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    • The name Ketanji has a beautiful meaning and an interesting origin
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      • TrendingJoe Biden's nominee for the Supreme Court, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, is all over the news after her confirmation hearing kicked off on Monday, March 21, 2022.
      • The citizens of America are curious to know all about Ketanji after the POTUS lavished praise on her while announcing his pick.
      • One of the factors that has come across as intriguing about the judge is her unique name. 'Ketanji' has a beautiful meaning and even an interesting origin.
      • TRENDING: How much are Machine Gun Kelly's 2022 tour tickets?Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty ImagesMeaning and origin of the nameSome reports suggest that the name Ketanji is of Indian origin.
      • It is a unisex moniker used in the Hindu religion. The name has several meanings, such as ''home'', ''pure gold'' and ''dwelling.''
      • But, there is more to the judge's name as it was chosen by her aunt.
      • As per Politico, Ketanji's aunt, who was based in West Africa with the Peace Corps at the time of her birth, sent her parents a list of ''African girls' name options'' and the judge's parents picked the beautiful name that she goes by today.
      • She was named ''Ketanji Onyika,'' which means ''Lovely One.''
      • Her parents named her Ketanji Onyika ''to express both pride in their heritage and hope for future.''
      • ALSO READ: Who is Lashun Pace as Atlanta star dies aged 60?Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesWho is Ketanji Brown Jackson?Ketanji was born in Washington to two public-school teachers. Her family moved to Miami when she was still a child.
      • She graduated from Harvard College in 1992 and Harvard Law School in 1996.
      • Ketanji is married to surgeon Patrick Jackson with whom she shares two daughters.
      • She has served as a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit since 2021.
      • She was nominated to be an associated justice of the Supreme Court of the United States in February 2022 following Stephen Breyer's retirement.
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      • Judge introduces her family During the opening moments of the first day of her Supreme Court nomination hearing, Ketanji introduced the world to her family.
      • ''And speaking of unconditional love, I would like to introduce my husband of 25 years, Dr Patrick Jackson,'' she said before revealing that they met in college three decades ago.
      • She also introduced her daughters Talia and Leila. ''I am so looking forward to seeing what each of you chooses to do with your amazing lives in this incredible country. I love you so much,'' Ketanji said.
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      • From Walt Disney Animation Studios comes a comedy-adventure set in the modern mammal metropolis of Zootopia. Determined to prove herself, Officer Judy Hopps, the first bunny on Zootopia's police force, jumps at the chance to crack her first case '' even if it means partnering with scam-artist fox Nick Wilde to solve the mystery. Bring home this hilarious adventure full of action, heart and tons of bonus extras that take you deeper into the world of Zootopia. It's big fun for all shapes and species!
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      • American pedophilia advocacy organization
      • The North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) is a pedophilia and pederasty advocacy organization in the United States. It works to abolish age-of-consent laws criminalizing adult sexual involvement with minors[2][3] and campaigns for the release of men who have been jailed for sexual contacts with minors that did not involve what it considers coercion.[2][4] The group no longer holds regular national meetings, and as of the late 1990s'--to avoid local police infiltration'--the organization discouraged the formation of local chapters.[4][5] Around 1995, an undercover detective discovered there were 1,100 people on the organization's rolls.[4] NAMBLA was the largest group in IPCE, an international pro-pedophile activist organization.[6] Since then, the organization has dwindled to only a handful of people, with many members joining online pedophile networks, according to Xavier Von Erck, director of operations at the anti-pedophile organization Perverted-Justice.[7] As of 2005, a newspaper report stated that NAMBLA was based in New York and San Francisco.[4]
      • History Events such as Anita Bryant's 1977 "Save Our Children" campaign and a police raid of a Toronto-area newspaper, The Body Politic, for publishing "Men Loving Boys Loving Men" set the stage for the founding of NAMBLA.[5]
      • In December 1977, police raided a house in the Boston suburb Revere. Twenty-four men were arrested and indicted on over 100 felony counts of the statutory rape of boys aged eight to fifteen.[8] Suffolk County district attorney Garrett H. Byrne found the men had used drugs and video games to lure the boys into a house, where they photographed them as they engaged in sexual activity. The men were members of a "sex ring"; Byrne said the arrest was "the tip of the iceberg".[9][10][5] Commenting on this issue, Boston magazine described NAMBLA as "the most despised group of men in America", which was "founded mostly by eccentric, boy-loving leftists".[5] The "Boston-Boise Committee", a gay rights organization, was formed in response to these events (which they termed the "Boston witch-hunt"), allegedly in order to promote solidarity amongst gay men, saying in an official leaflet that: "The closet is weak. There is strength in unity and openness."[11] NAMBLA's founding was inspired by this organization.[11] It was co-founded by historian David Thorstad.[12]
      • In 1982, a NAMBLA member was falsely linked to the disappearance of Etan Patz. Although the accusation was groundless, the negative publicity was disastrous to the organization.[13] NAMBLA published a book A Witchhunt Foiled: The FBI vs. NAMBLA, which documented these events.[14] In testimony before the United States Senate, NAMBLA was exonerated from criminal activities; it said, "It is the pedophile with no organized affiliations who is the real threat to children".[15]
      • Mike Echols, the author of I Know My First Name Is Steven, infiltrated NAMBLA and recorded his observations in his book, which was published in 1991. Echols published the names, addresses and telephone numbers of eighty suspected NAMBLA members on his website, which led to death threats being made to people who were not members of the organization.[5]
      • Onell R. Soto, a San Diego Union-Tribune writer, wrote in February 2005, "Law enforcement officials and mental health professionals say that while NAMBLA's membership numbers are small, the group has a dangerous ripple effect through the Internet by sanctioning the behavior of those who would abuse children".[4]
      • ILGA controversy In 1993, the International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA) achieved United Nations consultative status. NAMBLA's membership in ILGA drew heavy criticism and caused the suspension of ILGA. Many gay organizations called for the ILGA to dissolve ties with NAMBLA. Republican Senator Jesse Helms proposed a bill to withhold US$119 million in UN contributions until U.S. President Bill Clinton could certify that no UN agency grants any official status to organizations that condoned pedophilia.[16] The bill was unanimously approved by Congress and signed into law by Clinton in April 1994.[17]
      • In 1994, ILGA expelled NAMBLA'-- the first U.S.-based organization to be a member[12]'--as well as Vereniging Martijn and Project Truth,[17] because they were judged to be "groups whose predominant aim is to support or promote pedophilia".[citation needed ] Although ILGA removed NAMBLA, the UN reversed its decision to grant ILGA special consultative status. Repeated attempts by ILGA to regain special status with the UN succeeded in 2006.[18]
      • Partially in response to the NAMBLA situation,[17] Gregory King of the Human Rights Campaign later said, "NAMBLA is not a gay organization ... they are not part of our community and we thoroughly reject their efforts to insinuate that pedophilia is an issue related to gay and lesbian civil rights".[19] NAMBLA said, "man/boy love is by definition homosexual", that "the Western homosexual tradition from Socrates to Wilde to Gide ... [and] many non Western homo sexualities from New Guinea and Persia to the Zulu and the Japanese" were formed by pederasty, that "man/boy lovers are part of the gay movement and central to gay history and culture", and that "homosexuals denying that it is 'not gay' to be attracted to adolescent boys are just as ludicrous as heterosexuals saying it's 'not heterosexual' to be attracted to adolescent girls".[19]
      • Curley v. NAMBLA In 2000, a Boston couple, Robert and Barbara Curley, sued NAMBLA for the wrongful death of their son. According to the suit, defendants Charles Jaynes and Salvatore Sicari, who were convicted of murdering the Curleys' son Jeffrey, "stalked ... tortured, murdered and mutilated [his] body on or about October 1, 1997. Upon information and belief immediately prior to said acts, Charles Jaynes accessed NAMBLA's website at the Boston Public Library."[20] The lawsuit said, "NAMBLA serves as a conduit for an underground network of pedophiles in the United States who use their NAMBLA association and contacts therein and the Internet to obtain and promote pedophile activity".[20] Jaynes wrote in his diary, "This was a turning point in discovery of myself ... NAMBLA's Bulletin helped me to become aware of my own sexuality and acceptance of it ... ".[21]
      • Citing cases in which NAMBLA members were convicted of sexual offenses against children, Larry Frisoli, the attorney representing the Curleys, said the organization is a "training ground" for adults who wish to seduce children, in which men exchange strategies to find and groom child sex partners. Frisoli also said NAMBLA has sold on its website "The Rape and Escape Manual", which gave details about the avoidance of capture and prosecution.[22] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) stepped in to defend NAMBLA as a free speech matter;[23] it won a dismissal because NAMBLA is organized as an unincorporated association rather than a corporation. John Reinstein, director of the ACLU Massachusetts, said although NAMBLA "may extol conduct which is currently illegal", there was nothing on its website that "advocated or incited the commission of any illegal acts, including murder or rape".[24]
      • A NAMBLA founder said the case would "break our backs, even if we win, which we will".[5] Media reports from 2006 said that for practical purposes the group no longer exists and that it consists only of a website maintained by a few enthusiasts.[5] The Curleys continued the suit as a wrongful death action against individual NAMBLA members, some of whom were active in the group's leadership. Targets of the wrongful death suits included NAMBLA co-founder David Thorstad. The lawsuit was dropped in April 2008 after a judge ruled that a key witness was not competent to testify.[25]
      • Support Allen Ginsberg, poet and father of the Beat Generation, was an affiliated member of NAMBLA. Claiming to have joined the organization "in defense of free speech",[26] Ginsberg said: "Attacks on NAMBLA stink of politics, witchhunting for profit, humorlessness, vanity, anger and ignorance ... I'm a member of NAMBLA because I love boys too'--everybody does, who has a little humanity".[27] He appeared in Chicken Hawk: Men Who Love Boys, produced and directed by Adi Sideman, a documentary in which members of NAMBLA gave interviews and presented defenses of the organization.[28]
      • Pat Califia argued that politics played an important role in the gay community's rejection of NAMBLA.[29] Califia has since withdrawn much of his earlier support for the association while still maintaining that discussing an issue does not constitute criminal activity.[30]
      • Camille Paglia, feminist academic and social critic, signed a manifesto supporting the group in 1993.[31][32] In 1994, Paglia supported lowering the legal age of consent to fourteen. She noted in a 1995 interview with pro-pedophile activist Bill Andriette "I fail to see what is wrong with erotic fondling with any age."[34] In a 1997 Salon column, Paglia expressed the view that male pedophilia correlates with the heights of a civilization, stating "I have repeatedly protested the lynch-mob hysteria that dogs the issue of man-boy love. In Sexual Personae, I argued that male pedophilia is intricately intertwined with the cardinal moments of Western civilization."[32] Paglia noted in several interviews, as well as Sexual Personae, that she supports the legalization of certain forms of child pornography.[35][36] She later had a change of heart on the matter. In an interview for Radio New Zealand's Saturday Morning show, conducted on April 28, 2018 by Kim Hill, Paglia was asked, "Are you a libertarian on the issue of pedophilia?", to which she replied, "In terms of the present day, I think it's absolutely impossible to think we could reproduce the Athenian code of pedophilia, of boy-love, that was central to culture at that time. ... We must protect children, and I feel that very very strongly. The age of consent for sexual interactions between a boy and an older man is obviously disputed, at what point that should be. I used to think that fourteen (the way it is in some places in the world) was adequate. I no longer think that. I think young people need greater protection than that. ... This is one of those areas that we must confine to the realm of imagination and the history of the arts."[37]
