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[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 8 points 1 hour ago

I continue to stand by by stance that everything Trump says tells you nothing about anything, trying to predict anything using his words is less effective than reading tea leaves, and he’ll be saying the exact opposite a week from now

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 3 points 1 hour ago

Both sides were aiming for maximum disruption so they can accuse each other of causing it

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago

Remember when libs celebrated SDPD calling them good boys for being so docile? lol

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 31 points 2 days ago

There are two types of Amerikkkan “journalists”: those that are fascists, and those that run interference for fascists

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 13 points 3 days ago

Oh no! Not the terrorists! Won’t Hamas think of the poor terrorists and their property rights????

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 13 points 5 days ago

They don't do it for the same reason Saturday morning cartoon villains never truly get defeated

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 58 points 1 week ago (3 children)

In this episode Trump makes use of a little-known exception to the rules known as "who the fuck's gonna stop me?"

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 23 points 1 week ago

If the literal actual Adolf Hitler came back from the dead and said “fuck tankies”, they would be lining up at 3AM to sieg heil

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is a very serious incident, hence the investigation. But I doubt it will lead to any changes with regards to the required fuel reserves. To keep it simple, you basically need enough fuel to get where you want to go, circle around a bit, fly somewhere else, circle around a bit, and land there. You generally don’t want to take on additional weight for no real reason.

It is a common occurrence where delays and weather conditions result in nearing minimum fuel. Which means it will turn into an emergency if you don’t get on the ground soon, not that it’s going to run out of fuel in a minute.

A real fuel emergency such as this can be caused by large weather patterns resulting in failed landing attempts at multiple different airports, which has happened before.

The investigation is more likely to scrutinize whether or not the pilots should’ve diverted to the airports they did, instead of one known to have nicer conditions. That is to say, whether they diverted to a closer airport to save face for the airline.

They will also probably look at the decision to dispatch the flight in the first place in light of the available forecasts at the time, and the decision to attempt a landing in light of available reports.

But you probably shouldn’t be concerned about your next flight. This is an exceptionally rare occurrence.

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hey now you can also write to your representative! I’m sure they or their interns are taking the time to read your letter and not tossing it in the trash along with the thousands of other letters they get every day

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 41 points 1 week ago

They will award a posthumous peace prize to Hitler before the decade is out

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Hello fellow leftists, my name is Vladimir Ho Chi Minh Stalenin. I think I speak for all of us when I say we should kill everyone who doesn't speak Chinese. Now if you would please put your names and addresses into this spreadsheet so I can send you guides on how to make bombs to destroy capitalism.

 
 

Article

After a day of hunting for a suspect in the assassination, investigators pleaded for help from the public.

The gunman who fatally shot the right-wing activist Charlie Kirk remained on the run Thursday as a frantic and fruitless hunt for the killer led law enforcement officers to scour through chicken coops and plead for the public’s help.

With no suspect identified, investigators shared blurry photographs of a person of interest, which showed a man in a stairwell shortly before the shooting, wearing a hat and sunglasses. Officers also scrutinized a bolt-action rifle that they believe was used in the attack and sought to identify the gunman with other video from security cameras on campus.

“We are confident in our abilities to track that individual,” Beau Mason, the commissioner of Utah’s Department of Public Safety, said on Thursday.

But more than a day after the killer fired from a rooftop vantage point, jumped from the building and disappeared into a neighborhood nearby, investigators struggled to piece together a clear picture of who the gunman was and where their quarry had gone. The F.B.I. director, Kash Patel, and his deputy, Dan Bongino, were traveling to Utah to more directly oversee the manhunt.

Much of the early phase of the investigation had focused on a normally quiet residential street directly up a hill from Utah Valley University. Residents there said they had endured many hours of police searches and frantic law enforcement activity on Wednesday evening as heavily armed officers zeroed in on the area.

Local and federal officers, including agents from Homeland Security Investigations and the F.B.I., roamed the streets, knocking on doors and asking residents for footage from their doorbell cameras. As night fell, they combed a wooded area at the edge of some residents’ backyards with flashlights, an area where some in the neighborhood thought the officers recovered what was believed to be the shooter’s gun.

“It was kind of intense, very unsettling,” said Robin Harris, 41, who said police officers came to her door six separate times. At one point, she was startled by someone moving around her backyard, before realizing it was a police officer. Much of the early police activity centered around a house owned by the university that is under construction, with local residents seeing officers and dogs searching the property. Dylan Hope, 26, one of the construction workers at the house, said his crew was busy working on Wednesday afternoon when they heard a loud crack come from campus. Minutes later, Mr. Hope said, an excavator operator working on the site encountered a young man who said there had been a shooting. The interaction came almost immediately after the shooting, before any police officers arrived, Mr. Hope said. “He said somebody had been shot, and he was just trying to get home safe,” Mr. Hope said. “He seemed calm and stuff. He was shocked that someone had been shot.” About an hour after the shooting, Mr. Hope said that law enforcement officers arrived and showed the construction workers a photo of a man that they thought matched the description of the person the excavator operator had seen. Mr. Hope said the photo the officers showed the crew on Wednesday did not seem to look like the one the F.B.I. released to the public on Thursday.

