The federalist structure as we’ve always known it is under real strain, and the prospect of armed officers patrolling internal borders is emerging fast. If that sounds alarmist, consider that President Trump is currently considering imposing an “enforceable quarantine” in New York, New Jersey and parts of Connecticut—and that Rhode Island is currently “hunting” for New Yorkers who are seeking refuge from a plague-infested Gotham. To […]
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Click HERE for FIRST AMENDED COMPLAINT TODAY in New York City a legal battle for the integrity of the Grand Jury process and the First Amendment Right to Petition for Redress is being waged. On Friday night March 20, 2020 Lawyers’ Committee Litigation Director, Mick Harrison, and his co-counsel, Lawyers’ Committee Board Director John O’Kelly, filed an historic 4 count First Amended Complaint in the Southern […]
As the number of coronavirus cases continues to soar across the United States, state officials are racing to curtail the pandemic by taking extraordinary measures—including forcing millions of Americans to remain in their homes in the name of social distancing. Over the last week, restaurants, bars, and schools across the United States were shuttered, but several states have ordered lockdowns for their residents—similar to those in […]
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a state-wide “stay at home” executive order for all residents on Thursday, the strictest measure yet to fight the spread of the novel coronavirus in the nation’s largest city. “This is not life as usual,” he said. “Remain indoors, go outside for solitary exercise. Don’t go to a house with multiple people. Don’t go to your daughter’s house. That is […]
Coronavirus: New York Won’t Close Schools Because Homeless Kids Have Nowhere Else To Go By Alan Macleod, Mintpressnews.com March 12, 2020 Coronavirus: New York Won’t Close Schools Because Homeless Kids Have Nowhere Else To Go2020-03-122020-03-12https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/03/ap_20069637242752_edited.jpg200px200px Above Photo: A commuter wears a face mask in the New York City transit system, March 9, 2020, in New York. John Minchillo | AP For many thousands of students across New York […]
The death toll for the 2019 novel coronavirus spiked in the United States on Friday to a total of 14, with 13 deaths in Washington state and another in California. Meanwhile, the deadly disease showed new signs of spreading widely across the country, in New York City. Two more people died overnight from the virus in Kirkland, Washington, according to the chief executive of the hospital […]
Cardi B’s best friend, Star Brim, was charged by New York prosecutors in a sweeping roundup of the 5-9 Brims—a violent set of the Bloods street gang—for allegedly orchestrating an attack at the same club where the rapper’s strip-club brawl took place. The well-connected 28-year-old from the Bronx, whose real name is Yonette Respass, was one of the 11 charged in indictments unveiled on Tuesday in […]
The only clue was a faded tattoo above her right breast: two red cherries attached to a green stem. Thirteen years ago, the woman’s dismembered torso washed up on a beach in Mamaroneck, in New York’s Westchester County. She was stuffed in a suitcase. She had no limbs, no head, and no DNA profile. The police dubbed her “Cherries Doe.” “It was a particularly violent crime […]
Harvey Weinstein’s defense team urged jurors Thursday to disregard their “gut feelings” about the disgraced Hollywood producer—who’s been accused by over 80 alleged victims of sexual misconduct—arguing that prosecutors in his landmark rape trial in Manhattan stripped “adult women” of their own responsibility. “In their universe, women are not responsible for what parties they attend, the men they flirt with… for the jobs they ask for […]