We were pleasantly surprised when congressional Republicans introduced our farewell article to the former president, titled Biden’s press freedom legacy: Empty words and hypocrisy, into the record at a House Judiciary Committee hearing this week.

That’s great — it’s always nice to have our work recognized. But if Republican lawmakers agree with us that former President Joe Biden was bad on press freedom, someone should really tell them about this Donald Trump character who’s in office now. All the abuses we identified in the article Republicans cited have (as the article predicted) worsened under the new president, and he’s come up with plenty of new ones too.

We wrote a letter to let the committee know that if it’s serious about addressing the issues our article discussed, regardless of who is in the White House, we’re here to help. We’ll let you know if they reply (but don’t hold your breath). Read the letter here or below.

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Knobs are ubiquitous in technology user interfaces, but touchscreens are increasingly replacing them for interface controls. The latest project from [upir] combines a rotating knob with a touchscreen for a stunning result. The knob-over-display design features a touchscreen where you can place and remove a spinning knob, creating an interface reminiscent of Microsoft’s Surface Dial but at a fraction of the cost.

The core functionality of this device relies on the MT6701 magnetic encoder, which precisely tracks the orientation of the surrounding magnetic field. This encoder is held in place with a 3D-printed jig behind the small touchscreen, hiding the encoder without blocking the magnetic field generated by the magnet above the display. Most circular magnets are axially magnetized, meaning their larger face is one pole. However, diametrically magnetized magnets, where opposite sides of the smaller face are the poles, are used here.

To avoid scratching the screen and ensure smooth turning, [upir] designed a knob that holds the diametrically magnetized magnet slightly above the screen, with a ball bearing connecting the outside of the knob to the center resting on the screen. All the design files needed to recreate this are available on [upir]’s GitHub page; be sure to check them out. Also, browse through our back catalog for other knob-related projects.

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Dear Friend of Press Freedom,

For 164 days, Rümeysa Öztürk has faced deportation by the United States government for writing an op-ed it didn’t like, and for 83 days, Mario Guevara has been imprisoned for covering a protest. Read on for more, and click here to subscribe to our other newsletters.

Recording police is not ‘violence’

It was bad enough when government officials claimed that journalists are inciting violence by reporting. But now, they’re accusing reporters of actually committing violence.

The supposed violence by reporters? Recording videos. At least three times recently, a government official or lawyer has argued that simply recording law enforcement or Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers is a form of violence. Read more here.

Thanks for citing us, House Republicans. Now do something

Congressional Republicans introduced our farewell article to the former president, titled Biden’s press freedom legacy: Empty words and hypocrisy, into the record at a House Judiciary Committee hearing this week.

That’s great — it’s always nice to have our work recognized. But if these lawmakers agree with us that former President Joe Biden was bad on press freedom, someone should really tell them about this Donald Trump character who’s in office now. All the abuses we identified in the article Republicans cited have (as the article predicted) worsened under the new president, and he’s come up with plenty of new ones too.

We wrote a letter to let the committee know that if it’s serious about addressing the issues our article discussed, regardless of who is in office, we’re here to help. We’ll let you know if they reply (but don’t hold your breath). Read the letter here.

Will secret law prevail in drug boat massacre?

The Trump administration has not provided any legal justification for blowing up a boat carrying 11 alleged Venezuelan drug traffickers on the Caribbean Sea. We filed a Freedom of Information Act request to find out if lawyers at the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel were consulted before the slaughter and, if so, what they said.

If there is an OLC opinion about the targeting of the Venezuelan boat, the public and Congress should be able to debate it right now. Unfortunately, the government has long taken the position that OLC opinions should be secret, even though there should be no such thing as secret law in the United States. Read more here, and, if you want to learn more about government secrecy and what we’re doing to combat it, subscribe to The Classifieds.

Stop the judicial secrecy bill

An amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act would allow lawmakers to scrub information about themselves from the internet. The bill fails to achieve its stated purpose of keeping lawmakers safe — except from investigative journalism.

