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Ten charged with attempted murder after allegedly ambushing Texas Ice agents These are the mugshots of the people arrested: One Benjamin Song is still at large: Search continues for 12th suspect in ambush at Alvarado ICE detention facility Suspect #11, one Daniel Estrada, is husband of one of...

Here's what we know about the 2 Israeli embassy staffers killed in Washington, D.C. This was a horrible terrorist attack. More about the perp: What we know about Elias Rodriguez, terror suspect accused of killing two Israeli Embassy staffers in DC Jewish Museum shooting

Greenpeace must pay over $660M in case over Dakota Access protest activities, jury finds It seems like a correct verdict. There has been a lot of misinformation pushed in this case, not to mention all the blockade and sabotage DAPL opponents have engaged in. To the extent Greenpeace was...

The Labour government has decreed that no female minors will be held in "young offender institutions", which is a blatant sexist double standard. Apparently the Starmer government believes that young female criminals are all victims that do not deserve punishment. Girls will no longer be sent...

Germany had elections today. They were supposed to have the next elections in the Fall, but last Fall the three party Ampelkoalition (traffic light coalition - consisting of three parties: SPD, FDP and Greens) broke apart, and so the elections were called a few months early. These are the...

A photo taken last Monday in NYC. From here. Besides the usual anti-Israel and pro-illegal signs, something new caught my eye. The protest had signs like "US out of Korea" and a map of united Korea (presumably under Kim's dictatorship given that they want US out) next to a map of...

What we know about Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the suspect in the New Orleans attack

This case has been discussed in the "Breakdown of civil order" megathread, starting around here. The thread is huge and covers many different issues, so a dedicated thread might be best. Today, the criminal case has ended with an acquittal. Daniel Penny Is Acquitted in Death of Jordan Neely on...

She is 70 and diabetic. There is a non-negligible chance that Trump will appoint her successor if she remains. Biden is still president, and Dems still have the Senate.

So the longshoremen union is striking on the East Coast. East and Gulf coast ports strike, with ILA longshoremen walking off job from New England to Texas, stranding billions in trade Other than the massive pay increase they are demanding, the major sticking points is that the union does not...

Maya Rudolph was great. She even sounds like Kamala Harris. Jim Gaffigan as Tim Walz was also good. And Dana Carvey as JaBiden, LMAO! (even if he did break character once) Them wheeling away the bulletproof glass when Vance came on, too.

Machete-armed man with Palestinian flag wounds 31 in Germany with arson, ramming attacks A lot of these people are "known to the police" but don't get deported. This is why the right-wing parties are gaining ground. Just today, far-right FPÖ won most seats in Austrian elections. However, it...

Race-based policies like so-called "affirmative action", which is about giving applicants of certain races or ethnicities a significant benefit over others. Example: medical school admissions:

I apologize for the tardiness of my response. When did I say anything as ridiculous as that? I support gay rights as part of my larger position on personal freedoms. I supported the Lawrence v. Texas and Obergefell decisions. In fact, I supported gay marriage well before high-profile Dems like...

So the elections for the EU parliament are underway. The way this is set up is that national parties form EU-wide blocks. So the conservative EPP contains for example German C?U (Angela Merkel's party) and French LR (Nicolas Sarkozy's Party). Social-democratic S&D contains German SPD (Olaf...

Woman admits to lying about attack in parking lot; innocent man freed from jail: DA' Feminist dogma that all women must be believed is as sexist as it is dangerous.

So, with the Israel-Gaza war approaching the 8 month mark, I wanted to talk about what the post-war Gaza might look like. 1. Governance Who will run Gaza? Palestinian Authority? Hamas? A "unity government" between the two? Israel? Some sort of international force? I think any solution that...

Helicopter carrying Iran’s hard-line president apparently crashes in foggy, mountainous region Ebrahim Raisi is known as a hardliner, and is even considered one of the likely successors for "Supreme" Leader Khamenei. Even though the chopper went down several hours ago, the lithobraking site has...

A "POC House" for Berkeley students bans whites from common areas. Off-campus UC Berkeley student housing bans white people from common areas That is segregation, pure and simple. I thought that was banned by the Civil Rights Law.

Lest anyone believe that GOP has a monopoly on idiocy and dumbfuckery, here's the latest from Sheila Jackson Lee, the village idiot from Houston. Sheila Jackson Lee mocked for saying moon made 'mostly of gases,' claims she 'misspoke'