Israel may be preparing for large-scale massacres in Gaza City, UNRWA warns; Trump tells Congress the U.S. is in “armed conflict” with drug cartels
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Caserta. Libri: "La soluzione" di Pucci Romano
È un evento degno di nota e fortemente voluto dalla Dirigente del Liceo Manzoni e presidente CTS Caserta, dott.ssa Adele Vairo, quello che...Redazione Caserta24ore (Blogger)
Propaganda on a new level
I also heard that some agencies sent out emails notifying they'd be shut down, and found out the emails were edited to blame Democrats...
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Pursuing privacy makes life difficult ... that's why people choose convenience.
A really big surprise following the creation of my secondo profile on my GrapheneOS, which i created explicitly to have a google environment where I could keep bank apps segregated. So, I removed bank apps and Google play store on main profile, created 2nd profile, installed Google play store on 2nd profile, then installed the bank app, which I successfully logged onto the first time. The second time it locked me out saying that my account was blocked. I called the bank and they said I have malware and I need to hard reset my phone and reinstall. I'm not telling them what my real setup is because they won't understand. I wonder why the bank app thinks I have malware if I only have Google play store, the bank app and WhatsApp on my second profile?
Just sharing my day to day experience where I try to pursue privacy but I get screwed by the system. If you don't give up all you data, your life is made difficult. That is why people choose convenience and don't question too much. Its hassle free. How do we get out of this messed up system?
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I stopped using banking apps altogether in favor of using the website instead.
My previous bank would not allow me to do everything from the website that I could do from the app which is why they are now my previous bank and not my current bank, LOL.
I'm not telling them what my real setup is because they won't understand.
They would then tell you that only Android is supported.
Btw, i use App Manager and TrackerControl to analyze apps.
App Manager | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
A fully-featured package manager for android.f-droid.org
Nope. It's a certificate Google only gives, if you meet conditions like Chrome, Maps, Youtube as main apps and some app shortcuts on launcher. Which in turn allows to install Play Store and to call it Android.
The same thing is AOSP, which vendors and LineageOS & co. build their ROM from.
Bicycle trailers are underrated. You can never have too many.
I had to temporarily move out. It took a few trips to move all my belongings.
No electric, so rather slow speed, but thankfully very little traffic here.
Andiamo a trovare un albero
La fuori il mondo sta diventando di cemento.
La fuori chi corre corre su asfalto.
La fuori ci sono ancora Alberi che resistono.
Quando corriamo lo facciamo all'aperto, i più fortunati possono correre in un bosco o in montagna, altri lo fanno in un parco cittadino.
Quello che accomuna i vari ambienti sono gli alberi gli alberi sono esseri viventi magnifici che ci aiutano in molti aspetti della vita.
Indipendemente dal nostro livello di esperienza nella corsa quando siamo demotivati nell'uscire per un motivo o per l'altro pensiamo ad una cosa assurda: ora esco e vado a trovare gli alberi.
Loro sono sempre li che ci aspettano e allugnare un po' per conoscere nuovi alberi ci rafforza ci motiva, ci rilassa.
Forse è da matti pensare di uscire per andare a trovare gli alberi ma in fondo corriamo per noi la normalità è la nostra normalità quella di chi non corre non ci importa!
Buone corse
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Vance accuses Democrats of shutting down America to protect AOC’s political power | Newsinterpretation
Vance accuses Democrats of shutting down America to protect AOC’s political power | Newsinterpretation
Vice President JD Vance addressed reporters at the White House and pointed directly at Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. Vance said Schumer listened toPearl Croft (News Interpretation)
No advantage to using social media tied to your name or identity.
Be a hermit crab. Start new accounts periodically. Be certain they are not tied to your meat space persona.
Israel declares 600,000 in Gaza City 'military targets,' cuts off lifeline from south
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At least 600,000 Palestinians are currently under siege in Gaza City amid the Israeli army's ongoing bombardment, encirclement, and expulsion campaign, the New Arab reported on 2 October.On Wednesday, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz announced that all Palestinians remaining in the city must abandon their homes, pass Israeli checkpoints, and move to tent encampments in the south, stressing that anyone who stays will be considered a “terrorist” or “terrorist supporter” and targeted by invading Israeli forces.
