!africans

It turns out that Netanyahu's underlings had more motives for supporting Hamas' rise to power in Gaza than just weakening Fatah. Two of his top aides have been arrested for getting bribed by Qatar. This is a bit of a problem as there's an informal but close alliance among various powers related to the Muslim Brotherhood:

• the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood itself

• Hamas

• Qatar

• Turkey

• the Tripoli-based faction in Libya

At the same time, he's been continuing his efforts to deflect blame for his own responsibility for October 7 onto the glowies. I've covered his attempts to blame Unit 8200 (their version of the NSA) three times:

• one

• two

• three

Of course the glowies can't just come out and defend themselves in public so they're a perfect target, but enough evidence has come out to pretty well confirm my suspicions. The Netanyahu regime had good enough intelligence to have prevented October 7 if they had been cautious, but decided instead to pull their troops away from Gaza and send them into the West Bank to harass Fatah and the local civilian population. Allowing Qatar to bring in suitcases full of cash to Gaza to give to Hamas wasn't such a great idea in retrospect either. As I've been saying all this time, this was not a failure of intelligence. It was a failure of strategy.

Ronen Bar

Now he's blaming Shin Bet, the internal security service responsible for Israel and Palestine. (If you're American, think of the FBI except they don't do ordinary law enforcement.) Lately he's been in a political struggle trying to fire its head (Ronen Bar) and the Attorney General. Bar especially pissed him off by refusing to intervene on his behalf and stop his corruption trials, just like when Nixon asked the CIA to do the same for him in Watergate. Unfortunately for him, in Israel that's much more complicated and drawn out than just having Laura Loomer show up at your door with a list of people she doesn't like. After 3 decades of political maneuvering he seems to finally be cornered. The best excuse he can come up with now is "No, it wasn't my guys who got bribed by Qatar... Uhhh.... It was actually this one guy Ronen Bar who I don't like who got bribed by Qatar. Oh and he's responsible for October 7 too."

Which one do you think is telling the truth? Netanyahu or literally anybody else on Earth?

I wouldn't trust everything that the Jerusalem Post writes about this story tho. Is it because I don't trust Jews? Or I don't trust Zionists? No. It's because (you can't make this shit up ) its editor-in-chief was bribed by Qatar to write propaganda for them!

One Israeli journ*list questioned in the case is Zvika Klein, the editor-in-chief of the Jerusalem Post, an English-language daily. According to a report this week in the Post, Klein visited Qatar at the invitation of its government last year and subsequently wrote a series of articles about his impressions, one of which laid out Qatar's case against Israeli claims that it backs the militant group.

Netanyahu's allegations were pretty r-slurred and easily refuted. He said that the Bar had been let into the skybox during the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. What he failed to mention is that this wasn't during a game. He was there on official business organizing security for the Israelis attending and needed to meet with Qatari officials who happened to be in the skybox between games. This is such pathetic grasping at straws that I almost feel sorry for the guy.

No Tay Tay! What are you doing up there? Isn't this bribery?

Of course this being Netanyahu there has to be an American angle to it. The money was laundered through organized crime lobbying groups in the USA. One of the secrets to his political survival is that he's very familiar with both countries but doesn't care about either one so he's really good at pitting them against each other. His luck may have run out now though. The courts are cockblocking him from firing Bar. He's been doing job interviews for a replacement anyway, even picking one only to drop him a few hours later because apparently the guy actually prefers to live in a democracy.

Admiral Eli Sharvit - He got cockblocked out of his job before he even got to work. Even the Mooch lasted longer.

In other news, just as these scandals are building up, the IDF suddenly finds it needs to kill a bunch more people in Gaza and Lebanon. Poor guy. Every time he's busy dealing with a domestic corruption scandal those darn Arabs have to distract everyone by getting in the way of his bombs.

They've even got the Maronite Patriarch saying it's not the right time to disarm Hezbollah yet. How do you frick up the peace this bad?

EXCLUSIVE: Trump has told his inner circle, including members of his Cabinet, that Elon Musk will soon be stepping back from his current role as governing partner, ubiquitous cheerleader and Washington hatchet man.

