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Discredited Conspiracy Theorist Dinesh D’Souza Raising Money to ‘Heal’ J6 Insurrectionists

Dinesh D'Souza is still claiming that his discredited "2000 Mules" film proved that the 2020 election was stolen -- this time to raise money for a group led by a violent insurrectionist www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

The State of Trump’s Prosperity Gospel Christian Nationalism - Word&Way This issue of A Public Witness explores the theology behind viewing the United States as a nation that God asks to perform miracles, as expressed in the State of the Union address on Tuesday.

"Even as he spoke for a record length, Trump didn’t actually make many religious comments. Some conservative Christians complained he didn’t mention abortion at all. When he did talk about faith, it was almost all in a moment when he honored the late MAGA political activist Charlie Kirk..."

Allegations of Sexual Abuse Emerge at Influential Bethel Church Heartbreaking allegations of sexual abuse at Bethel Church, a charismatic megachurch in Redding, California, has recently come to light. Bob Hartley, previously one of the core “prophets” at the Inter...

Allegations of Sexual Abuse Emerge at Influential Bethel Church

Dept. of Defense shoots down Customs and Border Protection drone near El Paso: Officials Ranking members of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure released a statement on the incident on Thursday.

What do you expect with all these unqualified white people getting promoted via Wingnut DEI

All, The following instructions pertain to the passing of SB 244 regarding gender reclassifications. I've attached the letter that was sent to the individuals who need to return to our office and have their credential updated with their gender at birth. A flag will show on record indicating SB244 NOTICE for anyone who has been sent a letter. The individuals will be charged as normal for their reissuance. Should these customers arrive at the office without an appointment you are to make certain to get them processed as soon as possible, getting them in and out of the office. When issuing these credentials, you MUST reach out to the DL Helpdesk at KDOR_Photostop@ks.gov with the individuals K# and name indicating SB 244 update. For your ISSUANCE NOTE please include the following information: "Subject"=REISSUED PER SB 244 "Note"=GENDER CHANGED FROM MALE TO FEMALE (or whatever the situation) - Along with regular credential issuance notes

Little scoop before publishing a full story on the situation later — I've obtained the email sent to all Kansas DMV employees by Kent Selk, Driver Services Manager for the Kansas Department of Revenue on how to handle the compulsory gender marker change for trans people.

Full text of Selk's note:

US military used laser to take down Border Protection drone, lawmakers say Members of Congress say the U.S. military used a laser to shoot down a Customs and Border Protection drone.

“The U.S. military used a laser to shoot down a ‘seemingly threatening’ drone flying near the U.S.-Mexico border. It turned out the drone belonged to Customs and Border Protection, lawmakers said.”

'I'm heartbroken': Trans Kansans struggle with reality as driver’s licenses are invalidated The Kansas Department of Revenue this week sent a letter to Kansans affected by a new law that requires the gender marker on a driver’s license to match a person’s sex at birth.

Trans Kansans received a letter this week stating that if they hadn't complied with a law requiring the gender marker on their driver’s license to match their sex at birth that their licenses are “invalid immediately."

From @kansasreflector.com:

In Asheville’s Elections, a View into How North Carolina Is Constraining Local Officials In liberal Buncombe County, elected officials have watched the state shrink their powers over detention and immigration. Now that looms large over the March race for district attorney.

North Carolina laws have led to a ballooning jail population and increased transfers to ICE custody. In the liberal enclave of Asheville, state laws are restricting how much power local officials have to counter these trends.

How far are we from finding exomoons and exorings? Although astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets, the number of confirmed exomoons—and exorings—is still zero. But that may soon change

"The answer, so common with astronomy, is maybe. Astronomers have found several exomoon candidates already. We can’t see them directly—they’re too faint and too close to their parent planets to resolve—but their presence can be inferred."

A Smashing New Proposal About Saturn's History Might Explain Its Iconic Rings and Some of Its Odd Moons A crash involving the planet’s largest moon, Titan, and a hypothetical moon may have triggered a curious sequence of events

A Smashing New Proposal About Saturn’s History Might Explain Its Iconic Rings and Some of Its Odd Moons

At L.A. County’s largest Black-owned farm, healing grows from the ground up At Bloom Ranch, Dr. Bill Releford is reclaiming land, food and history as tools of healing.

At L.A. County's largest Black-owned farm, healing grows from the ground up

The Mind-Numbing, Soul-Crushing Boredom of Parenthood When I became a father, I was forced to reckon with the terrible emotion that consumed my days.

“That I loved my daughter was never in doubt. My problem was that I didn’t much like being a father,” Daniel Smith writes. “From a life of freedom and agency I had entered a life of white-noise machines, parenting manuals, and fatigue.”

How Minneapolis Fought ICE With Dildos A sex toy has become a symbol of resistance in Minnesota and beyond.

How Minneapolis Fought ICE With Dildos

Judge Bryan in Minnesota has scheduled a combined contempt hearing in morethan two dozen immigration cases for what he says has been widespread defiance of his orders to ensure released detainees are given their confiscated property. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Kansas immediately revokes transgender residents’ driver’s licenses The Kansas Division of Vehicles sent a letter to affected people on Monday.

