https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13845387/tim-walz-eating-cats-taylor-swift-michigan.html

New Yahoo News/YouGov poll: After debate, Harris surges to 5-point lead over Trump among registered voters in head-to-head matchup
Harris’s lead, her biggest yet, is similar among likely voters and when third-party candidates are included
Andrew Romano
Andrew Romano
Updated Sat, September 14, 2024 at 4:39 PM EDT
6 min read

https://www.yahoo.com/news/new-yahoo-newsyougov-poll-after-debate-harris-surges-to-5-point-lead-over-trump-among-registered-voters-in-head-to-head-matchup-122213811.html

A strong performance in Tuesday’s debate has boosted Vice President Kamala Harris to her biggest lead yet over former President Donald Trump, according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll.

In previous Yahoo News/YouGov polls — one following last month’s Democratic National Convention and one released immediately after the vice president entered the race on July 21 — Harris and Trump were effectively tied. Harris’s best showing was a narrow 47% to 46% edge in August.

But the new poll of 1,755 U.S. adults — one of the first conducted after the Sept. 10 debate — shows Harris (50%) surging to a five-point lead over Trump (45%) among registered voters in a head-to-head matchup. She leads by a similar margin when third-party candidates are included (48% to 44%) and when only likely voters are surveyed (49% to 45%).

https://www.newsweek.com/venezuelan-gang-colorado-tren-de-aragua-immigrants-1952375
fucking weird, I thought chinese shills with D's next to their names and chinese shills on /news/ said they didn't exist?
by the way, these illegal alien gang members who aren't real are also wanted for using minors to smash and grab shop lift multiple gun stores in the area

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/sep/13/neil-gaiman-screen-adaptations-halted-after-allegations-of-sexual-misconduct

what a jerk
https://abc11.com/post/javion-magee-death-henderson-nc-investigation-not-lynching-vance-county-sheriff-says-despite-reports-hanging/15299573/

>SHANKSVILLE, Pa. (TND) — President Joe Biden briefly wore a “Trump 2024” hat while visiting the Shanksville, Pa. Volunteer Fire Department on the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

White House senior deputy press secretary Andrew Bates wrote on social media Biden had shared a message recallingthe “bipartisan unity” in post-9/11 America. He then called for Americas to return to this spirit with the approach of the election.

“As a gesture, [Biden] gave a hat to a Trump supporter who then said that in the same spirit, POTUS should put on his Trump cap,” Bates wrote. “He briefly wore it.”

The Trump campaign quickly seized on a picture from the event, writing “thanks for the support, Joe!”

“Kamala did so bad in last night's debate, Joe Biden just put on a Trump hat,” the campaign wrote in a separate post. A video of Biden putting on the hat spread quickly on social media.
https://mynbc15.com/news/nation-world/biden-wears-trump-2024-hat-at-pennsylvania-fire-station-to-promote-unity-harris-donald-joe-white-house-election-september-11-attacks-memorial-shanksville-pa-planes

MAGA shills who claimed Trump wasn't calling Nazis Very Fine People just got BTFO again.

https://www.npr.org/2024/09/12/nx-s1-5107435/trump-capitol-riot-antisemitic-bedminster

Twice this past summer, Donald Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, N.J. has featured speeches from a rioter convicted of participating in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, who has a well-documented history of extreme antisemitic and racist rants.

One of those events — a fundraiser for a controversial nonprofit group that supports Capitol riot defendants — was personally endorsed by Trump himself in a video message that was played for the room.

“All of the people there, you’re amazing patriots,” Trump said in the video. “Have a great time at Bedminster.”

As part of his criminal case over Jan. 6, federal prosecutors described the rioter, Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, as a “white supremacist and Nazi sympathizer,” who told his coworkers at a naval weapons station that “Hitler should have finished the job” and “babies born with any deformities or disabilities should be shot in the forehead.”

Court filings featured multiple pictures of Hale-Cusanelli at work with a “Hitler mustache.” A lengthy online video he posted in 2020 attacked what he called a “Hasidic Jewish invasion” of New Jersey and compared orthodox Jews to a “plague of locusts.”

According to reporting in the Asbury Park Press and Gothamist, Hale-Cusanelli antagonized a Jewish man in Ocean County, N.J. online prior to Jan. 6. Both news organizations reported that Hale-Cusanelli published the man’s address on social media and indicated that he would go to his house on the Sabbath, though no charges were filed.

In response to NPR’s reporting, Jewish organizations raised concerns about Hale-Cusanelli’s appearances at Trump’s golf club.

