Guantanamo’s oldest prisoner to be released after 16 years without charge

Guantanamo’s oldest prisoner to be released after 16 years without charge

Saifullah Paracha, the oldest prisoner at Guantanamo Bay, will be released after more than 16 years in custody, his lawyer has said.

The 73-year-old from Pakistan has been held on suspicion of ties to al-Qaeda but never charged with a crime.

The Grime of the Century. - Dan Rather

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• Top US general warns of greater destabilization amid Israel-Palestinian violence
• White House defends behind-the-scenes approach to Israel-Hamas conflict
• Feds are now looking into Rudy Giuliani's dealings with Romania: report
• Giuliani Defends His Call For 'Trial By Combat' on Jan 6 as 'Clearly Hyperbolic' in Response to Capitol Riot Lawsuit
• QAnon Shaman's lawyer: Capitol rioters are 'short-bus people' manipulated by worst 'propaganda since Hitler'
• Officers won't be charged in fatal shooting of Andrew Brown Jr., district attorney says

‘The Onion’ Calls On Israel To Bomb Our Offices In Case Any Hamas Agents Hiding Out There 

 

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy Is Against Investigating Jan 6 Capitol Riot Probably Because He Has Something To Hide.
A day before the House is expected to vote on bipartisan legislation that would form a 9/11-style commission to investigate the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riot, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has come out against it.

Safe to say that Trump is to Kevin McCarthy what Jim Henson was to Kermit the Frog. - Jeremy Newberger

 

A year ago my coworker said he "prayed a hedge of protection" around all of us and God told him we wouldn't get COVID. Tonight, he died from COVID. - Shannan Martin tweet

Republican Shenanigans

• Andrew Giuliani Announces Bid for New York Governor By Comparing Cuomo Challenge to 'Ali vs Frazier'
• Brianna Keilar Calls Out Evangelical 'Disinformation' of Covid Vaccines and Election Lies in Tense CNN Debate With Franklin Graham
• Steve Doocy Strongly Encourages Fox & Friends Viewers to Take Covid Vaccine: 'When You Have the Chance, Get the Shot'
• Fox’s Will Cain Declares US ‘On the Verge of East German-Style Show Me Your Papers’ With Vaccine Mandates
• Joe Rogan Says 'Straight White Men' Will be Silenced if They Don't Fight Wokeness
• Eric Trump buys $3.2M home near father's golf club in Florida
• Retired GOP representative: I won't miss the circus, but I might miss some of the clowns
• Matt Gaetz might be doomed in the wake of Joel Greenberg's plea deal

The guy who grabbed us by our pussies appointed 3 Supreme Court justices who will regulate us by our pussies.

But her emails, right? - Lindy Li

 

Oh, Goody! Arizona GOP Election Official Calls Audit A Sham
A Republican official tasked with maintaining files on 2.6 million registered voters in Maricopa County, Arizona tore into Donald Trump’s big lie and the sham election audit being conducted in his county.

Trump Claims Arizona Audit Uncovered Widespread Math. - Andy Borowitz

 

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Even though I am fully vaccinated I will continue to wear a mask, not because I don't trust the CDC, but because I don't trust Republicans. - Middle Age Riot

Rock The Voter News

• Pelosi slams GOP for 'cowardice' over Jan. 6 commission
• Texas Democratic chair says party would 'welcome' McConaughey governor run
• De Blasio Hits Cuomo Over $5 Million Book Deal: It Was 'State-Sponsored Literature'
• Obama: I asked about aliens, was told no

Reminder: Republicans Are Locked & Loaded

Democrats’ 2020 down-ballot disappointments are already coming back to haunt them.

Despite President Joe Biden carrying New Hampshire in a runaway, Republicans surged in other races to flip both chambers of the state legislature. Now, the Granite State GOP is openly plotting the ouster of Rep. Chris Pappas (D-N.H.), experimenting with new maps that pack his district with red towns and shove blue pockets into the seat next door.

Your reminder that Congress has already changed the size of the Supreme Court seven times before.

