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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
we reached the “no WMDs” phase in two days.
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Pentagon tells Congress no sign that Iran was going to attack US first, sources say
Trump administration officials acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff on Sunday that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack U.S. forces first, two people f...
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Ryan Grim @ryangrim.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Read our dispatch from outside the school www.dropsitenews.com/p/iran-minab...
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“Small Children Who Knew Nothing of Politics or Wars”
A scene of devastation in Minab, Iran, as parents waited to know the fate of their young daughters after the bombing of a girls' elementary school killed over 100.
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
When faced with a shockingly exploitative new employment contract that would’ve forced them to sign away their IP, their likeness rights, and their power of attorney, Jupiter Jetson and her coworkers at Sheri’s fought back—fast. They organized a union in SIX DAYS. www.thenation.com/article/econ...
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How Brothel Workers in Nevada Just Made Labor History
The courtesans at Sheri’s Ranch were staring down a horrifying new contract. So they did what workers everywhere do: They got organized.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 01/03/2026
“There’s nothing like getting to give someone their rent money,” says mutual aid organizer Ashley Fairbanks.
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How a Mutual Aid Network Built Direct Support for Migrants Across Minnesota
“There’s nothing like getting to give someone their rent money,” says mutual aid organizer Ashley Fairbanks.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Wait, so did Claude tell them to bomb a girl’s school?!
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U.S. Strikes in Middle East Use Anthropic, Hours After Trump Ban
Within hours of declaring that the federal government will end its use of artificial-intelligence tools made by tech company Anthropic, President Trump launched a major air attack in Iran with the hel...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
At some point you wonder not just if insiders using information to place bets, but maybe also reshaping their advice to make those bets profitable.
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 13/02/2026
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) told Drop Site’s Julian Andreone that the Trump admin. has provided Netanyahu w/ a “blank check” in failing to enforce the ceasefire in Gaza or push back on new West Bank annexation measures. He warned Israeli officials are openly working to make a Palestinian state...
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
NEW — I spoke with Rep. Delia Ramirez (@ramirez.house.gov) about her calling DHS leaders "inheritors of the Klan hood and the slave patrol," the prospect of one day seeing them behind bars, and what it's like to see the public [finally] embrace her long-held dream to abolish ICE. Our conversation:
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"The day of accountability will come": Rep. Delia Ramirez on abolishing and prosecuting DHS
The Handbasket spoke with the congresswoman who called out ICE long before it was popular.
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Representative Seth Magaziner @magaziner.house.gov · 27/01/2026
Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
“If this is a real ceasefire, why is Israel still closing the borders and restricting the entry of life-saving necessities, including caravans, humanitarian aid, commercial products, and even my daughter’s medicine and milk?” www.972mag.com/israel-siege...
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Despite ceasefire, Israel's siege allowing only a trickle of aid into Gaza
Palestinians report a dire lack of healthy food, medicine, and winter shelter, while a new ban on humanitarian groups will push the enclave to the brink.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Yes.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting.
2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value.
3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE.
4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on.
5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle."
6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground.7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack.
8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video.
9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk.
10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun.
11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him.
12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes.13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times.
14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him.
15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1.
16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground.
17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building.
18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bearwitness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values.
I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct.

Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.
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Marlow Stern @marlownyc.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
ICE detained a 2-year-old girl in Minneapolis and put the child on a flight to a detention center in Texas, despite a court ordering her release: www.startribune.com/agents-detai...
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 23/01/2026
this photo. minneapolis. 💜 📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune
photo of march, signs for renee good and against ICe, crowded street.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
It's all about this. Rampant impunity everywhere. Men who think rules are for other people. Because they are rich. Because they have nukes. Because they own the tech. Sometimes all three.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
BREAKING REPORTS: Ice has blocked off an entire street and is going door to door in Minneapolis. This has been also reported by @veronicadelacruztv.bsky.social ICE is not meant to be an occupying army! We demand #ICEOUTforGood!
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Dr. Robert D. Bullard @drrobertbullard.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
After a White Town Rejected a Data Center, Developers Targeted a Black Area - Capital B News capitalbnews.org/data-center-... #environmentaljustice #climatejustice #energyjustice #racism
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After a White Town Rejected a Data Center, Developers Targeted a Black Area
Four million Americans live within 1 mile of a data center. The communities closest to them are “overwhelmingly” non-white.
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Amanda @amaparques.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
the beautiful resistance
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Mississippi Today @mississippitoday.org · 11/01/2026
Suspect arrested in predawn fire that left parts of Mississippi’s largest synagogue in charred ruins A fire heavily damaged Jackson’s only synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship that was firebombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1967 because the rabbi had been an advocate for civil…
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Suspect arrested in predawn fire that left parts of Mississippi’s largest synagogue in charred ruins
A fire heavily damaged Jackson’s only synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship that was firebombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1967 because the rabbi had been an advocate for civil rights.
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Amanda @amaparques.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
there’s beauty in solidarity. keep showing up.
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WESA @wesa.fm · 11/01/2026
Consumers could feel an even greater squeeze in the years ahead, as utility companies predict that efforts to build data centers across the state to meet the AI demand will make the energy crunch worse.
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As Pa. energy prices rise, advocates skeptical that lawmakers will put aside partisan differences
Consumers could feel an even greater squeeze in the years ahead, as utility companies predict that efforts to build data centers across the state to meet the AI demand will make the energy crunch wors...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 03/01/2026
The United States carried out a large-scale attack on Venezuela overnight and captured President Nicolás Maduro, U.S. President Trump says in a statement.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Journalist Mary Mena is on the phone with CNN right now from Caracas confirming air strikes in the city. She said it started about an hour ago (2am local time)
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 02/01/2026
Corrupt tech billionaires are buying power to tilt the world in their favor. Even the co-founder of Y Combinator is saying it. ⬇️ The radical death cult rising from Silicon Valley venture capital is metastasizing rapidly. It's an existential threat to democracy and humanity.
Paul Graham, Y Combinator co-founder, posts: The rational fear of those who dislike economic inequality is that the rich will convert their economic power into political power: that they'll tilt elections, or pay bribes for pardons, or buy up the news media to promote their views.

I used to be able to claim that tech billionaires didn't actually do this —  that they just wanted to refine their gadgets. But unfortunately in the current administration we've seen all three.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say. "When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
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ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say
According to Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges, officers started the three-day sting on Nov. 5. They used several methods to find people who were attempting to solicit a 17-year-old girl for sex.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver @lastweektonight.com · 13/10/2025
This week’s main story is about Paramount’s decision to name Bari Weiss Editor-in-Chief of CBS News, the future of U.S. journalism, and why we think she shouldn’t describe her endeavors as “punk.” Bari, look at us: You are not punk. Joe Strummer would’ve hated your fancy Substack, Bari!
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 21/10/2025
Whistles take over Chicago as the small, inexpensive device becomes popular way to alert of ICE activity
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Whistles take over Chicago as the small, inexpensive device becomes popular way to alert of ICE activity
From coffee shops to bars to adult stores, businesses and other volunteers have handed out thousands of whistles across the city.
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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.
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Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino.

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Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers. 

