Biden’s ex-press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre: ‘Why are Democrats not fighting back?’
Biden’s ex-press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre: ‘Why are Democrats not fighting back?’
Jean-Pierre explains in her new memoir Independent why she decided to leave the Democratic party after two decadesDavid Smith (The Guardian)
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Spotify to Continue Running ICE Recruitment Ads as Boycotts Grow
Spotify to Continue Running ICE Recruitment Ads as Boycotts Grow
Spotify has no plans to pull the DHS's ICE recruitment ads from their platform, even as some on social media call for boycotts.wrengraves (Consequence)
'Trump demanded screaming and swearing that Zelensky give up territory'
After a period when President Trump seemed to be more inclined to the Ukrainian side, he now seems to be taking the side of Russia again. On board his plane the Air Force One he told reporters that Ukraine and Russia should stop fighting and that he wants to leave the situation in the largely Russia-occupied Donbas as he is.
And the British newspaper the Financial Times (FT) writes that the meeting between Trump and Zelensky at the White House went dramatically Friday. Trump is said to have urged Zelensky to accept the Russian conditions for ending the war and to give up the Donbas to Russia.
Based on sources, the newspaper reports that Trump warned that Russian President Putin will "destroy" Ukraine if the country does not cooperate.
Turn of Trump
A little over a month ago, Trump said Ukraine could win the war with the support of the European Union. Then he was remarkably positive about that. In a post on Truth Social, he stated that the country, with the help of the EU and NATO, can take back all territories occupied by Russia.
It seems that last Thursday's phone conversation with Putin has changed his mind.
According to the FT and The Washington Post, the Russian president has made a new proposal whereby Ukraine will give up the Donetsk and Luhansk regions in exchange for small parts of Cherson and Zaporizha. Exactly that exchange would have been introduced to Zelensky on Friday.
Two sources told Reuters that they had the impression that Trump was influenced by Putin. Trump and Putin have agreed to meet in Budapest in a few weeks.
Screaming
Zelensky came to Washington on Friday in the hope of getting more weapons from the U.S., but according to insiders, the meeting degenerated into a screaming party, with Trump constantly cursing.
That this was not an incident turned out last night on board the Air Force One. Trump said the Donbas region - in southeastern Ukraine - should be divided "in the way that it is now." "Negotiation is possible later," he said. "Go home, stop fighting and stop killing people."
The Donbas consists of the regions of Luhansk and Donetsk. Luhansk is almost entirely occupied by Russia, Donetsk about three quarters.
What Trump is asking of Ukraine:
Pete Hegseth's tie during this meeting:
'Trump eiste schreeuwend en vloekend dat Zelensky gebied opgeeft'
De Britse krant Financial Times meldt op basis van bronnen dat Trump vrijdag Zelensky vloekend heeft aangespoord om akkoord te gaan met de Russische voorwaarden.NOS Nieuws
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Seven Palestinians killed in new Israeli attacks; Hamas will hand over two more Israeli captives; and Trump's $200 million White House ballroom
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Gaza’s Health Ministry reports 13 Palestinians killed—including seven killed in new Israeli attacks—with six recovered from under the rubble and at least eight wounded arriving at hospitals in the past 24 hours. Hamas says it will hand over the remains of two more Israeli captives. At least 135 of the mutilated Palestinian bodies returned to Gaza were traced to Israel’s infamous Sde Teiman military prison, the Guardian reports; doctors say autopsies indicate summary executions and systematic torture. President Donald Trump believes Hamas leaders are willing to negotiate “in good faith,” a White House source told the New York Times; President Trump posted on Truth Social that “if Hamas continues to act badly, in violation of their agreement with us…an end to Hamas will be FAST, FURIOUS, & BRUTAL!” UN OCHA records 71 settler attacks in the West Bank between October 7 and October 13 of this year, resulting in one death and 99 injuries; Israeli forces storm the city of Nablus and the town of Barqin. ICE finds itself in need of “medical professionals” on account of the numerous deaths of migrants in its custody. American banks struggle to find full funding for the US’s $40 billion bailout of Argentina in support of its leader Javier Milei. U.S. diplomats are attempting to broker a peace deal between the Moroccan and Algerian governments, who broke ties in 2021 in a dispute over the Western Sahara. A new airstrip is being constructed on an island between Yemen and Eritrea. A contingent of 350 U.S. military advisers will remain in Iraq to counter the Islamic State, its president says, despite an agreement to leave by September. Attacks in the Sahel by armed groups linked to Al Qaeda and the Islamic State have surged from 1,900 in 2023 to 5,500 in 2024, with 3,800 already this year, AFP reports.
