Illinois law banning concealed carry on public transit is unconstitutional, judge rules
https://apnews.com/article/illinois-concealed-carry-public-transit-d4fdf2bf8725111103bb2f9777176bb4
this is a major win for mankind and a major defeat for communists and trannies

https://nypost.com/2024/09/04/us-news/nyc-river-water-floods-into-queens-midtown-tunnel-snarling-traffic-and-terrifying-drivers/

https://www.wsmv.com/2024/09/03/tennessee-media-outlet-publishes-presumed-writings-covenant-school-shooter-despite-court-order-sealing-them/

A Comanche Piper airplane crashed outside of Hawthorne Airport in LA County at 1 AM this morning, and burst into flames upon impact.

Gerald "Slink" Johnson, best known as the voice of Lamar Davis from GTA 5, was nearby charging his Tesla and rushed over after hearing the impact.

The 2 passengers are in critical condition, and according to Lamar, the pilot was conscious and on fire, yelling expletives and had a severe head wound and a mangled left leg.

Just another day in Los Santos.


https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/plane-crash-hawthorne-leaves-2-in-critical-condition/3504721/

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZrxfXD6VYwI

https://fortune.com/2024/09/05/donald-trump-truth-social-tmtg-stock-price/
Donald Trump is nearing the day he can cash out of Truth Social’s parent company, raising concerns of a potential sell-off that could hit the meme stock hard.

On paper, Trump’s stake in Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG) is valued at $1.95 billion, which could help cover his mounting legal fines.

However, when he agreed to a reverse merger with Digital World Acquisition Company (DWAC) on March 25, he accepted a six-month lockup period, preventing him from selling his 115 million shares.

Trump owns 59% of TMTG, and any sale could tank the stock unless done in small batches.

With the lockup expiring in three weeks, investors are growing anxious.

Trump’s financial situation appears strained—he’s been selling Trump-themed sneakers, “God Bless the USA” Bibles, and now offering a piece of the suit he wore during his first debate with Joe Biden to collectors who purchase $1,500 worth of digital Trump trading cards.

On Wednesday, TMTG shares fell 6%, closing just below $17. This wipes out all gains for the year, while the S&P 500 has risen 16% over the same period.

TMTG officials did not respond when approached for a statement, while Trump left a Fortune request for comment both on Truth Social and X unanswered.

https://www.axios.com/2024/09/01/workers-retire-career-gen-z-millennial

Increasing numbers of older Americans are putting off retirement, creating career ladder gridlock that is impacting younger workers.

Why it matters: As older workers stay in their jobs longer, their Gen Z and Millennial colleagues are often locked into lower-paying, junior-level roles.

State of play: The share of U.S. adults aged 65 and older in the labor market has steadily increased since the late 1980s.

A 2023 retirement confidence survey from the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) found that 33% of workers planned to retire at age 70 or older, or never. That's up from EBRI's 2021 survey, in which 26% of workers said the same thing.
Declining social security benefits and fewer jobs offering pension plans have contributed to a landscape in which most Americans aren't financially on track for retirement.
People generally are living longer and staying healthier as they age. Both play a role in how older workers remain on the job.

The big picture: This has contributed to a "tricky situation" on the career ladder "because there are only so many jobs to go around, especially at the higher levels," Colleen Paulson, a career consultant, told Axios.

https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/french-man-on-trial-for-drugging-his-wife-letting-strangers-rape-her/

The trial of a horrifying case opened at Avignon’s Court on Monday, September 2nd. A man is on trial for drugging his wife for ten years and subjecting her, without her knowledge, to rape by dozens of strangers. The ordeal endured by this woman for so many years raises many questions.

But there is another element, revealed when Dominique Pénicot was indicted two years ago, which has now been swept under the carpet: the man admitted at the time that he had knowingly handed his wife over to men of various races to “cure her of her racism.” “My wife was racist, but I wasn’t, so I had a black man come, an Arab man… Seeing her with the opposite of her turned me on even more,” he told the experts at the time.

Reality TV host turned convicted felon Donald Trump's third presidential campaign is surrendering in Virginia, New Hampshire, and Minnesota, and focusing entirely on stopping the bleeding in states considered safe red pre-Trump like Georgia, Arizona, and North Carolina

They're hoping this will lead to a less humiliating defeat than the one Trump, the first incumbent to lose his reelection bid in 28 years, suffered in 2020 to Joe Biden

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/sep/05/trump-swing-state-harris

Donald Trump has quietly wound down his presidential campaign in states he was targeting just six weeks ago amid polling evidence showing that Kamala Harris’s entry into the presidential race has put them out of reach and narrowed his path to the White House.