      • Feigned support In an 2017 protest at Columbia University against Mike Cernovich, an unidentified individual raised a pro-pedophilia banner showing logos from NAMBLA and some leftist organizations (all denying knowledge of any such cooperation). Fact-checking organizations consider this a false flag operation as alt-right personalities were quick to repost the photo without caveat and because NAMBLA has largely ceased operation by 2016.[38] A similar 4chan hoax in 2018 connects NAMBLA with TED, following a controversial TEDx (unvetted by the TED organization) presentation referring to pedophilia as an "unchangeable sexual orientation".[39]
      • Opposition The first documented opposition to NAMBLA from LGBT organizations occurred at the conference that organized the first gay march on Washington in 1979.[40][better source needed ] In 1980, a group called the Lesbian Caucus distributed a flyer urging women to split from the annual New York City Gay Pride March, because according to the group, the organizing committee had been dominated by NAMBLA and its supporters.[40][better source needed ] The next year, after some lesbians threatened to picket, the Cornell University group Gay People at Cornell (Gay PAC) rescinded its invitation to NAMBLA co-founder David Thorstad to be the keynote speaker at the annual May Gay Festival.[40][better source needed ] In the following years, gay rights groups tried to block NAMBLA's participation in gay pride parades, prompting leading gay rights figure Harry Hay to wear a sign proclaiming "NAMBLA walks with me" as he participated in a 1986 gay pride march in Los Angeles.[41]
      • By the mid-1980s, NAMBLA was virtually alone in its positions and found itself politically isolated.[42][better source needed ] Support for "groups perceived as being on the fringe of the gay community," such as NAMBLA, vanished in the process.[42][better source needed ]
      • In 1994, Stonewall 25, a New York LGBT rights group, voted to ban NAMBLA from its international march on the United Nations in June of that year.[43] The same year, NAMBLA was again banned from the march commemorating Stonewall. Instead, members of NAMBLA and the Gay Liberation Front formed their own competing march called "The Spirit of Stonewall".[44] The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) adopted a document called "Position Statement Regarding NAMBLA", which said GLAAD "deplores the North American Man Boy Love Association's (NAMBLA) goals, which include advocacy for sex between adult men and boys and the removal of legal protections for children. These goals constitute a form of child abuse and are repugnant to GLAAD."[45] Also in 1994, the Board of Directors of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF) adopted a resolution on NAMBLA that said, "NGLTF condemns all abuse of minors, both sexual and any other kind, perpetrated by adults. Accordingly, NGLTF condemns the organizational goals of NAMBLA and any other such organization."[45]
      • In April 2013, the hacktivist group Anonymous prevented NAMBLA's website from being accessed as part of an operation dubbed "Operation Alice Day".[46][47] The timing of the attack coincided with Alice Day, a Pedophilia Pride Day celebrated by a small group of pedophiles and their supporters on April 25.[48][49][50]
      • In 2000 in New York a teacher was fired for association with NAMBLA. There were no complaints about his conduct in class or court charges.[51][52]
      • Associated individuals Bill Andriette, journalist. He joined NAMBLA at the age of 15 and edited the NAMBLA Bulletin for six years.[53]Allen Ginsberg was a defender of NAMBLA and a member.[1][54]David Thorstad, founding member.[55]Harry Hay, prominent LGBT rights activist. Hay supported NAMBLA's inclusion in gay pride parades[44] and publicly addressed their meetings in support of the organization.[56]Alan J. Horowitz, MD, convicted sex offender, ordained Orthodox rabbi, and psychiatrist. He specialized in working with adolescents, graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University, and earned a Ph.D. and medical degree from Duke University. Infamous for being the subject of a worldwide manhunt, Horowitz was known as "NAMBLA Rabbi".[57][58]See also References ^ a b Haggerty, George (2000). Gay histories and cultures: an encyclopedia. Taylor & Francis. pp. 627''628. ISBN 978-0-8153-1880-4. Archived from the original on 2016-04-13 . 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    • The Pizzagate gunman is out of prison. Conspiracy theories are out of control. | The Seattle Times
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      • SALISBURY, N.C. '-- He slipped out of bed before sunrise and started driving, spurred by the conspiracy theory he would soon help make famous. As he sped the 350 miles from his hometown in North Carolina to the nation's capital, Edgar Maddison Welch tilted his cellphone camera toward himself and pressed record.
      • ''I can't let you grow up in a world that's so corrupt by evil,'' he told the two young daughters he had left sleeping back in Salisbury, ''without at least standing up for you and for other children just like you.''
      • So on he drove, to the supposed center of that corruption: Comet Ping Pong, a popular pizzeria in Northwest Washington where, according to the false conspiracy theory known as Pizzagate, powerful Democrats were abusing children. And Welch, a struggling 28-year-old warehouse worker, intended to rescue them.
      • Four years later, thousands of people would follow Welch's fevered path to Washington, drawn from across the country by an ever more toxic stew of disinformation and extremism, including Pizzagate's successor: QAnon.
      • This time, instead of a pizzeria, they would target the U.S. Capitol.
      • The Jan. 6 siege would lead to five deaths, more than 200 arrests and the second impeachment of Donald Trump. Its brazenness would shake faith in American democracy.
      • Above all, it would reveal how conspiracy theories had spread under a president who often promoted them, growing from Welch's trip to Washington shortly after the 2016 election to the hundreds who stormed the Capitol to keep Trump in office, some proudly wearing T-shirts with the QAnon motto: ''Where we go one, we go all.''
      • Pizzagate was an early warning of how misinformation can lead to violence, said Joan Donovan, a scholar of media manipulation, social movements and extremism.
      • ''The big difference between 2016 and Pizzagate and QAnon [now] isn't the themes '... it's the scale,'' said Donovan, research director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. ''Four years later it has reached so many more people.''
      • The big difference between 2016 and Pizzagate and QAnon [now] isn't the themes '... it's the scale.'' '-- Joan Donovan, research director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School
      • Welch was alone on Dec. 4, 2016, when he parked in front of Comet Ping Pong, where children were playing table tennis while their parents enjoyed a slow Sunday afternoon of pizza and beer.
      • Then he walked into the restaurant with a loaded assault rifle.
      • The conspiracy evolvesThe email arrived on Nov. 21, 2019, as Comet's owner, James Alefantis, was preparing for a busy weekend.
      • ''This notice is to inform you that EDGAR WELCH has been approved for placement in a Community Corrections Center (CCC), otherwise known as a halfway house, and will transfer from this institution on March 3, 2020,'' said the message from a federal prison in Ohio. ''The inmate is scheduled to release on May 28, 2020.''
      • It had been almost three years since Welch had entered Alefantis's restaurant and transformed a fake online conspiracy theory into something frighteningly real. The death threats hadn't stopped since, and one Pizzagate believer had even set a fire inside Comet.
      • Now Alefantis realized Welch would be getting out in a few months.
      • What, he wondered, should he tell his still traumatized employees?
      • Their ordeal began a few days before Trump's election, when Alefantis's Instagram account was suddenly deluged with comments calling him a pedophile.
      • WikiLeaks had released the hacked emails of Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman, John Podesta, a few weeks earlier. In an eight-year-old email, Alefantis had asked Podesta about a fundraiser at Comet. In others, Podesta talked about getting ''cheese pizza.'' On internet message boards, anonymous users falsely claimed that ''cheese pizza'' was code for ''child pornography,'' and that Comet was the site of a vast Democratic child sex ring.
      • Promoted by far-right media personalities such as Alex Jones and amplified by automated social media accounts, or bots, Pizzagate went viral.
      • In Welch, it found a receptive host.
      • His life had been shaped by the death of a child. When Welch was 8, his 16-year-old brother was killed after losing control of his car and crashing.
      • The accident devastated his family but underscored their urge to protect the vulnerable. His parents ran a no-kill dog rescue, took in foster kids and sent money to needy children abroad. After the accident, his mother, a nurse, became a volunteer firefighter.
      • In 2010, Welch '-- who goes by his middle name, Maddison '-- went to Haiti with a church group to help orphans after the earthquake.
      • ''The last week his calls were pleas to let him bring three or four of the children home and let them live with us,'' his father, Harry, wrote in a letter to the court.
      • Welch had always been a bit ''manic,'' said Toni Koontz, a high school friend.
      • After moving to Wilmington to attend community college, Welch struggled with addiction and emerged from rehab even more devout, Koontz told The Washington Post in 2016.
      • By the fall of 2016, the once adventurous Welch was back in the hometown he derisively called ''Smallsbury.'' His marriage had fallen apart. He tried being a firefighter like his mother but gave up, the local fire chief said.
      • Welch was driving to work at a Food Lion warehouse one night in October when he hit a 13-year-old boy, who had to be airlifted to a hospital with broken bones and a head injury. Welch, who had some emergency medical training, tried to help the teen until paramedics arrived.
      • Welch wasn't charged in the incident, but he was badly shaken.
      • It was a little over a month later when Welch texted his girlfriend to say he had seen something disturbing on the internet, according to court records of their conversations.
      • ''Looking up on pizza gate and it makes me [expletive]sick,'' he wrote on Dec. 1, 2016.
      • ''Stop it!'' she replied.
      • Instead, Welch dived deeper, spending hours watching Pizzagate videos and visiting Comet Ping Pong's website, according to records later presented in court.
      • Welch sent one friend a Pizzagate video made by Alex Jones's Infowars. He tried to recruit another friend who was an Afghanistan war veteran.
      • ''Raiding a pedo ring, possibly sacraficing [sic] the lives of a few for the lives of many,'' Welch described the mission. ''Standing up against a corrupt system that kidnaps, tortures and rapes babies and children in our own backyard.''
      • But when the veteran suggested doing reconnaissance on Comet instead of going in ''guns blazing,'' Welch decided to go it alone, court records show.
      • Two days later, Welch entered Comet Ping Pong with an AR-15 in his hands and a Colt revolver on his hip.
      • As he walked slowly through the restaurant, startled servers guided customers away from their plates and toward the exits.
      • Welch wandered the pizzeria, searching for a dungeon that didn't exist. When he found a door he couldn't open, he fired at the lock. But beyond it was just a computer closet. He eventually set down his guns, put his hands on his head and walked outside, where dozens of police officers were waiting for him.
      • ''I came to D.C. with the intent of helping people I believed were in dire need of assistance,'' Welch wrote later in a letter to the judge in his case. ''It was never my intention to harm or frighten innocent lives, but I realize now just how foolish and reckless my decision was.''
      • I came to D.C. with the intent of helping people I believed were in dire need of assistance '... I realize now just how foolish and reckless my decision was.'''-- Edgar Maddison Welch
      • The entire incident lasted a matter of minutes. But it would haunt Alefantis and his employees for years.
      • At a court hearing on June 22, 2017, in which Welch would be sentenced to four years in prison, a Comet employee broke down as he described his struggles with insomnia and depression.
      • ''After this, I just wanted to sink into the ground,'' he said, choking up. ''I wasn't able to leave my house. I couldn't sleep. I had violent nightmares with all types of outcomes of the situation replaying over and over and over again for weeks.''
      • Alefantis spoke of the ''lasting damage'' Welch had inflicted, yet was optimistic.
      • ''I do hope that one day, in a more truthful world, every single one of us will remember that day as an aberration, a symbol of a time of sickness when some parts of our world went mad, when news was fake and lies were seen as real and our social fabric had frayed,'' he told the court. ''I am hopeful that those who provoke fear, that traffic in lies and perpetuate conspiracy will awake to the tangible harms that result from their actions. I am hopeful that one day reason will prevail before a shot rings out again in a place of warmth and love and community gathering.''
