[NYPOST] A deranged Texas couple pleaded guilty to forcibly tattooing their two young children while they were restrained, gagged and blindfolded — and then laughing about the abuse when the ink was discovered.
The mother and stepfather, Megan and Gunner Farr, admitted to using a staple to do the tattooing to the 5 and 9 year old, and then frantically trying to remove the markings by scraping and scrubbing the children's skin so hard that ''flesh was removed'' after Child Protective Services was notified, KTRE reported.
''There were visible injuries on the child at the specific location of the tattoo and it appeared that the flesh was removed from the body at the tattoo location,'' interim Zavalla Police Chief Lt. James Denby said when the unhinged couple was arrested on April 24, 2023.
''This happened about the time that CPS got involved in the allegations of the child abuse.''
Police said that Megan, 27, and Gunner, 23, tied the youngster's up with rope, blindfolded them with a rag and covered their mouths with tape before pushing the pointed needle into their skin.
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[NYPOST] He had a need for speed — and now, he needs a good lawyer.
Connecticut cops arrested a 22-year-old influencer this week for a risky and reckless motorcycle ride — at 192 mph — he took last year across two of the Nutmeg State's busiest highways.
Showboating YouTuber Brice Bennett would likely have gotten away with his death-defying joyride, had he not shared the frightening footage with his 220,000 subscribers, according to an arrest warrant obtained by The Post.
State police said they were tipped to the video's existence by Gov. Ned Lamont's office, which received an anonymous complaint about Bennett's YouTube channel in late December.
Bennett's self-incriminating video allegedly shows him weaving in and out of traffic on his Honda CBR 1000RR Fireblade at speeds of up to 192 mph.
The video has been viewed over 4 million times since it was first posted to YouTube 11 months ago.
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It's a shame evolution couldn't just take it's course.
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Point of order - Moe and Shemp were pretty sharp cookies who invested wisely, and Curly was a little loose with his money, but even after he became ill he had enough funds to keep his family secure.
[NYPOST] A woman was killed early Saturday after allegedly pointing a handgun at state troopers who were responding to a reported domestic dispute, police said. She's dead now. So [snif!] sad!
The incident unfolded around 2:30 a.m. as state troopers arrived at a home on Forrest Drive in the Orange County town of Deerpark, in upstate New York near the Pennsylvania border. Me and m'wife and her old pap,
We all took a trip through the Cumberland Gap..."
Officers found a man on the front porch who told them a woman inside the home had a knife and a gun, and had stabbed him in the stomach. "She stabbed you?"
"Yeah. Wanna see?"
"Ew! Guts!"
When the woman, 69, emerged minutes later, she appeared to point a black handgun at cops — and two of them opened fire, state police said. It appeared the police shot back.
The woman, who has not been publicly identified, was taken to Bon Secours Community Hospital in Port Jervis and later died. She appears to be dead.
The man's non-life-threatening injuries were treated at the scene, authorities said. "Help him... uhhh... stuff his guts back in, Murphy!"
"Ew! Do I hafta, chief?"
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The state of New York charges the officers in 3...2...1.
[FoxNews] A suspected member of the radical "Zizian" cult was forcibly removed from a California courtroom after claiming an officer said she should be killed for being transgender.
Alexander "Somni" Leatham, a 29-year-old trans woman
…who is distinctly unattractive from the perspective of whichever sex he’s claiming at the moment, poor thing, but crazy eyes are gender-free…
from Agoura Hills, California, was one of five alleged members of the group of radical vegans, many of whom identified as trans, who were in Solano Superior Court Tuesday.
Leatham alleged that an officer told her she "deserved to be shot for being transgender while he had a gun, and I was in chains," according to SFGate. Leatham, and others in the group, face charges in connection with a string of killings across the country that culminated in the January killing of a U.S. Border Patrol agent along the northern border.
[NYPOST] The bohemian Mecca made famous for its anything-goes attitude, counterculture musical scene and clashes with police is begging for law enforcement, a shocking new survey found.
The Sixth Precinct Community Council polled 600 neighborhood residents and found 487 of them — 83% — want more cops on the streets.
And 74% of Villagers said the Empire State needed stronger prosecution for drug dealing, while 80% thought New York needed stricter bail laws, according to the first-of-its-kind survey, conducted in February and March.
''The village is frequently criticized for being liberal — but clearly the numbers here indicate we're not happy,'' said precinct council member Steve Zammarchi.
