Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday he ordered another strike on a small boat he accused of carrying drugs in the waters off Venezuela
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Local Climate Projects Persevere Despite Trump’s Effort to Crush Movement
Local Climate Projects Persevere Despite Trump’s Effort to Crush Movement
Grassroots climate initiatives are increasingly building in resilience from heat, storms, and the government itself.Greg Harman (Truthout)
Far-right pundit calls for Israel to torture Greta Thunberg
As reported by the Canary and other independent outlets, Israel ‘illegally abducted’ flotilla activists on 2 October. Activist Greta Thunberg was among those abducted, and this has drawn attention to the following message from Newsmax Australia ‘broadcaster’ Daniel Lewkovitz:
This is what Pro-Israel & Genocide lovers are like. He's fucking disgusting. If this is how he talks openly about a young woman imagine what he does to them. He's a disgusting piece of shitThe irony of him telling Greta to grow up after posting this. What a cunt. t.co/uK3edMdOui
— Sneezy Gremlin
(@SneezyGremlin) October 3, 2025
Shocking, on Greta Thunberg
Speaking on the flotilla bringing aid to the victims of Israel’s genocide, Lewkovitz said:
No sandwiches this time. Game time is over. I want Greta Thunberg terrified. I want her screaming and begging for it to stop. I want her rocking in a corner, covering her eyes. pissing and shitting in her pants. Israel is fighting a genocidal enemy and doesn’t need to be distracted by attention seeking activists with no skin in the game who think this will be cute content for Instagram. They want to enter a war zone? Fine. War is hell. Give. Them. Hell. Let them Find Out. Let their screams be a warning to other Useful Idiots for Hamas.It’s time to grow up, Greta.
In America, Newsmax is a right-wing competitor to Fox News. Famously, Newsmax aired programming from Bill O’Reilley after he left Fox News in the wake of sexual harassment allegations. The station similarly ran segments with Mark Halperin who left NBC and MSNBC following sexual harassment allegations of his own.
Lewkovitz describes himself as a “broadcaster” on Newsmax Australia and as a “Security Expert”. He doesn’t list the ‘broadcaster’ position on his LinkedIn, suggesting he’s a talking head on security concerns. Lewkovitz has made multiple appearances on Australian news channels.
People highlighted the following story related to Lewkovitz:
Well I’m just shocked— jasper nathaniel (@infinite_jaz) October 2, 2025
Australian Telegraph journalist Eliza Barr tweeted about the story on 15 August 2024, but the link no longer works:
Exclusive: Former Liberal Democrats federal election candidate and security professional Daniel Lewkovitz has been charged over an allegation of choking. With @AymonBertah for @dailytelegraph:t.co/T4yZKmTKVX— Eliza Barr (@ElizaJBarr) August 15, 2024
This suggests that either the article was removed or that Barr and others saw fit to fabricate the story for some reason.
Other commented on the story at the time, with more recent posts highlighting that the article is not accessible:
It’s nearly impossible to find any record of this on news websites now. The public has the right to know that Daniel Lewkovitz was charged over an allegation of choking. t.co/RQrVWp4QdY— Yoko Chikatilo (@ribcage666) October 2, 2025
Several people took objection to Lewkovitz’s response to Thunberg:
Why is it always middle-aged men wishing death on Greta Thunberg?What is it about her that scares them? Because it is fear. Their posts reek of it. Genuinely one of the most pathetic things you regularly see on here.
— Barry Malone (@malonebarry) October 1, 2025
Greta is *literally* bringing baby formula to starving infants. t.co/8YIiBGUPC6 pic.twitter.com/5d4ndajwvC
— Mel (@Villgecrazylady) October 1, 2025
People have also defended Thunberg from other attacks:
Greta Thunberg is doing what people should do with their privilege which is try to make the world a better place. t.co/8e1edEE4aa— America The Ghetto (@Lizzurr) October 1, 2025
Thunberg released a video recorded before her abduction:
“My name is Greta Thunberg . I’m a citizen of Sweden. If you are watching this video, I have been abducted and taken against my will by Israeli forces.. Please tell my government to demand my and the others’ immediate release.”
