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-Lurid Crime Tales-
FBI releases new footage of Washington pipe bomb suspect
[IsraelTimes] Man is suspected of planting explosives at headquarters of both Republican, Democratic parties the night before the storming of the US Capitol.

The FBI on Tuesday released new images of the man suspected of placing homemade pipe bombs in Washington on January 5 — the night before the assault on the US Capitol — in an effort to gather identifying information about him.

The video, published on the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s official YouTube channel, shows several angles of surveillance footage of the suspect as he walks along streets in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of the US capital.

Dressed in dark pants, a light-colored hoodie and gloves, the man’s face is obscured by glasses and a mask as he carries a bag in one hand.

The FBI had already released still photos of the suspect — including ones that showed identifying details of his Nike sneakers — offering $100,000 for any information leading to his arrest.

The man is suspected of planting the homemade bombs near the headquarters of both the Republican and Democratic parties, which are near the Capitol.

The bombs never detonated and may have been placed as a distraction, to keep police away from the Capitol as a pro-Trump mob breached the building where politicians were voting to certify the former president’s election loss to Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Candidate for president in 2020. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant...
"We still believe there is someone out there who has information they may not have realized was significant until now," Steven D’Antuono, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington field office said, in asking for the public’s help in identifying the suspect.

"These pipe bombs were viable devices that could have been detonated, resulting in serious injury or death," he said.

Posted by: trailing wife || 03/11/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Looks like a typical Trump supporter. /sarc
Posted by: KBK || 03/11/2021 0:28 Comments || Top||

#2 

OK suspect on foot.

Because I haven't been following this suspected False Flag closely. A few questions.

Suspect is claimed to have planted bombs at Republican and Democratic parties HQ locations.
Have the Republican and Democratic parties Video's been released?

Given I have done ITSEC work and Training for the DOJ IT, several K street locations and "others" in area.

As we know since the 2001 and the increasing attacks on DC, Fed Dept./agencies, residents. The place is loaded with 1,000's of street, public and private CCTV's.

Plus add to that the very effective AI vehicle tracking system at most intersections and Mass Transit Facial/Body ID and FLIR body & parcel imaging cameras in use.

It is odd that a full month later this is still popping up. Its like being drawn out for additional support for the Jan. 6th, narrative where in real life it was a 5th column action.

BTW: has the FBI or anyone released a Physical description age (White, Black, Hispanic, Asian, Arabic) _ft _ inches high and approx weight?

Why is it a man? It could be a Transgender



Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/11/2021 5:34 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ Or paid (current/former) FBI or OGA source.

"If you recognize or know the whereabouts of these two persons of interest, please contact the Boston SAC at......"
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/11/2021 6:46 Comments || Top||

#4  The FBI also has a video of Ashli B getting shot in the neck and they have not solve that homicide. FBI is not interested in solving certain crimes.
Posted by: Airandee || 03/11/2021 6:48 Comments || Top||

#5  /\ Yes Airandee, what the Bureau appears to have little interest in, is generally quite.... interesting.

(Please insert the following graphics here: Russian spy Anna Vasilyevna Chapman, Feinstein's Chinese driver, Seth Rich, Jeffrey Epstein or his jail guards, Clinton homebrew server, MI6 officer Christopher Steele, MAJ Nadal Hasan, Tamerlan Tsarnaev's wife Katherine Russell, Julian Assange, Congressman Eric Swalwell or Fang Fang, Capital Police Officer Brian D. Sicknick, Paki-DNC IT repair guy Shahid Imran Awan, Dominion voting machines, and Hunter Biden or his laptop)
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/11/2021 6:56 Comments || Top||

#6  #5 You left out Whitey and the Boston Circus.
Posted by: Cesare || 03/11/2021 8:28 Comments || Top||

#7  ^ ... ringmaster of which was Robert Mueller
Posted by: Phising Jaitle8720 || 03/11/2021 9:00 Comments || Top||

#8  Dressed in dark pants, a light-colored hoodie and gloves, the man’s face is obscured by glasses and a mask as he carries a bag in one hand.

Why is the FBI so certain this is a man?
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/11/2021 10:02 Comments || Top||

#9  This must be the crack Lady Gaga Squad.

