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At Least 25 Vaccinated People Died of COVID-19 in Milwaukee County Since August 2021: Medical Examiner

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“We have yet to see a death that can be tied to the vaccine” -Karen Domagalski of the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s office

At least 25 vaccinated people died of COVID-19 since August 2021, according to data that Wisconsin Right Now obtained from the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s office.

In each of those cases, the people had serious co-morbidities. They also were elderly in most cases. A 26th person died before August.

A total of 201 people died of COVID-19 in the same timeframe according to the medical examiner. This means at least 12% of all people who died of COVID-19 were vaccinated. It should be noted that the medical examiner doesn’t always know the vaccination status of the other people.

The death of the fully vaccinated Colin Powell, who had COVID-19 as well as serious co-morbidities (blood cancer, Parkinson’s Disease), has placed the question of vaccinated people dying with COVID into the national conversation. As a result, we decided to take a look at how many vaccinated people had died with COVID-19 in Milwaukee County.

Wisconsin Right Now obtained an Excel spreadsheet from the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s Office that lists every death from March 2020 through mid-October 2021, in which the medical examiner ruled the cause of death was primarily from COVID. (We explore how that’s determined, and the percentage of people who also had serious co-morbidities, in our second story in this series, coming tomorrow).

In this story, we’re taking a look at how many vaccinated people have died with COVID being listed as a primary cause of death. We first requested the Excel sheet after the Medical Examiner started tweeting out breakdowns of COVID deaths among the vaccinated and unvaccinated. We thought that was interesting and wanted to know more.

“Lately, if we have vaccination information, I list as much as possible in the ‘other significant condition’ section – the vaccine type and dates if available, or at least, ‘vaccinated’ if there is no other information. Just trying to create an accurate record for future use…” the Chief Medical Examiner of Milwaukee County, Brian Peterson MD, told Wisconsin Right Now.

We found 25 cases in Milwaukee County since August 12 and one before that in which people died of COVID despite having the vaccine, although the Medical Examiner’s office doesn’t believe they died of the vaccine; as with almost everyone else who perished with COVID-19 listed as the primary cause, they had other extensive ailments. Cardiac problems, pulmonary disease, and renal failure made the list.

“We have yet to see a death that can be tied to the vaccine,” said Karen Domagalski, the operations manager for the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s office.

The people who died despite getting the vaccine range in age from 44-91. To be clear, that doesn’t mean they died from the vaccine; all of the people had extensive co-morbidities, which is true of almost everyone who has died of COVID-19 in Milwaukee County since March 2020. Obviously, as more and more people become vaccinated, more and more people who happened to have the vaccine will die of other things. The 26 people, though, died with COVID-19 being listed as the primary cause.

Their vaccine status is listed under “cause other” in the Medical Examiner’s spreadsheet. “Most of the time their vaccination status is unknown,” Domagalski said. The sheet does not list whether people are unvaccinated. It also does not always list whether a person is fully vaccinated or only had one shot.

Over 54 percent of Milwaukee County residents have received at least one dose of the vaccine, but there’s a big racial disparity, with 63% of Asians being vaccinated compared to 56% of whites, 50% of Hispanics and only 37% of blacks.


Vaccinated People Died of COVID-19:

The first reference to the vaccine in the Medical Examiner’s spreadsheet comes on May 16, 2021, with the death of Rapheal D. Cole, 54, a black male.

The medical examiner’s spreadsheet reads, “Cause A: Complications of infection with novel Coronavirus (COVID-19); Cause Other: Received first dose of Pfizer vaccine on 4/20/21.”

The next time vaccine is listed is in mid-August 2021. There are 25 deaths since then in which people were listed as vaccinated. There are details not known; whether all were fully vaccinated, and which vaccine type is not listed for everyone. Also, in many cases vaccine status is not known, so, if vaccine status is not listed, that doesn’t mean the person was unvaccinated. However, for 26 people in the sheet, vaccine status was listed.

In addition to Cole, they are:

Elwood Orr, 81, a black male who died on Aug. 12, 2021.Vaccinated people died of covid

Cause A: Complications of infection with novel Coronavirus (COVID-19); Cause Other: Chronic congestive heart failure, hypertensive and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, atrial flutter, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, chronic renal failure, COVID vaccination Feb/Mar 2021

Marion Buerger, 87, female, died Aug. 15, 2021.

Cause A: Complications of infection with novel Coronavirus (COVID-19); Cause Other: Dementia, vaccinated (1-12-21, 2-9-21) with Moderna vaccine.