JUSTICE FOR GRETA pic.twitter.com/sg5p8Dq4LI
— ADAM (@AdameMedia) October 2, 2025
Thunberg has previously said:
Greta Thunberg: “I’m not scared of israel” as flotilla sails to Gaza pic.twitter.com/4RGQGsMKhL— Ounka (@OunkaOnX) September 26, 2025
Sky News Australia, meanwhile, ridiculing the activists who are opposing Israel’s genocide.
Featured image via Christopher Dawson Centre / Global Sumud Flotilla Commentary
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Fratelli di Crozza, stasera (3 ottobre 2025) debutta l’inedito “Giansalma Sminuzzi”: anticipazioni, personaggi e dove vederlo
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ANTICIPAZIONI E NUOVI PERSONAGGI: Fratelli di Crozza, stasera (3 ottobre 2025) debutta l’inedito “Giansalma Sminuzzi”: anticipazioni, personaggi e dove vederlo
Fratelli di Crozza anticipazioni 3 ottobre 2025: debutta Giansalma Sminuzzi
Fratelli di Crozza torna sul Nove: debutta l’inedito “Giansalma Sminuzzi” con il segmento Grado Zero. Anticipazioni e nuovi personaggi.Redazione (Atom Heart Magazine)
Manifestazioni pro Gaza oggi in tutta Italia: i cortei e i blocchi
Proseguono oggi le manifestazioni pro Gaza in tutta Italia, in concomitanza con lo sciopero generale indetto da Usb, Cgil, Cub e Sgb e che coinvolge settori pubblici e privati. In numerose città si registrano cortei, blocchi stradali legati alla protesta contro il blocco di Israele alla missione della Global Sumud Flotilla.
LEGGI L'ARTICOLO: Manifestazioni pro Gaza oggi in tutta Italia: i cortei e i blocchi
Manifestazioni pro Gaza oggi: cortei e blocchi in tutta Italia
Sciopero generale e cortei pro Gaza oggi. Piazze piene a Milano, Bologna, Pisa, Messina, Livorno, Roma, Firenze, Napoli.Redazione (Atom Heart Magazine)
Trump’s Blueprint to Crush the Left Draws from Decades of Counterterrorism Policy
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37034756
Chip Gibbons
Oct 03, 2025
If there was any question as to whether his Executive Order was merely bluster, Trump clarified the matter three days later when he issued National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7). Bearing Trump’s signature, NSPM-7 was clearly drafted with a deep understanding of the U.S. counterterrorism bureaucracy. It seeks to “disrupt” not just those allegedly carrying out left-wing violence, but those who fund it and those who “radicalize” and recruit individuals to partake in it. It declares domestic terrorism to be a top priority and defines domestic terrorism priorities to include “civil unrest” and “doxing.”The memo lays out a range of responsibilities for government agencies. It tasks the Secretary of Treasury to apply powers traditionally used against money laundering and international terrorism to ferreting out the funders of so-called domestic terrorism. It instructs the IRS to make sure no “tax-exempt entities are directly or indirectly financing political violence or domestic terrorism,” and refer those that are to the Department of Justice for prosecution. It instructs the Attorney General to come up with a list of “recurrent motives” and indicators of groups that engage in supposed domestic terrorism so that resources can be directed at similar groups to “prevent potential violent activity.”
Trump’s Blueprint to Crush the Left Draws from Decades of Counterterrorism Policy
Chip Gibbons
Oct 03, 2025If there was any question as to whether his Executive Order was merely bluster, Trump clarified the matter three days later when he issued National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7). Bearing Trump’s signature, NSPM-7 was clearly drafted with a deep understanding of the U.S. counterterrorism bureaucracy. It seeks to “disrupt” not just those allegedly carrying out left-wing violence, but those who fund it and those who “radicalize” and recruit individuals to partake in it. It declares domestic terrorism to be a top priority and defines domestic terrorism priorities to include “civil unrest” and “doxing.”The memo lays out a range of responsibilities for government agencies. It tasks the Secretary of Treasury to apply powers traditionally used against money laundering and international terrorism to ferreting out the funders of so-called domestic terrorism. It instructs the IRS to make sure no “tax-exempt entities are directly or indirectly financing political violence or domestic terrorism,” and refer those that are to the Department of Justice for prosecution. It instructs the Attorney General to come up with a list of “recurrent motives” and indicators of groups that engage in supposed domestic terrorism so that resources can be directed at similar groups to “prevent potential violent activity.”
