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New from @dropsitenews.com: Turns out UN official Pramila Patten and Ruth Halperin-Kaddari, the official who chaperoned her on her Israel trip, are longtime friends, and it was Halperin-Kaddari who put the trip together: www.dropsitenews.com/p/un-report-...

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NEW from @dropsitenews.com: How a Well-Connected Israeli Legal Expert Influenced the UN Investigation Into Sexual Violence on October 7 @ryangrim.bsky.social reports Ruth Halperin-Kaddari leveraged her friendship with UN’s Patten to produce a report in Israel's interests.

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The water’s nice, come on in

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This would be smart politics

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DOGE is gonna get banned from X for doxxing

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Israeli parliamentarian Ofer Cassif shares the following image and caption, drawing parallels between Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz’s announcement of a new agency to facilitate the “voluntary departure” of residents from Gaza, and Nazi Germany’s actions 86 years ago.

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JUST IN | A joint assessment by the United Nations, European Union, and World Bank estimates that over $50 billion is needed to rebuild Gaza and the West Bank over the next decade after the 15-month US-Israeli genocide.

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NEW at @dropsitenews.com: Yemenis, Oxfam, and a former CIA officer all make the same assessment: Redesignating the Houthis as a terror group will only hurt civilians Shuaib M. Almosawa reports from Sana’a 🔽 www.dropsitenews.com/p/trump-terr...

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Can only imagine how far down in the Social Security Administration's org chart DOGE folks had to go to find a Ron Swanson willing to play along. Messing around with Social Security is just politically idiotic.

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To be an expert in Washington all you have to do is learn the name of whatever presidential palace or building the leadership works out of and refer to that instead of the country itself. Losers say Russia, JV experts say Moscow, the pros say the Kremlin.

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“You have a congresswoman who does not want ICE to do the job Congress mandated it to do.” All of a sudden the Trump administration cares what Congress mandates? Congress also mandated you spend money on cancer research Video from Aaron Rupar (X)

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BREAKING | The Arab League summit on Gaza, initially scheduled for next week, has been postponed to March 4, according to Egypt’s foreign ministry.

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In November 2023, Hamas’ armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, announced that Shiri Bibas and her children, Ariel (4) and Kfir (9 months), were killed in an Israeli airstrike.

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I like when bots are labeled as bots so you can see their confusion in real time

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Stephen Miller will unironically come after this

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Very big decision here from the new FTC Chair, announcing he will continue with the framework built under Lina Khan, which the WSJ says will destroy the free world. Major defeat for organized capital.

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Let's do a segment on this tomorrow, Bannon's on a roll

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Comical understatement, and yet something worth taking seriously

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Yes, he means Elon lies to his dumb followers because he knows he can get away with it, and that doing so doesn't make Elon himself dumb. Just a liar.

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good encapsulation here of the difficulty @aoc.bsky.social is having with a foot on the edge and foot inside. She appeared on this stream multiple times, but also her office couldn't get it together to comment:

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“Tens of millions”…

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Sen. Lindsey Graham says Trump must decide soon on Iran’s nuclear program—either diplomacy or military action. He strongly favors the latter, urging the U.S. to help Israel strike Iran’s nuclear sites. The White House hasn’t commented.

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Hostages.

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🚨 BREAKING: Hamas announces it will release ALL SIX remaining living Phase 1 Israeli captives on Saturday.

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Been almost a month and the State Department has yet to hold a "daily press briefing"

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Picking up and detaining women and children so that you can exchange them for other hostages or even captured soldiers is wrong, no matter who does it

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NEWS|NBC’s Hala Gorani & Israeli news outlet YNet reported,Israel’s demanding the release of 6 captives in Gaza instead of 3 next Saturday in exchange for allowing hundreds of mobile homes into Gaza—despite Israel’s existing obligation under the ceasefire deal to allow 60,000 mobile homes into Gaza.

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⚡️Hamas’s Gaza head Khalil Al-Hayya says that Hamas will transfer the bodies of four Israeli captives on Thursday and six living Israeli captives on Saturday. Hamas said it is committed to the agreement, while Israel has violated it and delayed negotiations on Phase 2 of the deal.