Susan G. Winsten, 71, white female, died Aug. 17, 2021.

Cause A: Complications of infection with novel Coronvirus (COVID-19); Cause Other: Hypertensive and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, renal transplant (1-2020), COVID vaccinations 1-26-21 and 2-18-21.

Liou Rasavong, 78, Asian female, died Aug. 17, 2921.

Cause A: Complications of infection with novel Coronavirus (COVID-19); Cause Other: Diabetes mellitus, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, chronic renal failure, “fully vaccinated.”

Susan Kathryn Schneider, 78, white female, died Aug. 24, 2021.

Cause A: Complications of infection with novel Coronavirus (COVID-19); Cause Other: End stage renal disease, hypertension, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; 1st dose Moderna COVID vaccine received 3/21.

Lorraine Ann O’Malley, 74, white female, died Aug. 27, 2021.

Vaccinated people died of covid

Cause A: Complications of infection with novel Coronavirus (COVID-19); Cause Other: Acute myelogenous leukemia, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, hypertensive and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, diabetes mellitus. Received Pfizer COVID vaccine 2/3 and 2/24/21. According to her obituary, she was an electrical tester at Allen-Bradley who taught mathematics at Alverno College and had multiple sclerosis.

Tammy D. Thompson, 48, black female. Died Sept. 8, 2021.

Cause A: Complications of infection with novel Coronavirus (COVID-19); Cause Other: Asthma, diabetes mellitus, cardiomyopathy, hypertensive and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, received COVID vaccine 8/31.

Roosevelt Redmon, 90, black male, died Sept. 9, 2021.

Cause A: Complications of infection with novel Coronavirus (COVID-19); Cause Other: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, dementia, hypertensive and atherosclerotic coronary vascular disease, peripheral vascular disease, Pfizer vaccination x2.

Mauricio Espino, 55, white male, died Sept. 9, 2021.

Cause A: Complications of infection with novel Coronavirus (COVID-19); Cause Other: Vaccinated (1 dose) 3/21.

Sandra K. McFarland, 59, black female, who died on Sept. 12, 2021.

Cause A: Complications of infection with novel Coronavirus (COVID-19); Cause Other: Diabetes mellitus, hypertensive and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, vaccinated 3-19-21 with Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccine.

Colleen Lynn Borowski, 44, white female, died Sept. 15, 2021.

Cause A: Complications of infection with novel Coronavirus (COVID-19); Cause Other: Diabetes mellitus, obesity, hypertension, hypothyroidism, vaccinated (COVID) May 2021.

Victor Richard Jones, 91, white male, died Sept. 13, 2021. He owned and ran Victor’s tavern in Milwaukee, according to his obituary.

Vaccinated people died of covid

Cause A: Complications of infection with novel Coronavirus (COVID-19); Cause Other: Chronic congestive heart failure, coronary atherosclerosis, atrial fibrillation, chronic renal failure, pulmonary hypertension, fully vaccinated (Pfizer).

Ernesto D. Romero, 65, Hispanic male, Died Sept. 18, 2021.

Cause A: Complications of infection with novel Coronavirus (COVID-19); Cause Other: Colon cancer, chronic congestive heart failure, hypertensive and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, diabetes mellitus, “fully vaccinated” (unknown dates).

Mark James Giese, 56, white male, died Sept. 19, 2021.

Vaccinated people died of covid

Cause A: Complications of infection with novel Coronavirus (COVID-19); Cause Other: Hypertension, rheumatoid arthritis on immunosuppressive therapy, vaccinated.

Royal Steven Radtke, 76, white male, died Sept. 22, 2021.

Cause A: Complications of infection with novel Coronavirus (COVID-19); Cause Other: Dementia, stroke, chronic congestive heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, chronic renal failure, stroke, received Pfizer COVID vaccine Jan 2021.

Rosemary Christine Morrison, 90, white female, died Sept. 21, 2021.

Cause A: Complications of infection with novel Coronavirus (COVID-19); Cause Other: Stroke, chronic congestive heart failure, hypertensive and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, hypothyroidism, Moderna vaccine administered 1/5 and 2/2/21.

Eunice C. Goronja, 95, white female, died Sept. 27, 2021.

Vaccinated people died of covid

Cause A: Complications of infection with novel Coronavirus (COVID-19); Cause Other: Leukemia, chronic congestive heart failure, atrial fibrillation, hypertension, received Pfizer vaccine 2/19 and 3/12/21.

