“…most commonly carried out in a handful of countries including Iran, North Korea and the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan.
“releasing video of executions is most often associated with extremist militant groups like the Islamic State...”
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/u...
2 ?s why would anyone be honest about their sexuality after seeing all the trauma & torture lgbtq has gone through for, uhh idk, always?
And who, in their right minds interviews teenagers about their sexuality? Don't we have enough adults fckng around with children?
Young teenagers are less likely to identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual than a few years ago, according to a new analysis.
“It really does look like a free fall,” Jean Twenge, a professor of psychology, said. “But what’s causing it is unclear.”
Texas just made weed a felony after over 70% of voters voted to legalize it…
That's what happens when incarceration rates go down and for-profit prisons start to lose money!
Mad yet?! 😎✨
This is just a relentlessly horrific story.
It’s hard to adequately contextualize the moral desolation of this unfolding in the midst of a midterms against a ruling party helmed by inveterate rapists and rape apologists.
www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/congres...
WKRN: “A Utah school admin filed a federal lawsuit alleging she was pepper-sprayed, sedated, beaten, sexually assaulted by correctional officers inside Nashville Detention Center after an arrest last year… officers remain employed by sheriff, no criminal charges filed…” www.wkrn.com/news/local-n...
WATCH: As @GovBillLee, Trump, @marshablackburn , Brent Taylor etc. try to act like they saved Memphis with their invasion, MEMPHIS @mayorpaulyoung points out crime numbers were already dropping BEFORE the (un)safe Task Force got there.
(The task force has killed multiple people)
Thank you for coming forward.
We need more voices from inside the uniform standing shoulder-to-shoulder with us to reject this extremism, protect our democratic norms, and demand
accountability.
Trump administration refuses international election monitors for first time in over two decades
The decision not to invite observers from the OSCE puts the U.S. alongside Russia and Belarus, while the Justice Department prepares to deploy its own poll monitors.
Something unprecedented happened during my visit to the Gulf.
For the first time in 20 years in Congress, I was denied entry to U.S. military facilities and even meetings with military leaders.
An order from Hegseth - that applies to both parties - to hide the cost of the war.
From the beginning of the war in Iran, I've warned one reason that Trump wants such a war is to provoke a terrorist attack at home.
History is full of leaders - from Putin in Russia to Orban in Hungary - who have used foreign wars and real or manufactured threats to expand their authority.
White supremacist cops take a minority citizen, drive him out to the woods as a threat, and leave him there.
No, it's not Mississippi in the 1930s, why do you ask?
4/ Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was on break from work when agents chased and handcuffed him, then put him in their truck.
After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home.
Then they threw his ID out of the truck.
Without treatment, pneumonic plague is almost always fatal. However, the plague can be treated with antibiotics. With the pneumonic plague, beginning treatment within 24 hours of developing symptoms gives the best chance of survival.
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Chief District Judge William Campbell, Jr. ruled last week a Tennessee law that makes it a felony to “harbor” immigrants without legal status remains enforceable, dismissing a legal challenge brought by Lutheran churches. From @anitawadhwani.bsky.social.
Map of 23 suspicious deaths and suicides linked to the Epstein files after Simon Andriesz, a whistleblower tied to Howard Lutnick is found dead. Follow the connections. Search visually, name or by category bottom left "Dead".
embed.kumu.io/7c3609c5e4eb...@gailwaldby.bsky.social#epsteinfiles
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: In my lawsuit, the FBI has admitted to having NINE Epstein files redaction training videos. TWO of them instructed agents to flag files with Trump’s name for supervisory review. I will cover at NOON PT here: youtube.com/live/dYiQOhP...
CNN and CBS News are now under the control of the Ellison family.
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This is Alison, Cornell Class of 1994.
She saw and experienced how Cornell University has gone out of their way to support and protect gang rape fraternity culture FOR YEARS, just like many other schools continue to do today.
“For $45 you can start a school and charge $7000 per student — no background checks, they weren’t teachers — and taxpayers foot the bill… SCHOOL VOUCHERS ARE A SCAM.” @GovBillLee
(H/T @piper_for_missouri) Pro Publica’s expose: www.propublica.org/article/prop...
The congressional switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. Put it in your cell phone. Use it. If you're not calling at least once a week, you're not doing your part.