Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah in the Gaza Strip to retrieve the bodies of four people killed in Israeli strikes. This was a hospital. This is a war crime. US aid, US money, US weapons are being used for this. No other country would be allowed to do this and still have US support. Could it be the over 600 million dollars the Israeli lobby spreads to congress and presidential elections? AIPAC which stands for American lobbying group advocating for pro-Israel policies. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee is a lobbying group that advocates pro-Israel policies to the legislative and executive branches of the United States. This PAC is one of the wealthiest in the US if not the wealthiest. I don’t think the dead children and innocent civilians really care about the money, maybe it is time congress did not either. Hugs. Scottie
Mourners gathered outside the Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah in the Gaza Strip to retrieve the bodies of four people killed in Israeli strikes. A group of men and boys prayed over the bodies, wrapped in shrouds as per Islamic tradition, and wept before carrying them away to be buried. (AP video by Abd Al Kareem Hana, produced by Wafaa Shurafa)
A CNN investigation has uncovered the horrors of a shadowy detention facility where Palestinian prisoners are blindfolded, handcuffed and forced to wear dirty diapers. Watch Matthew Chance’s full report.
I thank Ten Bears for this. When I first heard of it I couldn’t find anything to post. Then when I saw Ten Bears’ post, I was too tired and stunned to post it. So I waited until I could deal with it. Just like the food workers in the WCK clearly marked trucks with the Israeli military giving the OK for their route, the rescue people here had permission to go to the girl, then they were killed. The reports from hospitals in Gaza witnesses said the IDF were targeting anyone in scrubs, the workers and medical people avoided being near a window and changed clothing before leaving the building. Israel’s goal has long been the extermination of all Palestinians and any support group for them. Any Palestinian male over 10 is considered Hamas by Israeli troops. Finally Biden is doing something, but it is far too little and long too late. Too late for all the dead Palestinian adults and all the dead Palestinian children. I watched an Israeli spokesperson angrily complaining no one seemed to care about the 100+ soldiers they lost in this war, but he had no remorse for the more than 40,000 dead civilian Palestinians, claiming that there have been very few civil casualties, that they were all Hamas or civilian combatants. Hugs. Scottie
No wonder tRump and this guy got along with each other. He is a scumbag. People with nothing he gives less then nothing to them, then claims it makes him feel good. WTF. This guy is a Project 2025 leader and they are all about taking the US back to 1840. Hugs. Scottie
“So I always keep this fake Hollywood money in my car so when a homeless person asks for money, then I give him like a fake $5 bill, so I feel good about myself, they feel good. And then, when they go to use it, they get arrested so I’m actually like helping clean up the community. You know, getting them off the street.” – Former Trump aide and Project 2025 leader Johnny McEntee, in a TikTok video posted by the The Right Stuff, the MAGA dating app he founded in 2022. McEntee appeared here last week when he vowed that porn will banned during a second Trump term.
Johnny McEntee, senior advisor to Project 2025, claims he distributes fake money to homeless people so that when they use it, they will be arrested.
This is sick. This is evil. This is cruel. Getting people “comfortable” with all of that is the goal. I don’t want to live in a world where this is ok. Do you? https://t.co/J4yze5Cta0
Johnny McEntee, who is currently under investigation by the Department of Homeland Security for what a source says are serious financial crimes, had been granted a permanent security clearance before he was abruptly fired Monday. https://t.co/WcOhEgGgMd
“Engineering much of the post-election purge is Johnny McEntee, a former college quarterback who was hustled out of the White House two years ago after a security clearance check turned up a prolific habit for online gambling.” https://t.co/Wq9mEmztoD
If true, he’s guilty of passing counterfeit money and he just admitted it in a recording. I can’t imagine that he won’t be investigated by the Treasury Department or whatever body handles counterfeiting.
So either he’s lying to own the libs or he’s about to get to the “find out” stage of fucking around.
I can’t believe I’m gonna say this, so please forgive me.. film money is distinctly different than counterfiet money. It’s designed to avoid being considered counterfeit (it needs to be a percentage bigger or smaller so it *can’t* be legally considered counterfiet money and the artwork is slightly different). Countefeit money is designed to pass as the real thing; Hollywood money isn’t. That’s going to be his counter argument if he gets hauled up for this, I’d stake a good penny on.
Having said that, ths is unfathomably cruel. A store clerk or a police officer probably wouldn’t know the difference, so the poor person is going to suffer. If justice is real, whether he argues he’s handing out monopoly money, the intent is to cause harm, and he should have the book thrown at him.
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I just saw Doggy Daddy’s comment below, so thankfully it makes the first half of this moot.
