Based news: the plebs have begun executing so-called elites in public

>NEW YORK (AP) — UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot and killed Wednesday morning in what police said was a “brazen, targeted attack” outside a Manhattan hotel where the health insurer was holding an investor conference.

>The 50-year-old executive was shot around 6:45 a.m. as he walked alone to the New York Hilton Midtown from a nearby hotel, police said. The gunman appeared to be “lying in wait for several minutes” before approaching Thompson from behind and opening fire, New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said. Police had not yet established a motive.

>“Many people passed the suspect, but he appeared to wait for his intended target,” Tisch said, adding that the shooting “does not appear to be a random act of violence.”

>Thompson was struck at least once in the back and once in the calf, Tisch said. He was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

>The suspect, dressed in a hooded sweatshirt and carrying a distinct gray backpack, then fled on foot down an alleyway before pedaling an e-bike into Central Park a few blocks away. The shooter was at large, sparking a search that included police drones, helicopters and dogs.

https://apnews.com/article/manhattan-shooting-death-daa1e8c8c05606197a5bd2e0242f1683

The big guy just pardoned his son of all criminal convictions. Despite promising that he wouldn't do that.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/president-biden-hunter-pardon-b2657060.html
President Biden issues pardon for son Hunter Biden despite pledging not to do so

Joe Biden has issued a pardon for his son Hunter following his conviction on federal gun charges, despite previously claiming he would not do so.

The president is officially announced the decision on Sunday night, saying that his son had been “selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted” by the Justice Department. In a lengthy statement he he said he hoped the American people would understand the decision as a father.

“Today, I signed a pardon for my son Hunter,” Biden said in a statement. “From the day I took office, I said I would not interfere with the Justice Department’s decision-making, and I kept my word even as I have watched my son being selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted.

“Had the plea deal held, it would have been a fair, reasonable resolution of Hunter’s cases. No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter’s cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son – and that is wrong.

A bunch of leftoids that are being voted out in Romanian elections are crybabies and are blaming social media on their huge defeat. They want the EU to investigate.
Unmoderated social media content is always called "far right" by the left, because most people are centrists, and to the fart huffing left, all the centrists are "far right"
Proving once again that leftism requires strict control over public discussion to be a viable governance structure.
https://www.politico.eu/article/romania-eu-brussels-investigate-tiktok-election-handling-calin-georgescu/
Romania asks EU to investigate TikTok’s election handling after ultranationalist’s stunning win

Romanian officials have alarmed the European Union's powerful social media regulator about irregularities on TikTok during the first round of the national presidential election.

The national media regulator Ancom informed the European Commission as recently as Tuesday that TikTok had "not acted swiftly" to requests to secure the election, it said in a press release.

European Commission spokesperson Thomas Regnier confirmed it had received a request to open "a formal investigation into TikTok's role in the Romanian elections" under its flagship social media law, the Digital Services Act (DSA). "We are closely monitoring developments," Regnier said, adding that the EU "can open proceedings" if it has "evidence at our disposal."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-07/trump-meets-macron-at-elysee-palace-ahead-of-notre-dame-reopen

President-elect Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron held a joint meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Paris on Saturday ahead of the reopening of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame.

Macron had sought the meeting to try to initiate a discussion on ending the war in Ukraine, an official in Macron’s office said. The three leaders posed together for photographers at the Elysee Palace and then met privately.

Zelenskiy called their discussion “good and productive” in a social media post. “We all want this war to end as soon as possible and in a just way,” he added.

The session lasted about a half hour, according to Zelenskiy’s office.

The high-profile meeting in a foreign capital is an unusual step for a US presidential election winner still not in office. Incoming and outgoing US leaders traditionally hew to the idea that the country has only one president at a time, particularly in international affairs.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/07/campaign-spending-crypto-tech-influence

FEC filings offer only a glimpse of the money tech is pouring into Washington as it seeks to influence government

Silicon Valley poured more than $394.1m into the US presidential election this year, according to a Guardian analysis, the bulk of it coming from an enormous donation of about $243m Elon Musk made to Donald Trump’s campaign.

The analysis of new election data from the US Federal Election Commission (FEC) shows the increasingly heavy influence of the tech industry in US elections. Advocates of cryptocurrency were particularly active in this election as they fought to stave off regulation, pumping money into the presidential campaigns and key congressional races.

The donors came from tech’s biggest companies: Google, WhatsApp, LinkedIn and Netflix. Others were powerful venture capitalists who had made billions from investing in tech.

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/top-doctor-in-trans-youth-medicine-sued-for-medical-negligence-by-former-patient/

Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy, the nation’s leading practitioner of transgender youth medicine, faces a medical-negligence lawsuit for the irreversible treatments she administered to a former patient, who has since detransitioned.

Kaya Clementine Breen, 20, alleges Olson-Kennedy, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), and numerous other defendants rushed her into transitioning to a male in spite of her struggles with mental health and history of suffering sexual abuse. The plaintiff’s transgender treatments involved puberty blockers at age 12, cross-sex hormones at 13, and finally a double mastectomy at 14. The complaint was filed Thursday in Los Angeles, where the pediatric hospital is located.

Olson-Kennedy, who serves as medical director of the Center for Transyouth Health and Development at CHLA, allegedly performed no psychological assessment, failed to ask Breen about her past trauma and mental state, and diagnosed gender dysphoria without consulting any other physicians. Furthermore, Olson-Kennedy allegedly did not adequately take into account the detrimental effects that puberty blockers would have on Breen’s bone density.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-tiktok-content-creators-warn-followers-find-them-instagram-youtube-2024-12-07/

American content creators on TikTok asked followers to subscribe to their channels on rival platforms like Meta-owned (META.O) Instagram and Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) YouTube after a federal appeals court ruled that the social media app could be banned if it is not sold to a U.S.-based company by Jan. 19.

TikTok has become a major U.S. digital force as it has grown to 170 million U.S. users, especially younger people drawn to its short, often irreverent videos. It has sucked away advertisers from some of the largest U.S. players and added commerce platform TikTok Shop, which has become a marketplace for small businesses.

The U.S. Congress, fearing TikTok's Chinese owners are gathering information about American consumers, has passed a law requiring its owner, Chinese-backed ByteDance, to divest its TikTok in the U.S. or face a ban. On Friday, a federal appeals court upheld the law.

Threats by politicians and others to TikTok have been building for years, leading some users to brush off recent threats. That appeared to change on Friday, with the prospect of a ban in just six weeks. A Supreme Court appeal is still possible.

"For the first time I'm realizing that a lot of what I worked for could disappear," Chris Mowrey, a Democratic social media influencer with 470,000 TikTok followers, told Reuters. "I don't think it's been talked about enough how damaging it will be from an economic standpoint for small businesses and creators."

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/nyregion/unitedhealthcare-shooting-suspect-gun-silencer.html
>Manhattan Shooter Used a Silencer. Nearly 5 Million Are Registered in the U.S.
>The gunman who killed the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare in Midtown Manhattan on Wednesday morning appeared to have used a silencer, a tightly regulated firearm accessory that has long been associated with Hollywood hit men but is rarely seen in real-life murders.
>“In all of my years of law enforcement, I have never seen a silencer before,” Mayor Eric Adams said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Thursday. “And so that was really something that was shocking to us all.”
weird that this keeps happening specifically when a suppressor deregulation bill comes up. some black guy shot a reporter last time that happened in like 2019. totally not a CIA spook job or anything
oh and its not an assassination because the ceo wasn't a political figure and it wasn't a murder because (((bankers))) aren't people