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California has declared a state of emergency, the Associated Press reports, as wildfires and hurricane force winds ravage areas of the state, leaving millions without power.
Governor Gavin Newsom issued a statement Sunday in an attempt to reassure Californians — particularly those in the Bay Area and in Sonoma County where the fires threaten major agriculture and industry — that the state was deploying “every resource available” to battle the blazes.
The wildfires, blazing in Sonoma County and near San Francisco, and further south near Santa Clarita, had already driven more than 50,000 people from their homes by Saturday night when experts predicted a “catastrophic wind event” with hurricane-force gusts. By Sunday, 180,000 people had been told to flee to safer ground and winds up to 80 miles per hour blew across Napa Valley vineyards, causing the fires to take on an “erratic” burn pattern.
It’s the single largest evacuation in California in nearly three decades, according to Fox News.
“Hundreds of people arrived at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds in Santa Rosa by Sunday. Some came from senior care facilities. More than 300 people slept inside an auditorium filled with cots and wheeled beds. Scores of others stayed in a separate building with their pets,” AP reported.
Before the winds arrived, the Kincade Fire, which began Wednesday night, was only 10% contained, and had already burned 47 square miles, destroying nearly 80 structures, according to the Associated Press. Nine people have been reported injured so far, victims of a tree that came crashing down on a farmer’s market near San Francisco, but the casualties are by no means fully counted. The last fire, that swept through largely the same area in 2017, killed 24 people.
As if the wildfires weren’t bad enough, California electricity provider, PG&E, has initiated forced blackouts, cutting power to 2.3 million people statewide, “to avoid fires sparked by electric lines,” according to the LA Times. Many of those people could remain without power until at least Wednesday.
“PG&E said that as of noon Sunday it had shut down power to 940,000 customers, which are defined as an electrical meter that serves a residence or business,” the LA Times reported.
The blackouts are being done in seven phases, according to the California utility, and began at 5pm on Saturday night. They will roll through areas affected by the wildfires through the weekend and into Monday. So far, PG&E reports that five out of the seven areas targeted for blackouts are without power. The last two areas will lose power on Monday.
But even if the fires are contained before Wednesday, customers may still be without power, since PG&E says they must send out utility workers to inspect the affected electrical lines and determine them safe before they can turn the power back on.
PG&E says the blackouts are necessary in order to avoid massive blazes like the ones that raged through California in January and May of 2019, respectively, but Gov. Newsom has blamed PG&E for compounding the problem, and others pointed to signs that a faulty PG&E transmission line may have sparked a fire near Geyserville, California, that is still burning, suggesting that PG&E may be instituing the controlled blackouts out of concerns for their own system’s infrastructure.
On Sunday, as PG&E consumers called for the company to be taken over and electricity declared a public utility, Newsom reached out over the airwaves to Warren Buffett, begging the investor to purchase PG&E, per Business Insider. Such an acquisition is unlikely, however.
Outages are likely to continue until the fires are contained, a process that could take several days.
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Democrat Rep. Katie Hill (CA) is reportedly resigning from Congress this week after allegations surfaced that she had engaged in relationships with a campaign staffer and a congressional staffer.
Politico reported on Sunday that Hill is “set to resign by the end of the week,” according to “two Democratic sources.”
The development comes after the House Ethics Committee announced on Wednesday that it was launching an investigation into Hill:
The Committee is aware of public allegations that Representative Katie Hill may have engaged in a sexual relationship with an individual on her congressional staff, in violation of House Rule XXIII, clause 18(a). The Committee, pursuant to Committee Rule 18(a), has begun an investigation and will gather additional information regarding the allegations.
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In some cheering weekend news, ISIS’s big terrorist chieftain, founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was rendered into that proverbial grease spot on the desert floor. He won’t be missed.
It’s a victory comparable to the military rubout of al-Qaida founder, Osama bin Laden. According to NBC News:
The world’s most wanted terrorist, Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was the target of a deadly U.S.-led raid in northwestern Syria, sources told NBC News early Sunday.
Forensic testing is underway, but officials believe al-Baghdadi is among the dead, the sources said.
