A Democratic mayor on Monday demanded more positive media coverage of crime in Washington, D.C., claiming there was more than a week of violence being "down" despite a weekend of shootings and stabbings.

Mayor Muriel Bowser on Monday was pressed by a reporter during a press conference on how her office balances the messaging of calling on residents to go out in D.C. while also warning about violence, prompting her to lash out at the media.

"You didn't report that we had like over a week where violence was down, homicide didn’t happen," Bowser told reporters. "I know you didn't report that, but it's OK. I'll tell you."

Social media users blasted the Democratic mayor's comment about violent crime being down for a single week as crime continues to plague the city.

"Not sure what Bowser is talking about here. There were multiple homicides in the District just last week," a Punchbowl News senior producer posted on X.

"A week with no homicides? Hope someone is organizing a parade," an American Action Forum (AAF) staffer posted on X.
"Completely clueless. Imagine trying to get sarcastic while bragging about ONE week without a homicide. Congrats," a D.C. banking executive posted on X.

"This lady is Grade A crazy. People are shooting up clubs on random weekends and she’s talking about 1 week of no homicides," another X user wrote responding to the clip.

"This is such an unserious answer from Mayor Bowser on arguably the biggest issue in D.C.," another wrote.

Bowser's claim comes just days after she revealed she would not be meeting with a D.C. father who has reportedly been demanding a meeting with officials after losing three of his sons to violent crime in the city.

The man's three sons were Avion Evans, who was shot and killed at D.C.'s Brookland Metro station April 4; his brother, Johnny Evans III, who was stabbed to death at D.C.'s Deanwood Metro; and John Coleman, who was reportedly shot to death last May.

Homicides are down in the city compared to the same time last year but remain high with 56 individuals being victims of homicide since the beginning of 2024, according to D.C. crime data.

Days before Bowser's comment regarding crime, a shooting erupted outside a popular nightclub in Washington, D.C., Friday night. Six people, including a woman celebrating her bachelorette party, were shot in the 1200 block of Connecticut Ave Northwest and 18th Street Northwest.

"I will never return to the streets of D.C.," Katie, the mother of three and bride-to-be who was shot, told Fox5 after the incident. "I was doing nothing wrong in what was supposed to be the safest place in D.C., and I got shot."

Earlier that evening, a male teenager was repeatedly stabbed in the food court at Union Station, a busy travel hub for Amtrak. There were also shootings Tuesday evening and Wednesday afternoon in D.C., including a homicide Tuesday night.

Fox News Digital asked Bowser if she had any additional comments after violent crime spiked again after reportedly being down for a week but received no response at the time of this publication.

Saw on the news this AM that the feminists are clamoring about the pay disparity (again) between women and men in sports.

CC's benig the #1 draft pick in WNBA will have a salary of 75k where as the #1 pick in NBA will have a 10million dollar deal. I guess it is really hard to understand REVENUE GENERATION. Maybe they failed to see that the NBA subsidizes the WNBA into existence.

The bulldike on USA soccer was bitching about their pay as well, when they get a higher % of their revenue then men do.

Interesting how the fem's only come out when it's a "pay" thing and not a ding-a-ling thing hanging between the legs...

Hope these trump dudes get what's coming. JFC

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This happened with the print newspaper industry a few years ago, and while zombies still publish amongst us, for all intents and purposes, they are officially dead. Broadcast-tv-for-pay is going the same way, quickly:

With DirecTV Now Shrinking at Nearly 17%, MoffettNathanson Says Pay TV Has Entered the ‘Doom Cycle’​

By Daniel Frankel
( NextTV )
published about 19 hours ago

The domestic pay TV industry just experienced its worst quarterly cord-cutting ever in Q1, losing 2.3 million customers, 300,000 more than the same period a year ago, according to figures compiled by equity research company MoffettNathanson.


