Chicago cop sues city for right to change his race after department allows officers to change genders

 Yusuf said he first joined the force in 2004 and, at the time, the department only offered three race selections: Caucasian, Black and Hispanic. He chose “Caucasian” and it was put on his official record, he said.

NY Post  "A Chicago police officer is suing the city to change his race on his official records after the department said it would allow officers to freely change their gender to match their identity.

"Mohammad Yusuf, 43, said in a federal civil rights lawsuit filed last week that he is looking to change from “Caucasian” as he “currently identifies as Egyptian and African American.” However, the Chicago Police Department is not allowing him to change his race

"The lawsuit comes as the department allows an officer’s “gender identity [to be] corrected to match their lived experience,” Yusuf’s lawsuit alleges.

"And, the decision is impacting Yusuf’s professional advancement, he claims.

"Fox News Digital reached out to the Chicago Police Department for a statement, and it said: “We do not comment on pending litigation.”

"According to the lawsuit, Yusuf alleges that he has been repeatedly overlooked for promotions due to his “Caucasian” race. These promotions, he claims, have been given to other minority applicants with only very few going to Caucasian applicants.

"The 20-year veteran of the Chicago Police Department points in his lawsuit to CPD’s promotion system that “particularly” benefits “minority candidates,” even if they did not score well on promotional exams." . . .

The Blood on Biden’s Hands

 Townhall (townhall.com)

"President Joe Biden has blood on his hands. It’s actually not “on” his hands, it’s through them, marinated all the way to the bone. It’s the blood of Laken Hope Riley, but it’s also so much more. It’s the blood of every American murdered by an illegal alien – of 2-year-old Jeremy Poou Caceres, of three wounded police officers in Washington, DC, of the 14-year-old girl raped and stabbed in Louisiana, and so many more I can’t fit in here. The blood of Americans who, had the President and his fellow Democrats not seen political advantage to allowing a flood of illegal aliens into the country, would not have been spilled at all. Every last drop of it is their [responsibilty], and they simply do not give a damn.

"The murder of Laken Riley is thought to be an unintended consequence of the President’s open border policies, but it really is not. It’s not unintended at all. 

"You’ve likely heard some version of a story about an auto company that knew they had a defect in their car, something they could fix for a very small price on an individual car basis, but would cost a fortune to address on every car they’d sold. Fixing it on all cars would save dozens of lives, but the cost of doing so was too great to justify it – settling wrongful death lawsuits would be more affordable – so they let their defective product stand. 

"Whether it’s true or not, or just partially so, does not matter, the principle does. By refusing to enforce our immigration laws, Biden and the Democrats knew they’d be inviting in a large criminal element from the third world, they just didn’t care. The “cost” of lives was cheaper than what they saw as the benefits to them, so they let it happen." . . .

Reality Of Transgender Policies

 

Americans' Complex Views on Gender Identity and Transgender Issues | Pew Research Center

NCAA leader resigns over transgender policy: It’s ‘massive, essentially authorized, cheating’ | The College Fix  "A NCAA leader resigned this month after saying he grew frustrated with the association’s decision to allow male student athletes who identify as transgender females to compete in women’s sports.

"William Bock III, who has served on the association’s Committee on Infractions since 2016, announced his resignation in a letter Feb. 9 to NCAA President Charlie Baker, the Washington Examiner reports.

A prominent sports attorney from Indiana, Bock said he used to believe the athletics association was dedicated to “competitive fairness and protection of equal opportunities for student-athletes.”

“This conviction has changed as I have watched the NCAA double down on regressive policies which discriminate against female student-athletes,” he wrote.

Bock said he became increasingly concerned after former University of Pennsylvania swimmer William “Lia” Thomas, a male who identifies as female, won an NCAA Division I championship on the women’s team in 2022.. . . 

