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Amid all the other news, it's easy to become inured to the basic facts here. Öztürk: -Is not accused of committing any crime -Is nonviolent -Was in this country legally -Merely engaged in speech that the administration objects to -Has been locked up for six weeks

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Hundreds Dying Slow Deaths Under Rubble In Gaza Sky News reports that 15 members of one man’s family — including children — were trapped beneath rubble in Gaza, alive and making phone calls pleading for rescue for three days after the attack.

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How, as an American, can you say "I don't care about the genocide in Gaza". You're paying for it, the politicians you elected are committing it. You are indeed culpable.

submitted 71 days ago • 12 comments

a good rule: do not mistake commentary for journalism

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Listen: The Great Lakes make up the largest freshwater ecosystem on the planet. The U.S. and Canada have a longstanding history of co-managing the bodies of water. With rising political tensions between the two nations, the future of the Great Lakes hangs in the balance. www.wbez.org/reset-with-s...

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these are the material consequences of the adl and other major pro-israel institutions working to tie groups like sjp and jvp to terrorism: non-violent activists get treated by law enforcement as though they’re hiding bombs and AKs at home for doing basic misdemeanors

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I certainly am glad we have determined the single most important piece of information: who is winning at the moment

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Soooooo weird

submitted 87 days ago • 4 comments

Idc what anyone says, he was my favorite Batman

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Wisconsin result really highlights how Elon Musk has emerged as the chief motivator and fundraising engine for Trump-weary Democrats. His disapproval rating among WI Dems is a staggering 97%: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

submitted 88 days ago • 34 comments

BREAKING: Voters in the second biggest city in Illinois have ousted their Trump-aligned mayor. Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin, who ran for governor as a Republican in 2022, has lost to challenger John Laesch. (Another one of my races to watch: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...)

submitted 88 days ago • 25 comments

The Arab residents in Orland park were not playing around

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HE'S STILL GOING

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In September, most men were transferred out of the derelict conditions at Stateville prison due to a court order. But one group wasn't included in that order: the health care unit. Now, the 21 last men at Stateville say they've been "left behind to die." news.wttw.com/2025/02/26/l...

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Every accusation is and always was a confession

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Dr Assal Rad— "What a convoluted way to say Israel killed 173 Palestinian children. This looks more like a haiku than a headline."

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Dr Assal Rad— "What an insane (and actually accurate) headline."

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The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations Via ProPublica

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This is how Jeffrey Goldberg responded when Deepa Fernandes asked him on NPR about the 53 people the US killed in Yemen. www.npr.org/2025/03/26/1...

submitted 94 days ago • 39 comments

Exhibit 4673 on why Jeffrey Goldberg is an evil little bitch t.co/8G4oZuL0lI

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"Rumeysa has not been accused of committing any crime and DHS has not produced any evidence that she was engaged in any unlawful activities. Meanwhile, there is plenty of evidence of U.S. supplied bombs being dropped on Gaza killing over 1,000 people, including over 250 children in the last week."

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Israeli authorities released a Palestinian director of the Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land." Hamdan Ballal tells the AP he was beaten by three Israeli settlers in the West Bank while another filmed the attack, and has bruises on his face and blood on his clothes.

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"A terrified young student, snatched off the street by a masked police force taken thousands of miles across the country without anyone knowing. It is as flatly authoritarian as anything we have ever seen in this country," says Chris Hayes on Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk's detention.

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Thank you to @mehaahmad.bsky.social and Sasha for having me on Reset yesterday! We talked about what federal investigations over accommodations for trans students actually means for Illinois residents, and what the legal landscape around anti-trans EOs looks like now. Find it here on @wbez.org:

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The co-director of “No Other Land” lynched by Israeli settlers and then his AMBULANCE raided by the Israeli military, which then ARRESTED the victim and beat him… PROVES THE POINT OF THE FILM.

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BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him. Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.

submitted 96 days ago • 138 comments

One of the co-directors of NO OTHER LAND, Hamdan Ballal was beaten by Israeli settlers and seized by Israeli soldiers from the ambulance Ballal called, per co-director Yuval Abraham. No one knows where Ballal is. (Ballal is second from right in the below photo.)

submitted 96 days ago • 12 comments

“By God, I fulfilled my duty as a journalist.”

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Israel killed 2 Palestinian journalists, including Al Jazeera's Hossam Shabat. Witnesses report Israeli forces targeted Shabat's vehicle in Beit Lahiya without warning. Journalist Mohammad Mansour of Palestine Today was also killed, along with his wife and son.

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Meanwhile in Illinois’ 9th district…

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JUST IN: Supreme Court has turned down a request to take up Trump ally Steve Wynn's bid to upend the landmark NYT v. Sullivan press freedom precedent.

submitted 97 days ago • 89 comments

No words. Just months ago, the Israeli government put out a hit list of six journalists. Hossam Shabat was one of them. Today, they killed him.

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BREAKING | The Israeli army has assassinated journalist Hossam Shabat, 24-year-old reporter for Al Jazeera Mubasher and contributor to @dropsitenews.com , in an airstrike targeting his vehicle in northern Gaza.

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From the farewell of the Palestinian journalist Hossam Shabat.

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In a targeted attack on his car, Israel has killed Al-Jazeera's Hossam Shabat, who was only 23 years old and was one of the last remaining journalists in Gaza. There are no words.

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Separate Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip have killed two media workers, including Al Jazeera journalist Hossam Shabat aje.io/ylcl1j

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“First, They Came for Mahmoud Khalil” — Meghnad Bose and two student journalists at Columbia deeply report the story of a man whose journey took him from being a "double refugee" to scholar to political prisoner. Read at @dropsitenews.com 🔽 www.dropsitenews.com/p/mahmoud-kh...

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Fellas, is it a terrorism to say bad things about overpriced cars that fall apart because they’ve been recalled for not having been glued correctly

submitted 100 days ago • 3 comments

Being rich makes you stupid

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Painting a protest movement as intrinsically violent is the oldest trick in the book. It is the exact tactic that was used to try to discredit the civil rights movement.

submitted 99 days ago • 22 comments

Ah yes, who could forget the obvious distinction between being an antisemite and "creating the feeling of safe harbor for far-right elements who unabashedly or in coded language express antisemitic sentiments"

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DOJ Designates Posting Photos Of Balding Elon Musk As Domestic Terrorism

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I just read the part in project 2025 where they say NPR and PBS are leftist media but the only example given of far left programming is SESAME STREET, so now my coworker and I are arguing about how Elmo is probably a communist and belongs in Gitmo 🙃

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So… paid protesters?

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There's a new war on terrorism and it's targeting Americans www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-dom...

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