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A heated discussion unfolded during a CNN segment where Ryan Girdusky, founder of the 1776 Project PAC, argued that the “Ferguson effect” and reduced police presence in communities are leading to increases in violent crime.

The term “Ferguson effect” was first coined by St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson in 2014 after the police-involved shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.

The hypothesis suggests that a decline in police activity results in a surge in violent crime.

Girdusky linked this phenomenon to the aftermath of the death of George Floyd and the subsequent protests and riots that occurred in 2020, stating that these events contributed to a significant rise in black male deaths.

“There are the post-George Floyd riots [that] resulted in 15,000 black male deaths in this country,” Girdusky asserted during the segment, prompting a response from CNN political commentator Bakari Sellers, who questioned the validity of his claims. “How?” Sellers asked.

I mentioned the Ferguson and Floyd Effect on CNN… surprisingly, none of the Democrats on the panel had ever heard of it. pic.twitter.com/DckpbqzElS

— Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) October 16, 2024

Girdusky elaborated, explaining that the perceived risks of policing during the 2020 riots led officers to withdraw from active duty. “The surge of violent crime, it was like Ferguson effect, the Ferguson effect and the Floyd effect … Because what happens is after the Ferguson riot and after the Floyd riot, policemen in fear of their jobs many times and political coverage, pull back from their jobs resulting in crime size,” he said.

CNN host Abby Phillips interrupted Girdusky, asserting, “Ryan, hold on, hold on. Ryan, we got to stop you there because you’re literally making a connection out of your own conjecture. You cannot just do that.”

If anyone who I was on the panel with wants to know about the Ferguson or Floyd Effect… here’s where CNN covered it.https://t.co/80ZuBpg8iO

— Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) October 16, 2024

CNN: The notion of any “Ferguson Effect” contributed to the death of black men is a racist MAGA talking point

Also CNN: How will we deal with the “Ferguson Effect” pic.twitter.com/fXisWrurwM

— Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) October 16, 2024

Democrats knew about the Ferguson and Floyd effect but true to form lie on CNN it exists even though CNN covered it. https://t.co/YWFympD5Qq pic.twitter.com/Jjf4OjisBJ

— ƤƖҲƖЄ (@Pixie1z) October 16, 2024

After Phillips attempted to restore order among the panel, Sellers expressed that the rise in riots and violent crimes could not solely be attributed to the deaths of black men. “That literally, and my point to you is, that makes no sense,” Sellers stated. He emphasized his

support for law enforcement but called for reforms, saying, “I want police actually to be paid more, I just want better police, more qualified police.”

Phillips then reminded the panel that Donald Trump was president during Floyd’s death and the BLM riots, leading to a debate about accountability. “You’re trying to blame crime on Joe Biden, but you’re saying that people who died when Donald Trump was president, that’s not his fault?” she asked.

Girdusky responded by asserting that the president does not control local police departments, clarifying, “I didn’t blame Joe Biden.”

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Florida law enforcement officials recently arrested 157 individuals during a human trafficking operation known as “Operation Autumn Sweep.”

🔥🚨BREAKING: Polk County, Florida. Sheriff announced 157 arrests in human trafficking operation, including Disney World employee and over 2 dozen illegal aliens

Sheriff; "There is no border security at the Southern Border. Zero. It doesn't exist." pic.twitter.com/K7wtYWnULD

— Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives (@dom_lucre) October 17, 2024

The sting, which targeted illegal activities related to prostitution, included 25 illegal immigrants, some of whom allegedly received federal government benefits after entering the country.

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd announced the results of the operation alongside representatives from various law enforcement agencies, including those from Marion County, Lake County, Auburndale, Clermont, Davenport, Winter Haven, Lakeland, and Tampa.

“Operation Autumn Sweep” focused on individuals involved in soliciting prostitution, offering to commit prostitution, and aiding and abetting prostitutes. Additionally, three suspects were arrested for traveling to sexually batter children.

The operation commenced on October 2, leading to the identification of four potential human trafficking victims out of the 47 prostitutes who appeared at undercover locations.

Judd’s office reported that 96 of the arrested suspects were charged with soliciting prostitution, with a total of 35 felony charges and 201 misdemeanors issued across the group.

“The approach of Hurricane Milton caused us to end our investigation earlier than planned, but it’s still amazing that in such a short amount of time we were able to put 157 people in jail, and three child predators,” Judd said.

Among the 157 individuals arrested, Sheriff Judd revealed that 25 were in the U.S. illegally, hailing from countries such as Cuba, Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Venezuela. “Sixteen percent of these total arrests were people who should not even have been in this country,” he stated. “But they were here, and they were here because we have a federal government that enabled these criminals to come into the country, and they treated them very well after the criminals came here illegally.”

Judd shared the story of a female suspect who entered the U.S. with her child. She reported that she flew into Mexico from Venezuela and then crossed the border into El Paso, Texas.

Upon her arrival, she was greeted by Border Patrol agents. “There is no border security at the southern border. Zero. It doesn’t exist,” Judd commented.