Also read: Do the Collapse --Dish Becomes the Latest Major Pay TV Operator to Accelerate to Double-Digit Cord-Cutting Rate (Charts of the Day)

Last week, after Dish Network revealed that its cord-cutting had accelerated to an all-time-high 11.2%, Next TV made the point that the domestic pay TV industry seems to have passed a threshold, whereby the erosion of the user base further degrades the overall value proposition ... thereby further accelerating the rate of decay.

We always read deftly written MoffettNathason's reports with with a level of dread — forget ChatGPT, who needs us when these guys put it so damned clearly and eloquently, with first-hand information? And it happened again here in the firm's Q1 ”Cord-Cutting Monitor” report — principal analyst Craig Moffett even put a clever name on what's happening to linear pay TV operators: “The Doom Loop.”

The graphic below explains the virtuous cycle quite nicely. (We also think that cramming so much commercial load into linear channels to make up for declining revenue has been a huge contributor to the value erosion of pay TV.)






(Image credit: MoffettNathanson)
As Moffett puts it, the cycle of ever increasing sports licensing costs drove up pricing, chasing entertainment-seeking non-sports customers out of the market and onto things like SVOD platforms.

As churn increased, content suppliers sent more and more of their best wares to subscription streaming to chase after these lost customers — thus kicking off the “impoverishment cycle.”

And that cycle has gotten to the point at which, as Moffett noted, even the pay TV ecosystem’s most staunch supporter, ESPN, is now counting its the days for the linear model.

“We’re going to get to a point where we take our entire network, our flagship programming, and make it available direct to consumer," ESPN chief Jimmy Pitaro said last week.

How bad are things? You have to go back 37 years to find a point at which linear cable, satellite and telco penetration (excluding vMVPD) was at just over 40 million U.S. households.





(Image credit: MoffettNathanson)
At least for a while, virtual services were capturing most, or all, of the customers that left more expensive traditional pay TV platforms. But vMVPD's have steadily risen in price, eroding their value proposition, too, and that "conversion rate" hit an all-time low of 25.7% in Q1, MoffettNathanson said.





(Image credit: MoffettNathanson)
The “Cord-Cutting Monitor” is chock full of interesting tidbits, but this one also caught our eye. (Not that eye. The other one. Our good eye.) DirecTV has been shielded from public view ever since AT&T spun it off with private equity back in 2021, but MoffettNathanson estimates it's bleeding even faster than Dish.

In fact, the firm estimates that DirecTV — which includes DirecTV satellite, DirecTV Stream vMVPD and AT&T U-verse is collapsing even faster than Comcast, which was 12.1 percent smaller, video base-wise, on March 31, 2023, than it was a year prior.

If you haven't seen the viral clip from Yahoo! Sports, Coop said he was asked by NFL teams if he thinks he could beat Caitlin in 1v1. He said he thinks he could.
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On Up and Adams this morning, Coop said Caitlin texted him to follow up:
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Former Obama adviser and CNN political analyst David Axelrod lambasted President Biden's defiant stance on the economy Wednesday, calling it a "terrible mistake" so much so that it could result in his defeat in the upcoming election.

"I don't understand this," the famed Democratic strategist reacted. "I don't understand all these months later, you know, I thought they spent $25 million mistakenly last fall touting Bidenomics and making the same argument that the president is making here."

In an interview with CNN, Biden attempted to boast about his record despite polls that consistently show dissatisfaction with his handling of the economy and that Americans trust his 2024 rival, former President Trump, on the issue more than him.

"We've already turned it around," Biden insisted before citing one poll showing most Americans claiming they are "personally in good shape" economically.

He then lashed out at other survey findings, "The polling data has been wrong all along. You guys do a poll at CNN, how many folks do you have to call to get one response? The idea that we're in a situation where things are so bad… When I started this administration, people were saying there's gonna be a collapse in the economy. We have the strongest economy in the world. Let me say that again, in the world."

That attitude did not sit well with Axelrod.

"It is absolutely true. The world was plunged into an economic crisis and America was plunged into an economic crisis by the pandemic and we've come back faster than almost any other country and he's right about that. But that's not the way people are experiencing the economy," Axelrod told CNN's Erin Burnett.