UC Berkeley law professor John Yoo provides professional analysis of Trump’s ongoing legal battle

"UC Berkeley law professor John Yoo provides professional analysis of Trump’s ongoing legal battle during an appearance on ‘Cavuto: Coast to Coast.’ " #foxbusiness

Such a gift to Hamas! Flour massacre: How Gaza food killings unfolded, and Israel’s story changed

Expect Biden's narrowed eyelids, clenched teeth comments similar to what he gave to the border patrol men on horseback way back when. If true this will be devastating to Israel. Even as Israeli families' bodies were still smoldering, hatred for them was pouring from the mouths of those who hate Jews. TD

Aerial photos released by the IDF purport to show the scene as Palestinians attempted to obtain food from
 aid trucks near Gaza City 

 Al Jazeera Staff

"At least 112 Palestinians have been killed and more than 750 wounded after Israeli troops opened fire on hundreds waiting for food aid southwest of Gaza City.

"Here is what we know:

What happened and when?

"The incident unfolded at about 04:30 local time (02:30 GMT) on Thursday, when people congregated at Harun al-Rashid Street in Gaza, where aid trucks carrying flour were believed to be on the way.

"A convoy of aid trucks passed through the checkpoint, heading north, as people started gathering in large groups. According to the Israeli military, a convoy of 31 trucks entered Gaza but nearly 20 entered the north on Monday and Tuesday. 

"As people gathered in large groups waiting for much-needed aid, they were shot at by all kinds of military equipment, Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reported from Rafah. According to a report by the Associated Press, people pulled boxes of flour and canned goods off the trucks.

After the first round of shooting stopped, people returned to the trucks, only for the soldiers to open fire once more.

“ 'After opening fire, Israeli tanks advanced and ran over many of the dead and injured bodies,” Al Jazeera’s Ismail al-Ghoul said, reporting from the scene.

Where did the shooting take place?

"Palestinian authorities said the incident took place on al-Rashid Street at the Nabulsi Roundabout on the southwestern side of Gaza City.

"This is in northern Gaza, where food deliveries have been scarce. The first deliveries in over a month arrived this week." . . .

Biden Behind Closed Doors: Not Without His Notecards!

  RedState

 "No, President Biden's age, in and of itself, isn't the issue; it is his mental and physical deterioration, more and more obvious day by day, that is the issue."

"On Wednesday, former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy revealed something that those who have been paying attention have known for some time: Joe Biden has lost whatever self-possession he ever had. Now, the president can't even manage a behind-closed-doors meeting with members of Congress without his notecards, which are prepared by... who? FoxBusiness's Jeffrey Clark (no relation) has the details.

Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy revealed for the first time on Wednesday that President Biden uses notecards in private meetings with small groups of people. 

"He still has a teleprompter when you meet behind closed doors," McCarthy told "The Bottom Line" co-hosts on FOX Business. "But the teleprompter are cards. I found when I met with him, it would just be a couple of them. He would read from the card." 

  "McCarthy said that it was difficult to "deviate" from Biden during private negotiations, referencing when he spoke with the president on the debt ceiling.  

"He just sticks to the cards," he said of Biden. "And if you go, if you deviate from the cards, he can't continue onward there." . . .

 Biden Admin Defends Telling Fox News to Change Coverage of Biden (msn.com)  How about the coverage of Trump everywhere else?

Guess what Letitia James' latest legal action is!

NY AG Letita James sues world’s largest beef producer for allegedly misleading on climate claims | Just The News    

WSJ

"New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed a lawsuit against the world’s largest producer of beef for allegedly misleading the public about its environmental impact.

"According to statement from the attorney general's office, James accuses the company, JBS USA, of “green washing.”

"The company has said it would achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040. But according to James, by planning to expand its production, it’s misleading the public on its commitment to addressing climate change.

“ 'As families continue to face the daily impacts of the climate crisis, they are willing to spend more of their hard-earned money on products from brands that are better for the environment,” James said.

"The lawsuit aims to get the Brazilian beef giant to stop advertising its goal of “net zero by 2040” and pay penalties.

"JBS USA didn't respond to requests for comment." 