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When Vice President Kamala Harris was a 24-year-old law student San Francisco, her father, a Marxist economics professor at Stanford University, published a critique of immigration policies hurting black families.

Harris and six of his like-minded colleagues argued in 1988 that “the current immigration policy, which allows relatively large numbers of low-skilled workers to enter the United States” translates into a “burden … on low-skilled native-born workers,” and black families in particular, Restoration News reports. “At the same time that the trends in international trade have moved against U.S. workers, U.S. immigration laws have been modified in ways that increase the influx of low-skilled workers, who compete with native-born youths and low-skilled adult workers for low-skilled jobs,” the pamphlet read. “This shift has been a particularly serious problem for blacks, who constitute a high proportion of the low-skilled adult workers.”

Fast forward 26 years, and Donald Harris’ 1988 pamphlet Black Economic Progress: An Agenda for the 1990s has become even more relevant as his daughter oversees the largest influx of migrants in the nation’s history.

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Elon Musk has emerged as a significant financial supporter of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, contributing $75 million to his pro-Trump super PAC in just the past three months.

This infusion of cash positions Musk, the world’s richest man, as a pivotal player in the upcoming election, as he aims to generate a “red wave” in key swing states that could help propel Trump back to the White House.

Recent disclosures filed with the Federal Election Commission reveal that the PAC spent approximately $75 million during the July-September period, making it the leading pro-Trump super PAC dedicated to voter turnout. Notably, Musk was the sole donor to America PAC, granting him considerable influence in the election landscape.

The @America PAC is just aiming for common sense, centrist values https://t.co/mc0RmxXOhf

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 16, 2024

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CNN‘s resident potato, Brian Stelter, unsuccessfully tried to put a positive spin on Kamala Harris‘s train wreck interview on FOX News after she lost her composure, forcing her handlers to end it early.

Harris attempted to blame Donald Trump for the border crisis despite her being in office for almost four years.

This was the first time time Harris was given a hardball interview, and she cracked under pressure.

When asked why she hasn’t she made progress on these issues during her time as vice president, Harris said: “My presidency will not be a continuation of Joe Biden’s presidency.”

Stelter quoted a spokesman for Kamala Harris in an attempt to show she actually did a great job – watch below… and get ready to laugh:

Listening to how Kamala Harris answered @BretBaier's questions, I think she was employing a "Google strategy" – encouraging Fox viewers to search what she was saying – since many of the points she made are rarely heard on Fox. She also plugged her campaign website at the end. pic.twitter.com/dVMcUirch1

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) October 16, 2024

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Former Rep. Liz Cheney, while serving as vice chairwoman of the House committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot, is facing questions over her secret communications with a key witness in the investigation.

Evidence obtained by congressional investigators and Just the News reveals Cheney used the encrypted app Signal to communicate directly with Cassidy Hutchinson, a witness in the investigation, as well as indirectly through Hutchinson’s friend, Alyssa Farah Griffin. These communications, which took place in June 2022, are raising concerns about potential ethical violations in the Democrat-led inquiry.

At the time, Hutchinson was represented by attorney Stefan Passantino, who told Just the News he was unaware of Cheney’s contact with his client and did not authorize the communication. Cheney’s communication may have violated legal ethics rules in Washington, D.C., where she is a licensed attorney.

WITNESS TAMPERING: Former Rep. Liz Cheney reportedly began secretly communicating with a January 6th Committee witness without informing the witness's lawyer—an clear ethical violation that could cost Cheney her law license. More concerning than the ethical breach, however, is… pic.twitter.com/pk5Hw9j8J1

— @amuse (@amuse) October 16, 2024

🚨 This is a pretty HUGE Scandal…

Liz Cheney was just Busted Secrety Communicating with ‘Start J6 Witness’ Cassidy Hutchinson

Cassidy Hutchinson testified that Donald Trump chocked his Secret Service Driver on January 6. Guess who questioned her? Liz Cheney…

Did Liz Cheney… https://t.co/dl1dBGllfM pic.twitter.com/vEepVuBbQ9

— MJTruthUltra (@MJTruthUltra) October 16, 2024

The D.C. Bar rules explicitly state that a lawyer may not communicate with a person represented by another attorney without that lawyer’s consent.

Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.), chairman of the House Administration oversight subcommittee, raised concerns that Cheney may have influenced Hutchinson’s testimony and led her to switch lawyers.

“Our investigation has uncovered unethical back-channel communications between former Rep. Liz Cheney and Cassidy Hutchinson just before Hutchinson changed her sworn testimony,” Loudermilk said. “Not only is communicating with a witness without their attorney present unethical, it undermines the integrity of an investigation.”

According to Loudermilk’s subcommittee, Hutchinson fired her attorney, Passantino, shortly after these secret communications began and retained new lawyers, recommended by Cheney, to represent her pro bono.

Hutchinson later credited Cheney with helping her find new legal representation in her memoir, where she described Cheney’s assistance as “one of the greatest gifts I could have received: hope.”

