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Breaking News / Re: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 1/2
« Last post by SVPete on March 25, 2026, 05:46:07 PM »
UNRWA About to Collapse?

https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/03/25/unrwa-about-to-collapse-n3813229

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According to the outgoing CEO of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for the Palestinian People, Philippe Lazzarini, the UNRWA is on the verge of collapse.
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It's about damn time. The UNRWA may not be quite as big a sponsor of terrorism as Iran, but it sure is in spitting distance.

The UNRWA is unique; it is the only UN agency dedicated to servicing one group of "refugees," and contrary to your expectations, it does so in many countries throughout the Middle East. Every other group of displaced people is aided by the UN High Commission for Refugees.

Why this unique status? It is through UNRWA that the whole concept of "Palestinians" was created and sustained, and through which the terrorist infrastructure that has maintained the Israel-Palestinian conflict for generation after generation. It exists primarily to keep the conflict going, both for ideological and pecuniary reasons.
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Far from being an aid agency, it teaches terrorists, harbors them in its ranks, allows them to communicate freely and under the auspices of the United Nations, and it helps fund the terrorist infrastructure that has kept the Middle East unstable for decades.

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Hamas survivor Mia Schem has revealed the horrifying truth about the UN's role in Gaza.

She exposes how UNRWA employees, who are Hamas members, were directly involved in her captivity and the broader terror: Hamas moved her in ambulances, hid her in UN facilities, and sheltered in hospitals and schools.

UNRWA needs to be buried impaled with a few dozen skewers of garlic and the coffin filled with lard.
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Breaking News / Re: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 1/2
« Last post by SVPete on March 25, 2026, 05:43:37 PM »
Eighth Circuit backs Trump on alien detention [With Comments]

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/03/8th-circuit-rules-for-trump-on-habeas-corpus.php

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The case originated out of the Minnesota federal district. It was one of many such cases seeking the release of one or more illegal aliens detained by ICE.

The 2-1 decision by the Eighth Circuit can be read here.

The case originated in August 2025 and is captioned Joaquin Herrera Avila v. Bondi. The appeals court reversed the district court judge’s decision to order the release of the illegal alien from ICE custody.

Since the beginning of 2026, more than 1,100 such habeas cases have been filed in Minnesota alone.
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JOHN adds: I believe this means that all of the hundreds of orders issued in Minnesota by Democratic Party judges, ordering the release of illegal aliens in response to habeas corpus petitions, were wrong. It also means that the judges who harassed and threatened to jail lawyers in the U.S. Attorney’s Office were wrong. As were the judges who held hearings over missing shoelaces and the like. All wrong, all reversed.

So President Trump, Pam Bondi, the Department of Justice, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, and U.S. Attorney Dan Rosen have been, as I read the 8th Circuit opinion, fully vindicated. Perhaps apologies will be forthcoming from the Democratic Party judges who have now been reversed.

I think it a near certainty the there will be an appeal for an en banc hearing, and if there is, regardless of the decision it will be appealed to the USSC.

MM should be whinging about this decision.
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Remember when the planes pretended to hit the World Trade Center and Pentagon?
Remember when the thousand of Jews pretended to be killed on October 7th?
Remember when the millions of Jews pretended to die in the Holocaust?
Remember when the millions more pretended to die of starvation in the Holodomor?
Remember when we pretended to go to the moon?
Remember when Charlie Kirk pretended to be assassinated?
Remember when the Japanese pretended to attack Pearl Harbor?

Has any member of DU tried recreating the assassination attempt using a slingshot or some such thing to "disprove" the official account?
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The DUmpster / Re: ICEstapo removed the word HUMANE ...
« Last post by DLR Pyro on March 25, 2026, 05:16:26 PM »
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prompt & faithful execution

I'm surprised this phrase didn't trigger any of them...
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The DUmpster / Re: ICEstapo removed the word HUMANE ...
« Last post by CC27 on March 25, 2026, 02:30:22 PM »
It won't matter to the DUmmies, they'd rather live in their crafted fantasy world. That idiotic and misleading post probably has 150 recs for the "greatest page".

Stupid forever
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The DUmpster / Re: ICEstapo removed the word HUMANE ...
« Last post by Ralph Wiggum on March 25, 2026, 02:28:59 PM »
DUmmie lying again?