No place is more emblematic of the decline than Washington Square Park — where Bob Dylan used to sing songs about social injustice. Despite falling citywide crime, the green space continues to be overrun by junkies and dealers — and repeat offenders are on a loop — arrested, released and back by lunchtime, neighbors said.
''Enough is enough,'' said Village-raised Trevor Sumner, president of the Washington Square Association. ''Liberalism is being challenged and people are realizing that our attempts to honor some ideals are leading to worst outcomes.''
''Enough is enough,'' said Village-raised Trevor Sumner, president of the Washington Square Association. ''Liberalism is being challenged and people are realizing that our attempts to honor some ideals are leading to worst outcomes.''
Sumner says he would have described himself as ''quite liberal'' up until two years ago, but his personal views shifted when conditions in the park took a nosedive after the pandemic.
But it's not just in the park. The Sixth Precinct routinely posts on X about nabbing drug dealers plying their trade in broad daylight on Sixth Avenue — something that would have been unimaginable only a few years back.
''It's very hard for me to unsee the realities of the outcomes on the streets. It's shifted how almost everyone I know who's active in the community is thinking about voting,'' he said, blaming Albany's bail reform and discovery changes for the unending cycle of lawlessness.
Major felonies have surged over pre-pandemic levels, with 1,789 reported in 2024, up from 1,534 in 2019 — a 16% climb. So far this year, felonies are down 21%, compared to last year.
The conservative shift is showing up in voting records too, a Post analysis found. Nearly 13% of voters in the neighborhood backed President Trump in 2024, up from the 8% of 2020 supporters, according to Board of Elections data.
Eli Klein, who runs an art gallery in Greenwich Village, grew up in a very prominent liberal family — his mother Janet Benshoof was the founder of the Center for Reproductive Rights and a champion of the left. But the former lifelong Democrat said the party abandoned them.
''The left has gotten more extreme as opposed to us really going the other way. There's a lot of recidivist criminals on the streets. The progressives push really soft on crime stuff. It's hard to believe that a huge section of our population wants career criminals on the streets,'' he said.
Longtime village residents say the free-love energy of the past has morphed into something less poetic.
''There's a lot more crazies, unstable people. It's just an eyesore, it's disconcerting,'' said Philip Spinelli, 75, who's lived on Christopher Street since the 1960s.
Back then, they say, they were protesting for a cause. Now, not so much.
''We have literal zombies walking through the streets and framing it as somehow these reforms have given them some kind of dignity — this is not dignity,'' said Sumner.
The NYPD did not return The Post's request for comment.
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"We have literal zombies walking through the streets and framing it as somehow these reforms have given them some kind of dignity — this is not dignity," said Sumner.
I used to be liberal when it came to drugs. But even that liberalism included the idea of "Do what you want in private." The idea that people could become human garbage in public was never part of the equation.
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I hung out in the village way back when, mostly at the night owl cafe for the music of John Sebastion and Zal Yanovski etc. (AKA lovin' Spoonful) It was a real laid back kind of place I still miss the memories. There were druggies but they were tolerated and pitied mostly.
[NY Post] President Trump suggested the US may boycott the G-20 summit in South Africa over a “Land Confiscation” law and “Genocide” talk in the formerly white-ruled nation.
“How could we be expected to go to South Africa for the very important G20 Meeting when Land Confiscation and Genocide is the primary topic of conversation?” Trump wrote on Truth Social Friday night.
“They are taking the land of white Farmers, and then killing them and their families,” the president claimed. “The Media refuses to report on this.”
Trump’s post alluded to South Africa’s Expropriation Act of 2024, a law intended to undo the consequences of the 46-year-long system of apartheid that non-white South Africans were subjected to until 1994.
The law allows the government to seize land in specific instances, ostensibly when it is not being used or it is in the public interest, and redistribute it.
Trump included a compilation of Julius Malema, a radical left-wing South African politician, making disturbing speeches that called for “killing” people in furtherance of a “revolution.”
For the last several years, racial tensions between white farmers and non-white citizens in South Africa have been boiling.
AfriForum, a group that promotes the rights of South Africa’s white minority population, has long expressed concern that the government has underreported murders of white farmers, insisting that the rate is far higher than the general murder rate.
Crime figures in South Africa are not broken down by race. Of the 6,953 people murdered in the country between October and December, the latest figures, only 12 were killed in farm attacks, according to the BBC. It’s unclear how many of those were white.
Trump noted in his post that his administration has already “held back all contributions to South Africa,” referring to his February executive order directing US aid to the country be frozen over the land redistribution law.
