Pentagon puts troops on notice to prepare to deploy to support Israel: reports

Pentagon puts troops on notice to prepare to deploy to support Israel: reports

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered a select number of U.S. troops to prepare to deploy in support of Israel, multiple outlets have reported.  

About 2,000 such troops were chosen this weekend to be ready to assist with advising and medical support, The Wall Street Journal first reported. 

I’m not happy with US boots on the ground. 

This is how it starts 

2000 now ….who knows how many later. - cheapsuits

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

• Trump Toady Floats Deranged Conspiracy Theory: Netanyahu Allowed Hamas Attack to Happen for Political Reasons
• 'There Is No Humanitarian Crisis': Israeli Ambassador Gets in Heated Clash Over Gaza Bombing When Confronted By Anchor
• Chris Christie Calls Trump a 'Fool' 5 Times in Scorching New Ad Targeting Ex-President's Hezbollah Comments
• Mark Levin Tells Ben Shapiro American Media Has 'Jewish Blood' On It's Hands: 'It's Absolutely Despicable'

Saying Palestinian lives matter doesn't make you an anti-Semite. It makes you a human being. - Middle Age Riot

"Get away from me. You f-cking did this."

Liz Cheney to Jim Jordan, January 6, 2021.

Jim Jordan Should Settle This With A Wrestling Match!

Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio rallied fresh support Monday for his bid to become the next speaker of the House of Representatives, as his nomination gained steam after several Republican holdouts publicly lined up behind the Judiciary Committee chairman.

Jordan faces a crucial vote in the House Tuesday at noon. He needs 217 GOP votes in the closely divided chamber to secure the gavel.

Jim Jordan’s Speaker Bid in Jeopardy After He Accidentally Locks Himself in Bathroom. - Andy Borowitz

Jim Jordan Fails to Convince Republicans He Would Not Somehow Injure Himself With Gavel. - Andy Borowitz

Republican Shenanigans

• Judge Chutkan 'literally laughs' in Trump lawyer's face during gag order hearing
• Hannity is Reportedly Trying to Strong-Arm House Republicans Into Voting for Jordan
• GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw ‘Wouldn’t Have Friends’ if He Held Jan. 6 Against Colleagues
• Scott's super PAC cancels TV ad reservations as campaign sputters
• DeSantis, Hutchinson to be interviewed on NewsNation from South Carolina
• Michael Flynn Makes Bizarre Preacher-Style Plea to Fans for 'Pennies, Nickels, Dimes' to Fight New 'Batch of Subpoenas'
• Trump Posts Strange Mashup of His and Biden's 60 Minutes Interviews

If Lindsey Graham & Tim Scott 

are the best choices South Carolina has for Senate

then the wrong states are legalizing weed. - John Fugelsang

Legal Experts tell us, "One Trump post on his social media site could lead to jail time for Trump." 😎

Sen. Tom Cotton Throws His Revered "Freedom of Speech" Right Out The Window
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Monday calling for the deportation of foreign nationals who support Hamas. 



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Rock The Voter News

• Biden tops Trump in 2024 campaign fundraising for third quarter, but ex-president's war chest dwarfs GOP rivals
• Democrats hit GOP over Speaker chaos in Virginia ahead of Statehouse elections
• Republican lawmaker says a deal with Democrats 'will have to be done' if GOP can't break speaker impasse

The migrant flights to Martha's Vineyard cost Florida more than $600,000 dollars, about $12,000 per migrant, according to public records. The migrants all had permission to be in the United States, pending asylum hearings. - 60 Minutes

Dear God, A Third GOP Presidential Debate? Yawn.
NBC News announced that they will host the Republican National Committee’s third presidential primary debate at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County. The contest is scheduled to take place on Wednesday November 8th from 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. ET.

The Republicans would nominate Vladimir Putin for House Speaker if given the option. - Liam Nissan

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Business/Tech News

• Bill Ford calls on striking workers to 'stop this now'
• AI-caused financial crisis ‘nearly unavoidable’ without regulation: SEC chief
• Bitcoin Pares After BlackRock Says ETF Application Under Review
• ‘Taylor Swift: Eras Tour’: Swifties Drop Everything Now For Concert Pic’s Global Opening, Shelling Out $126M-$130M – International Box Office

Did you see what happened in Poland? 73% of Polish voters came out and crushed the rise of right-wing fascism. 

