One of the most evil people alive has been sentenced to life in prison.
The Supreme Court made a rather common sense ruling.
And you’ll love the newest use of your tax dollars in California.
Pure Evil
According to the Post Millennial:
Kouri Richins, the Utah mother convicted of killing her husband and writing a grief-themed book for her children, has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
The 35-year-old mother was sentenced after being convicted of aggravated murder and other charges in connection with the 2022 death of her husband, Eric, whom prosecutors said she poisoned with a fatal dose of fentanyl.
During sentencing, Richins delivered a 30-minute statement; much of it directed at her three sons, who are now in the care of their late father’s sister.
“Murder? No, absolutely not. I will not accept that and I will not be blamed for something I did not do,” she said.
“There is always going to be someone out there ready to tear you down, misrepresent you, lie about you, tell you half-truths and judge you,” she added.
Richins told her children, whom she reportedly had not spoken to since 2024 after losing custody, that she was “desperately trying to get into contact” with them. She also told her sons to find peace “on the top of a mountain somewhere” and to be like their father.
The judge in the case rejected the defense’s request for a lighter sentence, ruling that Richins was “simply too dangerous to ever be free.”
That’s One Way to Beat Them
According to the Post Millennial:
The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the federal law does not shield transportation brokers from state negligence lawsuits over hiring unsafe trucking companies. The court held that “A claim that one company negligently hired another to transport goods is not preempted by the [Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act] because States retain authority to regulate safety ‘with respect to motor vehicles’ under the Act.”
The case was brought forth by Shawn Montgomery, who sustained “serious and permanent injuries” after his tractor-trailer was hit by a truck driven by respondent Yosniel Varela-Mojena in Illinois. Varela-Mojena had been hired by the motor carrier Caribe Transport II, LLC, and the broker C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc had coordinated the shipment.
Montgomery sued the companies, alleging that C.H. Robinson was liable for his injuries “because it negligently hired Varela-Mojena and Caribe Transport. Montgomery claimed that C.H. Robinson knew (or should have known) from Caribe Transport’s safety rating that hiring it to transport goods was reasonably likely to result in crashes that would injure others.”
From the Courthouse News Service:
C.H. Robinson, a freight broker, claimed the FAAAA barred Shawn Montgomery’s lawsuit for the 2017 crash. Montgomery’s tractor-trailer was parked on the side of Interstate 70 in Illinois when Yosniel Varela-Mojena drove full speed into the vehicle. Montgomery suffered severe injuries from the crash, including the amputation of his lower leg.
Caribe Transport, a carrier company that hired the driver, and Varela-Mojena had poor safety records. Months before Montgomery’s crash, Varela-Mojena was involved in another incident where he was said to be operating his truck carelessly. Caribe Transport only operated nine trucks, but it was involved in three reported crashes during a three-month stretch leading up to the accident.
Montgomery filed state-law claims against C.H. Robinson, arguing the broker should be liable for negligently hiring Caribe Transport and Varela-Mojena.
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-scotus-rules-logistics-companies-are-liable-for-hiring-unsafe-trucking-companies
https://www.courthousenews.com/trump-crackdown-on-immigrant-truck-drivers-gets-airtime-at-supreme-court/
That’s Not a Religion
According to the Post Millennial:
A transgender-identifying New Jersey inmate convicted of sexually abusing his 7-year-old daughter is seeking a settlement with the New Jersey Department of Corrections after filing a lawsuit alleging officials denied him access to Wiccan religious accommodations while incarcerated in a women’s prison.
Marina Volz, born Matthew Volz, is serving a 25-year sentence after being convicted of sex crimes against his own seven-year-old daughter. Volz was sentenced in May of 2022 and initially housed at a men’s facility.
Two months later, he was transferred to a women’s correctional facility. State records reportedly continued listing Volz as male until 2023, when New Jersey updated the inmate’s profile to classify Volz as female.
Volz later filed a discrimination lawsuit against the New Jersey Department of Corrections, alleging violations of religious freedom related to Wiccan beliefs. According to a report from Reduxx, Volz claimed the head of religious services at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility denied multiple requested accommodations, including maintaining a “Witch’s Garden” for growing “sacred herbs.” Volz also sought permission to conduct nighttime rituals while wearing a cloak or while nude.
The trans-identifying inmate has now entered settlement negotiations and reportedly submitted 12 demands as part of the proposed agreement. Among the requests are permission to conduct Wiccan ceremonies outdoors while nude and designation as a Wiccan religious leader within the prison.
Volz also reportedly requested permission to marry Ashley Romero, a co-defendant in the underlying criminal case who is also incarcerated.
This Is Not Good
According to the Daily Wire:
Amazon apparently decided Americans should never have to leave the house again.
The company is now testing a new delivery service that can reportedly get products to your front door in around 30 minutes. So, the days of realizing you forgot toothpaste, paper towels, coffee creamer, or phone chargers may officially be over.
At this point, Amazon isn’t competing with stores anymore. It’s competing with your ability to put on shoes and drive somewhere yourself.
The new service, called “Amazon Now,” is beginning to roll out in several major cities across the country, with more locations expected to follow. Customers will be able to order everything from groceries and snacks to electronics and household items through the ultra-fast system.
The idea behind it is simple: instead of shipping products from giant warehouses far outside city limits, Amazon is relying on smaller local hubs positioned much closer to neighborhoods and downtown areas.
That dramatically cuts delivery times and lets drivers move orders almost immediately after they’re placed.
Translation? Your impulse buys may soon arrive before you even regret making them.