Ohio leaders dismiss claims of migrants eating pets

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj35kk42k5vo

Leaders in the US state of Ohio are trying to douse baseless claims that Haitian immigrants in a town there have been eating residents' pets as food.

The allegations carried in right-wing media were amplified by Donald Trump at his presidential debate with Kamala Harris on Tuesday.

"This is something that came up on the internet, and the internet can be quite crazy sometimes," Ohio Governor Mike DeWine said on Thursday. Trump repeated the false claims again at a rally in Arizona soon after.

On Tuesday, a parent in the town of Springfield accused Republicans of politically exploiting his son's death in a crash caused by a Haitian migrant.

Authorities say some 15,000 migrants of Haitian origin have resettled over the past couple of years in Springfield, a south-western Ohio town with a population of less than 60,000 people.

Some local residents have expressed frustration over the influx, saying the newcomers are straining city resources, from housing to healthcare.

In recent weeks unsubstantiated claims have surfaced on social media that the migrants are abducting and eating animals, from pet cats and dogs to park ducks.

Trump, his running mate JD Vance, the world's richest man Elon Musk and other conservatives have amplified the reports.

But Springfield Mayor Rob Rue said on Tuesday that "we have not been able to verify any credible reports or specific claims of pets being harmed, injured or abused by individuals within the immigrant community".

"The news story regarding a cat being killed or consumed did not originate in Springfield," he added. "It actually involved a Canton woman who was arrested for animal cruelty last month."

Canton is an Ohio city north-east of Springfield.

"I think we go with what the mayor says," Governor DeWine told CBS on Wednesday. "He knows his city."

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/09/13/congress/house-centrists-vow-to-certify-2024-election-00178945

If he loses the 2024 presidential election, former President Donald Trump will likely lobby House Republicans to refuse to certify the results.

This was not as much of a problem in 2020 when Democrats held the majority of seats, but with Republicans now holding a narrow majority, it could become a legitimate issue.

However, Politico reports that a bipartisan group of House lawmakers have banded together to jointly pledge to certify the results of the 2024 presidential election, and the group so far includes six House Republicans.

This means that, should these six Republicans keep their pledge to certify a win for Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump's allies would be unable to block the certification of the election given the current numbers in the House of Representatives.

The bipartisan group, which was organized by centrist Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) and Don Bacon (R-NE), also includes Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Mike Lawler (R-NY), Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-OR), Nick LaLota (R-NY) and Anthony D’Esposito (R-NY).

Bacon said that the group's pledge was a reflection of traditional American values.

“In America we respect election results especially once the courts and appeals work through the process,” he said. “We fight hard to win during campaigns and then respect the results when the votes are counted.”

For more than two centuries, the United States enjoyed a peaceful transfer of power between presidential administrations until 2020, when Trump pushed his allies to refuse to certify the election results, lobbied the Georgia secretary of state to "find" votes for him, pressured his vice president to unilaterally reject certified election results, and then sent an angry mob to the United States Capitol, where they fought with police, broke into the building, and ransacked offices.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/muhammad-shahzeb-khan-terror-new-york-ormstown-1.7322700

Muhammad Shahzeb Khan was arrested along with three other individuals in Ormstown, Que., on Wednesday, September 4 after travelling from his home in Toronto.

Ormstown is about 20 kilometres north of the U.S.-Canadian border.

Canadian authorities report they received information from their U.S. counterparts indicating Khan was involved in a conspiracy to stage a shooting attack on an unspecified location in Brooklyn where he expected to find large numbers of Orthodox Jews.

The FBI alleges the attack had been set for October 7 — the first anniversary of the Hamas massacre in Israel.

Khan did not appear in court this morning. A Crown prosecutor told the court that Canada has not yet received details of the FBI case against him and the prosecution was not ready to proceed.

Under the terms of the Canada-U.S. extradition treaty, American authorities have 60 days from the date of arrest to provide evidence supporting an extradition request. Canada has 30 days to review the evidence and decide to either issue an "authority to proceed" or deny extradition.

Canada can deny an extradition request for an individual and still file charges domestically.

The RCMP arrested Khan on three charges under the Criminal Code: attempting to leave Canada to commit an offence for a terrorist group, participating in the activities of a terrorist group, and conspiracy to commit an offence by violating United States immigration law (by entering or attempting to enter the United States unlawfully).

Khan was then rearrested under a provisional arrest warrant pursuant to the Extradition Act — which suggests that Canadian authorities intend to go the extradition route.