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Pennsylvania Officials Let Unsent Mail Pile Up For A Month, But Promise Mail Voting Is Super Secure

Pennsylvania’s mail scandal — that mail vendor Capitol Presort Services reportedly failed to deliver the state’s mail for a month — is another reason we should not trust the mail with our elections.

Philadelphia Inquirer reporter Gillian McGoldrick reported Saturday that 3.4 million official letters from Pennsylvania state agencies were stuck in limbo from Nov. 3 through Dec. 3. The communications did not get sent until last week, after the state fired the mail vendor and hired another one to send the letters.

It is not clear why state workers can’t handle mailing letters without the complication of a contracted vendor.

Some of the delayed letters contained time-sensitive communications about services with important deadlines, including notices for recipients to interact with agencies or lose benefits, according to McGoldrick’s report. Health coverage, SNAP food benefits, child abuse clearances, decisions about elder abuse and foster homes for kids, along with timely notices of hearings — all from the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services — reportedly piled up at the vendor instead of being given to the U.S. Postal Service for delivery.

Important communications from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation were also delayed. Halted mail included driver’s license and vehicle registration renewal reminders, vehicle registration cards, driver’s license camera cards, and address card updates.

Just weeks ago, Gov. Josh Shapiro was making the media rounds, attacking President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance about putting Pennsylvanians in peril because of the government shutdown, when at the same time his own administration was failing to deliver essential communications about these very services through the mail.

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Pennsylvania Governor Signs Law Banning “Hair Discrimination”

Democrats continue to double down and pander to the woke demographic whenever they see an opportunity.  These gestures are usually designed to virtue signal and rarely have any significance in terms of political change, however, leftists don’t necessarily pass laws or make declarations because a problem actually exists.  Rather, they do these things in order to encourage false perceptions within the populace.

In other words, equality has been a legal fact within the US for decades, but leftists want people to believe racism is a never-ending battle that requires their perpetual activism and government intervention.  The more they demand “equity”, the more division and conflict they end up inciting. 

Democrat Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro insists that racism is an ongoing problem in his state and he has taken bold action to fight back by passing the “CROWN Act”, a law which prohibits discrimination based on a person’s hairstyle, type or texture.

CROWN, which stands for “Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair”, is clearly aimed at placating the black voting base for Democrats in PA and is unlikely to be applied to any other group. 

For example, black female managers wearing wigs and weaves and appropriating white women’s hair styles will never be accused of racism, but a white manager at Taco Bell who fires a black worker for not wearing a hair net properly will probably face civil litigation for discrimination.  Woke laws are meant to create privileges and double standards, not equal protections.  As Shapiro notes:

“Real freedom means being respected for who you are – no matter what you look like, where you come from, who you love, or who you pray to…For too long, many Pennsylvanians have faced discrimination simply for hairstyles that reflect their identity and culture – that ends today…”

“This is going to help people by making sure that, wherever you work, or wherever you’re applying for a job, they can’t look at your hair and size you up – not based on your qualifications and all of the professional development you have and all of your education,” said PA House Speaker Joanna McClinton. “They will not look at your hair and decide you can’t work here. They will not look at your hair and decide you don’t belong in this C-suite. They will not look at your hair and say, ‘you can’t be in the boardroom.’” 

U.S. Rep. La’Tasha D. Mayes, a West Philadelphia native who now represents parts of Pittsburgh, was the lead sponsor on the bill and said the fight will help improve lives across Pennsylvania.  “Hair discrimination has taken confidence from our children, but that ends today,” Mayes said. “Hair discrimination has taken dignity from workers, but that ends today. It has taken access to economic opportunities, hopes and dreams, but that begins to end today.”

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Kash Patel Talks In Depth About Attempted Trump Assassin And His Motives

FBI Director Kash Patel told investigative journalist Catherine Herridge that hatred for the U.S. government and the two-party system played a role in Thomas Matthew Crooks’ attempt to assassinate President Donald Trump on July 13, 2024 in Butler, Pa.

Herridge asked Patel what motivated Crooks, 20, to try to kill Trump, then the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. Patel’s answer appeared to depart from previous FBI statements when bureau officials said they were unable to find a motive or ideology behind the assassination attempt. The FBI director — appearing on Herridge’s show “Straight to the Point” by the Los Angeles Times Media Group — told her that Trump was “satisfied” with his agency’s investigation into that fateful day. Patel stopped short of saying the case was closed.

