When Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas issued a vaguely worded decree purportedly revoking the PA’s infamous “pay for slay” system, the European Commission called it a “significant political development” that “signals the Palestinian Authority’s commitment to implement far-reaching reforms.” Since then, Palestinian officials have assured the Arab world that the terror payments aren’t going anywhere.

The man overseeing the allegedly reformed system is Raed Abu al-Humus, the Free Beacon‘s Andrew Tobin reports from Jerusalem. He spent 10 years in prison alongside Nasser Abu Hamid, the late founder of Fatah’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades. Abu al-Humus has praised his jailmate as a “masked lion” and “inspiration” to the “Palestinian youth.” Now, he’s leading Abbas’s Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs.

Abu al-Humus replaces Qadura Fares, another convicted terrorist whom Abbas fired in a move that seemingly demonstrated his seriousness about reforming “pay for slay.”

“Just hours after his appointment,” Tobin reports, the commission “published a photograph of Abu al-Humus smiling alongside two arch-terrorists, Ahmed Barghouti and Mohammed Aradeh, whom Israel recently released to Cairo as part of a hostage-ceasefire deal with Hamas.” Both were serving life sentences.

“The photo is among a number of early signs that Abbas will once again disappoint international donors who expect him to end ‘pay for slay,'” Tobin writes. “Qatar’s Al-Sharq newspaper quoted unnamed senior Palestinian officials last Wednesday as saying the terrorism payments would continue ‘without any reduction.'”

Read more: Meet the Terrorist Overseeing Abbas’s ‘Reformed’ Payment System for Terrorist

Young, Gifted & Green is an “environmental justice” nonprofit that works with “Black and Latinx leaders” to end what it calls “environmental racism.” The Biden administration tapped its CEO, LaTricea Adams, to serve on the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council, which Joe Biden created via executive order to address “racial inequity” in climate change.

Adams kept busy while serving on the council. In December, as Biden and his “antiracist” climate council eyed the exit doors, the EPA announced that it had selected Young, Gifted & Green to receive a $20 million taxpayer-funded grant under its Environmental and Climate Justice Community Change Program. Internal EPA documents reviewed by our Thomas Catenacci list Adams as the sole applicant for the grant. And while the council Adams served on advised the White House, it was formally considered a part of the EPA.

Adams served on that council from March 2021 through the end of the administration. “It remains unclear the extent to which Adams, in her role on the Environmental Justice Advisory Council, advised the EPA on its grantmaking activity or implementation of the Community Change program,” writes Catenacci. “But the revelation adds further weight to questions about the Biden administration’s process for doling out grants and whether the administration played favorites when it came to such programs.”

Federal officials “are generally expected to avoid even the appearance of impropriety when carrying out their duties.” Groups whose leaders served on Biden’s Environmental Justice Advisory Council, though, “were the recipients of EPA grants totaling hundreds of millions of dollars.”

Read more: Biden Environmental Justice Adviser Received Millions in Taxpayer Funds After Personally Applying For EPA Grant

It’s been nearly 10 years since Joy Reid’s homophobic and anti-Semitic blog posts resurfaced, and Reid still hasn’t found the “hackers” who allegedly “planted” the bigoted screeds on her site. But she’s about to have a lot more time to look.

Reid got the ax at MSNBC, our Andrew Stiles reports, with the final episode of her show The ReidOut set to air sometime this week. Replacing her is a trio of MSNBC weekend anchors: former Kamala Harris adviser Symone Sanders, so-called Republican Michael Steele, and Alicia Menendez, the daughter of Democrat and convicted felon Bob Menendez. MSNBC is reportedly interested in hiring Politico reporter and self-described “walking Beyoncé encyclopedia” Eugene Daniels to fill their weekend slot.

Reid was known for delivering insightful analysis that connected with working-class Americans, like her insistence that Kamala Harris waged a “flawlessly run” campaign because she earned an endorsement from Queen Latifah, who “never endorses anyone.” In 2020, she expressed shock when a Latino congressman suggested “Latinx” was not a “preferred term” for actual Latinos.

“These insightful remarks persuaded MSNBC to give Reid an annual salary believed to be in the range of $3 million,” writes Stiles. “Network executives clearly valued her cerebral reporting and ‘in-depth interviews with politicians and other newsmakers,’ according to the New York Times. In November, for instance, Reid interviewed a Yale psychologist who argued Democrats were ‘entitled’ to shun their Trump-supporting family members because it ‘may be essential for your mental health.'”

“Reid’s sway at MSNBC was such that the network didn’t even bother to figure out what really happened to Reid’s old blog after internet sleuths uncovered a series of bigoted posts in 2017. Reid accused ‘hackers’ of having ‘accessed and manipulated’ her blog to post hateful content—targeting gays, Jews, and Muslims—that was ‘fabricated.’ She urged the FBI to investigate. The results of the alleged investigation were never released, but Reid was promoted to a full-time host in 2020.”

Away from the Beacon:

• Benjamin Netanyahu halted the release of Palestinian prisoners over Hamas’s “humiliating” hostage handovers, including the recent display in which the terror group brought detained hostages to a ceremony where other captives were freed. Netanyahu said he won’t change course until Israeli hostages are released “without the humiliating ceremonies,” something Hamas showed it is capable of on Saturday, when it quietly released Arab-Israeli Hisham al-Sayed away from the propaganda display. The White House supports the move.
• Kamala Harris received an NAACP award over the weekend and managed to deliver a speech without saying anything at all. “Some see the flames on our horizons, the rising waters in our cities, the shadows gathering over our democracy, and ask, ‘What do we do now?'” she said. “But we know exactly what to do.” We do?
• Barnard College expelled two students who stormed an Israeli history class and targeted Jewish students with anti-Semitic flyers. Who knew administrators had the power to do that?
• Fifty-seven percent of voters say Trump is doing a better job than Biden as president, a number driven by the “hugely popular” policies of closing the border, cutting waste, and “resetting merit as the prime hiring and contracting principle,” according to a Stagwell poll that drops today.