A U.S. Special Ops mission targeted the ISIS leader near Barisha, Syria, overnight. The mission included helicopters, jets and U.S. drones, the sources said.
The U.S. fired from the air and then landed and gathered intelligence, the sources said. Several others were also killed in a convoy. There were no reports of U.S. casualties.
So much for all that ”expert” opinion in the last few weeks in the mainstream media that President Trump’s pullout of U.S. troops from Syria would inevitably bring the recrudescence of ISIS.
Trump has just shown that it’s not always necessary to stage troops on foreign land to be effective.
In reality, the ISIS leadership just got decapitated, something that’s going to have an impact on global terrorist operations. They just lost their big fish.
It almost makes one wonder if the terrorists themselves were fooled by the media/expert naysaying.
The terrorists, who are known to be voracious watchers of CNN and other mainstream news, decided that Trump was a wimp, a pacifist, a non-fighter for pulling U.S. troops out, Trump wouldn’t fight them, leaving them with a field day. The coast was clear and it didn’t take long before they popped out of their holes.
Boom. That was a mistake.
Such was the thinking of one military expert featured on Fox News, (hat tip: Roger Luchs but thus far, no link at this point), clear enough for even a baby to understand.
Seems Trump had them covered all along and chose the just-right moment to lure them out of their rats nests, blowing them to hell.
And leaving egg all over the faces of the so-called experts.
With pacifists like this, who needs warmongers?
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In some cheering weekend news, ISIS’s big terrorist chieftain, founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was rendered into that proverbial grease spot on the desert floor. He won’t be missed.
It’s a victory comparable to the military rubout of al-Qaida founder, Osama bin Laden. According to NBC News:
The world’s most wanted terrorist, Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was the target of a deadly U.S.-led raid in northwestern Syria, sources told NBC News early Sunday.
Forensic testing is underway, but officials believe al-Baghdadi is among the dead, the sources said.
A U.S. Special Ops mission targeted the ISIS leader near Barisha, Syria, overnight. The mission included helicopters, jets and U.S. drones, the sources said.
The U.S. fired from the air and then landed and gathered intelligence, the sources said. Several others were also killed in a convoy. There were no reports of U.S. casualties.
So much for all that ”expert” opinion in the last few weeks in the mainstream media that President Trump’s pullout of U.S. troops from Syria would inevitably bring the recrudescence of ISIS.
Trump has just shown that it’s not always necessary to stage troops on foreign land to be effective.
In reality, the ISIS leadership just got decapitated, something that’s going to have an impact on global terrorist operations. They just lost their big fish.
It almost makes one wonder if the terrorists themselves were fooled by the media/expert naysaying.
The terrorists, who are known to be voracious watchers of CNN and other mainstream news, decided that Trump was a wimp, a pacifist, a non-fighter for pulling U.S. troops out, Trump wouldn’t fight them, leaving them with a field day. The coast was clear and it didn’t take long before they popped out of their holes.
Boom. That was a mistake.
Such was the thinking of one military expert featured on Fox News, (hat tip: Roger Luchs but thus far, no link at this point), clear enough for even a baby to understand.
Seems Trump had them covered all along and chose the just-right moment to lure them out of their rats nests, blowing them to hell.
And leaving egg all over the faces of the so-called experts.
With pacifists like this, who needs warmongers?
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The United States military conducted a special operations raid targeting one of its most high-value targets, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State militant group (ISIS), Newsweek reported late Saturday night.
Army Delta Force and Army Rangers led the way and closed in on Baghdadi’s lair in an overnight firefight and the ISIS leader died “crying, whimpering and screaming.”
President Trump watched the raid from the Situation Room, flanked by Vice President Mike Pence, National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien, left; Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff U.S. Army General Mark A. Milley, and Brig. Gen. Marcus Evans, Deputy Director for Special Operations……on the Joint Staff, at right.
President Trump deliberately left Congress in the dark about the raid of the ISIS leader’s compound on the northern Syria-Turkish border.
President Trump in a statement on Sunday morning told the press that Congressional leaders were not notified during the attack due to their constant leaks — including Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
It was also revealed that the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Adam Schiff (D-CA) received no notification or briefing on the Baghdadi operation.