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Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 12/10/2025
Are Republicans refusing to swear in Democratic representative-elect Adelita Grijalva to prevent a vote on the Epstein files?
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Epstein Files Fight: Rep.-Elect Grijalva Still Waiting to Be Sworn In
Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva, who won a special election for a House seat in Arizona two weeks ago, has still not been sworn in to Congress. Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is bl...
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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
The NFL says "Football is America" and a lot of people in Ireland are not feeling the authoritarian shitshow that is this country or the arming of Israel's genocidal war that stains this country. Or that both team owners coming over underwrite both of these trends. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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The NFL Is Trump’s America—and It’s Invading Ireland
The league is not coming to Dublin to plant a tree. It is coming to plant a flag.
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
"Suleiman al-Obeid, 41, was killed on Wednesday in southern Gaza when Israeli forces attacked civilians waiting for humanitarian aid, the Palestine Football Association (PFA) said." www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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‘Can you tell us how he died?’: Mohamed Salah criticises Uefa over tribute to ‘Palestinian Pelé’
Footballer Suleiman al-Obeid was killed in an Israeli attack in southern Gaza last week, according to the Palestine Football Association
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed. Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Welker: Should all of the Epstein files be released? Speaker Johnson: All credible evidence. The word credible is important because you have to protect innocent people’s names and reputations whose names might be intertwined in these files
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
USW VP: The agency that so many veterans around this country rely on—for physical and mental healthcare, for screenings for toxic exposure, for financial support in times of crisis—has been weakened because of these cuts and can’t serve you, who served us and this nation, in your time of need.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 10/07/2025
The report from @rebuildlocalnews.bsky.social and @muckrack.com finds that more than 1,000 counties — one out of three in the nation — do not have the equivalent of even one full-time local journalist.
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New report maps a “severe” shortage of local journalists in the U.S.
The report from Rebuild Local News and Muck Rack finds that more than 1,000 counties — one out of three in the nation — do not have the equivalent of even one full-time local journalist.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 10/07/2025
FEMA Acting Administrator David Richardson is nowhere to be found, according to multiple reports. The former Marine also appears to have no experience leading disaster management.
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What we know about how FEMA officials are failing Texas
Its acting administrator is MIA, and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem wants the agency eliminated.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 22/06/2025
Reminder: We have defeated billionaire-backed candidates before. We can do it again NYC! #DontRankCuomo
Instagram post from AOC: 

People like to tell this story that I wasn't taken seriously, but the fact is I was outspent 10-to-1. They spent 3 million dollars against me and I had NO money.

Everyone's mailboxes were FULL of glossy mail supporting my opponent. TV ads during Yankee games. The entire political establishment endorsed against me. We still won.

Zohran can win too. He was underestimated too. But it can ONLY happen if you show up.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Michael Pham fled Vietnam at the age of 13. He was named bishop of San Diego a month ago. Today, he stood watch at a courthouse: ICE agents were “standing there covered with masks as we walked toward the courtroom. Eventually the agents scattered and went away” timesofsandiego.com/life/2025/06...
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ICE agents scatter as SD Bishop Pham, other clergy visit immigration court
"Our presence made a difference," one priest said, quoting an immigration lawyer saying their client was given more time to prepare for another hearing.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 17/06/2025
BREAKING: At least 45 Palestinians have been killed and dozens injured by Israeli forces as they were waiting for aid in Khan Younis, says the Gaza Health Ministry. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/0jcx3m
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
I'm proud I don't have Andrew Cuomo's record of corruption, scandal and disgrace. And the name is M-A-M-D-A-N-I.
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
“What is happening right now is about silencing voices, about dividing working people.” -Genie Kastrup, President of SEIU Local 1, speaking in front of Daley Plaza in Chicago
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Amanda @amaparques.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social tell the national guard to stand down and get out of la
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
“.. It's the first time since 1965 — when President Lyndon B. Johnson sent forces to Alabama to guard civil rights demonstrators — that a president has mobilized a state's National Guard without the governor's request ..” @axios.com www.axios.com/newsletters/...
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Let’s be clear: Israel, an occupier, has no authority under international law to board or divert the Madleen. This is a hijacking, plain and simple. A hijacking of a UK-registered ship, with multiple *European* citizens on board. Does the EU or UK government have anything to say? Anything??
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
In 2010, Israeli forces attacked a Gaza aid flotilla, killing 10 people. In the aftermath, the Obama administration blocked UN efforts for an investigation, Biden defended the attack, and Chuck Schumer condemned the United Nations and defended Israel.
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Gaza Aid Ship Bombed, Echoing 2010 Flotilla Attack
"Today’s attack on our flotilla off the coast of Malta is not just an act of piracy—it’s a consequence of global complicity," a Freedom Flotilla Coalition organizer said.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."
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Tina-Desiree Berg @tinadesireeberg.com · 09/06/2025
Massive battle between protesters and DHS is happening on the freeway
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