The Republican presidential nominee’s campaign has diverted resources away from Minnesota, Virginia and New Hampshire – states Trump was boasting he could win while Joe Biden was the Democratic candidate – to focus instead on a small number of battleground states.

Money is being poured into the three “blue wall” states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, which were all carried by Biden in 2020 and are seen as vital to the outcome of November’s election.

Special attention is being paid to Pennsylvania, which has 19 electoral college votes, and where a new CNN poll shows Trump and Harris tied at 47% each.

Resources have also been transferred to southern and south-western Sun belt states – namely North Carolina, Georgia Nevada and Arizona – where Trump previously had healthy leads over Biden that have been whittled away since Harris replaced the US president at the top of the Democratic ticket.

Maga Inc, a Trump-supporting Super Pac, has recently spent $16m in adverts in North Carolina as polls have shown Harris close to drawing even in a state the Democrats carried just once in presidential elections since 1980.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/zelenskyy-ukraine-russia-territory-seized-putin-kursk-rcna169280

KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told NBC News on Tuesday that Kyiv is planning to indefinitely hold Russian territories it seized in a surprise incursion last month as it tries to force President Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table.

“We don’t need their land. We don’t want to bring our Ukrainian way of life there,” he said during his first one-on-one interview since Ukraine’s high-stakes incursion into Russia.

Ukraine will “hold” the territory as it is integral to his “victory plan” to end the the war, Zelenskyy said, adding he will present the proposal to international partners like the United States.

“For now, we need it,” he said of the territory Ukraine is now holding in Russia.

Nearly a month ago, Ukrainian troops swept into Russia’s Kursk region in a secret operation that has challenged the status quo of the two-and-a-half-year-old war. Kyiv now claims it controls nearly 500 square miles of Russian territory and has taken hundreds of Russian prisoners of war.

The Aug. 6 incursion was “a pre-emptive strike” to stop the Russians from creating a buffer zone along Ukraine’s border, Zelenskyy said. With Kyiv intensifying its attacks on Russian border regions, Putin has vowed to take Ukrainian border territory to stop the assaults.

Zelenskyy said he couldn't discuss whether Ukraine planned to try to seize more Russian territory.

“I will not tell, I’m sorry,” he said. “With all respect, I can’t speak about it. I think the success is very close to surprise.”

Zelenskyy also told NBC News that the Biden administration was not aware of plans to cross over into Russia ahead of time as it was a closely guarded secret even inside Ukraine.

Washington has repeatedly said it was not in on Kyiv’s plans for Kursk.

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-commuted-sentences-domestic-violence-1948190
A convicted murderer whose sentence was commuted by Donald Trump has been convicted in Florida of an attack on his wife.

Trump commuted Jaime A. Davidson's sentence on January 20, 2021, the former president's last day in office. That month, Trump issued 143 pardons and commutations, including Davidson's. This is the second case of domestic violence by someone released by Trump to have emerged in the last week.

In July 2024, Davidson was sentenced to three months in jail for domestic violence, according to court records obtained by the news site Popular Information. Davidson's reoffending had not been previously reported.

The prosecutor in Davidson's 1990 conviction, John Duncan, objected after hearing that Davidson was released.

"If you ask me for a list of people who nobody should give a presidential commutation to, Davidson would pretty much be at the top of the list," Duncan told The New York Times in 2021.

The story was investigated by Popular Information's editor, Judd Legum.

Davidson was convicted of murdering Wallie Howard Jr., an undercover agent. Howard was shot in Syracuse, New York, and the killer stole $42,000 from him.

Davidson had planned the robbery and given the killer a gun. He was not present when Howard was killed, but prosecutors argued that Howard's death was a reasonably foreseeable consequence of the robbery.

In 1993, Davidson was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

On March 31, 2023, just over two years after Trump released Davidson, he was charged in Orlando, Florida, with battery by strangulation and domestic violence. Davidson was accused of strangling Nayeli Chang, to whom he had been married for five months.

Chang told a subsequent trial that Davidson "grabbed me by the neck with his left hand and choked me." She told him to "let me go because I can't breathe."