NEWS: The cruelty here is gobsmacking.

www.advocate.com/politics/sta...

You kinda lose the benefit of the doubt that you're just a critic of Israel and Zionism when you parrot the antisemitic rhetoric of groypers.

Agents don’t just impersonate local law enforcement, they also disguise themselves as members of other local and federal agencies. While the practice is technically legal under federal law, many immigration experts feel it’s unclear if this allowance means that ICE agents can pretend to be local officers. ICE agents are allowed to use ruses to gain access to immigrants but there’s still some uncertainty over whether or not agents are allowed to impersonate local law enforcement. According to their training, while they cannot state that they are with a specific local police force, they are allowed to identify themselves as “police” – which, of course, might lead suspects to believe they are with the NYPD – or “federal officers.”

New— A Columbia source tells me internally they’ve been told DHS officers presented themselves as “police,” but not NYPD specifically, which has obviously created public confusion.

This might be, at least according to this 2020 story, technically allowed: www.cityandstateny.com/policy/2020/...

Acid Blues (Slight Return) - The American Scholar The music of Jimi Hendrix continues to strike a chord

"In the new millennium, we’ve come to see Hendrix as a braid-weaving common denominator: Western, African, Native American, urban and cosmic, outlaw and citizen, radical and patriot, combative and peace loving. He was also bluesy, metallic, pop, avant-garde."

The woman who quietly changed the face of the civil rights movement Known as the “godmother of civil rights,” Dorothy Height fought not just for racial justice but for women’s equality.

The woman who quietly changed the face of the civil rights movement

E-Verify requirements draw business pushback in some Republican states Pressured by businesses on the importance of immigrant labor, some Republican states are backing off plans to require all employers to check for legal employment status before hiring workers.State…

Dairy farms in Idaho say they depend on immigrant workers without legal work authorization and oppose mandates to check legal status with the federal E-Verify system.

via @stateline.org

The Nation’s Largest Public Utility Is Going Back to Coal - Truthdig The Tennessee Valley Authority once prided itself on political independence. Data center demand and political pressure have it changing course from clean energy.

The nation's largest public utility just voted to go back to coal. Trump appointees control the board. Renewable energy is out. Data centers are in.

Scientists may have just solved one of the strangest mysteries of Greenland’s ice sheet Below the surface, Greenland’s ice appears to be churning up, a process one scientist described as akin to a “boiling pot of pasta”

“We typically think of ice as a solid material, so the discovery that parts of the Greenland ice sheet actually undergo thermal convection, resembling a boiling pot of pasta, is as wild as it is fascinating."

One of the World’s Longest Living Icebergs Isn’t Just Melting – It’s Turning Blue Learn how the 40-year journey of a “megaberg” is about to come to an end in the Southern Ocean’s iceberg graveyard.

One of the World’s Longest Living Icebergs Isn’t Just Melting – It’s Turning Blue

Antarctica’s Mineral Riches Exposed as Climate Warms Mining is banned on the frozen continent. But new research suggests that could change as ice melts and land and valuable minerals are exposed.

Mining is banned on Antarctica. But new research suggests that could change as ice melts and land containing valuable deposits of iron, gold and other valuable minerals is exposed.

World’s largest coral colony found—it’s the size of a football field

Citizen scientists have discovered the world’s largest coral colony, stretching as long as a football field, in Australia.

Kristi Noem Repeatedly Claimed ICE Deported a Cannibal. It Was “Completely Made Up.” Law enforcement sources told The Intercept that Noem’s tale about a cannibal was a fabrication.

“The false story about a supposed cannibal shows that a willingness to deceive the American public began long before Minneapolis."

White supremacist group gathers in Hamilton again, community leaders call on city and police to do something | CBC News Hamilton's mayor and anti-racism advocates are among those condemning a white supremacist group's demonstration on the weekend outside city hall.

White supremacist group gathers again in Hamilton, community leaders call on city and police to do something

MAGA Eats Itself Alive Ahead of Candace Owens’ Erika Kirk Expose The “Bride of Charlie” series just might be the tipping point in a long-simmering feud.

The conservative movement that propelled Trump to victory is tearing itself apart with claims of “satanic” influence and paid smear campaigns over an upcoming “investigative series.”

Records: Texan killed by ICE months before Minneapolis woman The involvement of federal immigration agents in the fatal shooting of Ruben Ray Martinez on South Padre Island in March had not been disclosed in initial reports.

Texan shot dead by ICE agent months before killings in Minneapolis, records show

Sean Feucht, Muslim Prayer, And A Case Study In Christian Nationalism Christian nationalist Sean Feucht, who has held multiple Christian worship events in Times Square, is outraged that Muslims were allowed to gather in Times Square to pray.

“Feucht's outrage perfectly demonstrates the central tenet of the Christian nationalist worldview, which is that only Christians should be allowed to exercise their faith in public and influence society, culture, or politics.”