Cori Bush sworn in, becomes first Black woman to represent Missouri in Congress
ST. LOUIS – Cori Bush, a former community organizer, was sworn into the 177th Congress on Sunday, becoming the first Black woman to represent Missouri, as well as the state’s first registered nurse to serve in Congress.
Missouri’s newest congresswoman says her movement made this moment happen, and they will only continue making history.
Rep. Bush wants to make sure she’s spending all of her time creating and fighting for meaningful legislation in the House of Representatives.
Bush says her victory is not only a personal achievement but for St. Louis and for every member of the movement. She says she’s the first person from the movement fighting for Black lives to be elected to Congress.
“Right now, Congress is not made up of many ordinary people like me — but we are changing that,” she said. “I’m a nurse, pastor, single mom, and Ferguson-made activist who has lived the struggles of my community. I’m ready to put regular, everyday people first, with solutions that are long overdue.
“Today is day one, and I am already getting to work to stop America from being led by the small-mindedness of a powerful few. We are ushering in a moment led by the imagination of a mass movement that includes all of us. I am working for all people.
“Together, we will use this seat to fight for real investment into social safety nets and social, political, and economic systems that actually work for all of us. We will protect Black lives by enacting meaningful and impactful criminal-legal reform while eradicating targeted, hateful discrimination that has hurt communities across this county, including my own.
“Change does not come from the halls of Congress unless we bring it here ourselves — and we’re bringing change to the 117th Congress.
“Let’s make some good trouble,” said Bush, echoing the spirit of the late Congressman John Lewis of Georgia.
via: https://fox2now.com/news/cori-bush-sworn-in-becomes-first-black-woman-to-represent-missouri-in-congress/
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4-month-old girl dies after family dog found resting on top of her
A 4-month-old baby girl may have been accidentally suffocated by the family puppy in Florida, authorities said.
Little Raelynn Larrison was found unconscious by her father, who’d noticed the puppy resting on top of her at around 7 p.m. in their Dayton home, WRGT reported.
The infant’s father frantically called 911 and told dispatchers, “The puppy was lying on her and I just now noticed it,” according to a recording of the call obtained by the outlet.
“She’s not breathing. My baby ain’t breathing,” the father continued, according to the Dayton Daily News.
Raelynn was taken to Dayton Children’s Hospital where she was pronounced dead.
Police are investigating the tot’s cause of death.
Family members seeking funeral expenses on GoFundMe called the death an “unexpected tragedy.”
via: https://nypost.com/2021/01/02/4-month-old-girl-dies-after-family-dog-was-found-on-top-of-her/
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Nancy Pelosi’s home vandalized with graffiti, pig head
The backlash to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s handling of the coronavirus stimulus bill could be hitting close to home — literally.
On Friday, photos surfaced on social media and TMZ showing graffiti on a San Francisco garage door purportedly at the home of the Democratic congressional leader. The apparently spray-painted message read “$2K” with a line through it.
“Cancel Rent?” “We want everything!” Another line appeared to read “UBI!” referring to the concept of universal basic income.
A spokesman for the San Francisco Police Department told Fox News that officers responded to the reported vandalism around 2 a.m. Friday. “Unidentified suspect(s) had painted graffiti on the garage door and left a pig’s head on the sidewalk,” they said.
They said the scene was in the 2600 block of Broadway, but did not confirm who owned the home or if anyone was there at the time.
According to KRON, the MyNetworkTV affiliated station in San Francisco, the messages have been covered up and fake blood on the ground was removed.
It’s unclear whether the police have any suspects, but the graffiti included two letter A’s with circles around them, the mark typically associated with anarchism.
The incident underscored ongoing tensions surrounding coronavirus relief.
Congress continued into the new year without compromise after months of stalled negotiations. While President Trump and Democrats have insisted on $2,000 stimulus checks, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., rejected those as “socialism for rich.”
via: https://nypost.com/2021/01/01/nancy-pelosis-home-vandalized-with-graffiti-pig-head-reports/
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Former church pastor now makes $100K a month as life-coaching stripper
Nikole Mitchell ditched her life as a pastor in Ohio three years ago and now lives in California, making a living in the sex industry.