Now is the “last opportunity for Gaza residents” to move south, Katz said.
Israeli forces have currently blocked all travel northward on the Rashid coastal road, cutting off the city's last surviving lifeline for humanitarian aid and preventing Palestinians who had moved south temporarily in search of food and shelter from returning.
“The only safe road for bringing in food and medicine has been cut. Announcements and speeches mean nothing if aid cannot reach civilians,” stated Mahmoud Basal, the spokesperson of the Gaza civil defense, in a press statement.
While the Israeli military expected a mass exodus to the south, between 600,000 and 700,000 Palestinians remain in Gaza City, the UN estimated
Israel declares 600,000 in Gaza City 'military targets,' cuts off lifeline from south
Israeli tanks cut northward travel on the Rashid Road, tightening the siege on Gaza City and intensifying pressure for Palestinians to leave their homesthecradle.co
Banking industry’s net zero alliance shuts down amid faltering climate commitments
Banking industry’s net zero alliance shuts down amid faltering climate commitments
NZBA had nearly 150 members but banks began leaving when Trump was re-elected on promise to ‘drill, baby, drill’Damien Gayle (The Guardian)
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i saw this in a village a few years ago unfortunately i lost the photo i took of it.
so there was a van with this text:
HEALER ON WHEELS
- [some thing i forgor]
- [another thing]
- TRADITIONAL CHINESE QUANTUM PHYSICSyup, im not making this shit up. "traditional chinese quantum physics". and then they wonder why critical thinking is important...
She Sent Money to Family in Gaza. ICE Claimed It’s Evidence She Supports Hamas.
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cross-posted from: ibbit.at/post/70371
Since coming to the U.S. from the West Bank in 2016, Leqaa Kordia has sent thousands of dollars to family living in Palestine. Some was money she earned working as a waitress; some was from her mother and neighbors in Paterson, New Jersey, who would “pool it together to send to help out our family,” Kordia explained in a recent court affidavit.Remittances like these are a typical part of the financial lives of immigrant families. But since Kordia, 32, was arrested in March by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Trump administration has pointed to these wire transfers as evidence that she potentially supports Hamas, in a bid to keep her at an ICE detention center in Texas.
“It was quite upsetting to hear the government claim that any transfer of money to Palestine and/or Palestinians was inherently suspicious,” Kordia’s mother, a naturalized U.S. citizen, wrote in another affidavit.
Kordia’s arrest came days after immigration agents grabbed Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil in New York City. In error-riddled statements and social media blasts, the Department of Homeland Security emphasized Kordia’s participation in a pro-Palestine protest a year earlier, near Columbia.
Unlike Khalil and other high-profile activists targeted for deportation, however, Kordia remains in custody despite findings from two different judges — one in immigration court, one in federal district court — that she should be released. She’s lost significant weight while in the Prairieland Detention Facility, near Dallas–Fort Worth, which has roaches, broken showers, and barely any halal food suitable for a practicing Muslim, Kordia alleged in a habeas petition.
To keep her at Prairieland, government attorneys tried to paint Kordia as a potential Hamas supporter and thus a danger if released on bond. In immigration court, they pointed to wire transfers Kordia sent to Gaza and elsewhere in the Middle East over the years, without any evidence that these funds were for anything other than fuel, water, or medical expenses for her family members.
“She didn’t always have a lot of money to send, but she sent whatever she could,” wrote one of Kordia’s cousins, who lives in Florida, in another affidavit.
It took weeks for Kordia’s legal team to track down family members who received remittances as far back as 2017. Some were still in Gaza and the West Bank, while others had evacuated to Egypt and Dubai.
“In 2022, during one of the aggressions in Gaza, my building was destroyed and we needed money to rebuild,” wrote Kordia’s aunt, who ran a hair salon out of her home in Gaza before fleeing to Cairo. “My sister was in great need after that incident, so I asked Leqaa for her assistance in sending money,” Kordia’s mother explained.
After Kordia’s attorneys submitted these sworn statements, ICE attorneys switched arguments, and they barely addressed her wire transfers at a hearing in late August, according to Sarah Sherman-Stokes, one of Kordia’s attorneys.
