Hampton GOP Chairman Philip Siff spoke with WAVY News 10 Friday morning confirming the call for David Dietrich’s resignation.

On Wednesday, I was arrested for locking myself onto an entrance to the JP Morgan Chase building in downtown LA. I can’t stand by – and nor should you

Republicans’ race to take back the House and Senate has taken the strangest twist. The party has decided to make the midterms all about wild accusations surrounding pedophilia. That would be an unusual strategy under any circumstances, but truly bizarre considering the folks in politics most-associated with pedophilia are all Republicans.

The schlock peddler and showman goes deep on "devil-worshipping conglomerates," more than 50 years of cult classic—and those reviews in The A.V. Club

A violent anti-gay trope is getting mainstream GOP acceptance.

#RIPJoeRogan has become one of Twitter’s longest running and most popular jokes. But it all began back in 2014 with a meandering fake obituary written by a shitposter supreme

Big cities in California spent large portions of their federal Covid relief money on police departments, a review of public records has revealed, with several cities prioritizing police funding by a wide margin.

The Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general and his top aides directed staff members to remove damaging findings from investigative reports on domestic violence and sexual misconduct by officers in the department’s law enforcement agencies, according to documents obtained by The New York Times and two government officials familiar with the inquiries. One investigation found that more than 10,000 employees of Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Secret Service and the Transportation Security Administration had experienced sexual harassment or sexual misconduct at work — more than one-third of those surveyed, according to an unpublished draft report dated December 2020. The draft report also described a pattern of the agencies using cash payments, with payouts as high as $255,000, to settle sexual harassment complaints without investigating or disciplining the perpetrators. But senior officials in the inspector general’s office objected to that finding, suggesting in written comments that it be removed from the report, which has never been published. The inspector general, Joseph V. Cuffari, also directed his staff to remove parts of another draft report showing internal investigations had found that dozens of officers working at the agencies had committed domestic violence, but that they had received “little to no discipline.” Mr. Cuffari also wanted a section removed that said the agencies had “put victims and the public at risk of further violence” by allowing the perpetrators to keep their firearms; including such findings, he wrote in an internal memo, would make his office look like it was “second-guessing D.H.S. disciplinary decisions without full facts.” The internal documents were first obtained by the Project on Government Oversight, an independent watchdog group in Washington. The organization brought the information to The Times, which confirmed its authenticity with two government officials familiar with the investigations. The draft report on sexual misconduct notes that fieldwork for the inquiry ended in October 2019, but the agency has not published the findings.

Conservative state lawmakers across the country are considering new legislation that would bar teachers from introducing concepts of sexual orientation or gender identity to young students, imitating a new Florida law that opponents have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. Lawmakers in Ohio and Louisiana have filed legislation that mimics the Florida law, signed last month by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R). In Texas, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R), who controls the state Senate, said he would make his state’s version of the bill a top priority in the next legislative session. The specifics of the measures vary between states, but they largely contain provisions that mirror the Florida law. The bills would bar schools from using curriculum that includes topics about sexual orientation and gender identity. The Louisiana version would bar educators and school employees from discussing their own sexual orientation or gender identity with any student through 12th grade.

We live in an era when labor is losing ground to capital. Traditionally, labor income accounted for about 70 percent of national income and capital about 30 percent. Now they’re very nearly even, with labor’s share down to about 57 percent in the United States, according to a 2019 paper by McKinsey. Capital is gobbling up more dollars even as its taxes go down; in 2018, the Berkeley economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman reported in their book The Triumph of Injustice, the average effective tax rate on capital was, for the first time in U.S. history, lower than the average effective tax rate on labor. This is a twenty-first-century phenomenon. Income inequality has been rising since the late 1970s, but the decline in labor’s share and the corresponding rise in capital’s share started about 20 years ago. Before 2000, we knew that rising income inequality was a problem, but we could comfort ourselves that this was driven by a divergence in labor income. We were not becoming a nation of coupon-clipping Bertie Woosters. We can’t tell ourselves that anymore. Since 2000, according to a May 2018 paper by Thomas Piketty, Saez, and Zucman, the main driver of income inequality has been rising capital income. We are becoming a nation of coupon-clipping Bertie Woosters. Or perhaps I should say a nation of Basil Fawlty–style rentiers—people who earn money solely through the rising value of their property. (For these purposes, please ignore that Basil Fawlty works the front desk of the hotel he owns.) Real estate, it turns out, plays an outsize role in capital displacing labor income, accounting for fully 15 percent of the rise in its share of national income since the start of this century, according to the McKinsey report. Only wholesale and retail (looking at you, Jeff Bezos) outpaced real estate. It used to be that people owned houses. Now their houses own them. The latest data point of interest is a recent study by Zillow of growth in the housing market in 2021. It probably doesn’t surprise you that home prices rose faster than income. Employers are in a panic because average hourly wages rose 4.7 percent in 2021, but that’s chump change compared to the 19.6 percent rise in the value of a typical house. Still, that’s an old story. What Zillow reported was new: In 2021, houses earned more money than people. In 2021 the median rise in home values was $52,667; the median wage for a full-time worker was about $50,000. As The Wall Street Journal put it: “Homes Earned More for Owners Than Their Jobs.” That’s never happened before in the U.S.