Tick tock, MAGA. - Jane of the North

Biden Joins Trump's Truth Social. This Ought To Be Entertaining.
The Biden campaign Monday joined Truth Social, the platform founded by former President Trump, pushing its message on a platform largely dominated by the former president and his followers.

I don't want to brag but I walked into a room and remembered why I walked in. - Dan Regan

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Odd News

• ‘Survival of the fittest’ may also apply to the nonliving, report finds
• Two Iconic NASA Space Telescopes Could Get Their Funding Slashed
• Gulf Stream weakening now 99% certain, and ramifications will be global
• 12,952 cereal boxes topple like dominoes in Detroit
• Florida man breaks into woman's house, sits on her couch

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Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom.

Peace.

Israel to UN: Northern Gaza Should Evacuate Within 24 Hours

Israel to UN: Northern Gaza Should Evacuate Within 24 Hours

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS: Hamas tells civilians to ignore an Israeli Defense Forces call for 1.1 million civilians to evacuate to northern Gaza...

24 hours? Nobody could evacuate that fast except Josh Hawley. - Liam Nissan

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

• US intelligence warned of potential for Gaza clash in days before attack
• After Israel visit, lawmakers see big role for U.S. military in Hamas conflict
• US readies forces, but plays down potential for troops in Gaza
• Israel orders 1M in Gaza to evacuate ahead of possible ground operation
• White House on Gaza evacuation order: ‘Obviously, we don’t want to see any civilians hurt’
• BBC Reporter Breaks Down After Seeing Injured and Dead Gaza Civilians: 'I Have Seen Things I Can Never Unsee'
• Hamas claims 13 hostages killed in Israeli airstrikes
• GOP lawmaker wears Israeli military uniform to Capitol Hill
• 'F*ck Him': How Trump's 2020 Election Denial Led Him to Turn on Israel's Netanyahu

No Speaker of the House

No Army Chief

No Chief of Naval Ops

No Head of the Air Force

No Ambassador to Israel, Lebanon, Oman, Kuwait

No Commander of the Fifth Fleet

No one in 300 military roles

No State Dept Coordinator for Counterterrorism

The GOP is decapitating us from within. - Lindy Li

Man Who Started Two Failed Wars, Didn't Heed C.I.A. Warnings About Planes Crashing Into Buildings, Throws In His Two Bits

Former President George W. Bush warned against equivocation amid the Israel-Gaza war while declaring that “negotiating with killers is not an option.”

“My view is: One side is guilty, and it’s not Israel,” Bush said at an event in California this week in video obtained by Axios and published Friday.

I’m so f-cking tired of living in unprecedented times. - John Collins

Republican Shenanigans

• Scalise Drops Out Of Speakership Race: ‘Still Some People That Have Their Own Agendas’
• Jordan jumps into Speaker race as House GOP scrambles for leader
• Fox's Baier Reports He's Hearing 'Crazy Things' on The Hill Amid Speakership Fight: 'Jesus Of Nazareth Could Not Get 217 Votes Right Now'
• 'You've Been On Fox Six Times Since Saturday': Bret Baier Asks Kevin McCarthy If He's Trying to Return as Speaker
• Pence skipping Nevada GOP caucuses for primary contest
• Rep. George Santos faces new charges he stole donor IDs
• What to know about Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s $19,000 lectern

Republican Intern Named Zach to Be Speaker of the House. - Andy Borowitz

Are They Cat Herder Whisperers?

Rep. Austin Scott made clear how he felt about his fellow House Republicans and the current chaos with electing a speaker in an interview with CNN’s Manu Raju.

Raju posted the brief segment on Twitter, in which he caught up with Representatives Scott and Don Bacon in congressional hallways, and each expressed concerned ridicule and frustration with their fellow Republican colleagues and their apparent inability to govern.

Kevin McCarthy Boasts That He’ll Win After Only 14 Rounds This Time. - Andy Borowitz

If you see smoke billowing from their private conclave, it doesn’t mean they’ve chosen a Speaker.

It means they’re burning the place down.

Again. - 7Veritas4

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Rock The Voter News

• Sen. Menendez is accused of being an unregistered agent of Egypt's government in updated indictment
• Biden Spox Takes Shot at Republican-Friendly Media During Briefing: 'Inconvenient Facts Are Easy To Forget'
• Manchin trails Justice by 13 points in new West Virginia Senate poll
• Alexandra Pelosi Explains Why She Interviewed People Who Wanted to Kill Her Mother

Sen. John Fetterman calls for “every one of my colleagues” to join and expel Sen. Menendez 

“We cannot have an alleged foreign agent in the United States Senate. This is not a close call.”

