No wonder you never did anything with your life other than cruise bath houses looking for dope money.
#11 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Every accusation is a confession.

No one fears -----.
#24 | Posted by boaz

No one fears their what? Purchasing power? Decorating ability? Fashion sense? Tight grip on the zeitgeist? Deep penetration of American culture? Throbbing, pulsating dance music?

Yeah, let us know how well that works out.

I dont think

#1 | Posted by boaz

We know.

Conservatives are a problem in every religion. Is this obvious fact supposed to be considered new or shocking?

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

More: Instead of spending about 18 weeks training at the academy in Quantico, Va., the group of agents, tentatively scheduled to start in October, will receive eight weeks, according to the people. And the agents will no longer need to fulfill a longstanding requisite for joining the bureau: a bachelor's degree.

Lowering recruiting standards will allow the F.B.I. to draw deeper from the ranks of other federal law enforcement agencies, specifically a category of criminal investigators classified in the federal system as 1811s. Investigators with that designation work at dozens of agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement, inspector general offices and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

The new plan, current and former agents say, seems to be part of a larger effort by Mr. Patel to have the bureau focus more on street crime, rather than on complicated cases touching on financial fraud, public corruption and national security. Doing so, they added, will erode the bureau's reputation as an elite law enforcement agency, known for its selectiveness about its recruits.

Tiffany Trumpf's husband, Michael Boulos, arranged for oligarch Jared Kushner to buy a mega yacht at a steeply inflated price.

Sorry but mega yachts cost hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars, not a paltry $15 million.

People still eat at Cracker Barrel? Their "food" is consistently awful.

First, boaz, Axios doesn't have a paywall.

The others weren't allowed flee the country, just this one Israeli government official.

Trump's government could have stopped it but chose to let him return to a country that does not have an extradition treaty with us instead.

When has religion not killed?

Whats wrong, can't count to four?

More: Data from an internal Israeli intelligence database indicates that at least 83 percent of Palestinians killed in Israel's onslaught on Gaza were civilians, an investigation by +972 Magazine, Local Call, and the Guardian can reveal.

Figures obtained from the classified database " which records the deaths of militants from Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) " contradict by a huge margin the public statements of Israeli army and government officials throughout the war, which have generally claimed a 1:1 or 2:1 ratio of civilian to militant casualties. Instead, the classified data backs up the findings of several studies suggesting Israel's bombardment of Gaza has killed civilians at a rate with few parallels in modern warfare.

The Israeli army confirmed the existence of the database, which is managed by the Military Intelligence Directorate (known by the Hebrew acronym "Aman"). Multiple intelligence sources familiar with the database said the army views it as the only authoritative tally of militant casualty figures. In the words of one of them: "There's no other place to check."

It's four posts below this one.

Now tell us about the Israeli pedo they let off scot-free, boaz.

How much will this meaningless act of cruelty cost?

More: "Empathy becomes toxic when it encourages you to affirm sin, validate lies or support destructive policies," said Allie Beth Stuckey, author of "Toxic Empathy: How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion."

Stuckey, host of the popular podcast "Relatable," is one of two evangelicals who published books within the past year making Christian arguments against some forms of empathy.

The other is Joe Rigney, a professor and pastor who wrote "The Sin of Empathy: Compassion and its Counterfeits." It was published by Canon Press, an affiliate of Rigney's conservative denomination, which counts Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth among its members.

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While their anti-empathy arguments have differences, Stuckey and Rigney have audiences that are firmly among Trump's Christian base.

"Could someone use my arguments to justify callous indifference to human suffering? Of course," Rigney said, countering that he still supports measured Christ-like compassion. "I think I've put enough qualifications."

Historian Susan Lanzoni traced a century of empathy's uses and definitions in her 2018 book "Empathy: A History." Though it's had its critics, she has never seen the aspirational term so derided as it is now.

It's been particularly jarring to watch Christians take down empathy, said Lanzoni, a graduate of Harvard Divinity School.

"That's the whole message of Jesus, right?"

From the artile: "If Trump is genuinely concerned about the safety of D.C. residents," one resident said, "I would see National Guard in my neighborhood. I'm not seeing it, and I don't expect to see it. I don't think Trump is bringing in the National Guard to protect Black babies in Southeast."

You won't find the National Guard in any of the city's high-crime areas. A vast majority of soldiers and agents deployed to Washington are stationed in the vicinity of the White House and other high-profile sections of the city. There are soldiers patrolling the National Mall; armored vehicles parked at Union Station; and ICE agents manning checkpoints on U Street, an area known for its bars, restaurants and nightlife. They're not there for safety, but for show.

