Sat: Trump’s supposed advantage with Latinos

Somebody Remind Me.  Why Are We Supporting Israel?

Israel’s army said Saturday the body of a missing Israeli teen was found in the West Bank after he was killed in a “terrorist attack,” as violence escalated across the Israeli-occupied territory where tensions have simmered for months.

The disappearance of 14-year-old Binyamin Achimair sparked attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinian villages on Friday and Saturday. Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant in a statement on social media urged people not to take the law into their own hands.

On Friday, Palestinian Jehad Abu Alia was killed and 25 others were wounded in the attack on al-Mughayyir village, Palestinian health officials said. On Saturday, Israeli troops delayed for several hours the ambulance carrying the 26-year-old man’s body for burial, witnesses said.

Dozens of Israeli settlers returned to the village’s outskirts on Saturday, burning 12 homes and several cars. The Palestinian Health Ministry said three people from the village were injured, one critically. Border police fired tear gas toward villagers who gathered, trying to disperse them.

In the nearby village of Douma, Israeli settlers set fire to around 15 homes and 10 farms, the head of the local village council, Slieman Dawabsheh, told The Associated Press, saying he had been there. “The army came but unfortunately, the army were protecting the settlers,” he said, asserting that it fired tear gas and rubber bullets at Palestinians trying to confront and expel them.

Israel: Home of the Disproportional Resopnse

Many of these People Have a Disability.  They Are Liars.

Disney is revamping its policy for park visitors with disabilities, limiting how many people are eligible for the program that helps guests avoid lines because too many people are exploiting it.

Disney’s Disability Access Service program, or DAS, was launched in 2013, according to a Disney spokesperson.

The free program is intended for guests with a “developmental disability such as autism or similar” and who are unable to wait in line for an extended period of time, according to the policy posted on the company's DAS websites.

The free program allows guests to obtain a return time for attractions at its Florida and California parks rather than wait in line.

Disney on Tuesday announced that starting May 20 at Disney World, and June 18 at Disneyland, the parks will limit the number of family members eligible to four. It had previously been six. The change will also address how often eligible guests can enroll in the program: It will now be every 120 days instead of 60, Disney said.

A Disney spokesperson on Friday said DAS is the most popular service requested at Disney World and Disneyland. Use of the program has tripled during the past five years, including for guests who try to use the service that is not intended for them, the spokesperson said.

That has meant longer waits for the guests who need the service, which is why Disney is taking steps to preserve the program, the spokesperson said.

Disney does not require proof of disabilities from guests and won’t do so, the spokesperson said.

On the DAS websites, Disney says guests can be banned from the parks if they lie about having a disability.

Has Cannon Fired a Warning Shot?

Judge Cannon Signals a New Plan

Understanding her sudden swerve in the context of everything that came before in the the classified documents case against Trump.

IF CANNON IS DETERMINED to acquit Trump, the smart move would be for her to keep deciding every pre-trial motion in favor of Smith, not Trump, thus ensuring that she stays on the case, just where she needs to be to issue an order of acquittal at the close of Smith’s case.

The only way Smith can prevent that is to go to the Eleventh Circuit now. It comes down to a matter of assessing patterns and weighing risks. There is no way to know for certain that Cannon is executing a new plan to acquit Trump, and there is a risk that if Smith goes to the court of appeals too soon, it will deny his request to remove Cannon from the case.

But the risk of being rebuffed by the Eleventh Circuit is outweighed by the risk of allowing Cannon to engage in judicial rope-a-dope that would exhaust Smith’s case for Cannon’s removal until it is too late.

Smith may not be able to know exactly what Cannon will do. But he does know what she can do. And based on what she has done, that should be enough for him to act now.

They Are So Good At Being Bad

Republicans remain terrible at picking Senate candidates

Tim Sheehy and Kari Lake are the new Blake Masters and Herschel Walker.

Republican Montana Senate candidate Tim Sheehy spent last week confirming that he’s a liar, which is not exactly how you want to spend your week as a Senate candidate.

Sheehy also demonstrated, for anyone who doubted it, that the GOP continues to have serious problems recruiting decent candidates for high office. Recruitment problems are why they don’t control the Senate right now. And it’s why, despite every advantage and a map that couldn’t be better for them, they still, with a good bit of luck, may be able to pull defeat from the jaws of victory this November.

Somebody Remind Me. Why Are We Supporting Israel?

If they could get away with it a very large segment of the Israeli population and certainly the Netanyahu govt would march every Palestinian man, woman, and child into a gas chamber then the oven. They are far more dangerous than even maga because they are mass murdering people. And our govt including Biden is complicit. There are many good Israeli's just as there are many good Americans but not nearly enough.