Texas House Speaker Duston Burrows revealed that Republicans had tasked the state Department of Public Safety to create a tip line " (866) 786-5972 -- incidentally the same number as the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's Fusion Center -- hoping that average citizens would help them hunt down Democratic legislators. "Many have submitted tips about the whereabouts of absent members," Burrows droned. "For example, over the weekend, we received word of a rally in Fort Worth where a couple of absent members were allegedly making an appearance. We took this as actionable intelligence, and DPS was dispatched immediately. "Although in this instance, members did not end up being physically present at the event, we will keep following every credible lead until these members return," Burrows whined. read more
As many as three persons were killed during shooting at a Target store in Austin, TX. Fleeing, the lunatic stole a car, crashed it, then hijacked another vehicle before being caught. The suspect is a man in his 30s with a documented history of mental health issues. Two victims were declared dead at the scene, while a third victim died in the hospital. Emergency responders treated one person at the scene for injuries. This incident came after two persons were killed, six others left wounded in a shooting during a music festival after-party in downtown Los Angeles last week. The other day, the mother of Natalie Rupnow, the fifteen-year-old girl who shot and killed two people and wounded six more at Abundant Life Christian School (ALCS) in Madison, WI last December, died by an apparent suicide. Link: Mother Kills Herself. read more
A lengthy investigation from The New Yorker magazine estimates the Trumpf Crime Family (TCF) will have enriched themselves by more than $3.4 billion by the end of his second term, much of it from deals, transactions, and investments that almost certainly wouldn't have happened if the Dotard had never been POTUS. The pelf comes from lucrative commercial projects in the Persian Gulf overseen by the Trumpf Crime Family (TCF), such as hotels and golf courses in Saudi Arabia, Oman, and the UAE; a luxury Boeing 747-8 gifted by the Qatari royal family; and a flood of Trumpf-branded merchandise and other kitsch marketed by the junta. Trumpf's foray into the world of cryptocurrency and NFTs has also been extremely lucrative for the TCF. Jared Kushner's private equity firm, who scored a two billion dollar investment from a fund led by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, is also said to have contributing at least $320 million to the TCF's presidential profits. read more
The FBI has begun dispatching up to 120 Special Agents in overnight shifts to help local law enforcement prevent carjackings and violent crime in Washington. read more
Sharing Real-Time Location Exposes Underage Children to Pedophiles and Traffickers Online
Gosh, I wonder what Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are thinking right now? One man is certainly happy with the 2024 Democrats losing: cdn.timesofisrael.com
#3: Well said. He amnestied many Union soldiers from execution and expressly ordered no vengeance against the defeated Confederates after the surrender. Only two Confederates were executed for war crimes after the Civil War and Lincoln may not even have heard of it.
Lincoln read Shakespeare and enjoyed the humor of this man: en.wikipedia.org
Lincoln would read his jokes before the Cabinet meeting. He said he would "die" if there were no humor around him to fight the depression and gravity of the casualty counts.
Australia PM Anthony Albanese has accused Benjamin Netanyahu of being "in denial" over the consequences of the Nakba in Gaza. He announced his country would recognize a Palestinian state at the UNGA in September, following similar moves by the UK, France, and Canada. Albanese said frustration with the Likud junta had played a role in the move, saying Australians "want to see the killing stop." The AIPAC analog in the land "down under," the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, called Australian recognition of Palestine a "betrayal." Link: BBC.com. There are more child amputees in Gaza than anywhere else in the world. Crippling a nation of people by creating amputees diminishes their ability to protest, fight back as soldiers, or even just eke out a meager living in the gigantic ghetto known as the Gaza Strip. Link: The Guardian.
AIPAC will disapprove of Madonna's plea for the first ever American Pope to help Palestinians. Madonna will be accused of being a "Hamas lover" (whatever that means) and pilloried as an antisemite, like poor Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic NYC mayoral candidate.
Volodomir Zelensky, the President of Ukraine and an Ashkenazi Jew, leading a country undergoing a brutal Nakba led by Vladimir Putin, offered to help Palestinians being slaughtered in the Gaza Strip. President Zelensky, a true mensch, also supports a Two-state solution. Source: www.middleeastmonitor.com
#5: Hi Snoofy: You're right about the Dakota warriors; thanks for that.
"President Lincoln reviewed each case and commuted the death sentences of 265 prisoners and allowed the execution of 38 men."
Those poor devils did not have defense counsel and the trials were shoddily run. Lincoln gave the US Cavalry its "pound of flesh" with those 38 warriors and I imagine the compassionate A. Lincoln was loath to sign the death warrants. During the Civil War, Honest Abe spared many, many Union soldiers from execution for desertion.
Link: en.wikipedia.org