Emergency radio traffic in the minutes after the shooting suggested a chaotic search for leads. There was talk among officers of various people who might be connected: a man dressed in a suit, a person who seemed to be going to hospitals looking for Mr. Kirk, someone who had removed an anti-Kirk post online, someone with a bionic arm.

At least two people were detained: A bespectacled man was dragged by police officers into a vehicle just minutes after Mr. Kirk was shot. Hours later, another man was taken into custody by investigators, a development celebrated by Mr. Patel on social media.

But in both instances, investigators found, the men had no connection to the shooting. The first one was a local political gadfly who was charged with obstruction of justice.

The other was a fan of Mr. Kirk’s who had attended the rally with friends. His name had been raised in emergency radio chatter and soon spread through social media. Family members said the man had gone home after the event, shaken and saddened by what had transpired, only to have investigators show up at his door to bring him in for questioning.

The man was able to show investigators video of the event that appeared to depict him standing in the crowd with his arms crossed as the gunshot rang out, the family members said. Investigators said they concluded that he was not involved. The fact that the shooting occurred at an outdoor event, attended by thousands of people, made nailing down and containing a perpetrator difficult from the beginning.

The event had been staffed by six police officers and Mr. Kirk’s own security team, according to the university police chief, Jeff Long. But investigators believe the gunman fired from the top of a building hundreds of feet away.

After the initial search through the neighborhood, investigators spent the overnight hours scouring through campus surveillance video, locating the images that they released on Thursday.

Investigators said they had also collected a footwear impression, a palm imprint and forearm imprints for analysis. They were reviewing some 200 tips.

The rifle that was recovered, a .30-06 Mauser, was located in a “wooded area where the shooter had fled,” Mr. Mason said. Investigators also recovered several cartridges, including a spent round in the rifle’s chambers, and sent them to be examined by analysts.

The search the previous day had proved unnerving for many residents.

Esther Whitney, 48, said she had been driving home from a Walmart when she learned there had been a shooting not far from her house.

“By the time I got home, there were already police, snipers across the street looking around for people, helicopters, lots of sirens and drones,” she said. At one point, Ms. Whitney realized the door of her chicken coop was hanging open.

“I actually went down with a baseball bat, cause I was like, ‘What if it’s the guy, and he’s hiding in there?’” she said. Then she realized it had been law enforcement officers searching through possible hiding places.

By Thursday afternoon, the activity had calmed significantly, but police cars were still watching the area, and yellow crime tape cordoned off a nearby stretch of street next to the campus. And homeland security officials were still knocking on doors.

Residents, meanwhile, were continuing to check in on each other. Ms. Whitney said she was making sure everyone was accounted for as part of her responsibilities as block captain.

“It’s kind of surreal that something this big happened in our backyard,” she said.

 
 

I can’t believe I’m saying this, but Shen Yun please put your ads back. “China before communism” simply can’t compete with how dumb this shit is

 

NEW YORK CITY—On Saturday night, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents entered a student residential building at Columbia University in uptown New York and detained Mahmoud Khalil, one of the lead negotiators on behalf of pro-Palestine protesters at 2024’s Gaza solidarity encampment. In a sweeping attack on the First Amendment, the Trump administration said this week it would begin revoking visas of “Hamas sympathizers,” specifically citing Columbia University students. The detention followed a two-day targeted online campaign against Khalil by pro-Israel groups and individuals, including Columbia’s high-profile pro-Israel professor, Shai Davidai. Khalil, an Algerian citizen of Palestinian origin and an American green-card holder, was detained by DHS officials around half past eight as he was entering the Columbia residential building he lives in. He was returning from an iftar, breaking the day-long fast observed by many Muslims during the month of Ramadan.

Khalil’s wife, who is eight months pregnant, was with him at the time. A statement by the pro-Palestine group Writers Against the War on Gaza (WAWOG) stated that he was “abducted and detained without the physical demonstration of a warrant or officially filed charges.” At the time of writing, Khalil is still being detained at a DHS facility in New Jersey, according to a database for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

According to WAWOG, the DHS agents told Khalil that the U.S. Department of State had revoked his student visa. The group said this was “despite the fact that he has a green card, not a visa, and is a lawful permanent resident.” Khalil’s wife was unlocking the door to the building when “two plainclothes DHS agents forced their way in behind them.” They initially refused to identify themselves, she reported, but then threatened Khalil’s wife that if she remained with him, she would be detained too.

