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Activists say Israeli soldiers have prevented them from delivering aid to Palestinians who have been besieged by settlers outside their homes in the occupied West Bank village of Qusra for nearly a week. We spoke to Jonathan Pollak from the Sumud Network.

Echoes of Brexit as Alberta blunders towards vote on separation from Canada

"Our fossil fuel economy is a house of cards and Trump's war in Iran is about to topple it. The need for a clean energy transition has never been clearer" | My new commentary for @livescience.com: www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

It is entirely possible to have a friendly conversation with someone who wants to do terrible things to people for stupid and selfish reasons. But why would anyone want to?

1/ I’d like to share what’s happened since Sept. 30, the night of the most dramatic raid of the Trump administration’s Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago. Under the cover of darkness, 37 immigrants were taken from an apartment complex …🧵

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1. Just so we’re clear, this is the clip that got Jimmy Kimmel’s show shelved by ABC. If I’m missing any other clips please let me know.

Feel like I’m going insane with the revisionist history that Charlie Kirk fostered open debate. He chilled speech and his targeting of professors for wrongthink led to threats, harassment, and being forced out of their jobs. His legacy is chilling speech right now, about him

Shout out to everyone only now learning that "Albert Einstein was reclusive at the end of his career, shunning public engagements." Really meant, "For the last *20 years* of his career, Einstein opposed US racism by only speaking publicly at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.

Congrats, @scalzi.com! I just heard about your panel at Worldcon. You know you've made it when you're invited onto a panel with Olav Rokne.

"My buddy lives next door to you, so I'm taking your house. You need to leave." I guess some people think this is not an insane thing to say.

In a move that raises very serious First Amendment issues, ICE executed a major splashy operation in California aiming to arrest a guy for posting fliers with names, pictures, and apparent phone numbers for ICE HSI agents. I am struggling to think what possible law posting that info could violate.

Death and devastation as Israel hits residential homes in Gaza’s Khan Younis. — in pictures aje.io/jra1j6

TLDR: she was crossing from Mexico into California at an official port of entry, but her visa was denied. Rather than simply turn her back, they took her into custody and have been holding her for 11 days. The stupidity of this administration is rivaled only by its cruelty.

This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.

@mattcameron.bsky.social given EO 14160's assertion that people unlawfully, temporarily, or provisionally present in the United States are not subject to the jurisdiction thereof, have you tried dismissing any of your clients cases for lack of jurisdiction?

Granting diplomatic immunity to all undocumented immigrants is a weird move for an administration that ran on mass deportations.

When TB treatment is interrupted, patients are far more likely to develop drug-resistant TB, which is a catastrophe both individually (the disease becomes harder to cure) and societally (we're allowing the bacteria millions of new opportunities to develop further resistance). Many people will die.

The supremacy clause allows Congress to trump state laws. Since DC is a federal entity, there's nothing over which Congress needs supremacy. Free exercise? 🤷‍♂️ Between general welfare and police power, I would go with police power since the law is only applied to DC.

Mind-boggling wreckage. Among the lifesaving programs now disrupted by Elon’s attack on @USAID: phase 1 trials for a possible HIV vaccine.

Forgive the probably dumb question, but is Elon Musk physically present at the Treasury building?

I’ve heard from a source today of USAID funding being stopped at hospitals and clinics for refugees and personnel being recalled or told to stop work resulting in people not getting life saving medical treatment as a result.

no funding if it seems like the research MIGHT involve a woman or a nonwhite person

Why do I live in a world where this is intelligible?

A mistake occurs when a person draws an incorrect conclusion by either reasoning correctly from incorrect facts, or reasoning incorrectly from correct facts. To claim a mistake was made, you should have to explain the particulars of the mistake, so the answer is A.

It was 100% about content, specifically that TikTok wasn't banning pro-Palestine accounts while Meta and Twitter were.

Joe Biden demonstrated “a double standard” on human rights; providing “arms without restriction” to Israel despite its war crimes in Gaza while condemning Russia for “similar violations” in Ukraine, says new Human Rights Watch (HRW) report. Read here: aje.io/btemf1

@iwriteok.bsky.social I drove a Chevy Prizm for years. It was basically a Toyota Corolla in an ill-fitting Cavalier skin suit. The engine never failed me. The rest of the car...

The Internet is so good for stuff like mutual aid and keep people informed amid crisis. Like, when I feel despair--and these days I often do--it's a small encouragement to be reminded that when we are proximal to suffering, we are capable of extraordinary generosity.

Here’s the thing: I’m 100% happy to pay for a social media app. Every month. Roll out Bsky Blue tomorrow and I’m in. The problem with Twitter premium wasn’t the premium. The problem was that you would be giving money to manic, drug addled Bond villain.

The Burmese junta bombed a church, killing at least seven children in Kachin state