YubNub Social YubNub Social
    #jesuschrist #christmas #christ #merrychristmas #princeofpeace #achildisborn #noël #christmas2025
    Advanced Search
  • Login
  • Register

  • Night mode
  • © 2025 YubNub Social
    About • Directory • Contact Us • Developers • Privacy Policy • Terms of Use • shareasale • FB Webview Detected • Android • Apple iOS • Get Our App

    Select Language

  • English
Install our *FREE* WEB APP! (PWA)
Night mode toggle
Community
New Posts (Home) ChatBox Popular Posts Reels Game Zone Top PodCasts
Explore
Explore
© 2025 YubNub Social
  • English
About • Directory • Contact Us • Developers • Privacy Policy • Terms of Use • shareasale • FB Webview Detected • Android • Apple iOS • Get Our App
Advertisement
Stop Seeing These Ads

Discover posts

Posts

Users

Pages

Blog

Market

Events

Games

Forum

SciFi and Fantasy
SciFi and Fantasy  
1 w

Some of Reactor’s Best Articles About Fiction, Reading, and Writing in 2025
Favicon 
reactormag.com

Some of Reactor’s Best Articles About Fiction, Reading, and Writing in 2025

Books Best of 2025 Some of Reactor’s Best Articles About Fiction, Reading, and Writing in 2025 We’re looking back at some of our favorite non-fiction articles from the past year, highlighting book-centric essays. By Reactor | Published on December 16, 2025 Comment 0 Share New Share Welcome back to our annual round-up of some of our favorite essays and articles from the past year! Today, we’ll be highlighting pieces focused on reading, writing, storytelling, and all things book-related—very soon, we’ll be publishing a separate list of articles discussing TV, movies, and other media, so keep an eye out for that… In addition to these standalone essays, we’re also incredibly proud of our lineup of regular columns, along with the amazing array of fiction recommendations and discussion provided by our many wonderful contributors. This year we reached the end of Sam Reader’s Dissecting The Dark Descent series, which explored a classic anthology of horror fiction, and launched two new columns: Horror Highlights, in which Emily Hughes shines a spotlight on exciting new horror fiction each month, and Romantasy Report, Natalie Zutter’s rundown of new and upcoming romantasy titles. We’ve also been excited to launch Ruthanna Emrys’ brilliant biweekly Seeds of Story column, in which she explores works of non-fiction and how they might inspire speculative ideas and potential stories—you can read some highlights from that column below! Also featured below are the first four installments of our new Hidden Gems Book Club, which sees guest authors advocating for speculative works that deserve to be discussed and appreciated by a wider audience. We hope that you enjoy the articles we’ve included below, but of course, we can’t possibly include all of our favorites in just one list, so please chime in and tell us about the articles, columns, and discussions that have stuck with you this year… Examining Trends in Contemporary SFF The Necessary Sex Scene: Intimacy as Craft in N.K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season by Tiffany FritzJune 25, 2025 Tiffany Fritz on the “plot relevance” of sex scenes in contemporary SFF: “because the sordid details of the sex scenes in The Fifth Season do not directly impact its plot, Jemisin’s celebrated novel provides a master-class in how explicit sex scenes can benefit SFF stories.” The Problem With Trad Pub Fanfic by Jenny HamiltonSeptember 23, 2025 Jenny Hamilton looks closer at three recent fanfics-turned-novels: “It turns out that when you extract fanfic from the spaces and communities that made it special, it stops being special.” Everyone’s in Love, but Nobody’s Horny by C.L. ClarkSeptember 30, 2025 C.L. Clark discusses writing sex, desire, and queerness in Nicola Griffith’s Ammonite: “When you introduce desire, you introduce something that may be thwarted—or something that you will have to work for, strive for, maybe even change for.” Medieval Revival, Romance, and Resistance by Maddie MartinezOctober 20, 2025 Maddie Martinez discusses the growing trend of Lady Knights and Golems: “Knights and Golems are both painted as protectors, but feared as weapons. They are loyal to a cause—and to a fault—and have become mythologizations that we still share stories of today.” Tender Is the Flesh-Eating: The Literary Cannibal as Exploitation and Desire by Wen-yi LeeNovember 11, 2025 It’s chic, it’s tasteful, and it’s dominating the literary landscape. Readers are hungry, so let’s examine cannibalism’s relationship to revenge, exploitation, and desire… Author Insights How Chronic Pain Made Me a Better Writer by Nicole JarvisMay 6, 2025 “When each sentence was part of an hourglass that trickled away my endurance, I learned to work deliberately and thoroughly.” Seventeen Authors, Two Big Questions: What Is Your Favorite SFF Trope, and What Trope Needs To Be Reimagined? by Christina OrlandoAugust 12, 2025 Some of the biggest names in SFF weigh in on the genre tropes we love (and love to hate). Chuck Tingle Chats About Bi-Erasure, Andy Kaufman, and His New Novel by Leah Schnelbach August 14, 2025 A free-wheeling conversation with author Chuck Tingle, as he discusses his unique approach to writing horror: “In horror, you’re tapping into such brutal things. You’re proving love through some really dark stuff.” Asking Questions and Finding New Perspectives on SFF Exploring the Consequences of Magic in Modern Fantasy by Kristen PattersonFebruary 19, 2025 What happens when magic is misused, or has