JohnQC good point; plenty of idiosyncrasies to suggest otherwise. Was that a phone use before dog walker, or a ploy to hide the face?

2 months in, and this is the hot lead. On foot, middle of winter, late at night, and just walks on out. What bullshit.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/11/2021 11:24 Comments || Top||

#10  FBI is not interested in solving certain crimes. FBI is only interested in committing &/or enabling certain crimes. FIFY.
Posted by: Thineger Sproing6704 || 03/11/2021 11:39 Comments || Top||

#11  #10 ... "as a pro-Trump mob breached the building"
Posted by: irish rage boy || 03/11/2021 12:46 Comments || Top||

#12  2 months in, and this is the hot lead. On foot, middle of winter, late at night, and just walks on out. What bullshit.

Shitshow.
Posted by: Elmemp McGurque8537 || 03/11/2021 13:27 Comments || Top||

#13  Looks like Nancy Pelosi to me....
Posted by: CrazyFool || 03/11/2021 14:00 Comments || Top||

#14  Description by Juicy Sommelier
Posted by: Frank G || 03/11/2021 14:28 Comments || Top||

#15  Looks like a black man. BLM maybe?
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/11/2021 14:43 Comments || Top||

#16  The hoodie wearer must be white or Asian because the dog walker did not walk across the street.
Posted by: Airandee || 03/11/2021 19:29 Comments || Top||

#17  Note on my previous comment: it was a sarcastic view of woke America that assumes certain people are racist.
Posted by: Airandee || 03/11/2021 19:31 Comments || Top||

#18  ^ nonetheless true
Posted by: Threreper Schwarzeneggar6629 || 03/11/2021 21:24 Comments || Top||

#19 
Americans are ALL suspect if you voted for TRUMP

Posted by: Arithmetic Owenkimchi9873 || 03/11/2021 21:53 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
House passes gun control bill expanding background checks to private transfers
[American Military News] The House voted in favor of the Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2021 (H.R. 8) with a vote of 227-203 Thursday, passing legislation that would criminalize private gun sales conducted without a background check.

"It shall be unlawful for any person who is not a licensed importer, licensed manufacturer, or licensed dealer to transfer a firearm to any other person who is not so licensed, unless a licensed importer, licensed manufacturer, or licensed dealer has first taken possession of the firearm," H.R. 8 states.

Democrats overwhelmingly supported the bill, with 219 voting in favor of the legislation. Eight Republicans also voted in support of the bill.

The 202 Republicans voting against H.R. 8 were joined by a single Democrat. None of the Representatives responded with "present."

The National Rifle Association (NRA) warned against the anti-gun measure, claiming a universal background check system would act as a gun owner registry.

"NICS would become a gun owner registry if all firearms transfers were subject to NICS checks and the FBI retained records of approved checks indefinitely, both of which gun control supporters have proposed," the NRA’s website states. "Such records would include information currently maintained on federal Form 4473, documenting the identity of the firearm purchaser and the make, model and serial number of the firearm transferred."

The NRA continued, "Over time, as people sell or bequeath their firearms, a registry of firearm transfers would become a registry of gun owners."
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/11/2021 12:49 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  to transfer a firearm to any other person
Similar wording to Washington state law IIUC, which can be (and may have been) construed to include handing a gun to a friend to hold while you climb into your tree stand, or letting a friend or family member shoot it at a range or on your own property. They will claim that is not what is meant, until they need it to mean that.
Posted by: Glenmore || 03/11/2021 13:04 Comments || Top||

#2  It's just No gun Joe sticking his toe in the water to see if it's too cold. There's a giant gun confiscation movement coming from these people but don't tell anybody.
Posted by: jpal || 03/11/2021 14:54 Comments || Top||

#3  They must feel they can force this past Supreme Circus review when it's eventually challenged.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 03/11/2021 15:05 Comments || Top||

#4  ^^ Given recent SC cowardness I wouldn't be surprised.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/11/2021 15:17 Comments || Top||

#5  The Supreme Council will probably uphold it. The ultimate goal is to outlaw firearms, Constitution be damned.
Posted by: Neville Slinter5228 || 03/11/2021 15:20 Comments || Top||