These guys really don’t understand why the rest of us find their actions horrific. It’s not that they refuse to be empathetic with other humans – they can’t, it’s not possible for them.
It’s not a decision – they’re unable to understand what we mean by the words “cruel” or “heartless”. They hear the words – but they don’t mean the same thing to them. To them, “cruel” means “something the bleeding hearts don’t like”, not “this is a horrible thing to inflict on another person”.
Which is why we need to set up a gated and locked community for them, perhaps on a big chunk of federal land in the West, where only people who have no empathy live, and they can work it all out together. Send them food, let them get incoming internet, and leave them to it
It makes me wonder how many right- wing morons clicked like on his video?They probably thought that was a real knee-slapper. To me this ranks right up there with Governor Kristie Noem bragging about shooting her puppy.
Lock him up! “Can you go to jail for giving someone fake money? Even a first-time counterfeiting charge can result in a misdemeanor or felony and some jail time. Prosecutors can charge individuals with forgery if they possess or use counterfeit items with the intent to defraud another person. It can be as simple as using fake money or as complex as counterfeiting an official seal.”
My dogs that love gravy! These laws are being driven by religion, more truthfully people that hid their true religious intent to get elected to then try to force their religious views on everyone else. To force everyone to live by their churches doctrines and their religious driven idea of what is moral or not. Do you understand this is a bunch of hyper religious people wagging their fingers at the people they dislike and telling them god sees what they are doing? This is our time of the temperance movement or the prohibition of alcohol that went so badly wrong. It is a small group of people who have extreme views of morality based on their own religious views who insist on forcing everyone else to live according to their views. It is the morality police and the vice patrols of the Islamic theocracies that the same people doing this in the US claim to hate. It is scary to me the regressive world they want to force the country into. Hugs. Scottie
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee’s version of the age verification bills being sponsored around the country by anti-porn religious conservative activists continues making its progress through the state legislature toward likely approval.
On Tuesday, the state’s Senate Finance Committee advanced SB 1792 — titled by its chief sponsor, Republican Senator Becky Duncan Massey, as the “Protect Tennessee Minors Act” — out of committee.
SB 1792 “would make porn websites criminally liable if they don’t verify the ages of users of their sites through photo matching,” local CBS affiliate WREG reported.
Massey compared the proposed new requirement to “age verification when folks go on an alcohol-related site,” and said her bill is necessary because, she believes, pornography “can cause damage” and “mental health issues.”
FSC Director of Public Affairs Mike Stabile, however, told XBIZ that Massey’s bill effectively criminalizes the distribution of adult content online, which he cited as a frequently stated goal of many conservatives.
Stabile also called SB 1792 “an escalation of what we’ve seen in other states” and deemed it “a grave threat” to First Amendment protections.
“First it was private lawsuits, then fines from attorneys general — Tennessee evidently wants to become the first state to begin arresting pornographers,” Stabile said, adding that the Tennessee bill’s chilling effect on legal speech will be substantial.
“The legislature’s own fiscal review committee says that it assumes ‘a majority of entities’ will simply stop publishing content in the state, but that, if not, ‘the increase in such convictions could be significant,’” he explained.
Stabile also pointed out that for many legislators, age verification is “just an excuse to increase liabilities for people that create, and platforms that host, material dealing in sex or sexuality. It’s no surprise that Tennessee has also recently expanded the definition of ‘material harmful to minors’ to include drag and other non-explicit LGBTQ+ content offline, and the bill itself criminalizes as little as the description of a nipple.”
Aylo: Recent Slew of AV Laws Are ‘Ineffective, Dangerous’
SB 1792 would also require websites to keep “anonymized age-verification data” for extended periods of time.
Massey told WREG, “They keep the data but not personally identifying data. They have to keep the data to prove that they did verify for seven years, but it can’t have their name, address. It can’t have any personal identifying markers.”
Kansas, Texas, Arkansas, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Utah and Virginia have passed similar age verification bills, all introduced by Republicans, while 19 other states have introduced similar legislation. Florida recently passed its version of the law, written by a legislator who is also a pastor, as part of a more comprehensive social media bill.
Aylo issued a statement about the Tennessee bill and the other laws, stating, “The way many jurisdictions worldwide have chosen to implement age verification is ineffective, haphazard, and dangerous. Any regulations that require hundreds of thousands of adult sites to collect significant amounts of highly sensitive personal information is putting user safety in jeopardy. Moreover, as experience has demonstrated, unless properly enforced, users will simply access non-compliant sites or find other methods of evading these laws.”
Main Image: Anti-Porn crusader Tennessee Sen. Becky Duncan Massey (R)