unintended repercussions? Kristen Patterson explores the different ways contemporary fantasy authors not only define their magic systems, but the consequences of its very existence. How Does Science Fiction Help Us Prepare for the Future? by Ruthanna EmrysApril 8, 2025 Let’s talk about preparing, not predicting — and grappling with uncertainty. Teatime in Space: Culture and Colonialism in SFF by Olivia WaiteApril 22, 2025 “Tea is a history, a context, an experience as well as a beverage. Tea means things. ” Olivia Waite examines two very different corners of the science fiction universe, linked by a love of tea… To New Beginnings: Growing Past Percy Jackson by AM Gelberg On aging past our childhood heroes, and leaving room for the next generation of fans. Revisting Classic Works What I Can Learn From Rand al’Thor’s Mental Health Journeyby Sylas K. BarrettJune 10, 2025 Accepting you cannot control every outcome of your choices is hard — for Rand, and for everyone… An Anti-Hero Predicts the Future in Graham Greene’s Classic Brighton Rock by Zack BudrykJune 17, 2025 Heaven was a word — Hell was something he could trust. The Ambiguous Realism of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Lost Trilogy by Peter Milne GreinerJuly 16, 2025 It’s time to reconsider one of Le Guin’s most vitally important works. Exploring Gender and Trans Identity in the Worlds of C.J. Cherryh by Gwen C. KatzSeptember 16, 2025 The Chanur series poses key questions about gender roles, expression, and identity. Stanislaw Lem’s Greatest Character: An Introduction to Ijon Tichy by Alex PrzybylaOctober 2, 2025 A lovable, honest bumbler, Tichy’s not your typical hero… Revisiting Patricia McKillip’s Timely, Timeless Fantasy by Alex DuebenNovember 5, 2025 A short tribute to the work of one of SFF’s greatest writers and storytellers. Selections from Ruthanna Emrys’ Seeds of Story Column Underground Brains and Talking Trees: Exploring the Mysteries of Fungi in Merlin Sheldrake’s Entangled LifeAugust 12, 2025 A fascinating, mind-altering journey into the world of mushrooms and mycology. The Perils of Learning Alien Languages: The Sapir-Whorf Linguistic Relativity HypothesisSeptember 9, 2025 Thinking about how language shapes the way we think, from Newspeak to texting and the Internet. Radioactive Wastelands and Also Legal Wrangling: Kelly and Zach Weinersmith’s A City on MarsOctober 7, 2025 Real talk about how we can settle space — and if it’s really a good idea. There Is No “Now”: Carlo Rovelli’s The Order of TimeNovember 18, 2025 Are you ready to rethink everything you know about time? Selections from Molly Templeton’s Mark as Read Column Trying and Failing to Figure Out “Escapism” in BooksJanuary 9, 2025 What is escapist lit? Every answer I’ve read is incomplete, because it’s not one thing. It’s not a kind of book, I think, but a kind of reading… Tell Me a Differently Shaped Story: SFF That Plays With FormMarch 13, 2025 I love a novel that plays with form. And I’ve come to think that maybe form is one of the keys that can unlock a reading slump… It’s Okay to Know Where the Story Is GoingMay 8, 2025 It’s a cliche and a truth to say that the journey matters more than the destination… (It’s Not) The Death of Criticism (Again)September 11, 2025 Every old argument is new again — but it is sometimes necessary to reconsider the hows and whys of criticism. Selections from the Hidden Gems Book Club The Merry Spinster and the Art of Falling Between Two Stools by Isaac FellmanJune 4, 2025 Revisiting Daniel M. Lavery’s surreal take on fairy tales: “These stories center on prosaic fears—being lied to about your own motivations, being the only one in the room who’s missing the obvious, failing as a partner, being surveilled—which blend with supernatural events. They wrong-foot the reader by simply being alarming in a realist way when you expect the fantastical, or vice versa.” Rediscovering a Radical Piece of Early Science Fiction by Ilana MasadSeptember 25, 2025 Ilana Masad explores a feminist, queer, trans, anti-colonial work of sci-fi from 1929: “Out of the Void is arguably one of the most radical pieces of early sci-fi in existence, including as it does a gender transition, a successful uprising of enslaved people, and a reclamation of colonized land.” Style as Storytelling in Jackie Ryan’s Burger Force by Kathleen JenningsSeptember 29, 2025 Kathleen Jennings on the gleeful aesthetic and storytelling style of Ryan’s comic series: “Bold style can get you 90% of the way through a story. Take a wild story voice, an overwhelming aesthetic, a visual composition reminiscent of an aria, or an incredible musical motif…” Mary Doria Russell’s Children of God Is a Perfect Sequel by Cadwell TurnbullNovember 12, 2025 Cadwell Turnbull on the triumph and tragedy of Mary Doria Russell’s first contact novel and its remarkable sequel: “If The Sparrow shows the tragedy, Children of God inspects it from every angle, showing how each character, and each world respond to this tragedy.” That’s all for now, but be sure to keep an eye out for the second half of our 2025 highlights, where we’ll be talking all about old and new movies, TV series, and various other aspects of pop culture and media. In the meantime, if you’re feeling nostalgic, you can always check out our “Some of the Best…” article round-ups from previous years. Happy reading![end-mark] The post Some of Reactor’s Best Articles About Fiction, Reading, and Writing in 2025 appeared first on Reactor.
Like
Comment
Share
Hot Air Feed
Hot Air Feed
1 w