"They're experiencing it through the lens of the cost of living. And he is a man who's built his career on empathy. Why not lead with the empathy?"

He continued, "And I think he's making a terrible mistake… If he doesn't win this race, it may not be Donald Trump that beats him. It may be his own pride."

Fellow CNN panelist Scott Jennings agreed with Axelrod, calling Biden's economic messaging "incredibly weak."

"You correctly confronted him with the statistics and the polling and he whined about that. And then of course, we went wobbly on Israel," Jennings told Burnett.

"I think he must be mortified when he looks at poll after poll that says the American people trust Donald Trump more on the economy, they trust him to be a strong leader, and they believe that the world is in chaos because he is weak and Trump is strong. It must be mortifying that he can't find a way out of this cul de sac," Jennings added.

While the White House repeatedly touts strong economic stats, voters at home aren't happy with Biden's job performance. A Fox News poll in March showed only 38% of Americans approve Biden's handling of the economy.

Meanwhile, the RealClearPolitics average of polls continues to show Trump having the edge over Biden in the key swing states that are needed to win the election.

Police are investigating allegations of sexual assaults of students by fellow students at Wahoo Neumann High School, which the police chief called hazing incidents that had “gone too far.”
Last week, police obtained search warrants to seize cellphones alleged to contain recordings of two separate assaults involving different victims, according to court records filed in Saunders County District Court.
On Tuesday, Wahoo Police Chief Joseph Baudler said investigators were still in the “information gathering” stage and are working to interview more students.
“Our goal is to make sure everyone is safe, both physically and emotionally,” Baudler told the Lincoln Journal Star.


According to the affidavit for a search warrant, on April 19 Wahoo police were called to Wahoo Neumann on a report by the assistant principal about a rumor going around the school about a possible sexual assault of a student at a home in Wahoo.

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Baudler met with the student who said he had been hanging out at a classmate’s home in late March when one of the boys pinned him down, pulled down his pants and assaulted him with a plastic bottle while another boy made a video and sent it to friends.

“At which point it spread throughout the school,” the police chief said in the search warrant.

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Police said in the court document that they cited both of the boys on suspicion of first-degree sexual assault and one for making child pornography. Neither had been charged as of Tuesday.

In a separate incident, Wahoo police were contacted April 23 by the father of another boy, who had a video of three students holding down his son and attempting to strip him of his gym shorts and roll him onto his stomach.
The incident was alleged to have happened on Wahoo Neumann school grounds during religion class April 5.

During the investigation, Baudler was “made aware of other incidents where male students ... at Bishop Neumann High School have been sodomized by their classmates,” according to the search warrant.
In a forensic interview in Lincoln late last month, one of the boys said that he had been tackled and that classmates had tried to take off his shorts while another boy recorded on his cellphone.


The video was shared on Snapchat.
The boy’s father told investigators he feared something more happened after the video cut off.
Another Wahoo officer talked to a confidential witness who said that one of the three boys had tried to digitally penetrate him against his will and that similar incidents had happened to others in the class.
Baudler spoke with one boy who described incidents of other items being used to assault classmates.

Everybody use this thread to masturbate.

Seriously. Isn’t this, like, racist or something these days?

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MTG’s motion going down quicker than Boebert in a dark theater.

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It’s fabulous.

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Civil rights groups sue to block Iowa's new 'illegal reentry' immigration law​

Galen Bacharier
Des Moines Register

Civil rights groups have sued Iowa to block the state's new immigration law, which criminalizes "illegal reentry," from going into effect.
The lawsuit, filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, argues that Senate File 2340 violates federal law and could result in anyone who has previously been deported from the U.S. facing jail time, including those in the country legally with a green card or asylum.
"The law makes no exception for people who reentered the United States with federal consent or who later gained lawful immigration status," the groups write in the suit. "Nor does the law make an exception for people who are in the process of obtaining immigration status. And the law provides no opportunity to raise humanitarian claims for protection from removal enshrined in federal immigration law and international conventions."