Mitchell, a mom of three who describes herself as a “Pastor-turned-Stripper/Life Coach/ Model” on her Instagram account that boasts 120,000 followers, charges $15 a month for a sexy subscription on her OnlyFans account and for Zoom sessions. She now makes $100,000 a month – eclipsing her former saintly salary – and had a helluva 2020, according to the Sun.
In a New Year’s Eve post that featured her in skimpy lingerie, Mitchell wrote: I just wrapped up another TV segment (thank you Fox26!), and I am just in AWE of all the dreams that have come true this year.”
Among her blessings, Mitchell wrote were “going viral,” “being sought out as a life coach expert on TV,” “being reached out to by celebrities and stars who want to connect and collaborate” and “having producers and bookers reach out to ME! (usually it’s the opposite).”
This while “in a pandemic, going through a divorce, and having 3 kiddos at home.”
Mitchell, who adds her “dreams came true,” became disillusioned with Christianity after mentions of her mixed-race heritage and bisexuality were edited out of sermons leading her to quit her church in 2017.
“I didn’t get where I am today by playing small, holding back, or keeping my dreams to myself,” Mitchell wrote. “I put myself out there, I shared my dreams with my inner circle (even when I was embarrassed at how big they were/are!) and invested in support. THAT’S how I got where I am today.”
In subsequent posts featuring topless and bottomless shots, Mitchell exhorts her fans to follow their dreams – and contact her for one on one sessions via direct messaging.
via: https://nypost.com/2021/01/02/ex-church-pastor-makes-100k-a-month-as-life-coach-stripper/
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Unhinged Staten Island man cuts off his penis, flushes it down toilet
A mentally ill Staten Island man cut off his penis and threw it in the toilet, officials said Thursday.
First responders were called to the home on Main St. near Arthur Kill Road in Tottenville about 11:45 a.m. Wednesday by the 50-year-old victim’s roommate.
The roommate had found the victim in the bathroom with a deep gash to his right arm, officials said.
When medics arrived, they realized that the arm wound was self inflicted, cops said. The bathroom was covered in blood.
The victim told medics he had not only mutilated his arm — he had cut off his penis off as well.
The man, who suffers from schizophrenia and was off his medication, told first responders he had thrown his severed genitalia in the toilet. The body part couldn’t be found, leading police to believe he had flushed it.
Medics rushed him to Staten Island University Hospital North, where he was expected to recover.
via: https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-staten-island-man-cuts-off-penis-20201231-ecztcbvur5hend6wmdy3qkk2fe-story.html
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Dr. Drew Pinsky, who apologized for downplaying coronavirus, says he has Covid-19
(CNN) — Dr. Drew Pinsky has Covid-19.
He shared the news on his Instagram but says he’s on the mend.
“Thanks for checking in on me, I appreciate all the kind shout-outs,” he said in a video. “Covid is no fun. I don’t recommend it.”
Previously, the doctor had called the pandemic “press-induced” but later apologized.
He went on to say that he has been sick for six days and that after a false negative result, he eventually tested positive.
The former CNN host of “Dr. Drew” also posted several videos in which he discussed taking bamlanivimab and dexamethasone. Bamlanivimab received an emergency use authorization from the US Food and Drug Administration in early November.
According to the FDA, monoclonal antibodies should be given as soon as possible after symptoms emerge and a person tests positive for infection.
via: https://www.kmov.com/dr-drew-pinsky-who-apologized-for-downplaying-coronavirus-says-he-has-covid-19/article_ad4a662a-1dbf-5edb-8a6d-1c4e6f7ea35d.html
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Fake teen doctor arrested for fraud again in Palm Beach County
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — It’s a case that made national headlines. A teenager posing as a doctor, none other than “Dr. Love.”
Malachi Love-Robinson is now 23 years old, but it appears he may have been up to some of his old tricks.
Love-Robinson was arrested for fraud and grand theft on Thursday morning. He was released on Thursday night.
Police said Love-Robinson worked for a shipping broker, and he’s accused of having clients send money to his personal account instead of the company.
Authorities say Love-Robinson took over $10,000 that belonged to the company.
According to police, in text messages to the owner of the company Love-Robinson wrote he “f***ed himelf,” “can’t say how truly sorry he is,” is “doing everything [he] can to make it right” and “I don’t want to go to jail.”