The president has also offered “any farmer” fleeing South Africa a “rapid pathway” to US citizenship.
“Is this where we want to be for the G20?” Trump’s post continued. “I don’t think so!”
The White House did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
The G-20 summit, a meeting of the heads of state from the countries with the 20 largest economies, will be held in Johannesburg from Nov. 22-23. The gathering will be the first G-20 summit ever held on the African continent.
[ZERO] This graphic, via Visual Capitalist's Bruno Venditti, is based on research by WalletHub, which ranked states by total tax burden, combining property, income, and sales taxes as a share of personal income. Data is from the Tax Policy Center as of March 2025.
HAWAII TOPS THE NATION IN TOTAL TAX BURDEN
Hawaii holds the highest total tax burden in the United States, with residents contributing nearly 14% of their income to state and local governments. This includes 4.2% in income taxes, 2.6% in property taxes, and a substantial 7.2% in sales and excise taxes.
Rank State Total Tax Burden
1 Hawaii 13.9%
2 New York 13.6%
3 Vermont 11.5%
4 California 11.0%
5 Maine 10.6%
6 New Jersey 10.3%
7 Illinois 10.2%
8 Rhode Island 10.1%
9 Maryland 10.0%
10 Connecticut 9.9%
11 Minnesota 9.7%
12 New Mexico 9.6%
13 Massachusetts 9.6%
14 Utah 9.5%
15 Ohio 9.4%
16 Kansas 9.3%
17 Iowa 9.2%
18 Indiana 9.1%
19 Mississippi 9.1%
20 Oregon 9.1%
21 Louisiana 8.9%
22 Kentucky 8.9%
23 Virginia 8.9%
24 West Virginia 8.9%
25 Nebraska 8.8%
26 Colorado 8.7%
27 Nevada 8.6%
28 Washington 8.6%
29 Arkansas 8.6%
30 Pennsylvania 8.6%
31 Georgia 8.5%
32 Wisconsin 8.3%
33 Michigan 8.3%
34 Arizona 8.2%
35 North Carolina 8.2%
36 South Carolina 8.2%
37 Alabama 8.0%
38 Montana 7.9%
39 Missouri 7.8%
40 Texas 7.8%
41 Idaho 7.5%
42 Oklahoma 7.0%
43 North Dakota 6.6%
44 Delaware 6.5%
45 Florida 6.5%
46 South Dakota 6.5%
47 Tennessee 6.4%
48 New Hampshire 5.9%
49 Wyoming 5.8%
50 Alaska 4.9%
In contrast, Alaska has the lowest overall tax burden. Residents there pay no state income tax, only 3.5% of their income in property taxes, and just 1.5% in sales and excise taxes—resulting in a total tax burden of only 4.9%.
INDIVIDUAL INCOME TAX
Topping the list is New York, followed closely by California, Maryland, Oregon, and Hawaii. These states tend to have more progressive tax systems and offer extensive public services and infrastructure, which are often funded by higher income taxes.
On the other hand, five states—Alaska, Florida, Nevada, South Dakota, and Tennessee—are tied for having the lowest individual income tax burdens, all ranked 43rd. This is because these states do not levy a state income tax at all.
PROPERTY TAX
At the top of the list are Vermont, New Hampshire, and New Jersey—states known for higher living costs and robust public services, which often rely on property taxes for funding. Rounding out the top five are New York and Maine.
On the opposite end, states like Alabama, Arkansas, and Oklahoma have the lowest property tax burdens, with Tennessee and Delaware also ranking near the bottom.
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Kansas at 16th, Iowa at 17th, and Nebraska at 25th should be fighting words for the people who live there. I have extensively traveled each of those states (in another life I was a Federal Bank Examiner) and I love the people there. But there is but for a few exceptions literally nothing going on there. Their tax money goes to line the pockets of those they elected, and their cronies.
A basic rule of Life, I was taught when I 1st started working.
If you have to pay a tax to have it, or use it.
Then you don't own it, you are either renting it from the Government.
Or, paying the Government for permission to eat it or use it.
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Doesn't Alaska tax North Slope crude oil? So everyone that burns gas or oil (or uses plastics) contributes to Alaska's low tax burden.
Good for them, but it distorts the list.
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They leave out compounding. The businesses that must pay their taxes add that cost to the final product expense before the state grabs another cut of the transaction. That's just the final pass on. They tax at the site of creation. They tax the transportation.