Trump’s Blueprint to Crush the Left Draws from Decades of Counterterrorism Policy
Trump's NSPM-7 is a pivotal policy endangering free expression in the United States.Chip Gibbons (Drop Site News)
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Trump’s Blueprint to Crush the Left Draws from Decades of Counterterrorism Policy
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37034756
Chip Gibbons
Oct 03, 2025
If there was any question as to whether his Executive Order was merely bluster, Trump clarified the matter three days later when he issued National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7). Bearing Trump’s signature, NSPM-7 was clearly drafted with a deep understanding of the U.S. counterterrorism bureaucracy. It seeks to “disrupt” not just those allegedly carrying out left-wing violence, but those who fund it and those who “radicalize” and recruit individuals to partake in it. It declares domestic terrorism to be a top priority and defines domestic terrorism priorities to include “civil unrest” and “doxing.”The memo lays out a range of responsibilities for government agencies. It tasks the Secretary of Treasury to apply powers traditionally used against money laundering and international terrorism to ferreting out the funders of so-called domestic terrorism. It instructs the IRS to make sure no “tax-exempt entities are directly or indirectly financing political violence or domestic terrorism,” and refer those that are to the Department of Justice for prosecution. It instructs the Attorney General to come up with a list of “recurrent motives” and indicators of groups that engage in supposed domestic terrorism so that resources can be directed at similar groups to “prevent potential violent activity.”
Trump’s Blueprint to Crush the Left Draws from Decades of Counterterrorism Policy
Chip Gibbons
Oct 03, 2025If there was any question as to whether his Executive Order was merely bluster, Trump clarified the matter three days later when he issued National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7). Bearing Trump’s signature, NSPM-7 was clearly drafted with a deep understanding of the U.S. counterterrorism bureaucracy. It seeks to “disrupt” not just those allegedly carrying out left-wing violence, but those who fund it and those who “radicalize” and recruit individuals to partake in it. It declares domestic terrorism to be a top priority and defines domestic terrorism priorities to include “civil unrest” and “doxing.”The memo lays out a range of responsibilities for government agencies. It tasks the Secretary of Treasury to apply powers traditionally used against money laundering and international terrorism to ferreting out the funders of so-called domestic terrorism. It instructs the IRS to make sure no “tax-exempt entities are directly or indirectly financing political violence or domestic terrorism,” and refer those that are to the Department of Justice for prosecution. It instructs the Attorney General to come up with a list of “recurrent motives” and indicators of groups that engage in supposed domestic terrorism so that resources can be directed at similar groups to “prevent potential violent activity.”
Trump’s Blueprint to Crush the Left Draws from Decades of Counterterrorism Policy
Trump's NSPM-7 is a pivotal policy endangering free expression in the United States.Chip Gibbons (Drop Site News)
Trump’s Blueprint to Crush the Left Draws from Decades of Counterterrorism Policy
Chip Gibbons
Oct 03, 2025
If there was any question as to whether his Executive Order was merely bluster, Trump clarified the matter three days later when he issued National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7). Bearing Trump’s signature, NSPM-7 was clearly drafted with a deep understanding of the U.S. counterterrorism bureaucracy. It seeks to “disrupt” not just those allegedly carrying out left-wing violence, but those who fund it and those who “radicalize” and recruit individuals to partake in it. It declares domestic terrorism to be a top priority and defines domestic terrorism priorities to include “civil unrest” and “doxing.”The memo lays out a range of responsibilities for government agencies. It tasks the Secretary of Treasury to apply powers traditionally used against money laundering and international terrorism to ferreting out the funders of so-called domestic terrorism. It instructs the IRS to make sure no “tax-exempt entities are directly or indirectly financing political violence or domestic terrorism,” and refer those that are to the Department of Justice for prosecution. It instructs the Attorney General to come up with a list of “recurrent motives” and indicators of groups that engage in supposed domestic terrorism so that resources can be directed at similar groups to “prevent potential violent activity.”
Trump’s Blueprint to Crush the Left Draws from Decades of Counterterrorism Policy
Trump's NSPM-7 is a pivotal policy endangering free expression in the United States.Chip Gibbons (Drop Site News)
Uefa puts Israel vote on hold after Donald Trump’s proposed "peace" plan
Uefa has paused plans to ban Israel from European football after the announcement of Donald Trump’s proposed peace plan for the region.
