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Israel's Destruction of Gaza Over Last 2 Years 'Would Not Have Been Possible' Without $21.7 Billion From US | Common Dreams US support has enabled Israel's slaughter of 67,000 Palestinians in Gaza. #GazaWar

Israel’s Destruction of Gaza Over Last 2 Years ‘Would Not Have Been Possible’ Without $21.7 Billion From US

“Our research highlights numbers, but we must never lose sight of this key fact: What we’re talking about is human suffering.”

www.commondreams.org/news/us-aid-...

07.10.2025 23:41 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1

Donald Trump has ordered red states to invade blue — that's no exaggeration The direction we’re going is either martial law or civil war.Americans from so-called “red” states, with the backing of their Republican governors and legislatures, are on the brink of using lethal fo...

Trump v USA “Americans from ‘red’states could use lethal force against Americans in ‘blue’states.”

Trump: “We have an Insurrection Act for a reason.”

Robert Reich adds: “We’re going to either martial law or civil war.”

The article is definitely worth a read.

www.rawstory.com/trump-troops...

07.10.2025 18:43 — 👍 7 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0

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07.10.2025 21:35 — 👍 29 🔁 12 💬 5 📌 0

Argentina, has free medical care for all citizens. Farmers in, Argentina, are selling their soybeans to, China, with no tariffs. So much for winning!!

07.10.2025 21:05 — 👍 153 🔁 76 💬 3 📌 9

White House Signals It May Try to Deny Back Pay to Furloughed Federal Workers

Worst President & Boss? Union leaders and Democrat lawmakers say the move runs afoul of the law. Trump 🤡 told reporters “it depends on who you’re talking about. Some people really don’t deserve to be taken care of, and we’ll take care of them in a different way” 😎🤬

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/u...

07.10.2025 17:26 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

Tell Congress: Pass the bipartisan Epstein Files Transparency Act Contact Congress today!

Congressional offices are closed, but their inboxes aren't. Demand Congress pass this bill to release the Epstein files--YOU CAN DO IT NOW HERE:
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07.10.2025 23:41 — 👍 168 🔁 58 💬 6 📌 2

Israel deports Greta Thunberg and other Gaza Freedom Flotilla activists She was among hundreds aboard the ships bringing aid to Gaza deported by Israeli officials.

At least 450 activists were aboard the flotilla, a coalition of several vessels seeking to deliver humanitarian aid to the blockaded Palestinian territory. Israeli forces detained them and deported Thunberg and 170 others to countries including Greece and Slovakia.

www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...

07.10.2025 17:11 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

Nigel Farage *literally* has links to Putin.

Journalism is dead.

07.10.2025 23:39 — 👍 52 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 0

Murray: I talked to a family that’s paying about $300 a month for their health insurance. It’s going to jump to over $1,800 per month.

Many people will turn away and not pay for it—obviously, they’ll lose their health insurance. The fewer people who have insurance, the more everybody pays.

07.10.2025 22:46 — 👍 4764 🔁 1796 💬 180 📌 69

Factcheck: Gaat driekwart van de huurwoningen naar mensen uit de voorrangsregeling? In de aanloop naar de verkiezingen onderzoekt de Volkskrant uitspraken van politici. Wat zeggen ze, waarom zeggen ze dat en wat hopen ze te bereiken? Vandaag: de BBB over de verdeling van huurwoningen...

Die 75% klopte ook van geen kant als het ging om mensen die in een voorrangsregeling zaten. De Volkskrant zocht uit dat in Harderwijk vorig jaar iets meer dan 20% van de woningen naar mensen met urgentie ging, dus Vermeer overdreef met ruim een factor 3.

www.volkskrant.nl/politiek/fac...

07.10.2025 12:35 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Als geen enkel tv-programma een tweet van Wilders meer voorleest omdat Wilders zelf weigert die te komen toelichten, dan is het snel afgelopen.

Dan kunnen Timmermans/Bontebal/Ouwehand gewoon kritisch bevraagd worden op de plannen en hoeven ze niet te reageren op rabiaatrechts rancune gereutel.

05.10.2025 17:03 — 👍 106 🔁 29 💬 3 📌 0

Hier ligt belangrijke taak voor @buitenhof.bsky.social.

Vermeer gebruikt decor belangrijke journalistieke productie straks in filmpje voor zijn achterban waarin deze leugen onweersproken blijft.

Zonder tegenactie faciliteert Buitenhof hiermee extreemrechtse leugens.

Wat kan Buitenhof doen?
🧶 >>>

05.10.2025 16:04 — 👍 200 🔁 86 💬 13 📌 9

Hmm, #DeathByGravity is rarely an accident…

07.10.2025 13:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

06.10.2025 19:43 — 👍 2240 🔁 738 💬 143 📌 64

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

06.10.2025 22:49 — 👍 28182 🔁 13407 💬 578 📌 551

It is so incredibly weird and scary and disheartening to watch the world's most powerful nation being systematically dismantled and pilfered by a gang of ego-thugs led by a painted carnival barker who is literally famous for being a greedy crooked cheat.

06.10.2025 18:31 — 👍 1650 🔁 416 💬 58 📌 18

Thanks for your expose/response, with which I mostly agree.
IMHO election strategies of #Hillary & #Kamala made the same mistake of going for the status quo middle, including ’moderate/decent’ republicans in their campaigns.
Kamala should have gone for real change & distanced herself from #Biden.

07.10.2025 13:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Volgens #kleinlinks en #extreemrechts is alles de schuld van GroenLinks/PvdA. #campagne #verkiezingen2025

08.09.2025 09:14 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 4 📌 0

Whoa! The shutdown’s ripple effect starting to hit.

Burbank Airport in LA County has no air traffic controllers on duty due to sick calls, last-minute day-off requests, and staffing shortages.

