Mr Watson has f'ed around and found out.

Look you can't expect him to actually read what he posts. That would be hard, the NYT uses some big words.

What would you prefer Snoofy? Everyone should be constantly in a hyper-partisan frenzy and never admit when someone they don't agree with most of the time does something right for once?

Sounds like a terrible way to live. Also sounds like a recipe for making sure "the other side" never does a single thing you might agree with.

The guy did the right thing and that should be acknowledged.

Credit where credit is due, I didn't expect a move like this from Johnson. At least in this one case he did the right thing even though it wasn't the easy thing.

"There's never been any evidence -- not a shred -- that Donald Trump believes in God, believes in the sanctity of the Old or New Testaments, is a churchgoer, follows the Ten Commandments, or has anything but contempt for religious people."

Since when do the religious require evidence?

Guess the tor account is back. It was a nice few months while it was gone.

Great read, Gal, thanks for posting it.

From the article: If an all-out war breaks out with Iran and its proxies, to what extent can Israel count on the United States, the Western democracies and moderate Arab states to risk themselves for us, and provide us with vital military and diplomatic assistance? Even if such war is averted, how long can Israel survive as a pariah state? We don't have Russia's ample resources. Without commercial, scientific and cultural ties with the rest of the world, and without American arms and money, the most optimistic scenario for Israel is to become the North Korea of the Middle East.

Why?

Because Mississippi has accomplished absolutely nothing worth celebrating in the 159 years since the end of the civil war.

Yeah I'd wager it was probably someone who took advantage of the many cameras around but it's all speculation, no one knows anything yet.

From the article: "We have a man who has set himself on fire, a man has been emblazoned himself outside of the courthouse just now," she shouted during a live report. "Our cameras are turning right now. A man has now lit himself on fire outside of the courthouse in Manhattan.

"We are watching a man who is fully emblazoned in the front of the courthouse today. We are watching multiple fires breaking out around his body and person. We have seen an arm that has been visible that has been engulfed in total flames. There is chaos that is happening. ... I'm looking across the corner, across the courtyard. There is a man racing towards him, a there's coats coming off to try to put out the fire.

They aren't wrong...

When are you going to head south boaz? We certainly don't want you here in NC.

More: "As stewards of America's public lands, the Interior Department takes seriously our role in helping bolster landscape resilience in the face of worsening climate impacts," Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said in a statement. "Today's final rule helps restore balance to our public lands as we continue using the best-available science to restore habitats, guide strategic and responsible development, and sustain our public lands for generations to come."

The rule directs BLM - the nation's largest land manager - to "protect intact landscapes, restore degraded habitat, and make wise management decisions based on science and data." The agency will also be tasked with incorporating land health assessments into its decisions about how lands are used.

More: But the part I want to focus on is whether they get this information from Meta. Meta has been promoting WhatsApp as a "private" social network, including "end-to-end" encryption of messages.

Providing this data as input for Lavender undermines their claim that WhatsApp is a private messaging app. It is beyond obscene and makes Meta complicit in Israel's killings of "pre-crime" targets and their families, in violation of International Humanitarian Law and Meta's publicly stated commitment to human rights. No social network should be providing this sort of information about its users to countries engaging in "pre-crime".

It's important to note that already Meta is taking extensive part in the Israeli-led and US-backed genocide, including significant and well-reported suppression of content supporting Palestinian freedom, as well a new anti-"anti-zionist" policy that is used to shut down dissent of Israel's crimes [4].

Why is Meta doing this? Why is Meta so happy to share metadata about group membership with Israel " a run-around the idea of a "private" social network " and to be complicit in the genocide?

Yeah, needlessly commuting every day is always the wrong policy.

I hope those poor kids are placed somewhere safe and not with their father or his family.

It's about time.

...caught in the dust storms which closed I-70 in Kansas & Colorado. In an EV, I'd have been trapped waiting for a charger

Why? Doesn't take any power to sit and wait.

Low engery, sad!

Unintentional FF on #3, I meant that to be a newsworthy. Well said, Twinpac.

More: Among the wounded was cameraman Sami Shehada, who works for the Turkish state broadcaster TRT as a cameraman. Shehada lost a leg in the strike on the Nuseirat refugee camp.

CNN stringer Mohammad Al-Sawalhi was also wounded in the attack. He received a hand injury from shrapnel.

Shehada claimed the the targeting of him and other civilians was deliberate in video taken after his leg had been severed.

"We were filming in a safe place, I was wearing my flak jacket and my helmet " even the car I was in had a PRESS' and TV' sign marked on it. It was clear that I was a civilian and a journalist. We were targeted," he told CNN.

A TRT statement also referred to a "deliberate" attack on media personnel.

CNN reported that footage from the scene showed men, women, and children running for cover at the sound of artillery fire. The seven journalists and an elderly man named Saleh who was running for cover were ultimately injured in the strike.

More: Representative Matt Gaetz has a reputation as a provocateur and MAGA ideologue on Capitol Hill, with an active ethics investigation against him. After a new profile in The Atlantic, he might be known for other, worse reasons.

One such revelation in the piece, published Thursday, was that he'd show videos of his sexual conquests to other staffers and members of Congress on Capitol Hill.

"He used to walk around the cloakroom showing people ----- of him and his latest girlfriend," one former Republican lawmaker told Atlantic writer Elaine Godfrey, speaking anonymously. "He'd show me a video, and I'd say, That's great, Matt.' Like, what kind of a reaction do you want?"

He also, early in his career as a state legislator in Florida, was allegedly involved in a "points game," in which he and other Republican lawmakers earned points for sleeping with women, with one point for doing so with a lobbyist, three points for a fellow legislator, six for a married fellow legislator, and so on.