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The Florida teen who brutally hit his high school teacher unconscious after she confiscated his Nintendo has been sentenced to five years in prison.

Representative Cori Bush was defeated in Missouri’s 1st Congressional District primary on Tuesday, making her the second member of the far-left “Squad” to lose a 2024 Democratic primary. 

Gov. Walz and his family are to the left of Marxist Kamala Harris. Walz’s daughter Hope is a Marxist activist who helped spark the Minneapolis riots by telling the radicals her father was not going to call in the National Guard right away. Then she tweeted the Guard positions so the rioting communists and anarchists […] The post The American Communist: Gov. Tim Walz appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Minnesota, under Democratic Gov. Tim Walz, prioritized non-white residents for COVID-19 treatments during the pandemic. In Minnesota, an “ethical framework” prioritized black 18-year-olds over elderly whites, even though the elderly were at a much higher risk of severe complications due to COVID, the Free Beacon reported in January 2022. The racial discrimination stemmed from the FDA’s guidance when authorizing monoclonal antibodies and oral antivirals for emergency use. The FDA only authorized these treatments for “high risk” patients, and included race as a factor determining someone to be “high risk.” As the Free Beacon noted in 2022: The FDA “fact sheet” for Sotrovimab, the only monoclonal antibody effective against the Omicron variant, states that “race or ethnicity” can “place individual patients at high risk for progression to severe COVID-19.” The fact sheet for Paxlovid, Pfizer’s new antiviral pill, uses the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s definition of “high risk,” which states that “systemic health and social inequities” have put minorities “at increased risk of getting sick and dying from COVID-19.” Even though the guidance is nonbinding, several states used it to justify race-based triage to the detriment of those at a higher risk of dying from COVID-19. Minnesota, for example, explicitly cited the FDA as the reason it prioritized lower-risk minorities over higher-risk white people. “The FDA has acknowledged that in addition to certain underlying health conditions, race and ethnicity ‘may also place individual patients at high risk for progression to severe COVID-19,’” Minnesota’s racial triage plan states. “FDA’s acknowledgment means that race and ethnicity alone, apart from other underlying health conditions, may be considered in determining eligibility for [monoclonal antibodies].” The FDA said race may be considered, but it never said race should be the priority when determining who should get treatment. Unsurprisingly, even though men were approximately 50% more likely to die from COVID than women – according to research from the Brookings Institution – sex was not included as a risk factor in the FDA guidance. As the Free Beacon noted, the triage in Minnesota gave non-white patients two points when determining risk, whereas comorbidities like “hypertension in a patient 55 years and older” were only worth one point. The policy followed others in Minnesota, which are getting renewed attention after Vice President Kamala Harris chose Walz as her running mate. Another policy Walz implemented was a COVID hotline that allowed Minnesotans to snitch on their neighbors for violating lockdown orders. The hotline generated thousands of reports – against people playing basketball, walking their dogs, or attending church, local outlet Alpha News reported in 2022. Walz’s administration continued to monitor the hotline until November 2020, though it remained operational until June 2022.

A Pakistani national with what FBI Director Christopher Wray called “close ties to Iran” was arrested and charged with orchestrating a scheme to reportedly assassinate former President Trump as well as other government officials. According to court documents, in April 2024, Asif Merchant, 46, who revealed he has a wife and children in both Iran and Pakistan, came to the U.S. after spending time in Iran. He contacted someone about his alleged scheme; that person, who became a confidential source (CS), then contacted the FBI. In early June in New York, Merchant met the CS and outlined his alleged plot to commit a series of assassinations in the U.S. WATCH THE TRAILER FOR ‘AM I RACIST?’ — A MATT WALSH COMEDY ON DEI “Merchant explained that his plot involved multiple criminal schemes: (1) stealing documents or USB drives from a target’s home; (2) planning a protest; and (3) killing a politician or government official,” the Department of Justice stated. “Merchant stated that the assassination would occur after he left the United States and he would communicate with the CS from overseas using code words. The CS asked whether Merchant had spoken to the unidentified ‘party’ back home with whom Merchant was working. Merchant responded that he had and that the party back home told him to ‘finalize’ the plan and leave the United States.” On June 21, Merchant met with undercover U.S. law enforcement officers in New York, giving them $5,000 in advance. “After Merchant paid the $5,000 to the UCs, one of the UCs stated, ‘now we’re bonded,’ to which Merchant responded ‘yes.’ The UC then stated ‘Now we know we’re going forward. We’re doing this,’ to which Merchant responded ‘Yes, absolutely,’” the DOJ stated. Merchant was arrested on July 12, 2024, the day he planned to leave the country. An attempted assassination against former President Trump was attempted on July 13. No evidence has yet been offered to connect that event with Merchant.