Trumps lawyers admit that Jack Smiths report reveals large scale criminal conspiracy involving Trump, but America shouldn't have to hear that their president is a crook.

https://dailyboulder.com/trumps-lawyers-admit-jack-smiths-report-reveals-evidence-of-large-scale-criminal-conspiracy-involving-trump/

In a surprising admission, Donald Trump’s legal team has conceded that Special Counsel Jack Smith’s final report on the criminal investigations into the former president includes evidence of a large-scale criminal conspiracy involving Trump. The revelation comes as Trump’s lawyers make a last-ditch attempt to block the report’s release.

In a letter sent to Attorney General Merrick Garland on Monday, Trump’s legal team argued that they had a right to review Smith’s findings before they are made public. The report addresses Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents after leaving office and claims he led “unprecedented criminal efforts” to obstruct justice.

Trump’s lawyers specifically acknowledged that Smith’s findings point to Trump being at the center of “criminal conspiracies.” However, they called the report politically motivated, claiming that releasing it would interfere with Trump’s presidential transition. They also argue the report contains “baseless attacks” on other members of Trump’s incoming administration, accusing Smith of trying to disrupt Senate confirmation hearings.

Despite the high-stakes legal battle, Smith is required by law to submit a report detailing his findings. In previous investigations, reports like Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election were made public. However, Trump’s lawyers argue that releasing Smith’s report would be an illegal political stunt designed to harm Trump’s political future.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14267057/Girlfriend-31-slices-partners-penis-night-BDSM-session-turned-increasingly-violent.html

A woman sliced off her partner's penis during a drunken all-night BDSM session that turned increasingly violent.

Alena, 31, had invited Denis, 36, to stay overnight at her flat in war-ravaged resort Mariupol, in Russian-occupied Ukraine. One version from news outlet BAZA is that the supermarket security guard severed his manhood with a knife during a drunken BDSM session.

Neighbours heard what they believed was a furious argument which 'led to the woman using a knife to attack his penis'.

'She saw blood, realised what she had done, and called an ambulance,' reported Mash news outlet.

The man's life was saved by an ambulance crew but his penis could not be rescued.

But BAZA - with links to Russian law enforcement - reported that Alena told police she cut his manhood 'by accident during a BDSM session' rather than during an argument.

The report stated the couple 'indulged in lovemaking all night long'.

'As Alena said, the games became increasingly violent, and at 5am she picked up a knife.

'The amount of alcohol was also increasing with each passing minute.

'In the end, the woman's hand trembled, and she accidentally almost cut off her partner's penis.'

He was rushed to hospital 'but they were unable to save the important organ'.

The report added: 'The police who arrived at the scene confiscated a bloody knife and a leather belt.

'Denis has not yet been interviewed'.

It comes after a woman was arrested in Brazil last year after allegedly chopping off her husband's penis because he was unable to stay aroused during a sexual encounter.

The 48-year-old woman told the Rondonia Military Police that she and her husband had spent the afternoon drinking before she cut off his manhood.

After noticing that he was unable to maintain an erection, the woman went to their kitchen and grabbed a large knife and cut off his limb.

Police in San Francisco identified UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s alleged killer, Luigi Mangione, and alerted the FBI four days before his high-profile arrest, a new report says.

An officer tipped off the feds after recognizing the 26-year-old’s face in surveillance images put out by the NYPD after Thompson was gunned down last week, sources told the San Francisco Chronicle.

https://nypost.com/2024/12/12/us-news/luigi-mangione-was-idd-by-san-francisco-cops-days-before-alleged-unitedhealthcare-ceo-killer-was-arrested-report/

The conservative think tank told prospective donors that the project was part of its work to combat antisemitism
https://forward.com/news/686797/heritage-foundation-wikipedia-antisemitism/

The Heritage Foundation plans to “identify and target” volunteer editors on Wikipedia who it says are “abusing their position” by publishing content the group believes to be antisemitic, according to documents obtained by the Forward.

Employees of Heritage, the conservative think tank that produced the Project 2025 policy blueprint for the second Trump administration, said they plan to use facial recognition software and a database of hacked usernames and passwords in order to identify contributors to the online encyclopedia, who mostly work under pseudonyms. It’s not clear exactly what kind of antisemitism the Wikipedia effort, which has not been previously reported, is intended to address. But in recent months some Jewish groups have complained about a series of changes on the website relating to Israel, the war in Gaza and its repercussions.

