U.S. Soccer Agrees to Pay Men and Women Equally. Americans Agree Not To Watch Either One.

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	In groundbreaking news, Soccer players, a game usually played by toddlers and angry America-hating leftists with purple

U.S. Soccer Agrees to Pay Men and Women Equally. Americans Agree Not To Watch Either One.

The pro-crime party <a href="https://pitchfork.com/news/new-york-state-senate-passes-bill-limiting-use-of-song-lyrics-in-court/">keeps on pro-criming</a>.

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		New York’s State Senate approved a bill Tuesday (May 17) that would limit prosecutors’ use of song lyrics and other forms of “creative expression” as evidence in criminal cases.&nbsp;Senate Bill S7527&nbsp;would not ban prosecutors from presenting lyrics or other material to a jury, but would require them to show that the work is “literal, rather than figurative or fictional.”

	
		The bill, which was sponsored by Senators Jamaal Bailey and Brad Hoylman, received&nbsp;public support&nbsp;from Jay-Z, Meek Mill, Killer Mike, Fat Joe, and Robin Thicke, among others. Before the bill can become a law, it must pass the New York State Assembly; a&nbsp;companion bill&nbsp;sponsored by Assembly member Catalina Cruz is pending before a committee and awaiting a vote.

	
		The bill, while in the works for months, comes as Atlanta rappers Young Thug and Gunna&nbsp;face RICO charges&nbsp;in Georgia in a case where their lyrics and music videos make up the bulk of the state’s evidence of criminal conspiracy. In the 2013 case&nbsp;Dawson v. Delaware, the Supreme Court ruled that it is unconstitutional to use protected speech as evidence, provided that speech is irrelevant to the case.

	
		The court&nbsp;declined&nbsp;to hear the case of Jamal Knox, a Pittsburgh rapper known as Mayhem Mal who was&nbsp;convicted&nbsp;on charges of terroristic threats and witness intimidation over lyrics in a 2012 song called “Fuck the Police.”&nbsp;
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	It is awkward when an entire genre based on violence whose members routinely engaged in violence toward each other and innocent people start pretending that they're engaging in fictional threats, not real ones.


	I usually err on the side of free speech, but a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/rap_song_that_threatened_police_officers_is_not_protected_speech_pennsylvan">recap&nbsp;the Mayhem Mal </a>case in a way that virtually no media outlet, which focuses on celeb rapper support, shows why it happened.

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		The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has rejected a free speech claim by a rapper who threatened to kill two Pittsburgh police officers he identified by name in a video titled “F— the Police.”

	
		Using the name Mayhem Mal, Knox and another rapper threatened the officers who were scheduled to testify against them after arresting the pair on drug charges. The other rapper’s case was not before the court.

	
		One of the officers said the video was one of the reasons he left the force and relocated.

	
		Both officers are named, and Knox states in the song that the lyrics are for them. In one part of the rap song, Knox said, “I’ma jam this rusty knife all in his guts and chop his feet,” and, “Well your shift over at 3 and I’m gonna f— up where you sleep.” The song also suggests the rappers know the identity of a confidential informant and a have a plan to murder an informant with a Glock handgun.
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	This is what New York Senate Dems seem to driven to protect.


	Would such a law, clearly preferencing criminals of a certain culture, survive a Supreme Court test?

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		If the court found First Amendment protection for the video, Saylor said, “we would in effect be interpreting the Constitution to provide blanket protection for threats, however severe, so long as they are expressed within that musical style.”
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	It's a good question.


	If a criminal writes a death threat in words cut out from a newspaper, isn't that also an art project?


	The New York Senate Dem "F___ the Police" bill, "Establishes an assumption of the inadmissibility of evidence of a defendant's creative or artistic expression against such defendant in a criminal proceeding; requires the proffering party to affirmatively prove that the evidence is admissible by clear and convincing evidence."