#6  Doesn't seem to stop 'private' gun transfers in Chicago (cause it would be racist, right?)
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/11/2021 20:35 Comments || Top||


Rascist Conspiracy Nutjob Marcia Fudge Confirmed as HUD Sec
PJMedia] In 2015, she pleaded for leniency for Lance Mason, a former Ohio state legislator, who had beaten his then-wife in front of their children. Mason got out of jail after serving nine months and later murdered his ex-wife in 2018....She also claimed that the Trump administration was purposefully opening up businesses targetting lower-income America to get black people to spend their COVID relief checks. "You know, they opened the beauty salons and the barbershops and the bowling alleys and the movie theaters. When they start opening up the country clubs and the tanning spas, then I’m going to go to one," she claimed. "Because they’re just opening up the things black people go to because they know we’ve got these checks and they want us to spend them. They don’t care about our safety. That’s why when they start opening up things they go to, then I’ll understand it’s time to start to open up some things for us."
Posted by: Lord Garth || 03/11/2021 09:03 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What a Cabinet. A Fudge-Wit and a couple of Fudge-Packers, with a VP who Fudged her way to the top.

Fudge 'em all.
Posted by: Kojo Omaitle6313 || 03/11/2021 13:40 Comments || Top||

#2  16 Republicans voted for her.
Posted by: Thorong Grundy1520 || 03/11/2021 14:30 Comments || Top||

#3  If only every federal bureau was as ineffectual as HUD...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/11/2021 15:57 Comments || Top||

#4  poor people = black people

Got it.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/11/2021 16:15 Comments || Top||

#5  Because they’re just opening up the things black people go to because they know we’ve got these checks and they want us to spend them

That's right, Moron Marcia, just to ensure that lottery scratch-offs are available, because we know beyond a shadow of a doubt that those relief checks went into solid investment plans.
Posted by: Clem || 03/11/2021 19:42 Comments || Top||

#6  Wondering how she got to be a race pimp with such deep pockets. Wish her well spending my tax dollars and hope she and her family prosper of it.
Posted by: jpal || 03/11/2021 20:08 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Gov. Cuomo allegedly reached under aide's blouse and groped her
[NYPOST] The sexual harassment scandal engulfing Gov. Andrew Sonny Cuomo escalated Wednesday with the emergence of allegations that he reached under a female aide’s blouse and groped her while they were alone in a room inside the Executive Mansion in Albany.The incident allegedly unfolded after the much-younger woman was summoned to help the 63-year-old governor fix a problem with his cellphone, the Albany Times Union reported.

The woman told him to stop, the newspaper said.

The accusations are the most serious yet made against Cuomo, who’s previously been hit with claims of sexual harassment and other inappropriate behavior by five other women, four of whom were his aides at the time.

The latest accuser said the incident took place late last year after Cuomo shut the door to a room on the second floor of the governor’s heavily guarded, official residence, the Times Union said.
Posted by: Fred || 03/11/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He began his disgusting career of perversion simply sniffing hair.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/11/2021 6:48 Comments || Top||

#2  Well, He IS Italian, so at least he can't be charged with "cultural appropriation".
Posted by: Mercutio || 03/11/2021 7:45 Comments || Top||

#3  Another redirect. This specimen is a killer. Thousands died due to his criminal negligence. This is 1,000x worse than the groping or the propositioning
Posted by: Whemp Cheath7673 || 03/11/2021 9:02 Comments || Top||

#4  ^-- Not to the left.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 03/11/2021 9:11 Comments || Top||

#5  Old folks tend to be conservative and think of the savings to Social Security as well as increased funding from the Death Tax. Win/Win/Win for the Libs. I'm sure that's too craven to have crossed their minds
Posted by: Warthog || 03/11/2021 9:35 Comments || Top||

#6  This perv with a sense of entitlement, is getting a lot of flak from his own party.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/11/2021 9:42 Comments || Top||

#7  This is just to cover for him killing thousands of nursing home residents. After all slipping a hand under a blouse, or, in Biden's case, down panties, is a minor scandal to the media (and left). Excusable because the perp has the magic 'D' after their name.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 03/11/2021 9:46 Comments || Top||

#8  #2 Well, He IS Italian, so at least he can't be charged with "cultural appropriation".

