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Kash Patel and others touted the FBI’s investigative work, but the few available details point to a more complicated picture.

The post Longtime Paid FBI Informant Was Instrumental in Terror Case Against “Turtle Island Liberation Front” appeared first on The Intercept.

Laura Fine has distanced herself from the Israel lobby, but AIPAC donors are pouring funding into her Illinois congressional campaign.

The post AIPAC Head Hosts Fundraiser for House Candidate Who Swears AIPAC Isn’t Backing Her appeared first on The Intercept.

RED FLAG: He sometimes has to work late and Q4 is his busy season.

GREEN FLAG: His full-time job is directing the local middle school Christmas pageant, which takes up only two hours every Tuesday, November to mid-December.

RED FLAG: He wears bespoke suits and flashy Patek Philippe watches, even on days when he’s working remotely from your luxury apartment.

GREEN FLAG: He wears socks with anthropomorphic snowflakes on them and vibrant, ugly Christmas sweaters every single day, no matter the occasion. Even to your sister’s wedding. Yep, her black-tie wedding.

The U.N. experts wrote blistering letters to five American universities about their crackdowns on Gaza protests.

The post U.N. Experts Blast U.S. Universities for Human Rights Violations Against Gaza Protesters appeared first on The Intercept.

A new poll shows a growing divide among Republicans, especially under 45, on U.S. support for Israel. Democrats have a chance to pick up their votes.

The post Republicans Are Splitting Over Israel. Will Democrats Take Advantage? appeared first on The Intercept.

“If I had no concerns and I was confident in the lawful order, I would definitely execute that order.”

The post U.S. Military Willing to Attack “Designated Terrorist Organizations” Within America, General Says appeared first on The Intercept.

Dancing was the first step to falling in love, and falling in love was the first step to lying down in tandem. Not soon after Elizabeth had persuaded Mr. Darcy to join her in a Scotch reel, were they flushed from exertion; their bodies vexed with desire. Elizabeth had wanted nothing more but to marry for love, believing matters of the heart must never consume one’s rationality, but Mr. Darcy’s sturdy bratwurst had been pressing up against her the whole eve, and she was filled with carnal desires.

And so, Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy, two grown adults of reasonable attractiveness, found themselves attempting to engage in fornication. With the servants sent away and the curtains drawn, they retired to his chamber to smash nether regions.

Mr. Darcy, a man with an estate of 10,000 per annum, was reduced to a man well below his station by his lust. He threw Elizabeth on his bed with the vigor of a militia officer with a salary of a mere 100.

I am banned from working now, but as I look back on my long, challenging career in Afghanistan I feel hope for the future

- by Najla & Asad Nariman

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Cast out by my family as a child, I was groomed by a sex trafficker. I’m finally done with cowering

- by Larry Lindner

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I posted the following on my Fediverse (via Mastodon) account. I'm reposting the whole seven posts here as written there, but I hope folks will take a look at that thread as folks are engaging in conversation over there that might be worth reading if what I have to say interests you. (The remainder of the post is the same that can be found in the Fediverse posts linked throughout.)

I suppose Fediverse isn't the place people are discussing Rob Reiner. But after 36 hours of deliberating whether to say anything, I feel compelled. This thread will be long,but I start w/ most important part:

Spitting venom and breathing fire and brimstone, we now see Trump’s presidency for what it is: the lashing out of a wounded giant as it comes to terms with its own decline — perhaps the point at which such people are at their most lethal. The publication of the new US National Security Strategy has […]

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