Lara Logan outs Corporate Media-Government Collusion

 Substack (substack.com)  "Media Censorship and the First Amendment: A threat to Freedom and the Republic"  

When the founding fathers put freedom of speech, first - it was not by chance. It was by design. The rights that followed were in part, created to protect the first Amendment. Without it, they knew that freedom itself would perish. 

. . ."Lara Logan:  Thank you, Senator Johnson. Hello everybody. I was asked to testify on media censorship and the First Amendment, the importance of free speech. And I do want to say that it is an honor and a privilege to be here with all of you and with you. Senator Johnson, thank you for hosting this “Rogue” committee.

"It is important to all of us because of everything discussed today, that we address the vital principles and values that exist really only in the United States of America. And that said, these are the worst of times for the media in this country. We live in the age of information warfare where propaganda is not simply a weapon, it is the entire field of battle. This is a war for our minds that is aided by advanced technology, and we have never been here, not in all of human history.

"It is a moment when we as journalists should stand together united and regardless of politics, we should fight for the truth and we should fight for freedom. Yet not very long ago, we allowed one of our own Tucker Carlson to be branded as a traitor simply for doing his job. In fact, there were many, so-called journalists who were leading the charge against Tucker, accusing him of treason for the simple fact of interviewing the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin. And to my knowledge, there was not a single legacy media institution that spoke up.

"This was more than a politically motivated attack on one man. It was a betrayal of the most sacred principles of a free press. And my media colleagues know this to be true no matter what they say. My fear is that they either no longer care or that they lack the moral courage to be honest, including with themselves. I have worked at the highest levels of the media as a full-time correspondent for 60 Minutes, chief Foreign correspondent for CBS News, chief Foreign Affairs correspondent for CBS News. That was my home for 16 years. And as a journalist, I have sat down with world leaders, mass murderers and terrorists, and I have held people on both sides of the aisle accountable.

"I have seen suffering and I have faced evil, and I have walked through the fires of hell on distant battlefields. I faced my own death at the hands of a mob of some 200 men in Egypt when I was gang raped and sodomized and beaten almost to death while on assignment for 60 minutes.

"And yet for almost a decade, I have been targeted and falsely branded and accused of many things that I did not do. They have attacked my work, my character, my sanity, and my marriage. And I am not alone. We are many and we will not give up, and we will not give in to those who wish to censor the idea of free speech. In America and all over the world, media companies, institutions, and journalism schools have failed all of us. And for too long we have allowed nonprofit organizations to masquerade as nonpartisan media watchdogs, when in fact they are a little more than highly paid political propagandists and assassins, whose entire reason for being is to crush anyone who stands in their way." Read the entire testimony of Ms. Logan here.

How can the pro-Hamas, anti-Israel left be so obtuse?

 

Hebron, Palestine: Isn’t it barbaric to decapitate Mr. Ahmad Abu Marhia just because he is gay?

. . ."Indeed, he was brutally murdered (i.e., decapitated, dismembered). Guess why? Simply because of his sexual orientation. As reported in the Lebanese, Israeli, and British media, Mr. Abu Marhia was hiding in Israel awaiting to leave the country to Canada, as a refugee in just two months before his death. How sad and how unfair (https://bit.ly/3yq8tnn; https://bit.ly/3SMMO0I; https://bbc.in/3RFscpT)!

"The fate of Mr. Abu Marhia speaks volumes about how you are treated by Islamists when you are from a sexual minority (i.e., homosexual). You receive death threats, as reported in the articles cited above. You also risk being killed in the most horrible way like in this tragedy. This when you are not thrown out of a building or sentenced to death in other countries of the region. Yet in some other places of this part of the world, you may be put in jail and even tortured. Furthermore, in some apparently more tolerant countries of the region, you risk being medically examined in the most degrading way possible to the dignity of a human being.

"Welcome to the Middle East where 56% of its youth want their countries’ laws to be based on the Shariah (Islamic) law, not on civil/common law, as per the earlier post shown below." . . .