It is a truth of this administration, in fact, that much of it is for show. Hardly a day goes by without a new transgression against democratic norms or a fresh assault on the constitutional order. Each represents a serious threat to the American experiment in self-government, and yet each is also highly performative.

This should surprise no one.

More: Trump appeared on Tuesday's edition of The Mark Levin Show, where he repeated his context-less claim to have ended six or seven global conflicts in his first seven months in office.

"I've settled six wars, and a lot of people say seven because there's one that nobody knows about," Trump said cryptically. "But I've settled six wars, and we did the Iran" I wiped out their nuclear capability, which they would've used against Israel in two seconds if they had the chance. But we wiped it out."

After claiming that the conflict between India and Pakistan was the "easiest" to resolve, Trump turned his attention to "Aberbaijan" and Albania.

More: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's unusually large personal security requirements are straining the Army agency tasked with protecting him as it pulls agents from criminal investigations to safeguard family residences in Minnesota, Tennessee and D.C., according to numerous officials familiar with the operation.
The sprawling, multimillion-dollar initiative has forced the Army's Criminal Investigation Division, or CID, the agency that fields security for top Defense Department officials, to staff weeks-long assignments in each location and at times monitor residences belonging to the Hegseths' former spouses, the officials said.
One CID official, who like some others spoke on the condition of anonymity citing a fear of reprisal, characterized Hegseth's personal protective arrangement as unlike any other in the agency's recent history.
"I've never seen this many security teams for one guy," the official said. "Nobody has."

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"We have complete inability to achieve our most basic missions," one person said.

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Historically about 150 of the agency's approximately 1,500 agents serve on VIP security details, according to people familiar with the matter, who said that when Hegseth took office a call went out for many more. Now there are hundreds assigned to personal protective duty, these people said. One person characterized the figure as "400 and going up." Another said it's "over 500."

More: Schwalb said it's the greatest threat to Home Rule that the District has ever faced, and officials are fighting to stop it.

"By declaring a hostile takeover of MPD, the Administration is abusing its limited, temporary authority under the Home Rule Act, infringing on the District's right to self-governance and putting the safety of DC residents and visitors at risk. The Administration's unlawful actions are an affront to the dignity and autonomy of the 700,000 Americans who call DC home," Schwalb said in the press release.

More: Established after October 7, the unit sought information on Hamas' use of schools and hospitals for military purposes, and on failed rocket launches by armed Palestinian groups that harmed civilians in the enclave. It has also been assigned to identify Gaza-based journalists it could portray as undercover Hamas operatives, in an effort to blunt growing global outrage over Israel's killing of reporters " the latest of whom was Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif, killed in an Israeli airstrike this past week.

According to the sources, the Legitimization Cell's motivation was not security, but public relations. Driven by anger that Gaza-based reporters were "smearing [Israel's] name in front of the world," its members were eager to find a journalist they could link to Hamas and mark as a target, one source said.

The source described a recurring pattern in the unit's work: whenever criticism of Israel in the media intensified on a particular issue, the Legitimization Cell was told to find intelligence that could be declassified and employed publicly to counter the narrative.

"If the global media is talking about Israel killing innocent journalists, then immediately there's a push to find one journalist who might not be so innocent " as if that somehow makes killing the other 20 acceptable," the intelligence source said.

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Two of the intelligence sources recounted that, in at least one case since the war began, the Legitimization Cell misrepresented intelligence in a way that allowed for the false portrayal of a journalist as a member of Hamas's military wing. "They were eager to label him as a target, as a terrorist " to say it's okay to attack him," one source recalled. "They said: during the day he's a journalist, at night he's a platoon commander. Everyone was excited. But there was a chain of errors and corner-cutting.

"In the end, they realized he really was a journalist," the source continued, and the journalist wasn't targeted.

A similar pattern of manipulation is evident in the intelligence presented on Al-Sharif. According to the documents released by the army, which have not been independently verified, he was recruited to Hamas in 2013 and remained active until he was injured in 2017 " meaning that, even if the documents were accurate, they suggest he played no role in the current war.

The same applies to the case of journalist Ismail Al-Ghoul, who was killed in a July 2024 Israeli airstrike along with his cameraman in Gaza City. A month later, the army claimed he was a "military wing operative and Nukhba terrorist," citing a 2021 document allegedly retrieved from a "Hamas computer." Yet that document stated he received his military rank in 2007 " when he was just 10 years old, and seven years before he was supposedly recruited to Hamas.