This is not radical. It’s essential. Expand the court. - Robert Reich

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Business/Tech News

• White House: Biden is invested in electric vehicles because that's the future of the auto industry
• Study shows nearly 100 percent develop COVID-19 antibodies after second shot
• Fauci: COVID-19 vaccines effective against Indian variant
• Ohio reports higher vaccination rate after announcing lottery for shots

The FBI just announced that you no longer have to wear a mask while robbing a bank. - Marie Connor

 

Covid Patients Being Sued By Hospital Chain. Yay USA Healthcare!
Community Health Systems (CHS), one of the largest hospital chains in the U.S., has filed tens of thousands of lawsuits against its patients in the past year, even as many other hospitals have cut down on suits due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Good writing is a delight to those who read it and a mystery to those who write it. - Stephen King

 

 

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Odd News

• Leonardo DiCaprio is giving $43 million to restore the Galápagos Islands
• Arrest warrant issued for man in theft of Alabama Confederate monument
• Florida woman crashed birthday party, raped teen
• 111-year-old Australian recommends eating chicken brains
• Selfie-taking cyclist wipes out in background of live news broadcast

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A beehive filled with honey glowing in the sunlight.

Peace.

Maricopa County supervisors holding meeting Monday to refute election auditors' claims

Maricopa County supervisors holding meeting Monday to refute election auditors' claims

The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors has scheduled a meeting Monday afternoon to address questions raised by state Senate President Karen Fann tied to the Senate-ordered audit of Maricopa County's November election tally.

So Republicans balk at Biden’s infrastructure plan but happily agree to Trump’s proposal to sell them the Brooklyn Bridge. - Andy Borowitz

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• Israel kills 197 Palestinians, including 92 women, children
• Biden approves $735M weapons sale to Israel: report
• Blinken signals no immediate US press for Mideast cease-fire
• Thousands of troops working undercover as part of Pentagon's 'secret army': Report
• Trump Ordered Massive Military Withdrawal Just After Losing Election, According to New Axios Report
• New law makes inmates choose electric chair or firing squad
• White House to send US-authorized vaccines overseas for first time

The dividing line will not be Masons and Dixons, but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other. - Ulysses S. Grant

 

 

Dear God, This Is Disturbing About The Secret Service and Obama. SS Has KKK In It?

JIM AXELROD: From 2009 to 2014, Wackrow served on the details protecting President and Mrs. Obama, which gives him insight into another problem plaguing the Secret Service that more money can't address. A culture lacking transparency and accountability. On November 11, 2011 a man fired a rifle at the White House, striking the building seven times. The Obamas weren't home, but their daughters were. Despite agents reporting gunfire, Leonnig writes they were told by superiors to stand down. Secret Service leadership initially told no one, not their agents, not the public, not even President and Mrs. Obama.

JONATHAN WACKROW: Thankfully, didn't have a tragic outcome. But afterwards, nothing. There was no, hey, let's get everybody together and let's review what happened.

The CDC messed up the mask thing, but seriously anything short of telling us to drink bleach is a win. - Andy Borowitz

 

Israel Returns Occupied Territories To Palestinians After Running Out Of Targets To Hit In Gaza. - The Onion

 

 

Republican Shenanigans

• Plane carrying 'Tick Tock Matt Gaetz' banner flies over Orlando federal courthouse as Joel Greenberg agrees to cooperate with feds
• ‘Ominous’ Joel Greenberg plea deal includes 60 pages of evidence about the crimes of others: ex-prosecutor
• Reagan Foundation demands 'Trump Train' bus remove image of GOP hero in MAGA hat
• GOP Gov. Asa Hutchinson Bashes Trump After Cheney Exile: 'We Should Not' Make Him 'The Leader of Our Party'
• Franklin Graham Hits Trump for Demonizing the Press, Claims He Can Tell Former President 'Hard Truths'
• Lindsey Graham: 'I accept the results of the election'
• Palm Beach County Prosecutor Tells CNN DeSantis Can't Prevent Trump Getting Extradited to NYC If The Former President Is Indicted
• Alleged Capitol rioter banned from guns shoots mountain lion

So while the Republican party won't remove Matt Gaetz from his committees & congress, it looks like the police will. - Grae Hall

 

Forcing Women To Reproduce Is On The Docket
The Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider a major rollback of abortion rights, saying it will decide whether states can ban abortions before a fetus can survive outside the womb.