"Well, I wanted to talk privately with her and you know, I am Italian, and we speak with our hands, so..."
Posted by: Frank G || 03/11/2021 10:08 Comments || Top||

#9  By Democrat standards, actually pretty tame.
Posted by: Angstrom || 03/11/2021 11:09 Comments || Top||

#10  Ya unnerstan, Frankie G.
Posted by: Mercutio || 03/11/2021 11:42 Comments || Top||

#11  Not just a ladykiller. Grandpas died too.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/11/2021 12:12 Comments || Top||

#12  #1 ... like someone else we know?
Posted by: irish rage boy || 03/11/2021 12:35 Comments || Top||

#13  ^ actually Plugs is more likely to be sent than to send to the nursing home. Sad (sniff)!
Posted by: Pliny Poodle2834 || 03/11/2021 13:29 Comments || Top||

#14  Rich people & Politicians steal our money and fondle all women! Gee, I wish I were rich.
Posted by: Muggsy Thud2393 || 03/11/2021 14:09 Comments || Top||

#15 
Prime Suspect
Posted by: Anyone Hypothermic8356 || 03/11/2021 21:48 Comments || Top||


‘Migrant president': Mexico says Biden asylum policies boost illegals, cartels
Question is: How far they can they f*ck us before we restore the border?
Texas isn’t waiting for the feds to figure it out — they’re taking care of their portion of the southern border.
[NY Post] The Mexican government is concerned that President Biden’s asylum policies are encouraging illegal immigration and providing revenue to drug cartels through human trafficking across the US border.

Mexico has asked the Biden administration for help to provide developmental aid to Central America since many of the migrants come from countries such as Honduras, Nicaragua and Guatemala seeking asylum in the US.

"They see him as the migrant president, and so many feel they’re going to reach the United States," Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said of Biden after their virtual meeting on March 1, according to Reuters.

"We need to work together to regulate the flow, because this business can’t be tackled from one day to the next," Lopez Obrador added.

Some of Biden’s policies that worry the Mexican government include a fast track to citizenship for migrants living in the US and support for gang violence victims.

Internal assessments reviewed by Reuters — based on testimony and intelligence gathering — state that Mexican gangs have been growing their clientele and keeping tabs on US measures that would encourage migration. Additionally they have developed a new tracking system to move migrants across the US-Mexico border.
Posted by: Frank G || 03/11/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He's the 'migrant President' because he won't be there long.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/11/2021 0:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Extortion demand.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 03/11/2021 0:29 Comments || Top||

#3  It didn't take long to resurrect the Dem drug and human trafficking money pipeline coming up from Mexico and Central America. Criminals, all of them.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/11/2021 9:44 Comments || Top||

#4  Mexican migrants in the U.S. sent more money home in 2020 to keep families afloat
Whenthe coronavirus descended on the world a year ago, many assumed that as economies seized up the casualties would include the many thousands of families in Mexico and Central America that depend on regular payments from relatives in the United States.

But while those poorer nations saw their economies devastated by the virus, there was a silver lining: remittance payments actually soared. Total remittances to Mexico rose 14% in 2020, to $41 billion from $36 billion in 2019, according to Bank of México — the vast majority of it coming from the U.S. That amounted to 4% of Mexico’s gross national product.

In the border region, the increase was even more dramatic. Tijuana received more money in family remittances than any other municipality — about $626 million, a 30.1 percent increase from 2019.

More than 1.5 million households in Mexico receive remittances from abroad. The money serves as a lifeline for towns like Puerto Nuevo, a dusty fishing village perched on top of sun-soaked cliffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean about 90 minutes south of San Diego.
Posted by: Frank G || 03/11/2021 9:46 Comments || Top||

#5  Somalis and Haitians next.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 03/11/2021 10:28 Comments || Top||

#6  When the Mexican president criticizes the US for supporting illegal immigration into the US, you know that the current US administration is a total shitshow
Posted by: Throlump Thrusose3963 || 03/11/2021 10:38 Comments || Top||

#7  And don't forget. When mass H1B1 Visas start, you must train your foreign replacement in order to get your severence pay.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 03/11/2021 10:45 Comments || Top||

#8  Concerned? Why my dear chap, that is where the money is.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/11/2021 11:41 Comments || Top||

#9  Somalis and Haitians next.