“In the blink of an eye, it became a non-issue,” Sherman-Stokes, a professor at Boston University’s immigrants’ rights clinic, told The Intercept. “Because it was such a charade from the beginning.”
From the start, the Trump administration’s case against Kordia has been slippery and ever-changing.
“What we’re seeing is that the Department [of Homeland Security] is throwing whatever they can at the wall and seeing what sticks,” Sherman-Stokes said.
The sole formal claim against Kordia in immigration court is that she overstayed her student visa, which she let expire in 2022 on the mistaken belief that her mother’s family visa petition gave Kordia lawful status. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services approved this petition in May 2021, according to court filings, which Kordia thought meant she was close to getting a green card.
But soon after President Donald Trump returned to the White House, Homeland Security Investigations, the intelligence division of ICE, devoted considerable resources to investigating Kordia for purported “national security violations,” according to court records.
Starting in early March, agents from HSI’s Newark office put a trace on Kordia’s WhatsApp account, interviewed her family and friends in Paterson, and even got a four-page report from the New York City Police Department about her arrest at a protest in April 2024, along with dozens of other people.
Since the charges were quickly dropped, Kordia’s arrest report was supposed to be sealed, and New York laws prohibit NYPD from assisting federal agencies with civil immigration enforcement. The city’s Department of Investigation told The Intercept that its inquiry about NYPD’s sharing of records with HSI is ongoing, and a public report should be issued by the end of the year.
HSI also subpoenaed Kordia’s records from Western Union and MoneyGram, which showed Kordia sent money abroad as recently as February 2025.
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Once in ICE custody, it was Kordia’s legal burden to prove to an immigration judge that she should be released on bond. At a hearing in April, ICE attorneys pointed to her protest arrest and remittances to argue that she was a danger to the community and potentially a Hamas supporter.“They first tried to argue that exercising her free speech rights by attending a protest somehow made her a danger to U.S. security,” Sherman-Stokes explained, and when that didn’t work, “they moved on to suggesting that she was sending nefarious money transactions to people in the Middle East.”
From the start, the immigration judge didn’t buy it.
“In the absence of evidence of any connection to terrorist organizations, the Court cannot find that [Kordia] is supporting a terrorist organization by sending money to a family member in Palestine,” wrote Immigration Judge Tara Naselow-Nahas in an April ruling that ordered Kordia released on a $20,000 bond.
ICE attorneys appealed that order to the Board of Immigration Appeals, which, like immigration courts, sits within the Department of Justice rather than the federal judiciary, and Kordia remained at Prairieland.
While the BIA deliberated, a magistrate judge in federal court found in late June that Kordia’s due process rights were likely violated by her ongoing detention and recommended that she be released. But a district court judge ordered the magistrate judge to hear additional argument from the government.
In early August, the BIA remanded the bond order back to the immigration judge for “more complete findings of fact” about Kordia’s money transfers.
“It is a testament to the entrenched nature of anti-Palestinian sentiment that the mere fact of sending remittances to family abroad was enough for DHS and the immigration appeals body to aver that Leqaa was supposedly a threat,” said Naz Ahmad, co-director of the Creating Law Enforcement Accountability & Responsibility project at CUNY law school, which also represents Kordia.
The BIA’s remand order set off the quest to track down Kordia’s family members for affidavits swearing they had not used any of her money to support Hamas.
“Not only do we have to contact them to prove they are who say they are, and that they received money for a medical procedure or because their house was bombed during the Israeli military campaign,” said Sherman-Stokes. They also had to ask each one a “horrible question,” she said: “Can you prove to me that you’re not a terrorist?”
Kordia’s brother, a tailor in Ramallah in the West Bank, wrote in an affidavit that the money she sent helped him open his shop in 2021, where he sells curtains. Other transfers helped cover rent, gas, electricity, and hospital bills for Kordia’s niece.
A cousin, who now lives in Dubai, wrote that a February 2025 transfer helped pay for a medical procedure. Three other cousins in Gaza and Cairo attested that Kordia’s transfers helped cover living expenses and medical bills.
“To further insist that Leqaa justify every single penny sent to a family member overseas, at a time when some of the same are living through a genocide, only underscored the pernicious nature of the government’s empty allegations,” said Ahmad.
