By Herb Scribner @ Axios.com, 3 hrs. ago
An Iraqi man in the U.S. with alleged links to ISIS has been taken into custody after he plotted to assassinate former President George W. Bush, said the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Southern District of Ohio Tuesday.
Driving the news: Shihab Ahmed Shihab Shihab, an Iraqi citizen living in Columbus, Ohio, allegedly looked to smuggle four people from Iraq into the U.S. via the Mexican border to kill Bush.
- Shihab Ahmed Shihab Shihab was charged federally with an immigration crime and with aiding and abetting a plot to murder Bush.
- He appeared in federal court Tuesday and his case was unsealed at the time [....]
Intel Brief @ SoufanCenter.org, May 3
Bottom Line Up Front
- In 2021, there was a 59% increase since 2020 in the number of U.S. police officers murdered on duty, with 73 officers intentionally killed.
- More than 55 police officers were killed by guns in 2021, a significant increase from previous years.
- Death by gunfire plagues American society, with 45,222 people killed in 2020 (including homicide, suicide, and accidental).
- In 2021, Americans bought 19.9 million guns; in 2020, they bought 22.8 million.
On average in 2021, an on-duty police officer was murdered every five days in the United States, with a total of 73 officers intentionally killed by perpetrators last year. This number represents a 59% increase from 2020. The total is the highest since 2001, a year that included the police officers killed in the September 11 terrorist attacks in which 72 officers were killed in a single day. Excluding 2001, 2021 saw the most intentional killings of police officers in the U.S. since 1995, when 74 officers were murdered. During an interview with CBS’ 60 Minutes that aired on April 24, 2022, FBI Director Christopher Wray said, “violence against law enforcement in this country is one of the biggest phenomena that I think doesn't get enough attention.” He went on to add that the deliberate targeting of police officers was on the rise and that “wearing the badge shouldn't make you a target.” Of the 73 officers killed, 25 were killed in “unprovoked attacks,” such as by ambush. In those cases where a political motive is suspected, the attacks spanned the ideological spectrum from far-left to far-right and raise the question of whether they should be classified as domestic terrorism [....]
@ NYTimes.com. 2022 Elections Live, May 11
Representative Alex Mooney defeated a fellow House member in West Virginia.
In Nebraska, Jim Pillen, a university regent, held off the Trump-endorsed candidate for governor, Charles Herbster.
I wanted to repost this post that Artappraiser put up.
In the article, it is mentioned that Mia Khalifa was rooming in a $550 apartment in Miami after becoming world famous.
The porn industry, which was once upon a time seen as empowering by some, completely ripped her off. Despite clearly continuing to distribute her sex tapes, she never got any sort of royalties.
The Bustle article even demonstrates that the pornographers went out of the way to endanger her - putting her up in a hijab when she was in fact raised Catholic.
To me, Khalifa actually represents a generational shift. Khalifa is beautiful and exquisite - BangBros and PornHub treated her like a piece of meat to filtered around a barbecue. If the images seen in the Bustle article are anything like what she has in store for us, this could be a departure back to the "cheesecake" images that our grandparents' generation took part in.
The Democratic policy world produces bad ideas and then misleads everybody about them.
By Matt Bruenig @ PeoplesPolicyProject.org, April 19
Over at Slow Boring, Matt Yglesias has a piece in which he argues that the Democratic policymaking system focuses too much on cultivating team players and coalition-building and not enough on crafting technically sound policy ideas. Left-of-center policy advocates rarely make criticisms of the policies that come out of major liberal organizations and, even when they do, it is very difficult for those criticisms to get a fair hearing in the media or in the halls of Congress because journalists and staffers are naturally skeptical of anyone saying that the overwhelming consensus of dozens of policy analysts across multiple major organizations is simply wrong.
I speak from a place of experience on this. As Yglesias notes in his piece, I spent a couple of months last year pointing out that the Democratic child care proposal would dramatically increase child care prices for middle class families right above the subsidy cliff. At the time, I was the only one publicly saying this (unless you also count the DC city government, which published a report saying the same thing). And I got a crazy amount of backlash for doing so.
Email blasts went out across the Hill telling everyone I was wrong [....]
By Herb Scribner @ Axios.com, 3 hrs. ago
An Iraqi man in the U.S. with alleged links to ISIS has been taken into custody after he plotted to assassinate former President George W. Bush, said the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Southern District of Ohio Tuesday.
Driving the news: Shihab Ahmed Shihab Shihab, an Iraqi citizen living in Columbus, Ohio, allegedly looked to smuggle four people from Iraq into the U.S. via the Mexican border to kill Bush.
article is from August but someone on my feed just retweeted it