	How are prosecutors going to prove that a criminal's communications aren't part of a creative project in an era where anything, from mutilated horses to a golden toilet to Banksy and rap can be considered art?


	There's no metric for art, which means anything is art.


	Drug dealers can freely send text messages brokering drug deals as long as they do it in rap form.


	I'm sure that this won't make New York an even worse hellhole.

NY Senate Dems Pass "F___ the Police" Bill Protecting Violent Rap Threats

The pro-crime party keeps on pro-criming.


	
		New York’s State Senate approved a bill Tuesday (May 17) that would limit prosecutors’ use of song lyrics

NY Senate Dems Pass "F___ the Police" Bill Protecting Violent Rap Threats

Former Mayor Bill de Blasio shouldn't have had a political career. Radicalism is not a problem in NYC, but even most radicals hate his guts. Bill de Blasio's combination of arrogance, incompetence, laziness and corruption contrived to make him widely hated across the spectrum.


	So of course he ran for president.


	After that fizzled, thought was given to running for governor and <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/05/17/bill-de-blasio-eyeing-run-at-newly-drawn-ny-seat-nadler-has-left-behind/">now the House</a>.

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		Ex-New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio told a state lawmaker he plans to run for New York’s&nbsp;newly drawn 10th Congressional district&nbsp;— the seat entrenched Rep. Jerrold Nadler is vacating to fight it out with former longtime ally Rep. Carolyn Maloney in the rejigged 12th.

	
		De Blasio&nbsp;considered a run&nbsp;for the NY-11 district – before the&nbsp;state’s redistricting maps&nbsp;were thrown out the first time – but then&nbsp;dropped his bid in February before it started.&nbsp;
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	As the Post notes,&nbsp;Bill de&nbsp;Blasio&nbsp;blew a presidential and gubernatorial campaign. If he abandons a House run, what's left? City Council? Assemblyman? Dogcatcher?


	De Blasio's own Twitter feed is a mishmash of attacks and virtue signaling at the state and the federal level, barking about state gun laws and federal social media regulation as if his own online persona can't figure out which office he wants to run for and is just keeping all of his possible options open.


	It seems as if it might be kinder to take him off the street and give him some kind of job where a complete incompetent would be allowed to mismanage billion-dollar budgets and just misplace $800 million.


	Maybe Burger King or Starbucks?

Won't Someone Hire Bill de Blasio To Do Something?

Former Mayor Bill de Blasio shouldn't have had a political career. Radicalism is not a problem in NYC, but even most radicals hate his guts. Bill de Blasio's

Won't Someone Hire Bill de Blasio To Do Something?

Give Chesa Boudin some credit, the Soros DA is responsible for the deaths of a lot more Americans than his Weather Underground&nbsp;parents. This is why the counterculture lefties decided to <a href="https://sfstandard.com/criminal-justice/da-chesa-boudin-fentanyl-court-data-drug-dealing-immigration/">destroy the system from within</a>.

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		Despite a surging fentanyl crisis that&nbsp;killed nearly 500&nbsp;people last year in San Francisco, the office of District Attorney Chesa Boudin did not secure a single conviction for dealing the deadly opioid for cases filed during 2021, according to a review of court data.
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	No drug dealer is illegal apparently.

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		Another big factor is the DA’s attention to offenders’ immigration status, which by law they are required to consider. Prosecutors and criminal defense attorneys point out that drug dealing convictions are grounds for deportation, and a substantial number of drug dealers in the city are Honduran nationals who could face deadly consequences if deported. The accessory charge still gives them and their families a path toward eventual citizenship.
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	So Americans have to die so that Honduran drug dealers can become citizens.

