Olga Miranda, president of the SEIU Local 87 union, which represents thousands of janitors in the city, said immigration officials showed up at two buildings downtown on Friday. Federal immigration officials did not confirm the action when asked Monday. But an Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, official denied that the agency had any involvement in any action. Miranda declined to say which buildings were targeted, but said hundreds of her members who clean downtown offices stayed away from work Friday evening. Miranda said federal agents showed up in plain clothes and presented badges that said "Department of Homeland Security" to building security when asked, after initially being turned away. One set of agents showed up in the late afternoon carrying an arrest warrant for a specific person, but none of her members were arrested, Miranda said. read more
The federal process isn't as simple as crossing out the old name and writing in a new one. It's a complicated switch across the bureaucracy, involving a top-down effort to update official documents, communications, maps, and charts. read more
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said the Trump officials discovered that 50 million taxpayer dollars were allocated to fund condoms to be distributed in Gaza. "That is a preposterous waste of taxpayer money," Leavit said. A report by the Jerusalem Post claimed that Hamas operatives have been repurposing condoms to create balloons filled with inflammable gases to strike targets in southern Israel since 2017. These condoms attached with improvised explosive devices often land in schools, farm lands and roads. In 2019, they started attaching these condom bombs to rocket-propelled grenades. The helium filled in these condoms were initially imported for medical purposes with Israel consent. read more
President Donald Trump on Monday is expected to sign three executive orders that would reshape the military, including banning transgender service members from serving in the US armed forces, gutting the military's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs, and reinstating service members with backpay who were discharged for refusing to get vaccinated from Covid-19, two White House officials told CNN. read more
More than a dozen officials who worked on the criminal investigations into Donald Trump have been fired. read more
Why do you get to call me a "--------"... whatever that is...
#34 | Posted by RightisTrite
I got you covered:
-------Seems to indicate that you are learned and held in high esteem. Congratulations!
------- (also spelled as Dixit or -------ar) is traditionally a Hindu family name.
Origin
The word is an adjectival form of the Sanskrit word diksha, meaning provider of knowledge. -------a in Sanskrit derives itself as a person involved in scientific studies, and literally translates as "one who has received initiation or one who is initiated". [...] Historically, the surname has been usually associated with professions related to knowledge, generally used among teachers and scholars.
en.wikipedia.org
Maybe not funded by us, but:
Flaming Condoms Are the Newest Threat to Southern Israel
Inflated rubbers with firebombs attached torch fields, woods
Israel struggling to deal with improvised incendiary devices
Condoms have moved out of the bedroom and into the air in the Gaza Strip, where they've become the newest weapon against Israel.
Sometimes tied together for added buoyancy, the inflated prophylactics are attached to gas-soaked rags, other burning items or explosive devices, then flown over the border like balloons into southern Israel, where they set fire to farmlands and nature reserves.
Bloomberg June 21, 2018
Which leaves us with this truth - lying Zionists gotta lie.
#43 | Posted by redlightrobot
So that photo of Palestinians with their legs on Shani's prostrate body while being cheered on by other Palestinians were lies? Thanks for clarifying. Too bad Shani wasn't able to correct me. I wonder what she's up to nowadays
Shortly after the attack, a video circulated showing her body paraded through the streets of Gaza by Hamas militants in the back of a pickup truck. [...] At the end of the month, Israel confirmed Louk's death based on the discovery of a skull fragment on the road leading out of the festival grounds, indicating that she was killed during the attack, while trying to escape. On 17 May 2024 Israeli forces recovered her body from a tunnel in Gaza.Oh, looks like she was killed while rudely declining the Palestinian's hospitality. I guess I'll have to take your word for the excellent treatment that Shani and the others received.
Killing of Shani Louk
> Also, the lies regarding mass rape and baby butchering is seriously outdated. The returning hostages have a very different account of their treatment by Hamas.#40 | Posted by redlightrobot
And the hostages that didn't return? What do they have to say?
#41 | Posted by censored
Oh, silly me. I'll ask one of them myself.
Hey, Shani Louk, did the Palestinians treat you with love and affection after they escorted you from that music festival in the bed of that pickup truck? (www.berliner-zeitung.de) I won't post the photograph since that might upset some of the pro-Hamasers here who can barely contain their adoration for terrorist murderers.
You will not like where this ends up.
#28 | Posted by truthhurts
I sort of do like it. It's nice seeing stupidity receive its comeuppance.
Voters decided to help Trump into office, either through action or inaction, and now we're gonna pay the price.
Just-world fallacy
The just-world fallacy, or just-world hypothesis, is the cognitive bias that assumes that "people get what they deserve" " that actions will necessarily have morally fair and fitting consequences for the actor. For example, the assumptions that noble actions will eventually be rewarded and evil actions will eventually be punished fall under this fallacy. In other words, the just-world fallacy is the tendency to attribute consequences to - or expect consequences as the result of - either a universal force that restores moral balance or a universal connection between the nature of actions and their results. This belief generally implies the existence of cosmic justice, destiny, divine providence, desert, stability, order, or the anglophone colloquial use of "karma". It is often associated with a variety of fundamental fallacies, especially in regard to rationalizing suffering on the grounds that the sufferers "deserve" it. This is called victim blaming.
en.wikipedia.org
Over the past decade, Hamas has used condoms to create IED-carrying balloons that winds would fly into southern Israel, raising the alarm on schoolyards, farmlands, and highways. These improvised explosive devices burned thousands of hectares of land and caused extensive damage.There goes that GenOCiDe!!?!? I keep hearing so much about.
www.israelhayom.com
It's easier to blame third party voters than it is to blame the Democratic party. It takes no mental effort to do it.
#6 | Posted by LauraMohr And lest we forget
Jill Stein: How and Why I Will Stop Kamala Harris Winning the White HouseSo she proudly declared that it was her intended purpose to help Trump win. And all her supporters fell in line to help her.
www.newsweek.com
So, yes, I'm blaming the voters who facilitated this result. Because that's the way democracies work. The voters are responsible for who wins or loses an election. Sorry to break that to you.
Also, I'm reminded of this:
Golgafrincham was a planet, once home to the Great Circling Poets of Arium. The descendants of these poets made up tales of impending doom about the planet. The tales varied; some said it was going to crash into the sun, or the moon was going to crash into the planet. Others said the planet was to be invaded by twelve-foot piranha bees and still others said it was in danger of being eaten by an enormous mutant star-goat.Looking forward to seeing what happens to our society when those who allow its most basic aspects to function are tossed out.
These tales of impending doom allowed the Golgafrinchans to rid themselves of an entire useless third of their population. The story was that they would build three Ark ships. Into the A ship would go all the leaders, scientists and other high achievers. The C ship would contain all the people who made things and did things, and the B Ark would hold everyone else, such as hairdressers and telephone sanitisers. They sent the B ship off first, but of course, the other two-thirds of the population stayed on the planet and lived full, rich and happy lives until they were all wiped out by a virulent disease contracted from a dirty telephone.
hitchhikers.fandom.com
The flight was from Kansas, so chances are some of them really did get what they voted for. Trump is hurting the right people.