Florida Governor Ron DeSantis slammed Vice President Kamala Harris this week for supporting the port strikes on the East Coast that threaten to bring the U.S. economy to its knees. Tens of thousands of dock workers who are members of the International Longshoremen’s Association walked off the job at midnight on Tuesday at ports along the East and Gulf coasts. In her only statement on the matter, Harris showed no regard for the billions of dollars a day in damage the strike is causing the U.S. economy. “This strike is about fairness,” she claimed. “Foreign-owned shipping companies have made record profits and executive compensation has grown. The Longshoremen, who play a vital role transporting essential goods across America, deserve a fair share of these record profits.” At a press conference on Wednesday, DeSantis, who is leading hurricane recovery efforts in his state and is also helping surrounding states, said: “One of the things I’m concerned about is potentially these ports getting hung up.” Am I Racist? Is In Theaters NOW — Get Your Tickets Here! “I think it’s totally unacceptable to try to intentionally deprive people of the supplies they need to be able to rebuild their homes when they’ve been displaced at a natural disaster,” he said. “We should be doing all we can, the federal government should be doing all they can, to make sure all the supplies continue to come in here unabated.” “Now is not the time,” he continued. “You already have people that are reeling. You have people that are on their backs. Let’s do everything we can to accelerate the relief. Make sure that they have the equipment, make sure they have the supplies that they need to be able to rehab their properties and rebuild their homes.” DeSantis said that the administration’s disastrous response to the strikes could delay people getting the supplies that they need by weeks or even longer. “I think it would be [a] really, really bad look for the Biden-Harris administration to allow supplies to just be sitting in the Atlantic Ocean, just on ships that are just idling, when you have people, not just here in Pinellas County, but up our entire Gulf Coast in Big Bend, who need it,” he said. “It’s not something that will be good if they allow this to happen.” WATCH: NOW: @GovRonDeSantis speaks out and strongly condemns the hold ups caused by the port strikes & Biden-Harris’ inaction: “It’s totally unacceptable.” “The federal government should be doing all they can to make sure supplies continue to come in unabated.” pic.twitter.com/g1BLWHWEhr — Bryan Griffin (@BryanDGriffin) October 2, 2024

Donald Trump spoke out on Wednesday after a federal judge in Washington, D.C., publicly released a brief on presidential immunity from special counsel Jack Smith in the 2020 election subversion case against the former president. In a flurry of posts to Truth Social, Trump warned of election interference, arguing that the filing’s appearance on the public docket so close to the 2024 contest boosts a political scheme to undermine his current campaign. “Democrats are Weaponizing the Justice Department against me because they know I am WINNING, and they are desperate to prop up their failing Candidate, Kamala Harris,” Trump said in a post to his social media platform. He also questioned the timing, contending that it came “immediately” after Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz’s “disastrous” performance in the vice presidential debate and a little more than a month before the election. The filing was submitted under seal last week. Federal judge Tanya Chutkan was the one who ordered its release. Chutkan wrote Trump’s team provided “no support” to claims of “bad-faith partisan bias” and rejected the defense’s push for redactions beyond names to protect witnesses, citing the public’s “need to understand” the document. Smith’s brief discusses how his team’s superseding indictment should be able to abide by the Supreme Court’s ruling in July that presidents have immunity for official acts. The 165-filing contains evidence gathered by prosecutors. Am I Racist? Is In Theaters NOW — Get Your Tickets Here! Defense lawyers had previously argued that the debate over grappling with the presidential immunity issue should wait until at least December, but Chutkan said the court was “not concerned” with the schedule of the 2024 election. Trump has pleaded not guilty in the D.C. case, which got delayed as the courts weighed his presidential immunity claims. Smith’s second case against him — one related to classified documents — has been tossed by a judge in Florida. Alluding to the dismissal, Trump said in one of his posts to Truth Social that the 2020 election case “is a Partisan, Unconstitutional, Witch Hunt, that should be dismissed, entirely, just like the Florida case was dismissed!”