Read @rachaelmbade's full scoop: https://t.co/olM5jKUKAX pic.twitter.com/8TAcfU0SiV

— POLITICO (@politico) April 2, 2025

Who could have guessed making an incredibly unlikeable sperg a very prominent public-facing part of your team wouldn't be a great strategy?

Donald Trump has told his inner circle, including members of his Cabinet, that Elon Musk will be stepping back in the coming weeks from his current role as governing partner, ubiquitous cheerleader and Washington hatchet man.

The president remains pleased with Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency initiative but both men have decided in recent days that it will soon be time for Musk to return to his businesses and take on a supporting role, according to three Trump insiders who were granted anonymity to describe the evolving relationship.

Musk's looming retreat comes as some Trump administration insiders and many outside allies have become frustrated with his unpredictability and increasingly view the billionaire as a political liability, a dynamic that was thrown into stark relief Tuesday when a conservative judge Musk vocally supported lost his bid for a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat by 10 points.

It also represents a stark shift in the Trump-Musk relationship from a month ago, when White House officials and allies were predicting Musk was "here to stay" and that Trump would find a way to blow past the 130-day time limit.

One senior administration official said Musk is likely to retain an informal role as an adviser and continue to be an occasional face around the White House grounds. Another cautioned that anyone who thinks Musk is going to disappear entirely from Trump's orbit is "fooling themselves."

The transition, the insiders said, is likely to correspond to the end of Musk's time as a "special government employee," a special status that temporarily exempts him from some ethics and conflict-of-interest rules. That 130-day period is expected to expire in late May or early June.

I moved next to them 5 years ago. We weren't that close but whenever his father barbecued, he invited me over and I got to know them a bit. You could tell the kid was still his baby boy and that he was very protective of him. He had leukemia for a long time but pulled through. Two days ago a drunk driver ran a red light and hit his car.

I feel completely bitter towards life right now. I've always been jaded but somehow this hits a lot more. It feels like a joke, like something delights in our suffering. There are so many evil people having their best time meanwhile an old and broken man sits in his back yard, smoking a cigarette and sobbing before he has to drive to the hospital again, hoping his son will pull through another time.

Two times this person is battling for his life, both times it wasn't his fault.

I know there are no answers to this but I will never not wonder why the universe has to be like this. I hate it here.

https://old.reddit.com/r/redscarepod/comments/1jrkq5q/my_neighbors_kid_battled_cancer_when_he_was_a/

Source: https://old.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1jrf8re/charania_the_nba_has_fined_memphis_ja_morant/

Context: Temetrious "Ja" Morant is the star player on the Memphis Grizzlies. In spite of his stable middle class upbringing, Ja enjoys cosplaying as a gangster, and after several incidents of him brandishing firearms in public (the most serious involving Ja and his entourage supposedly pointing firearms at the staff of another stadium), the NBA suspended him for 25 games. Two games ago, Ja mimed firing an assault rifle at the Warriors bench after the Grizzlies lost to the Warriors, and last game he mimed firing a gun, again.

HIGHLIGHTS

This dude is such a mental midget. Feel bad for grizz fans. Can't believe some of our fanbase wants this clown. EDIT. Don't feel bad bc of all the clown takes. Goodness

>I mean he's still a decent ball player who had a game winner last night.. The heck is this kind of overreaction?

Because he has character issues that makes him unreliable. He's been suspended on more than one occasions for gun related incidents and henstill can't help himself.

His character issues don't make him unreliable. His body does.

His character issues absolutely make him unreliable. He had to miss 25 games last year for this stuff, that's a lot.

He missed 25 games for finger guns?

>I agree about the feeling bad for them part. And if you try to ask them their true opinion, or tell them you'd be disappointed if your star player did this dumb little stuff, they just tell you you're dumb, a hater, you wouldn't get it, he's good for Memphis, etc.

I think he's dumb for continuing to do the finger guns, and if it were someone close to me I'd tell them that it's not a good look given your history and it's doing you no favors with public perception.