In her own affidavit, Kordia wrote that, since 2023, she’s lost “nearly 175 family members — almost an entire generation — to the ongoing genocide in Gaza.”
In late August, the immigration judge again found that Kordia’s remittances were not grounds to keep her at Prairieland.
“The evidence overwhelmingly demonstrates that the money was sent to [Kordia’s] extended family members who were in desperate need of financial assistance,” wrote Naselow-Nahas.
Again, Naselow-Nahas ordered Kordia’s release on a $20,000 bond, and again, the Trump administration appealed to the BIA. Now, ICE attorneys argue she’s a flight risk because she consulted with an attorney before surrendering in March.
“Adding insult to injury, the government abandoned its ‘dangerousness’ claim based on the remittances and swiftly pivoted to a flimsy ‘flight risk’ argument to prolong Leqaa’s confinement punitively,” said Sadaf Hasan, an attorney at Muslim Advocates, another legal nonprofit that represents her. “These tactics reflect the dehumanizing and racist imperatives of the administration to weaponize immigration laws to punish Palestinian identity and the growing movement for Palestinian advocacy.”
“They have so little evidence, yet they continue to appeal and appeal and appeal.”Sherman-Stokes said that, based on more than a decade working in deportation defense, it’s not unusual for the government to make spurious arguments or offer little evidence.
“What’s uncommon here is the government’s unwillingness to admit defeat,” she said. “They have so little evidence, yet they continue to appeal and appeal and appeal in the face of an immigration judge finding not once but twice that she should be released,” Sherman-Stokes said.
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The government’s targeting of Palestinian people or Muslim immigrants is also hardly new. From the post-9/11 “Muslim registry” to the first Trump administration’s “Muslim ban,” Middle Eastern immigrants have faced additional scrutiny for decades.“But it certainly seems to have escalated,” said Sherman-Stokes, who called the government’s arguments about Kordia’s money transfers “vague and spurious claims that are really grounded in racism and xenophobia.”
Sherman-Stokes said it was also unusual for Kordia to be held in detention indefinitely based just on her overstayed visa, without any criminal conviction.
“She exercised her First Amendment rights along with thousands of other people,” Sherman-Stokes said. “This is someone we should welcome into the country, not demonize.”
“This is someone we should welcome into the country, not demonize.”Kordia’s habeas petition for release is currently pending in federal court, and on Tuesday she filed a brief urging her immediate release despite the government’s “procedural gamesmanship.” Briefs are due to the BIA next week, and Kordia’s next hearing in immigration court is scheduled for October 23.
After more than six months in Prairieland, Kordia is eager to be back with her family in New Jersey. Before moving to the U.S., she and her mother were apart for nearly two decades, since Kordia stayed with her father in the West Bank after her parents divorced. On top of working multiple jobs and collecting money for family abroad, Kordia helped look after her half-brother, Omar, who has autism, and helped her mother, who has limited mobility and other health issues, with errands and cleaning.
“Against my will, I was separated from my mother for nearly twenty years,” Kordia wrote. “Being separated from her again is unbearable.”
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Global Sumud Flotilla vows to keep sailing ‘until Gaza is free’ following Israel’s interception of over 40 of its vessels
Global Sumud Flotilla vows to keep sailing ‘until Gaza is free’ following Israel’s interception of over 40 of
Following Israel’s interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla, organizers have vowed that they will continue “to sail until Gaza is free.” They’ve already announced that the next mission will send a thousand ships to Gaza.Qassam Muaddi (Mondoweiss)
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Ducklings and mom
Ducklings and mom
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Putin offers peace to the West. Will it accept?
Putin offers peace to the West. Will it accept?
The Russian president has shown he values peaceful coexistence – but never at the cost of Russia’s national interestsRT
Is it even worth reading? It's RT. They're going to describe whatever Putin pitches as the greatest, kindest, most generous offer in all of history.
Edit:
The Russian president has shown he values peaceful coexistence
Holy shit. That might be one of the most brazen lies I've ever seen.
