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Thursday, October 6, 2022
BY JULIA CLAIRE & CROOKED MEDIA

- Conservative social media influencer Christian Walker sending a very subtle message to his father, Georgia GOP Senate nominee and father of many children (secret and public!) Herschel Walker

Demonstrations in Iran continue this week, along with state violence against the protesters, and the nation’s unrest is about much more than just hair. 
 

  • The protests do stem from the death of a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, Masha Amini, at the hands of Iran’s morality police, and they represent the largest demonstrations the country has seen in years. The state’s official story is that Amini had a heart attack after being arrested for an alleged violation of Iran’s strict dress code for women, but the footage they released was edited. That was almost three weeks ago, and protesters are still marching through the streets, eliciting brutal clashes with police
     

  • How brutal? A 16-year-old girl named Nika Shakarimi who attended the initial protests disappeared on September 20, according to her family, after burning her headscarf in protest and being followed by security forces. The government then refused to disclose her whereabouts, stole her body for burial, and pressured her relatives to make false statements about how she died. Her aunt and uncle were detained by Iranian authorities after they posted what they believed to be the truth about Nika’s death and spoke to the media. Her story very closely mirrors Amini’s. 
     

  • Tehran judiciary official Mohammad Shahriari was cited by the media saying that a post-mortem suggested her injuries were caused by a fall from a great height. But a death certificate issued by a cemetery in the capital stated that she died after suffering “multiple injuries caused by blows with a hard object.” State television aired footage of her uncle criticizing the protests and confirming the official government narrative, but as he spoke, someone seemed to whisper in Persian, “Say it, you scumbag!” The Iranian government has long made use of forced confessions according to human rights groups. Nika’s social-media accounts were deleted after she went missing, according to her family.

Iran’s authoritarian regime led by the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei has ruled so barbarously that protests like these in the face of state violence would have been unthinkable until recently. 
 


What we’re witnessing is the most widespread challenge to Iran’s leadership in years, a nation possibly on the precipice of a human-rights revolution. Now is not the time to look away.

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President Biden has pardoned all people convicted of marijuana possession under federal law today. He also said his administration would review whether marijuana should still be considered a Class 1 drug, in the same group as narcotics like heroin and LSD. The pardons will clear the names of about 6,500 people who were convicted on federal charges of simple marijuana possession from 1992-2021, and thousands more who were convicted in Washington, DC. The Biden administration will also urge state governors to follow his lead if they have not already implemented similar measures, as state convictions for such offenses far outnumber federal. Biden stopped short of calling for the complete decriminalization of marijuana, which only Congress can do. Criminal justice-reform advocates have been urging the president to take action for some time now in order to demonstrate his commitment to chipping away at the structural inequalities built into the criminal-justice system, some of which he had a hand in creating with the 1994 Crime Bill.

Former Oath Keepers member John Zimmerman testified in the seditious conspiracy trial of the group’s founder Stewart Rhodes that Rhodes had a contact at the Secret Service with whom he was in correspondence over three months before the January 6 insurrection

 

A former Texas Department of Public Safety trooper is under investigation after footage revealed that she arrived within two minutes of the gunman entering Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, TX, but did not act to subdue him, and he was not stopped for 77 minutes. She’s now working for the same school system of the same children who survived the shooting. 

 

A former police officer opened fire in a Thailand daycare center today, killing at least 36 people—at least 24 of whom were children as young as three—in the nation’s deadliest mass shooting. The man had been fired from the school earlier this year for drug possession, and killed himself, along with his wife and child, at home after the massacre. 

 

A right-wing federal judge halted key provisions of New York state’s latest gun-control law, saying multiple parts of the law passed this year are unconstitutional, including restrictions on concealed carry in places like trains and airplanes. Yay, freedom.  

 

A new Washington Post analysis shows that the majority of Republican nominees on the ballot this November for House, Senate, and statewide races (299 candidates!) either deny or question the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. We could have told you that. 

 

Congress is now pressing the FBI after a whistleblower alleged that an internal review found that a staggering 665 FBI personnel resigned or retired to avoid accountability in misconduct probes over the past 20 years. 

 

Two men who fled Russia to avoid conscription ended up on a remote island off the coast of Alaska. No word from Sarah Palin as to whether or not she saw them coming from her house. 

 

Continuing his tour of denial, Georgia GOP senate candidate Herschel Walker said he had “no idea” who the woman claiming he urged her to have an abortion could be. Turns out, it’s the mother of another one of his children. Don’t you just hate when that happens?

 

Mark your calendars: the next January 6 Committee hearing will be held on Thursday, October 13, at 1 p.m. EST. This could be the series finale!

 

The city of Rochester, NY, agreed to pay the family of Daniel Prude $12 million after he was killed by Rochester police officers in March 2020. 

 

The managing director of the International Monetary Fund announced that the IMF is once again lowering its projections for global economic growth in 2023 and said things are “likely to get worse before they get better.” Oh good!

Unthinkable conditions in Alabama’s prison system have sparked a widespread strike among prisoners incarcerated in all 13 state prisons. Beginning on September 26, demanding improvement to their conditions, the incarcerated population in these prisons started striking from their prison-service jobs, for which they receive no pay. They’re also demanding reforms to harsh sentencing laws and surging parole denials, both of which have long plagued the Alabama carceral system. The strike has continued even as the Alabama Department of Corrections canceled weekend visits for prisoners, and reduced the number of daily meals provided to inmates from three to two. Not helping your p.r. there, ADOC! Inmates have leaked photos of the cold, paltry meals they are regularly provided and many claim they are denied access to basic healthcare and livable conditions. One prisoner has publicly claimed to have been transported from a work-release center to a higher-security prison and forced to work against the strike. There is allegedly a coordinated effort to keep inmates incarcerated “in order to generate more for the state of Alabama.” As of July 2022, the ADOC holds more than 20,000 prisoners in facilities designed to hold a maximum of 12,115. More than one in four inmates are serving life sentences, or sentences exceeding fifty years.

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A new technique involving a skin swab could be the key to detecting Parkinson’s disease, which is historically difficult to diagnose. 


A new poll shows that the majority of voters in nine key battleground states are more likely to back senators who support the Respect for Marriage Act. Support for marriage equality remains at an all-time high.

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