One of the things recently was a removal of State Sales Tax from groceries, which is fine, but if I understand, is everything edible including luxury goods such as soda pop, candy, pate, sushi, etc.
[AmericanThinker] The new German federal government is planning hundreds of billions of euros in new debt. With this, Germany joins the ranks of the heavily indebted states of the Eurozone. Officially, the funds are intended for military capability and infrastructure development. But what strategy is the government really pursuing? The coalition of CDU/CSU and SPD is prepared to burden German taxpayers with over one trillion euros in debt. That’s a steep price for a policy that continues the stagnation of the Merkel years: no economic reforms to promote the private sector, but instead a push for greater centralization. Details at the link.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] President Donald Trump is considering offering every resident of Greenland an annual cash payout as part of his campaign to win over the island.
His administration has moved forward on a formal plan to acquire the Arctic island from Denmark, the New York Times reported, outlining the public relations campaign and other incentives the White House is considering.
One of those options is replacing the $600 million in subsidies that Denmark gives the island with an annual payment of about $10,000 per Greenlander.
Denmark insists the island is not for sale and cannot be annexed.
So the Trump administration is focusing on persuasion over coercion and working on a public relations campaign to convince the population of 57,000 that they should ask to join the United States.
That is likely to include advertising and social media campaigns to sway public opinion.
The administration is also looking at emphasizing Greenlanders' shared heritage with the native Inuit people of Alaska, nearly 2,500 miles away. The island's Inuit population is descended from people who migrated from Alaska hundreds of years ago.
And Trump officials believe what ever costs are spent to woo the islanders would be offset from new revenue extracted from Greenland’s natural resources, which include rare earth minerals, copper, gold, uranium and oil.
The president could have an uphill battle. Public opinion polls have been clear that Greenlanders don't want to be part of America. In last month's election, the winning party was one that favored total independence for the island.
[AmMilitaryNews] New Intel CEO linked to Chinese military after investments exposed: Report
A new report claims that Intel’s new CEO has invested in hundreds of Chinese technology firms, including at least eight companies linked to China’s People’s Liberation Army.
According to Reuters, Lip-Bu Tan
…he was born Malaysian Chinese, educated in Singapore and then America. His entire career has been with American tech and investment/venture capital companies, through which he was involved with Asian companies; among his board memberships, he was on Intel’s board of directors from 2022 to 2024, so if he intended damage he could have started long since…
was appointed last month as the new CEO of Intel, the largest computer chip maker in the United States and a company that develops products for the U.S. Department of Defense.
A review of U.S. and Chinese corporate filings conducted by Reuters discovered that Tan controls over 50 Chinese companies and funds and has minority stakes in more than 600 others through various investment firms. Reuters noted that Tan shares his minority stake ownership of many companies with Chinese government entities.
Reuters reported that between March of 2012 and December of 2024, Tan invested at least $200 million into hundreds of Chinese chip and manufacturing companies. Reuter’s review noted that some of the companies Tan invested in included contractors and suppliers for China’s People’s Liberation Army.
According to Reuters, the outlet discovered 20 investment companies and funds that are jointly owned by Walden International and Chinese government entities. Reuters reported that Tan made multiple investments through Walden International, which is listed as a venture capital firm.
Reuters’ review also discovered that Walden International has investments in six Chinese tech firms connected to China Electronics Corporation, which is a supplier for the People’s Liberation Army, and that Tan invested in Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp, which is currently sanctioned by the federal government due to its connections with the Chinese military.
According to Reuters, while an anonymous source with knowledge of the situation told the outlet that the new Intel CEO had divested from his positions in Chinese companies, a review of Chinese databases still listed multiple of Tan’s investments in Chinese firms as current.
Due to Tan’s reported connections with China, Andrew King, a partner at Bastille Ventures, told Reuters, “The simple fact is that Mr. Tan is unqualified to serve as the head of any company competing against China, let alone one with actual intelligence and national security ramifications like Intel and its tremendous legacy connections to all areas of America’s intelligence and the defense ecosystem.”
Despite concerns regarding Tan’s connections with Chinese companies, an Intel spokesperson told Reuters that the CEO had completed a director and officers questionnaire that requires individuals to notify the company of any potential conflicts of interest. The spokesperson said, “We handle any potential conflicts appropriately and provide disclosures as required by SEC rules.”
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[NYPOST] A deranged Texas couple pleaded guilty to forcibly tattooing their two young children while they were restrained, gagged and blindfolded — and then laughing about the abuse when the ink was discovered.
A suspected member of the radical "