Candace Cameron Bure definitely got everyone’s attention when she announced there’s going to be a huge Christmas Festival with herself and the stars from the Great American Family. In a post on Wednesday on Instagram, the 48-year-old actress wrote, “THE WORD IS OUT! The Great American Christmas Festival is coming this holiday season in New York City! The biggest Christmas festival in the country.” “Sign up at www.greatamericanfamilychristmasfestival.com for pre-sale access to tickets tomorrow, October 3rd!!” she added. “But if for some reason you miss the pre-sale, tickets OFFICIALLY go on sale Friday, October 4th!  #GreatAmericanChristmasFest.” Bure’s post included a screenshot of all the stars who will be appearing at the festival besides herself, along with Mario Lopez, Danica McKellar, Cameron Mathison, and others who have appeared on GAF’s Christmas programming.   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Candace Cameron Bure (@candacecbure) It will be held at Northwell Park at UBS Arena in Belmont Park, every weekend between November 22 and December 29, People magazine reported. The weekend events include photo ops, as well as Q&As after the world premiere screenings of their films, the outlet noted. The festival will also include ice skating, nightly tree-lighting ceremonies, holiday crafting classes, and photos with Santa Claus. Am I Racist? Is In Theaters NOW — Get Your Tickets Here! The first weekend of November 22 and 23 will include Bure and Mathison on Saturday for the premiere of their film, “Home Sweet Christmas.” On Sunday, McKellar’s 2024 film, “A Cinderella Christmas Ball,” will premiere. “Saved By The Bell” star Mario Lopez also appears to have landed at GAF and will be at the festival the weekend of December 14 and 15 for the premiere of his movie with wife Courtney Lopez, “Once Upon a Christmas Wish.” Earlier this year, Bure made headlines when she announced she will be appearing in not one, but two upcoming Christmas movies as part of the Great American Family Christmas 2024. “I’m so excited that the announcement was just made a few days ago about my new Christmas movie,” Bure said in her Instagram post. “I have two Christmas movies coming to you on Great America Family this year.” “And this second one is with Cameron Mathison,” she added. “Cameron and I have been waiting for probably 15 years to do a Christmas movie together. So, it’s finally happening and I couldn’t be more excited.” The actress joined GAF in 2022, where she develops, produces, and stars in movies and TV shows broadcast on the channel. The former “Fuller House” star previously said she left Hallmark because she wanted to share “faith-filled” stories “that have more meaning and purpose and depth behind them.” Related: Candace Cameron Bure Announces She’s In Not One But Two Upcoming Movies

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) reacted to the vice presidential debate this week by saying that former President Donald Trump was the winner because of how well Sen. JD Vance performed. Cruz made the remarks during the most recent episode of his “Verdict” podcast with co-host Ben Ferguson. “The winner of the debate … was Donald Trump,” he said. “The loser of the debate tonight was Kamala Harris.” Cruz said that Minnesota Governor Tim Walz struggled during the debate because he could not deny reality when confronted with it. “And it really goes to the fundamental core conceit of the Kamala Harris campaign, which is she is trying to live in this alternate reality where she is the change candidate and Donald J. Trump is the incumbent president, and that is not, in fact, the planet on which we live,” Cruz said. “You could tell that Walz was uncomfortable defending Kamala’s record because he kept trying to go back to Minnesota over and over,” he continued. “Look at what I’ve done in Minnesota. Look at what I’ve done in Minnesota. It’s like, wait a second, you’re not the candidate for president. Kamala Harris is, she’s been the vice president.” Am I Racist? Is In Theaters NOW — Get Your Tickets Here! He also ripped left-wing debate moderators Norah O’Donnell and Margaret Brennan for how they conducted the debate. “Their entire attitude is we know better than all of you — and by the way, the things they interrupted, they were supposed to not do fact-checks,” he said. “When they did do them, they were wrong, and they were completely self-satisfied, and the moment when they cut off JD Vance’s microphone was pitiful.” “It was nakedly biased,” he added. “It was hackery. It was nothing but partisan hackery. And I think CBS really got a black eye.” WATCH: The winner of the VP debate was Donald Trump, and the loser was Kamala Harris. The debate contrasted Donald Trump’s record of having a secure border and a booming economy with Kamala Harris’s disastrous illegal alien crime wave and record inflation.https://t.co/BatQTh5wId pic.twitter.com/aV8jfE2uGC — Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) October 2, 2024