Seven Palestinians killed in new Israeli attacks; Hamas will hand over two more Israeli captives; and Trump's $200 million White House ballroom
Biden’s ex-press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre: ‘Why are Democrats not fighting back?’
While this is nominally an account of past events, I can't in good conscience place a book-tour piece in U.S. News.
When CJ Cregg exits the White House for the last time, a passing tourist asks her if she works there. “No,” she replies in the final episode of The West Wing, “No, I’m sorry I don’t.” The former press secretary casts a wistful glance back at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, knowing life will never be the same.The evanescence of power is now familiar to Karine Jean-Pierre, who in real life served as White House press secretary for two and a half years under the presidency of Joe Biden. She was the first Black person, first openly gay person and – born in the Caribbean to Haitian parents – first immigrant to hold the title.
But the old saying that all political lives end in failure applies to their spokespeople too. Jean-Pierre spent her final months in the West Wing parrying questions about Biden’s mental acuity, an exercise that increasingly came to be seen as defending the indefensible. She watched as her boss’s legacy was undone, his numerous accomplishments eclipsed by his failure to prevent the return of Donald Trump.
That the whole experience ended on a sour note is made clear by the publication of Jean-Pierre’s memoir Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines. Its front cover offers an image of the White House, seen not through Cregg’s rose-tinted gaze but rather a cracked lens.
Biden’s ex-press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre: ‘Why are Democrats not fighting back?’
Jean-Pierre explains in her new memoir Independent why she decided to leave the Democratic party after two decadesDavid Smith (The Guardian)
OpenAI launches an AI-powered browser: ChatGPT Atlas
"OpenAI’s Product Lead Adam Fry said during the livestream that ChatGPT Atlas will have the sidecar feature, too. Further, ChatGPT Atlas has “browser history,” meaning that ChatGPT can now log the websites you visit and what you do on them, and use that information to make its answers more personalized."
Oh, great! /s
OpenAI launches an AI-powered browser: ChatGPT Atlas | TechCrunch
OpenAI is launching an AI-powered browser, its latest challenge to Google as the main way people find information online.Maxwell Zeff (TechCrunch)
US and Belize sign ‘safe third country’ agreement for asylum seekers
US and Belize sign ‘safe third country’ agreement for asylum seekers
The agreement is the latest deal the Trump administration has struck to deport migrants to third-party countries.Abby Rogers (Al Jazeera)
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Small businesses and states ask court to uphold orders striking down Trump’s tariffs
Lawyers for small businesses and states challenging President Donald Trump’s authority to impose sweeping tariffs on almost all goods imported into the United States urged the Supreme Court on Monday to leave in place rulings by lower courts that struck down most of the tariffs. One group of small businesses told the justices that the tariffs “have equated to the largest peacetime tax increase in American history,” while another contends that the tariffs “upend[] a century of trade law.”
Trump’s executive orders relied on a federal law, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, that gives the president the power to take action to “deal with any unusual and extraordinary threat, which has its source in whole or substantial part outside the United States, to the national security, foreign policy, or economy of the United States” if he declares a national emergency “with respect to such threat.” When there is a national emergency, the president under IEEPA can “regulate . . . importation” of “property in which any foreign country or national thereof has any interest.”
In Washington, D.C., a pair of small businesses that make educational toys and products went to federal court to challenge the tariffs. The companies, Learning Resources and hand2mind, contend that the tariffs will cost them $100 million this year – nearly 45 times as much as they paid during 2024
Small businesses and states ask court to uphold orders striking down Trump’s tariffs
Lawyers for small businesses and states challenging President Donald Trump’s authority to impose sweeping tariffs on almost all goods imported into the United States urged the Supreme Court on Monday […]Amy Howe (SCOTUSblog)
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Trump-GOP Giveaway to Big Pharma Will Hit Taxpayers With $9 Billion in Higher Drug Costs
The CBO initially projected that the provision, known as the ORPHAN Cures Act, would cost around $5 billion over the next decade. But the office said Monday that its earlier assessment did not take into account several major, high-priced drugs that will be exempted from Medicare price negotiations as a result of the Trump-GOP law.