The timeline of these communications has also raised red flags.

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Search giant Google is turning to nuclear reactors to power its Artificial Intelligence data centers, which many big tech companies now label as “green energy.”

The news came after Microsoft and Constellation Energy unveiled a power purchase deal, enabling a reactor restart at Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island nuclear plant.

Big tech giants like Microsoft, Amazon, and Google are aggressively expanding their data center capabilities to meet the AI revolution’s computing needs while scouring for sources of electricity, Science Alert said.

On Monday, Google signed a deal with Kairos Power to purchase electricity from small nuclear reactors in order to power its AI operations.

“We believe that nuclear energy has a critical role to play in supporting our clean growth and helping to deliver on the progress of AI,” Google senior director of energy and climate Michael Terrell said during a briefing.

“The grid needs these kinds of clean, reliable sources of energy that can support the build-out of these technologies,” he said.

According to The Expose:

“The first small modular reactor (“SMR”) developed by Kairos is expected to be online by the end of the decade with additional reactors coming online through 2035, generating a combined total of 500 megawatts of power. SMRs are more compact and potentially easier to deploy than traditional nuclear reactors, with big investments by Bill Gates in the sector, but the technology is still in its infancy and lacks regulatory approval.”

The partnership is a major step towards achieving its goal of abundant carbon-free energy from nuclear power, driven by the need for a consistent source of power that is seen as more reliable than solar and wind power.

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While Michigan’s finances improved in 2023, it ranked 35th out of 50 states for its “taxpayer burden” in a recent analysis by Truth in Accounting, a nonprofit focused on highlighting government finances. Truth in Accounting’s fifteenth annual Financial State of the States grades states using an A-F grading scale, while providing perspective on finances through each state’s “taxpayer burden,” which is essentially the amount per taxpayer to pay off all of a state’s debt.

With $46.8 billion in available assets to pay bills, and more than $75 billion in bills, “the outcome was a $28.2 billion shortfall, which breaks down to a burden of $7,600 per taxpayer,” according to the report. The bulk of those bills involve more than $39 billion in unfunded pension liabilities.

“Bottom line: Michigan would need $7,600 from each of its taxpayers to pay all of its outstanding bills and received a ‘D’ grade for its finances,” the report reads. “According to Truth in Accounting’s grading scale, any government with a Taxpayer Burden between $5,000 and $20,000 is given a ‘D’ grade.”

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Minnesota Governor Tim Walz told Fox News that he never claimed there was “no guarantee to free speech” when it came to “misinformation” or “hate speech.”

HOLY SH!T

Governor Tim Walz: NO RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH if the government decides it is misinformation or hateful

This man is a dangerous commie pic.twitter.com/hE8xGcRx87

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) August 7, 2024

“Fox News Sunday” host Shannon Bream noted Walz’s remarks from a 2022 MSNBC interview, “You’ve said there’s no guarantee of free speech for misinformation or hate speech,” Bream told Walz.

“But first of all, the Supreme Court was very clear in a unanimous 2017 decision that hate speech is protected, that’s the kind of stuff that needs to be protected – stuff none of us like to hear,” she continued.

“But more importantly, who gets to decide on the issue of what misinformation is?” she asked.

Shannon Bream: "Who gets to decide on what misinformation is?"

Tim Walz: “Look…” pic.twitter.com/uHblaRmihA

— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) October 13, 2024

Walz responded with a word salad, claiming he was talking about “censorship coming in the form of book banning in different places.”

“We’re seeing attempts in schools,” Walz claimed.

“The issue on this was the hate speech and the protected hate speech — speech that’s aimed at creating violence, speech that’s aimed at threats to individuals. That’s what we’re talking about in this.”

“The decision on that, society decides on a lot of this, the idea of someone going on and threatening someone’s life or a child’s life online,” he added.

“I don’t think any of your viewers think that that is something that should be acceptable.”

However, Bream quickly pushed back: “No. No. No. That’s not misinformation,” she said.

“There’s a distinction, you would say, though, between something like a threat and misinformation?” she pressed Walz.

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Gov. Gretchen Whitmer contends efforts to keep Stellantis from moving its headquarters out of the Great Lakes State is a “top priority,” though her social media antics raise questions about whether she’s serious.

“We have an open dialogue going on,” Whitmer told Crain’s Detroit Business at the Battery Show at Hunting Place in Detroit this week. “We want to help Stellantis see the wisdom and the opportunities for changing up their headquarters but making sure it stays here in Michigan. That dialogue is robust, continuous, and we’re not going to take our eye off the ball. We want Stellantis to continue to call Michigan home.”

Whitmer is in talks with Carlos Tavares, CEO of the company that produces Jeep, Chrysler, and Dodge, over the possibility of relocating Stellantis’ American headquarters in Auburn Hills. Those conversations follow struggles at Stellantis over the last year, with a UAW strike last September, delays in EV product launches, sputtering sales and significant layoffs this month. The company formed from a merger between Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and Peugeot S.A. in 2020 and its global headquarters is now located in the Netherlands.

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