      • But online, reason was not prevailing.
      • Some Pizzagate followers quickly turned on Welch, claiming he was a ''crisis actor'' involved in a ''false flag'' operation, or hoax, to hide the truth. Others declared their support for him on a Facebook page called ''Edgar Welch Saves The Children.''
      • ''They just found another senator In a hotel room with a under age boy!'' one man wrote. ''It's just sick how one guy goes to help and the country puts him in prison!''
      • A woman asked how she could write Welch in prison. Another posted cartoon hearts.
      • But as Welch was leading Bible study groups in prison, the conspiracy theory that had put him there was rapidly mutating into something else.
      • On Oct. 28, 2017, someone calling himself ''Q'' and claiming to be a high-ranking intelligence officer began posting on 4chan. The messages expanded on Pizzagate by claiming satanic pedophiles controlled not only Comet but the world, drinking children's blood to stay young. Q promised that Trump and other government insiders would bring them to justice.
      • QAnon quickly migrated to Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, where it found millions of new adherents.
      • By the time Welch was released from prison on March 3, QAnon had become inescapable. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican who had endorsed QAnon beliefs, was on her way to winning a seat in Congress.
      • Days after arriving at the halfway house in North Carolina, Welch posed for a photo with one of the friends he had tried to recruit for his ill-fated mission.
      • Squinting as if he hadn't seen the sunlight in a long time, he threw an arm around his friend, looked into the camera and smiled.
      • Coming back to societyAlmost unnoticed, Maddison Welch quietly slipped back into his old life. On March 27, the girlfriend who had once said she was leaving him over his Pizzagate obsession now announced on Facebook she had married him. And in September, she posted a photo of them embracing on the beach, their hands on her pregnant belly.
      • ''It's been a whirlwind of a year for him,'' said Dane Granberry, a close friend who exchanged letters with Welch when he was in prison. ''But he came home his happy self.''
      • She saw Welch in December at a Christmas party, where the man whose arrest had cost him custody of his girls gushed with excitement over having a boy. His wife and Granberry compared their pregnant bellies.
      • It seemed so normal '-- except for all the questions Granberry couldn't ask.
      • Did he still believe in Pizzagate?
      • Did he follow Q?
      • And now, what does he think of the attack on the Capitol?
      • ''Everybody wants to know,'' she said. ''But when we're around friends, nobody brings it up.''
      • Welch and his wife didn't respond to repeated requests for an interview, and several friends said they couldn't speak without his permission. His father, Harry Welch, who lives in a house at the end of a long wooded lane with a sign that reads ''Grandkids spoiled here,'' shook his head when asked if his son could speak.
      • ''He needs to get off papers first,'' he said, referring to probation. Then he shut the door.
      • More than eight months after returning home, Welch remains largely out of sight in Salisbury. His former pastor said he hadn't seen Welch since his arrest. Local media haven't mentioned his release.
      • Few people in this town of 33,000 between Charlotte and High Point say they remember Pizzagate.
      • ''For us here, it was just a blip on the radar,'' said Mayor Karen Alexander, who boasts that Salisbury '-- which she calls Paris of the Piedmont '-- has its own symphony. ''It was an anomaly. And it was a tragedy in terms of the young man. I don't know what his mental state was.''
      • Part of the reason Pizzagate didn't grip Salisbury like it did Washington was because of what happened to A'yanna Allen.
      • On the same morning Welch drove to D.C. on a mission to save children, the 7-year-old girl was slain just seven miles from Welch's home.
      • What was real wasn't the children Welch thought were being tortured inside Comet Ping Pong; it was the bubbly girl who was sleeping in her grandma's bed when someone drove by and sprayed bullets.
      • It was her small body, struck more than a dozen times.
      • It was her mother, crying in the funeral home as she braided her daughter's hair one last time, while trying not to look at what a bullet had done to A'yanna's beautiful face.
      • ''I just remember her lying on the table,'' Shequita Woodberry said. ''She was shot so many places.''
      • A'yanna's death preoccupied the town for weeks. Police partnered with the sheriff's department to work the case, but no one was ever charged. The reason was no grand conspiracy, Woodberry said. Witnesses refused to talk.
      • Almost evenly divided between White residents and people of color, Salisbury has grappled with the same racial and political divisions roiling so many places across the country.
      • Its Confederate monument, known as ''Fame,'' became a source of contention in 2017, after the deadly ''Unite the Right'' march in Charlottesville, Va. The statue of an angel carrying a wounded Southern soldier to heaven had stood downtown since 1908.
      • Alvena ''Al'' Heggins, who had just become Salisbury's first female African American mayor, said she was careful not to weigh in on what to do with the Confederate monument. She had already provoked outrage by proposing a resolution apologizing for the 1906 lynching of three Black men.
      • ''I took a lot of flak as mayor,'' said Heggins, who was still accused of leading a campaign to remove the Confederate monument. ''A lot of that was not because of my position but because I am Black.''
      • I took a lot of flak as mayor. A lot of that was not because of my position but because I am Black.'' '-- Alvena ''Al'' Heggins, Salisbury's first female African American mayor
      • And then, on May 25, 2020 '-- three days before Welch's release from his halfway house '-- a White police officer in Minneapolis killed George Floyd.
      • In Salisbury, rumors began flying online that protesters would target Fame.
      • ''We had people saying that if we see any n'--'-- by the statue, kill them on sight,'' recalled Gemale Black, president of the Salisbury-Rowan NAACP. ''It was to the point where we had a police watch night and day, making sure nobody was around the statue.''
      • Black was at a protest in front of the monument on May 31 when a White counterprotester named Jeffrey Alan Long pulled out a gun and fired two shots in the air, close to Black's face. Long was charged with felony inciting a riot, but was allowed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor and given a suspended sentence of 30 days.
      • City council members, including Heggins, voted unanimously to remove the monument and struck a deal with the United Daughters of the Confederacy to put Fame in a city-owned cemetery where there were scores of Confederate graves.
      • The council received a flood of hate mail. A pickup truck began driving around town with Confederate flags and a sign saying ''PUT AL HEGGINS IN THE CEMETERY.''
      • The presidential election only intensified the divisions. While Salisbury residents supported Joe Biden, Rowan County went heavily for Trump. The area's congressman, Republican Ted Budd, refused to accept Trump's defeat.
      • Don Vick was dismayed to see fellow Republicans reject the election results.
      • ''I lead the party from the standpoint of 'let's get on with our lives,' '' said the 72-year-old Rowan County Republican Party chairman. ''The people have spoken, whether I like it or not.''
      • He said he was ''appalled'' by the Capitol siege, but equally shocked to realize afterward that QAnon was spreading in Rowan County.
      • ''Having spoken to [many] women in the county, they are into it,'' said his wife, Nancy. ''They are religious about it.''
      • Welch's actions seemed like the work of someone ''a bit unbalanced,'' Don Vick said, so the couple hadn't taken it very seriously. But now the country itself seemed to be coming unhinged.
      • His term is up in March, Vick added. He won't be running again.
      • Full circleOn the night before Biden's inauguration, Erika Mendoza was delivering a check to customers on Comet Ping Pong's patio when she saw a dozen angry people approach.
      • It had been two weeks since the Capitol siege and the city was still full of soldiers and concertina wire and fear of what would happen next.
      • The 29-year-old ran back inside and texted Alefantis.
      • ''Hi so we have pizza gaters protesters,'' she wrote.
      • When Alefantis arrived a few minutes later, he saw a small crowd waving signs saying ''Hell is Horrible'' and ''Repent or Perish.''
      • The Trump presidency was ending how it had begun: with people targeting Comet Ping Pong.
      • Alefantis had spent the past four years trying to understand Welch and the conspiracy theorists who have continued to bombard him with online threats.
      • ''Pizza pedo,'' said one recent message.
      • ''Hey sir Rothschild,'' said another. ''Judgment is coming.''
      • ''You're sick. Go kill yourself,'' urged a third.
      • ''James! Ready to die?'' asked a man in France.
      • Alefantis had hoped Pizzagate would be the end of the conspiracy theories, but it had been only the beginning. The sickness had spread to members of Congress. The fraying social fabric had snapped completely.
      • He still believed that the country would get through the madness. But he was no longer surprised when people came to Comet, screaming hate and searching for something, as Welch had, that did not exist.
      • ''It's not just a pizza place,'' a male protester shouted into a megaphone on Jan. 19. ''It's a pedophilia place as well.''
      • And so Alefantis did what he had done four years earlier, when the same group first showed up. He pumped music from Comet's outdoor speakers to drown them out, and customers began to dance.
      • As Lady Gaga's ''Perfect Illusion'' boomed, Alefantis greeted the picketers with a tray of Champagne. A protester stepped forward, grabbed a couple and poured it onto the sidewalk.
      • Then he tipped over the tray, and all the Champagne came tumbling down in a riot of broken glass.
      • The Washington Post's Julie Tate contributed to this report.
      • This story was originally published at washingtonpost.com.
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    • Pizzagate conspiracy theory - Wikipedia
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      • "Pizzagate" redirects here. For the pizza-throwing incident at a 2004 association football game between Manchester United and Arsenal, see
      • Battle of the Buffet § "Pizzagate".