William J. Wojak, 79, white male, died Sept. 28, 2021.

Cause A: Complications of infection with novel Coronavirus (COVID-19); Cause Other: End stage renal failure (transplant 2006), stroke, hypertensive and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, diabetes mellitus, Moderna vaccine 1/30 and 2/27/21.

Norvell Ashley Molex, Sr., 74, black male, died Oct. 1, 2021

Cause A: Complications of infection with novel Coronavirus (COVID-19); Cause Other: Dementia, follicular lymphoma, seizure disorder, strokes, received Pfizer vaccine 1/30 and 2/24/21.

Lucy M. Harris, 92, black female, died Oct. 2, 2021.

Vaccinated people died of covid

Cause A: Complications of infection with novel Coronavirus (COVID-19); Cause Other: Chronic congestive heart failure, diabetes mellitus, “fully vaccinated”.

Jose Ayala, 67, Hispanic male, died Oct. 4, 2021.

Cause A: Complications of infection with novel Coronavirus (COVID-19); Cause Other: Diabetes mellitus, hypertensive and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, overweight, received Pfizer vaccine 7/7 and 7/28/21.

Edward Donald Wieting Sr., 69, white male, died Oct. 2, 2021.

Cause A: Complications of infection with novel Coronavirus (COVID-19); Cause Other: Hepatic cirrhosis, cholangiocarcinoma, primary sclerosing cholangitis, hypertension, vaccinated (Pfizer) 1/26 and 2/16/21.

Brian Gorzalski, 71, white male, died Oct. 4, 2021.

Cause A: Complications of infection with novel Coronavirus (COVID-19); Cause Other: Diabetes mellitus, hypertensive and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, fully vaccinated (Pfizer).

Tracey M. Thomas, 52, black female, died Oct. 6, 2021.

Cause A: Complications of infection with novel Coronavirus (COVID-19); Cause Other: Chronic congestive heart failure, non-ischemic cardiomyopathy, end stage renal failure, diabetes mellitus, vaccinated (Janssen) – date not specified.

Arthur Augustine, 70, black male, died Oct. 6, 2021.

Cause A: Complications of infection with novel Coronavirus (COVID-19); Cause Other: Hypertension, atrial fibrillation, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, end stage renal failure on dialysis, “fully vaccinated”.

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As rioters take over college campuses setting up encampments, committing acts of violence, vandalism and antisemitism forcing some graduation ceremonies to be canceled, a coalition of Jewish groups has sued Palestinian groups arguing they are “collaborators and propagandists for Hamas.”

The global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP, the National Jewish Advocacy Center, the Schoen Law Firm, and the Holtzman Vogel law firm sued AJP Educational Foundation Inc., otherwise known as American Muslims for Palestine, and National Students for Justice in Palestine. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern Division of Virginia, Alexandria Division.

The plaintiffs are nine American and Israeli victims of the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel. They include survivors of the attack, family members of those Hamas murdered, and civilians still under fire from and displaced by Hamas’ continued aggression. The lawsuit alleges the plaintiffs continue to be injured by AMP and NSJP organizers who are knowingly providing “continuous, systematic, and substantial assistance to Hamas and its affiliates’ acts of international terrorism. AMP and NSJP are thus liable to Plaintiffs for the damages they incurred because AMP and NSJP aid and abet Hamas’s terrorism.”

They say they’ve experienced “a wide spectrum of physical and emotional injuries” as a result of the violence allegedly orchestrated by AMP and NJSP and are seeking compensatory damages.

“It is time that Hamas and all of its agents, like AMP and NSJP, be held responsible for their horrific actions,” they said in a joint statement. “We want to go on record to expose these groups for the terrorists they are and make certain that they are stopped from operating in the United States and other countries they infiltrate.”

Hamas, the acronym for Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya (Islamic Resistance Movement), was designated by the U.S. State Department as a foreign terrorist organization in 1997. “It is the largest and most capable militant group in the Palestinian territories and one of the territories’ two major political parties,” according to the National Counterterrorism Center.

The lawsuit alleges AMP and NSJP are “collaborators and propagandists for Hamas” because on October 8 they responded to a Hamas founder’s call to hold “resistance” events on college campuses. The NSJP published a “tool kit” for Palestinian students in the U.S. to use against Israeli “occupiers” and “Zionist media campaigns,” The Center Square reported.

AMP and NSJP maintain Hamas’ attack was justified, call for the destruction of Israel and death to Jews, and have targeted American Jewish students with acts of violence.