Expectation had been growing of a decisive intervention by Uefa this week, amid growing pressure within football and from outside groups, including the United Nations. But Trump’s announcement of his plan in a joint press conference with Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, on Monday put any measures on hold.
Uefa puts Israel vote on hold after Donald Trump’s proposed peace plan
National federations who were supportive of the ban have accepted a decision to pause as Maccabi Tel Aviv are due to face Dinamo Zagreb in the Europa League on ThursdayPaul MacInnes (The Guardian)
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
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37034326
At least 63 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza over the past 24 hours. World Health Organization report finds that nearly 42,000 Palestinians in Gaza, a quarter of them children, have suffered “life-changing injuries.” As Israeli officials label the roughly 250,000 people remaining in Gaza City as terrorists and terror supporters, UNRWA warns it may be preparing for large-scale massacres. The last remaining boat of the Global Sumud Flotilla is intercepted by the Israeli military; over 450 flotilla participants in Israeli custody are being processed for deportation. President Donald Trump declares the U.S. is in an “armed conflict” with drug cartels. Amid government shutdown, White House freezes $2.1 billion in Chicago infrastructure projects “to ensure funding is not flowing via race-based contracting.” Drone sightings over Munich Airport force suspension of flights. Iran’s president discusses relocating the capital from Tehran. Protesters clash with security forces in Kashmir.
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
At least 63 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza over the past 24 hours. World Health Organization report finds that nearly 42,000 Palestinians in Gaza, a quarter of them children, have suffered “life-changing injuries.” As Israeli officials label the roughly 250,000 people remaining in Gaza City as terrorists and terror supporters, UNRWA warns it may be preparing for large-scale massacres. The last remaining boat of the Global Sumud Flotilla is intercepted by the Israeli military; over 450 flotilla participants in Israeli custody are being processed for deportation. President Donald Trump declares the U.S. is in an “armed conflict” with drug cartels. Amid government shutdown, White House freezes $2.1 billion in Chicago infrastructure projects “to ensure funding is not flowing via race-based contracting.” Drone sightings over Munich Airport force suspension of flights. Iran’s president discusses relocating the capital from Tehran. Protesters clash with security forces in Kashmir.
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
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37034326
At least 63 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza over the past 24 hours. World Health Organization report finds that nearly 42,000 Palestinians in Gaza, a quarter of them children, have suffered “life-changing injuries.” As Israeli officials label the roughly 250,000 people remaining in Gaza City as terrorists and terror supporters, UNRWA warns it may be preparing for large-scale massacres. The last remaining boat of the Global Sumud Flotilla is intercepted by the Israeli military; over 450 flotilla participants in Israeli custody are being processed for deportation. President Donald Trump declares the U.S. is in an “armed conflict” with drug cartels. Amid government shutdown, White House freezes $2.1 billion in Chicago infrastructure projects “to ensure funding is not flowing via race-based contracting.” Drone sightings over Munich Airport force suspension of flights. Iran’s president discusses relocating the capital from Tehran. Protesters clash with security forces in Kashmir.
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
At least 63 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza over the past 24 hours. World Health Organization report finds that nearly 42,000 Palestinians in Gaza, a quarter of them children, have suffered “life-changing injuries.” As Israeli officials label the roughly 250,000 people remaining in Gaza City as terrorists and terror supporters, UNRWA warns it may be preparing for large-scale massacres. The last remaining boat of the Global Sumud Flotilla is intercepted by the Israeli military; over 450 flotilla participants in Israeli custody are being processed for deportation. President Donald Trump declares the U.S. is in an “armed conflict” with drug cartels. Amid government shutdown, White House freezes $2.1 billion in Chicago infrastructure projects “to ensure funding is not flowing via race-based contracting.” Drone sightings over Munich Airport force suspension of flights. Iran’s president discusses relocating the capital from Tehran. Protesters clash with security forces in Kashmir.
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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)
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Ciao, ho creato ora una nuova categoria dedicata a Caserta. In futuro puoi pubblicare direttamente lì i post che riguardano Caserta e provincia
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
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/6322111
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.
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/6315507
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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“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.
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