This week we helped lead a letter to senators from press freedom and civil liberties organizations objecting to the misguided legislation. Even if the NDAA amendment does not succeed, it’s likely that this bill will be back, and we’ll be ready to fight it. Read the letter here.

ICE revives contract for spyware

In 2023, Biden issued an executive order limiting government use of commercial spyware. Subsequently, the Biden administration issued a stop-work order on a $2 million contract between Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Paragon, a spyware vendor that makes products that have reportedly been used to spy on journalists.

It now appears ICE is reinstating this contract. Read more here and subscribe to our Digital Security Tips newsletter.

What we’re reading

Inside Trump’s decade-long war on the press: 75,000 posts, 3,500 direct attacks

Editor and Publisher
Trump’s anti-press rhetoric is “not bluster; it is not a personality trait. It is deliberate,” our U.S. Press Freedom Tracker’s Stephanie Sugars said. “It is very much at the cost of the strength of our social fabric and our shared reality.”

RSF and Avaaz launch international media operation

RSF
Great work by our friends at Reporters Without Borders organizing this response to Israel’s slaughter of journalists in Gaza. It’s unfortunate that more U.S. outlets did not participate. If the outlets you support were not among the few, ask them why.

Illinois restores protections for press targeted with frivolous lawsuits

The Dissenter
We spoke to The Dissenter about the Illinois Supreme Court’s ridiculous ruling that the state’s law against strategic lawsuits against public participation doesn’t protect reporting, and the recently passed bill to repair the damage.

He plagiarized and promoted falsehoods. The White House embraces him

The New York Times
We talked to the Times about influencers replacing journalists at the White House. Yes, it’s awful that Trump won’t grant reporters the honor of getting lied to at press briefings. But the decimation of FOIA — a source of facts, not spin — is even more concerning.

Noem accuses CBS of ‘deceptively’ editing interview about Abrego Garcia

The Hill
Kristi Noem’s complaints underscore why news outlets can’t settle frivolous lawsuits. Now, the door is wide open for government officials to question every editing decision news outlets make, whether to shorten an interview for time or to not air lies and nonsense.

Police body cameras are supposed to shed light. Rhode Island rules let officers keep footage in the dark

Rhode Island Current
When rules restrict police body cameras from being used to provide transparency, the only use left for them is surveillance.

Judge Charles Wilson defends New York Times v. Sullivan

Reason
A good recap of why “originalist” attacks on the actual malice standard — which limits defamation claims by public figures — are so disingenuous.

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With the days of dial-up and pitiful 2G data connections long behind most of us, it would seem tempting to stop caring about how much data an end-user is expected to suck down that big and wide broadband tube. This is a problem if your respective tube happens to be a thin straw and you’re located in a base somewhere in the Antarctic. Take it from [Paul Coldren], who was stationed at a number of Antarctic research stations as an IT specialist for a total of 14.5 months starting in August of 2022.
Prepare for hours of pain and retrying downloads. (Credit: Paul Coldren]
As [Paul] describes, the main access to the Internet at these bases is via satellite internet, which effectively are just relay stations. With over a thousand people at a station like McMurdo at certain parts of the season, internet bandwidth is a precious commodity and latency is understandably high.

This low bandwidth scenario led to highly aggravating scenarios, such as when a web app would time out on [Paul] while downloading a 20 MB JavaScript file, simply because things were going too slow. Upon timing out, it would wipe the cache, redirect to an error page and have [Paul] retry and retry to try to squeeze within the timeout window. Instead of just letting the download complete in ~15 minutes, it would take nearly half an hour this way, just so that [Paul] could send a few kB worth of text in a messaging app.

In addition to these artificial timeouts – despite continuing download progress – there’s also the issue of self-updating apps, with a downloader that does not allow you to schedule, pause, resume or do anything else that’d make downloading that massive update somewhat feasible. Another thing here is distributed downloads, such as when hundreds of people at said Antarctic station are all trying to update MacOS simultaneously. Here [Paul] ended up just – painfully and slowly – downloading the entire 12 GB MacOS ISO to distribute it across the station, but a Mac might still try to download a few GB of updates regardless.