      • "Pizzagate" is a debunked conspiracy theory that went viral during the 2016 United States presidential election cycle.[1][2][3] It has been extensively discredited by a wide range of organizations, including the Washington, D.C. police.[2][3][4]
      • In March 2016, the personal email account of John Podesta, Hillary Clinton's campaign chair, was hacked in a spear-phishing attack. WikiLeaks published his emails in November 2016. Proponents of the Pizzagate conspiracy theory falsely claimed the emails contained coded messages that connected several high-ranking Democratic Party officials and U.S. restaurants with an alleged human trafficking and child sex ring. One of the establishments allegedly involved was the Comet Ping Pong pizzeria in Washington, D.C.[5][6]
      • Members of the alt-right, conservative journalists, and others who had urged Clinton's prosecution over the emails spread the conspiracy theory on social media outlets such as 4chan, 8chan, and Twitter.[7] In response, a man from North Carolina traveled to Comet Ping Pong to investigate the conspiracy and fired a rifle inside the restaurant to break the lock on a door to a storage room during his search.[8] The restaurant owner and staff also received death threats from conspiracy theorists.[9]
      • Pizzagate is generally considered a predecessor to the QAnon conspiracy theory. Pizzagate resurged in 2020, mainly due to QAnon. While initially it was spread by only the far-right, it has since been spread by teens on TikTok "who don't otherwise fit a right-wing conspiracy theorist mold": the biggest Pizzagate spreaders on TikTok appear to otherwise be mostly interested in topics of viral dance moves and Black Lives Matter.[10] The conspiracy theory has developed and become less partisan and political in nature, with less emphasis on Clinton and more on the alleged worldwide elite of child sex-traffickers.[11]
      • Origins Genesis David Goldberg Twitter @DavidGoldbergNY Rumors stirring in the NYPD that Huma's emails point to a pedophila ring and @HillaryClinton is at the center. #GoHillary #PodestaEmails23
      • October 30, 2016[12]
      • On October 30, 2016, a Twitter account posting white supremacist material which said it was run by a Jewish New York lawyer falsely claimed that the New York City Police Department (NYPD) had discovered a pedophilia ring linked to members of the Democratic Party while searching through Anthony Weiner's emails.[13][2] Throughout October and November 2016, WikiLeaks had published John Podesta's emails. Proponents of the conspiracy theory read the emails and alleged they contained code words for pedophilia and human trafficking.[1][14] Proponents also claimed that Comet Ping Pong, a pizzeria in Washington, D.C., was a meeting ground for Satanic ritual abuse.[15]
      • Deriving its name from the Watergate scandal, the story was later posted on fake news websites, starting with Your News Wire, which cited a 4chan post from earlier that year. The Your News Wire article was subsequently spread by pro-Trump websites, including SubjectPolitics.com, which added the claim that the NYPD had raided Hillary Clinton's property.[13] The Conservative Daily Post ran a headline claiming the Federal Bureau of Investigation had confirmed the conspiracy theory.[16]
      • According to the BBC, the allegations spread to "the mainstream internet" several days before the 2016 U.S. presidential election, after a Reddit user posted a Pizzagate "evidence" document.[7] The original Reddit post, removed some time between November 4 and 21, alleged the involvement of Comet Ping Pong:
      • Everyone associated with the business is making semi-overt, semi-tongue-in-cheek, and semi-sarcastic inferences towards sex with minors. The artists that work for and with the business also generate nothing but cultish imagery of disembodiment, blood, beheadings, sex, and of course pizza.[3]
      • The story was picked up by other fake news websites like InfoWars, Planet Free Will,[9] and The Vigilant Citizen,[17][18] and was promoted by alt-right activists such as Mike Cernovich, Brittany Pettibone, and Jack Posobiec.[19] Other promoters included: David Seaman, former writer for TheStreet.com,[20] CBS46 anchor Ben Swann,[21] basketball player Andrew Bogut,[22] and Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson.[23] On December 30, as Bogut recovered from a knee injury, members of /r/The Donald community on Reddit promoted a false theory that his injury was connected to his support for Pizzagate.[24][25] Jonathan Albright, an assistant professor of media analytics at Elon University, said that a disproportionate number of tweets about Pizzagate came from the Czech Republic, Cyprus, and Vietnam, and that some of the most frequent retweeters were bots.[19]
      • Members of the Reddit community /r/The_Donald created the /r/pizzagate subreddit to further develop the conspiracy theory.[9] The sub was banned on November 23, 2016, for violating Reddit's anti-doxing policy after users posted personal details of people connected to the alleged conspiracy. Reddit released a statement afterwards, saying, "We don't want witchhunts on our site".[7][26] After the ban on Reddit, the discussion was moved to the v/pizzagate sub on Voat, a website similar to Reddit.[27]
      • Some of Pizzagate's proponents, including David Seaman and Michael G. Flynn (Michael Flynn's son), evolved the conspiracy into a broader government conspiracy called "Pedogate". According to this theory, a "satanic cabal of elites" of the New World Order operates international child sex trafficking rings.[28]
      • By June 2020, the conspiracy theory found renewed popularity on TikTok, where videos tagged #Pizzagate were reaching over 80 million views (see relevant section).
      • Turkish press reports In Turkey, the allegations were reported by pro-government newspapers (i.e., those supportive of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan), such as Sabah, A Haber, Yeni Şafak, Akşam and Star.[29] The story appeared on Turkey's Ekşi S¶zl¼k website and on the viral news network HaberSelf, where anyone can post content. These forums reposted images and allegations directly from the since-deleted subreddit, which were reprinted in full in the state-controlled press.[29] Efe Sozeri, a columnist for The Daily Dot, suggested Turkish government sources were pushing this story to distract attention from a child abuse scandal there in March 2016.[29]
      • Harassment of restaurant owners and employees The pizzeria,
      • Comet Ping Pong, was threatened by hundreds of people who believed in the Pizzagate conspiracy theory.
      • [30]As Pizzagate spread, Comet Ping Pong received hundreds of threats from the theory's believers.[30] The restaurant's owner, James Alefantis, told The New York Times: "From this insane, fabricated conspiracy theory, we've come under constant assault. I've done nothing for days but try to clean this up and protect my staff and friends from being terrorized."[9]
      • Some adherents identified the Instagram account of Alefantis and pointed to some of the photos posted there as evidence of the conspiracy. Many of the images shown were friends and family who had liked Comet Ping Pong's page on Facebook. In some cases, imagery was taken from unrelated websites and purported to be Alefantis' own.[3] The restaurant's owners and staff were harassed and threatened on social media websites, and the owner received death threats.[9] The restaurant's Yelp page was locked by the site's operators citing reviews that were "motivated more by the news coverage itself than the reviewer's personal consumer experience".[3]
      • Several bands who had performed at the pizzeria also faced harassment. For example, Amanda Kleinman of Heavy Breathing deleted her Twitter account after receiving negative comments connecting her and her band to the conspiracy theory.[9] Another band, Sex Stains, had closed the comments of their YouTube videos and addressed the controversy in the description of their videos.[31] The artist Arrington de Dionyso, who once had painted a mural at the pizzeria that had been painted over several years before the controversy, described the campaign of harassment against him in detail,[32] and said of the attacks in general, "I think it's a very deliberate assault, which will eventually be a coordinated assault on all forms of free expression." The affair has drawn comparisons with the Gamergate controversy.[33][34]
      • Politics and Prose was among some of the D.C. businesses that were also harassed due to the Pizzagate conspiracy theory.
      • [35]Pizzagate-related harassment of businesses extended beyond Comet Ping Pong to include other nearby D.C. businesses such as Besta Pizza, three doors down from Comet; Little Red Fox cafe; bookstore Politics and Prose; and French bistro, Terasol.[35][36] These businesses received a high volume of threatening and menacing telephone calls, including death threats, and also experienced online harassment.[36] The co-owners of Little Red Fox and Terasol filed police reports.[36]
      • Brooklyn restaurant Roberta's was also pulled into the hoax, receiving harassing phone calls, including a call from an unidentified person telling an employee that she was "going to bleed and be tortured".[27][37] The restaurant became involved after a since-removed YouTube video used images from their social media accounts to imply they were part of the hoax sex ring. Others then spread the accusations on social media, claiming the "Clinton family loves Roberta's".[38]
      • East Side Pies, in Austin, Texas, saw one of its delivery trucks vandalized with an epithet, and was the target of online harassment related to their supposed involvement in Pizzagate, alleged connections to the Central Intelligence Agency, and the Illuminati.[39][40]
      • The Federal Bureau of Investigation investigated Pizzagate-related threats in March 2017 as part of a probe into possible Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.[41]
      • Criminal responses Criminal allegations filed against Edgar Welch (
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      • On December 4, 2016, Edgar Maddison Welch, a 28-year-old man from Salisbury, North Carolina, arrived at Comet Ping Pong and fired three shots from an AR-15 style rifle that struck the restaurant's walls, a desk, and a door.[42][43][44] Welch later told police that he had planned to "self-investigate" the conspiracy theory.[45] Welch saw himself as the potential hero of the story'--a rescuer of children.[46] He surrendered after officers surrounded the restaurant and was arrested without incident;[47] no one was injured.[48] Welch was sentenced to four years in prison.[49]
      • Welch told police he had read online that the Comet restaurant was harboring child sex slaves and that he wanted to see for himself if they were there.[8] In an interview with The New York Times, Welch later said that he regretted how he had handled the situation but did not dismiss the conspiracy theory, and rejected the description of it as "fake news".[50][51][52] Some conspiracy theorists speculated the shooting was a staged attempt to discredit their investigations.[53]
      • On December 13, 2016, Welch was charged with one count of "interstate transportation of a firearm with intent to commit an offense" (a federal crime).[54] According to court documents, Welch attempted to recruit friends three days before the attack by urging them to watch a YouTube video about the conspiracy.[55] He was subsequently charged with two additional offenses, with the grand jury returning an indictment charging him with assault with a dangerous weapon and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime.[56][57]
      • On March 24, 2017, following a plea agreement with prosecutors, Welch pleaded guilty to the federal charge of interstate transport of firearms and the local District of Columbia charge of assault with a dangerous weapon. Welch also agreed to pay $5,744.33 for damages to the restaurant. U.S. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson sentenced Welch to four years in prison on June 22, 2017; at the sentencing hearing, Welch apologized for his conduct and said he had been "foolish and reckless".[44][58][59] On March 3, 2020, Welch was transferred to a Community Corrections Center (CCC) and was released on May 28.[60]
      • On January 12, 2017, Yusif Lee Jones, a 52-year-old man from Shreveport, Louisiana, pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana to making a threatening phone call to Besta Pizza, another pizzeria on the same block as Comet Ping Pong, three days after Welch's attack. He said he threatened Besta to "save the kids", and "finish what the other guy didn't".[61][62]
      • On January 25, 2019, Comet Ping Pong suffered an arson attack when a fire was started in one of its backrooms. Employees quickly extinguished the blaze and nobody was injured.[63] The perpetrator escaped, but was arrested a few days later while climbing a fence at the Washington Monument and tied to the arson via security footage. He had posted a video referencing QAnon prior to the arson.[64]
      • Debunking The conspiracy theory has been widely discredited and debunked. It has been judged to be false after detailed investigation by the fact-checking website Snopes.com and The New York Times.[48][65][66] Numerous news organizations have debunked it as a conspiracy theory, including: the New York Observer,[67] The Washington Post,[68] The Independent in London,[69] The Huffington Post,[70] The Washington Times,[71] the Los Angeles Times,[72] Fox News,[73] CNN,[74] and the Miami Herald.[4] The Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia characterized the matter as "fictitious".[4]
      • Much of the purported evidence cited by the conspiracy theory's proponents had been taken from entirely different sources and made to appear as if it supported the conspiracy.[3] Images of children of family and friends of the pizzeria's staff were taken from social media sites such as Instagram and claimed to be photos of victims.[65] The Charlotte Observer noted the diverse group of sources that had debunked the conspiracy theory and pointed out that this included the Fox News Channel in addition to The New York Times.[42]