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If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. Dealing a significant blow to California’s attack on free speech through its legislative efforts to regulate AI-generated content, the Eastern District of California has issued a preliminary injunction against Assembly Bill 2839, which aimed to curb the spread of “deepfakes” and other digitally manipulated media during election periods. The ruling, delivered on October 2, 2024, sides with digital content creator Christopher Kohls, who argued that the law infringes on free speech rights and parody. Reclaim The Net obtained a copy of the order for you here. Christopher Kohls, known online as “Mr. Reagan,” produces videos that use artificial intelligence to create parodies of political figures, including a controversial piece featuring an altered voice of Vice President Kamala Harris. Kohls filed the lawsuit shortly after AB 2839 was signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom, claiming the legislation unfairly targeted his work as parody and satire. In the court’s decision, Judge John Mendez emphasized that the law did not pass constitutional muster, stating, “AB 2839 does not pass constitutional scrutiny because the law does not use the least restrictive means available for advancing the State’s interest here.” The judge highlighted alternative approaches like counter-speech that could address concerns about misinformation without restricting free speech. The ruling criticized AB 2839 for its broad application, which could potentially chill free speech. “While California has a valid interest in protecting the integrity and reliability of the electoral process, AB 2839 is unconstitutional because it lacks the narrow tailoring and least restrictive alternative that a content based law requires under strict scrutiny,” the order stated. The ruling criticized AB 2839 for its broad application, which could potentially chill free speech. “‘Especially as to political speech, counter speech is the tried and true buffer and elixir,’ not speech restriction.” Defendants in the case, including California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Secretary of State Shirley Weber, argued that the law was a necessary tool to protect the integrity of elections from the harms caused by AI-generated false content. However, the court disagreed. One of the more contentious aspects of AB 2839 was its requirement for disclaimers on satirical or parody content, something that satire site The Babylon Bee highlighted in its lawsuit, which Kohls and other critics argued would undermine the effectiveness and inherent value of such works. The injunction will hold until a further court decision is made, leaving the future of AB 2839 and similar laws (hopefully) in limbo. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post Court Blocks Newsom’s Unconstitutional Attempt to Muzzle Parody During Election Season appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

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Connecticut police say a man beat his 6-year-old stepson to death with a metal bat in an attack on his family in Bridgeport. The family of 6-year-old Jathan Escobar told WFSB-TV that he was hospitalized with brain damage and on life support before he was pronounced dead on Wednesday. 'No matter what was going on, he was always so happy with everybody.' Police said that the boy's 38-year-old stepfather, Abdulrahim Sulaiman, was arrested and charged with murder with special circumstances. Sulaiman's 33-year-old wife told police she only knew him for about a year and they had been married for months. She claimed that the man had been smoking PCP recently and was violent. The man allegedly attacked his wife and her children on Sept. 25 with the metal bat while the mother screamed for help from their apartment on Main Street. When police arrived and gave the child CPR, they said they could see brain matter through the injury in his head. Police said Sulaiman had been on probation and had a violent criminal record. Prior to the death of the child and the elevation of the charges to murder, his bond had been increased from $1 million to $10 million. “He was always so happy and he just enjoyed life altogether. No matter what was going on, he was always so happy with everybody,” said the victim's cousin Sasha Heron of the boy. A report about the incident can be viewed on YouTube. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!