After Oct. 7, antisemitism and violence escalated against Jews in America by nearly 400%, The Center Square reported. Since then, violence has increased on college campuses with leaders failing to stop it, another report found.

The call to violence was responded to differently by Republican and Democratic governors. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis issued an emergency declaration, instructed the state university system to deactivate pro-Palestinian student groups on campuses, and Florida law enforcement officers proactively cracked down on protestors.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott advanced efforts to combat antisemitism and state troopers quelled rioters attempting to take over the University of Texas in Austin. Unlike campuses in California and New York that were taken over by pro-Hamas encampments and in-person instruction and graduation ceremonies were canceled, no campuses were taken over in Texas and Florida, rioters were arrested, and graduation ceremonies are going forward.

After “day-of-rage” protests occurred last October, a poll found that a majority of Muslim-Americans surveyed, 57.5%, said Hamas “was justified in attacking Israel as part of their struggle for a Palestinian state,” The Center Square reported.

Included among them was U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Michigan, who was censured by Congress for her unapologetic support of Hamas. She claimed, the phrase being used by rioters, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” means it’s “an aspirational call for freedom, human rights, and peaceful coexistence, not death, destruction, or hate.”

Hamas disagrees. Its preamble to the 1988 Hamas Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement includes the famous claim, “Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it,’” The Center Square reported.

White House National Security Spokesperson John Kirby has also acknowledged, “Hamas does have genocidal intentions against the people of Israel. They’d like to see it wiped off the map. They’ve said so on purpose. That’s what’s at stake here.”

“This case is very simple: When someone tells you they are aiding and abetting terrorists—believe them,” Mark Goldfeder, CEO of the National Jewish Advocacy Center said.

Richard Edlin, Vice Chair of Greenberg Traurig, said free speech doesn’t include hate speech. “It is deeply ironic that the same people carrying signs saying, ‘Death to America’ and ‘Death to Jews’ claim they are protected by free speech,” he said. “They are not. Free speech has never included the active support of terrorism, and it has never protected the destruction of private property or the brutalization of innocent men, women, and children of many faiths, not just Jews.

“If the defendants believe they can set up operations in America to create a mass culture of fear, threats, violence, and intimidation to undermine our cherished educational institutions, affect our governmental policies, and force Hamas’s evil ideology on American or Israeli soil, they are about to find out how mistaken they are.”

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Milwaukee Mayor Replaces City’s Election Commission Director

(The Center Square) – Six months before Election Day, Milwaukee’s mayor has made a change at the top of his city’s elections commission.

Mayor Cavalier Johnson on Monday announced Paulina Gutiérrez as the new executive director of Milwaukee’s Election Commission.

“Paulina’s integrity and capabilities are ideally suited to this position. She will lead the office at an important juncture when public scrutiny of the work of the department will be extremely high,” Johnson said in a statement. “I have confidence in her, and I will make certain the department has the resources it needs to fulfill its duties.”

Johnson’s statement was silent on the fact Gutiérrez’s promotion means the former head of the commission, Claire Woodall, is being replaced.

The mayor told WISN TV that Woodall was offered a different position at the city, but he added that she apparently doesn’t want that job "as it stands right now."

Johnson also said the decision to make the change has more to do with the latest cycle of mayoral appointments than anything else.

Woodall has been in charge of the commission since 2020. She was appointed by former Milwaukee Mayor Tim Barrett, and she came under intense scrutiny for how she handled the 2020 election.

Woodall also faced questions after one of her chief deputies, Kimberly Zapata, mailed three fake military ballots to a Republican lawmaker.

Zapata said she mailed the ballots to warn State Rep. Janel Brandtjen about a weakness in Wisconsin’s electoral system. Zapata was convicted in the case, and last week a judge sentenced her to probation and a fine.

Gutiérrez has served as Milwaukee’s deputy director at the elections commission since early 2023. She begins her new position immediately. She sent an email to the Elections Commission staff over the weekend.

"Change, especially when it is unexpected, can often be unsettling," she wrote. "The experience of changing leadership is demanding and uncertain as we navigate uncharted waters and relearn to collaborate and communicate as an organization.”

Johnson made four other appointments Monday. He named Jim Bohl as city innovation director, as well as naming Jordan Primakow to be Milwaukee’s new legislative liaison director.

Johnson named former alderman Khalif Rainey to be Milwaukee’s new director of the office of African American affairs. And finally, the mayor named Veronica Rudychev as city labor negotiator.