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NEW: Egypt Pushes Alternative to Trump’s Riviera Plan For Gaza Reconstruction Led by Egypt and the World Bank, the Guardian has details on a new plan being formulated to reconstruct Gaza without Hamas’ involvement in governance. Key details:

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REPORT | On Sunday, February 16, Israeli special prison units raided a section of the Ofer Prison, located west of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, assaulting shackled Palestinian detainees.

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NEWS | Israel has conducted a second targeted assassination in Lebanon within three days. A Lebanese Health Ministry official confirmed that an Israeli drone strike killed one man in Sidon, near a Lebanese army checkpoint. Photo: Al Jazeera Arabic (first photo) and AP Photo

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1/ A gold mine collapse on February 15, 2025, in Kéniéba, western Mali, resulted in at least 48 fatalities. ➤ Victims were mostly women and children scavenging for gold scraps in abandoned open-pit areas. ➤ One victim was a woman carrying her baby.

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Hezbollah Secretary General Naim Qassem said Israeli troops must withdraw from Lebanese territory by February 18, warning that any remaining forces would be considered occupiers, “And everyone knows how occupiers are dealt with.”

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“Show Israel the Red Card” 🧵 A thread of different fan bases across Europe standing in solidarity with 🇵🇸 and against genocide and ethnic cleansing. @leylahamed.bsky.social

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NEWS | The Arab summit in Riyadh, initially scheduled for Thursday, February 20, 2025, has been postponed to Friday, February 21, 2025. (Photo: Palestinian children play amidst the rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on Monday. Agence France-Presse)

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JUST IN | The European Union (EU) plans to urge Israel to ensure the dignified return of Palestinians displaced from Gaza and to contribute to the region’s reconstruction. (The Jabalia refugee camp, in northern Gaza. Photograph by Mahmoud Issa / Reuters)

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In January, we launched a petition demanding the U.S. State Department intervene for the release of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza. actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-t...

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Great piece by Siddharthya Roy in Drop Site on the failure of Modi’s Kashmir crackdown

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NEW from @dropsitenews.com: Modi’s Hindu-Nationalist Project in Jammu and Kashmir Has Become a Nightmare for Hindus Ending the state’s “special status” was meant to bring it under the BJP’s big tent, but has instead imperiled civilians. By Siddharthya Roy www.dropsitenews.com/p/modi-hindu...

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Europe would be stupid not to take this offer. Luckily for the U.S. they’re often pretty stupid

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🚨 Breaking News: Israel conducts first assassination of Hezbollah official since ceasefire went into effect in Lebanon.

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REPORT: Major General Jasper Jeffers, the U.S. rep. overseeing the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire, announced on February 14 that negotiations have achieved “significant progress” toward implementing the withdrawal agreement, expressing confidence that “all population centers in the Southern Litani Area”…

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🎥 WATCH | Released Al-Aqsa Martyrs Leaders Thank Hamas and Call for Palestinian Unity Mohammed Abu Rabia and Ahmed Barghouti, leaders of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades (Fatah’s now separated armed wing), were released today

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I keep having to suppress my impulse to say, “No! This is not how you do it!” But it’s so painful to see a populist movement actually win power and then for no reason other than cowardice and weakness just hand the reins to a billionaire. But you don’t need to hear from me. I lost. You won.

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These are not “Democratic donors.”

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NEWS | Flight Ban Sparks Protests in Lebanon 🇱🇧 ▪️ Lebanese authorities blocked an Iranian passenger plane from landing in Beirut on Thursday, leaving dozens of Lebanese passengers stranded. The decision followed an Israeli army claim that Iran was smuggling cash to Hezbollah via civilian flights.

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In January, Trump intervened in an ongoing assault and forced a ceasefire. In February, he is intervening in an ongoing ceasefire and inviting Israel to continue its assault. The hostage exchange is being carried out successfully, yet here is Trump:

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Policies in Cincinnati make other cops look like woke liberals. Here they are busted facilitating a neo-Nazi protest local12.com/news/local/d...

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