‘It's a foolish and pointless policy being done at a poor time, and being handled without real guarantee of our safety.’

Former Baltimore Police Sergeant Keith Gladstone admitted on Tuesday to stealing money, cocaine and a gun during his testimony as a witness for the U.S. government in a case against one of his previous subordinates.

Jurors in Nancy Crampton Brophy's murder trial are unlikely to hear about her 2011 essay, in which she wrote that she thinks a lot about murder because she’s a romantic suspense writer.

i’d live to slap this motherfucker right in the chops

Ubisoft is promising "future drops" in other games.

The required minimum amount of direct “nursing” care that nursing home residents receive will drop by 20%, according to legislation that Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law Wednesday. DeSantis signed HB 1239, along with 41 other bills, into law Wednesday evening. The legislation will take effect July 1. In signing the bill, the Governor brushed aside criticism from advocates for the elderly who said it puts nursing home residents at risk.

A Brooklyn bar that was quickly becoming a mainstay for the LGBTQ community after being in business for just a few months is now closed after police said someone used a canister of gasoline to set it on fire.

Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said he is launching a criminal investigation to find out who leaked security video of an incident in which a deputy knelt on the head of a handcuffed inmate for more than three minutes. The Times published video last month of the March 2021 incident and detailed efforts by department officials to keep it under wraps. Department officials had worried at the time about the negative publicity that could come from a deputy kneeling on a handcuffed man’s head, “given its nature and its similarities to widely publicized George Floyd use of force,” according to an internal report by a commander critical of the cover-up. First Amendment experts were troubled by the move to target people for releasing police misconduct records, saying the threat of prosecution sends a chilling message to whistleblowers. “If the sheriff really did try to prosecute somebody for theft, under these circumstances, to me [it] would be: ‘Dude, you’re in L.A. County. Don’t you have more serious crimes to worry about than somebody leaking a video? And aren’t you really doing this because it’s embarrassing you?’” said Karl Olson, a lawyer who specializes in 1st Amendment and public records cases.

Gwyneth Paltrow, Mila Kunis and other celebs push NFTs as a way for women to get rich.

The regulation, which was welcomed by industry groups, limited the role of states in enforcing the Clean Water Act. The Supreme Court on Wednesday reinstated an environmental regulation from the Trump administration that restricted the role states play in enforcing the Clean Water Act. The court’s brief, unsigned order gave no reasons, which is typical when the justices act on an emergency application. Four justices dissented, saying the majority had used a case on what critics call the court’s shadow docket to issue a significant ruling without adequate consideration. Writing for the dissenters, Justice Elena Kagan said the court should have allowed the appeal to proceed in the ordinary course. “The applicants have given us no good reason to think that in the remaining time needed to decide the appeal, they will suffer irreparable harm,” she wrote. “By nonetheless granting relief, the court goes astray.” She added: “That renders the court’s emergency docket not for emergencies at all. The docket becomes only another place for merits determinations — except made without full briefing and argument.” Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justices Stephen G. Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor joined Justice Kagan’s dissent. The Clean Water Act envisions a role for states in issuing permits for discharges into the nation’s waters. Industry groups have long been frustrated by what the application called incongruities and ambiguities in an earlier regulation, in place for 50 years, which they said had allowed states to drag out and effectively veto projects on grounds other than the consideration of water quality. The groups welcomed the new regulation, adopted in 2020, which narrowed the criteria for state certification, tightened deadlines and stopped states from imposing what they called “project-killing conditions.”