Thursday, December 23 top stories
It is Thursday, December 23. Here are today’s top stories.
The Supreme Court said it would hold oral arguments about President Biden’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate on January 7. The mandate requires private businesses with 100 or more employees to be fully vaccinated or take once-a-week testing and for all healthcare workers who work in sites that receive federal funding to be fully vaccinated. Over 15 Republican-led states have sued the Biden administration to say the mandate is unconstitutional. Axios said lower courts remain divided over the issue with some blocking enforcement of the mandates. So now the Supreme Court is stepping in.
James and Jennifer Crumbley, the parents of the student who is charged with killing four students at a high school in Oxford Township, Michigan, are asking a judge to lower their bond from $500,000 to $100,000. A defense attorney for the parents said they did not anticipate that their son, Ethan, would commit violence and are as devastated as others in the community. The parents are accused of making a gun accessible to their son and failing to pull him out of school when they were informed that their son made disturbing drawings involving a gun shortly before the shooting. The parents went missing when a prosecutor announced charges and were found hiding in a Detroit building, so that’s a part of the reason why they have a hefty bond. CBS News said a judge won’t be available to consider the new bond request until January 7. All three Crumbleys are in jail.
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There are two different news pieces that’s trending on social media about a woman breastfeeding a cat on a plane. One is based on what seems to be an actual incident, and the other is based on a fake skit. Let’s start with the real incident.
On a Delta plane from Syracuse to Atlanta sometime in early November, pilots wrote in a special plane messaging system called ACARS that “a passenger in 13A is breastfeeding a cat and will not put cat back in carrier when a flight attendant requested.” The ACARS message was posted on social media, but Delta has not verified whether it is true or not. Newsweek said a flight attendant named Ainsley Elizabeth posted on TikTok to describe what happened. She said the woman had a hairless cat that was swaddled up in a blanket and that she was trying to breastfeed it, but the cat was struggling back. She said security met the passenger to let her know that she couldn’t do that again. So, that’s the story, and we don’t know for sure if it is true or not.
Now, there is a new and viral video that shows a passenger on a plane complaining to flight attendants about a woman on the same row holding something wrapped in a blanket. The passenger said he saw that she is breastfeeding a cat. The flight attendants proceed to ask the woman to remove the blanket. The woman argues back but eventually shows that she was holding a stuffed cat or lynx. Many people thought the video was a “real” incident on a plane up in the air, but it is actually a skit made by a comedy page on Facebook. The actress’ name is Alessia Vaesenn. This skit is based on the previous news story about the Delta flight.
So, that’s the story — two different pieces about the cat on the plane. It is also a reminder that there are people out there who will make videos that look so realistic, so take viral videos with a grain of salt.
Last Friday, a man from Florida named Robert Palmer (54) was sentenced to just over five years in prison for assaulting police officers during the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. This is the longest sentence imposed in relation to the January 6 attack. Prosecutors said Palmer threw a wooden object at the police and then picked up a fire extinguisher and sprayed it at officers before throwing the canister at them. Palmer picked up the canister a second time and threw it again, then used a metal pole to assault another group of officers. Palmer said in court that he is very ashamed that he was a part of that.
On Monday, a 28-year-old man named Devlyn Thompson was sentenced to almost four years in prison for helping a mob to seize riot shields from police officers and using a metal baton to knock a pepper spray canister from an officer’s hand.
That is all the top stories briefs for today. “The Daily Moth” will be off tomorrow for Christmas Eve and we’ll be back on Monday. If there is major breaking news, I’ll post a video, so follow “The Daily Moth” on Facebook and YouTube to get the latest. Have a nice break everybody and stay with the light.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/oxford-shooting-suspects-parents-say-they-didnt-know-his-intentions/
https://nypost.com/2021/12/02/woman-caught-breastfeeding-her-hairless-cat-on-a-delta-flight/
https://www.newsweek.com/woman-breastfeeding-cat-plane-parody-video-1661566
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/cat-breastfeeding-tiktok-video-1274657/