In June, a panel of Wikipedia editors declared the Anti-Defamation League a “generally unreliable” source of information about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, limiting when the organization can be cited in Wikipedia articles. And there was an outcry this fall among some Jewish scholars and pro-Israel activists over edits to Wikipedia’s entry for Zionism to add references to “colonization.”

Wikipedia has also recently drawn ire from right-wing figures including Elon Musk, the billionaire who has been by President-elect Trump’s side during much of the transition. Musk posted on X (formerly Twitter) in December: “Stop donating to Wokepedia.”

A Heritage Foundation spokesperson said she was not able to answer questions about the organization’s work related to Wikipedia, which editors it was seeking to identify or how it sought to “target” them. The Wikimedia Foundation, which provides the infrastructure for Wikipedia, declined to comment.

Arkansas Judge declares Act 372 unconstitutional, striking down key provisions of the "harmful to minors" law.

Act 372 targeted librarians and booksellers, threatening jail for shelving "inappropriate" books.

Critics argued the act targeted LGBTQ+ content; Gender Queer became central in the debate.

ACLU hails the ruling as a victory for free speech; AG Tim Griffin plans to appeal the decision.

A federal judge in Arkansas has struck down two provisions of Arkansas' "harmful to minors" law, known as Act 372, and signed by Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders on the 30th of March, 2023, as unconstitutional. Writing in a 23rd of December summary judgment, Judge Timothy Brooks wrote that if the Arkansas legislature's goal was "to protect younger minors from accessing inappropriate sexual content in libraries and bookstores," and that it would "only achieve that end at the expense of everyone else's First Amendment rights… The law deputizes librarians and booksellers as the agents of censorship; when motivated by the fear of jail time, it is likely they will shelve only books fit for young children and segregate or discard the rest."

Section one would have imposed a misdemeanour penalty of up to one year in jail for librarians and booksellers who have books deemed inappropriate on the shelves. Section five would have mandated "a new procedure for libraries, city councils, and county quorum courts to follow when evaluating a citizen's request to move or remove a book from a public library's permanent collection".

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/arkansas-judge-strikes-down-act-372-keeps-gender-queer-on-shelves/

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/diddy-luigi-mangione-jail-new-york-jealous-b2676032.html

Rumors of jailhouse jealousy are coming out of the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, where alleged sex trafficker Sean "Diddy" Combs is reportedly pouting because he's playing second fiddle to suspected health insurance hitman Luigi Mangione.

A source reportedly familiar with the situation told the New York Post that Combs was "throwing tantrums" inside the notorious New York jail because all eyes are on Mangione, at least inside the facility.

Combs is facing charges of sex trafficking, racketeering, and transportation to engage in prostitution. After he was arrested late last year, colorful details of his alleged "freak off" parties — elaborate sex performances involving a whole lot of baby oil and drugs to leash the sex workers hired for the event — were revealed via discovery.

Mangione allegedly shot and killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last month in an attack New York City police believe was targeted. Mangione faces both state and federal charges, which is why he is being held in the federal facility.

The alleged gunman — was arrested while lurking at a McDonald's in Pennsylvania a few days after the shooting — left a manifesto that made clear he was no fan of the health insurance industry in the U.S....

“Diddy has been throwing tantrums over the fact that Luigi is getting all of the attention in prison and is being revered as a hero after literally murdering someone on camera," the source told the paper. “Even in prison, Diddy’s ego is bigger than life."

"He always wants to be the center of everything," the alleged source said. "If he feels like anyone takes his attention, he doesn't take it well. He gets pissed off, and if he has the power to do it, he makes the other person's life miserable."

https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2025/01/Los_Angeles_struggles_to_contain_wildfires
Five wildfires – the biggest of which are the Palisades and the Eaton fires – are still currently burning (as of 10 January 2025) in areas of north Los Angeles. At least 10 people are known to have lost their lives and many more properties have been burnt to the ground.

This image, captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission on 9 January 2025, shows the Palisades fire at lower left and the Eaton fire at upper right, with smoke seen reaching Catalina Island and the Santa Barbara reserve to the south of the fires.

See also the image of 7 Jan just after fires broke out.
>https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2025/01/Los_Angeles_ablaze

Copernicus Sentinel-3 measures Earth’s oceans, land, ice and atmosphere to monitor and understand large-scale global dynamics. It provides essential information in near-real time for ocean and weather forecasting.