Supreme Court Opted To Keep Act of God Under Wraps, Until Now.

A massive piece of marble fell at the Supreme Court last year in an area used by justices and their aides, but the news only became public this week.

The Associated Press reported that the incident, which could have been disastrous, took place as the court was already dealing with death threats and security concerns over the eventual decision to overturn Roe v. Wade after a draft version had been leaked.

Democrats: "Menendez should be expelled."

Republicans: "Menendez should be expelled."

Democrats: "Santos should be expelled."

Republicans: "Menendez should be expelled." - Middle Age Riot

George Santos Says If G.O.P. Lets Him Stay in Congress He Will Stop Using Their Credit Cards. - Andy Borowitz

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Business/Tech News

• Kaiser Permanente reaches tentative agreement with workers after strike
• IRS says Microsoft owes an additional $29 billion in back taxes
• Microsoft cleared to buy Activision for $69B
• European Union Launches a Probe Into Misinformation on X as Fake News Spreads Wildly

Elon Musk went from being the Henry Ford of our generation (admired carmaker, brilliant salesman) to being the Henry Ford of our generation (conspiracy theorist, Nazi-enabler) - Roman Sheremeta

UAW Trying New Tactics
United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain said in a fiery speech Friday that the union would shift its strike strategy by making its walkout plans less predictable and more financially painful for the Big Three automakers, though he refrained from expanding the work stoppage.

Why we'll never stop calling it Twitter:

"I saw a tweet the other day" is descriptive and brand-accurate.  

"I saw an X the other day" sounds like you ran into that batch who cheated on you.  

"I tweeted" makes sense.

"I x'ed" sounds like you're having a stroke. - StrictlyChristo

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Deep apologies for any humor inconvenience yesterday. It was a whirlwind day starting out with no power and ending with a dilated eye exam, unable to read anything, much less my laptop, to notify y'all.

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Odd News

• "Building blocks of life" found in NASA’s Bennu asteroid sample
• ‘Streets on the moon’: lunar dust could be ‘melted’ to make solid roads
• Flight delayed by mosquito swarm in the passenger cabin
• Man who found bag of cash and claimed finders-keepers pays back town, felony charge dropped
• ‘This might be a typo.’ Georgia man receives speeding ticket for $1.4 million

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During these trying times, remember to take time to smell the flowers.

Have a lovely and peaceful weekend, everyone!

Republicans nominate Steve Scalise to be House speaker but struggle to unite quickly and elect him

Republicans nominate Steve Scalise to be House speaker but struggle to unite quickly and elect him

Republicans nominated Rep. Steve Scalise on Wednesday to be the next House speaker but struggled to quickly unite their deeply divided majority and elect the conservative in a public floor vote after ousting Rep. Kevin McCarthy from the job.

The Teabaggy Party nominated the self-proclaimed “David Duke without the baggage” for Speaker.  With all this horror of a war literally  based on bigotry, the crackheads nominated the biggest bigot they could find.  Scalise is one of the “Jews will not replace us” American Hamas. - Beth Bradford

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• Former Ohio State University wrestlers say Jim Jordan betrayed them and shouldn't be House speaker
• Israeli jets strike Lebanon as troops mass on Gaza border
• The number of US citizens killed in the Israel-Hamas war rises to 22
• 'Prelude to a Ground Invasion': CNN Reports From Gaza Border As Israel Appears to Mobilize Troops
• Sen. Scott: $6 billion in Iran prisoner swap created "market for hostages"
• Don Jr. Goes Viral With Fake News Video of Horrific Violence, Claims It Came From 'Source' in Israel

Why is it so hard to believe Donald would provide damaging secret intel to a bad foreign actor?

He showed maps of North Korea to Kid Rock. - Mary L. Trump

I Can't Figure Out The Israeli Strategy of Turning Off Water and Power To 2 Million People Who Can't Leave Gaza. This May Not End Well.

TEL AVIV and SDEROT, Israel — Israel carried out heavy bombardments across the Gaza Strip on Wednesday for the fifth day as more than 2 million Palestinians lost electricity after Israel put the territory under full siege, following an infiltration by Hamas militants into Israel in one of the deadliest attacks ever on the country.