However, I think that's very different than the NBA selectively punishing you based on something you've already served your punishment for. That is where I think this is ridiculo

Bullshit. He literally was told not to do it bc he decided to be an immature idiot and post stuff online. Now he just said "frick you" to the league. It's just not a good look for a supposed adult. He's a loser human being

Think whatever you want about him and I agree he's clearly an immature guy. Public perception is what it is and thats one thing. That's very different than enacting selective punishments for a rule that doesn't even exist based on vibes. Either the gesture is acceptable for everyone or it's acceptable for no one, the NBA needs to choose.

Not how it works in the real world when you've done what he has done. The NBA has chosen. He can't do it.

The actual guns on IG live was one thing but this is complete bullshit. Such a non story.

>It's only because he did it again last night after the NBA warned him to not do it regarding game before against the Warriors

The warning was fricking stupid too.

Nah. You get flagged for that in the NFL and a fat fine the week after. Doing little pew pew guns is one thing but acting like you're aiming a whole butt machine gun or something is dumb. Just do a normal celebration.

WE'VE GOT THE FINGER GUN POLICE IN HERE HAHAHAHA

This is the problem. Memphis needs to get real. Ja barely plays basketball, then when he does, he's doing this. Yall gotta decide for yourselves what's important.

He literally got a warning before the game, he's lucky it isn't more.

>This whole thing of absolutely ridiculous I've seen finger guns countless times watching basketball

So if someone gets fined for it, I guess that means no one can do them now And the fact that Ja was stupid enough to be on camera waving around a gun doesn't mean that the entire nba should be banned from finger guns, that's nonsense logic. But it's going to have to be that way

have any of those players had a history of brandishing guns in public?

My point is literally that its either an illegal gesture or it's not. You can't have a rule that a gesture is only illegal if you've done x in the past that would be nonsense.

nope. incorrect. context is everything.

There's no way they're going to be able to do selective enforcement of gestures, period. Thats why there are things like the players association. You're just plain wrong.

I guess the league is making a distinction between the finger pistols (common) and the two-handed shotgun/rifle gesture? Or does it matter whether or not it's "pointed" at someone? Seems like whatever rule they settle on should be specific to the gesture rather than specific to the player.

>It's not that complicated. He did something. The league told him not to. He did it again immediately after. That's behavior you'd expect from a 3 year old, not a grown man.

"He did something. The league told him not to." My point is that it only makes sense to tell him not to if they're making it a league-wide rule.?

do any of those players have a history of brandishing guns in public

The NBA issued a warning yesterday to both Hield and Morant. It said nothing about Morant having brandished guns, which makes sense because Hield hasn't brandished guns. Today's announcement of the fine also doesn't mention Morant's past gun suspension.

nope. incorrect. context is everything.

Habitual line stepper. I like it

>I don't. It's incredibly annoying dealing with people like that.

You mean middle schoolers?

Lol what middle schoolers are you hanging out with and why? Edit: and what are they doing to you/are you safe?

This is why people hate redditors lmao

>3x the amount Draymond got fined for putting Rudy Gobert in a chokehold, and Dray is a habitual over the line stepper. Edit: I forgot Draymond was suspended for them 5 games, that's my bad.

Green actually got suspended, though

shoulda been banned from playing ever again, assaulting someone isnt even in the same field as finger guns lmao. idgaf who ja is off the court cause if that shit mattered half the pro athletes would be in jail.

You sound stupid af

This is ironically exactly what the team and the city needed to improve the mood after the quagmire the last month lol

>269 murders in the city of Memphis last year I'm sure the families of those who were gunned down are thrilled to see it being celebrated by pro athletes on TV. Must really improve their moods.

I bet you feel the exact same way about ads for violent video games, nerf guns, and every action movie ever. Get a fricking grip.

How ignorant are you lol

I'll take a little ignorance over the sanctimoneous horseshit people spew about Ja and guns. Not one person in these comments gives a dusty frick one way or the other about a finger gun celebration outside of Reddit.