Among the drugs included in the new CBO analysis is Keytruda, a cancer medication sold by Merck that carries a list price of $24,062 every six weeks. The Trump GOP-budget law delays Keytruda’s eligibility for Medicare price negotiations by at least a year, postponing significant potential savings for taxpayers and patients.
Merith Basey, executive director of Patients for Affordable Drugs Now, said in response to the updated CBO analysis that “the ORPHAN Cures Act is a wildly expensive handout to Big Pharma that will harm patients, drain taxpayer dollars, and weaken the government’s ability to rein in high drug prices.”
Trump-GOP Giveaway to Big Pharma Will Hit Taxpayers With $9 Billion in Higher Drug Costs
"Donald Trump and Republicans are selling out America's seniors," said one advocate.jake-johnson (Common Dreams)
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Any suggestion for a place for cracked softwares?
Who is paying for Donald Trump's new White House ballroom? "I view this enormous ballroom as an ethics nightmare," says former chief ethics lawyer
The US president has said that he personally will pay for significant portions of its construction, and suggested that some still anonymous donors would be willing to spend more than $20m to complete the project.
The funding model has sparked concern among some legal experts, who say it may amount to paying for access to the administration.
"I view this enormous ballroom as an ethics nightmare," Richard Painter, a former chief ethics lawyer in the Bush White House between 2005 and 2007, told the BBC.
"It's using access to the White House to raise money. I don't like it," he added. "These corporations all want something from the government."
A dinner for potential donors held at the White House on 15 October included senior executives from prominent American companies including Blackstone, OpenAI, Microsoft, Coinbase, Palantir, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Amazon and Google.
Who is paying for Donald Trump's new White House ballroom?
A former White House chief ethics lawyer described the ballroom donations as an ethical 'nightmare'.Bernd Debusmann Jr (BBC News)
Amazon Plans to Replace More Than Half a Million Jobs With Robots
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Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state.
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Huawei e l'indipendenza energetica europea
Huawei è una importante azienda cinese che opera anche sul mercato del fotovoltaico controllando la produzione di gran parte degli inverter che vengono installati negli impianti fotovoltaici, rendendo quindi la produzione di energia solare dipendente dai prodotti di questa azienda. Pare sia stata coinvolta in una inchiesta per corruzione nei confronti di alcuni deputati del parlamento europeo.
In questo articolo del 11 ottobre 2025 di Giulio Cavalli, dal titolo: "Il caso Huawei e la contraddizione dell’Ue sull’indipendenza energetica" su Lettera43 se ne parla, mettendo in evidenza la dipendenza industriale dell'Europa, soprattutto dai produttori cinesi.
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Il caso Huawei e la contraddizione dell'Ue sull'indipendenza energetica - Lettera43
Dopo l'inchiesta per corruzione, il parlamento europeo aveva tagliato i rapporti con Huawei. Che però è rientrato dalla finestra...Giulio Cavalli (Lettera43)
The AWS Outage Was a Nightmare for College Students
When Abby Fagerlin tried logging into Canvas, a popular educational technology platform, to check on her assignments Monday morning, she couldn’t get in.That meant the 19-year-old college sophomore, who is studying physics at Pasadena City College, was unable to access materials she needed for her three classes, which were hosted on or linked through the learning management system. After searching online, she realized the Amazon Web Services outage that crippled much of the internet Monday had also temporarily taken down Canvas.
Fagerlin also couldn’t be sure if she’d missed a message from her professors—some of whom she said communicated exclusively with their students through a messaging system hosted on Canvas. Going to talk to one of her professors to ask for physical materials from his class, meanwhile, posed a separate challenge.
“His office hours are [posted] on Canvas,” she said.
It wasn’t just Fagerlin having problems. More than a dozen students at colleges and universities across the country told WIRED the Canvas outage threw off their schedules, preventing them from not just submitting and viewing assignments but also from participating in-class activities, contacting professors, and accessing the textbooks and other materials they need to study.