Updating Office for Mac at the South Pole made easy courtesy of Microsoft. (Credit: Paul Coldren)
This level of pain continued with smartphone updates, which do not generally allow one to update the phone’s OS from a local image, and in order to make a phone resume an update image download, [Paul] had to turn the phone off when internet connectivity dropped out – due to satellites going out of alignment – and turn it back on when connectivity was restored the next day.

Somewhat surprisingly, the Microsoft Office for Mac updater was an example of how to do it at least somewhat right; with the ability to pause and cancel, see the progress of the download and resumption of interrupted downloads without any fuss. Other than not having access to the underlying update file for download and distribution by e.g. Sneakernet, this was a pleasant experience alongside the many examples of modern-day hardware and software that just gave up and failed at the sight of internet speeds measured in kB/s.

Although [Paul] isn’t advocating that every developer should optimize their application and updater for the poor saps stuck on the equivalent of ISDN at a remote station or in a tub floating somewhere in the Earth’s oceans, he does insist that it would be nice if you could do something like send a brief text message via a messaging app without having to fight timeouts and other highly aggravating ‘features’.

Since [Paul] returned from his last deployment to the Antarctic in 2024 it appears that at least some of the stations have been upgraded to Starlink satellite internet, but this should not be taken as an excuse to not take his plea seriously.

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Even with teachers with names like Kirchhoff and Helmholtz, old Heinrich Hertz himself likely didn’t have the slightest idea that his name would one day become an SI unit. Less likely still would have been the idea that Hackaday would honor him with the 2025 One-Hertz Challenge.

The challenge was deliberately — dare we say, fiendishly? — simple: Do something, anything, but do it once a second. Flash a light, ring a bell, click a relay, or even spam comments on a website other than Hackaday; anything at all, but do it at as close to one Hertz as possible. These are our favorite kinds of contests, because the simplicity affords a huge canvas for the creative mind to paint upon while still providing an interesting technical constraint that’s just difficult enough to make things spicy.

And boy, did you respond! We’ve received over a hundred entries since we announced the contest back in June, meaning that many of you spent 4,662,000 seconds of your summer (at least those of you above the equator) rising to the challenge. The time was well spent, with projects that pushed the limits of what we even expected.

While we loved ’em all, we had to winnow them down to the top three, each of which receives a $150 gift certificate from our sponsor, DigiKey. Let’s take a look at them, along with our favorite runners-up.

Our Top Three

At the top of our judges’ list was “the electromechanicalanalogdigitalclock”, a project that clearly didn’t know what it wanted to be but nevertheless did it with a lot of style. [Christian]’s contraption pushes a lot of design buttons, starting with the mains-powered stepper motor generating a 1-Hz signal with a photochopper, which drives a 12-bit counter made from some CMOS logic chips and a digital-to-analog converter that drives some vintage moving-coil meters to display the time. There’s even a bit of circuit sculpture thrown in, with a brass frame supporting and isolating the noisy stepper motor on a spring suspension. Extra points were no doubt earned thanks to the Space:1999 and Star Trek models in the photos.

The electromechanicalanalogdigitalclock by [Christian].BEZICRON was inspired by [ekaggrat singh kalsi] playing with his daughter’s springy hair ties.Next up we have BEZICRON by [ekaggarat singh kalsi]. If this one looks familiar, it’s probably because we featured it back in January, when we had a difficult time describing exactly what this is. It’s a clock, sure, but its display is vastly different from anything we’ve ever seen before, based as it is on hair bands, of all things, that are bent and stretched into numerals by a series of intricate cams and levers. The idea is unique, the mechanism is complex, the design is striking, and the sinuous 1-Hz pulse of the colon is mesmerizing.

Our final gift certificate goes to [Tim], who managed to use candle flames as a time base. You’ve probably noticed candles guttering and flickering thanks to uneven wax melting or even drafts blowing the flame column around and thought they were fairly random. But [Tim] noticed that these oscillations were actually more stable and predictable than they appear, and used a wire sticking into the flame to trigger the capacitive sensor input on a CH32xxx microcontroller to measure the frequency, which was then divided down to flash an LED at 1-Hz. It’s the perfect combination of physics and electronics that extracts order from a seemingly stochastic in a weird and wonderful way.