Don't forget the Iranians...and the Chechens and the...
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/11/2021 13:21 Comments || Top||

#10 
Posted by: Injun Chomomble7936 || 03/11/2021 20:33 Comments || Top||

#11  Don't forget the Iranians...and the Chechens and the...
..Isis
..Boko Haram
..Al Qaeda
..COVIDiferous and or criminal scalawags from all four corners
Posted by: Pancho Mussolini4855 || 03/11/2021 21:31 Comments || Top||


Gavin Newsom, In Recall Hole, Keeps Digging
[PJMEDIA] Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Governor Gavin Newsom gave his "State of the State" address last night and decided he wasn’t giving his opponents and advocates for his recall enough ammunition. So he obliged them by choosing to frame his campaign for "equity" as a question of not going back to "normal" when the pandemic ends because "normal accepts inequity."

Telling people that things will not "return to normal" after what they’ve been through is not a way to win friends and influence voters. It is, in fact, another reason to sign a recall petition and vote the incompetent governor out of office.

The governor further explained his comment that "normal accept inequity" by elaborating that inequity was the reason Latinos were dying from COVID at a higher rate over any other racial or ethnic group in the state, why the poor wages of essential workers’ are not enough to live on, and why the state has seen mothers leave the workforce in dramatic numbers.

The reason those wages are not enough to live on is that your housing policies make it too expensive to live anywhere in your state. And it could be those mothers are leaving the workforce because your buddies in the teacher’s unions refuse to go back to work so the schools can open.

Those two issues — housing costs and school closings — are what have people most upset at Newsom and he’s not helping his cause any by deflecting attention from the real problems.

Needless to say, Newsom opponents are lining up to take him on. One challenger, the former Republican mayor of San Diego, Kevin Faulconer, can’t wait to rumble.

"What we had, again, was more word salad and a lot of rhetoric," Faulconer said of the address. "And really, unfortunately, in California, we have a governor that is botching the basics. That’s why you’re seeing this recall continue to grow with so much strength."
Posted by: Fred || 03/11/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's simply amazing he's not out on his bottom as Governor by now.
Posted by: Raj || 03/11/2021 0:32 Comments || Top||

#2  No matter who runs against him or how the recall goes, Newsom will be the one counting the votes alongside Dominion.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 03/11/2021 1:09 Comments || Top||

#3  Flaming asshole. Incompetent philandering hypocrite. Can't wait to replace this drunken bum.
Posted by: Ebbomort Jolet2223 || 03/11/2021 3:33 Comments || Top||

#4  We got Davis so we can get Given Gavin.
Posted by: crazyhorse || 03/11/2021 4:35 Comments || Top||

#5  There are several other corrupted politicos who Californians ought to shit-can to save their state. The Covid relief bill is a pork-laden bill designed to suck money from the rest of us to poorly managed and corrupt blue states
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/11/2021 9:50 Comments || Top||

#6  I just hope this recall election is as entertaining as the last one with Gray Davis.
Posted by: Tom || 03/11/2021 11:57 Comments || Top||

#7  Need a Dem to split their party vote like Cruz Bustamante did to Davis
Posted by: Frank G || 03/11/2021 12:01 Comments || Top||

#8  The recall went down to a strong defeat in the Bay Area, the only region where a majority voted to keep Davis in office.
Posted by: crazyhorse || 03/11/2021 12:50 Comments || Top||

#9  The reason those wages are not enough to live on is that your housing policies make it too expensive to live anywhere in your state.

Wrong. A relatively new California state law overrides local control of zoning so Newsom is slapping up massive apartment buildings as fast as the illegal aliens in the construction crews can do it. That is not the answer. In fact, they've been building as fast as they can for decades and the cost of housing continues to skyball. There is a lot of demand for housing in coastal California. It is prime real estate because it's very, very nice. People like Newsom and Faulconer seem to think that everybody in the whole, wide world who wants to live here should be able to find "affordable housing". That means illegal immigrants, Chinese, Somalis and...well...everybody...until San Diego looks like Calcutta.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/11/2021 13:35 Comments || Top||