“He [Crooks], as has been publicized, had a basically hateful relationship with the United States government, talked disparagingly about both political parties, to include President Trump, and talked about the need to take matters into his own hands. And, unfortunately, that’s what he did,” Patel said when Herridge asked about Crooks’ motive.

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FBI Admits Its Custody of Crooks’ Body on AGR Building Roof All Night

Kash Patel and Danny Bongino, the number one and two at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have, for the second time, gone public with the agency’s conclusion that the alleged Butler, PA shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, was the lone shooter. Okay. But they refuse to release the FBI investigation of the attempted assassination and that’s a problem for a number of reasons.

First, despite numerous investigations, including a Congressional Task Force, a Secret Service investigation, a Senate Investigation, the Pennsylvania State Police and others, none have provided any information about how the alleged shooter, who “acted alone,” was identified on the AGR Building.

Recall that the alleged shooter’s body lay on the AGR Building roof all night until 6:30a.m. the following morning. Then, when the Butler County Coroner, William Young III, finally was allowed to go on the roof and conduct his death investigation and identification of the body, it’s anyone’s guess which law enforcement agency had custody of the body all night…until now.

Coroner Young has never made public his investigative notes about how he identified the body – the method – and why he was turned away at midnight when he first tried to make identification of the body and told to return the following day. Who gave Young those orders?  More importantly it’s odd that the body would lie on the roof all night.

Does the public trust that there wasn’t any funny business going on? Would Patel and Bongino believe that there wasn’t any funny business? It must be said that even Patel and Bongino in their former lives, who questioned every single FBI investigation, would have been having conniptions about this odd turn of events. Afterall, it isn’t every day that the dead body of a would-be presidential assassin is left at the crime scene all night.

Then, of course, there is the fact that Patel and Bongino provided this “exclusive update” to an unknown Fox News podcaster? Yep, Brooke Singman got the scoop, despite many others who could have actually asked legitimate questions about the FBI investigation. People like Miranda Devine of the New York Post who just last week outed the FBI for failing to report on the alleged shooter Crooks’s online presence. Of course, if you don’t want to have any serious questions asked Singman is the way to go.

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FBI Concludes Would-Be Trump Assassin Thomas Crooks Acted Alone

The FBI has concluded that would-be Trump assassin Thomas Crooks acted alone.

Thomas Crooks was able to climb on top of a roof next to Trump’s Butler, Pennsylvania rally and put Trump in his scope.

A bullet grazed President Trump’s ear on July 13, 2024 during his Pennsylvania rally. One rallygoer was fatally struck in the head. Two other rally attendees were wounded, one critically.

A Secret Service sniper fatally shot Thomas Matthew Crooks after he took several shots at Trump and rallygoers.

The so-called ‘security lapses’ and circumstances surrounding the assassination attempt against Trump raise questions about how Thomas Matthew Crooks was able to pull everything off by himself.

Thomas Crooks flew a drone over the Butler fairgrounds at least twice on the day of the Trump rally.

He flew his drone at approximately 3:50 – 4:05 pm that day – during the time the Secret Service was having connectivity issues.

According to WaPo, Secret Service agents never directed local police to secure the roof that Thomas Crooks used to take 8 shots at Trump and rallygoers.

It was previously reported that the Secret Service never picked up radios that were set aside for them by local law enforcement in Butler County at Trump’s rally on July 13.

A photo of Thomas Crooks was taken shortly before he somehow managed to get up onto the roof of the building.

At 5:14 pm, just one hour before the assassination attempt of Trump, a member of the Beaver County sniper team took a photo of Crooks checking his cell phone.

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Energy Department loans $1B to help finance the restart of nuclear reactor on Three Mile Island

The U.S. Department of Energy said Tuesday that it will loan $1 billion to help finance the restart of the nuclear power plant on Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island that is under contract to supply power to data centers for tech giant Microsoft.

The loan is in line with the priorities of President Donald Trump’s administration, including bolstering nuclear power and artificial intelligence.

For Constellation Energy, which owns Three Mile Island’s lone functioning nuclear power reactor, the federal loan will lower its financing cost to get the mothballed plant up and running again. The 835-megawatt reactor can power the equivalent of approximately 800,000 homes, the Department of Energy said.

The reactor had been out of operation for five years when Constellation Energy announced last year that it would spend $1.6 billion to restart it under a 20-year agreement with Microsoft to buy the power for its data centers.

Constellation Energy renamed the functioning unit the Crane Clean Energy Center as it works to restore equipment including the turbine, generator, main power transformer and cooling and control systems. It hopes to bring the plant back online in 2027.