Awesome Honorable Mentions

What’s always fun about Hackaday contests is the categories we come up with, which are sort of mini-games within the main challenge. And this time around didn’t disappoint, with projects that explored these side quests in fun and interesting ways.

Our “Ridiculous” category was all about tapping your inner Rube Goldberg and finding the least practical way to generate your 1-pps pulse train. Runners-up in this category included [Brian Stuparyk]’s electromechanical function generator, a pitchblende-powered “atomic” clock by [alnwlsn], and [Sean B]’s “Nothing but NAND” Nixie clock.

For the “Timelords” category, we were looking for the projects that pulled out all the stops to get as many zeroes as possible after the decimal point, and the entries didn’t disappoint. Check out this vintage atomic clock restoration by [CuriousMarc] and his merry band, [Lauri Pirttiaho]’s cheap and simple GPS sync for quartz wall clocks, or this GPS-disciplined crystal-oven oscillator by [Will Carver].

The horologically inclined were the target audience for the “Clockwork” category, which invited you to turn your one-per-second timebase into a unique and interesting timepiece. See [Simon Newhouse]’s Nixie-based frequency counter clock, the DCF77 clock [hayday] made from the 2022 Supercon Badge, or the beautiful bubble displays of [Andrew Tudoroi]’s RPi TinynumberHat9 clock.

And finally, what would a One-Hertz challenge be without the venerable 555 timer chip? Entries we liked from the “Coulda Used a 555” category include [Tom Goff]’s Bletchley-inspired Logic Bombe, this mind-bending, capacitor-free timer that [Mark Valentine] put together, and [Paul Gallagher]’s super annoying “One Hurts” clock — it’s worse than a cuckoo clock!

Everyone’s a Winner!

We’d love to give everyone a prize, but we’d be hard-pressed to manage that with so many cool and unusual projects. As they say, everyone’s a winner just for entering, and we think that’s especially true with contests like this, which bring out the best in everyone. Thanks to everyone who entered, the judges for sorting through everything and making the hard choices, and to our sponsor DigiKey. We’ll see you all again next time around!

Thunderstorms were raging across southern Germany as Elliot Williams was joined by Jenny List for this week’s podcast. The deluge outside didn’t stop the hacks coming though, and we’ve got a healthy smorgasbord for you to snack from. There’s the cutest ever data cassette recorder taking a tiny Olympus dictation machine and re-engineering it with a beautiful case for the Commodore 64, a vastly overcomplex machine for perfectly cracking an egg, the best lightning talk timer Hackaday has ever seen, and a demoscene challenge that eschews a CPU. Then in Quick Hacks we’ve got a QWERTY slider phone, and a self-rowing canoe that comes straight out of Disney’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice sequence.

For a long time we’ve had a Field guide series covering tech in infrastructure and other public plain sight, and this week’s one dealt with pivot irrigation. A new subject for Jenny who grew up on a farm in a wet country. Then both editors are for once in agreement, over using self-tapping screws to assemble 3D-printed structures. Sit back and enjoy the show!

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Episode 336 Show Notes:

What’s that Sound?

• Congrats to [1tR3x] who knew more about the music of 2001 Space Odyssey than I did!

Interesting Hacks of the Week:

• Tiny Datasette Uses USB For The Modern Day
  
  • How Commodore tapes work
  • Classic Computer Magazine Archive article

  
  

• Does It Make Sense To Upgrade A Prusa MK4S To A Core One?
• Lightning Talks On Time, With This Device
• Over-Engineering An Egg Cracking Machine
  
  • What Can You Learn From An Eggbot?

  
  

• This Plotter Knows No Boundaries
• An Amiga Demo With No CPU Involved

Quick Hacks:

• Elliot’s Picks:
  
  • Phonenstien Flips Broken Samsung Into QWERTY Slider
  • Remembering The Intel Compute Stick
  • Old Projects? Memorialize Them Into Functional Art
  • Microsoft Removed WMR Headset Support? No Problem!