Senate confirms Merrick Garland to be US attorney general
Good thing that he'll now regain his memory of all his previous positions on the issues he couldn't remember hearing of or thinking about. It's a miracle!
Inevitable, but such a pity. Still, at least Senator Mitch McConnell refused to approve him for the US Supreme Court, so the honourable Mr. Garland has limited time in which to do harm.
[NYPOST] The Senate has confirmed Merrick Garland to be the next US attorney general with a strong bipartisan vote, placing the widely respected veteran judge in the post as President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Candidate for president in 2020. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created ... by the — you know — you know, the thing...
has vowed to restore the Justice Department’s reputation for independence.Democrats have praised Garland, a federal appeals court judge who was snubbed by Republicans for a seat on the Supreme Court in 2016, as a highly qualified and honorable jurist who is uniquely qualified to lead the department after a tumultuous four years under former President Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
. Many Republicans praised him as well, saying he has the right record and temperament for the moment. The vote was 70-30.

Garland will inherit a Justice Department embattled by a turbulent era under Trump, who insisted that the attorney general must be loyal to him personally, a position that battered the department’s reputation. In the last month of Trump’s presidency, Attorney General William Barr resigned after refuting Trump’s false claims that widespread electoral fraud had led to his defeat.
Seems they forget Eric Holder as Oblahblah's "Wing man"
Trump’s pressure on officials, including on Barr and former Attorney General Jeff Sessions over the department’s probe into his campaign’s ties to Russia, prompted abundant criticism from Democrats over what they saw as the politicizing of the nation’s top law enforcement agencies.
Posted by: Fred || 03/11/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Very Unfortunate.
Posted by: Spoter B || 03/11/2021 7:50 Comments || Top||

#2  And the implementation for plans to disarm America begin to be put in notion at DoJ. A Lexington and Concord moment is coming to a village near you much sooner than you hoped. For Burgers who know anyone in ATF I hope you recommend a career transfer to some other 1811 rated position to avoid that tragic moment that might happen. Prepare for BS word salad to describe why you are going to be a felon and that the 2nd Amendment isn't really in effect due to the Insurrection that you obviously are supporting...
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 03/11/2021 12:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Sadly I think you are right, NMBS. Big question now is which way law enforcement and the Guard will go: Redcoats or minutemen?
Posted by: Ulomonter the Great8823 || 03/11/2021 13:43 Comments || Top||


Nevada Democratic Party staff quits after Democratic socialists sweep party leadership positions: report
[FoxNews] Every candidate except one was a dues-paying member of a local Democratic Socialists of America.

The entire Nevada Democratic Party
...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy, white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
staff quit after a left-wing slate of candidates picked up seats in the party's leadership.

The party's executive director, Alana Mounce, sent an email to Judith Whitmer, who won a spot as the party's chair on Saturday, notifying Whitmer that she and other staff members were resigning.

That included the party's operations director, research director, communications director, and finance director, The Intercept reported Monday.

Whitmer had run as part of the "The NV Dems Progressive Slate," in opposition to the "The Progressive Unity Slate," run by the Democratic Party.

"We weren’t really surprised, in that we were prepared for it," Whitmer told the Intercept. "But what hit us by surprise and was sort of shocking is that for a slate that claimed that they were all about unity, and kept this false narrative of division going on throughout the entire campaign — in fact they kept intensifying that — that’s what was surprising about it, was the willingness to just walk away, instead of working with us."

A former party staffer indicated to The Intercept that Whitmer would reverse progress seen in the party.

"I knew I couldn’t work with her and watch her destroy the years of hard work so many operatives put into making our state party the best state party in the country," the anonymous staffer said.

The incident reflected longstanding tension within the party, which has seen conflict between more establishment members like Crooked Hillary Clinton
...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away. Politix is not one of her talents, but it's something she keeps trying to do...
and progressives like Sen. Bernie Sanders
...The only first openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords. He ran for the 2016 nomination for president, to be cheated out of it by Hillary Clinton, then went back to being an Independent socialist, waiting for 2020 to roll around...
, I-Vt., who identifies as a Democratic socialist.

The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), along with the Left Caucus, reportedly ran "The NV Dems Progressive Slate" for leadership, with every candidate except one as a dues-paying member of a local DSA.
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