[...]the disruptions to students are a testament to just how popular Canvas is on college campuses—and how much of modern educational life is increasingly centered on a handful of educational technology platforms.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-aws-outage-was-a-nightmare-for-college-students/
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Stories of children killed by Israel in the occupied West Bank this year
Stories of children killed by Israel in the occupied West Bank this year
More than 40 children have been killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank this year.Al Jazeera
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Unearthed documents show that MI6, the British spy service, planned to cut China into three separate countries
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Trump’s nomination of Paul Ingrassia loses Republican support following racist text messages
Trump’s nomination of Paul Ingrassia loses Republican support following racist text messages
Ingrassia, Trump’s pick to lead the office of special counsel, allegedly described himself as having ‘a Nazi streak’Joseph Gedeon (The Guardian)
Hollywood pumps the brakes on Toyota: The entertainment industry's leading sustainability group says privately it will cut ties with its top sponsor; critics accuse Toyota of funding climate denial
Hollywood pumps the brakes on Toyota
The entertainment industry's leading sustainability group says privately it will dump its top sponsor, after Toyota is accused of funding climate denial.Sammy Roth (Climate-Colored Goggles)
Toyota hybrids are outselling everything, because people are buying them. Other manufacturers are losing money on EVs in the US, and unlike Tesla, Toyota has to actually make money.
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Pubblicata per la prima volta nel 1936 – mentre Pavese si trova al confino a Brancaleone Calabro – la raccolta poetica “Lavorare stanca” racchiude i temi che resteranno centrali in tutta la sua opera. Con i versi lunghi, di tredici o sedici sillabe, e uno stile semplice e diretto in contrasto con quello dell’epoca, Pavese apre la strada a un nuovo mondo narrativo, in cui le poesie hanno l’aria di racconti, microstorie. Nonostante i riferimenti a luoghi a lui conosciuti, l’autore dona a ogni elemento – le stelle, l’alba, le colline, ma anche la città, gli uomini e le donne – una dimensione mitica, universale, e fa emergere tra le pagine fitte, distinta, la presenza di un «Io» ingombrante, pur se mimetizzato negli altri. Un viaggio che evoca con nostalgia non solo il passato, ma anche un futuro su cui egli già proietta tutto il senso di inadeguatezza e l’irrimediabilità della propria solitudine. Prefazione di Simona Mingardi.
Rileggere Pavese come se fossimo noi a tornare a casa la sera.
Non ci può essere migliore recensione, per un libro di poesie, se non quella che lo stesso autore scrive. Probabilmente questo lo sapeva anche Pavese che nei due testi in appendice alla sua opera spiega perfettamente le percezioni che la lettura mi aveva dato. In particolare a pag. 120 leggiamo:
Definito “Lavorare stanca” come l’avventura dell’adolescente che, orgoglioso della sua campagna, immagina consimile la città, ma vi trova la solitudine e vi rimedia col sesso e la passione che sevono solo a gettarlo lontano da campagna e città, in una più tragica solitudine che è la fine dell’adolescenza […]
C’è una stanchezza che non passa. Non quella delle braccia, ma quella che scava dentro e non trova nome. Quella di chi lasciava le Langhe per la scintillante città e le sue promesse. Quella di chi si sottrae alla carezza della brezza marina e allo sguardo delle esperidi per un nebbioso posto fisso (non parlo di Pavese). Ma anche di chi è strappato alle proprie radici dall’istinto di sopravvivenza. Pavese siamo noi nel tempo e nello spazio alla ricerca spesso di un orizzonte che si sottrae ad ogni passo. E che per ogni passo in avanti che ci sembrerà di fare non sarà mai più vicino rispetto al punto dal quale eravamo partiti. È come se il percorso obbligato di crescità che la modernità ci ha imposto non facesse altro che allontanarci dall’essere umani mentre ci affanniamo a diventare persone.
La città mi ha insegnato infinite paure
Poesie e poetica
La sua lingua è nuda, prosastica, quasi sgraziata. È il contrario della poesia come la immaginavano gli altri: Pavese non vuole consolare, vuole far vedere.
C’è il lavoro, sì, ma dietro il lavoro c’è l’assenza. L’impossibilità di stare davvero con gli altri, la solitudine come condizione naturale. In questa raccolta, l’uomo è un animale separato: guarda, ricorda, desidera, ma non si muove più. Il mito — quello che Pavese inseguirà sempre — qui è solo un’eco lontana, un sogno che non sa ancora di esserlo.
Cosa rimane
Eppure qualcosa resta. Nella polvere delle Langhe, nei paesi immobili, nei versi che sembrano camminare e non arrivare mai, c’è una specie di pietà. Pavese non giudica ma osserva. La sua poesia è stanca ma lucida, come chi ha smesso di cercare risposte e continua comunque a fare domande.