The loan is being issued under an existing $250 billion energy infrastructure program initially authorized by Congress in 2022. Neither the department nor Constellation released terms of the loan.

The plant, on an island in the Susquehanna River just outside Harrisburg, was the site of the nation’s worst commercial nuclear power accident, in 1979. The accident destroyed one reactor, Unit 2, and left the plant with one functioning reactor, Unit 1.

In 2019, Constellation Energy’s then-parent company Exelon shut down the functioning reactor, saying it was losing money and Pennsylvania lawmakers had refused to subsidize it to keep it running.

The plan to restart the reactor comes amid something of a renaissance for nuclear power, as policymakers are increasingly looking to it to shore up the nation’s power supply, help avoid the worst effects of climate change and meet rising power demand driven by data centers.

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Pennsylvania School District Using AI-Enabled Wi-Fi To Search Students For Firearms

A Pennsylvania school district is using artificial intelligence to keep guns off its campuses. But civil liberties advocates have warned that the technology could lead to mass surveillance and violation of constitutional rights.

The Chartiers Valley School District in Allegheny County has implemented AI that harnesses the district’s Wi-Fi signals to determine whether people are carrying weapons as they enter the schools.

The technology, called Wi-AI, was developed by CurvePoint of Pittsburgh. CurvePoint grew out of AI research at Carnegie Mellon University.

According to the company, Wi-AI uses “spatial intelligence” to find weapons such as guns before they enter a school.

The AI system analyzes a space and detects where potential weapons are located by interpreting “how Wi-Fi signals reflect off people and objects.”

Once a possible weapon is found, security personnel, school administrators, or others can go to the location to determine whether there is actually a threat.

It is now in use at Chartiers Valley School District high school, middle school, and primary school campuses. CurvePoint CEO Skip Smith said that in a recent test, the system found a pistol hidden in a backpack. He said the technology has a 95 percent success rate, failing only 4 percent of its searches.

Smith said the Wi-AI does not carry the same privacy concerns of other security systems because it does not rely on facial recognition or biometric data.

“We don’t know it’s you,“ Smith told The Epoch Times. ”We have no biometric information about you. Our system just sees a big bag of salt water.”

Darren Mariano, president of the Chartiers Valley Board of School Directors, said the district is excited to be the first in the country to adopt the technology.

“The safety of our students and staff is always our top priority,” he said in a statement. “We’re thrilled to be the first district in the nation to implement this groundbreaking technology.”

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Tucker Misses the Mark – There’s NO Physical Evidence Crooks Attempted to Assassinate Anyone

Two days ago, Tucker Carlson released a thirty-minute video accusing the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of lying to the American people about the assassination attempt on President Donald Trump and reporting “that day Thomas Crooks came within a quarter inch of destroying this country and, yet, a year and a half later we still almost nothing about him or why he did it.”  Frankly, more is expected of someone of Carlson’s caliber of journalist.

The fact is, Tucker Carlson has no basis for reporting that Thomas Crooks attempted to kill anyone.

There has been no physical evidence provided by the FBI, Pennsylvania State Police, Butler Police, Secret Service, Department of Homeland Security, Congressional Committees, the Butler, PA Coroner or the Allegheny County Coroner.

While Carlson focuses on proving the FBI lied about Crooks not having any online presence, AbleChild would argue that, while interesting, knowing what Crooks posted online two years before the assassination attempt still does not provide any proof that Crooks was the shooter.

To legitimately convict Thomas Matthew Crooks of attempting to kill Donald Trump and being responsible for the death of Corey Comperatore, much more solid evidence is needed, beginning with the FBI’s ballistics report. It was reported by the Congressional Task Force on the Attempted Assassination of Donald J. Trump that the projectile recovered from the roof of the AGR building next to Crooks, that “although a microscopic comparison was inconclusive, the grooves on the fragment were consistent with the rifling characteristics of test rounds fired through the Secret Service rifle.” “Consistent with?” That’s not a match. The FBI is merely suggesting that the grooves of the fragment were “consistent.” The microscopic comparison either shows that the grooves of the recovered projectile match the barrel of the sniper’s weapon or they don’t.

Further, the FBI also would have conducted DNA and fingerprint analysis on the alleged weapon and any other evidence found on the alleged shooter’s body or the roof of the AGR building. However, there are obvious problems with the chain of custody of any evidence collected from the roof of the AGR building. Recall that the alleged shooter’s body laid on the roof of the AGR building the entire night until 6:30 a.m. the following morning when the Butler Coroner, William Young, finally decided to perform his death investigation.