Musk II: The Elompire Strikes Back
Favicon 
hotair.com

Musk II: The Elompire Strikes Back

Musk II: The Elompire Strikes Back
Like
Comment
Share
Science Explorer
Science Explorer
1 w

Comet 3I/ATLAS Is Experiencing A Non-Gravitational Acceleration – What Does That Mean?
Favicon 
www.iflscience.com

Comet 3I/ATLAS Is Experiencing A Non-Gravitational Acceleration – What Does That Mean?

Thanks to it, scientists have been able to estimate the comet's mass more precisely.
Like
Comment
Share
NewsBusters Feed
NewsBusters Feed
1 w

Kimmel and Michelle Decry Supposed Loss of 'Rules And Norms And Standards'
Favicon 
www.newsbusters.org

Kimmel and Michelle Decry Supposed Loss of 'Rules And Norms And Standards'

Former First Lady Michelle Obama continued her late night fashion book tour on Monday when she travelled to ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! to promote the book and lament that the “rules and norms and standards” that applied to the White House allegedly no longer exist. Speaking about Barack, Kimmel wondered, “Is he upset that he never got to greenlight a Rush Hour movie? Or have a UFC fight on the White House lawn? I mean, really, you look back and go, "Oh, I could have done that. That would have been great." Obama made sure that the narrative that she and Barack treated the presidency with the august reverence it deserves was unspoiled, “That's why I say, you know, I thought there were rules and norms and standards, but yeah.”     We can’t all give interviews to people who eat cereal out of a bathtub, but such behavior is probably why when Barack left office in January 2017, the Associated Press dubbed him the “pop culture king.” Kimmel then moved on to the book, “You’ve written a book that is about my passion, fashion. Yes. Is it strange to you that people are so interested in the clothes that you wear?” Replace “people” with “journalists” and “interested in” with “gawk at” and the question would have made more sense. For her part, Obama said no, because “You know, first ladies throughout history. Their style, their approach to—you know, there's a mystique to the first lady. And right now it's still just a first lady. You know, to—all that behind the scenes. Because, you know, only a handful of people in the history of the country have served in that role. So—and how we show up in the world, you know—although the first lady's role, we are not celebrities, but there is sort of that otherness quality that, you know, you can't deny. And so, you know, you go to any presidential library and oftentimes the most popular exhibit is what the first lady wore.” Kimmel then wondered, “Did you save all that stuff? All that clothing?” Obama replied with a quip about Barack’s tan suit, “Yeah, yeah. I mean, all the clothes that had impact get donated by the designer to the White House Historical Association. So, it's saved to be archived for the presidential library, and the Obama Presidential Center will open up in June. With so many exhibits. There will be a model Oval Office, but also many of the fashions that I wore will be displayed there. Barack may have a tan suit. I think that was the biggest fashion statement.” Because late night exists to be a safe space for Democrats like the Obamas, Kimmel did not push back on the idea that the most scandalous thing Barack ever did was wear such a suit. Instead, he joked that “you gotta get those” mom jeans in there as well. Here is a transcript for the December 15-taped show: ABC Jimmy Kimmel Live! 12/16/2025 12:10 AM ET JIMMY KIMMEL: Is he upset that he never got to greenlight a Rush Hour movie? Or have a UFC fight on the White House lawn? MICHELLE OBAMA: You know? KIMMEL: I mean, really, you look back and go, "Oh, I could have done that. That would have been great." OBAMA: That's why I say, you know, I thought there were rules and norms and standards, but yeah. KIMMEL: You've