La vite, la vite e la donna
Come già egregiamente espresso nella recensione de “La Luna e i falò”, scritta da Cristina Desideri per il nostro blog, l’uva e il lavoro che la circonda è un tema centrale anche in Lavorare stanca. Una vite che è la vita stessa che assorbe e rimanda le personalità di chi gli vive intorno, come fa con i profumi e gli aromi delle erbe che crescono nelle sue vicinanze. Una vite che si confonde poeticamente con il desiderio e quindi, per Pavese, con la donna. Un appagamento fugace di felicità terrena e di senso di libertà che si può raggiungere talvolta in un orgasmo etilico o erotico.
Questa raccolta, infine, è un bazar di profumi e sensazioni. Talvolta disturbanti. C’è quasi bisogno, tra una poesia e l’altra di annusare dei chicchi di caffè, come facevano alcuni profumieri del passato, per resettare il naso e predisporlo a una nuova esperienza sinestetica.
La casa editrice
Una menzione di merito va certamente alla casa editrice “4 Punte Edizioni” che ha scelto di ripubblicare questa raccolta. I chiodi a “4 Punte” erano uno strumento di sabotaggio e resistenza usato dai partigiani. I libri “resistenti” che fanno parte della collana #ilTrenoVersoSud ci rinnovano la necessità di sabotare con ogni mezzo controculturale l’egemonia indifferente e repressiva che troppo spesso si respira in questo paese.
L’eccellente prefazione di Simona Mingardi riesce a spaziare in poche righe tra i sentimenti e le opere di Pavese, aiutandoci a comprendere la raccolta.
Un piccolo aneddoto
Cesare Pavese fu vittima della repressione fascista che lo costrinse al confino, presso Brancaleone (RC) tra il 1935 – 36′.
Lo scorso agosto, durante un evento di presentazione di una mia raccolta di poesie svoltasi a Bova Marina (RC), ho avuto modo di conoscere il fratello di un altro confinato politico antifascista. Anch’egli confinato sempre a Brancaleone, nello stesso periodo di Pavese. Il fratello mi ha raccontato che Pavese, essendo un ospite di “spicco”, riceveva talvolta delle sigarette o altre piccole gentilezze dai carcerieri ma non era solito condividere tali “gioie” con gli altri reclusi che certamente non apprezzavano questa caratteristica. Una piccola storia nella storia che certamente nulla toglie al grande poeta ma ci dona una punta di colore nell’affresco del poeta.
#antifascismo #ilTrenoVersoSud #lavoro #Pavese #poesia #terraEVendemmia #uva #vino
Brancaleone; la grande storia. - Pro Loco di Brancaleone APS
Fu la costruzione della ferrovia che cominciò ad attirare molte famiglie, provenienti dall'entroterra e da alcune zone del Meridione d'Italia.admin (Pro Loco Brancaleone)
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Trump’s White House Demolition Is the Perfect Symbol of His Presidency
Trump’s White House Demolition Is the Perfect Symbol of His Presidency
Trump’s East Wing demolition began before full approval. The marble may shine, but what’s crumbling is the process meant to protect democracy’s house.Colby Hall (Mediaite)
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My first months in cyberspace
In early 1995 I was 23 and living in a terraced house in Bristol with four friends, about 18 months after leaving university. I’d given up on trying to be an illustrator, had a bit of freelance work making models for Aardman Animations, and would soon be the only one of my friends not to have permanent work. I was increasingly interested in technology and this brand new thing: Internet.
My first months in cyberspace
Recalling the difficulties and wonder of getting online for the first time in 1995, including diary extracts from the time.Phil Gyford’s website
DR Congo provides grants for minigrids, solar home systems
DR Congo provides grants for minigrids, solar home systems
The Mwinda Fund is aiming to distribute $500 million in grants for minigrids, solar home systems and clean cooking solutions in DR Congo by 2030.pv magazine International
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The difference is the long racist history of refering to Asian people as yellow skinned, phrases like "yellow peril" describing fears of Asian immigrants, so it's not a stretch to see how depicting a Chinese man with cartoonishly yellow skin is racist as fuck.
It would be like depicting a black politician as a monkey, it's difficult to defend something like that as just a joke against a specific person when there's such a racist connotation/history there.
