of confrontation. But you're right. I think Democrats do feel like just, like the last funding fight, that they're on the right side of this. That the Republicans are in control. They have both houses of congress. They have the white house. They're taking most of the blame. One wonders, though, how much longer this can last.  We were talking -  a theme today has been about political pain, right? These lines at airports are gigantic and getting worse. And there's - at a certain point, the frustration from the public may push some sort of action. We will, of course, stay on it.

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Wikimedia CommonsThe mangled corpse of Mary Jane Kelly. Jack the Ripper’s last victim was as mysterious as the notorious serial killer himself. Mary Jane Kelly, generally considered the fifth and final victim of the Victorian serial killer, was found dead on November 9, 1888. But little of Mary Jane Kelly’s life is known — and even then, it is nearly impossible to verify any of it. Even her name was something of a mystery. In addition to Mary Jane Kelly, she went by Maria Jeanette Kelly, Fair Emma, Ginger, Dark Mary, and Black Mary. There is little documentary evidence to confirm — or disprove — any claims about Kelly’s life, most of which come from her last lover, Joseph Barnett. What can be confirmed is that Mary Jane Kelly’s mutilated body was discovered in a room she leased on Dorset Street in East London in the Spitalfields area, a slum frequently occupied by prostitutes and criminals. She is considered the final canonical victim of Jack the Ripper, and her murder was certainly the most gruesome. Mary Jane Kelly’s Murky Beginnings Much of the information on Mary Jane Kelly’s background comes from Joseph Barnett, her most recent lover before her death. He shared what Kelly had told him of her life, but that isn’t saying much, given that Kelly herself was a rather untrustworthy narrator. Her stories are full of contradictions and embellishments, which have, over the years, been subjected to a long-running game of telephone. Still, Barnett’s account of Kelly’s life is the only direct source of information on her. Public DomainAn illustration of Mary Jane Kelly in the November 24, 1888 edition of the Penny Illustrated Paper. According to Barnett, Kelly was born in Limerick, Ireland around 1863. She never gave the exact date of her birth, nor did she clarify if she was referring to Limerick, the city or Limerick, the county. In either case, the Kelly family moved to Wales when Mary Jane was a child. Her father was supposedly an ironworker named John Kelly, and details of her mother are unknown. One of six or seven siblings, she moved to Wales with her family when she was a child. To one acquaintance, Kelly claimed that her parents had disowned her — why, no one knows — but that she remained close to her sister. To Barnett, Kelly said her family had been moderately wealthy, and her landlord confirmed that she would occasionally receive letters from someone in Ireland. Kelly later moved to Cardiff, following the death of her husband, a coal miner with either the last name Davis or Davies. With no financial support, she lived with her cousin for a time and began selling herself on the streets. Then, in 1884, she made her way to London where, according to Barnett, she worked at an upscale brothel. Public DomainA November 17, 1888 Illustrated Police News sketch depicting the discovery of Mary Jane Kelly’s body. Conflicting claims also suggested that Kelly had been an intelligent and scholarly woman, while others insinuated that she may have in fact been illiterate. Even trying to get an understanding of what Mary Jane Kelly looked like can be difficult from a historical perspective. She was reportedly either blonde or red-headed, but given the nickname “Black Mary,” she could have just as likely had dark hair. That said, she also had the nickname “Ginger,” so it really isn’t possible to say which was true. As author R. Michael Gordon writes in his book, Alias Jack the Ripper, A reporter from the Press Association said that a friendship with a French woman from the affluent Knightsbridge neighborhood was the catalyst that led to Kelly’s death. Kelly and the French woman would “drive about in a carriage and made several journeys to the French capital, and, in fact, led a life which is described as that ‘of a lady.'” But for some reason, and it’s unclear why, Kelly wound up drifting into the dodgier East End. Mary Jane Kelly’s Relationship With Joseph Barnett Mary Jane Kelly allegedly started drinking heavily once she moved to the East End and found herself living with a married couple for a few years. She left to live with one man — and then another man. An anonymous prostitute reported that in 1886, Mary Jane Kelly was living at a Cooley’s Lodging House, a cheap home where multiple people typically share rooms and common spaces, in Spitalfields when she met 28-year-old fish porter Joseph Barnett. Wikimedia CommonsThe room at 13 Miller’s Court where Mary Jane Kelly would meet her tragic end. She had only met Barnett twice when the two decided to move in together on April 9, 1887. They were kicked out of their first place in Little Paternoster Row, however, for not paying rent and for getting drunk, and moved to the fatal room on Dorset Street: 13 Miller’s Court. It was dirty and damp, with boarded up windows and a padlocked door. What happened after the move to Dorset Street is even murkier. It’s said that Kelly was no longer prostituting herself, but when Barnett lost his job, she returned to it. When Kelly wanted to share the room with a fellow prostitute, she got in a fight with Barnett over it, and he subsequently left. Although Barnett no longer lived with Kelly, though, he did visit her frequently. And tragically, he had even been with her the night before her tragic demise thanks to Jack the Ripper, who had already murdered four women: Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, and Catherine Eddowes. The Gruesome Murder Of Mary Jane Kelly At The Hands Of Jack The Ripper On November 8, 1888, Barnett visited Kelly for the last time. He stayed with her for roughly an hour, between 7:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m., while she was spending time with a friend named Maria Harvey. Barnett occasionally would give Kelly money during his visits, but on this night he had none to give. He and Harvey left the apartment around the same time, with Barnett returning to his lodging house to play cards until roughly 12:30 a.m. Shortly after, Mary Jane Kelly was seen at the Ten Bells public house with another woman, Elizabeth Foster, and she was later seen drinking with two others at the Horn of Plenty pub on Dorset Street. Her whereabouts for the rest of the evening are largely unknown. Some say they saw her drunk with another prostitute at around 11:00 p.m., and a neighbor claimed to see her with a short man in his thirties, while others said Kelly could be heard singing in the wee early hours the next morning. Sometime before noon on November 9, 1888, Kelly’s landlord sent his assistant to collect Kelly’s rent. When he knocked, she didn’t respond. Looking through the window, he saw her bloody and mangled body. The police were notified, and once they arrived, the door was forced open. The scene was excruciating. Wikimedia CommonsPolice photograph of Mary Jane Kelly’s body. In the practically empty room, Mary Jane Kelly’s body was in the middle of the bed, her head turned. Her left arm, partially removed, was also on the bed. Her abdominal cavity was empty, her breasts and facial features were cut off, and she was severed from her neck to her spine. Her dismembered organs and body parts were placed in different areas around the room, and her heart was missing. The bed was covered in blood and the wall by the bed was splashed with it. Mary Jane Kelly was about 25 years old when she was murdered, the youngest of Jack the Ripper’s victims. She “usually wore a black silk dress, and often a black jacket, looking shabby genteel in her attire, but generally neat and clean.” She was buried on November 19, 1888, in East London at a cemetery called Leytonstone. After reading about Mary Jane Kelly, learn more about the victims of Jack the Ripper and meet some of the most compelling Jack the Ripper suspects, including Polish barber Aaron Kosminski. The post The Story Of Mary Jane Kelly, Jack The Ripper’s Most Gruesome Murder Victim appeared first on All That's Interesting.

