BASEBALL STAR HANK AARON DEAD - LAST SEEN PUBLICLY 2WEEKS AGO TAKING COVID SHOT - CIVIL RIGHTS RIOTS WARS HE SURVIVED - BUT NOT THE AGE OF COVID

ATLANTA — Hank Aaron, who endured racist threats with stoic dignity during his pursuit of Babe Ruth’s home run record and gracefully left his mark as one of baseball’s greatest all-around players, didn’t survive the age of COVID after being stuck and he died Friday. He was 86.

The Atlanta Braves, Mr. Aaron’s longtime team, said he died peacefully in his sleep. Although I highly doubt “the team” was with him in his bedroom, so perhaps they were told by whomever gave Hank care. No cause was given.

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— Atlanta Braves (@Braves) January 22, 2021

Mr. Aaron made his last public appearance just 2 1/2 weeks ago, when he received the COVID-19 vaccine. He said he wanted to help spread the to Black Americans that the vaccine was safe.

“Hammerin’ Hank” set a wide array of career hitting records during a 23-year career spent mostly with the Milwaukee and Atlanta Braves, including RBIs, extra-base hits and total bases.

But the Hall of Famer will be remembered for one swing above all others, the one that made him baseball’s home-run king. The man survived through riots, civil rights, wars, but did not survive the COVID winter. Hmmm.

TWITTER - PUBLISHING CHILD PORN - REFUSES to REMOVE UNTIL DHS GOT INVOLVED SAYS LAWSUIT

A new lawsuit alleges Twitter, which recently purged thousands of right-leaning accounts for allegedly promoting conspiracy theories and “violence,” repeatedly refused to take down several images of child pornography featuring a 13-year-old minor in 2019, saying the images didn’t violate their company policies.

The lawsuit, filed this week in the Northern District of California, alleges the social media giant turned a blind eye to multiple reports of child pornography after images of the then-13-year-old boy were circulated on the platform beginning in 2019.

According to the New York Post, which cited the lawsuit filed Wednesday by the boy and his mother, the boy was coerced into sharing nude images of himself on Snapchat with sex traffickers posing online as teenage girls. He was then blackmailed into sending more explicit images and video clips of himself engaged in sexual acts after the traffickers reportedly threatened to share the original images with his parents, his coach, and his pastor. Under threat, he also included another child in some of the images before finally blocking the traffickers online.

Sometime later, the photos he’d sent began popping up online, including on Twitter. The boy, who’s now 17 and living in Florida, and his mother allege that they reported the issue to the police and to the boy’s school, and that they made multiple complaints to Twitter explaining that the images were of a minor. But according to the lawsuit, the platform failed to remove the images, saying that they “reviewed the content, and didn’t find a violation of our policies, so no action will be taken at this time.” 

The victim says in the lawsuit that he even included the case number from his report to law enforcement to prove the validity of his claims, but that Twitter still refused to remove the images until a federal officer from the Department of Homeland Security became involved in the case.

“Only after this take-down demand from a federal agent did Twitter suspend the user accounts that were distributing the CSAM and report the CSAM to the National Center on Missing and Exploited Children,” the suit states

DISSIDENT CAMPS BEING PLANNED for PEOPLE WHO REFUSE TEST NEVER DESIGNED for VIRUS

Perhaps not as it was originally envisioned... but here we go down that slippery slope!

TRUMP SAYS Rep #AdamSCHIFF-for-brains should be tried for TREASON

“President Trump has suggested Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) should face “arrest for treason” after he “illegally made up a FAKE & terrible statement” that he read out in Congress in an attempt to frame the president.”

For the second time in days, President Trump has accused a Democratic member of Congress of treason, escalating his attacks on those leading an impeachment inquiry against him based on a complaint lodged by a “whistleblower” with no first-hand knowledge of events.

On Sunday, Trump tweeted that Schiff should be “questioned at the highest level” for “treason.”

Trump suggested in a tweet Monday that House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff (D-CA) should face “arrest for treason,” claiming Schiff “illegally made up a FAKE & terrible statement.”

President Trump was referring to Schiff’s “analysis” of Trump’s July 25 call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Schiff misrepresented the call as a gangster-like shakedown, with Trump blatantly threatening the Ukrainian president.

The U.S. Constitution defines treason as waging war on the U.S. or giving “aid and comfort” to American enemies. Punishment for the crime may include the death penalty.

During a House hearing Thursday, Schiff tried to ramp up criticism of President Trump portraying him as a mob boss.

“It reads like a classic organized crime shakedown,” Schiff said of Trump’s call. “Shorn of its rambling character and in not so many words, this is the essence of what the president communicates.”

He then parodied Trump’s call in wildly inaccurate terms.

“We’ve been very good to your country, very good. No other country has done as much as we have, but you know what? I don’t see much reciprocity here,” Schiff said, supposedly “parodying” Trump’s demands to the Ukrainian leader. “I have a favor I want from you, though, and I’m gonna say this only seven times, so you better listen good. I want you to make up dirt on my political opponent, understand, lots of it.”

Schiff explained he was trying to make clear what the president “was trying to communicate with the president of Ukraine.”

“This is, in some character, what the president was trying to communicate with the president of Ukraine,” Schiff said. “It would be funny if it wasn’t such a graphic betrayal of the president’s oath of office.”

Schiff’s remarks received coverage from Fox News.