Today is when Amazon brain drain finally caught up with AWS
Today is when the Amazon brain drain finally sent AWS down the spout
column: When your best engineers log off for good, don’t be surprised when the cloud forgets how DNS worksCorey Quinn (The Register)
Fyodor Lukyanov: A Palestine without Palestinians is impossible
Fyodor Lukyanov: A Palestine without Palestinians is impossible
The Middle East cannot be stabilized by money aloneRT
Ukraine Loses Over 480 Soldiers in Battles With Russia's Tsentr Battlegroup
Ukraine Loses Over 480 Soldiers in Battles With Russia's Tsentr Battlegroup
Russia's Tsentr battlegroup of forces has eliminated more than 480 Ukrainian military personnel in the past day, the Russian Defense Ministry said.Sputnik International
Open letter by more than 2000 Scientists: Climate Neutrality is Europe’s Greatest Economic Opportunity
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The benefits of such a target are enormous. If done correctly, it could, among others,\
● save over €850 billion in fossil fuel imports between 2025 and 2040,\
● increase competitiveness and create more than 2 million new jobs in clean
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● cut household energy bills by up to two-thirds, and\
● reduce Europe’s dependency on autocratic countries, strengthening
independence and resilience.
Her Name Was Hind, Her Foundation Takes her Killers to Court | THE HIND RAJAB FOUNDATION
Her Name Was Hind, Her Foundation Takes her Killers to Court | THE HIND RAJAB FOUNDATION
HRF files ICC complaint naming 24 Israeli soldiers and commanders for the killing of Hind Rajab, her family, and two rescuers in Gaza.THE HIND RAJAB FOUNDATION
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Hamas agrees to return two more bodies of hostages to Israel later today
Hamas agrees to return two more bodies of hostages to Israel later today
On the morning of October 13, Hamas and its allies released all 20 living Israeli hostages and returned four more bodies of deceased hostages in accordance with the Gaza ceasefire dealTASS
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Its not about what your doing its the fact, it indiscriminately tracks people.
What is fine and legal today could be illegal tomorrow.
Also there are so many examples of abuse and mistakes by flock that they are unredeemable
Key point: "Flock users can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with “evidence collection and investigative work.”
This is not any kind of live link. It is just another way to request a specific video recording be shared by the user. The user has full control. Ring already has the same system in place on their "neighborhood" platform.
Ending Financing for Oil in Amazonia - Banks vs. the Amazon
Ending Financing for Oil in Amazonia - Banks vs. the Amazon
Ranking major banks' Amazon oil and gas financingStand.earth
Pretty much every day someone parks their car on the tram tracks and blocks our city's tram network from operating
This does unfortunately happen multiple times per day. Sometimes it’s smaller incidents where the tram driver can get out and collapse the car’s mirror. Other times the owner of the car comes out of a nearby house after the tram used its bell extensively (like today) and moves the car. And then there are times when police needs to get involved to tow the car which often takes upwards of 1 hour.
The truly infuriating part is that if the tram damages a poorly parked car, the transportation company will have to pay the damages. Poorly parked vehicles never get fined and the owners will only need to pay if the car ends up getting towed.
Why do we accept that drivers sabotage a city’s public transport infrastructure like this?
As a car guy (yes I know where I am - I don't live in a city though), idiots like this make no sense to me.
If you enjoy driving, you should in fact be in favor of public transit. It means less traffic, makes driving nicer. Even if you're 100% self-absorbed, you should still be supportive of public transit.
Welcome to the war on cars, car guy.
But legit this take makes so much sense. The whole point of the war on cars is that we all have options that meet our needs. People who need to take cars, due to distance or disability can, because the roads are clearer with others taking transit, walking or biking. Multi-modal transit benefits car people as much as it does everyone else.
‘Vampire Empire’ – Investigation Reveals Israeli Soldiers Who Killed Hind Rajab
Al-Jazeera’s program ‘What’s Hidden is Greater’ has uncovered the identities of Israeli soldiers involved in the killing of six-year-old Palestinian child Hind Rajab, whose death became one of the most powerful symbols of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.
On January 29, 2024, Hind Rajab was trapped inside her family’s car in Gaza City’s Tel al-Hawa neighborhood after Israeli tanks opened fire.
Her final words, whispered to rescuers over the phone — “The tank is next to me” — went viral across the world. Hours later, rescuers found the vehicle riddled with bullets, the six-year-old’s body lying beside her mother and other family members.
Israel denied its forces were present in the area at the time.
The investigation identified the perpetrators as members of the 401st Armored Brigade of the Israeli army, under the command of Benny Aharon, and specifically its 52nd Battalion, led by Colonel Daniel Ella.
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