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hillreporter.com – By Tara Dublin – Only a few dozen people turned out for a right-wing January 6th “Truth” rally in Washington D.C. on Saturday where controversial MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, who is currently under an election-related FBI investigation, was the headliner.

Despite promotion on right-wing fringe sites like Gateway Pundit, which described the rally as the “biggest to date,” photos and videos on social media revealed a sparsely attended event, with roughly half as many counter-protesters in attendance as protesters.

Most people in attendance were members of the fringe group the 1776 Restoration Movement, many of whom carried upside-down American flags along with “Let’s Go Brandon” flags and“POW-J6” flags.

Lindell, who appeared on a screen at the rally via Zoom, is at the center of an FBI investigation into a breach of election equipment in Colorado. A district court judge denied Lindell’s request this week for a temporary restraining order to prevent the FBI from searching his phone, which federal agents seized at a Hardee’s drive-through.

Lindell has not yet been charged with a crime, although he is believed to be connected to six people named in a search warrant who allegedly breached the voting machines to prove baseless claims of voter fraud.

More… https://hillreporter.com/mike-lindell-s-pro-trump-truth-rally-draws-as-many-protesters-as-attendees-video 

chicagotribune.com – By DEE-ANN DURBIN – A top executive at plant-based food company Beyond Meat has been charged with felony battery after a fight outside a college football game in which he was accused of biting a man’s nose.

Doug Ramsey was also charged with making a terroristic threat after the attack Saturday in a parking garage outside a University of Arkansas football game in Fayetteville.

Beyond Meat said Tuesday it has suspended Ramsey indefinitely.

According to a police report, Ramsey was angered when another driver inched in front of him in a traffic lane and made contact with the front passenger wheel on Ramsey’s Ford Bronco SUV.

The police report alleges that Ramsey got out of his vehicle and punched through the back windshield of the other driver’s car. The driver told police he got out of his car and Ramsey pulled him close and began punching him. Ramsey also bit the tip of the other driver’s nose, ripping the flesh, according to the police report.

More… https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-aud-nw-beyond-meat-executive-fight-20220920-c2tahtalgjeojecl7bryctd5za-story.html 

boisestatepublicradio.org – By Wynne Davis – Fred Franzia, the man behind the famous “Two Buck Chuck,” died on Tuesday at age 79.  The Franzia family and the Bronco Wine Company announced Franzia’s death on Instagram. Franzia founded the company with one of his brothers and a cousin in 1973. The trio aimed to create “high quality wines at a value for wine consumers.”

“Core to his vision was a belief that wine should be enjoyed and consumed on every American Table,” the company said. “When asked how Bronco Wine Company can sell wine less expensive than a bottle of water, Fred T. Franzia famously countered, ‘They’re overcharging for the water — don’t you get it?'”

More… https://www.boisestatepublicradio.org/2022-09-15/fred-franzia-creator-of-two-buck-chuck-and-champion-of-affordable-wine-has-died 

patabook.com – By 2013, illegal cannabis grows were such a destructive environmental force in California that state water regulators decided it time to go beyond their complaint-driven, piecemeal approach at enforcement.

That required knowing how much cannabis there was statewide, and where.

Nearly a decade later, the answer still eludes California.

So the Los Angeles Times embarked on its own effort to map illegally grown cannabis, one that depended on a view from space.

Cannabis operations are easy to spot in satellite imagery. Plastic-covered hoop houses and plots of individual dark-green plants are distinctive and hard to miss, even more so in clear-cut tracts of forest or vast expanses of desert.

The Times obtained 2021 satellite imagery from a mix of public and private sources to canvass nearly 3,000 square miles of land in parts of six counties: Siskiyou, Trinity, Mendocino, Shasta, Butte and San Bernardino.

More… https://patabook.com/news/2022/09/08/how-we-mapped-illegal-cannabis-farms-in-california/ 

wfin.com – (WASHINGTON) — Mehmet Oz, the Republican candidate for Senate in Pennsylvania, on Tuesday tried to distance himself from an aide’s comment last week that appeared to mock the stroke suffered by Oz’s opponent, Democratic Lt. Gov. John Fetterman.

“The campaign has been saying lots of things,” Oz told KDKA, a Pittsburgh radio station. “My position — and I can only speak to what I’m saying — is that John Fetterman should be allowed to recover fully and I will support his ability, as someone who’s gone through a difficult time, to get ready.”

Oz was responding to a question about a comment attributed to Rachel Tripp, his communications adviser, who was quoted saying that if Fetterman “had ever eaten a vegetable in his life, then maybe he wouldn’t have had a major stroke and wouldn’t be in the position of having to lie about it constantly.”

Tripp’s comment was first reported by Insider on Aug. 23.

Amid near-instant condemnation, including from pro-Fetterman doctors and Fetterman himself, Oz’s campaigni nitially doubled down, calling the comment “good health advice” from a former cardiothoracic surgeon.

more… https://wfin.com/abc-politics/dr-oz-distances-himself-from-his-campaigns-jab-at-john-fettermans-stroke/ 

ktla.com – by: Alex Baker – The Oakland Police Department has launched an investigation into an incident in which a couple allegedly engaged in a sex act in the stands of an Oakland Athletics game on Sunday. The incident, first reported by TMZ, was seemingly captured on camera by a social media user at the game and posted to Twitter.

In the footage, an isolated couple is seen alone near the top of section 334 engaging in what appears to be a sex act. KRON4 reached out to OPD, which confirmed it was looking into it.

more… https://ktla.com/news/police-investigate-couples-apparent-sex-act-in-the-stands-at-oakland-as-game/ 

sfgate.com – Amy Graff – A massive brawl broke out between up to 20 family members during a funeral for an elderly woman in Richmond on Aug. 6, leading to one injury, one arrest and $20,000 in damage, officials said.

The Richmond Police Department said it responded to the Rolling Hills Memorial Park at 1:30 p.m. after several reports of a “chaotic altercation” between eight to 20 family members who were reportedly armed.

Sgt. Aaron Pomeroy said it was an instance of family drama that started between a brother and a sister who were attending their mother’s funeral and who do not get along — and “it goes back many years.”

The brother and sister sister were talking and got into an argument, when her boyfriend came over and encouraged her to walk away, Pomeroy said.

“The brother started beating on the boyfriend, and that’s when it escalated and it became a brawl and we started to get calls,” he said.

At some point during the physical fight, the brother got into the vehicle with the intention of driving over his sister, Pomeroy said.

more… https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/bay-area-funeral-brawl-erupts-17362671.php