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Nobody disputes that Santa Clara District Attorney Jeff Rosen is a skilled and seasoned prosecutor.So it shocked the local Jewish community — even in this era of appalling antizionist bigotry — when Santa Clara Superior Court Judge Kelley Paul effectively decided Thursday that Rosen’s Jewish identity precluded him from fairly prosecuting people who spray-painted “Death to Israel” on a university wall.Paul, shamefully, removed Rosen from the case.In doing so, she applied a racist double standard neither she nor any other judge in the United States would have dared apply to any minority group but the Jewish people.
On Saturday, April 25, 2026, the world awoke to a nightmare that seasoned observers of the Sahel had been forecasting for years. Fighters from Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), the al-Qaeda-linked umbrella group operating across West Africa, launched a coordinated nationwide assault on Mali. Striking before dawn, they hit Bamako’s Modibo Keïta International Airport, the main military base at Kati, the home of Defense Minister Sadio Camara, and cities including Mopti, Gao, and Kidal. JNIM’s longtime tactical partners, the Tuareg separatists of the Azawad Liberation Front (FLA), simultaneously moved on northern strongholds, reportedly seizing much of Kidal and lowering the Malian flag.By midday, the U.S. Embassy had ordered citizens to shelter in place. The airport was closed and a three-day curfew announced. Russian Africa Corps mercenaries — who had replaced French and UN forces — were dragged into firefights alongside the Malian army. Mali Defence Minister Sadio Camara was killed in an attack on his residence. While government spokespeople insisted the situation was “under control,” social media flooded with images of jihadist fighters parading through captured military bases and FLA fighters raising their flag over the north. A Malian air force Mi-35 was reportedly shot down in Gao.Whether Bamako survives this offensive, falls in the coming days, or descends into a prolonged siege, one thing is now beyond dispute: the warnings about Mali were not exaggerated. They were, if anything, understated.Following the 2012 Tuareg rebellion and ensuing military coup, northern Mali quickly fell under the control of jihadist groups, most notably al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and its affiliates, who exploited weak governance and cross-border instability to impose Islamic sharia law. Christian life in these regions became untenable. A military government currently controls Mali, which has compounded the pressures on Christians and monitoring of church leaders and activities. The military government suspended political parties in 2025, which has increased fears of greater authoritarianism and instability.
The Dual Loyalty Libel Just Got Judicial Approval in CaliforniaThis is local for me, but it may be a harbinger of judicial bigotry to come (I hope I'll be proven wrong).
So...would a black prosecutor be barred from prosecuting alleged police brutality against black Americans?
Usually, hantavirus is spread by infected rodents through their urine or feces. It’s a rare strain, which is the good news. The bad news is that it has a 40 percent mortality rate. Who was patient zero? We’ve identified that person (via NYT):QuotePatient Zero in the cruise ship hantavirus outbreak has been identified as ornithologist Leo Schilperoord, whose passion for birds may have cost him his life.The 70-year-old man and his wife, Mirjam Schilperoord, 69, were on a five-month trip to South America. They first landed in Argentina on Nov. 27, and traveling through Chile, Uruguay and then back to Argentina in late March, where they went on a fateful birdwatching adventure....When the Schilperoords returned to Argentina on March 27, they visited a landfill four miles outside the city of Ushuaia.The spot, overrun with trash, is avoided like the plague by its residents, but serves as a pilgrimage point for birdwatchers from all over the world in search of a rare creature — the white-throated caracara, nicknamed Darwin’s caracara after famed evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin, the first to collect it.The Ushuaia landfill is where Argentinian authorities suspect the Dutch couple inhaled particles from the feces of long-tailed pygmy rice rats, which carry the feared Andes strain of the hantavirus — the only form known to transmit from human to human.
Patient Zero in the cruise ship hantavirus outbreak has been identified as ornithologist Leo Schilperoord, whose passion for birds may have cost him his life.The 70-year-old man and his wife, Mirjam Schilperoord, 69, were on a five-month trip to South America. They first landed in Argentina on Nov. 27, and traveling through Chile, Uruguay and then back to Argentina in late March, where they went on a fateful birdwatching adventure....When the Schilperoords returned to Argentina on March 27, they visited a landfill four miles outside the city of Ushuaia.The spot, overrun with trash, is avoided like the plague by its residents, but serves as a pilgrimage point for birdwatchers from all over the world in search of a rare creature — the white-throated caracara, nicknamed Darwin’s caracara after famed evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin, the first to collect it.The Ushuaia landfill is where Argentinian authorities suspect the Dutch couple inhaled particles from the feces of long-tailed pygmy rice rats, which carry the feared Andes strain of the hantavirus — the only form known to transmit from human to human.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Sunday suggested Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., may have violated his oath with comments he made to a news outlet following a classified briefing.Kelly told Margaret Brennan on Face the Nation that it is "shocking how deep we have gone into these magazines" when asked if the Pentagon has updated lawmakers on the Iran war's impact on U.S. weapons stockpiles. The senator told Brennan the Tomahawks, Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS), RIM-161 Standard Missile 3 (SM-3), Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) rounds and Patriot rounds used to defend the U.S. have been hit hard, adding that it will take years to replenish those stockpiles, which could affect a hypothetical U.S. conflict with China.In response, Hegseth questioned whether Kelly, a former Navy pilot, may have violated his oath and said the Pentagon's legal counsel will review his comments.
A group of medical experts has sounded the alarm over what they’ve described as President Donald Trump’s deteriorating health and warned he needs to be removed from being so close to the nuclear trigger.The three dozen medical professionals have different backgrounds and political leanings, including neurologists, psychiatrists, and other physicians with extensive experience diagnosing cognitive disorders and evaluating patients.