In 2018, Love-Robinson pleaded guilty to several fraud charges, grand theft and practicing medicine without a license.
His patients say he claimed he held several degrees, including a Ph.D. and a M.D. What his patients didn’t realize was that he was just 18 years old.
Love-Robinson was charged with stealing more than $20,000 from an elderly Palm Beach County patient he was allegedly treating in 2015.
He was later charged and arrested on grand theft charges in February 2016.
Love-Robinson insisted he never posed as a medical doctor, but was a naturopathic physician.
He was released from prison after serving nearly 21 months at a maximum security lockup outside Fort Myers.
via: https://www.wptv.com/news/region-c-palm-beach-county/fake-teen-doctor-arrested-for-fraud-again-in-palm-beach-county
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Florida mom whose 1-year-old son died when a friend left the tot in a hot car wants the state’s governor to intervene, saying she doesn’t understand why prosecutors dropped charges in the case
Makia Wallace, a 34-year-old corrections officer in Orange County, first met 35-year-old Dougkindra Wallace while in high school. Makia later started paying her friend $80 monthly to take her son, Jace Lucas Leslie, to and from day care in Pine Hills due to her 12-hour shifts, the Orlando Sentinel reported.
The arrangement worked for almost a year for the women – who are not related – until Sept. 11, when Dougkindra found the boy dead in her back seat after leaving him in her car before going to her job as a third-grade teacher at Rolling Hills Elementary School.
After dropping her own son with a babysitter, Dougkindra got on a call and drove to her job instead of dropping off Jace at day care – the result of her being “likely distracted,” according to an arrest warrant affidavit.
More than seven hours later, after the heat index surged as high as 105 degrees, Dougkindra left work and drove to a student’s house before heading to Jace’s daycare, where she discovered the boy dead — still buckled in his rear-facing car seat, the newspaper reported.
Dougkindra later surrendered to cops, but prosecutors ended up dropping the felony charges she faced — aggravated manslaughter and child neglect – in October, saying they didn’t have enough evidence of negligence, the Sentinel reported.
“All I’m asking for is justice,” an emotional Makia Wallace told the newspaper. “I’m refusing to be silent for my baby.”
The grieving mom said she has reached out to Gov. Ron DeSantis to get involved in the case. She also tried to reach an incoming prosecutor in the hopes that lesser charges can be filed against her former friend, according to the report.
State Attorney Aramis Ayala, whose terms ends next week, told the newspaper her office could not proceed with prosecuting Dougkindra despite the “horrific” facts of Jace’s death.
“This is an extremely sad and tragic case,” Ayala said. “… Although the Defendant clearly owed the victim a duty of care, breached that duty, and caused the victim’s death — this is the definition of simple negligence, a tort — not a crime.”
Staffers for DeSantis did respond to a request for comment, according to the report, although Makia Wallace said she had been told by his office he would not get involved unless a conflict of interest was found.
Makia, meanwhile, said she celebrated what would have been her son’s second birthday earlier this month and vowed to not stop fighting on his behalf.
“I just reflect back on every time Jace has brought me the jot and the love that I feel,” she told the Sentinel. “Every day, I wake up and I have to fight – fight for justice for my baby.”
Jace was one of 24 children who died in hot cars this year, according to Jannette Fennell, president and founder of KidsAndCars.org, who noted inconsistent prosecution of the tragic deaths nationwide.
“You’ll see cases that have an almost identical type of situation, and they’re treated extremely differently,” Fennell told the newspaper.
via: https://nypost.com/2020/12/31/florida-mom-vows-to-fight-for-charges-in-sons-hot-car-death/
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Sex offender, 38, ‘spent hours glued to child porn on AT&T store iPad’ until horrified workers called police
A convicted sex offender has been slapped with charges that he looked at child porn on an iPad in a cell phone store in Boulder, Colorado, Crime Online reports.
Sex offender, Nathan Wood, 38, pleaded not guilty to charges of perusing child porn in the AT&T store.
He was charged with offenses that include sexual exploitation of a child and attempted sexual exploitation of a child for the April 18 incident in the store.