If you’re flying anywhere in the country, check for delays.

07.10.2025 01:24 — 👍 10988 🔁 4067 💬 604 📌 303

Legal scholar torches Trump’s 'obscure' arguments for 'unleashing' his latest power grab Having used federal law enforcement in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. despite the objections of local officials, President Donald Trump is now doing the same thing in Chicago and Portland, Oregon. And he is threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807 in Democratic cities — something a U.S. president hasn't done since George H.W. Bush during the Los Angeles riots of 1992. Stephen I. Vladeck, a law professor at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., examines Trump's use of federal law enforcement in U.S. cities in an op-ed published by the New York Times on October 7. And Vladeck warns that Trump is dangerously overreaching, although he explains why Trump's actions in L.A., Washington, Chicago and Portland don't constitute full-fledged martial law. "Contrary to some Trump critics," Vladeck explains, "the president's actions in Washington and Los Angeles as well as the developing situations in Portland and Chicago are not tantamount to imposing martial law. That's only when the military supplants civilian government, not when it supplements it. Indeed, if there were consensus among officials and citizens that civilian authorities could not adequately enforce the laws, there would likewise be consensus that Congress has given the president the power to use federal troops — whether regular or federalized National Guard personnel." The Georgetown legal scholar continues, "The problem instead is that many Americans don't believe the president's claims. We look at pictures and videos out of Portland and we don't see 'war-ravaged' anything. We look at news reports out of Chicago and see the principal violence coming from federal officers — not being directed toward them. To put the matter directly, there's a factual dispute about whether resorting to the military is justified." The question that legal experts are grappling with now, according to Vladeck, is: "Can presidents unleash the armed forces on their own people based on facts that they contrive?" Vladeck lays out some ways in which the Trump Administration "has pushed the envelope" in U.S. cities. "In the California, Oregon and Illinois cases," Vladeck notes, "the administration is trying to walk a legal tightrope. It is invoking an obscure provision in Title 10, the part of the U.S. Code that deals with the military, to federalize National Guard troops. But that provision authorizes federalization only when 'the president is unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States.' And without a request from local officials, the president can use 'regular forces' only if 'unlawful obstructions, combinations or assemblages, or rebellion against the authority of the United States, make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States.'" Vladeck continues, "On Monday, (October 6), President Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act 'if people were being killed and courts were holding us up, or governors or mayors were holding us up.' But the same reason he hasn't invoked that statute yet should also doom his reliance on the more obscure National Guard authority. Instead, the federal government is trying to use dubious factual claims about what's true on the ground in these cities to justify federalizing National Guard troops both from within those states and from outside of them." Stephen I. Vladeck's full op-ed for The New York Times is available at this link (subscription required).

07.10.2025 11:31 — 👍 22 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 0

‘Uitlekken van gesprekslocaties’ klinkt wel héél dramatisch. Het gesprek zou eerst plaatsvinden op de faculteit – waar studenten nu eenmaal rondlopen – en daarna op de redactie van de Gelderlander. Nu wordt gedaan alsof het gesprek midden in het centrum van Kyiv zou plaatsvinden. Doe even normaal.

07.10.2025 09:27 — 👍 566 🔁 106 💬 74 📌 8

It really is an amazing accomplishment to be able to stand out for your callous awfulness in this Trump administration.

06.10.2025 22:25 — 👍 3062 🔁 584 💬 347 📌 59

Are Carbon Offsets Fixable? This article provides a systematic review of the literature on carbon offsets. A growing number of studies have found that the most widely used offset programs continue to greatly overestimate their p...

You can't fix offsets, because they're not really broken

They are designed from the ground up as a way for polluters to falsify climate action, and for disgustingly rich bankers to divert funds away from frontline communities

As long as fossil fuels exist, offsets will exist

Good paper! -->>>

07.10.2025 11:31 — 👍 186 🔁 67 💬 6 📌 4

Publisher of famous Soviet newspaper Pravda falls to his death The secretive head of Pravda publishing house, Vyacheslav Leontyev, 87, plunged 70ft from his home in western Moscow .

Publisher of famous Soviet newspaper Pravda falls to his death from a seventh-floor window
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

07.10.2025 07:36 — 👍 129 🔁 47 💬 15 📌 8

This is from Marge Greene.

You know who has been warning about this for months? Democrats.

But the people who had no plan to deal with this crisis and still don’t want you to believe this is about “illegals.”

07.10.2025 11:03 — 👍 2870 🔁 703 💬 277 📌 52

Lijsttrekkers op bezoek in Nijmegen: wat wil jij van ze weten? Frans Timmermans, Henri Bontenbal en Caroline van der Plas. Net als andere lijsttrekkers komen ze in de weken voor de Tweede Kamerverkiezingen naar Nijmegen om in gesprek te gaan met journalisten van ...

De NOS schrijft vandaag: 'Toch lekte Van der Plas' komst naar Nijmegen uit.'

Het stond gewoon op de site van De Gelderlander, en alle lijsttrekkers zijn geweest of komen nog aan de beurt: www.gelderlander.nl/binnenland/l...

07.10.2025 10:06 — 👍 117 🔁 34 💬 6 📌 3

Briljante les, nee geniaal zelfs!
Hilarisch EN zeer instructief.

07.10.2025 12:09 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Mogelijk dat ze in Den Haag en bij de media dit ook maar eens moeten kijken - in de hoop dat ze er iets van leren. 🤷‍♂️

ps. wat topgast! Die heb ik vroeger echt niet gehad. 😂

07.10.2025 11:31 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Can someone translate "force your insurer to pay for livesaving care" into European please? Why does one need to know industry secrets for this?

07.10.2025 11:31 — 👍 19 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0

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