written a book that is about my passion, fashion. Yes. OBAMA: Yes. As we all know. KIMMEL: Is it strange to you that people are so interested in the clothes that you wear? OBAMA: No. KIMMEL: No. OBAMA: I mean—you know, first ladies throughout history. Their style, their approach to—you know, there's a mystique to the first lady. And right now it's still just a first lady. You know, to—all that behind the scenes. Because, you know, only a handful of people in the history of the country have served in that role. So—and how we show up in the world, you know—although the first lady's role, we are not celebrities, but there is sort of that otherness quality that, you know, you can't deny. And so, you know, you go to any presidential library, and oftentimes the most popular exhibit is what the first lady wore. The inaugural gown. The—I guess it's our princess moment, you know, here in America. KIMMEL: Did you save all that stuff? All that clothing? OBAMA: Yeah, yeah. I mean, all the clothes that had impact get donated by the designer to the White House Historical Association. So, it's saved to be archived for the presidential library and the Obama Presidential Center will open up in June. KIMMEL: With these designs? OBAMA: With so many exhibits. There will be a model Oval Office, but also many of the fashions that I wore will be displayed there. Barack may have a tan suit. I think that was the biggest fashion statement. KIMMEL: What about those mom jeans? Will they be in there? Obama: Oh, you know? KIMMEL: You gotta get those.  OBAMA: Gotta get those KIMMEL: Absolutely. 
Like
Comment
Share
NewsBusters Feed
NewsBusters Feed
1 w

NewsBusters Podcast: Sunday Show Suckups Let Democrats Drop Bombs
Favicon 
www.newsbusters.org

NewsBusters Podcast: Sunday Show Suckups Let Democrats Drop Bombs

In the era of Donald Trump, journalists will earnestly tell each other that their jobs begin with fact-checking Trump's lies. They must do "fact-checking in real time." But they do nothing like that when they interview Democrats. The Sunday show hosts suck up to Democrats and let them drop rhetorical bombs. Managing editor Curtis Houck and news analyst Jorge Bonilla (our Sunday watchdog) join the discussion. On CNN's State of the Union on Sunday, ranty Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) exploited the mass shooting at Brown University to claim it was Trump's fault, that he's engaging in a “dizzying campaign to increase violence in this country.” He's all about making mass shootings more possible? Could anyone fact check that? CNN's Dana Bash didn't. She just said "That's a pretty big statement," allowing Murphy to double down on it. Then we address the mass shooting at the Hanukkah celebration on the beach in Australia. Then there's the weirdness of CBS's Face The Nation host Margaret Brennan asking tough questions of a Nobel Peace Prize winner who's fighting the dictator of Venezuela, who's stolen several elections he lost. Didn't these leftists say they were guardians of democracy? But this winner aligns right now with Trump, so CBS grilled Maria Corina Machado like she was a MAGA regular. They elected a new conservative leader in Chile, Jose Antonio Kast, but our media tagged him as "far right." His opponent was a Communist, but somehow not extreme.  On NBC, Meet the Press host Kristen Welker asked a decent question of Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), but failed to follow up on an indecent answer. She asked him how he proclaims his faith is a bridge, but he denounces Trumpism as a "plague on the American conscience." Warnock didn't take on the contradiction, but simply gave the stock leftist answer that the Republicans are redistributing all the wealth upward. That's why they call a tax cut for everyone.  Enjoy the podcast below, or the audio is here.     
Like
Comment
Share
NewsBusters Feed
NewsBusters Feed
1 w

