Comment on Kings blog: Five things to watch

Kudos to Media Matters for bringing this very disturbing information to light. According to its report, the militia claims to have more than 20,000 members across all 50 states, including “active Sheriffs, military, veterans, emergency responders, doctors, farmers, entrepreneurs, and blue collar Americans.” On June 3, podcaster and alleged January 6 participant Jake Lang announced a “NATIONAL CONSTITUTIONAL MILITIA” called the “North American Patriot and Liberty Militia,” or “NAPALM” for short.

JERUSALEM — Israel said Saturday it rescued four hostages who were kidnapped in the Hamas-led attack on Oct. 7, the largest such recovery operation since the war began in Gaza. At least 55 Palestinians including children were killed as heavy fighting continued around the sites in central Gaza, the Health Ministry said, and more dead continued to arrive. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Israel’s army said it rescued Noa Argamani, 25; Almog Meir Jan, 21; Andrey Kozlov, 27; and Shlomi Ziv, 40, in two locations in a complex daytime operation in the heart of Nuseirat on Saturday morning, raiding the two places at once and under fire. Argamani had been one of the most widely recognized hostages after being abducted from a music festival in southern Israel.

Infidel753: Good news from other lands. Slacktivist: "Moderate" Nazis. Informed Comment: How Trump and Netanyahu are tag-teaming Biden on Gaza. Wonkette: U. N. Secretary General – let's gag fossil fuel ads. Reductress: Landlord just doesn’t understand why it’s his responsibility to provide stairs. This installment by Batocchio. E-mail tips to mbru AT crooksandliars DOT com. read more

Marjorie Taylor Greene is becoming more and more mentally disturbed, and I have a theory why, which I explain in the video. But no matter the reason, this week she lost her mind threatening Dr. Fauci in hearings, tossing out profanities with a reporter, attacking her own party (it must be why they love her--they realy love her!) on soon-to-be jailed Steve Bannon. Marge is embarrassingly angry, even by the usual low standards we apply to her mental state.

SEATTLE — William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic “Earthrise” photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday when the plane he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington state. He was 90. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] His son, retired Air Force Lt.

Dear Amy: Forty-two years ago, my uncle died by suicide. I was very young at the time, and for years was told that he died in a car crash. It was only by accident that I discovered that he had taken his own life. He had a troubled life. It seems he never really felt at home in the world.