It was just reported on @MSNBC that House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff received no notification or briefing on the Baghdadi operation.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 27, 2019
Adam Schiff is a leaker and a liar so President Trump did the right thing by leaving him in the dark about the special operations raid.
Schiff and Pelosi recently traveled to Jordan to undermine President Trump with shadow diplomacy.
The Democrat leaders met with Jordanian leaders and others to undermine President Trump’s Syrian policy.
President Trump once again asserted his power and showed Pelosi and Schiff that he is the Commander-in-Chief and can make decisions without their permission or input.
Trump keeping Schiff and Pelosi in the dark about the Baghdadi operation shows just how untrustworthy they are with classified information.
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So, in the “this aged well” department, I present to you Democrat Rep. Katie Hill of California.
In 2017, Hill — then a director of a non-profit — tweeted out a list of men who had been accused of sexual impropriety. This was at the height of the #MeToo scandal and shortly after the special Senate election in Alabama, where accusations of rape and sexual misconduct with much younger women played a deciding role in Roy Moore’s loss.
In addition to Moore and President Donald Trump, Hill called out “Bill Cosby, Harvey Weinstein, Louis CK, Jeffrey Tambor, Brett Ratner, Al Franken, Ed Westwick, Hamilton Fish, Leon Wieseltier, Terry Richardson, Mark Halperin, Roy Price [and] Kevin Spacey” in the tweet.
“Here’s an idea. How about we put more women in positions of leadership?” she concluded.
Donald TrumpRoy MooreBill CosbyHarvey WeinsteinLouis CKJeffrey TamborBrett RatnerAl FrankenEd WestwickHamilton FishLeon WieseltierTerry RichardsonMark HalperinRoy PriceKevin Spacey
Here’s an idea. How about we put more women in positions of leadership?
— Katie Hill (@KatieHill4CA) November 20, 2017
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The people of California’s 25th Congressional District certainly did just that, electing Hill to Congress over Republican Steve Knight in the 2018 midterms. Knight, it’s worth noting, has never been accused of sexual impropriety of any kind. The same cannot now be said for Hill.
On Wednesday, according to The Hill, it was announced that the California freshman had been referred to the House Ethics Committee after a complaint she had engaged in a sexual relationship with a staffer. This came after RedState had obtained compromising pictures of her with a woman who worked on her campaign and alleged she might have had a separate ongoing affair with her campaign finance director, who is male. Hill is openly bisexual.
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“The Committee is aware of public allegations that Representative Katie Hill may have engaged in a sexual relationship with an individual on her congressional staff, in violation of House Rule XXIII, clause 18 (a),” committee Chairman Rep. Ted Deutsch, a Florida Democrat, and ranking Republican Rep. Kenny Marchant of Texas said in a statement.
“The Committee notes that the mere fact that it is investigating these allegations, and publicly disclosing its review, does not itself indicate that any violation has occurred, or reflect any judgment on behalf of the Committee.”
Hill was defiant: “I am beyond grateful for the work the Ethics Committee does to ensure transparency in Congress. I welcome this investigation and will be cooperating fully to clear this matter up,” she said in a statement.
Hill, a rising star within the party, went on to say that the allegations were borne out of a divorce from “an abusive husband” and that “[i]ntimate photos of me and another individual were published by Republican operatives on the internet without my consent.”
In a letter to her constituents, however, she acknowledged a relationship with a female campaign staffer who, according to the U.K. Daily Mail, she was romantically involved with until May of this year. (While she was never a congressional staffer, Federal Election Commission records state that Hill still paid the woman, who was 22 when the relationship began, for “fundraising consulting” as recently as last month.)
#new #California Democrat #KatieHill admits affair, apologizes, promises to work with Ethics Committee. pic.twitter.com/SZPXKGkEVl
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Hill strongly denied an allegation she was sleeping with her campaign finance director, Graham Kelly.
“Allegations that I have been involved in a relationship with Mr. Kelly are absolutely false,” she said in a statement.
