T Vogel
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Heartbreaking and deeply disturbing details are continuing to emerge during the trial of Vickrum Digwa, the man accused of murdering Polish-British student Henry Nowak.
Jurors have now been shown mobile phone footage of the confrontation that ended with a young man losing his life.
Digwa told the court he was carrying a 21cm kirpan a Sikh ceremonial blade worn around his neck and claimed he feared Henry would use it against him.
“I thought I had to do something because I was afraid that he was going to stab me with my own kirpan,” he said.
But the court also heard that Henry Nowak was trying to escape.
According to the evidence presented, Henry attempted to flee for his life, climbing over a fence while Digwa was allegedly still stabbing him.
One of the most shocking details heard by the jury is that police initially handcuffed Henry as he lay on the ground bleeding out, after Digwa reportedly claimed Henry was the aggressor and had made racist remarks.
The court also heard allegations that Digwa’s mother, Kiran Kaur, 53, removed the kirpan from the scene after the stabbing. She denies assisting an offender.
At the centre of all this is a young man who never came home.
A son.
A friend.
A life gone forever.
And every new detail emerging from this case is leaving people across the country horrified and heartbroken.
Imagine Henry’s family hearing that he was allegedly restrained while fighting for his life. Heartbreaking beyond words. Cases like this destroy public trust because people feel catastrophic mistakes are never properly acknowledged and this is why the police should be investigated and held to account for there massive failings and incompetence in Henry’s brutal murder, that’s not anti-police it’s about making sure every emergency response is fair, competent and focused on saving lives and that clearly didn’t happen in Henry’s case.
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Listen everyone.
If Pence would have gone along with it or let himself be removed on 1/6 then there it most definitely would been an insurrection.
Failed insurrection is still an insurrection.
You traitors should be in prison. not being rewarded
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@TwoCents79 @brucefenton Would please expand on that statement. I'm old and kind of dense...
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Just unenrolled from the Republican Party.
Enjoy the mid terms.
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Listen, I’m not a cozy nice teddy bear with my rhetoric on this platform. But I do my best to ride a line between being respectful and being an asshole.
And mostly, I’ll give it like I get it.
But when it comes to January 6, all bets are off.
I’m not toning down my language when it comes to a traitorous attack on this country by a political cult that tried to overturn a presidential election.
MAGA lost the election.
MAGA attacked America.
MAGA tried to install Donald Trump after he lost.
Whoever participated in the January 6 attack on this country
IS A TRAITOR.
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Hot take but the "male loneliness epidemic" has nothing to do with not having a gf or wife but not having homies to hang with. 1000% a homie hanging with the homies is never lonely. Friendships are hard to find and even harder to keep.
GIF
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The instant he lost his seat, Cassidy began standing up for things he’s known all along were right. Profiles in cowardice, through all the ranks of the GOP.
Nancy Vu@Vu_Reports
Since losing his primary *three* days ago: - Cassidy stated he'd vote against the $1B ballroom project -defended his vote to convict Trump back in 2021 -signaled he'd look to hold RFK Jr. "accountable" -called Paxton a "felon" after Trump endorsed him - and has now voted in support of Dems' war powers resolution on Iran The senator is entering his "Cassidy Unchained" era
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@RandyGoat Hell, I want to figure out a way he can legally run in 28'.
It is looking like he was cheated out of the 2020 election, so there is that ..
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I'm actually worried now that Trump will refuse to leave office.
I never thought I would say that but I think it's a possibility.
I say 50/50 chance at this point.
Anyone else afraid this might happen?
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COMMENTARY: Let’s say it plainly: There has never been a president as corrupt as Donald Trump.
There is no close second in our history.
rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
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@_ShotgunShogun 1985 16+/- years old training on my European 12 speed attacking a hill 10 miles outside of Omaha, NE.
A car load of girls from my high school leaned out of passing car and whistled and hollerd at me.
Best day ever, at the time.
Dated one years later...
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This is one of the realest things man. I remember one time years ago I was at the grocery store checking out and the girl at the register said she liked my shirt (it was a cool new shirt I had just gotten) and it caught me off guard at first and then she was like "oh cool goblin slayer wallet too!" and man I was on cloud 9 for the rest of the day.
W S@WildSentences
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"Prosecutors said that on Jan. 6, 2021, Johnston spent about 10 minutes in the lower west tunnel that leads into the Capitol, where some of the worst violence of the attack took place."
"During that time, he:
(1) helped at least four other rioters wash their eyes out after being sprayed with OC spray;
(2) used a stolen United States Capitol Police riot shield to make a “shield wall” against the police inside the tunnel;
(3) participated in “heave-ho” push that pinned and crushed MPD Officer Daniel Hodges against a door frame".
I'm sorry, are the American people supposed to feel sorry for you because of how difficult the aftermath was for you from your husband's involvement in a massive attack on this country that was aimed at overturning the results of a lawfully certified election?
Here's an idea:
Don't participate in a domestic coup attempt.
and you definitely aren't owed money by the American people.
