This morning at the reflecting pool

🚨🇺🇸 SCANDAL: The Southern Poverty Law Center spent years monitoring hate groups, but one of its top officials was sleeping with the enemy. A shocking federal indictment reveals a 58-year-old "fascism expert" allegedly funneled $1.2 million in donor money to her neo-Nazi lover. Heidi Beirich got unmasked for sharing a house and joint bank accounts with an informant from the extremist group National Alliance. So THAT'S how she became such an expert 😂 Source: NY Post / Writer: Michael

The UFC is doing a very clever thing: they have given each fighter an honor guard that includes a medal of honor recipient, which means every service member must salute as the fighter walks past

Two helicopters collided over Rio de Janeiro on Sunday morning and crashed in the city’s western zone, killing all six people aboard, firefighters said. Police said that American singer and comedian Oliver Tree was on the list of passengers handed to aviation authorities, but have not been able to identify the bodies of those killed in the crash. cnn.it/4vONJkq

New dashcam video shows a police officer being shot by a fellow cop in what their chief described as a “horseplay” incident in Pasadena, California.

happy pride! a bunch of cops in riot gear just showed up to the gayborhood in riot gear swiveling their batons saying “party’s over” and “if you don’t leave there will be no mercy”!! they have everyone on 13th street kettled!!! it was terrifying and horrible

New Jersey governor links rising tension around immigrant detention center to out-of-state troublemakers reut.rs/4o1HzuD reut.rs/4o1HzuD

Gun owners watching Ríhanna Kelver’s case should look past her and at the reasoning being used to condemn her, because that reasoning travels. The facts are on video. A man shoved her to the ground. She drew her pistol, racked it so they would hear it, and pointed it at the man who had just attacked her. She never fired and kept the safety on. The man who shoved her first was never charged. She was, with two felonies and up to fifteen years. Kelver is not the careless stranger her critics imagine. She grew up around guns and took hunter and firearm safety courses. She was armed that night because of a stalking situation serious enough that the man had already been thrown out of her workplace. That is the responsible carrier the gun community claims to defend. Even the law she’s charged under protects her. Wyoming only makes drawing a weapon a crime when it is not “reasonably necessary in defense of his person.” Yet many of the people demanding her conviction are not arguing the facts. They are arguing that someone like her had no business being armed at all. The transphobia is doing the work the evidence can’t. That is what gun owners should sit with. Once a community accepts that a self-defense right can be revoked because the defender is the wrong kind of person, the standard stops being what you did when attacked. It becomes whether the people judging you approve of you. That logic will not stay aimed at trans women in Wyoming. Gun owners are a despised minority in plenty of places, and the same reasoning can be turned on a rancher or a concealed carrier just as easily. Transphobes need to get a grip and see this for the trap that it is. A right that only protects who you like is not a right. It is a permission slip, and permission slips can be revoked.

Israeli settlement council admits to systemic ritual sexual abuse of children following bombshell media investigation —— The Gush Etzion Regional Council in the occupied West Bank has issued an unprecedented public admission acknowledging severe, multi-participant ritualistic sexual abuse within the settler community, which involved the gang-rape of children. The official statement marks a dramatic reversal for the settlement’s leadership, which had spent years systematically denying and dismissing allegations of sadistic abuse. The official acknowledgment follows a damning investigative report by journalist Roni Singer on Israel's Kan 11 channel, which aired identical testimonies from five independent victims detailing organized, ritualistic assaults. Confronted with recorded evidence and professional corroboration, the council released a statement denouncing the perpetrators and describing the uncovered acts as "pure evil and a moral distortion." In an effort to manage the immense public fallout, the settler council published crisis hotline numbers and urged further victims to come forward. The media exposure and subsequent admission are expected to force Israeli police to reopen previously shelved complaints and expand criminal investigations into what is emerging as one of the most organized abuse scandals inside the settlement enterprise.

If you want to hold power in South Carolina, you should be from America. We proposed a joint resolution to ban foreign-born elected officials - requiring natural born citizenship for Governor, legislators, judges, and every statewide officer in South Carolina. nancymace.org/natural-born-c…

🇺🇸 This mother is calling her own mixed-race son a n*gger... wait... what?! She's the Nurse Director at the University of Toledo Medical Center and has had multiple complaints for discriminating against Black employees. You can't make this up

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