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Jilly_in_VA's JournalHead of Wisconsin's largest Islamic group arrested by ICE
The president of Wisconsin’s largest mosque was detained by federal immigration agents, drawing accusations Thursday from local officials and religious leaders that the arrest was motivated by his criticism of Israel.
Salah Sarsour, a Palestinian-born legal permanent resident of the United States, was taken into custody by nearly a dozen U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who surrounded his car on Monday in Milwaukee after he left his home, according to the Islamic Society of Milwaukee.
Supporters called Thursday for his immediate release. His attorneys said he was detained on the grounds that he is a foreign policy threat, a claim they say has no merit.
Instead, they believe Sarsour, 53, was targeted for speaking out against Israel and for a conviction as a minor by Israeli military courts, which have faced scrutiny over allegations of limited due process and high conviction rates of Palestinians. Israel rejects those claims. The offenses included allegedly throwing rocks at Israeli officers, according to attorney Munjed Ahmad.
“Our government should not be doing the bidding of a foreign government,” Ahmad said of Israel. “There’s no question in my mind is that this is to stifle the discourse on the Palestinian narrative.”
Attorneys said Sarsour, born in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, has no criminal record in the U.S., where he has lived for more than 30 years. They said the U.S. government has known about Sarsour’s conviction in Israel since he came to the U.S. in 1993.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/04/03/salah-sarsour/
Are we really doing Israel's dirty wi=ork? Is this guy a citizen?
Hegseth's Top Aide Spilled Jaw-Dropping Claim About Drunken Bender
A top aide to Pete Hegseth spread a rumor that the defense secretary’s drinking habits followed him to the Pentagon, a new report alleges.
Hegseth, whose ex-wife confided in the FBI that he “drinks more often than he doesn’t” and whose former Fox colleagues said he reeked of alcohol before going on air, promised to cut off all booze ahead of his Senate confirmation, which required a Vice President JD Vance tiebreaker.
That made Hegseth’s alleged drinking problem the perfect way to weed out leakers—at least in the eyes of Hegseth’s chief of staff, Ricky Buria, sources tell the New York Post.
Buria reportedly told several Pentagon staffers he and Hegseth donned disguises so they could go on a drunken bender last year, breaking the secretary’s vow of abstinence.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/hegseths-top-aide-spilled-jaw-dropping-claim-about-drunken-bender/
Of course Kegsbreath vehemently denies this and says it never happened.
How Roberts' retort sums up the case against Trump's birthright citizenship order
If there’s one line to take away from Wednesday’s Supreme Court hearing in the birthright citizenship case, it might be this: “It’s a new world. It’s the same Constitution.”
Those words were spoken by Chief Justice John Roberts, who I predict will be with — and will possibly lead — the majority of the court in rejecting President Donald Trump’s bid to single-handedly redefine that citizenship.
Roberts’ words came as a retort to an argument from Solicitor General John Sauer, who sought to defend Trump’s executive order in the face of the Constitution, the law and precedent that have long stood for a basic premise of American life: If you’re born here, you’re a citizen.
During Sauer’s opening remarks, the former Trump personal lawyer referred to “birth tourism” while complaining that “uncounted thousands of foreigners from potentially hostile nations have flocked to give birth in the United States in recent decades, creating a whole generation of American citizens abroad with no meaningful ties to the United States.”
Later in the hearing, Roberts returned to the subject, asking Sauer: “Do you have any information about how common that is, or how significant a problem it is?”
https://www.ms.now/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/birthright-citizenship-supreme-court-roberts-new-world-same-constitution
Seems you can't change the Constitution with an executive order after all, Shitler!
Russia's Primorsk oil terminal lost 40% of storage to drone attacks, satellite images show
Russia's Baltic Sea port of Primorsk, one of country's largest export gateways, lost at least 40% of its storage facilities in Ukrainian drone attacks last month, U.S. commercial satellite images seen by Reuters showed on Thursday.
Ukraine has stepped up attacks on Russian energy facilities in the past month, launching the heaviest drone strikes on the Baltic Sea ports during the more than four-year war.
At some point last month, around 40% of Russia's oil exporting capabilities were shut due to the attacks, closure of the Druzhba pipeline in Ukraine and seizure of Russia-linked tankers.
Satellite images from the end of March, supplied by U.S. spatial intelligence company Vantor, showed at least eight reservoirs with a capacity of 50,000 cubic metres each were damaged. That amounts to at least 40% of the port's total storage and may force the outlet to cut turnover accordingly, traders said.
The reservoirs play an important role in the logistics chain at the ports and their availability directly impacts the oil exports.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/russias-primorsk-oil-terminal-lost-40-storage-drone-attacks-satellite-images-2026-04-02/
How soon will they run out?
'They tried and tried for their son' Arizona couple allegedly killed by son filed several mental health petitions
Authorities are revealing new details in a shocking double homicide that left a longtime Peoria couple dead inside their home, allegedly at the hands of their own son.
According to court records, 29-year-old Jonathan Turk admitted to killing his parents, Scott and Tina Turk, during a 911 call Tuesday evening. Police say the attack happened around 6:30 p.m. at the family’s home in north Peoria near 83rd Avenue and Jomax Road.
Jonathan Turk made his initial court appearance on Wednesday, where he faces multiple counts of first-and second-degree murder.
Investigators say Jonathan Turk told officers he stabbed his father with a knife before going into another room and beating his mother with a hammer. During the investigation, Jonathan Turk allegedly told police he carried out the killings because his parents were trying to force him to take medication.
Neighbors described Scott and Tina Turk as a devoted couple who had been married for more than 30 years. Those who knew them said they were kind, welcoming, and well-known in the neighborhood for hosting annual Halloween celebrations outside their home.