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(The Center Square) – Wisconsin’s Democrat leadership continued its push for drop boxes as Attorney General Josh Kaul filed a response brief with the Wisconsin Supreme Court to allow them.

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers filed a brief in early April looking overturn a ruling from 2022 that said ballot drop boxes are not allowed under state law.

Kaul wrote that, by spring 2021, 570 drop boxes were placed across 66 of Wisconsin’s 72 counties and the share of Wisconsin voters casting an absentee ballot increased from 6% to 30% from 2002 to 2022.

Kaul argued Wisconsin law does not prohibit drop boxes.

“Voting should be safe, secure and accessible — and drop boxes are,” Kaul said in a statement. “Unfortunately, the use of drop boxes has been swept into the broader and baseless attacks on our elections and our democracy.

“Through our filing, we’re arguing that Wisconsin law does not prohibit the use of drop boxes, and that clerks should be able to determine whether to offer this convenient method of voting in their communities.”

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House Committees to Investigate NPR Over ‘Viewpoint Discrimination’

U.S. House committees are investigating “ideological bias” of National Public Radio (NPR), a nonprofit news organization established by Congress and partially funded by taxpayers.

NPR has come under fire after its former editor Uri Berliner said it had "lost America's trust" and criticized NPR’s Chief Executive Officer, Katherine Maher, for her focus on combating “misinformation” and reportedly criticizing the First Amendment.

Maher, who is connected to several global economic organizations, including the World Bank and World Economic Forum, has donated solely to Democratic political candidates, The Center Square first reported.

The House investigation is being spearheaded by House Energy and Commerce Committee chair Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-WA, and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chair Morgan Griffith, R-VA. An oversight hearing is scheduled for Wednesday to examine NPR’s alleged “viewpoint discrimination.”

“NPR is entrusted with Americans’ hard-earned tax dollars. Serious allegations from a then-senior editor who spent decades at NPR reveal NPR engages in viewpoint discrimination and ideological bias that caters to a narrow, leftwing audience,” Rodgers and Griffith said in a joint statement. Citing a list of allegations, they said they “are deeply troubling and merit congressional investigation.”

NPR is funded by taxpayer money and donations from the general public and large philanthropic organizations, including the Rockefeller Foundation. The Rockefeller Foundation has funded advocacy efforts for years related to “green energy,” “global warming” and now “climate change,” most recently dedicating $1 billion “to advance people-centered climate action.” This includes funding several news outlets’ climate desks, including NPR’s, as stated on its funds’ various websites.

The foundation’s efforts were instrumental in pressuring President Joe Biden’s directive to halt new permits for liquified natural gas exports, The Wall Street Journal reported.

The Biden administration did so at a time when US LNG exports, led by Texas, have provided a lifeline to European allies that were previously depended on Russian oil, The Center Square exclusively reported. Natural gas has proven to be one of the cleanest energy sources and most reliable, with 2023 being a record year for domestic natural gas consumption, made possible by Texas production, The Center Square reported.

The Rockefeller Foundation was one of NPR’s founding donors helping its “Climate Desk” to launch in 2022 “to do stories that shape the national conversation on climate change,” it said. NPR claims, “climate related weather disasters are upending the way people live from China to California, from Pakistan to Florida. These extreme events have caused a global food crisis, the rise of new diseases and the displacement of millions of people.”

Initial climate reporters were funded by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the Rockefeller Foundation, NPR said. From Oct. 1, 2022, through June 30, 2024, the Rockefeller Foundation donated $500,000 to NPR for its “climate change news.”

“Charities controlled by members of the Rockefeller family and billionaire donors were key funders of a successful campaign to pressure President Biden to pause new approvals of liquefied natural gas exports from the U.S.”, the Journal reported. The funds it refers to include the Rockefeller Family Fund (RFF) founded by John D. Rockefeller’s great-grandchildren, and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, founded by his five sons.

John D. Rockefeller founded Standard Oil in 1870, building his wealth in kerosene and gasoline to become the first billionaire in America and the wealthiest person in the country. By 1880, Standard Oil controlled 90% of the oil produced in the U.S., CNN Business reported. “Rockefeller's estimated $1.4 billion net worth in 1937 was equivalent to 1.5% of U.S. GDP. According to this metric he was (and still is) the richest individual in American business and economic history,” according to Harvard Business School.