The rollout is part of Amazon’s growing obsession with speed as the company keeps pouring money into faster shipping, AI-powered logistics systems, and even drone technology designed to bypass traffic altogether.
Incredible
According to Chris Ruffo from the City Journal:
Under Governor Gavin Newsom, California has sought to transform its massive prison system into a Nordic-style rehabilitation program. Newsom has placed a moratorium on all executions, transferred condemned prisoners to facilities across the state, dismantled San Quentin State Prison’s death row, and turned the notorious prison into a therapeutic center, with art, classrooms, a café, and podcast studios.
As part of this transformation, the Newsom administration approved a $189 million contract to provide new digital tablets—generic, flat-screen devices in a plastic shell—to every inmate in the state prison system, at “no cost” to offenders. The administration heralded the effort to replace inmates’ old tablets—which were piloted in 2018 and given to nearly all prisoners by 2023—as a step toward “digital equity” for “justice impacted” individuals, who could, in theory, use the devices to contact their families, consume “educational” content, and “learn new technology.”
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In the 1980s, a rapist and serial murderer named Robert Maury earned the nickname “the Tipster Killer” for calling in anonymous tips identifying the locations of the dead bodies he left behind. During this period, he killed a woman by strangling her with a nylon clothesline, strangled and killed another two women, and brutally raped a fourth before he was caught by authorities.
Now, Maury is living at a state prison facility in Stockton, California, where he has viewed pornography on his taxpayer-funded digital tablet. In an interview, Maury told us inmates can receive “nude pictures” and watch pornography through their devices. In his case, he claimed to have received a topless photo from a 22-year-old German psychology student who was “hoping that I would share my story with her for her class project.” After the student sent the photo, Maury said he “flirted” with her “for a while.”
Maury said another way that inmates can watch pornography is through the video chat application. In this scheme, he explained, an inmate can call someone on the outside, that person can “put porn on their TV,” and the inmate can “watch with them.” Maury specified that he has never explicitly asked anyone to broadcast pornography in this manner, but when it happens, he “just say[s] cool and thank you.”
Samuel Amador, another serial killer who was sentenced to death, had a similar experience. He said inmates watch pornographic videos and have sexually explicit conversations through their tablets. The videos, he said, are delivered in “30 second clips.” Amador has created a rotation on his tablet between explicit and wholesome content: “I watch porn an[d] short clips of my family at the Beach.”
Sometimes, guards catch lewd messages, Amador said. But, in general, the restrictions are easy to evade. “[T]hey try to prevent us,” he said about sexting, “but we get around their bullshit.”
Jamar Tucker, a capital inmate at High Desert State Prison who has killed three men, noted the system’s loopholes. He indicated that while the rules prohibit inmates from receiving nude photos, he has received videos of women “dancing . . . in a thong.” He uses racy photos, he says, for sexual pleasure.
The potential for abuse is obvious. The Newsom administration has made the tablet program universal, with no access-restrictions based on offense. And inmates, including child predators, can communicate with members of the public through their tablets, apparently with no age restrictions, at a cost of five cents per text message or 16 cents per minute of video.
In a recent case, Nathaniel Ray Diaz, who was convicted of committing sex crimes against a 12-year-old girl, allegedly used a prison-issued tablet to contact and exploit her from inside Avenal State Prison. Diaz allegedly told the girl to send him sexually explicit images, which he received through a co-conspirator. The girl reportedly told investigators that Diaz forced her to speak with him through the tablet “for hours, every day,” from the time she came home from school until the prison phones turned off at midnight.
Prosecutors alleged that, in total, Diaz made “thousands of calls” to the girl, violating a no-contact order and—by soliciting explicit photographs and exploiting a minor—committing additional child sex crimes. The Eastern District of California Attorney’s Office told us that Diaz is in custody awaiting trial.
Douglas Eckenrod, former deputy director of California’s adult parole operations, indicated that the Diaz case is only the tip of the iceberg. He was in the room as the state discussed expanding the tablet program after an initial test run, and had raised concerns about pornography, grooming, and other abuses. These were apparently brushed aside. Now, he says, there is no way to monitor the nearly 90,000 inmates in the state prison system who have access to taxpayer-funded devices.
“I would bet my pension that there’s a vast amount of childhood pornography on the tablets,” said the former official. “There are probably several thousand [children] that are currently being groomed.”
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What is California doing to stop this abuse? Last month, state officials attempted to tighten restrictions on prison tablets, formally banning obscene text messages, sexually explicit images, and sexual behavior on video calls. But death-row inmates we interviewed said that prisoners could easily bypass the restrictions.
Maury, the serial killer, indicated that prisoners, especially younger men who “grew up with the Internet,” have found ways to continue viewing pornography and sending sexual messages to the outside. “If you try hard enough,” he said, there “is always a way around the system.”
Meantime, despite the obvious risks, Governor Gavin Newsom is moving full-speed ahead with his initiative to “reimagine our prison system” and turn San Quentin into “the nation’s most innovative rehabilitation facility.” Newsom has offered no indication that he will reverse course on the free tablet program. In fact, the new vendor contract allows for four one-year extensions, which could push its total cost to $315 million. At least one Democratic legislator is demanding that the state make inmates’ messages free of charge.
Eckenrod, who anticipated the dark side of “digital equity,” believes California has opened the floodgates to abuse. “We created a pathway for them to reach out and groom folks,” he said. “There are going to be victims that didn’t need to have been victims because of these decisions.”
https://www.city-journal.org/article/death-row-porn-tablets-california
https://nypost.com/2026/05/13/opinion/gavin-newsom-delivers-porn-to-death-row-inmates/