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		The DA’s approach is not winning many fans in the most-affected neighborhoods. “I know the horrors of being undocumented and selling drugs, but we can’t let our people continue to die,” said Rene Colorado, executive director of the Tenderloin Merchants Association.&nbsp;

	
		“My best friend died of a heroin overdose here in San Francisco, because I couldn’t help him. There have to be limits,” he said. “If you’re undocumented and selling fentanyl, guess what, you have to face the consequences. You have to do your time here in the States and you’re probably going to be deported.”&nbsp;
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	Not on Chesa Boudin's watch. Or on any Soros DAs watch.

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		In one example of using the “accessory after the fact” conviction for fentanyl dealing, a defendant was arrested and charged five different times from July 2020 through December 2021 for dealing fentanyl, heroin, meth and crack cocaine. According to court documents, evidence included a backpack with cash and “numerous” colorful plastic baggies of drugs. All five cases were consolidated for a January 2022 sentencing where he received two “accessory after the fact” felonies and served several months in jail.

	
		Another example in San Francisco involved a man with four separate drug dealing arrests last year between June and December. He was charged with selling fentanyl, crack, more than an ounce of meth and over 14 grams of heroin. His ultimate conviction was for two misdemeanors for&nbsp; “accessory after the fact,” and his sentence was two days in county jail, which he had already served.
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	Remember when lefties complained about California's "draconian" drug laws. Then go look at the bodies on the street. That's what the alternative looks like.

Americans Die of Fentanyl Overdoses as Soros DA Protects Foreign Drug Dealers From Deportation

Give Chesa Boudin some credit, the Soros DA is responsible for the deaths of a lot more Americans than his Weather Underground&nbsp;parents. This is why the

Americans Die of Fentanyl Overdoses as Soros DA Protects Foreign Drug Dealers From Deportation

It's official. Women don't exist and neither does "<a href="https://www.mediaite.com/weird/democratic-pro-choice-caucus-releases-language-guide-saying-choice-is-harmful-language/">choice</a>".

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		The House Pro-Choice Caucus has released a language guide with suggestions about what to say and not to say on the issue of abortion, including an admonition on the harmfulness of the word “choice.”

	
		In addition to “choice,” words deemed “harmful language” include “reduce abortion,” “safe, legal and rare,” “unwanted pregnancy,” “conscience clause/protections” and “back-alley abortions/coat hangers.”

	
		“Helpful language,” on the other hand, includes words like “decision,” “safe, legal and accessible,” “unexpected pregnancy,” “refusal of care/denial of care laws” and “criminalizing healthcare.”
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	This reeks of a focus group being convened on how to best market abortion to millennials.&nbsp;


	Why is the&nbsp;House Pro-Choice Caucus dumping "choice"?


	Choice, a key element in pro-abortion branding, is 'freedom' language. It's likely been concluded that freedom language is out of sync with an illiberal Left. And thus "choice" has been replaced with the illiberal "decision" which was probably determined to be far more empowering.


	The implication is that abortion is not a choice, that there aren't two sides or options, but an absolute decision. Abortion, the message goes, is not optional.


	But nothing under the Left is. Just ask China's One Child Policy.

The End of "Choice"

It's official. Women don't exist and neither does "choice".


	
		The House Pro-Choice Caucus has released a language guide with suggestions about what to

The End of "Choice"

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		Ms. Michelle Rice, a lawyer for Leonard Cohen’s estate,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/republicans-twice-defy-leonard-cohen-estate-to-play-hallelujah-at-convention/">complains</a>&nbsp;that the Republican National Convention played his famous and much beloved song “Hallelujah” without the consent of the estate. Brian Monaco, president of Sony/ATV Music Publishing which owns the rights to “Hallelujah,” made a similar complaint.

	
		It was sung as the convention finale by the justly famous singers Tori Kelly and Christopher&nbsp;Macchio. Mr.&nbsp;Macchio&nbsp;performed the song live, and a recording of Ms. Kelly’s rendition was played.