In 2018, the RFF created the Funder Collaborative on Oil and Gas, explaining its efforts to prioritize opposing coal and help “groups that are fighting the development of oil, gas, plastics, and petrochemicals infrastructure.”

Its goal is to curtail U.S. oil and gas production and prevent development “of massive new domestic infrastructure” as “an urgent and necessary part of solving the climate crisis.” It stated core purpose “is to limit ongoing oil and gas production; prevent the lock-in of GHG-emissions for new and expanded oil, gas, and petrochemical infrastructure; and weaken the industry’s financial standing and political influence.”

The RFF, through the FCOG, finances numerous groups “to enact aggressive policies at the state and national levels to reduce carbon emissions; disrupt the life cycle of fossil fuels from drilling and mining to transportation and exporting,” among other actions.

Dozens of NPR articles share a common theme in highlighting natural gas plant pollution, its harm to the environment and its effect on climate change. Regularly cited sources also appear to work for advocacy groups funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, including the Environmental Integrity Project. Many articles claim industrial air pollution from oil and natural gas companies is already, or will in the future, primarily negatively impact low-income, black neighborhoods.

The Gulf Coast environment primarily in the oil and gas producing states of Texas and Louisiana would suffer, especially if more LNG export facilities are built, NPR-affiliated authors wrote. In one report, it warns, “Soon more natural vistas here could be lost,” referring to Cameron Parish, Louisiana, a major oil and natural gas hub. It also solely interviewed opponents of LNG plants in the parish, reporting that after the U.S. became the top LNG exporter, “as the industry has grown, so has opposition.”

In other articles, NPR posits that tax credits helped fund union workers’ six-figure salaries and water pollution allegedly created by oil and gas companies created racial inequities.

NPR also claims Biden’s LNG permit ban “doesn’t affect more than a dozen plants that are already operating, or that are under construction or have received permits. Nor will it halt the export of gas.”

It also reported LNG exports “drove up utility bills for citizens,” a claim refuted by federal data, The Center Square first reported.

NPR also claimed, “oil field flaring emits five times more methane than expected,” when data from the World Bank, EIA, EPA and other agencies found that natural gas companies in the Permian Basin produce some of the cleanest natural gas in the world, The Center Square first reported. As natural gas production and LNG exports exponentially increased, Texas producers also led the United States in emissions reductions, the data shows.

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A high-ranking official with the New York Police Department said protesters had weapons including knives and hammers as well as pamphlets with "Death to America!" written on them.

Michael Kemper, a NYPD's chief of transit, posted photos Friday of what police confiscated from the protesters.

“For those romanticizing the protests occurring on college campuses, ‘Death to America!’ is one sentiment that runs counter to what we believe in, what we stand for, and what many have fought for on behalf of this country,” Kemper stated on X. “And if you think the words written on this piece of paper are disturbing … you should hear the vile, disgusting, hateful, & threatening words coming out of the mouths of far too many of these so called ‘peaceful protestors.’”

Kemper posted a video of a pamphlet that stated, “Death to Israeli Real Estate” and “Death to America!” The pamphlet also stated, “DISRUPT/RECLAIM/DESTROY Zionist business interests everywhere!”

NYPD Deputy Commissioner Kaz Daughtry posted on X photos of items he said the police confiscated from protesters who took over Hamilton Hall at Columbia University. The photo showed gas masks, ear plugs, helmets, goggles, tape, hammers, knives, ropes, and a book on terrorism. The book is by Charles Townshend, Professor of International History at Keele University in England. It was published in 2011 and is 161 pages.

"These are not the tools of students protesting, these are the tools of agitators, of people who were working on something nefarious," Daughtry said on X. "Thankfully, your NYPD was able to prevent whatever they were planning and stop them before they could do it."

Kemper asked who was organizing the protests.

"However, as we have been stating for the past 2 weeks, there is an underlying radical indoctrination of some of these students. Vulnerable and young people being influenced by professional agitators. Who is funding and leading this movement?" Kemper asked on X.

Kemper also posted a letter from The New School requesting the NYPD's assistance in removing protesters from their campus on Friday.

"The actions and continuing escalation of these individuals are a substantial disruption of the educational environment and regular operations of the university," the letter stated.

The New School is a university in New York City. It closed all academic building on Friday and classes were moved to online. The college said classes on campus would resume Saturday.

Fox News reported that 56 protesters were arrested at The New School and New York University.

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Congressman Tom Tiffany Gets Wolf Plan Through House, Calls It First Step

(The Center Square) – A Northwoods’ congressman says he has the science on his side in the debate over what to do about the gray wolf.