  
  

• Jenny’s Picks:
  
  • Microsoft BASIC For 6502 Is Now Open Source
  • CAD, From Scratch: MakerCAD
  • Robotic Canoe Puts Robot Arms To Work

  
  

Can’t-Miss Articles:

• No Need For Inserts If You’re Prepared To Use Self-Tappers
• Field Guide To North American Crop Irrigation

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The Estes line of flying model rockets have inspired an untold number of children and adults alike, thanks in part to their simplicity. From the design and construction of the rockets themselves to the reliability and safety of the modular solid-propellant motors, the company managed to turn actual rocket science into a family activity. If you could glue fins onto a cardboard tube and stick a plastic nosecone on the end, you were nearly ready for launch.

But what if you’re looking for something a bit more challenging? That’s where the new Estes Scorpio 3D comes in. Unlike the classic Estes kit, which included the fins, nosecone, and other miscellaneous bits of the rocket, the Scorpio kit requires you to 3D print your own parts. Do it right, and the company says you can send your creation to heights of 1,000 feet (305 m).

As several main components of the rocket are 3D printed, the Scorpio is intended to be a platform for fast and easy modification. Estes already provides STLs for a few different variants of the tail fins — this is not unlike some of the old kits, which would occasionally include different shaped fins for you to experiment with. But of course you’re also free to design your own components from scratch if you wish. A twist-lock mechanism built into the printed motor mount allows you to swap out the Scorpio’s fins in the field, no glue required.

While we appreciate the concept of the Scorpio 3D, we have to admit that the $40 USD price tag seems a bit excessive. After all, the user is expected to print the majority of the rocket’s parts on their own dime. According to the manual, the only thing you get with the kit (other than access to the digital files) is a couple of cardboard tubes, some stickers, and a parachute — the launch pad, igniter, and even motors are all sold separately.

Admittedly there’s a certain value in the Estes name and the knowledge that they’ve done their homework while putting this product together. But if you’re just looking to fire off some DIY rockets, we’d point you to the open source HEXA project as an alternative.

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In occasione di Uman Festival, il tesoriere dell’Associazione Luca Coscioni Marco Cappato sarà protagonista di un incontro pubblico dal titolo “Democrazia. In dialogo con Marco Cappato”.

L’appuntamento è per venerdì 12 settembre 2025 alle ore 15:00 presso l’Aula 002 del Dipartimento di Sociologia – Università di Trento, Via Giuseppe Verdi 26, a Trento.

In occasione di Uman Festival, l’attivista e tesoriere dell’Associazione Luca Coscioni Marco Cappato sarà protagonista di un incontro pubblico dal titolo “Democrazia. In dialogo con Marco Cappato”.

Un momento di confronto con studenti, studentesse e cittadinanza, per discutere il valore della partecipazione democratica e dei diritti civili in Italia e in Europa.

Partecipano:
Marco Cappato (Associazione Luca Coscioni)
Marta Citriniti (Presidente Tridentum)
Renata Maria Giordano (Presidente ELSA Trento)
Prof.ssa Marta Tomasi (Università di Trento)

Aula 002, Dipartimento di Sociologia – Università di Trento
Ingresso libero, aperto a tutte e tutti

L'articolo Marco Cappato a Trento – Dialogo sulla democrazia all’Università proviene da Associazione Luca Coscioni.

It was bad enough when government officials claimed that journalists incite violence by reporting. But now, they’re accusing reporters of actually committing violence.

The supposed violence by reporters? Recording videos. At least three times recently, a government official or lawyer has argued that simply recording law enforcement or Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers is a form of violence.

In July, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem proclaimed during a news conference following ICE raids on California farms that videotaping ICE agents performing operations is “violence.” Noem lumped video recordings in with other forms of actual violence, like throwing rocks or Molotov cocktails at agents.

Then, in August, Justice Department lawyer Sean Skedzielewski argued, during a court hearing over the Los Angeles Police Department’s mistreatment of journalists covering protests, that videotaping law enforcement officers “can be used for violence.” He claimed recording is violent because it can reveal officers’ identities, leading to harassment, and can encourage more protesters to join the fray.