Apple News Continues Embargo of Right-Leaning Media Into December
Favicon 
www.newsbusters.org

Apple News Continues Embargo of Right-Leaning Media Into December

Apple News has continued  its apparent boycott of right-leaning outlets into December.  MRC researchers exposed Apple News’s blatant bias against right-leaning media outlets in November, and a review of stories selected by Apple News editors each morning for the first two weeks of December revealed that its censorship has continued. None of the top 20 articles featured by Apple News for the first two weeks of December came from a right-leaning media outlet. Instead, the aggregator’s editors chose stories from left-leaning outlets such as The Washington Post, NBC and National Public Radio (NPR), as well as outlets rated politically center by AllSides like The Wall Street Journal’s news section, the BBC and Reuters.  Among the most radically left-wing outlets picked to top the Apple News feed the first two weeks in December were NPR, promoted 15 times, and The Guardian, elevated twelve times.  Apple News promoted NPR stories with clear leftist agendas portrayed in headlines like: “HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait” and “For the first time since 1988, the U.S. is not officially commemorating World AIDS Day.” Meanwhile, Apple News editors chose articles from The Guardian that included headlines such as “‘There’s power in numbers’: New Yorkers are banding together to protect street vendors from ICE” and “Hegseth gives defiant speech defending ‘drug boat’ strikes amid scrutiny.” Apple News also produced some of its own original reporting under outlet names such as Apple News Today, Apple in Conversation and Apple News Spotlight. At least one Apple News-created article was featured each day of the week, except for on Dec. 7 and Dec. 14 . The articles written by Apple News staff were overwhelmingly political in nature, with 10 of the 16 posted referencing President Donald Trump, a Trump cabinet official or a Trump action. The articles covered topics such as the Tennessee re-disctricting fight, Trump’s foreign policy, the Trump administration’s seizure of an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela and even GOP criticism, or MAGA support, of Department of War Secretary Pete Hegseth. Several  of the articles were blatant anti-Trump screeds, with headlines like “The affordability problem Trump can’t escape,” “Trump’s personal mortgages, new Epstein photos - and more of the week’s most-read politics stories” and “Why Trump has stayed loyal to Hegseth as GOP criticism mounts.” News aggregators, which are tools or platforms that gather articles from multiple media sources into a single place either through algorithmic selection or human curation, are a growing source for people to get their news from. According to a report from the Reuters Institute, “engagement with traditional media sources such as TV, print, and news websites continues to fall, while dependence on social media, video platforms, and online aggregators grows,” particularly in the United States.  The growing use of news aggregators makes obvious bias in aggregators’ feeds an egregious manipulation, especially without disclosure of its methods and reasons for selection. Apple News explains that it uses editors to select its top stories, making its overt suppression of right-leaning outlets even more troublesome. Including reporting from November, MRC researchers have documented 42 days of Apple News stories amounting to 840 total headlines. Of these, only one article was from a right-leaning outlet. The one article was about the Sudanese genocide of Christians and other non-Arabs, a topic the elitist media have largely neglected, and came from British outlet The Telegraph. Methodology: During the time period Dec. 1 - 14, 2025, MRC researchers examined the top 20 news stories featured on Apple News each day at approximately 10:00 AM EST. Researchers then used the AllSides media bias ratings, which categorize an outlet as “left,” “lean left,” “center,” “lean right” or “right” to determine the overall bias presented by Apple News and analyzed the results. Free speech is under attack! Contact your representatives and demand that Big Tech be held to account to mirror the First Amendment while providing transparency, clarity on hate speech and equal footing for conservatives. If you have been censored, contact us using CensorTrack’s contact form, and help us hold Big Tech accountable.
Like
Comment
Share
The Blaze Media Feed
The Blaze Media Feed
1 w