It aint that deep lol Yall acting like this is some 1st amendment freedom fighter bs lol

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1jrljow/its_not_that_complicated_he_did_something_the/

Exclusive: British police are making more than 30 arrests a day over offensive posts on social media and other platforms

Thousands of people are being detained and questioned for sending messages that cause “annoyance”, “inconvenience” or “anxiety”https://t.co/fFfBvIlFBX

— Charlie Parker (@charliehparker) April 4, 2025

https://old.reddit.com/r/UkrainianConflict/comments/1jrzg7f/kyiv_probes_leak_of_us_minerals_deal_with/

Ukrainian officials say they were caught off guard by the scope of the latest US demands, and view as politically untenable parts of Washington's proposal for profiting from their country's infrastructure.

Now that makes sense why he wants to anal test his staff

Remember these hoes. When Islam returns to Tajikistan they will receive their due public flogging.

— Monzurul Alam (@BijoyMonzurul1) April 4, 2025

🥰 pic.twitter.com/nwRpIALFB2

— Anahita SD (@Anahita_SD) April 2, 2025

Britain or Bangladesh

Judge notices Jobst is unlikable, smug, loser before having him pay the King a quarter of a million

!transphobes !chuds noooooooo you cannot study detransitioners noooo

https://old.reddit.com/r/transgender/comments/1jqyr1r/exclusive_trump_white_house_directs_nih_to_study/

/u/thrashercircling

@DWHITE___________DYNAMITE look at /r/skeptic

https://old.reddit.com/r/skeptic/comments/1jqxfb0/trump_white_house_directs_nih_to_study_regret/

As the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) continues to defund nearly every research project on transgender health, the White House has directed the agency to focus on studying "regret" after a person transitions to align their body with their gender identity. Several NIH employees, who were granted anonymity because they are not authorized to speak to the press, confirmed the directive to Nature.

Two weeks ago, Matthew Memoli, who was acting NIH director at the time, sent an e-mail to the directors of several NIH institutes. It said that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which is the NIH's parent agency, "has been directed to fund research on a few specific areas" related to what it calls "chemical and surgical mutilation" of children and adults --- a reference to gender-affirming care and surgery. "This is very important to the President and the Secretary" of the HHS, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, the e-mail added.

Based on its priorities, the White House sometimes directs the NIH --- the world's largest public funder of biomedical science --- to study certain broad topics, such as cancer or women's health, but the latest directive's specificity, inflammatory language and focus on a hyper-polarizing topic are unprecedented, the NIH employees say. Although the White House can sometimes "push us on various different things, we normally get to chart out the approach", a staff member says.

Many scientists, reeling from the abrupt cancellation of more than US$180 million in NIH funding for research on transgender health, slammed the proposed studies as ideologically driven.

"It's really pigeonholing trans people into this medical lens where the only thing important to know about them is that they seek medical transition" and regret it, says Harry Barbee, who studies the health of people from gender and sexual minorities (LGBT+) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland, and identifies as non-binary and queer. "When ideology is prioritized over scientific merit, that threatens the entire scientific enterprise."

The NIH and the White House did not respond to Nature's queries about the new research priorities or scientists' concerns with their apparent ideological bent. The HHS said that the "NIH is prioritizing research that serves the best interests of public health, not ideological agendas, and will continue to support studies that provide clear, objective data --- particularly regarding the long-term effects of gender transitions."

Shifting focus

Estimates suggest that 1.6 million people in the United States identify as transgender, and about one-quarter of them obtain gender-affirming surgeries. Research suggests1 that access to these procedures can reduce anxiety, depression and suicidal ideation in transgender people.

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on his first day in office on 20 January that directed the US government to stop acknowledging that gender can differ from s*x at birth. The cancellation of many trans-health research grants quickly followed, and now the agency seems to be shifting the type of research it funds. The e-mail from Memoli, obtained by Nature, specifies two areas of research that the Trump administration wishes to fund about "social transition", which is when a person changes how they express their gender to others --- for example, by changing their name or appearance.

These include "regret and detransition following social transition as well as chemical and surgical mutilation of children and adults" and "outcomes from children who have undergone social transition and/or chemical and surgical mutilation", the e-mail says.