It won't matter to the DUmmies, they'd rather live in their crafted fantasy world. That idiotic and misleading post probably has 150 recs for the "greatest page".
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General Discussion / Re: Democrat treason and sedition
« Last post by SSG Snuggle Bunny on March 25, 2026, 01:07:11 PM »
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Fishing expedition: Docs expose expansive FBI surveillance of Trump allies, possible illegality

Newly-disclosed records show that the FBI twice subpoenaed future Director Kash Patel's personal data while he was a private citizen in a probe that swept up hundreds of Trump allies, including then-future Chief of Staff Susie Wiles.


Newly released records in the Senate investigation into the weaponization of government raise questions about whether the FBI went on a fishing expedition targeting Trump advisors who were never charged with crimes and whether Special Counsel Jack Smith's prior testimony to Congress was truthful.

The documents were made public by Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, before a Senate Judiciary Committee subcommittee hearing into alleged abuses by the Biden-era FBI and Justice Department in their investigations into then ex-president Donald Trump before and during the 2024 presidential election during its probe code-named "Arctic Frost." Just the News previously reported that Biden's FBI paid anti-Trump 'Sedition Hunters' as informants in the Arctic Frost probes.

"If Watergate taught us anything, it is that even a single abuse of power carried out by a handful of individuals can shake the foundations of our Republic," said Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Tex., Chairman of the Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights.

"What we confront today, the Biden administration's Arctic Frost scheme, is not a single act," he continued in his opening remarks. "​​It is a modern Watergate trading a break-in at one office for a digital sweep into approximately 100,000 private communications, more than a dozen senators and 1000s of individuals lives."

Cruz said that ultimately, "just like Watergate," the judges, FBI and Justice Department officials involved should be "investigated, tried, impeached, and brought to justice."


https://justthenews.com/government/congress/fishing-expedition-new-docs-lay-bare-expansive-fbi-surveillance-targeting-trump
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California governor debate abruptly canceled amid controversy over who was invited to attend

https://www.ocregister.com/2026/03/24/california-governor-debate-abruptly-canceled-amid-controversy-over-who-was-invited-to-attend/

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A planned California gubernatorial debate for Tuesday night was abruptly canceled less than 24 hours before the event, amid controversy that no candidates of color were among those invited to participate.

In a statement released late Monday night, a USC spokesperson said it will “look for other opportunities to educate voters on the candidates and issues.” But the debate planned with ABC for Tuesday evening was nixed.

“USC vigorously defends the independence, objectivity and integrity of USC professor Christian Grose, whose data-driven candidate viability formula is based on extensive research and enjoys broad academic support,” said Beth Shuster, vice president of content strategy for USC.

“At the same time, we recognize that concerns about the selection criteria for tomorrow’s gubernatorial debate have created a significant distraction from the issues that matter to voters,” said Shuster, adding that USC and KABC Channel 7, the television partner of the debate, could not “reach an agreement on expanding the number of candidates.”
... The six candidates invited to participate were Republicans Chad Bianco and Steve Hilton and Democrats Matt Mahan, Katie Porter, Tom Steyer and Eric Swalwell.

These top six candidates were picked based on a formula created by Grose, a political science professor.

Polling percentage and fundraising were used to determine a candidate’s viability formula, according to the methodology. The polling percentage was determined by the most recent Public Policy Institute of California survey, and the fundraising component took the total amount raised divided by the number of days a candidate was in the race. Polling, though, was weighted more than fundraising because that “is a snapshot measure of actual voters’ opinions,” the methodology said.
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The DUmpster / Re: ICEstapo removed the word HUMANE ...
« Last post by SVPete on March 25, 2026, 12:01:46 PM »

Not to be that guy, but you cited 11064.3 (July 14, 2022), the most recent directive is 11064.4 (July 2, 2025); and the word "humane" was removed.

https://www.ice.gov/doclib/foia/policy/11064.4.pdf

My question is: So what?

"Humane" was being exploited to mean the least little inconvenience and hurt feeling in order to keep illegals in the US.

 :cheersmate: I missed, in the meme, that there was a new, reworded, directive. Reading further down, in version .3 and .4, the following provisions pretty much incorporate the meaning of and give  actions that embody "humane":

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...  ICE personnel should
remain cognizant of the impact enforcement actions may have on a minor child(ren). This
Directive provides guidance regarding the detention and removal of alien parents and
legal guardians of a minor child(ren), to include those who have a direct interest in family
court or child welfare proceedings in the United States. ...
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It is ICE policy to ensure that the agency s enforcement actions do not
unnecessarily infringe upon the legal parental or guardianship rights and obligations of
Covered Individuals. ICE will continue to ...  facilitate required participation in family cou1t, child
welfare, or guardianship proceedings, and communication with child welfare services and
programs, where feasible, by detained Covered Individuals; follow visitation procedures
in detention facilities; ...