The court’s order sets up a showdown over abortion, probably in the fall, with a more conservative court seemingly ready to dramatically alter nearly 50 years of rulings on abortion rights.

Good time to remind people that Marco Rubio believes that women should be forced to have their rapists’ babies. - OhNoSheTwitnt

 

If you’re wearing a mask in public and somebody tells you you don’t have to do that anymore, just say “I don’t want to be recognized from the Star Wars movies” - Jason Isbell

 

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I love the smell of Joel Greenberg ratting out Matt Gaetz in the morning. - Jeff Tiedrich

Rock The Voter News

• Joe Biden Pivots to Dreamers and Family Unification As Border Woes Fade
• Stacey Abrams launches speaking tour
• Rep. Maxine Waters threatens to sue Fox News after ‘false claims,’ citing death threats

Steve Bannon Rears His Ugly Head
More than six months after the 2020 election, several members of former President Donald Trump's inner circle are pouring millions into a renewed push to challenge the election's outcome -- an effort that has gained new life in Arizona as it captivates the former president and many of his followers.



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Business/Tech News

• Town evacuated after fiery crash of train carrying toxic chemicals
• Nashville gas station trolls Hunter Biden: 'Hope gas prices don't get too high'
• CNN's John Berman Calls AT&T Spinning Off Media Assets — Including CNN — a 'Stunning Retreat'
• US officials seek big fines against more airline passengers

Unless Joel Osteen agrees to return his Ferraris, Rolexes, and gulf stream jets, churches should pay taxes.

 

The government is now saying that UFO's are real. 

And for the first time I'm like "Wait a minute! Are UFO's not real??!" - Trevor Moore

Back In 2004 A Retired Intel Officer Told Me That UFOs Exist And There is Physical Evidence

Former US Navy pilot Ryan Graves told CBS's 60 Minutes that pilots training off the US coast sighted UFOs nearly every day.

The show on Sunday explored a series of alleged recent encounters between US military pilots and UFOs, some of which were caught on film and have been released by the Pentagon.

We are not alone. The universe it too vast, life too tenacious, for humans to be it as far as intelligent life goes. Heaven help us if that’s untrue.

And now, it seems we may not be alone, even on our own planet. - George Takei

 

 

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Odd News

• Local News Reporter Busts Dognapping Suspect — While Reporting on the Stolen Dog
• How 'engineered' coral can save the Earth's reefs from extinction
• Texas' 'Go Topless Jeep Weekend' ends in nearly 100 arrests
• British Columbia boy doubles own world record for Jenga stacking
• Man balances pool cue on forehead for 2 hours, 16 minutes
• Owner surrenders tiger spotted in Houston neighborhood

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The knotted branches of a ‘Spider’s Web’ tree (also known as ‘Strangler Fig’) Nanning, Guangxi, China.

Peace.

AOC calls Marjorie Taylor Greene ‘deeply unwell’ after 38-minute video of her stalking Ocasio-Cortez emerges

AOC calls Marjorie Taylor Greene ‘deeply unwell’ after 38-minute video of her stalking Ocasio-Cortez emerges

...AOC's comments come after a 38-minute video was unearthed Friday that shows Greene in February of 2019 – before being elected to Congress – on Capitol Hill stalking the New York Democrat.

AOC says of MTG: “I used to work as a bartender. These are the kinds of people that I threw out of bars all the time.”

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• DC Police Officer Tears Into ‘Disgraceful’ Republicans ‘Peddling That Bullsh**’ to Downplay Jan. 6
• Kinzinger: GOP downplaying Capitol riot something 'out of North Korea'
• First known active-duty military member is charged in Jan. 6 insurrection
• MAGA fan accused of murdering his wife -- then fraudulently submitting her ballot for Trump: prosecutors
• Biden's Israel support follows U.S. precedent — but his own party isn't satisfied

The people who are trying to frame 1/6 as having been perfectly legal and cool, are doing so because they’re plotting to try again. - Pam Keith

How Is This Legal?

A network of conservative activists, aided by a British former spy, mounted a campaign during the Trump administration to discredit perceived enemies of President Donald Trump inside the government, according to documents and people involved in the operations.

