Not the Onion

JD Vance was booed and heckled with chants of “Free DC!” during a photo op with national guard troops at Union Station in Washington on Wednesday afternoon.

Handing out burgers to troops deployed last week by Donald Trump, at the station’s Shake Shack alongside the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, and White House deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller, Vance told soldiers “we appreciate everything you’re doing” and asserted: “We brought some law and order back.” Meanwhile, a crowd of demonstrators protested outside.

The crowd shouted slogans such as “Free DC!” and “From DC to Palestine, occupation is a crime.” Some also shouted expletives as the three men walked into Union Station and gathered at the restaurant, and continued as they tried to speak to reporters and eventually left.

cross-posted from: https://retrolemmy.com/post/23788541

[ old man Gen X noises ]

A Queens deli is stubbornly refusing to change its controversial name – even after over a year’s worth of complaints from Jewish New Yorkers who said it makes them feel unsafe.

The Gaza Deli and Grill on 48th Street in Woodside features painted slogans including “Save Gaza” and “Free Al Aqsa” – a phrase used as a call for Israel’s removal from Jerusalem – as well as images of a keffiyeh-clad woman and watermelon

“Seeing these messages on a neighborhood deli feels like a punch to the gut. It’s not just a mural – it’s a message. And to someone like me, it’s a reminder that even here, in the place I came to for peace, I’m still not safe,” Natalie Sanandaji told The Post.

"Israel is the only occupier that’s completely convinced of its own present ongoing victimhood" - Gideon Levy

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31769267

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/8189196

The bee apparently caused his heart attack

Anyways to the bee

1.2 billion dollar networth apparently

A B.C. man convicted on child pornography charges has been allowed to serve his sentence in the community, in part because of the “relatively modest” size of his collection, a judge has ruled.

“Although there is no strict mathematical relationship between the size of the collection and the length (or indeed type) of sentence, the size of a collection has often been held to be an aggravating factor,” Tam wrote.

Despite pleading guilty to the charges, Keenan maintained that he is not sexually attracted to children, and had only stumbled upon the child pornography in 2017 while “searching for other images such as sunsets and beaches,” according to the decision.

Keenan said was appalled by what he found, and decided to start a Tumblr blog to lure out paedophiles so he could report them to the site’s moderators in a kind of “undercover sting.”

The judge was not convinced.

Berlin (Quds News Network)- Jewish psychoanalyst and activist Iris Hefets was arrested today in Berlin. German police detained her over a protest sign that read “Jews Against Genocide ✡” — a sign they claimed resembled a “Hamas triangle” inside the Star of David, according to journalist James Jackson.

Journalist James Jackson, who spoke with Hefets, said she was detained because her Star of David included a triangle, which police claimed mimicked a “Hamas symbol”.

cross-posted from: https://lazysoci.al/post/27969382

Story from 2011

Ebrahim Moghisseh, who leads agricultural research programs in AEOI, said on Wednesday that Iran has been using various forms of nuclear irradiation to produce crops that are resistant to drought and have better yield potential compared to varieties used in traditional agricultural techniques.

Moghisseh said two cotton seed varieties developed by the AEOI, which he identified as Fakhr and Jahesh, have shown better performance in the farms where they have been planted in the past year.

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino said on Fox News Thursday morning that he is certain Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender, died by suicide while in federal custody — and there is video that supports it.

"There is nothing in the file at this point on the Epstein case — and there is going to be a disclosure on this coming shortly... there is video. That is something the public does not know," Bongino said in an interview on Fox & Friends.

Bongino clarified that the video in question does not show the "actual act" but proves that Epstein was the only person who came in or out of his cell on the night he died, on August 10, 2019.