      • On December 10, 2016, The New York Times published an article that analyzed the theory's claims.[1] They emphasized that:
      • Theorists linked the conspiracy to Comet Ping Pong through similarities between company logos and symbols related to Satanism and pedophilia. However, The Times noted similarities were also found in the logos of a number of unrelated companies, such as AOL, Time Warner, and MSN.[1]Theorists claimed an underground network beneath Comet Ping Pong; the restaurant has no basement, however, and the picture used to support this claim was taken in another facility.[1]Theorists claimed to have a picture of restaurant owner Alefantis wearing a T-shirt endorsing pedophilia. However, the image was of another person, and the shirt, which read "J' ''¤ L'Enfant," (French for "I ''¤ The Child") was actually a reference to the L'Enfant Cafe-Bar in D.C., whose owner was pictured in the image, and which itself is named after Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the designer of much of the layout of Washington, D.C.[1]Theorists claimed John and Tony Podesta kidnapped Madeleine McCann using police sketches that were, in fact, two sketches of the same suspect taken from the descriptions of two eyewitnesses.[1]No alleged victims have come forward and no physical evidence has been found.[75]
      • Responses Community messages in front of Comet Ping Pong following the shooting
      • Conspiracist protesting Comet Ping Pong
      • In an interview with NPR on November 27, 2016, Comet Ping Pong owner James Alefantis referred to the conspiracy theory as "an insanely complicated, made-up, fictional lie-based story" and a "coordinated political attack".[76] Syndicated columnist Daniel Ruth wrote that the conspiracy theorists' assertions were "dangerous and damaging false allegations" and that they were "repeatedly debunked, disproved and dismissed".[77]
      • Despite the conspiracy theory being debunked, it continued to spread on social media, with over one million messages using hashtag #Pizzagate on Twitter in November 2016.[42] Stefanie MacWilliams, who wrote an article promoting the conspiracy on Planet Free Will, was subsequently reported by the Toronto Star as saying, "I really have no regrets and it's honestly really grown our audience". Pizzagate, she said, is "two worlds clashing. People don't trust the mainstream media anymore, but it's true that people shouldn't take the alternative media as truth, either".[78]
      • On December 8, 2016, Hillary Clinton responded to the conspiracy theory, speaking about the dangers of fake news websites. She said, "The epidemic of malicious fake news and fake propaganda that flooded social media over the past year, it's now clear that so-called fake news can have real-world consequences".[79]
      • Public opinion A poll conducted by Public Policy Polling on December 6''7, 2016, asked 1,224 U.S. registered voters if they thought Hillary Clinton was "connected to a child sex ring being run out of a pizzeria in Washington DC". Nine percent of respondents said they believed she was connected, 72% said they did not, and 19% were not sure.[80][81][82]
      • A poll of voters conducted on December 17''20 by The Economist/YouGov asked voters if they believed that "Leaked e-mails from the Clinton campaign talked about pedophilia and human trafficking - 'Pizzagate'." The results showed that 17% of Clinton voters responded "true" while 82% responded "not true"; and 46% of Trump voters responded "true" while 53% responded "not true".[83][84][85]
      • Academic Roger Lancaster likened the impact of Pizzagate to the Satanic panic of the 1980s : at the time, hundreds of daycare workers were falsely accused of abusing children.[86]
      • Alex Jones and InfoWars After the Comet Ping Pong shooting, Alex Jones of InfoWars backed off from the idea that the D.C. pizzeria was the center of the conspiracy.[53] On December 4, InfoWars uploaded a YouTube video that linked Pizzagate to the November 13 death of a sex-worker-rights activist. The video falsely claimed that she had been investigating a link between the Clinton Foundation and human trafficking in Haiti. It speculated she had been murdered in connection with her investigation. According to the activist's former employer, family and friends, her death was in fact a suicide and she was not investigating the Clinton Foundation.[87] By December 14, Infowars had removed two of its three Pizzagate-related videos.[88]
      • In February 2017, Alefantis' lawyers sent Jones a letter demanding an apology and retraction. Under Texas law, Jones was given a month to comply or be subject to a libel suit.[89] In March 2017, Alex Jones apologized to Alefantis for promulgating the conspiracy theory, saying: "To my knowledge today, neither Mr. Alefantis, nor his restaurant Comet Ping Pong, were involved in any human trafficking as was part of the theories about Pizzagate that were being written about in many media outlets and which we commented upon."[90]
      • Michael Flynn and Michael Flynn Jr. In the days leading up to the 2016 election, Michael Flynn, then a top surrogate for Trump and later Trump's National Security Advisor, posted multiple tweets on Twitter containing conspiratorial material regarding Hillary Clinton. They alleged that Clinton's campaign manager, John Podesta, drank the blood and bodily fluids of other humans in Satanic rituals, which Politico says "soon morphed into the '#pizzagate' conspiracy theory involving Comet Ping Pong".[91] On November 2, 2016, Flynn tweeted a link to a story with unfounded accusations and wrote, "U decide '' NYPD Blows Whistle on New Hillary Emails: Money Laundering, Sex Crimes w Children, etc ... MUST READ!" The tweet was shared by over 9,000 people, but was deleted from Flynn's account sometime during December 12''13, 2016.[88]
      • After the shooting incident at Comet Ping Pong, Michael Flynn Jr., Michael T. Flynn's son and also a member of Trump's transition team, tweeted: "Until #Pizzagate proven to be false, it'll remain a story. The left seems to forget #PodestaEmails and the many 'coincidences' tied to it."[92][93][94] On December 6, 2016, Flynn Jr. was forced out of Trump's transition team.[95] Spokesman Jason Miller did not identify the reason for his dismissal, however, The New York Times reported that other officials had confirmed it was related to the tweet.[96]
      • Merger with QAnon and global spread Further information:
      • QAnonPizzagate became a pillar of the far-right QAnon conspiracy theory, which emerged in 2017 and incorporated its beliefs.[97][98] QAnon, which has been a likened in the media to "Pizzagate on steroids",[97] and a "big-budget sequel" to Pizzagate,[98] linked the child trafficking ring to a nefarious worldwide conspiracy. It also developed Pizzagate's claims by adding the concepts that the sexual abuses are part of Satanic rituals and that the abusers murder the children to "harvest" the adrenochrome from their blood, which they then use as a drug[99][100][101][102] or as an elixir to remain youthful.[103]
      • In 2020, as the broader QAnon movement became an international phenomenon, Pizzagate also gained new traction and became less U.S.-centric in nature, with videos and posts on the topic in Italy, Brazil, Turkey and other countries worldwide each gaining millions of views.[11] This new iteration is less partisan; the majority of the (mostly teenage) promoters of the #PizzaGate hashtag on TikTok were not right-wing, and support the Black Lives Matter movement.[10] It focuses on an alleged global elite of child sex-traffickers, ranging from politicians to powerful businesspeople and celebrities such as Bill Gates, Tom Hanks, Ellen DeGeneres, Oprah Winfrey and Chrissy Teigen.[11] Justin Bieber's 2020 song "Yummy" was alleged to be about the conspiracy theory, and rekindled support for the theory during the year. The conspiracy theory gained traction when Venezuelan YouTuber, Dross Rotzank, made a video about Bieber's music video and its alleged references to Pizzagate. Rotzank's video gained 3 million views in two days and led "Pizzagate" to become a trending topic on the Spanish-language Twitter.[104] Adherents of the theory also believe that Bieber gave a coded signal admitting as such in a later Instagram Live video, where he touched his hat after being asked to do so in the chat if he was a victim of Pizzagate (however, there is no indication that Bieber saw this comment).[11][105]
      • In April 2020, a documentary promoting Pizzagate, Out of Shadows,[106] was made by a former Hollywood stuntman and released on YouTube. TikTok users began promoting both Out of Shadows and the alleged Bieber association until the #PizzaGate hashtag was banned by the company.[10][11] The New York Times said in June 2020 that posts on the platform with the #PizzaGate hashtag were "viewed more than 82 million times in recent months", and Google searches for the term also increased in that time. They also reported that "In the first week of June, comments, likes and shares of PizzaGate also spiked to more than 800,000 on Facebook and nearly 600,000 on Instagram, according to data from CrowdTangle ... That compares with 512,000 interactions on Facebook and 93,000 on Instagram during the first week of December 2016. From the start of 2017 through January of 2020, the average number of weekly PizzaGate mentions, likes and shares on Facebook and Instagram was under 20,000".[11]
      • The Pizzagate Massacre is a 2021 satire film inspired by the Pizzagate conspiracy theory.[107][108]
      • In August 2020, Facebook temporarily suspended use of the "#savethechildren" hashtag, when used to promote elements of the Pizzagate conspiracy theory and QAnon.[109] The same month, the movie Duncan was released, inspired by Edgar Maddison Welch's shooting of Comet Ping Pong.[110][111]
      • Frazzled.rip A related conspiracy theory known as "Frazzled.rip" (also spelled "Frazzledrip") emerged in 2018, claiming that an "extreme snuff film" was recovered from Anthony Weiner ' s stolen laptop and was circulating on the dark web, and showed Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin raping and murdering a young girl, drinking her adrenochrome-rich blood in a Satanic ritual, and "tak[ing] turns wearing the little girl's face like a mask".[112]
      • Purported frames from the video circulated to back these claims: according to Snopes, some of these images came from a YouTube video originally posted on April Fools' Day 2018, and a photo which was said to show Huma Abedin wearing a mask had been taken from the website of a Washington D.C. Indian restaurant and portrayed the owner of that establishment.[112] Hundreds of videos on YouTube promoted these false statements,[113] and the claims were still circulating internationally[114] within QAnon groups two years later in 2020.[115][116][117][118]
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    • Ketanji Brown Jackson - Wikipedia
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      • US Supreme Court justice-designate (born 1970)
      • Ketanji Brown Jackson (born Ketanji Onyika Brown; kÉ- TAHN -jee; September 14, 1970)[1] is an American attorney and jurist who has served as a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit since 2021.[2] She is an associate justice-designate of the Supreme Court of the United States. Jackson received Senate confirmation on April 7, 2022, with all members of the Democratic caucus and three Republicans voting in favor of the nomination and 47 Republicans voting against.[3][4]
      • Born in Washington, D.C., and raised in Miami, Florida, Jackson attended Harvard University for college and law school, where she served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review. She began her legal career with three clerkships, including one with U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer. Prior to her elevation to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, she served as a district judge for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia from 2013 to 2021. Jackson was also vice chair of the United States Sentencing Commission from 2010 to 2014.[5] Since 2016, she has been a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers.
      • On February 25, 2022, President Joe Biden nominated Jackson to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, filling the vacancy that is to be created by Breyer's retirement.[6] Upon being sworn in, Jackson will be the first black woman to sit on the Supreme Court.[7]
      • Early life and education Jackson was born Ketanji Onyika Brown on September 14, 1970, in Washington, D.C.[8][9] Her parents were both graduates of historically black colleges and universities.[10][8][11] Her father, Johnny Brown, was a lawyer who ultimately became the chief attorney for the Miami-Dade County School Board, and is a graduate of the University of Miami School of Law; her mother, Ellery, served as school principal at New World School of the Arts.[12][13] While she was in college, Jackson's uncle Thomas Brown Jr. was sentenced to life in prison for a nonviolent cocaine conviction. Years later, Jackson persuaded a law firm to take his case pro bono, and President Barack Obama eventually commuted his sentence.[14] Another uncle, Calvin Ross, served as Miami's police chief.[12]
      • Jackson grew up in the Miami, Florida area, and graduated from Miami Palmetto Senior High School in 1988.[9] In her senior year, she won the national oratory title at the National Catholic Forensic League championships in New Orleans.[15] She is quoted in her high school yearbook saying that she "[wanted] to go into law and eventually have a judicial appointment."[16]
      • Jackson studied government at Harvard University, having applied despite her high school guidance counselor's advice to set her sights lower.[17] During college, she performed improv comedy and took classes in drama,[18] and led protests against a student who displayed a Confederate flag from his dorm window.[19] Jackson graduated from Harvard in 1992 with an A.B. magna cum laude, having written a senior thesis entitled "The Hand of Oppression: Plea Bargaining Processes and the Coercion of Criminal Defendants".