The campaign included a planned sting operation against Trump’s national security adviser at the time, H.R. McMaster, and secret surveillance operations against FBI employees, aimed at exposing anti-Trump sentiment in the bureau’s ranks.

Really really shocked to learn that the lady who believes in Jewish space lasers might be mentally unhinged. - Jeff Tiedrich

 

Republican Shenanigans

• Swalwell to Greene staffer: 'Don't tell me what to f---ing do' about masks
• Fewer Than Half of House Republicans Tell CNN They Are Vaccinated, Compared to 100% of Democrats
• Ron Johnson Complains He’s Being ‘Attacked’ After Being Called Out for Saying He’s Not Getting the Vaccine
• Tucker Carlson Claims Joe Biden and Kamala Harris Have Done 'More Harm than any Anti-Vaxxer!'
• House GOP elects Stefanik as Cheney's replacement
• Liz Cheney Calls Out Fox News to Bret Baier: You Have a 'Particular Obligation' to Ensure People Know Election Wasn't Stolen
• Ted Cruz Caught on Camera Tweeting About Dr. Pepper While Amy Klobuchar Drags Him Over Attempt to Overturn the Election
• Washington Post Reporter Says Marjorie Taylor Greene Lied About AOC Confrontation: 'She Was Screaming'
• Matt Gaetz probe: Joel Greenberg to cooperate with feds in deal

Elise Stefanik Vows To Accept Trump As Her Personal Savior. - Andy Borowitz

 

GOP Rep Lets Son Sleep In Capitol Basement And More!
A former aide accused U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., of allowing his son to live in a storage space in the basement of the U.S. Capitol for several weeks and recklessly exposing staffers to the novel coronavirus, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court Thursday.

Matt Gaetz is going to plead The Fifth grade. - Grae Hall

 

 

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This was the week the GOP got so evil, non-evil people were defending a Cheney. - John Fugelsang

 

Rock The Voter News

• Joe Biden and Kamala Harris Make First Maskless Public Appearance after New CDC Guidelines
• House Democrats unveil $1.9 billion bill to boost security after insurrection
• Nancy Pelosi is keeping a mask mandate on the House floor despite CDC guidance and pushback from Republicans

Jesus: Willing to sacrifice himself for others.

Donald Trump: Willing to sacrifice others for himself.

Franklin Graham: Willing to sacrifice Jesus for Donald Trump. - Middle Age Riot

Are These Military Officers Qoo Qoo Members?

An open letter signed by 124 retired US military officers has called President Biden’s health into question, earning a strong rebuke from Hillary Clinton and others.

“The mental and physical condition of the Commander in Chief cannot be ignored,” wrote Flag Officers 4 America, an organisation of former generals and admirals. “He must be able to quickly make accurate national security decisions involving life and limb anywhere, day or night.”

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Business/Tech News

• 200 Indian Workers Forced to Work $1.20/Hour to Build Hindu Temple in NJ, Lawsuit Alleges
• Petition calling for canceling Olympics submitted with more than 350,000 signatures
• Facebook 'lost on every ground' in High Court battle over data transfer to US
• Delta to require new employees get vaccinated

Fully vaccinated or not, some of us just look better in masks. - Matt Knoller

DarkSide Learns That Payback Is A B*tch

DarkSide, the ransomware group behind the Colonial Pipeline attack, has apparently lost access to its website and servers.  

On Thursday, the operator of DarkSide wrote in a Russian forum about losing access to the group’s “public infrastructure,” according to cybersecurity company Recorded Future, which spotted the forum post. 

Matt Gaetz Speaks Out Against Being Forced To Wear Mask, Pants on House Floor. - Andy Borowitz

 

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Odd News

• S.C. woman hoarding gasoline catches on fire after crash
• Ivy League scientist says NASA may have accidentally spread life to Mars
• Scientists just caught a giant squid doing something they’ve never seen
• Video shows Chicago cat surviving 5-story jump, bouncing once and walking off after fleeing fire
• Free offices with a view: 4 lighthouses, courtesy of feds

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The Japanese have been producing wood for 700 years without cutting down trees. In the 14th century, the extraordinary daisugi technique was born in Japan. They use pruning as a rule of art that allows the tree to grow and germinate while using its wood, without ever cutting it down.

Peace.