Go fuck yourself.
nbcnews.com/politics/justi…
Sara Radovanovitch@the_cats_meowww
We lost everything over J6. My husband, Jay Johnston, is an actor and comedian with a career spanning over three decades. A lifetime of work in the entertainment industry disappeared overnight, replaced with a campaign designed to banish us from society completely. Networks and studios publicly blacklisted him before any charges or arrest. He was fired from Bob’s Burgers and several other ongoing projects. Theaters around Los Angeles put messages up on their marquees. Social media filled up with thousands of death threats and hateful messages. Friends disappeared. We were de-banked. Everything we ever worked for was gone. He went from working in Hollywood for decades to doing handyman jobs just to survive. Federal agents raided our home at dawn. They dragged us out of bed in our underwear at gunpoint and forced him to kneel in the dirt while the entire neighborhood watched. The government and media worked together to destroy us. I lost my career even though I wasn’t there that day. Our daughter, who was only 11 and has autism, was kicked out of her special needs programs. School administrators denied us. Other parents boycotted us and wouldn’t let their kids near her. She was placed on the Quiet Skies terrorist watchlist and subjected to repeated invasive searches at the airport. The sensory overload was so bad we couldn’t take her to visit her grandfather while he was going through cancer treatment. Our story is not unique. Hundreds of other families went through similar nightmares. Some lost their homes, businesses, marriages, and children. Military benefits gone. Fathers spent years in prison. Many were in solitary confinement, denied medical care and religious services, missing funerals and family milestones. The stress destroyed their health. Some J6ers even took their own lives. It’s time for restitution. Every ruined life, every traumatized child, and every stolen year demands full accountability and fair compensation. The amounts must reflect the true, permanent damage done - lost careers that spanned decades, destroyed futures, and irreplaceable family time - so victims are made whole, not given token settlements.
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@tommysantos14 Hey you dumb trout, there were no gun charges.
You think the most well armed voting constituency is going to stage a coup without weapons.
Kinda stupid.
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In 2019, workers excavating land for a geothermal power plant near Ngāwhā, New Zealand uncovered a giant kauri tree buried nearly 30 feet underground.
The tree was enormous, stretching almost 65 feet long and more than 8 feet wide. Scientists later discovered it had lived through the Laschamp Excursion around 42,000 years ago, a period when Earth’s magnetic field weakened dramatically and cosmic radiation flooded the planet.
Locked inside its 1,600 growth rings was a year by year record of that event. Researchers believe the tree may preserve evidence of intense solar storms, atmospheric upheaval, expanding ice sheets, violent weather shifts, and a world experiencing extreme environmental stress.
Some scientists even suggest this period may have contributed to widespread megafauna extinctions and the collapse of Neanderthal populations.
For over 42,000 years, the tree remained buried in silence, preserving what may be one of the most detailed natural records of an ancient global catastrophe ever discovered.
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That clip of the San Diego officer unloading on the pen-wielder has me thinking again that it won't be more than a few years before cops and agencies are once again asking the firearms universe for a one shot stopper.
History: They had .38 Special but it lacked power. They got .357 magnum but it lacked capacity, same problem as the .45 ACP. The 9mm had capacity but wasn't a dropper. They got 10mm but it had too much recoil. They got .40 S&W for three decades but ultimately decided it wasn't that much better than 2020s-era 9mm, which still isn't a dropper. They got .357 Sig and .45 GAP yet not enough departments adopted either. And so on, and so forth.
I am therefore willing to make a $100 wager some time before the decade is out the rumble will begin once more. Can LEO and Feds get something that neutralizes in one or two hits? Is not difficult even for ladies and/or smaller officers to control? And has enough magazine capacity to last longer than a six-shot cylinder's worth of engagement?
Contracts will get spoken of. Companies will weigh the R&D risk and manufacturing cost. State departments will eye the interest of D.C.'s three-letters, and the local LEOs will eye the interest of the states.
A new cartridge will emerge.
Or, an extant cartridge will become the focus of industry wizardry and improvement once promises of significant federal investment are commited to paper.
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BREAKING: New polling reveals Democrats surging and now leading in 52 Senate seats. This is amazing.
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@JohnCornyn @BudgetGOP Canceling campaigning to rush back to DC is exactly what John McCain did in September 2008 when running against Obama. Worked well for McCain.
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🚨🚨 I am cancelling my campaign events for tomorrow and heading back to D.C. tonight.
As a member of @BudgetGOP and on behalf of the nearly 32 million Texans that I am honored to represent, I will vote tomorrow AM to end the absurd and irresponsible Democratic defunding of @ICEgov and @CBP and fund their important work first in committee and then on the Senate floor.
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This is only the beginning.
He has no plans to leave office or allow free elections. Nor are his plans hidden—they're all unfolding in plain sight.
The Insurrection never ended and the Christofascists won't stop until our democracy is gone.
Choose who you'll be in this moment.
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I'm starting to become convinced that Trump's monomaniacal obsession with the ballroom/bunker is because he plans on barricading himself inside the bunker when his term is up.
Jake Sherman@JakeSherman
NEWS ON THE BALLROOM -- The $1B for USSS is one of the most important things Republicans are dealing with right now. It is the single provision that is standing in the way of ICE/CBP funding. Trump wants this on his desk by June 1. But that's all been complicated by the $1B for security, including Trump's ballroom. Forget the House floor right now. it's irrelevant. all the action will begin when the Senate moves the reconciliation bill. As @LauraEWeiss16 scooped last night, Senate is not only changing the $1B language, but they are also considering lowering the number from $1B. Senate is engaged in a lot of Trump management right now. They know Trump wants the money but they also know that, in its current form, they cant pass it. The parliamentarian is a side show, for the most part. Because if the language ends up on the floor, it could easily come out during vote-a-rama. And here's the real kicker: The House is even trickier. Absences and opposition will kill this provision in the House. Johnson has been warned by rank and file. This won't fly. punchbowl.news/archive/51926-…
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Giving taxpayer money to January 6 rioters is nauseating.
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