On Wednesday, Khalil was among the protesters at a sit-in at Milstein Library in Columbia University’s Barnard College, protesting the recent expulsion of three Barnard students over pro-Palestine activism. New York Police Department officers later arrested nine individuals from the same protest—the third round of arrests of pro-Palestine demonstrators on Columbia’s campuses in the past year.

Over the course of Thursday and Friday, several prominent pro-Israel groups and individuals published a series of tweets targeting Khalil, mentioning his presence at the sit-in on Wednesday and his history as a lead negotiator with Columbia in April 2024, and demanded that the Trump administration act strongly against him by revoking his visa and deporting him. They tagged President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and US Attorney General Pam Bondi.

Shai Davidai, a professor at Columbia Business School, who was suspended from entering Columbia’s Morningside campus in 2024 following allegations of misconduct against students and staff of the university, tweeted, “Illegally taking over a college in which you are not even enrolled and distributing terrorist propaganda should be a deportable offense, no? Because that’s what Mahmoud Khalil from @ColumbiaSJP did yesterday at @BarnardCollege”.

“Documenting Jew Hatred on Campus at Columbia U”—an account on X with more than 20,000 followers—tweeted, “Secretary Rubio (@SecRubio), please revoke Mahmoud Khalil's visa!” On March 6, Rubio had tweeted that “those who support designated terrorist organizations, including Hamas, threaten our national security” and that such “violators of U.S law—including international students—face visa denial or revocation, and deportation.”

A pro-Israel student protester at Columbia shared that Khalil was “known to have been on a foreign visa last year” before stating that he “recently helped illegally take over a library building”. Canary Mission posted against Khalil on their social media profiles with the caption “SUSPECTED FOREIGN NATIONAL ALERT”.

A post on Instagram by “Documenting Jew Hatred On Campus” and another account, “Jews In School,” referred to Khalil as a “foreign student agitator at Columbia University” and “the poster child for demonstrating that the Trump administration is serious about revoking visas of foreign students who support terrorism, foment hatred, and harass Jews.”

Saturday’s actions against Khalil also took place against the backdrop of the Trump administration’s decision to cancel around $400 million in federal grants and contracts to Columbia University. The White House has claimed that Columbia’s “failure to protect Jewish students from antisemitic harassment” was the reason for this move.

Columbia University recently set up an office that is secretly investigating its students for political statements about Israel, Drop Site News reported this week, and is requiring students to sign non-disclosure agreements to view the evidence being brought against them. On Friday evening, Columbia University’s Interim President Katrina Armstrong said that the university has reworked leadership structures to “more swiftly respond to incidents of antisemitism and discrimination on campus.”

Khalil, a graduate student at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs, had previously stated that he was accused by the university’s office of misconduct just weeks before his graduation in December 2024. “I have around 13 allegations against me, most of them are social media posts that I had nothing to do with,” he told the Associated Press in an article published on March 6.

After refusing to sign the nondisclosure agreement, Khalil reportedly said the university put a hold on his transcript and threatened to block him from graduating. But when he appealed the decision through a lawyer, he said, they eventually backed down.

 

How pathetic is it to still be slavaing your ukrainis this hard in the year of our lord 2025, especially right after your lord and savior got scolded like a schoolboy in front of billions of people

I need all of you to PRAY FOR my CARROTS to COME OUT RIGHT

 
 
 

Cops scare him off and chase ensues with the cops trying to crash the crowded hostage bus as man bleeds out. Random lady gets broken wrist after her car gets totaled by bus.

amerikkka-clap

 

The “best” part about the “Hitler hypnotized us” narrative promoted by the krauts in their bloviating, soporific lectures is how it presents a completely counterfactual history devoid of the violent opposition to and clashes with fascists that characterized the Weimar Republic, all in order to pretend grandpappy didn’t deserve to be blown to a million pieces because everyone supported the Nazis and nobody knew right from wrong and morality wasn’t invented until 1945. Once upon a time I thought maybe there was some element of sincerity in German repentance culture, but no - it’s all self-serving, self-absorbed, self-flattering, self-interested, self- this and that; self-centered hagiographic self-praise that treats their unspeakable crimes as elite status cards to trot out.

These fucking krauts just can’t shut the fuck up about how they have some specialized knowledge of fascism because they’re krauts. Were you there? Were you around during the Nazi era? No? Then I fail to see how you know anything more or have any more expertise on the matter than Joe Pissmonger from Montana. Maybe if you picked up a fucking book sometime instead of insisting that being a kraut gives you special privilege to speak with no prior investigation.

But apparently Teutonic blood gives you divine insight into how fascism works. Looks like they haven’t moved past their Nazi genetic woo after all.

“I’m a German and I’m here to teach you how to avoid fascism by supporting the status quo” how about you deal with your own rapidly Nazifying shithole American province before lecturing others.

Be grateful the very idea of “Germany” wasn’t razed to the ground and scattered to the wind after your dear leader escorted himself off the premises.

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