A PHOTOGRAPH TO CONTEMPLATE:
AJ 11/1/25: Graduate Mervat al-Bassiouny, whose leg was amputated after an Israeli strike, views the destroyed Islamic University of Gaza [File: Mahmoud Issa/Reuters]
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68,858 & EXPECT IT TO KEEP RISING:
(AJ@12:30 GMT) 5 killed & 17 bodies recovered over past 24 hours...overall death toll...68,858 w/170,664 wounded...Since ceasefire started on 10/11, ≥226 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks, 594 wounded, w/499 bodies recovered from the vast debris.
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OUR NEO-NERO. While America burns ...
- As the Shutdown Pain Grows, Trump Attends to Other Matters The president attended a Halloween party Friday and called attention to the marble renovation of a White House bathroom. [NYT]
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THE DIRE WB SITUATION...SAMPLE:
The IDF announced that the WB village of Burin was a "closed military zone" to block Israeli activists helping Palestinians with their olive harvest. The IDF issued the same order on the West Bank town of Sinjil, effectively shutting down the olive harvest. [Harretz]
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Hear! Hear!
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& THEY CRY “ANTISEMETISM!”
(17:45 GMT)Hamas: Ben-Gvir ‘legitimising’ killing of Palestinian prisoners. SM video showed B-G speaking in front of prisoners face down w/hands cuffed behind backs...Jerusalem dep. mayor saluted Ben-Gvir (X): “the people are with you...Death penalty for these subhumans”
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Smotrich said [Israel] will also ratify 1,973 new settlement units across the occupied WB a day after approving 1,300. Per Quds: Israel has so-far approved ≤30,000 units across the WB in 2025. ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS IN OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES ARE ILLEGAL UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW. (Dropsite)
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TREATS! TREATS!
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-- Oliver & Bianca
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HRH HOUSE PANTHER OLIVER THE BLACK WISHES YOU...
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wouldn't it be loverly...but then we'd have vance and then johnson and then ... its MAGA all the way down.
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Fear you're right ...
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ABSOLUTELY TRUE...
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ABSOLUTELY TRUE.
Thank you.
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☺️
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CARTOON OF THE DAY
(From @mluckovichajc)
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from OPEN SECRETS 10/30/25
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If the USA government is so immoral that they're willing to contribute to the starvation of kids in Palestine, why do you think they won't be willing to do it here?
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Vet Voice Foundation CEO Janessa Goldbeck warns a new Pentagon order is "an attempt by the president to normalize a national, militarized police force."
She fears it could be used to "suppress turnout and disrupt the fair operation of elections."
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EMINENTLY PLAUSIBLE.
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LOL! Love it!
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HERE 'TIZ... in his own wordmash:
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