Trump forced allies to pay up — and it worked
Favicon 
www.theblaze.com

Trump forced allies to pay up — and it worked

In the fifth century B.C., a group of Greek city-states formed a defensive alliance known as the Delian League to protect them against the Persian Empire.Athens, the most powerful member, gradually increased its power. Its rulers moved the league’s common treasury from the island of Delos to Athens (to keep it safe, of course), attacked allies that attempted to secede, and started casually referring to the alliance as “our empire.”If you want good allies, you need to be a good ally.The most brazen assertion came when the Athenian leader Pericles raided the league treasury to fund building projects in Athens (including the Parthenon).When the other league members objected, Pericles insisted that the treasury was less like a common military budget and more like protection money: As long as the Persians aren’t breaking down your doors, we can spend league funds however we want.Obviously, this is no way to treat one’s allies. It is not just exploitative; it is counterproductive. During the ensuing Peloponnesian War, Athens spent as much time fighting its own rebellious allies as it did fighting Sparta.The United States, however, has spent the last several decades conducting its foreign relations on the opposite principle. We have the same hegemonic role Athens held, but instead of robbing our allies, we let them rob and betray us.A few months ago, the government of Kuwait — a country hundreds of Americans died to defend just a few decades ago and that continues to rely on us for protection against Iran — launched a “Kuwait-China Friendship Club” to strengthen military ties with Beijing.And if cozying up to our biggest geopolitical rival weren’t enough, Kuwait is also ripping us off. The United States played a huge role in building Kuwait’s massive Al Zour oil refinery, and the country’s government still owes us hundreds of millions of dollars.Closer to home, Mexico — which Bill Clinton bailed out to the tune of $20 billion — takes in more than $60 billion a year in remittance money from the United States, all while its socialist oil company refuses to pay the $1.2 billion it owes to American contractors.RELATED: Trump makes America dangerous again — to our enemies Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty ImagesThe NATO countries are even worse. Prior to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, just six of the alliance’s 32 members spent the required 2% of GDP on defense.Meanwhile, these countries used the money they weren’t spending on guns to build massive welfare states (their equivalent of Pericles’ Parthenon). They also eviscerated their domestic energy production and became increasingly reliant on oil from Russia, the country the alliance is supposed to keep in check.Thankfully, a combination of Vladimir Putin’s aggression and Donald Trump’s bullying has increased the number of countries meeting the 2% threshold from six to 23.If you want good allies, you need to be a good ally.That means no more meddling in the name of “international development” or “advancing democracy.” Just mutual clarifications of national interest and frank discussions about how to advance those interests.Athens’ focus on its own self-interest was its undoing. America’s neglect of it might have been ours. Under President Trump, however, it looks like that is starting to change.
Like
Comment
Share
The Blaze Media Feed
The Blaze Media Feed
1 w

'Truly wicked': Trump administration blasts Obama judge over praise of illegal alien who raped disabled American woman
Favicon 
www.theblaze.com

'Truly wicked': Trump administration blasts Obama judge over praise of illegal alien who raped disabled American woman