Several neighbors, who declined to speak on camera, also said the couple had long struggled to help their son with mental health issues. One neighbor said, "They tried and tried for their son."
https://www.wbir.com/article/news/nation-world/peoria-couple-slain-by-son-filed-several-mental-health-petitions/507-9d3b50bc-498c-4147-9529-3fbd227f365d
Thanks to Reagan, it is impossible to get mental health help for a family member, and if you call 911, it is likely that cops will just shoot them dead.
Mass robotaxi malfunction halts traffic in Chinese city
A mass robotaxi outage in the Chinese city of Wuhan caused at least a hundred self-driving cars to stop mid-traffic, sparking renewed debate around the safety of driverless vehicles.
Local police said initial findings suggested a "system malfunction" caused multiple vehicles to stop in the middle of the road on Tuesday.
Videos on social media have documented the outage, with one appearing to show it resulting in a highway collision, although police said no injuries had been reported and passengers exited their vehicles safely.
Baidu did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
According to the police statement, posted on social media site Weibo, the cause of the incident is still under further investigation.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvge91r9j80o
Can you imagine this happening on the LA freeway, or the Beltway? I can, and no thank you very mucj!
Trump's lawyer faces pushback early on in Supreme Court hearing on birthright citizenship
Source: Associated Press
The Supreme Court is taking up one of the term’s most consequential cases: President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship, declaring that children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens.
An hour into the hearing, the lawyer for the Trump administration, Solicitor General D. John Sauer, is fielding skepticism from conservative and liberal justices alike.
Trump is in attendance, making him the first sitting president to attend oral arguments at the nation’s highest court.
The birthright citizenship order, which Trump signed on Jan. 20, 2025, the first day of his second term, is part of his Republican administration’s broad immigration crackdown.
Read more: https://apnews.com/live/supreme-court-birthright-citizenship-updates
Birthright citizenship has been "settled law" for 114 years and now he wants to change it to suit himself? What about all those Russian mommies he brought over and put up in fancy hotels in Florida so they could have their babies under the US flaq and then go back to Russia? I bet nobody asks him about THEM...but I would.
Soy what? 40,000lbs of spilled tofu leads to 'unforgettable' odor in Missouri town
A staggering 40,000lbs of extra-firm tofu was spilled in an accident near a small town in Missouri and left in the open for weeks, creating a smell that local officials called “unforgettable”.
The cleanup – dubbed the “Great Battle of the Jerome Tofu Monster” – began near the town of Jerome, in south-western Missouri, on 1 March, when a tractor-trailer vehicle with a cargo of tofu crashed off a local highway and plunged into a ravine.
No one was hurt, but blocks of tofu spilled out of the trailer. The entire cargo was then left to ripen and rot for three weeks while a dispute over insurance played out and the tofu spread into a local creek. The effect was a smell that horrified local officials assigned to clean up the mess.
“While the main threat has been contained, cleanup and remediation efforts are still ongoing downstream, where runoff and debris from the incident have created what authorities are cautiously calling a ‘tofu-affected area’,” said a statement from the Doolittle rural fire protection district.
Calling the catastrophe “the Jerome Tofu Monster”, the statement added: “The creature resisted capture with surprising strength – and a smell officials described as ‘unforgettable’.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/30/spilled-tofu-accident-missouri-town
EWWWWWWWW!
Texas house speaker directs committee to study annexing parts of New Mexico
The speaker of Texas’s house of representatives says he is entertaining the idea of expanding the state by annexing some New Mexico counties.
Dustin Burrows, who has been the chamber’s speaker since 2025, ordered a state legislative committee on 26 March to look into the legal and economic options to add “one or more contiguous counties” of New Mexico to the state of Texas.
The office of the New Mexico governor, Michelle Lujan Grisham, and some of her fellow state Democratic politicians summarily dismissed the idea, with Lujan Grisham’s office saying it is “not a serious proposal”.
Burrows set off the controversy by issuing an order to establish a new committee to study whether counties in the south-eastern part of New Mexico could be annexed.
For years, south-eastern New Mexico counties have pointed to political differences between themselves and the state’s capital, Democratic-led Santa Fe.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/30/texas-study-annexing-new-mexico
I don't think this is legal.
College Republicans director made racist and sexist remarks on live streams
Kai Schwemmer, the newly appointed College Republicans of America political director, has made racist, antisemitic, homophobic and sexist statements while espousing extremist rightwing views on abortion, a Guardian review of livestream recordings can reveal.
Schwemmer said he would accept a world in which slavery was legal if abortion was criminalised, describes himself as “very much an anti-universal suffrage guy” and accepts a supporter’s description of him as “our Mormon Nick Fuentes” – referring to the white nationalist influencer whose platform he streamed on for years.
The comments were made after Schwemmer’s return from a two-year Mormon mission to Argentina, a period he recently claimed had seen him undergo a “process of growth” that led him to abandon previous racist beliefs. Schwemmer had previously expressed extremist and bigoted views.
The streams, many of which are not publicly available but remain accessible behind a paywall on Schwemmer’s Gumroad page, also contain previously unreported material from his earlier broadcasts. In one, he walks a user through a sequence of antisemitic leading questions on the Omegle platform before directing her to Fuentes’s streaming site. In others, he claims gay men are “weaponizing” gyms “to give you Aids” and celebrates a DNA test he says proved “I’m 0% Jewish”.
The Guardian emailed detailed requests for comment to Schwemmer and the College Republicans of America.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/30/kai-schwemmer-college-republicans-livestream
Disgusting POS.
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