Who had control of the AGR building during the evening hours after the 6:23 p.m. shooting until 6:30 a.m. the following morning? This is no minor issue as the body and evidence could have been tampered with during that 12-hour timespan. Plus, why was this information not important for Carlson to mention?

Of course, other issues make it ironic that Carlson, like so many others, is convinced that Crooks was the shooter even though there is no physical evidence that has been made publicly available to support this conclusion, beginning with the destruction of Crooks body within days of autopsy.

AbleChild would argue that the Allegheny County Medical Examiner who conducted the autopsy of the alleged gunman failed to adequately test of psychiatric drug use of the alleged shooter, rather only testing for “alcohol and drugs of abuse.” Why? Why in such an important case would the medical examiner fail to test for prescription mind-altering drugs, especially in light of the family’s mental health background?

More interesting is that the Medical Examiner does not reveal how he identified that the body being autopsied was that of Thomas Matthew Crooks. The only accompanying evidence was “a clear plastic bag containing medium length brown hair (submitted as evidence).”

Did Butler County Coroner, William Young, provide that bag of hair? Who knows? Young has never made public his investigative notes. In fact, it is anyone’s guess how Young identified Crooks as the body lying on the roof. Having Young’s investigative notes would be extremely helpful, especially having any information as to why the coroner was turned away from the AGR building on the evening of July 13th and forced to leave the body on the roof all night before identification could be made.

At the end of the day, Carlson’s video about the FBI’s mistakes regarding Crooks’ online presence, while interesting, doesn’t get us to the point of who pulled the trigger.

If there is chastising to be done, it should be about the FBI’s refusal to release its investigation, along with all physical evidence reports. The same can be said about the Pennsylvania State Police Report. Why have these reports been withheld?

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FBI Director Kash Patel Issues Response After Tucker Carlson Drops Explosive Allegations and Footage Regarding Would-Be Trump Assassin Thomas Crooks

Tucker Carlson has rekindled the fuse surrounding the mystery of Thomas Crooks, the man who tried to take out President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania last year.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, Carlson stated on Thursday that the FBI lied about Thomas Crooks and was engaged in a massive cover-up, which would be revealed in a documentary the next day.

“The FBI told us Thomas Crooks tried to kill Donald Trump last summer but somehow had no online footprint,” Carlson alleged. “The FBI lied, and we can prove it … Story tomorrow.”

He then released a 34-minute video on Friday morning.

“Thomas Crooks came within a quarter inch of destroying this country, and yet, a year and a half later, we still know almost nothing about him or why he did it. That’s because, for some reason, the FBI, even the current FBI, doesn’t want us to know,” Carlson said.

In the video, Carlson goes on to claim that Biden’s and Trump’s FBI have hidden critical details not only regarding Crooks’ motivations behind the attack, but also his supposed sudden political shift detailed in his social media history.

Carlson said an anonymous user obtained access to Crooks’ alleged YouTube account, showing he went from being a die-hard Trump fan to a deranged Never-Trumper. The posts were from 2019 to 2020.

In 2019, Crooks called Trump the “literal definition of Patriotism” and called for anti-Trump congresswomen to be killed. He also called for the beheading of “Trump-hating Democrats.”

“Illhan Omar and others are invaders and should honestly be killed and their dead bodies sent back,” he allegedly said in one post.

But by 2020, he called Trump supporters “brainwashed, “dumb, and “racist, while mocking the idea of a deep state.

“It was an amazing transformation,” Carlson remarked.

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Carlson Exposes Cover-Up Surrounding Would Be Trump Assassin

Tucker Carlson has dropped a bombshell investigation into Thomas Crooks, the would-be Trump assassin, revealing explosive details that point to FBI deception, a mysterious terrorist-linked contact, and a hasty body cremation—fueling suspicions of a deep state plot to eliminate the U.S. President.

Carlson’s probe posits that  Crooks was no lone wolf but a volatile figure ripe for manipulation.

Carlson slammed the FBI for claiming Crooks had “no online footprint,” stating, “The FBI told us Thomas Crooks tried to kill Donald Trump last summer but somehow had no online footprint. The FBI lied, and we can prove it.” 

He detailed Crooks’ disturbing searches: over 700 for Trump, plus queries like “craziest chemical reactions,” “mass shooting El Paso,” “Trump civil war,” “how to make napalm,” “Oklahoma bombing,” and “Hitler speeches with subtitles.” 

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