Fears US shutdown will delay weapons shipments to Ukraine
Fears US shutdown will delay weapons shipments to Ukraine
Talks with Ukrainian delegation in Washington, DC thrown into uncertainty as federal workers asked to stay at homeCameron Henderson (The Telegraph)
Republican senator outlines working group’s ideas for extending Obamacare subsidies
The Alaska Republican confirmed his participation in talks that have been ongoing behind the scenes for weeks.“There’s a number of people involved,” said Sullivan in an interview. So far, the only other Republicans to make their participation in the discussions public have been Sens. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska.
Another admission that they fucked up.
“Death is Better Than This Life”: Displaced Palestinians in Gaza Are Being Bombed in Their Tents
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37029295
Abdel Qader Sabbah
Oct 02, 2025
“We are displaced. We were in the north and they told us to get out and go to the humanitarian zone. They said go south of Wadi Gaza. We went south of the Wadi. We didn’t leave in the first displacement. This time we couldn’t stay so we came here,” Ismail Abu Sharakh, an eyewitness to the Wednesday strike, told Drop Site as he pointed to destroyed tents at the site of the attack.He held up a wad of shredded banknotes residents had pooled together to buy a makeshift water line, nothing more than a thin pipe with protruding hoses leading to various tents. Remnants of the Israeli munition lay next to a small crater where it made impact. The surrounding tents were ripped and torn through with shrapnel. Bloodstained mattresses and bits of flesh lay on the ground.
“Death is Better Than This Life”: Displaced Palestinians in Gaza Are Being Bombed in Their Tents
Abdel Qader Sabbah
Oct 02, 2025“We are displaced. We were in the north and they told us to get out and go to the humanitarian zone. They said go south of Wadi Gaza. We went south of the Wadi. We didn’t leave in the first displacement. This time we couldn’t stay so we came here,” Ismail Abu Sharakh, an eyewitness to the Wednesday strike, told Drop Site as he pointed to destroyed tents at the site of the attack.He held up a wad of shredded banknotes residents had pooled together to buy a makeshift water line, nothing more than a thin pipe with protruding hoses leading to various tents. Remnants of the Israeli munition lay next to a small crater where it made impact. The surrounding tents were ripped and torn through with shrapnel. Bloodstained mattresses and bits of flesh lay on the ground.
“Death is Better Than This Life”: Displaced Palestinians in Gaza Are Being Bombed in Their Tents
Israel attacked tent encampments and Al-Aqsa hospital as Palestinians fled Israel’s intensifying ethnic cleansing campaign in the north.Abdel Qader Sabbah (Drop Site News)
“Death is Better Than This Life”: Displaced Palestinians in Gaza Are Being Bombed in Their Tents
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Abdel Qader Sabbah
Oct 02, 2025
“We are displaced. We were in the north and they told us to get out and go to the humanitarian zone. They said go south of Wadi Gaza. We went south of the Wadi. We didn’t leave in the first displacement. This time we couldn’t stay so we came here,” Ismail Abu Sharakh, an eyewitness to the Wednesday strike, told Drop Site as he pointed to destroyed tents at the site of the attack.He held up a wad of shredded banknotes residents had pooled together to buy a makeshift water line, nothing more than a thin pipe with protruding hoses leading to various tents. Remnants of the Israeli munition lay next to a small crater where it made impact. The surrounding tents were ripped and torn through with shrapnel. Bloodstained mattresses and bits of flesh lay on the ground.
“Death is Better Than This Life”: Displaced Palestinians in Gaza Are Being Bombed in Their Tents
Abdel Qader Sabbah
Oct 02, 2025“We are displaced. We were in the north and they told us to get out and go to the humanitarian zone. They said go south of Wadi Gaza. We went south of the Wadi. We didn’t leave in the first displacement. This time we couldn’t stay so we came here,” Ismail Abu Sharakh, an eyewitness to the Wednesday strike, told Drop Site as he pointed to destroyed tents at the site of the attack.He held up a wad of shredded banknotes residents had pooled together to buy a makeshift water line, nothing more than a thin pipe with protruding hoses leading to various tents. Remnants of the Israeli munition lay next to a small crater where it made impact. The surrounding tents were ripped and torn through with shrapnel. Bloodstained mattresses and bits of flesh lay on the ground.
