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Reward offered for vandalized ICE vehicle.

"Sorry but I didn't see a thing." #ICE

The Unbreakable Nael Barghouti After 45 years in Israeli captivity, the longest-held Palestinian prisoner speaks about his fight for liberation: “We deserve a state under the sun.”

"I believe there is hardly a Palestinian household that does not have a Palestinian prisoner. In some families, the father, mother, and children are sometimes all inside prison at the same time."
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Starvation in Gaza.

History will remember that, at this point, a #BoardofPeace was created to oversee the #GazaGenocide.

John Clarke Though he is not overly anxious to provoke retaliatory measures from Trump, Carney must be very aware that his exclusion from the blood soaked Board of Peace for Gaza brings with it another boost to.....

#Carney's disputes with #Trump and working-class interests.
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First Nation says Manitoba Hydro's 'environmental colonialism' decimating lake sturgeon | CBC News Tataskweyak Cree Nation says Manitoba Hydro operations have compromised the ecosystem of the lower Churchill River and caused the "near demise" of lake sturgeon.

"But now, our rivers are ruined and our way of life, and that of namao, are falling victim to #environmentalcolonialism."
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Netanyahu can't attend Board of Peace meeting in Switzerland because be could be arrested for war crimes.

You have to understand the difference between woke namby-pamby peace and Peace Through Strength. #PeaceBoard

Homeless people are ‘freezing outside’ as temperatures plunge in Timmins As the city issued an extreme cold weather alert this week, an organization that helps unhoused individuals says there aren’t enough beds in Timmins to shelter all the people who need them.

The crisis of #homelessness in Ontario is out of control and this means people left outside in ever greater numbers in conditions of extreme cold that pose an immediate threat to their lives.
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Solidarity and respect to everyone taking to the streets in #Minnesota and please know you're fighting for all of us.

Chicago Man Acquitted of Murder-for-Hire Charge in Plot Allegedly Targeting Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino A 12-person jury reached its verdict Thursday afternoon in the case of Juan Espinoza Martinez, who was charged in a murder-for-hire plot after prosecutors alleged he offered $10,000 for someone to kil...

'The verdict marks a blow both for federal prosecutors and the #Trump administration, which had touted the allegations as a sign of the dangers facing federal immigration agents conducting expanded enforcement operations across the country.' #GregBovino
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Plans for luxurious Gaza redevelopment.

The 'President of Peace' has a plan for the world's most luxurious graveyard in #Gaza.

👇🏼💪🏽🕯️

Chicago Man Acquitted of Murder-for-Hire Charge in Plot Allegedly Targeting Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino A 12-person jury reached its verdict Thursday afternoon in the case of Juan Espinoza Martinez, who was charged in a murder-for-hire plot after prosecutors alleged he offered $10,000 for someone to kil...

It appears that juries are no more likely to believe Kristi Noem's lying bullshit than they are to believe Pam Bondi's lying bullshit. Nice try, little Greg Bovino.
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So I’m reading this and halfway through and I’m like, he’s gonna sue the polls. And welp a few more sentences down and there it is. FFS 🤦🏼‍♂️

Breaking the Fourth Amendment Last night, we learned from a report in the Associated Press that ICE, contrary to longstanding Fourth Amendment jurisprudence, is taking the position that it can enter people’s homes without a judici...

ICE’s new policy directing agents to ignore the 4th Amendment is one of the most frightening things we’ve seen yet. And there’s no telling where it could end up. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Nigel Farage blames aide after breaking MPs' income rules 17 times The Reform UK leader, Britain's highest-earning MP, brought in almost £1.4 million in outside income, repeatedly missing declaration deadlines

Always someone else’s fault.

Strange that.

Spotting Astrophysical Discoveries at the Bottom of the World The South Pole Telescope has gathered new data on cosmic flares from white dwarf stars, demonstrating its unique capabilities.

Nice article by @doescience summarizing the recent SPT-3G result by Yujie Wan, which discovered two flaring objects near the #Galactic center! @NSF @NSF_NSB #southpole www.energy.gov/science/arti...