The Daily Mail’s article is a rather frank and revealing (a touch too uncomfortably revealing, if you ask me, but nothing if not thorough) look at Hill’s relationship with her subordinate, who apparently formed a throuple with Hill and her estranged husband.
A series of text messages from Hill’s lover, originally obtained by RedState, shows exactly why a relationship with a subordinate is frowned upon. The woman, who we’re not going to name, told Hill that the breakup was “crushing.”
“I am not going to be a toy for you on the weekends,” she said in one message.
“I at least thought you enjoyed that time and that it meant a lot to you. It’s really crushing to find out that it doesn’t.”
“I’m still a mess over you f—ers,” she told Hill’s estranged husband.
“I am still in love with her,” another message read. “It rips my heart out every time I have to see her or have someone say something nice about her.”
In one message, Hill acknowledged that her breakup with the campaign staffer was “maybe partially” because of the “political risk.”
“Honestly though, it’s that I want to be alone,” Hill said. “I don’t want to be accountable to anyone else. I want to be entirely focused on this work that I think is so important.”
In addition to the text messages, there were also pictures showing Hill using drugs — assumedly marijuana — and in the shower with the staffer. (The latter picture wasn’t published by either the Daily Mail or RedState, however.)
Here’s the link to the Daily Mail’s report, which we must warn you contains nudity and other graphic material. Viewer discretion is advised.
Both the RedState and Daily Mail contain salacious details about Hill’s personal life and other potential struggles, the vast majority of which are rather irrelevant here. The important part, however, is the fact that she had a sexual relationship with a woman she hired straight out of college while she was in her 30s. There’s been plenty of talk in the #MeToo era about the power dynamics of having a relationship with someone whose paycheck you sign — something that Hill acknowledged was wrong.
“I know that even a consensual relationship with a subordinate is inappropriate, but I still allowed it to happen despite my better judgment,” she wrote in the letter to her constituents.
“For that I apologize. I wish nothing but the best for her and hope everyone respects her privacy in this difficult time.”
And yet, Hill dragged her into this. Certainly a woman in her 30s knows a lot more about the risks of a relationship like this than a woman just out of college does — and the imbalance of power here is self-evident.
Perhaps, then, it was unsurprising that so many people on social media used her 2017 tweet to point out the hypocrisy:
You made the list!
— Aaron et politica ingenio 🇺🇸🚀 (@peekaso) October 24, 2019
— Ichi Wang (@dogadobo) October 24, 2019
Anyone else just here for the ratio?
— Ryan Secord (@Ryan_Secord) October 24, 2019
“Anything you can do, I can do better . . .”
— CG’s Geometry PitchBot (@cg_geometry) October 24, 2019
I guess we should have seen this as a warning of what leadership meant to you.
Sexual harassment isn’t just about consent; it’s also about power. https://t.co/NawYlzQbR2
— Sharon Hayes (@SharonHayes) October 24, 2019
Hey another first woman milestone! @SpeakerPelosi should get the podium and make some remarks.
— Martini, Extra Dry with a Twist 🍋 (@fledtothesouth) October 24, 2019
The Ethics Committee will determine how truthful and forthcoming Rep. Hill is being and whether or not she violated the House rules. What we do know is that if this wasn’t a violation of the rules, it’s still a profound ethical lapse — and an act of rank hypocrisy.
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Deep State in Deep Panic!
Sean Hannity opened his show on Thursday tonight with breaking news — Attorney General Bill Barr says Prosecutor John Durham’s investigation is now a CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION!
The New York Times reported that DOJ Durham probe has “shifted” from an administrative review of the Russia investigation “to a criminal inquiry.”
On Friday morning President Trump spoke with reporters on the White House lawn before leaving for a rally in South Carolina.
During the questioning President Trump was asked about the now criminal investigation by Attorney John Durham.
President Trump responded: It looks like it’s becoming very serious from what I see. Investigate the investigators. Whether it’s Strzok and Page. Whether it’s Clapper and Comey and all of these people. Because terrible things went on for our country. And we have a great Attorney General, highly prestigious man, a very honorable man. And they’ve been looking at it for a long time. I can’t tell you what’s happening. I will tell you this. I think you’re going to see a lot of really bad things. And a lot of people think that, and they know they have problems, because they were very dishonest. And again I leave it all up to the Attorney General. And I leave it all up to the people who are working with the Attorney General who I don’t know. But I will say this, I think you will see things that no one will believe. This was the worst hoax in the history of our country.