      • Jackson worked as a staff reporter and researcher for Time magazine from 1992 to 1993, then attended Harvard Law School, where she was a supervising editor of the Harvard Law Review. She graduated in 1996 with a Juris Doctor cum laude.[9][20]
      • Career After law school, Jackson served as a law clerk to judge Patti B. Saris of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts from 1996 to 1997, then to judge Bruce M. Selya of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit from 1997 to 1998. She spent a year in private practice at the Washington, D.C. law firm Miller Cassidy Larroca & Lewin (now part of Baker Botts), then clerked for justice Stephen Breyer of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1999 to 2000.[9][21]
      • Jackson worked in private legal practice from 2000 to 2003, first at the Boston-based law firm Goodwin Procter from 2000 to 2002, then with Kenneth Feinberg at the law firm now called Feinberg & Rozen LLP from 2002 to 2003.[22] From 2003 to 2005, she was an assistant special counsel to the United States Sentencing Commission.[23] From 2005 to 2007, Jackson was an assistant federal public defender in Washington, D.C., where she handled cases before U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.[24] A Washington Post review of cases Jackson handled during her time as a public defender showed that "she won uncommon victories against the government that shortened or erased lengthy prison terms".[25] From 2007 to 2010, Jackson was an appellate specialist at Morrison & Foerster.[22][21]
      • U.S. Sentencing Commission On July 23, 2009, Barack Obama nominated Jackson to become vice chair of the United States Sentencing Commission.[26] The U.S. Senate confirmed Jackson by unanimous consent on February 11, 2010. She succeeded Michael E. Horowitz, who had served from 2003 until 2009. Jackson served on the Sentencing Commission until 2014.[27][21] During her time on the Commission, it retroactively amended the Sentencing Guidelines to reduce the guideline range for crack cocaine offenses,[2] and enacted the "drugs minus two" amendment, which implemented a two offense-level reduction for drug crimes.[28]
      • District Court Jackson on the bench of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
      • On September 20, 2012, Obama nominated Jackson to serve as a judge for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia to the seat vacated by retiring Judge Henry H. Kennedy Jr.[29] Jackson was introduced at her December 2012 confirmation hearing by Republican Paul Ryan, a relative through marriage, who said "Our politics may differ, but my praise for Ketanji's intellect, for her character, for her integrity, it is unequivocal."[12] On February 14, 2013, her nomination was reported to the full Senate by voice vote of the Senate Judiciary Committee.[30] She was confirmed by the full Senate by voice vote on March 22, 2013. She received her commission on March 26, 2013[21] and was sworn in by Justice Breyer in May 2013.[31]
      • During her time on the District Court, Jackson wrote multiple decisions adverse to the positions of the Trump administration. In her opinion ordering Trump's former White House counsel Donald McGahn to comply with a legislative subpoena, she wrote "presidents are not kings".[32] Jackson handled a number of challenges to executive agency actions that raised questions of administrative law. She also issued rulings in several cases that gained particular political attention.[33]
      • Bloomberg Law reported in spring 2021 that conservative activists were pointing to certain decisions by Jackson that had been reversed on appeal as a "potential blemish on her record".[34] In 2019, Jackson ruled that provisions in three Trump executive orders conflicted with federal employee rights to collective bargaining. Her decision was reversed unanimously by the D.C. Circuit. Another 2019 decision, involving a challenge to a Department of Homeland Security decision to expand the agency's definition of which noncitizens could be deported, was also reversed by the D.C. Circuit. Nan Aron, president of the liberal Alliance for Justice, defended Jackson's record, saying Jackson "has written nearly 600 opinions and been reversed less than twelve times".[34]
      • Selected rulings In American Meat Institute v. U.S. Department of Agriculture (2013), Jackson rejected the meat packing industry's request for a preliminary injunction to block a U.S. Department of Agriculture rule requiring them to identify animals' country of origin. Jackson found that the rule likely did not violate the First Amendment.[35][36]
      • In Depomed v. Department of Health and Human Services (2014), Jackson ruled that the Food and Drug Administration had violated the Administrative Procedure Act when it failed to grant pharmaceutical company Depomed market exclusivity for its orphan drug, Gralise. Jackson concluded that the Orphan Drug Act required the FDA to grant Gralise exclusivity.[37]
      • In Pierce v. District of Columbia (2015), Jackson ruled that the D.C. Department of Corrections violated the rights of a deaf inmate under the Americans with Disabilities Act because jail officials failed to provide the inmate with reasonable accommodations, or to assess his need for reasonable accommodations, during his detention in 2012. Jackson held that "the District's willful blindness regarding" Pierce's need for accommodation and its half-hearted attempt to provide Pierce with a random assortment of auxiliary aids'--and only after he specifically requested them'--fell far short of what the law requires."[38]
      • In April and June 2018, Jackson presided over two cases challenging the Department of Health and Human Services' decision to terminate grants for teen pregnancy prevention programs two years early.[39] Jackson ruled that the decision to terminate the grants early, without any explanation for doing so, was arbitrary and capricious.[40]
      • In American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO v. Trump (2018), Jackson invalidated provisions of three executive orders that would have limited the time federal employee labor union officials could spend with union members, the issues that unions could bargain over in negotiations, and the rights of disciplined workers to appeal disciplinary actions. Jackson concluded that the executive orders violated the right of federal employees to collectively bargain, as guaranteed by the Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute.[41] The D.C. Circuit vacated this ruling on jurisdictional grounds in 2019.[42][43]
      • In 2018, Jackson dismissed 40 wrongful death and product liability lawsuits stemming from the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which had been combined into a single multidistrict litigation. Jackson held that under the doctrine of forum non conveniens, the suits should be brought in Malaysia, not the United States. The D.C. Circuit affirmed this ruling in 2020.[44][45][46][47]
      • In 2019, in Center for Biological Diversity v. McAleenan, Jackson held that Congress had, through the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act, stripped federal courts of jurisdiction to hear non-constitutional challenges to the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security's decision to waive certain environmental requirements to facilitate construction of a border wall on the United States and Mexico border.[48]
      • In 2019, Jackson issued a preliminary injunction in Make The Road New York v. McAleenan, blocking a Trump administration rule that would have expanded expedited removal ("fast-track" deportations) without immigration court hearings for undocumented immigrants.[49] Jackson found that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security had violated the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) because its decision was arbitrary and capricious and the agency did not seek public comment before issuing the rule.[50] In a 2''1 ruling in 2020, the D.C. Circuit reversed the entry of the preliminary injunction, ruling that the IIRIRA (by committing the matter to the executive branch's "sole and unreviewable discretion") precluded APA review of the decision.[51]
      • In 2019, Jackson issued a ruling in Committee on the Judiciary of the U.S. House of Representatives v. McGahn in which the House Committee on the Judiciary sued Don McGahn, former White House Counsel for the Trump administration, to compel him to comply with the subpoena to appear at a hearing on its impeachment inquiry on issues of alleged obstruction of justice by the administration. McGahn declined to comply with the subpoena after U.S. President Donald Trump, relying on a legal theory of executive testimonial immunity, ordered McGahn not to testify. In a lengthy opinion, Jackson ruled in favor of the House Committee and held that senior-level presidential aides "who have been subpoenaed for testimony by an authorized committee of Congress must appear for testimony in response to that subpoena" even if the President orders them not to do so.[52] Jackson rejected the administration's assertion of executive testimonial immunity by holding that "with respect to senior-level presidential aides, absolute immunity from compelled congressional process simply does not exist."[53] According to Jackson, that conclusion was "inescapable precisely because compulsory appearance by dint of a subpoena is a legal construct, not a political one, and per the Constitution, no one is above the law."[53][54][55] Jackson's use of the phrase "presidents are not kings" gained popular attention in subsequent media reporting on the ruling.[56][57][58][59] In noting that Jackson took four months to resolve the case, including writing a 120-page opinion, The Washington Post wrote: "That slow pace contributed to helping Mr. Trump run out the clock on the congressional oversight effort before the 2020 election."[12] The ruling was appealed by the U.S. Department of Justice,[60] and the D.C. Circuit affirmed part of Jackson's decision nine months later in August 2020.[61] While the case remained pending, on June 4, 2021, McGahn testified behind closed doors under an agreement reached with the Biden administration.[62]
      • Court of Appeals On March 30, 2021, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Jackson to serve as a United States circuit judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.[63] On April 19, 2021, her nomination was sent to the Senate. President Biden nominated Jackson to the seat vacated by Judge Merrick Garland, who stepped down to become attorney general.[64]
      • On April 28, 2021, a hearing on her nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee.[65] During her confirmation hearing, Jackson was questioned about several of her rulings against the Trump administration.[66] On May 20, 2021, Jackson's nomination was reported out of committee by a 13''9 vote.[67] On June 10, 2021, cloture was invoked on her nomination by a vote of 52''46.[68] On June 14, 2021, the United States Senate confirmed Jackson in a 53''44 vote.[69] Republican senators Susan Collins, Lindsey Graham and Lisa Murkowski joined all 50 Democrats in voting to confirm her nomination. She received her judicial commission on June 17, 2021.[70]
      • Jackson's first decision as a court of appeals judge invalidated a 2020 rule by the Federal Labor Relations Authority that had restricted the bargaining power of federal-sector labor unions.[71]
      • Legal philosophy In January 2022, The New York Times reported that Jackson had "not yet written a body of appeals court opinions expressing a legal philosophy" because she had joined the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in the summer of 2021. However, The Times said, Jackson's earlier rulings "comported with those of a liberal-leaning judge", including her opinions blocking various Trump administration actions.[12] Additionally, a review of over 500 of her judicial opinions indicated that she would likely be as liberal as Justice Stephen Breyer, the justice she is nominated to replace.[72]
      • According to Sahil Kapur, writing for NBC News, "Jackson fits well with the Democratic Party and the progressive movement's agenda" due to her relative youth, background as a public defender, and history of labor-friendly rulings.[73]
      • Politico reported that "Jackson is popular with liberal legal activists looking to replace Breyer with a justice willing to engage in ideological combat with the court's conservatives."[74]
      • Nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court President Joe Biden with Jackson prior to her being announced as the nominee, February 25, 2022
      • In early 2016, the Obama administration officials vetted Jackson as a potential nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court to fill the vacancy left by the death of Antonin Scalia.[75][76][77] Jackson was one of five candidates interviewed as a potential nominee for the vacancy.[78]
      • In early 2022, news outlets speculated that Biden would nominate Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court to fill the seat vacated by Stephen Breyer.[79][80][81][82] Biden pledged during the 2020 United States presidential election campaign to appoint a black woman to the court, should a vacancy occur.[79] Jackson's appointment to the D.C. Circuit, considered to be the second most influential federal court in the United States, behind only the Supreme Court, was viewed as preparation for a potential promotion to the Supreme Court.[83]
      • Jackson's potential nomination to the Supreme Court was supported by civil rights and liberal advocacy organizations.[14] The Washington Post wrote that Jackson's experience as a public defender "has endeared her to the more liberal base of the Democratic Party".[84] While her supporters have touted her history as a public defender as an asset, during her 2021 confirmation hearing, Republicans tried to cast her public defender work as a liability.[25]
      • On February 25, 2022, Biden announced that Jackson was his nominee for associate justice of the Supreme Court.[6] Her nomination was sent to the Senate on February 28.[85] Her confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee opened on March 21.[86] After the Judiciary Committee deadlocked in an 11''11 vote, her nomination was advanced on April 4 by a 53''47 procedural vote in the Senate.[87][88][89] She was subsequently confirmed by the same margin on April 7, 2022.[90] She received her commission on April 8, 2022.[91] She will be sworn in and become an associate justice in late June or early July, when Breyer's retirement goes into effect.[92]
      • Affiliations Jackson at the Judge James B. Parsons Legacy Dinner on February 24, 2020
      • Jackson is a member of the Judicial Conference Committee on Defender Services as well as Harvard University's Board of Overseers and the Council of the American Law Institute.[93] She also currently serves on the board of Georgetown Day School[94] and the U.S. Supreme Court Fellows Commission.[95]
      • From 2010 to 2011, she served on the advisory board of Montrose Christian School which was a Baptist school.[96] Jackson has served as a judge in several mock trials with the Shakespeare Theatre Company[97][98][99] and for the Historical Society of the District of Columbia's Mock Court Program.[100] Jackson presided over a mock trial, hosted by Drexel University's Thomas R. Kline School of Law in 2018, "to determine if Vice President Aaron Burr was guilty of murdering" Alexander Hamilton.[101]
      • In 2017, Jackson presented at the University of Georgia School of Law's 35th Edith House Lecture.[102] In 2018, Jackson participated as a panelist at the National Constitution Center's town hall on the legacy of Alexander Hamilton.[103] In 2020, Jackson gave the Martin Luther King Jr. Day lecture at the University of Michigan Law School[104] and was honored at the University of Chicago Law School's third annual Judge James B. Parsons Legacy Dinner, which was hosted by the school's Black Law Students Association.[105]
      • Personal life In 1996, Brown married surgeon Patrick Graves Jackson, a Boston Brahmin who is a descendant of Continental Congress delegate Jonathan Jackson, and is related to U.S. Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.[106][107][108] Through her marriage, Jackson is related to former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan.[109] The couple has two daughters, Leila and Talia.[110][111] Jackson is a non-denominational Protestant.[112]
      • Published works Recent Case (1995). "Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) '' Scope of Liability after Reves v. Ernst & Young". Harvard Law Review. 108 (6): 1405''1410. doi:10.2307/1341863. JSTOR 1341863. [9] [a]Note (1996). "Prevention versus Punishment: Toward a Principled Distinction in the Restraint of Released Sex Offenders". Harvard Law Review. 109 (7): 1711''1728. doi:10.2307/1342027. JSTOR 1342027. S2CID 247656074. [9][a]See also Joe Biden judicial appointment controversiesJoe Biden Supreme Court candidatesList of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 2)List of African-American juristsNotes ^ a b The Harvard Law Review publishes its student contributions as "notes" without stating the author's name as part of a policy reflecting "the fact that many members of the Review besides the author make a contribution to each published piece." About the Harvard Law Review, accessed 9 April 2022. 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    • Maya Wiley - Wikipedia
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      • American lawyer and mayoral candidate
      • Maya D. Wiley (born January 2, 1964) is an American lawyer, professor, and civil rights activist. Wiley served as counsel to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. She chaired the Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB) from 2016 to 2017.[1][2] She was an MSNBC legal analyst from August 2018 to January 2021.[3] Wiley ran in the 2021 New York City Democratic mayoral primary, in which she placed third.