Wood was allegedly glued to the iPad for hours.
Authorities alleged Wood used an iPad at the store for four hours before leaving.
Finally, after the store closed, employees of the store searched the browser history of the iPad that the sex offender had commandeered and found shocking evidence of his porn browsing.
Wood had allegedly been visiting dark-web child porn sites.
According to Newsbreak, both of the charges against the sex offender for allegedly looking at child porn in the store are felonies.
Wood is being tried in Boulder District Court.
Nathan Wood, 38, pleaded not guilty Tuesday in Boulder District Court to sexual exploitation of a child and attempted sexual exploitation of a child, both felonies.
When police officers got their hands on the iPad that the sex offender had used at the store, allegedly to look at child porn, they found German phrases that allegedly amounted to search terms for images of nude children.
Wood also apparently visited sites that showed underage victims being sexually assaulted.
Prior to the offending alleged incident with the alleged child porn in the store, Wood was convicted in 2012 in Boulder County for sexual assault and burglary.
He had stolen women’s clothing from bathrooms in female dormitories at the University of Colorado and also assaulted a woman acquaintance as she slept in such a dorm. This led to charges of trespassing for starters, according to a CBS affiliate KCNC Denver report directly following the 2011 incident.
Authorities arrested 29-year-old Nathan Wood on charges of sexual assault, four counts of trespass, three counts of burglary and three counts of theft.
Wood was sentenced to six years in prison plus two years of work release and supervised probation for that offense.
After the incident with the alleged child porn in the store, Boulder cops relied on surveillance footage to track down the sex offender.
The sex offender promptly confessed to looking at porn in the store, but denied that any of it featured children, investigators alleged. He also attempted to deny ever looking up German search terms for child porn, claiming that he must have gotten his German mixed up.
According to Denver Post sister newspaper The Boulder Daily Camera, Wood’s trial is slated for May.
via: https://knewz.com/sex-offender-porn-store/?utm_source=nypost
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Miya Ponsetto, 22, identified as accuser in Keyon Harrold Jr. case
A white woman from California is the suspect wanted by cops in the latest headline-grabbing case of bogus accusations allegedly leveled against an innocent black person, The Post has learned.
Miya Ponsetto, 22, was identified by NYPD sources as the woman caught on camera falsely accusing the 14-year-old son of jazz trumpeter Keyon Harrold of stealing her iPhone.
Photos posted online with Ponsetto’s name also appear to match the young woman who melted down in the lobby of the Arlo Hotel in Manhattan’s Soho neighborhood and tackled Keyon Harrold Jr. in a vestibule.
“No, I’m not letting him walk away with my phone!” she shrieked at one point, according to a video clip posted online by the elder Harrold.
On Wednesday night, NYPD Chief of Detectives Rodney Harrison tweeted a montage of surveillance video clips that also included a shot of the woman’s face with the word “WANTED” under it in red letters.
Harrison said the NYPD “is requesting the public’s assistance locating the suspect in this video,” who he said “falsely accused an innocent 14-year-old teenager of stealing her cellphone,,,then proceeded to physically attack him and fled the location.”
Public records show there’s only one person with the name Miya Ponsetto in the US.
That person is 22 and has a last known address in Sun Valley, Calif.
She’s also associated with an address in Simi Valley, Calif., that appears to be her former family home.
CNN has reported that it interviewed the woman involved in Saturday’s incident and said that she’s 22 years old.
The cable network didn’t identify her further, saying that “she said she has concerns for her safety unrelated to this incident.”
The photos of Miya Ponsetto posted online include two professional shots of a varsity cheerleader at Simi Valley High School in California from the 2015-2016 school year.
Those pictures were available for purchase until The Post inquired about them, after which they were first listed as “not for sale,” then blocked from being viewed without a password.
Ponsetto doesn’t appear to have a phone number listed in her name and didn’t immediately respond to messages sent to email addresses linked to her through public records.
Messages left at two phone numbers listed in her father’s name weren’t immediately returned.
Other numbers listed in the names of other family members either weren’t answered or were answered by people who said they weren’t her relatives.
via: https://nypost.com/2020/12/31/miya-ponsetto-22-identified-as-accuser-in-keyon-harrold-jr-case/
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