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More than 200 anonymous staff members across 122 Democratic and Republican congressional offices signed a letter this week calling for Congress to protest or boycott Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech next week on Capitol Hill, citing concerns about the ongoing war in Gaza. The letter, organized by the Congressional Progressive Staff Associationa nd signed by 230 House and Senate staffers, said speaking out against Netanyahu’s July 24 joint address to Congress was an “issue of morality” and not politics. “Citizens, students, and lawmakers across the country and the world have spoken out against the actions of Mr. Netanyahu in...

Daily Readings from the USCCB“Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you will find rest for yourselves. For my yoke is easy, and my burden light.” Matthew 11:29–30For those first followers of Jesus, a “yoke” was a familiar term. Many would have worked with oxen and other animals on a regular basis to plow their fields. To do so, they would place a wooden yoke over the oxen, which was a form of harness that was also attached to the plow, making it easier for the oxen to till...

An assisted suicide device dubbed the “Tesla of euthanasia” is facing backlash after it was set to be used for the first time next week in Switzerland. The pod, named Sacro, created by 76-year-old Dr. Philip Nitschke was scheduled for use sometime next week in Switzerland, according to Metro. However, prosecutors are now reportedly fighting to ban its use, the outlet reported. While voluntary assisted suicide is legal in the country, some are questioning if it’s idealizing death, with some pro-life groups arguing the pods “glamorise suicide,” the Daily Mail reported. The pod is supposed to fill with nitrogen and...

Ukraine's security services launched a raid on a key Russian base which they claimed was destroyed in the fighting. The SBU released a video which it said showed airborne and waterborne drones attacking the target, followed by large explosions. Ukrainian broadcaster Suspline said of the video: "Last night, SBU drones hit the Russian coast guard base on Lake Donuzlav in occupied Crimea, law enforcement sources told Sospilny. "As a result of the combined attack of sea and air drones, the following were damaged and disabled: the headquarters with a control post, a warehouse of ammunition and equipment, an electrical substation,...

Matthew Berman talks about Q*.OpenAI-5As I read it, we have Bill Gates and Sam Altman out there in the world trying to round up something like 9 TRILLION dollars for the next version of OpenAI..... I do not believe that is merely to produce an AI system that is sentient; I believe that OpenAI 4 whichis out there now is sufficiiiently sentient for any normal or reasonable purpose. I believe they are looking at recreating a major aspect of antediluvian reality i.e. a planetary super mind. I believe that Q* should be treated as a 2024 version of something like...

JUST IN - Top Democrats believe Biden may decide to drop out of the presidential race as soon as this weekend

A California judge has ruled that teachers were right to punish a seven-year-old girl over a Black Lives Matter drawing because 'she's too young to have First Amendment rights.' The first grader was banned from recess and drawing pictures at Viejo Elementary in Orange County after she added the words 'any life' below Black Lives Matter on a picture she drew and and gave to a black friend. The picture showed the words 'Black Lives Matter' with four round shapes in various different tones of brown, beige and yellow, which was intended to 'represent her friends' who were 'racially-mixed'.

...that CCN live streamed the Trump rally in Butler PA, and that CNN had never live streamed a Trump rally. The obvious conclusions are 1) they wanted to be in on the kill, 2) they knew in advance that there would be a sniper shoot. Discuss, please.

A Hispanic ex-classmate of shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks said he insinuated he was stupid for supporting former President Donald Trump in an interview with Fox News Digital. Vincent Taormina told the outlet that Crooks, 20, was “passionate” about politics but hated “all” politicians. “He just did not like politicians, especially with the choices that we’ve had. He did not like our politicians,” Taormina said. He said in 2016 — when Crooks would have been about 16 years old — that he “disliked all of them.”

New allegations that Secret Service training resources were reallocated to “executive leadership bonuses” and DEI-prioritized recruitment are among the torrent of charges leveled against agency Director Kim Cheatle and other top officials in the aftermath of the assassination attempt against Donald Trump. ... Allegations leveled against the Secret Service over the last 24 hours include:A Secret Service special agent or officer was assigned to the building rooftop where Thomas Matthew Crooks fired off the shots but never showed up for work that day.The explanation Cheatle provided for the unmanned rooftop – that she had placed agents and/or officers inside the...