“Death is Better Than This Life”: Displaced Palestinians in Gaza Are Being Bombed in Their Tents
Israel attacked tent encampments and Al-Aqsa hospital as Palestinians fled Israel’s intensifying ethnic cleansing campaign in the north.Abdel Qader Sabbah (Drop Site News)
“Death is Better Than This Life”: Displaced Palestinians in Gaza Are Being Bombed in Their Tents
Abdel Qader Sabbah
Oct 02, 2025
“We are displaced. We were in the north and they told us to get out and go to the humanitarian zone. They said go south of Wadi Gaza. We went south of the Wadi. We didn’t leave in the first displacement. This time we couldn’t stay so we came here,” Ismail Abu Sharakh, an eyewitness to the Wednesday strike, told Drop Site as he pointed to destroyed tents at the site of the attack.He held up a wad of shredded banknotes residents had pooled together to buy a makeshift water line, nothing more than a thin pipe with protruding hoses leading to various tents. Remnants of the Israeli munition lay next to a small crater where it made impact. The surrounding tents were ripped and torn through with shrapnel. Bloodstained mattresses and bits of flesh lay on the ground.
“Death is Better Than This Life”: Displaced Palestinians in Gaza Are Being Bombed in Their Tents
Israel attacked tent encampments and Al-Aqsa hospital as Palestinians fled Israel’s intensifying ethnic cleansing campaign in the north.Abdel Qader Sabbah (Drop Site News)
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Canada’s climate contradictions come with economic risks
Canada’s climate contradictions come with economic risks
Overinvesting in oil and gas is not just a problem for the climate — it also poses serious risks to the Canadian economy.Canada's National Observer
js image effect script I made for my personal site doesn't work on LibreWolf, what is conflicting with the privacy settings?
There is no CORS going on, the very same script use canvas on two other sections, so I guess that's not the problem... it works on FireFox but breaks on LibreWolf:
privatebin.net/?401a54f23eea49…
Any idea what part LibreWolf doesn't like? I'd like to fix it to work.
it's weird because the other script in that same .js, showing three random images from a .json list, also use canvas, and it's working fine even on Mullvad and Tor :S
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Just a punk's personal page, and all the crap he likes or is mad about. Oh, and also a kickass webplayer for his local underground punk scene.pirahxcx.neocities.org
Its because librewolf is adding fingerprinting protection on the canvas element and changes some of its functionality but not all of it.
Canvas elements are used to track and fingerprint folks through tor and mulvad etc.
But its also a pain because of your exact sitch. I run into broken canvas elements a lot with it and selectively disable canvas fingerprint protection
brain go brrr rule
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transcription: i want to be held and fall asleep next to somebody > ??? > im a catgirl :3c
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Does anyone else's Tor Browser won't start connections?
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Calls for ‘New Blood’ Grow at Congressional Black Caucus Gathering
The increasing age of Black members of Congress was on the minds of attendees at the conference, a multiday event that started on Sept. 24. Many said that they felt that fresh blood is needed, but it’s unclear how that would happen without veteran lawmakers stepping aside.Younger voters are thought to be the keys to future electoral success, and some members of the Democratic Party have argued that attracting them will require electing younger members. They feel that seasoned lawmakers are out of touch, and don’t have what it takes to lead some of the most pressing civil rights battles of today.
This tension came to a head this month. Robert White, a third-term member of the D.C. Council, announced that he would challenge his former boss, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, the district’s longtime nonvoting representative, for her seat in the Democratic primary next year. Norton’s campaign team didn’t respond to Capital B’s request for comment.
Norton has served since 1991, and at 88 years old, she’s the oldest member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Lauren Ishmael, 67, said that veteran lawmakers are “very smart, very well-informed, and very well-connected.” But she also believes that they need to make room for the perspectives and contributions of younger generations.“We need some younger voices, younger faces, younger experiences,” Ishmael, a first-time attendee, told Capital B, clad in a crimson and cream Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. jacket. “We need young blood.”
Jumping in, Ishmael’s friend and sorority sister Sandra Caldwell, 77, elaborated a bit further and said that younger people “just think differently.”