Also in August, the government applied similar logic as it fought against the release of Mario Guevara, the only journalist in U.S. custody after being arrested for newsgathering. Guevara, who is originally from El Salvador, was detained while covering a protest in Georgia and turned over to ICE for deportation. In a bond hearing before an immigration court in July, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, the government argued that Guevara’s recording and livestreaming of law enforcement “presents a safety threat.”

At the risk of stating the obvious, videotaping someone is not the equivalent of throwing a firebomb at them. Actually, recordings of law enforcement officers made by journalists and members of the public allow the public to see what the police are up to and hold officers accountable for abusing their authority or breaking the law.

That includes holding officers who are violating the First Amendment accountable in court. Adam Rose, chair of the press rights committee for the LA Press Club, said that Skedzielewski also denied in court that DHS officers had pointed weapons at journalists, despite video evidence submitted to the court of them doing exactly that.

Skedzielewski “wound up making our case for us,” Rose told us. “His own argument showed how the government can try to lie in court, and why filming in public is critical to ensure the truth comes out.”

Video recording police in public is also protected by the First Amendment, as both Rose and Mickey Osterreicher, the general counsel for the National Press Photographers Association, point out. “The claim that journalists and others video recording police are engaged in ‘acts of violence’ is not only absurd on its face but flies in the face of the law and common sense,” said Osterreicher.

That constitutional right applies even if officers would prefer not to be identified. The government often claims that officers must not be identified because they’re at risk of (real) violence or harassment. But the correct response to those threats is to prosecute and punish those who actually break the law by harassing or physically attacking police, not make up crimes to go after those who exercise their First Amendment right to record them.

The government claims at other times that officers should not be recorded because they’re undercover. The government has been known to abuse this argument, including by making bizarre claims that any officer who may, at some point, go undercover should be treated as undercover at all times. Plus, journalists have no way of knowing whether a particular agent participating in an immigration raid or officer policing a protest is undercover at the moment they’re recording. The responsibility of preserving officers’ cover is on the officer and the government, not journalists and the public who can observe them working in plain view.

These justifications, however, are mere pretext for the government’s true purpose. Officials want courts and the public to believe that recording agents and officers is a violent act because it justifies officers’ own violent response to the press.

In LA, government attorney Skedzielewski didn’t just argue that video recording is violent. He said that meant that justified officers in using force against people videotaping them. This claim—made in a court that’s already restrained police from attacking journalists after they were documented violently assaulting and detaining reporters repeatedly —should seriously alarm journalists and anyone who wants to record police.

“For an officer of the court to conflate the use of recordings to reveal police officers’ identities with the actual making of those recordings, in order to justify the use of excessive force against those doing the recording, shows complete ignorance of the law, disregard for the Constitution, a blatant attempt to demonize those who would dare risk their health and safety to provide visual proof of police behavior, or all three,” said Osterreicher.

That demonization is working, unfortunately, especially when it comes to ICE officers’ beliefs about how they can respond to being recorded. In recent months, ICE officers have knocked phones out of the hands of those recording them, pulled weapons on people photographing or videotaping them, and even arrested U.S. citizens for filming them.

The escalating attacks on journalists and citizens who are recording police show the danger of the government’s rhetoric. All who care about press freedom and transparency must push back on claims equating filming to violence.

When officials say at news conferences that video recording is violent, journalists should challenge that assertion and cite the law.

When attorneys argue that recording police justifies violence or arrest, they should have their arguments confronted by opposing counsel and the judge, who has the power to sanction lawyers who ignore First Amendment jurisprudence to make frivolous arguments on behalf of the government.

And when ICE officers harass or detain someone for videotaping them, everyone else should take out their phones and hit the record button.

Recording the police isn’t violence. Don’t let officials get away with loud, incorrect claims to the contrary to diminish our First Amendment rights.

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Il 9 settembre al corteo che sarà aperto dai più piccoli, parteciperanno le donne e gli uomini che vogliono continuare a vivere LIBERI DAI VELENI DI ROMA

Santa Palomba siamo tutti noi che non ci arrenderemo mai alla tracotanza di un potere che vorrebbe annientarci.