Republican Congressman Tom Tiffany got his plan to take the gray wolf off the endangered species list through the House. It was a close vote, just 209 to 205, and the plan faces a dim future in the U.S. Senate.

Still, Tiffany said there’s more than enough evidence that the gray wolf population is large enough to remove it from the protected list.

“The science is clear; the gray wolf has met and exceeded recovery goals,” Tiffany said in a statement. “[This vote] represents an important first step towards restoring local control over the skyrocketing gray wolf population in Wisconsin.”

Tiffany said there have been plenty of attacks on dogs, deer and cattle in Wisconsin that prove his point.

Keith Mark, founder and CEO of Hunter Nation, said the proposal to de-list the gray wolf should get a vote in the Senate.

“Wildlife should not be a partisan issue. Unmanaged wolf populations are causing significant problems in states that have both Republican and Democrat Senators,” Mark told The Center Square.

Hunter Nation has been one of the loudest voices in the debate over how to handle wolves in Wisconsin.

Mark said Tiffany’s plan is not only based in science, it is based in the government’s own data and suggestions.

“What message does it send when we place an animal on the list, set population goals and establish strict management criteria for de-listing, and when the animal achieves the pre-set population goals, it is not taken off of the endangered list? By every metric set from the onset, wolves have far exceeded every population goal established. Gray wolves are no longer endangered. They need to be managed at the state level like all other wildlife,” Mark added.

But even if that did happen, the future of wolves in Wisconsin is likely sealed.

The Wisconsin DNR is moving ahead with its own wolf management plan that essentially forbids wolf hunting and trapping.

Hunter Nation is opposed to that, as is Tiffany and many of Wisconsin’s other Republican congressmen.

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Palestinian Refugees in the U.S.? Biden’s Potential Plan Takes Fire

President Joe Biden is reportedly considering bringing Palestinian refugees into the U.S., but news of that potential decision sparked a wave of criticism for Biden.

A group of Republican lawmakers in the House and Senate sent a letter to the president condemning the alleged plan, which was reported by CBS News earlier this week.

“U.S. and allied officials have very little access to Gazans living in the area, making it nearly impossible to conduct thorough vetting before admitting them into our country,” the letter said. “We must ensure Gazans with terrorist ties or sympathies are denied admission into the United States – no easy feat, given the fact that the Gazans were the ones who voted Hamas into power in 2006. Without thorough vetting, your administration may inadvertently accept terrorists posing as refugees into the interior.

"This is especially the case as Hamas terrorists have a long track record of co-mingling with civilian populations in Gaza," the letter added.

Biden has been trying to navigate the difficult issue of the Israel-Hamas war, which reignited last fall when the terrorist group Hamas killed more than 1,000 Israelis, many of them civilians, and carried out rapes and other atrocities.

“With more than a third of Gazans supporting the Hamas militants, we are not confident that your administration can adequately vet this high-risk population for terrorist ties and sympathies before admitting them into the United States,” the letter said. “We are further worried that accepting Gazan refugees might cause a crisis at the Egypt-Gaza border, leading to chaos that would only empower Iran-backed Hamas.

Israel has responded with a sustained bombing campaign targeting Hamas members and leaders.

The humanitarian fallout of the war, though, has led many far-left advocates in the U.S. to occupy college campuses and more to push for an end to the bombing.

Hundreds of migrants with known or suspected terrorist ties have been caught trying to enter the U.S. in recent years through both the northern and southern border. With millions of migrants who have entered the U.S. undetected in recent years, it is unknown just how many are terrorists or have terrorist ties.

“Border officials have arrested 169 people on the FBI terror watch lists in Fiscal Year 2023, a record-setting number that exceeds the total of the last six fiscal years combined,” the letter said. “Apprehended terrorists include a Hezbollah fighter who intended ‘to make a bomb’ and was headed for New York.”

The lawmakers also questioned Biden’s efforts to rescue American hostages from the hands of Hamas, which is designated a terrorist group by the U.S. State Department.

“We are also frustrated that your administration is pushing ahead with a plan to evacuate Gazans from the Strip when there are still American citizens held hostage by Hamas,” the letter said. “We demand that your administration cease planning for accepting Gazan refugees until you adequately answer our concerns and focus your attention instead on securing the release of U.S. hostages held by Hamas.”

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Pro-Palestinian protesters broke windows, barricaded doors and occupied a building at New York's Columbia University overnight after school officials said they would not cede to demands from demonstrators to divest assets from the Israeli government.