In addition, they allege, the law does not prohibit the prosecution of children, or adults who were removed or deported and then returned as children.
The law violates the supremacy clause of the U.S. Constitution, the groups charge, by implementing a "patently illegal" plan to "replace Congress' immigration scheme with its own."
The American Immigration Council, American Civil Liberties Union and ACLU of Iowa filed the suit on behalf of Iowa Migrant Movement for Justice. The groups are requesting an injunction of the law before it takes effect July 1.

Officials from the groups will hold a press conference at 1 p.m. outlining the lawsuit.
More:'Divisive and harmful': Iowa immigrants fear racial profiling with new 'illegal reentry' law
SF 2340 is expected to face another federal lawsuit after the U.S. Department of Justice warned state leaders last week that they would sue to block the law if it remained in effect. The Iowa law is modeled off of a Texas measure that has been blocked while a DOJ lawsuit is decided.

Escucha Mi Voz Iowa, an Iowa City-based immigrant advocacy group, in a statement ahead of the lawsuit's filing praised efforts to block the law.

"The federal government and the local groups filing suits are right, Gov. Reynolds' anti-immigrant deportation law is unconstitutional, and we will continue to fight it in court and on the streets," said Ninoska Campos, an Escucha Mi Voz Iowa member.

More:US Justice Department warns it will sue if Iowa tries to enforce its new immigration law

Another advocacy group, Latinx Immigrants of Iowa, has called the law "a tool used by Gov. Reynolds to exploit the Latinx community for political and electoral gain while fostering racist practices against immigrants and refugees in Iowa."

Gov. Kim Reynolds' and Attorney General Brenna Bird's offices did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Music lost a fine one.

Expansion in college football is only growing, not diminishing. Come 2024, two conferences will move to 16 programs as the Big Ten welcomes Pac-12 flagships USC and UCLA, while the SEC will add Big 12 powerhouses Texas and Oklahoma.

That's just the start for the Big Ten. Could more programs join the mix in the not-so-distant future?

According to longtime reporter Jim Williams, 10 programs have been "vetted" by the Big Ten for possible membership. This list includes, in no particular order, Cal, Stanford, Oregon, Washington, Georgia Tech, Virginia, North Carolina, Duke, Utah and Miami.

Westward expansion is a priority for the Big Ten and Big 12. New Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark has spoken adamantly of moving further west to own markets in all four time zones. According to reports, Colorado, Utah, Arizona and Arizona State all could be potential additions to the conference should the Pac-12 dissolve due to its current predicament.

The Pac-12 is entering the final year of its current media rights deal and has yet to set a plan in motion for future broadcasting rights. Several schools have already inquired about potential statuses in different conferences, though nothing is official as of this time.

The ACC is currently in a stranglehold as well due to its grant-of-rights deal. According to Sports Illustrated's Ross Dellenger, the ACC has an internal rift with seven of the 14 conference schools working together to examine the grant-of-rights contract.

Nicknamed "The Magnificent Seven," the list of schools is spearheaded by Clemson and Florida State. Other programs that have been public in their dismay over the current grant-of-rights agreemehttps://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/big-ten-reportedly-vetted-10-schools-for-possible-expansion/ar-AA1cdgMm?rc=1&ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=89761951531b409ba1cfa2aceb3cd494&ei=5nt include N.C. State, Miami, UNC, Virginia and Virginia Tech.

Just read that Iowa added a PG from Indiana to the 2024 recruiting class, as a preferred walk on.

The article never mentioned height or weight (or I missed it).

Curious if anyone knows more about him, height and weight especially?

Seems like a possible CJ Frederick type of player.

To rape more US citizens:

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Following up on the article about how Iowa's planning on handling their scholarship situation:

I spoke with a source about Iowa's portal plans. Sounds like they're still planning to get a quarterback, wide receiver and defensive tackle out of the portal. Whether that happens or not is one thing, but that's their plan. Been told they're really focused on getting the right fit at each position.

If I have some time this weekend, I'm gonna do a bit of a deeper dive on what the staff's options are and if they've changed at all at any of those positions.