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A family spokesperson confirmed McKeehan’s death to various news outlets, although the cause behind his death remains unclear.
“Toby was traveling back from Canada and did not get home to be with his family until after midnight last night,” the rep said. “We just ask that everyone please be respectful of their privacy during this time and allow them to grieve their loss.”
McKeehan was the eldest of TobyMac’s five children and was himself an up and coming musician who collaborated with his father on several albums.
In a moving tribute on Instagram, TobyMac described his late son as a “joy that took the room when he entered.”
“He was a magnetic son and brother and friend. If you met him, you knew him, you remembered him. His smile, his laugh, the encouragement he offered with words or even without,” he wrote. “He had an untamable grand personality and dreams to match. And he hated being put in a box.”
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TobyMac, whose real name is Toby McKeehan, went on to discuss his son’s musical talents and intimate relationship with God.
“He expressed himself through the music he made. And by made I mean, written, recorded, produced, mixed, and designed the art,” he wrote. “All of it. A true artist. His first show was a week ago, and it was nothing short of electric. Everyone felt it, everyone knew it.”
He continued:
He could’ve easily taken the easy route and put music out when he was 12, 14, 16, even 18, but he always said he wanted to live some life and have something to say before he did it. He didn’t want to be a child star, he wanted to be a man with scars and a story to tell. I always admired, respected and encouraged that stand.
Truett always had a soft spot for God. The Bible moved him. His heart was warm to the things of his King. He was by no means a cookie-cutter Christian but give me a believer who fights to keep believing. Give me a broken man who recognizes his need for a Savior every time. That’s who Truett was and how he should be remembered.
TobyMac is best known for his singles “Me Without You,” “Love Broke Thru,” and “I Just Need U.” He released his eighth studio album in October last year, entitled The Elements.
The 55-year-old also shared his son’s heartbreaking final text message to him, where he told his father how he made him “feel like a superhero.”
“Love you Dad. Thank you so much,” he wrote. “Always believed in me. Made me feel like a superhero.”
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President Trump in a new book, accused Barack Obama of treason for spying on his 2016 campaign.
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President Trump has ratched up his claim that the Obama White House spied on his 2016 campaign, charging in a new book that it was a “treasonous” act by the former Democratic president.
“What they did was treasonous, OK? It was treasonous,” he told author Doug Wead for his upcoming book, “Inside Trump’s White House: The Real Story of His Presidency.”
“The interesting thing out of all of this is that we caught them spying on the election. They were spying on my campaign. So you know? What is that all about?” said Trump.
“I have never ever said this, but truth is, they got caught spying. They were spying,” said Trump who then added, “Obama.”
“It turned out I was right. By the way,” Trump told Wead in excerpts provided to Secrets. “In fact, what I said was peanuts compared to what they did. They were spying on my campaign. They got caught and they said, ‘Oh we were not spying. It was actually an investigation.’ Can you imagine an administration investigating its political opponents?” said the president.
In the book, Trump said that the Russia probe undercut his presidency.
“Anybody else would be unable to function under the kind of pressure and distraction I had. They couldn’t get anything done. No other president should ever have to go through this. But understand, there was no collusion. They would have had to make something up,” he said.
Shortly after Trump was sworn into office, he fired off a tweet accusing the Obama White House of wiretapping Trump Tower.
“Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my “wires tapped” in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!” Trump said in a March 4, 2017 tweet.
Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my "wires tapped" in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 4, 2017
Attorney General Bill Barr said earlier this year during a Congressional hearing, “I think spying did occur.”
Barr went on to appoint US Attorney from Connecticut John Durham to investigate the origins of Spygate.
It was reported late Thursday evening that Durham’s probe is now “criminal” in nature.
DOJ IG Michael Horowitz is also in the final stages of completing his report documenting the FISA [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act] abuses by Obama’s corrupt DOJ and FBI during the 2016 election targeting Donald Trump.
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