	
		Ms. Rice added in her statement of dismay: ”Had the&nbsp;RNC&nbsp;requested another song, 'You Want it Darker', for which Leonard won a posthumous Grammy in 2017, we might have considered approval of that song.”&nbsp;

	
		Ms. Rice, really?&nbsp;

	
		Ms. Rice, after claiming that the&nbsp;RNC&nbsp;had played “Hallelujah” without the Cohen estate lawyers’ permission, took a “swipe” at Trump by suggesting that “Had the&nbsp;RNC&nbsp;requested another song, ‘You Want it Darker,’ for which Leonard won a posthumous Grammy in 2017, we might have considered approval of that song.”

	
		“You Want it Darker,” Leonard’s last song, which he recorded while he was dying of a painful terminal illness, is a powerful and eloquent but extremely sad song, in which he contemplates his own approaching death and seeks to come to terms with it. He also comments on the terrible suffering of all mankind.

	
		Was Ms. Rice trying to say --&nbsp;when she suggested that the Republican convention should have played “You Want it Darker” -- what she and other “liberals” hope will soon happen to Trump? Or what she predicts, and perhaps, wants, to happen to all humanity if Trump is reelected?&nbsp;

	
		I knew Leonard Cohen very well. We were close friends for 45 years. In my youth, I was his girlfriend for a time. I know for a fact that he never objected to his songs being sung anywhere, by any legitimate nonprofit organization whatever its political orientation. He never discriminated on the basis of people’s political opinions or those of the audience when he agreed to perform his songs for them. He believed that anyone and everyone had a right to listen to his songs.&nbsp;I attended his last performance, before a massive audience in Israel. While Leonard always loved Israel, he also offered to perform his songs in Ramallah before a Palestinian audience, although his offer was rejected. And he donated part of his performance proceeds to a few reconciliation organizations that promote healing the wounds of both Israelis and Palestinians by enabling relatives of victims on both sides to meet and celebrate the lives of their departed loved ones.

	
		Leonard was never an especially political person. The quest for spiritual knowledge and experience was far more important to him than politics. Yet shortly before he passed away in 2016, he confided in me that he supported Donald Trump for President, although he preferred to keep his views private because, in the music and entertainment world in which he and his children moved, Trump was considered anathema, and whoever supported him was treated as a heretic. Leonard, who was not a feisty or conflict-loving person, had no desire to offend his colleagues, so he confided only in his children and closest friends—including myself—about his pro-Trump position.

	
		He was also certain that Trump would win the 2016 election, despite all the opposition he received from the media, and despite the polls that universally predicted victory for Trump’s opponent, Hillary Clinton. In an&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEvordkQBY0" target="_blank">interview</a>&nbsp;with the Canadian Press on April 3, 2017 “The Montreal singer-songwriter's son Adam recalled his father’s prediction. Cohen's son says the notion of Trump winning seemed ‘absurd’ to everyone around his father.

	
		“He was one of the only people I know, Adam said, who had the most absurd prediction that anybody in my midst would dare have: he predicted Donald Trump was going to be the President of the United States, which of course made us all laugh hysterically.”

	
		They assumed the medical marijuana he was ingesting clouded his logic: “He was stoned out of his mind,” Adam says. “‘What did he know?’ we thought. But it turns out the old man was right.”

	
		Cohen died in California one day before Trump stunned the world by defeating Hillary Clinton. Though he was closely associated with his hometown Montreal, he also lived and worked on the American West coast.’

	
		There is no doubt whatsoever in my mind that Leonard would have been proud and happy when his song was performed at the Republican National Convention. And he would have been equally happy if it had been played at the Democratic National Convention as well.
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Estate Lawyer Complains Leonard Cohen’s 'Hallelujah' Played at RNC

Ms. Michelle Rice, a lawyer for Leonard Cohen’s estate,&nbsp;complains&nbsp;that the Republican National Convention played his famous and much beloved song “

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NY Senate Dems Pass "F___ the Police" Bill Protecting Violent Rap Threats

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The End of "Choice"

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