The breach of Columbia's Hamilton Hall began around 12:30 a.m. on Tuesday by students and others who have refused to leave the so-called Gaza Solidarity Encampment on the campus grounds, according to published news reports. Hundreds of students created a human chain in front of the building to block campus police. Columbia faculty members were also involved in blocking security.

Video footage showed the demonstrators, many of whom covered their faces with masks, smashing windows and unfurling a Palestinian flag from a window as they chanted "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" and "Palestine will live forever." The protesters hung a hand-written sign reading "Hind's Hall" after a six-year-old Palestinian child who was allegedly killed by the Israeli military.

The escalation in the protests came after university officials suspended students who had refused to leave a pro-Palestinian encampment set up about two weeks ago. Columbia President Minouche Shafik has also declined to divest the university's financial holdings from Israel, a key demand of the protesters.

The NYPD, which must get permission from the university to enter the campus, hadn't intervened in the fracas but news reports showed a heavy police presence outside the university's gates.

University officials distributed flyers to students on Monday notifying them that they would not face suspension if they exited the encampment by 2 p.m. on Tuesday, according to published reports. It's not clear what will happen after that deadline. The university has closed school grounds to students who do not live on campus.

The demonstrations are part of a wave of anti-Israel protests that have swept U.S. college campuses over the past week in response to Israel's war in Gaza, which was prompted by the Oct. 7 attack by the terrorist group Hamas that killed 1,200 Israelis and injured many others. Hamas also took hostages, many of whom are still in captivity.

Dozens of arrests have been made at Harvard, Yale and other elite schools as campus police and law enforcement have been called in to take down the make-shift encampments, which violate school policies. Hundreds of people have been arrested.

At Columbia, Jewish students have said they feel unsafe with pro-Palestinian protesters chanting antisemitic slogans and holding signs, which has prompted New York lawmakers to call on the university to clear protesters that some have called "terrorist sympathizers."

“Columbia has surrendered to the radical pro-Hamas antisemitic mob instead of securing campus and protecting Columbia’s Jewish students," U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., said in a statement. "There can be no more extensions or delays. There can be no negotiations with self-proclaimed Hamas terrorists and their sympathizers."

In response to the Columbia protests, Reps. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y. and Richie Torres, D-N.Y., have filed legislation requiring the U.S. Department of Education to establish a third-party "antisemitism monitor" on any U.S. college or university receiving federal funding.

The monitor would have the authority to recommend that universities be stripped of federal funding for not doing enough to crack down on anti-Semitic demonstrations.

"Rising antisemitism on our college campuses is a major concern and we must act to ensure the safety of students," Lawler said. "If colleges will not step up to protect their students, Congress must act."

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Four lawmen on the U.S. Marshals Task Force died Monday while serving an arrest warrant in North Carolina.

A marshal and two officers from the Department of Adult Correction were confirmed killed early Monday evening in Charlotte. A Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department officer, one of five others injured in the standoff and shooting, died later in the evening at a hospital.

The graphic scene unfolded as officers attempted to serve the warrant for a felony firearm arrest. A helicopter pilot recording for television decided against filing certain elements of the video footage for broadcast.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Johnny Jennings said Joshua Eyer, the officer who died later at the hospital, “certainly gave his life and dedicated his life to protecting our citizens.” Eyer earlier in April was named officer of the month.

Sam Poloche and Alden Elliott, each with more than a decade of service, were identified as the members of the state Department of Adult Correction who were killed.

At time of publication, the name of the slain marshal had not been made public.

The last marshal killed in the line of duty was Chase White, in Tucson, Ariz., in November 2018.

In a statement posted to its Facebook page, the Police Department called the actions of those involved “heroic” and “a testament to the dangers law enforcement officers face daily.”

“Today, some of our fellow colleagues made the ultimate sacrifice for the safety and protection of our community,” the statement read. “We are grateful for the bravery shown by all officers and outpouring of responses from our neighboring agencies.”

U.S. Marshals have 56 local task forces. Funding is granted, the agency’s website says, often “through initiatives such as the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area, Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Forces, and Project Safe Neighborhoods task forces.”

“Today we lost some heroes, that are out simply trying to keep our community safe,” Jennings said. “They knew what they were going into, and still held their own in attempting to apprehend this suspect.”

At least three people were in the home when lawmen arrived with the warrant. One is dead, two others – a woman and a 17-year-old boy – were being questioned.

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