Gay Palestinian living under asylum in Israel murdered, beheaded in Hebron | The Times of Israel

The . . ."greenies’ electric vehicle craze?"

 

Image courtesy of Clive Branson.

Can Mercedez-Benz buck the greenies’ electric vehicle craze? - American Thinker

The business model change comes after multiple highly-publicized instances of Mercedes-Benz electric vehicles catching on fire and causing massive damage.

An EQB model caught ablaze while being charged in a car showroom in Malaysia on New Year’s Eve 2023, with video footage showing the terrifying moment a portion of the building went up in flames.

The fire destroyed “about 90 percent of the car, five percent of the showroom building structure, and 20 percent of the electric vehicle charging bay” the local fire and rescue operation commander told the Star.

Earlier in the year, a new Mercedes-Benz EQE350+ electric vehicle spontaneously caught fire while parked in a Nocatee, Florida home garage, causing an estimated $1 million in damage to the house.

The car wasn’t even charging when it caught fire, Breitbart News reported.

Nikki to Trump, "You shall not pass!"

 

AfterMath via Monty Python & The Holy Grail: "...It's just a flesh wound..."

Israel, the apple of God's eye

"Apple of My Eye" - Bible Meaning of Psalm 17

In Psalm 17, David asks God to "keep me as the apple of your eye" in a prayer to the Lord. Learn more about the meaning and significance of this phrase!

Anti-Semitism may be Coming to Your Radio Station - American Thinker  "Don’t be shocked if you tune in to your favorite conservative talk-radio show and instead hear someone of the same political stance as Rachel Maddow or Joy Reid. Before you crash your car or fall out of your chair, you should know what is taking place, why it is taking place, and your role in preventing what could be a severe reduction in conservative and pro-Israel voices on terrestrial radio.

"George Soros, via Soros Fund Management (SFM), has acquired via a bankruptcy bailout a majority position in Audacy Inc, the licensee of 235 radio stations in the United States, plus digital programming, and podcasting outlets. Nationally, Audacy, the second largest radio company in America, claims to reach 200 million people a month through its various distribution channels including a near-monopoly on news and talk-formatted stations in many markets." . . .

Having hundreds of stations and digital outlets under Soros’ influence is dangerous for America and especially Jewry, and although time is very tight, the control of Audacy by an avowed anti-Zionist is something we Americans must try to derail. . . 

 U2 stands with Israel

5 Mind-Blowing Differences Between Sephardic & Ashkenazi Jews | Big Jewish Ideas (youtube.com)

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"I Hated Jews, Until I Met Them" - Loay Al-Shareef's Personal Story

The restoration of Israel to her land that God gave her: What is the meaning of the Valley of Dry Bones in Ezekiel 37? | GotQuestions.org

"God transported Ezekiel—probably not literally, but in a vision—to a valley full of dry bones and directed him to speak to the bones. Ezekiel was to tell the bones that God would make breath enter the bones and they would come to life, just as in the creation of man when He breathed life into Adam (Genesis 2:7). Ezekiel obeyed, the bones came together, flesh developed, skin covered the flesh, breath entered the bodies, and they stood up in a vast army. This vision symbolized the whole house of Israel that was then in captivity. Like unburied skeletons, the people were in a state of living death, pining away with no end to their judgment in sight. They thought their hope was gone and they were cut off forever. The surviving Israelites felt their national hopes had been dashed and the nation had died in the flames of Babylon’s attack with no hope of resurrection.

"The reviving of the dry bones signified God’s plan for Israel’s future national restoration. The vision also, and most importantly, showed that Israel’s new life depended on God’s power and not the circumstances of the people. Putting “breath” by God’s Spirit into the bones showed that God would not only restore them physically but also spiritually. The Israelites residing in the Holy Land today are not the fulfillment of this prophecy. It will be fulfilled when God re-gathers believing Israelites to the land (Jeremiah 31:33; 33:14–16) and Christ returns to establish His Millennial Kingdom (Matthew 24:30–31)." . . .