Sections 4.3, 4.5, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, and 5.7 excruciatingly detail how illegals' cases and handling is the be carried out properly and respectfully. So, yeah, I was wrong in not noticing that .3 had been superseded. That said, the provisions of the directive are humane and respectful, making the DU OP meme an example of lying by omission.
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General Discussion / Who Was Cesar Chavez—and Who Will He Become?
« Last post by SVPete on March 25, 2026, 11:41:38 AM »
Who Was Cesar Chavez—and Who Will He Become?

https://victorhanson.com/who-was-cesar-chavez-and-who-will-he-become/

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Cesar Chavez, founder of the United Farm Workers, eventually became the symbolic leader of the entire Mexican American community of the 1960s and 1970s. Indeed, he was eventually enshrined in the pantheon of modern leftist activists and civil rights leaders alongside Saul Alinsky, Martin Luther King Jr., and Betty Friedan. His Chavez Foundation today emphasizes Chavez’s saintlike status as “a genuinely religious and spiritual figure.” His Tehachapi redoubt remains a national monument.

In public, Chavez stressed nonstop his common-man roots, his strong Catholicism, and his devotion to wife and family, and thereby turned the struggle to provide a livable wage and humane working conditions for farm workers into a broader civil rights movement—led by the Christlike martyr Cesar Chavez himself. He carefully constructed an image of the long-suffering moralist, at odds with greedy capitalist “growers,” whom Chavez often publicly said he loathed.
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In 1971, as a bumbling freshman farm kid entering UC Santa Cruz, I can remember being confronted my first day on campus by screaming students outside my dorm door for bringing to my new room a tiny box of grapes I picked on our small 120-acre farm.

Trying to explain to furious (mostly) wealthy white kids from Los Angeles that family raisin farming had little to do with the labor fireworks over table-grape production in Delano was a waste of time. ...

Yet even then, there were always elements of the mythical Chavez that did not quite ring true. The supposedly nonviolent Chavez sent his toughs down to the southern border to form a “wet line” to stop and sometimes assault illegal aliens—in a way that would make ICE today look tame. ...

Rumors in small farming towns swirled—and were tossed off as “grower” lies—that he was a serial adulterer with a string of female liaisons, an image at odds with his carefully cultivated shy and introspective persona.
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His top aide, the now-95-year-old but once fiery Dolores Huerta, has just revealed she was raped in a grape field by her boss over a half-century ago. And she was coerced into sex on another occasion, along with being sexually and emotionally abused by Chavez. Two of her own children were fathered by Chavez—a secret kept for over sixty years.

Yet the most disturbing revelations were that Chavez sexually molested and groomed at least two small girls, both reportedly during their preteen and underage teenage years. Some of his victims are now in their sixties. What was once whispered is now a disturbing confirmation of the dark side of the so-called humanist Chavez and the trauma he inflicted on the most innocent and vulnerable.
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So the embarrassed Left has gone into hyperdrive to separate from its fallen hero, rather than seeking to defend him. Why?

The disclosures did not come from far-right conspiracy theorists. The charges arose from among his closest and most intimate union associates, who were no longer willing to remain silent and perpetuate the decades-long myth. And their stories surfaced initially only from the investigative reporting of the left-wing New York Times.
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So, the Left is on the horns of a dilemma. It was one thing to erase a liberal jurist like Earl Warren or a progressive president like Woodrow Wilson, given that they were white guys whose alleged sins came from their “privilege” as white males.

But what does the Left do in these cases of intersectional conflicts of interest, when a noble male of color is accused of violating noble women of color, and there is not a white male oppressor to be found amid this sordid mess?

IMO, this should not be an, "Oh crap! What do we do now?!" moment. Acknowledging that an influential person turned out to have clay feet, legs, and genitalia is only complicated or difficult if you've made that person some sort of pedestaled idol. Libs and Progs have done that, though they have plenty of experience in circumlocution about idols like JFK, RFK, MLK Jr., and Teddy-the-Snorkel.
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