A livestream shared by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition shows at least half a dozen Israeli soldiers have boarded the aid vessel.
The activists aboard are sitting together, wearing life jackets and with their arms raised.
We have obtained a video clip of Huwaida Arraf, a Palestinian American activist and lawyer who was aboard the Handala, shortly before the boat was intercepted by Israeli forces.
Here is what she told the Israeli Navy:
“Israeli Navy, this is a civilian vessel, Handala. Let me give you a lesson in international law.
“Any blockade that deliberately starves a civilian population is a violation of international law. It is not only that – it is a war crime. You have no legal authority to enforce an unlawful blockade. And as such, you have no authority to use force to enforce an unlawful blockade.
“Therefore, we demand that you stand down. You are responsible for the well-being of every civilian onboard this vessel. As an occupying power in Gaza, you are responsible for the health and well-being of the civil
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A livestream shared by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition shows at least half a dozen Israeli soldiers have boarded the aid vessel.
The activists aboard are sitting together, wearing life jackets and with their arms raised.
We have obtained a video clip of Huwaida Arraf, a Palestinian American activist and lawyer who was aboard the Handala, shortly before the boat was intercepted by Israeli forces.
Here is what she told the Israeli Navy:
“Israeli Navy, this is a civilian vessel, Handala. Let me give you a lesson in international law.
“Any blockade that deliberately starves a civilian population is a violation of international law. It is not only that – it is a war crime. You have no legal authority to enforce an unlawful blockade. And as such, you have no authority to use force to enforce an unlawful blockade.
“Therefore, we demand that you stand down. You are responsible for the well-being of every civilian onboard this vessel. As an occupying power in Gaza, you are responsible for the health and well-being of the civilian population there.
“Not only have you disregarded that obligation, but you are actively exterminating the people. You have engineered a famine. You are deliberately starving civilians and children before the eyes of the world.
“Our vessel does not constitute any threat to you. We carry only humanitarian aid, and therefore you have no authority to intercept or otherwise attack our vessel. We demand again that you stand down.”
It is criminal that the reporter didn't open with "A man, no plan, a canal ..."
I detest irrelevant ledes, but sometimes you have to bend the rules. The day Leslie Nielsen died, we nearly ran the refers of both sides of the flag (keying to the same story, and having horizontally flipped the cutout on the right) with the left saying "Nielsen dead at ##. Surely, you can't be serious." On the right was "I am serious, and don't call me Shirley." It went all the way to the top to get shot down ... my boss was totally on board.
If you really, really believe, then it's time to donate DIRECTLY to your local NPR/PBS stations. If you don't, you might as well become a registered member of the GQP.
Trump’s name is circled. The circled individuals are the ones involved in the trafficking ring according to the person who originally released the book. These people would be “The List “ Here is the story.
Trump’s name is circled. The circled individuals are the ones involved in the trafficking ring according to the person who originally released the book. These people would be “The List “ Here is the story.
Epstein’s Ex Says He Boasted About Being a Mossad Agent share.google/jLMGahKlCzfV1RHZq Epstein and Israel both hired lawyer Alan Dershowitz, who says he's building 'legal dream team' to defend Israel in court and on internationally | The Times of Israel share.google/Lb9hDOduBWG4Elpid
Here's trump admitting to peeping on 14-15 year old girls at around 1:40 on the Howard Stern Radio Show: youtu.be/iFaQL_kv_QY
Trump's promise to his daughter: huffpost.com/entry/donald-trum… “I have a deal with her. She’s 17 and doing great ― Ivanka. She made me promise, swear to her that I would never date a girl younger than her,” Trump said. “So as she grows older, the field is getting very limited.”
The Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Mike Johnson—probably the worst speaker in American history—shut down the House early this week before its five-week vacation. He wants to avoid holding votes on releasing the Epstein files that reportedly include, among other notables, President Donald J. Trump.
This is the latest valet service provided by a spineless Johnson, a Trump toady, whose groveling has no known boundaries. Imagine Johnson, a lawyer, took an oath to uphold the Constitution yet has no interest in safeguarding the independence of the congressional branch of our government.
As Common Dreams reported this week, Integrated Food Security Phase Classification has said that 85% of people in Gaza are now in Phase 5 of famine, defined at "an extreme deprivation of food."
Organizer and attorney Aaron Regunberg said that instead of simply doing "reputational damage control by speaking up in these very last moments," powerful political leaders must "shut shit down."
”You want history books to not record you as an evil genocide supporter?" said Regunberg. "One speech now—after countless speeches condemning those who have been speaking out—ain't gonna cut it... You need to go to Gaza. You need to actually make an impact, NOW."
At this point, regardless of which ~~football team~~ party you root for, if you thought otherwise, consider moving out of the rock you've been living under.
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It’s a sales tax, effectively, a nationwide sales tax.
An attempt to implement a sort of regressive tax to offset the tax cuts. Shifting the burden of government on to working class people who are disproportionately impacted by price hikes on everyday goods.
It was never about on-shoring manufacturing. Always about stealing from the poor to give to the rich.
E-Bikes are replacing cars, not bicycles, a study from Germany shows:
"43.1% of electric bicycle trips and 63.2% of electric bicycle mileage would have been undertaken using a car if no e-bike had been available" tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
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It's been a while since I rented from a sole-proprietor, but we shouldn't be allowing corporate ownership of single-family housing at all.
Yeah, landlords generally suck, but the guy with six units is a hell of a lot more responsive than whatever out-of-state corporate office that bans calling the leasing office for maintenance.
A friend of mine owns two rental properties, and he's rarely available on weekends because he's fixing a deck or replacing a water heater.