When you’re a genius, you tend to notice things that others don’t. Nikola Tesla did. He envisioned the potential of electricity far before his contemporaries. So, is it possible that Nikola Tesla’s 3 6 9 theory of the universe holds water? Or is it merely evidence of Tesla’s obsessive nature? Wikimedia CommonsNikola Tesla’s 3 6 9 theory is alleged to “hold the key to the universe.” Tesla’s 3 6 9 obsession began with his fixation on the number three — and suggests that three, six, and nine could hold the key to the universe. The theory has been co-opted and expanded upon even today by people who hope to improve their lives by “manifesting” their desires through repeatedly writing them out. But understanding the theory requires understanding Nikola Tesla himself. 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Tesla recalled in his autobiography having out-of-body experiences as a child which cast him to “new places, cities, and countries … as dear to me as those in actual life and not a bit less intense in their manifestations.” Tesla also had an eidetic — photographic — memory, which he used to craft his ideas and inventions in his head before setting out to create them in reality. When Tesla began putting his mind to the test as an adult, he noticed that he stood apart from his contemporaries. Most other inventors, he noted, “lack patience.” Tesla went on: “They lack the willingness to work a thing out slowly and clearly and sharply in their mind … we all make mistakes, and it is better to make them before we begin.” The inventor’s introspective method worked well for him during his career. Although he was never wealthy, Tesla churned out an impressive number of inventions that have relevance today, including alternating current (AC) and the induction motor. His experiments also touched on ideas that were developed by others, like X-Rays, neon lights, and remote controls. In Tesla’s work, the inventor sought to discover and harness some of the world’s mysteries. He did this with electricity — and he seemed to believe that he could do the same with the numbers three, six, and nine. Why Did Tesla Say That 3 6 9 Was The Key To The Universe? Wikimedia CommonsNikola Tesla was obsessed with the number three. Nikola Tesla is alleged to have stated: “If you only knew the magnificence of the 3, 6, and 9, then you would have a key to the universe.” Although it’s uncertain whether the great inventor actually uttered the famous quote, there’s no question he was indeed obsessed by the numbers. What did they mean to him? Why did Tesla think that 3 6 9 were important? It has to do with complicated mathematics and human history. For example: doubling 1, then 2, and so on creates a pattern that excludes 3 6 and 9. Scientist Marko Rodin believes that 3 6 9, then, represents a “flux field” or a vector from the third to the fourth dimension. Threes also appear often in human history. Triangles have three sides — as do pyramids. Trinities abound in human history, as in the “Father, Son, and Holy Ghost”. Tesla himself would point to the trifecta of “energy, frequency, and vibration” which he believed contained the “secrets of the universe.” In his life, Tesla manifested his obsession in numerous ways. He would walk three times around the block before entering the building. Tesla would wash his dishes with 18 napkins (18 is divisible by 9, 6, and 3). The inventor would also only stay in hotel rooms that had a room number divisible by three. At the end of his life, he bounced between cheap hotels. In the end, Nikola Tesla died in room #3327 of The New Yorker Hotel in January 1943. What Does Tesla Have To Do With The 3 6 9 ‘Manifestation Method?’ Today, Tesla’s 3 6 9 theory has new life thanks to an unlikely source: Tik Tok. There, users seek to achieve their goals by using a simple method. They write down what they manifest — like a promotion, for example — three times in the morning, six times in the afternoon, and nine times in the evening. The belief is that this repetition will “manifest” what the person desires, in part because of the special nature of the numbers 3, 6, and 9. It may not be exactly what Nikola Tesla’s envisioned when he obsessed over the three magical numbers — but it’s proof that the power of his ideas hasn’t dimmed. After reading about Nikola Tesla’s 3 6 9 theory, enjoy these 22 fascinating facts about Facts. Or, delve into the strange mystery behind his rumored “death beam.” The post Inside Nikola Tesla’s Fascination With 3, 6, 9 And The Unusual Theories It Spawned appeared first on All That's Interesting.

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