#Ambiente #StopInceneritore #NoInceneritore #NoInceneritori #ZeroWaste #Rifiuti #Riciclo #EconomiaCircolare #NoAlCarbone #EnergiaPulita

Francesca Albanese, giurista, esperta in diritto internazionale, diritti umani e in questioni Medio Orientali, dal 2022 redattrice speciale delle Nazioni Unite sui territori palestinesi occupati, è rea di aver presentato al Consigli per i diritti umani delle Nazioni Unite un rapporto in cui si diceva che c'erano ragionevoli basi per credere che Israele stava commettendo un genocidio a Gaza.
Il 5 luglio del corrente anno è stata sanzionata dal segretario di Stato USA con l'accusa di fomentare l'antisemitismo, dare sostegno al terrorismo e disprezzare gli Stati Uniti!
Dopo la scomunica dice Francesca Abanese: “Non posso nemmeno aprire un conto corrente bancario, dunque non posso fare quasi niente. Sono rientrata a Napoli per ragioni familiari e, non avendo una carta di credito, non ho potuto nemmeno affittare un’auto.
Sono costretta a girare con i contanti.
Sono accusata di essere una minaccia per l'economia globale.
Questo significa che le persone che hanno rapporti con me, in particolare dal punto di vista finanziario, possono essere soggette a sanzioni penali e pecuniarie fino a un miliardo e a 20 anni di carcere.
Significa, per esempio, che mia figlia, che è cittadina statunitense, è tecnicamente passibile di arresto per avermi comprato un caffè.
Questo ha creato il gelo intorno a me, non per mancanza di fiducia ma per l'atteggiamento di minaccia dell'amministrazione Usa."

Avete idea della realtà del mondo occidentale!? Del fatto stiamo entrando in una delle peggiori dittature della storia. Chi dissente viene escluso dal social, dall'uso del denaro e quindi sarà impossibile ribellarsi.
Ma non facciamo nulla per impedire ciò avvenga.

Filomena Gallo a Festa dell’Unità – Servizio Sanitario Nazionale e fine vita

Filomena Gallo, avvocata e Segretaria nazionale dell’Associazione Luca Coscioni, interverrà al dibattito “Servizio Sanitario Nazionale e fine vita: una legge per una risposta di civiltà”, insieme a esponenti del mondo politico e istituzionale.

L’appuntamento è per martedì 9 settembre alle ore 21:00, presso la Sala Dibattiti Nilde Iotti, Festa dell’Unità Nazionale, in Via dell’Aeronautica, 17, a Reggio Emilia. L’ingresso è libero e gratuito.

Con:
Marina Sereni
Eugenio Giani
Alfredo Bazoli
Riccardo Magi
Marco Lombardo
Filomena Gallo (Associazione Luca Coscioni)
Modera: Wanda Marra

L'articolo Filomena Gallo a Reggio Emilia: “Servizio Sanitario Nazionale e fine vita” proviene da Associazione Luca Coscioni.

In ricordo di Maria Vittoria Milanesi: riflessioni sul fine vita con Filomena Gallo

Un incontro pubblico per ricordare Maria Vittoria Milanesi (1962–2025) e aprire un confronto sul tema del fine vita, tra diritti civili, libertà individuali e scelte consapevoli.

L’appuntamento è per venerdì 26 settembre alle ore 18:15, presso la Sala Paladin, all’interno del Palazzo Moroni, a Padova. L’ingresso è libero fino ad esaurimento dei posti.

Interverrà Filomena Gallo, segretaria nazionale dell’Associazione Luca Coscioni, da anni in prima linea per l’affermazione del diritto all’autodeterminazione e all’assistenza legale delle persone che chiedono di poter scegliere fino alla fine.

Modera l’incontro: Ernesto Milanesi, giornalista e fratello di Maria Vittoria.

L'articolo A Padova riflessioni sul fine vita con Filomena Gallo, in ricordo di Maria Vittoria Milanesi: proviene da Associazione Luca Coscioni.