Calls for ‘New Blood’ Grow at Congressional Black Caucus Gathering
Veteran Black lawmakers, some say, are increasingly out of touch and don’t have what it takes to lead the most important civil rights battles of today.Brandon Tensley (Capital B News)
Colbert claps back with sombrero-sofa meme after JD Vance defends Trump’s AI videos
Stephen Colbert claps back with X-rated sombrero-sofa meme after JD Vance says Trump’s ‘racist’ AI videos are funny
‘We’re joking,’ Stephen Colbert snarked on Thursday night. ‘We’re having a good time.’Justin Baragona (The Independent)
US engagement with Mali junta exposes double standards
For the Trump administration to open up intelligence-sharing with the junta, such an approach sends a powerful message that the United States – first and foremost – is focused on advancing its fight against “extremist” forces by partnering with regimes that have practiced it themselves. Mali is no outlier when it comes to human rights violations: the regime has advanced extreme legislation that has eclipsed civil liberties, and rights abuses saw a 120 percent increase in recent years.
Where are loud US pronouncements about staying clear of regimes that do not fit the US definition of a democratic system? The fact is that the US itself has been a vocal promoter of terrorism on foreign soil: nearly two decades of Afghanistan’s occupation, the US role in sustaining the Taliban’s power, and its brazen support for "Israel’s" raging genocide – all make it a key figure in creating the unrest that it claims to counter through intelligence-sharing with Mali.
US engagement with Mali junta exposes double standards
The Trump administration’s track record of backing Israeli belligerence is all proof that the US exercises the very brand of terrorism that it claims it wants to extinguish through cooperation with Mali.Hannan Hussain (US engagement with Mali junta exposes double standards)
Selling the dead: USC supplied human bodies for 'Israel' war training
The University of Southern California (USC) has received nearly $1.1 million from the US Navy over the past seven years for human cadavers used in military medical training, including courses designed for the Israeli occupation Forces (IOF), according to federal contracts reviewed by Annenberg Media.
Since 2017, the Navy has paid USC more than $860,000 for at least 89 “fresh cadaver bodies,” 32 of which were used by IOF medical teams at Los Angeles General Medical Center. One contract remains active, allowing an additional $225,000 in cadaver purchases through September 2026.
Medical experts are raising alarms over how the bodies are sourced. Many come from the Los Angeles County Office of Decedent Affairs, which handles cremation and burial for unclaimed remains. Others are given away through USC’s Anatomical Gift Program.
“Even though they’re deceased, they still deserve dignity and proper treatment,” said Thomas Champney, an anatomy professor at the University of Miami who studies body donation ethics. He noted that, unlike organ donation, cadaver use is loosely regulated, with most universities operating under “blanket consent” policies.
Selling the dead: USC supplied human bodies for 'Israel' war training
Unclaimed US corpses ended up on dissection tables for “Israel’s” military drills, raising grave ethical questions over consent and dignity.Al Mayadeen English (Selling the dead: USC supplied human bodies for 'Israel' war training)
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Taiwan Will Serve as Flash Point as U.S. Plans Tactical Nukes for War with China – KJ Noh
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Strava sues Garmin over alleged patent infringement
Strava sues Garmin over alleged patent infringement
Strava is suing long-time partner Garmin, and is seeking to permanently ban the company from selling most of its current fitness and cycling gadget lineup.Jess Weatherbed (The Verge)
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China Now Has More Factory Robots Than the Rest of the World Combined
China Now Has More Factory Robots Than the Rest of the World Combined
China’s robot army is reshaping the world as we know it.Mihai Andrei (ZME Science)
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The best mattresses to buy in the UK, according to Which? independent lab tests. We explain the different mattress types and features, plus how to choose the right firmness for you.Lisa Galliers (Which?)
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Q&A: What the ‘controversial’ GWP* methane metric means for farming emissions
Q&A: What the ‘controversial’ GWP* methane metric means for farming emissions - Carbon Brief
A controversial way of measuring how much methane warms the planet has stirred debate in recent years – particularly around assessing the climate impact of livestock farming.Orla Dwyer (Carbon Brief)
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in reply to caserta24ore • • •Re: Caserta
Ciao, ho creato ora una nuova categoria dedicata a Caserta. In futuro puoi pubblicare direttamente lì i post che riguardano Caserta e provincia
citiverse.it/category/118/case…