      • Wiley is the senior vice president for social justice at The New School and a professor at the Milano School of Policy, Management, and Environment. In March 2022, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights announced Wiley's appointment as its president and CEO, and of its sister group, The Leadership Conference Education Fund, effective May 2.[4][5]
      • Early life and education [ edit ] Wiley was born on January 2, 1964, in Syracuse, New York, and raised in Washington, D.C.[6] Her father was civil rights leader and academic George Wiley. Her mother, Wretha Frances (Whittle) Wiley, was white, and inspired her to focus on progressive issues.[7][8] On August 8, 1973, Wiley's 42-year-old father fell overboard while sailing with Wiley and her older brother on his 23'foot boat on Chesapeake Bay, Maryland.[9][10] On August 12, 1973, his body was found floating in the bay off the shore of Chesapeake Beach, Maryland, after a three-day search.[11][12]
      • Wiley earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from Dartmouth College in 1986[13] and a Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School.[14]
      • Career [ edit ] Wiley served in the Civil Division of the U.S. Attorney Office for the Southern District of New York.[15]
      • In 2013, Wiley was mentioned as a potential president of the NAACP, but the post went instead to Cornell William Brooks.[16] Before being appointed counsel to Mayor Bill de Blasio in 2014, she worked for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Open Society Institute.[17]
      • Wiley spent two and a half years as counsel to de Blasio, during which time she became known for coining the term "agents of the city" in an attempt to prevent public disclosure of de Blasio's communications with lobbyists.[18] She also founded and served as president of the Center for Social Inclusion, a national policy strategy organization dedicated to dismantling structural racism.[19][17][20][21]
      • Wiley has taught at The New School and appeared on MSNBC as a political and legal analyst.[22]
      • 2021 New York City mayoral campaign [ edit ] Wiley ran in the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City in 2021.[22] In June 2021, Wiley was endorsed by U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,[23][24] and former presidential candidates Julian Castro[25] and Elizabeth Warren.[26] She was also endorsed by The Strokes, whose song "Starting Again" was included in a campaign advertisement.[27] The band also played a fundraising concert at Irving Plaza on June 12, 2021.[28] Wiley placed third in the Democratic primary, behind Eric Adams and Kathryn Garcia.[29]
      • Personal life [ edit ] Wiley is married to Harlan Mandel, CEO of the Media Development Investment Fund.[18] They live in Brooklyn with their two daughters.[7]
      • References [ edit ] ^ Mueller, Benjamin (August 31, 2017). "Chairwoman Steps Down at New York City Police Oversight Agency". The New York Times. ^ "Mayor Bill de Blasio Announces Two New Appointments To CCRB". The official website of the City of New York. September 26, 2017 . Retrieved April 27, 2017 . ^ MSNBC Public Relations [@MSNBCPR] (August 27, 2018). "We are excited to announce @TheNewSchool professor of Urban Policy and Management @mayawiley as our newest @NBCNews and @MSNBC Legal Analyst. Tune in to @TheBeatWithAri at 6pm ET on @MSNBC for her first appearance in her new role. t.co/lKcwvgUkWm" (Tweet). Archived from the original on May 9, 2019 . Retrieved June 9, 2021 '' via Twitter. ^ Oshin, Olafimihan (March 8, 2022). "Former NYC Mayoral candidate Maya Wiley to head Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights". TheHill . Retrieved March 9, 2022 . ^ "Maya Wiley, former de Blasio aide, hired to helm Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286 . Retrieved March 9, 2022 . ^ "Transcript: Maya Wiley: Racial Justice". MSNBC.com . Retrieved June 5, 2021 . ^ a b "Maya Wiley's push for civil rights". Politico. July 21, 2014. ^ "Wretha Wiley Obituary - Abilene, Texas | Legacy.com". February 12, 2013. ^ "George A. Wiley Papers, 1949-1975 (Archival Resources in Wisconsin)". digicoll.library.wisc.edu. ^ "DR. GEORGE WILEY FEARED DROWNED (Published 1973)". The New York Times. August 10, 1973. ^ "Body of Dr. George Wiley Recovered and Identified (Published 1973)". The New York Times. August 12, 1973. ^ "DR. GEORGE WILEY FEARED DROWNED (Published 1973)". The New York Times. August 10, 1973. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved October 8, 2020 . ^ Furlong, Lisa (June 2016). "Maya Wiley '86: An NYC aide on facing urban challenges". Dartmouth Alumni Magazine . Retrieved June 22, 2021 . ^ "NBC News legal analyst Maya Wiley to deliver keynote address for Clemson's MLK Commemorative Service". Newsstand | Clemson University News and Stories, South Carolina. January 15, 2019 . Retrieved October 8, 2020 . ^ "Maya Wiley Joins CPD Board of Directors". The Center for Popular Democracy. March 21, 2017 . Retrieved July 30, 2020 . ^ "Who's going to be the next president of the NAACP?". The Washington Post. September 20, 2013. ^ a b "27 Black Women Activists Everyone Should Know". For Harriet. February 27, 2014. ^ a b Coltin, Jeff (September 2, 2020). "Five things to know about Maya Wiley". City & State NY . Retrieved May 20, 2021 . {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) ^ "Maya Wiley". City of New York. ^ "De Blasio Picks More Liberal Activists Than Managers for City Posts". The New York Times. February 28, 2014. ^ "The Women of New York's City Hall". The New York Times. May 9, 2014. ^ a b Fitzsimmons, Emma G. (October 8, 2020). "Maya Wiley Enters Mayor's Race: 'I Am Not a Conventional Candidate' ". The New York Times . Retrieved October 9, 2020 . ^ Glueck, Katie (June 5, 2021). "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Endorses Maya Wiley for N.Y.C. Mayor". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved June 5, 2021 . ^ "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez endorses Maya Wiley for New York mayor". the Guardian. June 5, 2021 . Retrieved June 5, 2021 . ^ "Maya Wiley gets nod from former presidential hopeful Julian Castro". ^ Wiley, Maya [@mayawiley] (June 7, 2021). "Big structural change is exactly what New York City needs right now. @ewarren, thank you for your confidence in me. Let's dream big and fight hard for the City welove. t.co/P2qbEekgUL" (Tweet). Archived from the original on June 8, 2021 . Retrieved June 9, 2021 '' via Twitter. ^ Blistein, Jon (June 21, 2021). "The Strokes Tease New Song 'Starting Again' in Campaign Ad for NYC Mayoral Candidate Maya Wiley". Rolling Stone . Retrieved July 9, 2021 . ^ Kreps, Daniel (June 13, 2021). "See the Strokes Play Fundraiser Gig for NYC Mayoral Candidate Maya Wiley". Rolling Stone . Retrieved July 9, 2021 . ^ Honan, Katie (July 7, 2021). "New York City Mayoral Race: Eric Adams Wins Democratic Primary". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660 . Retrieved July 7, 2021 . External links [ edit ] Campaign websiteCenter for Social InclusionAppearances on C-SPAN
    • Sabriya I. Williams '-- #SheWillRise
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      • Sabriya I. Williams is poised and driven with 20 years of experience working to close the disparities gap amongst people of color. Sabriya brings a wealth of knowledge, professionalism, and integrity to every project she takes on. She is a wife, mother, sister, daughter and proud resident of our nation's capital. Sabriya grew up in a family where social activism was modeled by her mother and she has continued in that vein.
      • Sabriya worked for many years as an outreach manager and events coordinator for the Office of Minority Health, DHHS and various non-profit organizations. In these roles she has co-managed and developed national campaigns, developed and implemented an exhibit's program that doubled in national visibility under her direction. She was the event coordinator for the Black 44 Professional Development Retreat, which included a Fireside chat with Joy Reid and Valerie Jarrett.
    • 'Minor-Attracted Person': Inside The Growing Effort To Destigmatize Pedophilia | The Daily Wire
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      • Earlier this month, an Old Dominion University (ODU) professor of sociology and criminal justice, Allyn Walker, brought global attention to a newer term, ''Minor-Attracted Persons'' or ''MAPs'' for short, within a greater argument that pedophiles shouldn't be ostracized for their urges. Although ODU seemingly initially defended the comments, they eventually placed Walker on administrative leave. Walker, a transgender male, goes by they/them pronouns.
      • In the controversial interview with the Prostasia Foundation, an activist group seeking to destigmatize pedophilia, Walker discussed her book, ''A Long Dark Shadow: Minor Attracted People and Their Pursuit of Dignity,'' and claimed that the stigma associated with attraction to minors was harmful '-- not just to the pedophile, but potentially to children.
      • ''[T]he stigma that we have against MAPs throughout society can not only affect well-being, but it can actually lead to harm against children,'' said Walker.
      • Walker also claimed that pedophiles' attraction to children wasn't immoral, arguing that actions alone could be moral or immoral.
      • ''I've definitely heard the idea that you brought up though that the use of the term minor attracted person suggests that it's okay to be attracted to children. But using a term that communicates who someone is attracted to doesn't indicate anything about the morality of that attraction. From my perspective, there is no morality or immorality attached to attraction to anyone because no one can control who they're attracted to at all. In other words, it's not who we're attracted to that's either okay or not, okay. It's our behaviors and responding to that attraction that are either okay or not okay.'' (emphasis added)
      • Prior to being placed on administrative leave from ODU, Walker released a statement through the university condemning the sexual abuse of a child.
