On Friday the 13th, the Atlantic Asphalt tanker collided with the American Cruise Lines' American Heritage while the cruise ship was docked on the Mississippi River in New Orleans. The cruise ship had docked approximately two hours earlier to begin passenger disembarkation. Approximately 129 passengers, in addition to crew members, were aboard the American Heritage. Port NOLA Harbor Police, the New Orleans Fire and Police Departments, the USCG, and emergency medical personnel conducted rescue and response operations. Most of the passengers are elderly and 32 were hospitalized.
Dummkopf Trumpf strikes again
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US Senate Ethics Committee Chairman James Lankford (R-OK) and Vice Chairman Chris Coons (D-DE) wrote this "Public Letter of Admonition" to billionaire oligarch US Senator Jim Justice II (R-WV): "The public must feel confident that Members never place personal financial interests ahead of the best interests of the United States. Your actions failed to uphold that standard, resulting in harm to the public trust and confidence in the United States Senate and a violation of federal law...."
Why is a good-for-nothing billionaire who inherited his massive $1.6bn fortune working for $174,000 per annum as a Republican US Senator?
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NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) is expected to unveil a plan for disbanding the NYPD's Strategic Response Group (SRG). In dissolving the counterterrorism and protest-response unit, His Honor would be fulfilling a key 2025 campaign pledge. Mamdani's plan is expected to involve nixing the SRG and potentially replacing it with a new civilian unit that would take the lead on responding to protests. Under the plan, which had not been finalized yet, the new civilian unit would be supported by NYPD officers, who would assemble nearby and be able to step in to conduct arrests if needed. The civilian entity's main goal would be de-escalating violence, not encouraging it.
The NYPD was quite rough with the LGBTQ community during the 1969 Stonewall protests, caused by the homophobic NYPD themselves
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Voters in Providence, Rhode Island elected 28-year-old Democratic Socialist David Morales as Mayor and approved a ballot measure that will result in the city divesting from Israel. Providence will be the first US city to pass a binding divestment measure through a popular vote. The historic measure instructs the city to divest from countries and companies implicated in "ethnic cleansing, apartheid, illegal military occupation, or genocide." The language does not mention Israel by name, but everyone on the planet knows who the target of this humanitarian ballot measure is.
The BDS movement helped defeat the apartheid regime in Suid-Afrika
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Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) announced he will run for Senate majority leader ... read more
No surprise.
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"Great idea, Zohran!"
"Yeah, wish I thought of that!"
"That's why we both lost, Stymie."
"D'uh."
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Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) members are strong and vocal supporters of the BDS movement trying to stop Israel's apartheid system and its ruthless ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. The people of Providence Island, RI concur.
Of course, triple loser Andrew Cuomo (D), when he was the failed governor of NYS, vetoed a BDS bill against Israel. This Judas Iscariot of the Democratic Party would resign from office over allegations of sexual harassment and lying about COVID casualties in NYS medical care facilities. Cuomo was forced to return his Emmy Award over his fabrications. This Benedict Arnold would then turn his back on the Democratic Party of his father and lose badly to Zohran Mamdani (D) in the 2025 race for mayor.
Andrew "AIPAC" Cuomo is also on ICC-indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu's legal defense team at the Hague.
Good luck with that. Andrew Cuomo barely worked a year as an assistant district attorney in Kings County (Brooklyn) from 1984 to 1985. That's the sum of Cuomo's courtroom experience.
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Good looking US Senator Jon Ossoff (D-GA) sounds a bit wishy-washy:
"US Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff said Israeli forces violated the law of armed conflict and international humanitarian law during its war on the Gaza Strip.
Responding to a question on whether Israel had committed genocide in Gaza, Ossoff said genocide requires a specific intent to destroy a national or ethnic group.
"The question of genocide is a question of whether a government has the specific intent to destroy a national or ethnic group," Ossoff said, adding that the determination was a matter for the International Criminal Court (ICC)."
*PUNT!*
Uh-huh. That sounds like lawyering, not leading.
Loser Andrew "AIPAC" Cuomo, who betrayed the Democratic Party to run as an independent against Democrat Zohran Mamdani in 2025, bleated the same nonsense.
Dozens of academics, the UN, and Holocaust survivors agree that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
Google it.
Meanwhile, US Senator-elect Troy Jackson (D-ME) doesn't sound mealy-mouthed:
"Anybody with eyes and a heart knows the Israeli government is committing genocide in Gaza," stated the Maine Senate candidate (10 July 2026).
And Troy Jackson isn't a judge at the ICC.
So, many of us will pass on corporate tools Jon Ossoff, Gavin Newsom, and Pete Buttigieg, thank you very much.
But we will change our minds should any of them declare: "I will recognize the State of Palestine on the day I am inaugurated President of the United States."
That's political and moral leadership.
Otherwise...
Source: "Um, it's not up to me to use my own eyes and ears."
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