I'd guess it's not as bad as it is in CA, but this is starting to happen in my neighborhood in Portland, OR.
Houses are getting more expensive, so sellers are getting more and more offers from wealthy investors buying them to rent them out. Since people can't afford a home, they go ahead and rent the house (at least around us).
Its a bummer because the rent continually increases, so folks typically cannot stay there for too many years. For the renters, the rent is around what a mortgage payment would be at current interest rates, so they're not saving a lot of money.
The house across the street was sold when mortgage rates were ~3%, so the owners are making a good amount on the house. I just happen to hate that it's ruining our neighborhood, and I'd like more families with kids to move on to our street.
With the increasing concentration/divide of wealth, this is only going to get worse without regulation. It's frustratingly easy to solve, yet places suffering from this problem seem to be hesitant to solve it in the simplest of ways possible - add a flat tax to anyone who owns more than one property or is not a resident.
Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, told USA Today, which first reported on the executive order, that the president was “delivering on his commitment to Make America Safe Again” and end homelessness.
“By removing vagrant criminals from our streets and redirecting resources toward substance abuse programs, the Trump administration will ensure that Americans feel safe in their own communities and that individuals suffering from addiction or mental health struggles are able to get the help they need,” she said.
I fucking hate this framing. Homelessness causes or exacerbates mental health issues.
The National Homelessness Law Center condemned the order, which it said “deprives people of their basic rights” and would ultimately worsen the problem.
“Today’s executive orders, combined with Maga’s budget cuts for housing and healthcare, will increase the number of people forced to live in tents, in their cars, and on the streets. This order does nothing to l
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Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, told USA Today, which first reported on the executive order, that the president was “delivering on his commitment to Make America Safe Again” and end homelessness.
“By removing vagrant criminals from our streets and redirecting resources toward substance abuse programs, the Trump administration will ensure that Americans feel safe in their own communities and that individuals suffering from addiction or mental health struggles are able to get the help they need,” she said.
I fucking hate this framing. Homelessness causes or exacerbates mental health issues.
The National Homelessness Law Center condemned the order, which it said “deprives people of their basic rights” and would ultimately worsen the problem.
“Today’s executive orders, combined with Maga’s budget cuts for housing and healthcare, will increase the number of people forced to live in tents, in their cars, and on the streets. This order does nothing to lower the cost of housing or help people make ends meet,” said Jesse Rabinowitz of the National Homelessness Law Center.
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Local veterans are speaking out against the deployment of 200 Marines to assist U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Florida. Over 200 veterans have signed an open letter opposing the use of the military in this capacity.
Joke's on them, I've already been working on that for decades. *pats ublock* This baby can bankrupt so many websites and I always hoped it could collapse the ad model completely.
In all seriousness, it's becoming increasingly clear that we're eventually going to have to build a new, free internet out of the wreckage of this one once the corporations are done with it. Technically it's already there, nascent but ever so slowly growing and taking root, hiding in plain sight. Like the so-called dark web of tor, it already exists in parallel to the existing structures of the internet. Call it the deep web, the indie web, nostalgia web, unsearchable web, I've heard countless terms and most of them aren't terribly accurate, but the web doesn't need ads and google search to exist, it never did. It just needs humans, which despite the best efforts of big tech many of us still are, communicating directly with one another and documenting our billions of lifetimes of diverse collective experiences and knowledge.
We are the wealth of information in the internet. C
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Joke's on them, I've already been working on that for decades. *pats ublock* This baby can bankrupt so many websites and I always hoped it could collapse the ad model completely.
In all seriousness, it's becoming increasingly clear that we're eventually going to have to build a new, free internet out of the wreckage of this one once the corporations are done with it. Technically it's already there, nascent but ever so slowly growing and taking root, hiding in plain sight. Like the so-called dark web of tor, it already exists in parallel to the existing structures of the internet. Call it the deep web, the indie web, nostalgia web, unsearchable web, I've heard countless terms and most of them aren't terribly accurate, but the web doesn't need ads and google search to exist, it never did. It just needs humans, which despite the best efforts of big tech many of us still are, communicating directly with one another and documenting our billions of lifetimes of diverse collective experiences and knowledge.
We are the wealth of information in the internet. Corporations don't own it. We are it.
Why would they do that, when they can charge advertisers to bias the LLM? How much do you think Adidas would pay to have their products advantages mixed into any response about sports gear, undetectable?
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Trump’s bitter dislike of renewable energy first erupted publicly 14 years ago in a seemingly trivial spat over wind turbines visible from his Scottish golf course. As Trump returns to Scotland this week, though, he is using the US presidency to squash clean power, with major ramifications for the climate crisis and America’s place in the world.
Although Trump failed in his legal attempt to halt the Scottish wind farm, an enduring scorn towards renewables appears to have been seeded that now has global consequences.
As president, Trump has declared wind and solar projects unwelcome in the US, barring them from federal lands and signing a vast spending bill that demolishes support for a nascent industry that held the promise of revamping the American economy while cutting dangerous planet-heating pollution.
Can we please, please stop calling turbines "windmills"? If you're milling grain, fine, but absolutely no one is installing 300m turbines to make flour.
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Powderhorn
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I detest irrelevant ledes, but sometimes you have to bend the rules. The day Leslie Nielsen died, we nearly ran the refers of both sides of the flag (keying to the same story, and having horizontally flipped the cutout on the right) with the left saying "Nielsen dead at ##. Surely, you can't be serious." On the right was "I am serious, and don't call me Shirley." It went all the way to the top to get shot down ... my boss was totally on board.
Malgas
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