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Tuesday, June 09, 2026

IDF soldiers battered and arrested Ismail en-Nicce (10) in the occupied West Bank before he was taken to a detention center where he was held for three hours. His uncle, Ziya al-Haddad: "[Palestinian] children live in an atmosphere of fear, full of terror every day, and are exposed to punishments by occupying soldiers."

The peace-loving, hardworking American taxpayer is subsidizing this horror show of child abuse and ethnic cleansing in Israel


D/ICE Tom Homan brayed on "Fox and Fiends" that plans have been laid out to flood NYC with more ICE agents "than you've ever seen." The Trumpf junta apparatchik, who the FBI caught accepting a $50,000 cash bribe in 2024, doubled down on his threats to flood the Big Apple with ICE agents after NYS Gov Kathy Hochul (D) and Albany Democrats passed sweeping sanctuary state laws last month curbing local cooperation with federal authorities.

Ripesuck Tom Homan (R) is a nasty bully and simply not a good human being


Monday, June 08, 2026

Voters in Washington state could approve an anti-transgender law, Initiative Measure No. IL26-638, which would require girl student-athletes statewide to confirm their "biological sex" with genital inspections just to play sports. Opponents of the initiative say it's invasive, could block poorer students from getting verified, and could meet pushback from medical professionals who refuse to comply.

The initiative would require students who want to participate in girls' sports to provide "a health examination and consent form or other statement signed by the student's personal health care provider that verifies the student's biological sex, relying only on one or more of the following: The student's reproductive anatomy, genetic makeup, or normal endogenously produced testosterone levels."


ORLANDO, Fla. "

A 6.1-magnitude earthquake hit just off the coast of Cuba on Monday, the USGS reports.

The major earthquake happened about 62 miles west of Mantua, Cuba.

Thousands of people across Florida are reporting shaking just after 2 p.m., including people at Disney World.

It was a shallow earthquake at about 6 miles below the surface.

There is no tsunami threat from this earthquake at this time.

It was the strongest earthquake near Florida on record. No injuries or damage were immediately reported.


What impressed me most about Obama was the restraint. Now let us be honest as Black men for a second. There were countless moments where many brothers would have snapped publicly dealing with the level of disrespect he faced. People interrupted him.


Sam Bankman-Fried, the one-time giant in cryptocurrencies currently in prison for fraud, has applied for a pardon from President Donald Trump. Bankman-Fried was given a 25-year sentence after he was convicted of multiple federal charges related to FTX, the cryptocurrency exchange that he founded and led, and its related company Alameda Research. Read more


The IRS failed to consistently and accurately match taxpayer information with records from Immigration and Customs Enforcement as the Trump administration accelerated its deportation efforts last summer, according to a government watchdog report released Monday.


Yemen's Houthis declared a ban on Israeli shipping in the Red Sea and claimed a missile strike on Israel, with the Bab el-Mandeb and Hormuz blockades now simultaneously threatening roughly a third of the world's seaborne oil and gas. Read more


The Trump administration's hesitancy in signing a major drone deal with Ukraine is slowing the U.S. military down in an area where it's already trying to play catch-up.


House oversight committee alleges that Minnesota Democrats in the state turned a blind eye to mass fraud because they feared "political retribution from the politically active Somali community." James Comer, R-Ky, and the committee chairman said "Americans are fed up with fraud and expect action from the government entrusted with their hard-earned money."


Near the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, an IDF soldier murdered seven-month-old Sam Fahd Abu Haikal by opening fire on the family car, despite the infant's father stopping the vehicle when ordered to do so. The IDF soldier opened fire, pulled back his unit, and then simply walked away without a single word or a second thought.

The IDF treats Palestinians as Untermenschen


I noticed today that I never check the DR on my phone anymore. It used to be my #1 boredom blocker. In a waiting room or on the subway, it was my go to. Now with all the drop down ads and in between ads, etc. I just don't anymore, it's just not worth the trouble. It seems counter productive to me to make your site so annoying that folks give it up. Now the ads play to no one.


After vastly underqualified acting USAG Todd Blanche said the controversial "weaponization" fund to pay Jan 6 lunatics would "not be moving forward," good-for-nothing still-in-the-closet Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) noted that the aggrieved have always had a pathway for extracting lucrative settlements from the nefarious Trumpf junta, like the way treacherous PV1 Michael Flynn received a generous dollop of American taxpayer dollars after he betrayed the United States of America.

  • "We have a legal system already in place for disloyal miscreants to make profitable claims against the government. That does not need to be reinvented," posted the Islamophobic warmonger on 2 June, encouraging violent white supremacists to pursue settlements under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA).
    Here is a potential claimant


    Sunday, June 07, 2026

    Been working on a book about psychoanalysis. The question popped into my mind. And so ... Read more


    The conflict was supposed to force Iran to compromise. Instead, Tehran is negotiating from a position of surprising strength.


    Nine people were injured in a shooting near the England team's World Cup base early on Saturday morning. As first reported by The Athletic and The Independent on Sunday, police were called to Troost Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri, at approximately 4:00 a.m. Those affected sought treatment at nearby hospitals, and thankfully none of the injuries is believed to be life-threatening. Neither newspaper reports that any suspects have yet been taken into custody, according to the Kansas City Police Department. The incident occurred about seven kilometres from Swope Soccer Village, the England squad's base for the tournament under manager Thomas Tuchel.


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