More research on the experience of trans people --- including understanding reasons for dissatisfaction after transition --- is direly needed, Barbee says. But they worry that the sole focus on negative consequences is misplaced: fewer than 1% of transgender people who undergo gender-affirming surgery regret it, according to an analysis published by Barbee and their colleagues2. By comparison, 14.4% of the broader population reports regret after any kind of surgery3.

So far, about 187 NIH grants funding trans-health research have been terminated, according to an online effort to track the Trump team's research cuts by Brittany Charlton, an epidemiologist at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts, who studies LGBT+ health, and her colleagues. In 2023, the NIH funded about 180 projects in this field, according to another NIH employee.

If these proposed studies move forwards, it will create a "a distorted research ecosystem where only politically favourable findings are permitted to exist" and an "evidence vacuum for clinicians who are trying to do right by their patients", Barbee says.

Inflammatory language

The e-mail requesting the new research focus mirrors language in another of Trump's executive orders about "protecting children from chemical and surgical mutilation", signed on 28 January. The order alleges that "medical professionals are maiming and sterilizing a growing number of impressionable children under the radical and false claim that adults can change a child's s*x through a series of irreversible medical interventions".

The phrase 'chemical and surgical mutilation' is "scientifically unsound" and will "provoke fear and stigma" among the trans community, Barbee says.

If this language is used in such a solicitation, the NIH will probably struggle to find knowledgeable specialists to respond, Charlton says. (Charlton, who has had five grants that make up 95% of her centre's funding cancelled, sued the NIH and the HHS yesterday. The lawsuit alleges that the agencies have engaged in a "reckless and illegal purge to stamp out NIH-funded research that addresses topics and populations that they disfavor".)

NIH officials are still brainstorming how to fund this research, but Memoli made it clear in the e-mail that Trump and Kennedy want action within six months. Proposals range from creating a new funding-opportunity announcement for researchers around the country to developing or modifying existing contracts with research organizations, agency employees tell Nature.

This research focus was foreshadowed by Project 2025, a blueprint for the second Trump presidency, written in 2023 by the right-wing think-tank The Heritage Foundation in Washington DC: the NIH should "fund studies into the short-term and long-term negative effects of cross-s*x interventions", it said. Trump disavowed the initiative during his 2024 presidential campaign, saying that he had no knowledge of it, but his administration has since been implementing many of its policy proposals.

!sophistry the final argument to BTFO all of !kino

The 's*x on TV' discussion is officially over

This is the last day you can post this pic.twitter.com/1nZboX3IYg https://t.co/uT5Mi5HpJE

— barbarism critic (@barbarismcrit) April 4, 2025

A YouTuber was arrested after attempting to reach an uncontacted tribe in North Sentinel Island

He brought them a coconut and a can of Diet Coke as his offering pic.twitter.com/YidajKcLQv

— Dexerto (@Dexerto) April 4, 2025

At this point just withdraw the coast guard patrols and set up some cameras so we can pay to watch these dumb mayos get slaughtered like its 5000 BCE.

Would make for great tv.

kevin

albert

alvin

alex

justin

jason

michelle

christine

grace

justine

vivian

lily

esther

https://old.reddit.com/r/redscarepod/comments/1jrpg3q/white_names_that_are_actually_asian_names_now/

Good news, everyone, my 18-year-old says the economy is fine. He knows this because he owns some stocks. His mother, who works in finance, is NOT an expert and has no idea what she's talking about (despite talking about it being her job) so please calm down, he says all is well.

— AlwaysAshley (@AshleyAlready) April 3, 2025

MFW I tell my parents a historical event 20 years before my birth was akshually not how they think it was

Burn it all down pilled

Based

In this video, "Gook," an American of Chinese-Korean descent from Colorado, explains the intricacies of sappers' work in Ukraine, including the latest MilTech developments. He also gives his genuine opinion on the people and culture of Ukraine, the first European country for him… pic.twitter.com/5zNPzju8xa

— Azov Brigade (@azov_media) March 29, 2025