      • ''I want to be clear: child sexual abuse is morally wrong and inexcusable crime. As an assistant professor of sociology and criminal justice, the goal of my research is to prevent crime. My work is informed by my past experience and advocacy as a social worker counseling victims. I embarked on this research in hopes of gaining understanding of a group that, previously, has not been studied in order to identify ways to protect children,'' stated Walker.
      • According to a profile on 500 Queer Scientists, Walker's career began as a social worker counseling crime victims. After working with sexual assault victims, Walker became more interested in ''wanting to help prevent harms created by systems.'' Walker later earned a criminal justice PhD and focused on ''institutional harm,'' an emphasis on the harms created by systems such as criminal processing and mental health care.
      • Walker was also involved in the American Society of Criminology (ASC) Division on Queer Criminology (DQS). The DQS published a post in support of Walker's research and conclusions; they claimed that any controversy or opposition to Walker's perspective was a personal attack on Walker as a transgender person.
      • ''Recently, DQC member Dr. Allyn Walker's work on minor-attracted persons has been targeted by people who are misrepresenting their research . It is necessary to understand the causes of sexual offenses in order to prevent them, and Dr. Walker's work aims to do just that.
      • It is an example of the type of work that can prevent victimization and reduce harm, specifically child sex abuse. Dr. Walker's research focuses on people who find themselves sexually attracted to children but have not committed any sexual offenses against children.
      • Some of these individuals were sexually victimized themselves as children, but fear asking for help given they are labeled by society as ''pedophiles''.
      • Much of the bias against Dr. Walker's research is rooted in their gender and is an attack against transgender people specifically and LGBTQ+ people more generally. We firmly believe a cisgender researcher would not have been targeted in this manner.
      • The leadership of the Division on Queer Criminology is fully supportive of Dr. Walker and the important contributions their work makes to the field of criminology.'' (emphasis added)
      • Along with the book, Walker released several other research papers on the topic '-- ''Minor Attraction: A Queer Criminological Issue'' (2017), and '''I'm Not like That, So Am I Gay?' The Use of Queer-Spectrum Identity Labels Among Minor-Attracted People'' (2019).
      • The works convey a consistent idea, the same one Walker's intellectual predecessors have steadily marched to impress upon society: pedophiles aren't necessarily dangerous or immoral. In fact, they say, society may be to blame if they do act. At the tip of this intellectual iceberg is the term used to destigmatize pedophilia: ''MAP.''
      • In the past 14 years, the acronym ''MAP'' has gained traction with those seeking to destigmatize pedophilia: pedophiles themselves, with the assistance of those in academia and even in the medical community. Some use the distinction ''NMAP'' or ''NOMAP,'' short for ''Non-Offending Minor-Attracted Persons,'' to signify those that don't act on their urges through contact or mediums like child porn. However, most simply use ''MAP.''
      • ''Pedophile'' is the generally accepted term for an individual who is sexually attracted to children, derived from the mental illness ''pedophilia.'' The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) categorizes pedophilia, or pedophilic disorder, among other paraphilia or paraphilic disorders: deviant sexual interests, practices, or behaviors that may cause psychological distress in themselves or others, including those who can't give legal consent.
      • Then came MAP: coined by pedophiles with the support of academics and mental health professionals like psychologists purportedly seeking to understand and help them.
      • The predecessor to MAP came from a similar term, ''minor-attracted adults.'' One of the earliest uses of that term was in a lengthy 1998 profile piece on Christian support groups for pedophilia: ''Not an Oxymoron: Christian Pedophiles Form Online Support Groups.'' The blogger, Heather Elizabeth Peterson, ran two now-defunct websites, Philia and Greenbelt, each offering faith-based information and support resources for pedophiles. In the following years, the phrase ''minor-attracted adults'' picked up use and was abbreviated frequently as ''MAA.''
      • The term gained more traction after 2003 with the creation of the nonprofit B4U-ACT, co-founded by a convicted child molester, Michael Melsheimer, and a counselor, Russell Dick. B4U-ACT markets itself as a collaborative effort between mental health professionals and pedophiles to produce research, support, and communications on pedophilia.
      • B4U-ACT used the term ''MAA'' until 2007 when it coined ''minor-attracted persons'' and ''MAP'' because it reported that pedophiles were claiming that they experienced their pedophilic urges prior to adulthood.
      • It took several more years for the term to pick up more significant traction in the academic world. In 2016, a counseling student at City University of Seattle submitted a thesis on destigmatizing pedophilia titled, '''Come In and Talk for a While' '' Bringing Minor-Attracted Persons in From the Waiting Room.''
      • MAP isn't the only euphemism for pedophilia. Other pedophilic jargon includes ''AOA,'' or ''age of attraction.'' Some within the MAP community have coined slogans like ''Map Pride,'' ''MAP Positivity,'' ''MAP Support,'' and even ''MAP Rights.''
      • MAP is a widely-used term, unlike the ''clovergender'' hoax that emerged in 2017, wherein social media accounts purported that pedophiles were attempting to join the LGBTQ+ community as individuals whose attraction to minors was fine because they identified as minors on the inside.
      • Everywhere the term ''MAP'' is used, there's a concerted effort to understand and even destigmatize pedophilia. In 2012, Slate published an article by Jennifer Bleyer '-- who would later serve as a senior editor at Psychology Today from 2014 to 2018 '-- describing a man's admission of his long-standing attraction to boys, titled ''How Can We Stop Pedophiles?: Stop treating them like monsters.''
      • Bleyer proposed that society should bear some of the blame for pedophiles' crimes. She argued that destigmatizing pedophilia could prevent harm to children.
      • ''He considers himself a 'minor-attracted person,' a term that some prefer to 'pedophile,' and what he and others like him have been quietly promoting is the idea that society needs to recognize that they exist, that they are capable of controlling their sexual desires and deserve support and respect for doing so,'' wrote the reporter, Jennifer Bleyer.
      • Bleyer even offered something like a follow-up on that story a year later in a Slate opinion piece. After recounting the harrowing, years-long abuse of two nine-year-old girls, Bleyer proposed an alternative to focusing on the victims of childhood sexual abuse: a focus on the perpetrators themselves.
      • ''Nowhere ['...] is the most dark and disturbing question asked: Why do some grown men want to rape or molest little kids? Or even look at images of such acts? You might answer that it's because they're sick perverts, but 'sick pervert' is neither a medical diagnosis nor a psychiatric designation. Believing that the world is simply pocked with sick perverts who are destined to rape and molest children is, in a way, to give in to the inevitability of their crimes with our fingers crossed that they'll be caught. (Most are not.) It does nothing to prevent men like John from doing what he did, nor what happened to Nicole and Amy from happening again.''
      • A year after Bleyer joined Psychology Today , she advanced the ideas presented in those two Slate pieces with a feature totaling over 4,400 words in its November/December 2015 issue: ''SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIANT: THE INTENSE STIGMA SURROUNDING CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE CLOUDS AN ALREADY MISUNDERSTOOD SUBJECT AND MAY EVEN PREVENT PEOPLE FROM GETTING HELP BEFORE THEY COMMIT HARM. ONE CONVICTED OFFENDER SHARES HIS STORY.'' The feature focused mostly on the feelings and experiences of a perpetrator prior to and following his arrest, combined with psychological analyses of pedophilia that cast a sympathetic light on their mental illness.
      • Bleyer wasn't alone in her takes on pedophilia. Other academics proposed that society itself was to blame for the sexual abuse of children. In 2019, two psychologists published an opinion piece claiming that stigmas attached to pedophilia led to harm for both pedophiles and children. The abstract read:
      • ''[N]egative reactions towards child sexual abuse at the individual, interpersonal, and societal levels often block pathways to the prevention of child sexual abuse. Using the case of Mark Salling, the former Glee actor who recently died by suicide following charges of child pornography possession, we argue that societal fears and frustrations about child sexual exploitation and abuse are often counter-productive and should be redirected towards prevention efforts. Accordingly, current and potential initiatives for prevention of child sexual abuse and child sexual exploitation are discussed.''
      • Scholarly uses of the term have increased over the past two years '-- along with the claim of society's responsibility for pedophilia. In July, a Current Psychiatry article argued that an understanding of MAPs would be crucial to offering proper treatment and thereby preventing harm to children:
      • ''[M]any individuals with pedophilic interests never have sexual contact with a child or the penal system. This non-offending pedophile group reports a greater prevalence of psychiatric symptoms compared with the general population, but given the intense stigmatization of their preferences, they are largely psychiatrically underrecognized and underserved. This article focuses on the unique psychiatric needs of this neglected population. By understanding and addressing the treatment needs of these patients, psychiatrists and other mental health clinicians can serve a pivotal role in decreasing stigma, promoting wellness, and preventing sexual abuse.''
      • These arguments to destigmatize pedophilia have long been associated with efforts to lower the age of consent, thereby legalizing sexual relationships between adults and minors. Pedophile advocacy coalitions have made that clear, such as the North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) . Defunct groups before them consistently advocated for the same changes, such as the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE), a British group existing from 1974 to 1984, or the Vereniging Martijn (MARTIJN), Dutch group existing from 1982 until a court ordered their disbandment in 2014.
      • Some of the earliest documented pedophile advocacy groups and organizations emerged in the 1970s, following the sexual revolution of the 1960s. Scholars have speculated that this timeline of events is part of ongoing efforts by cultural revolutionaries. Boise State University political science professor and Claremont Institute Senior Fellow Scott Yenor '-- author of ''The Recovery of Family Life: Exposing the Limits of Modern Ideologies,'' a historical analysis of the sexual revolution '-- claimed that children are the '' next frontier '' in an ongoing sexual revolution aimed at reforming American society:
      • ''Conservatives often claim that the sexual revolution will meet 'natural limits.' Perhaps the principal natural limit is respect for the sexual innocence of children. Our society has long opposed thinking of children as sex objects or sexual beings, and rarely encouraged children themselves to engage in sexual play and exploration. Childhood is a time to cultivate self-control, to encourage sexual modesty, and to turn shame into sexual virtue. We enforce this limit with age of consent laws and with laws against child pornography.
      • But sexual revolutionaries do not respect this 'natural' limit. Indeed, sexual revolutionaries consider children to be sexual beings with sexual desires that crave fulfillment. Leaders of the sexual revolution thought Christian and bourgeois society would collapse if children were raised to a 'sex affirmative' environment without 'repression.'''
      • An example of activist efforts to sexualize children is evident in philosophies undergirding certain K-12 curriculum that parents and communities have begun to discover over the last two years with pandemic-onset distance learning. These philosophies, which argue that children are sexual from birth and have a right to sexual knowledge and pleasure, have a common origin: Dr. Alfred Kinsey, ''Father of the Sexual Revolution'' and founder of Indiana University's Institute for Sex Research now known as the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction.
      • According to Kinsey biographer Judith Reisman, part of Kinsey's research on child sexuality included the sexual violation of hundreds to thousands of infants and children.
      • Just as it was an academic who initiated efforts to normalize pedophilia, so it was an academic '-- ODU's Walker '-- who marked a new chapter in that march toward normalization earlier this month. Though not the first to introduce the term, Walker brought significant attention to it compared to those past and present who propose similar ideas within the same ideology.
      • That ideology contests our culture should be more understanding of pedophilia. If not, they argue, harm will befall children '-- and those who stigmatize pedophilia will be to blame.
      • Corinne Murdock is a reporter for The Daily Wire and AZ Free News. Have something you think the mainstream media won't cover? Send tips to corinnejournalist@gmail.com .
      • The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author's own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
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