Very faint planetary nebula Abell 7 is about 1,800 light-years distant. It lies just south of Orion in planet Earth's skies toward the constellation Lepus, The Hare. Posing with scattered Milky Way stars, its generally simple spherical shape about 8 light-years in diameter is revealed in this deep telescopic image. The beautiful and complex shapes seen within the cosmic cloud are visually enhanced by the use of long exposures and narrowband filters that capture emission from hydrogen and oxygen atoms. Otherwise Abell 7 would be much too faint to be appreciated by eye. A planetary nebula represents a very brief final phase in stellar evolution that our own Sun will experience 5 billion years hence, as the nebula's central, once sun-like star shrugs off its outer layers. Abell 7 itself is estimated to be 20,000 years old. But its central star, seen here as a fading white dwarf, is some 10 billion years old.

Planetary Nebula Abell 7
Image Credit & Copyright: Martin Pugh
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Ancient DNA Reveals Twisted Roots of Syphilis Go Back 5,500 Years The first known outbreak of syphilis in Europe began at the turn of the 16th century, but on the distant continent of South America, the pathogen's history goes much deeper than that.

I learned about this dark side of syphilis when I took a history of medicine course. It is a remarkably resistant disease that brought armies to their knees and wrought tremendous societal damage.
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Death Of Cuban Migrant In ICE Detention Facility Ruled A Homicide In Autopsy Report Federal authorities have claimed that the 55-year-old’s death was the result of a suicide, but a witness has alleged he saw guards pinning and choking the man.

Federal authorities have claimed that the 55-year-old’s death was the result of a suicide, but a witness has alleged he saw guards pinning and choking the man.

Trump has big plans for his Gaza board of peace The neocolonial board for Gaza is part of the aggressive new unilateral turn by the US, for which neither the UN, nor Europe or any other leaders have an answer, argues John Clarke As Donald Trump ...

#Trump's #Gaza #BoardofPeace is an oligarchic formation that furthers the colonial dispossession of the #Palestinians. It also undermines the role of the UN and advances the aims of the new America First imperialism. My column this week for Counterfire.
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Era of ‘global water bankruptcy’ is here, UN report says Overuse and pollution must end urgently as no one knows when whole system might collapse, says expert

'The result was a world in which 75% of people lived in countries classified as water-insecure or critically #waterinsecure and 2 billion people lived on ground that is sinking as groundwater aquifers collapse.'
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Oldest cave painting could rewrite origins of human creativity A stencilled outline of a hand found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is the world's oldest known cave painting, researchers say.

'Over the past decade, a series of discoveries on Sulawesi has overturned the old idea that art and abstract thinking in our species burst suddenly into life in Ice Age Europe and spread from there.'
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Collapse of the condo market.

Collapsed condo market in Toronto. #HousingCrisis

Cultural Hegemony Today Also in CounterPunch The crisis of the existing order is not going away. Instead, it is fueling an opposition movement that could challenge the legitimacy of the ruling class. It is a perfect time …

The dominant ideas, double consciousness and forging of oppositional thinking in the course of the struggle.
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#Socialmedia and free expression.
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#AntonioGramsci was born on this day in 1891. An ample supply of the philosophy of praxis is badly needed at this particular time.

Police could use ‘zombie’ court orders to shut down social movements ⋆ The Breach Police can reanimate years-old injunctions to threaten activists, casting a chill over protests and free speech

Zombie court injunctions that can be reactivated to stifle democratic rights and crush social resistance.
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With his genocidal CV, #Netanyahu couldn't fail to take a spot on #Trump's #BoardofPeace.

European leaders: Trump’s ‘happy vassals or miserable slaves’? Up against Trump’s drive to war, European leaders will go on rearming and appeasing to boost their own imperialist projects, argues John Rees In speech that appeared to attack the policies of US Pr...

'The European leaders will go on rearming, complaining, and then appeasing again because they have their own imperial project underway.'
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