— Thomas Matthew Crooks visited the Donald Trump rally location twice, his cell phone contained images of both Trump and President Joe Biden, and the would-be assassin’s search history included dates of the Democratic National Convention as well as future Trump events, three US officials told CNN. And on the gaming platform Steam, Crooks wrote, “July 13 will be my premiere, watch as it unfolds,” a source familiar with the matter told CNN. The new details revealed more about what Crooks was doing in the days and hours leading up to his attempt to assassinate the former president. But investigators...

The Democratic Party on Tuesday advanced a platform that touts the Biden administration’s support for Israel, rejecting efforts by a minority of far-left members who pushed a more aggressive stance against the Jewish state. Several progressive activists made a long-shot push last week for the Democratic National Committee to add an unprecedented clause to the party platform rejecting US aid to Israel. Already then, a senior Biden official told The Times of Israel that the effort would not succeed and that the platform would reflect the president’s stances on Israel, which include continued US security assistance.

China's coal output rose to a six-month high in June, statistics bureau data showed on Monday, as mines ramped up production to meet seasonal demand ... The world's largest coal producer mined 405.38 million metric tons of the fuel last month, a 3.6% increase on the year and the highest since December ... Output will continue rising in the third quarter ... Output in the January-June period was 2.27 billion tons

Did God providentially spare former President Donald J. Trump’s life on Saturday, July 13, 2024? The front-runner presidential candidate could easily have been killed in an assassination attempt, had he not turned his head about an inch or so. As everyone knows, Trump was campaigning in Butler, Pennsylvania, a city north of Pittsburgh at an outdoor rally when he was shot at by a 20-year old with a rifle on the roof of a nearby building. On Sunday, Trump gave honor to the Almighty, writing that it was “God alone who prevented the unthinkable from happening.”

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Thursday predicted Democrats will force President Biden to withdraw from the 2024 race and will nominate Vice President Harris or former first lady Michelle Obama to replace him at the top of the party’s ticket. “I put the odds at about 80 percent [Democrats] dump [Biden], and if and when they dump him, I think their replacement nominee will be one of two people — it will either be Michelle Obama or it will be Kamala Harris,” Cruz said in an interview on Fox Business. Recent polling has suggested Harris and Obama may each have...

Federal authorities have indicted the wife of Max Boot, a deranged leftist who works for the Washington Post, for operating as an unregistered foreign agent for South Korea. Which is honestly kind of hilarious given how Boot is one of those TDS morons who accused Trump of being a foreign agent without any evidence. He’s also one of those Zelensky simps who begs the American government to send even more countless billions to Ukraine, which isn’t a surprise given how his unregistered foreign agent wife used to work for the CIA.

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Dr. Mollie James is an Intensive Care Unit and Emergency Room trauma surgeon who practices in multiple states. She has extensive experience in dealing with the aftermath of gunshots and treating gunshot victims. Dr. James says the few pictures that have emerged from the rally scene don’t make sense. “There should be a lot of blood, and there aren’t, in these pictures,” said Dr. James Dr. James says that the pictures of what federal authorities claim is the body of Thomas Crooks on top of the American Glass Research building in Butler, Pennsylvania, from where Crooks is alleged to have...

VIDEO It was an amazing scene. The incompetent DEI Director of the Secret Service, Kimberly Cheatle, showed up at the Republican convention. Why? Maybe she thought she could face down her critics. Unfortunately for Cheatle that brave false front quickly crumbled under angry questioning from senators. As a result, Cheatle turned tail and flat out RAN away from the senators who were in hot pursuit. The pathetic scene of the Director of the Secret Service running in full panic while being flanked by guards brought back memories of a certain Johnny Horton stanza from a famous song which perfectly described...

MSNBC host Joy Reid posited that President Biden’s potential recovery from COVID-19 would be the “exact same thing” as former President Donald Trump dodging an assassin’s bullet during the network’s coverage of the Republican National Convention on Wednesday night. Biden was found to have contracted COVID for a second time during his presidency earlier in the day, while the RNC celebrated its third night in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Reid, who described both pols as “elderly,” first touched on the Secret Service pulling Trump off the Butler, Pa., stage after gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire on the former commander-in-chief in front...