The Trump administration blasted U.S. District Judge Judith Levy over the weekend for her "truly wicked" praise and deferential treatment of a predator who stole into the United States multiple times and brutalized an American citizen.Edys Renan Membreño Díaz, a 30-year-old Honduran national, is presently serving between six and 15 years in a Michigan state prison for raping and sodomizing a woman he knew was incapable of giving consent, who has cerebral palsy and cognitive delays. Díaz, who moved to Michigan in 2021, raped the victim on two occasions: on July 15 and July 17, 2022, leaving her with injuries.'This isn't justice; it's judicial activism prioritizing criminals over citizens.'While Díaz could be a free man as soon as July 23, 2028, federal prosecutors want the rapist to serve an additional two years for his violation of U.S. immigration law. Díaz has illegally entered the U.S. seven times.According to court documents, prosecutors believe that a sentence of two years would recognize the gravity both of the rapist's repeated illegal entry into the U.S. and his criminal conduct while in the country and would serve as a deterrent to future criminal activity.The rapist's lawyer alternatively asked Levy, an appointee of former President Barack Obama who has made a big deal out of her lesbian identity, to give the rapist a sentence concurrent with his sentence in the state case such that he would still eligible for release in 2028.Levy not only decided to spare Díaz from a longer prison sentence for immigration crimes but echoed his lawyer's framing — that the rapist was a family man simply doing the work that Americans supposedly find unappealing.RELATED: Portland man allegedly lured 15-year-old girl from public library and raped her for days, police say kali9/Getty Images According to the sentencing transcript highlighted by the Detroit News, Levy said that while Díaz's sex crimes were "horrible," he has "taken responsibility for that, expressed remorse," and is serving "a lengthy state sentence as punishment for that conduct."The Obama judge proceeded to paint the rapist as something of a victim of circumstance and a praiseworthy figure, going so far as to celebrate his efforts to displace U.S. citizen labor for the benefit of foreigners outside the country."You have lost two siblings to violence in Honduras, and your mother expresses her dependence on you in her need for the resources and love that you have provided to her," said Levy. "So I commend you for supporting your family, for expressing your devotion to them, and for working here in the United States in jobs that Americans apparently do not want to work in."Díaz has recently indicated that he now wants to go home to Honduras, and Levy suggested further that the rapist's vows not to enter into the U.S. illegally an eighth time and to dissuade his fellow Hondurans from jumping the border together signaled that he was "promoting respect for the law."The Obama judge decided to let the rapist off on his immigration crimes with time allegedly served and a special assessment fine of $100.Assistant U.S. Attorney Susan Fairchild told Levy that the sentence imposed constituted an "unreasonable departure from the guideline range." The government subsequently appealed Levy's decision.In the appeal, assistant U.S. Attorney Meghan Sweeney Bean noted, "Despite six prior removals from the United States, Membrano Diaz returned and raped and sodomized a disabled American citizen. A non-custodial sentence here was an abuse of discretion."In addition to noting that Levy "unreasonably discounted the serious nature of the offense and Membrano Diaz's disturbing history and characteristics," Bean pointed out that the Obama judge's "time served" sentence was preposterous, as "the defendant cannot receive credit against his federal sentence for that period of prior detention, because it has already been credited against the state sentence."Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, said in response to Levy's decision, "Unspeakable Depravity.""U.S. District Judge Judith Levy refused to sentence him to 2 more years for immigration crimes and called this monster a future 'ambassador for living up to our immigration restrictions,'" McLaughlin noted in a X post on Saturday. "This Obama appointed judge went on to praise him for 'family devotion and willingness to perform work that it claimed Americans find undesirable.' Truly wicked."Kevin Kijewski, a Republican who is running to become attorney general of Michigan, wrote, "This isn't justice; it's judicial activism prioritizing criminals over citizens and spitting on federal law enforcement's work to secure our borders under President Trump's leadership."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!
Like
Comment
Share
Twitchy Feed
Twitchy Feed
1 w

IsLaMoPhObIA! AOC Literally Just Turned Into the Most Famous Norm MacDonald Joke of All and LOL-HOOBOY
Favicon 
twitchy.com

IsLaMoPhObIA! AOC Literally Just Turned Into the Most Famous Norm MacDonald Joke of All and LOL-HOOBOY

IsLaMoPhObIA! AOC Literally Just Turned Into the Most Famous Norm MacDonald Joke of All and LOL-HOOBOY
Like
Comment
Share
Twitchy Feed
Twitchy Feed
1 w

Woman Who Married Her Bro LIED?! No Way! About Ilhan Omar's Claim ICE Pulled Her Son Over? Yeah... No
Favicon 
twitchy.com

Woman Who Married Her Bro LIED?! No Way! About Ilhan Omar's Claim ICE Pulled Her Son Over? Yeah... No

Woman Who Married Her Bro LIED?! No Way! About Ilhan Omar's Claim ICE Pulled Her Son Over? Yeah... No
Like
Comment
Share
Showing 1147 out of 103946
  • 1143
  • 1144
  • 1145
  • 1146
  • 1147
  • 1148
  • 1149
  • 1150
  • 1151
  • 1152
  • 1153
  • 1154
  • 1155
  • 1156
  • 1157
  • 1158
  • 1159
  • 1160
  • 1161
  • 1162
Advertisement
Stop Seeing These Ads

Edit Offer

Add tier








Select an image
Delete your tier
Are you sure you want to delete this tier?

Reviews

In order to sell your content and posts, start by creating a few packages. Monetization

Pay By Wallet

Payment Alert

You are about to purchase the items, do you want to proceed?

Request a Refund