Witnesses have described widespread destruction of entire neighborhoods in Gaza City from Israeli strikes overnight, as residents shared videos online showing children pulled wounded or dead from under the rubble.

Israel's Next Door Neighbor Has Something To Say

 Jordan’s King Abdullah said on Wednesday no peace was possible in the Middle East without the emergence of an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel.

The escalating violence showed the region would not “enjoy stability, security or peace” without the emergence of a Palestinian state with sovereignty on land that Israel had captured in the 1967 Arab-Israel war.

Republican Shenanigans

• Ex-Pence Aide Seethes About Trump’s Private Hatred Towards His Own Fans: ‘I Detest the Way He Speaks About Them’
• Trump Personally Targets 'Psycho' Forbes Reporter Who Covered His Declining Wealth, Lies About His Finances
• GOP Rep. Ken Buck Voted 'Present' in Speaker's Race Because Scalise and Jordan Wouldn't Admit Biden Won
• Nancy Mace wore a ‘scarlet letter’ to Congress, but not for the reason you might think
• George Santos Indicted on Additional Criminal Charges – Now 23 In Total
• Republican New York Lawmakers Move To Expel 'Fraudster' George Santos From Congress After New Charges
• Trump Endorses Kari Lake – Again

Kari Lake Kicks Off Senate Race By Vowing to Sue Arizonans Who Don't Vote For Her. - Andy Borowitz

Tommy Tuberville Is A Cowardly Bully
Sen. Tommy Tuberville said Tuesday he had flagged former CIA Director Michael Hayden’s social media suggestion about removing Tuberville from the human race to Capitol police, accusing the former chief spook of calling for a “politically motivated assassination.”

George Santos Garners Enough Indictments to Clinch Republican Presidential Nomination. - Andy Borowitz

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Rock The Voter News

• 'There Are Not Two Sides Here!' Biden Spox Torches 'Repugnant Disgraceful' Statements From Squad Members
• Biden interviewed as part of the special counsel investigation into handling of classified documents
• Vulnerable Democrats call on Biden to freeze $6B in Iran funds
• Pete Buttigieg Chased Off Stage by Climate Protesters: 'Stop Petro Pete!'

A humiliated & terrified Jim Jordan cries out for someone to come help him.

And Karma looks the other way. - John Fugelsang

Republicans Want To Punish Gaetz. How About A Duel?
House Republicans are calling for Matt Gaetz to face some form of consequences for kicking Kevin McCarthy out of the speakership and plunging the chamber into chaos...“Matt Gaetz is frankly a vile person,” Representative Mike Lawler told CNN’s Manu Raju late Monday. “He’s not somebody who’s willing to work as a team. He stands up there, he grandstands, he lies directly to folks.”

Matt Gaetz is that petulant frat bro from your dorm party who won't stop loudly lecturing that 'HEALTHCARE IS A PRIVILEGE, NOT A RIGHT!'

& hours later, he's still there drunkenly weeping about how girls don't like him & you realize you hate your roommate for inviting this dude. - John Fugelsang

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Business/Tech News

• Finland police investigate undersea gas pipeline leak as possible sabotage
• SBF's ex-girlfriend: He 'directed me' to steal billions from FTX
• ESPN Under Fire After Aaron Rodgers Challenges Travis Kelce to Vaccine Debate on Network
• Elon Musk bought Twitter just to break it. With a new war, we’re paying the price

Has anyone asked Republicans why they can expel Kevin McCarthy from his job but not George Santos. - BlackKnight10K

Musk Bought Twitter To X Democracy Out

As the world learned over the weekend of Hamas’ surprise military incursion and hostage-taking in southern Israel and Israel’s subsequent airstrikes in Gaza, millions flocked to X for news.

But the site, formerly known as Twitter, has become a massive engine for false, fake and manipulated information, clouding the reality of events on the ground. I

There will be no Speaker vote today because Republicans. - Nick Knudson

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Odd News

• NASA shows off its first asteroid samples delivered by a spacecraft
• The fastest ever human-made object keeps breaking its own speed record
• Australian teen solves Rubik's cube in 12.1 seconds while blindfolded
• Road construction crew unearths 19th century boat in Florida
• Missouri man paddles 38.4 miles in hollowed-out pumpkin

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Masonry on the base of the Temple of the Sun at Machu Picchu in Peru.

Peace.