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Trump’s Gaza Ceasefire Deal Is Already Failing Palestinians James Zogby and Jonah Valdez on what it will take for this ceasefire to succeed, and Palestinian writer Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi shares her hopes and fears.

Trump’s Gaza Ceasefire Deal Is Already Failing Palestinians
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Sinnataggen (The Angry Boy), by Gustav Vigeland, 1928, 📸 by @alykhankr.bsky.social

Well if this image doesn't just sum up America right now

Self-Portrait, by Kazimir Malevich, 1910-11, 📸 via @BRWalkoff

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

This report is absolutely shocking.

ICE does not have the authority to detain US citizens during immigration enforcement — full stop. The Trump administration is out of control, violating the rights of American citizens. They must be held accountable.
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Friday's Flow. This morning along Chicago's lakefront.

Gaza aid still critically scarce, say agencies, as Israel delays convoys UN urges opening of all crossing points as fewer than half of intended trucks enter strip and WHO warns of ‘spiralling’ disease * Middle East crisis – live updates Aid remains critically scarce in Gaza one week into the ceasefire, humanitarian agencies have warned, as Israel delays the entry of food convoys into the territory. The Israeli government and Hamas continue to trade blame over violations of the truce. The UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday that it had brought about 560 tonnes of food per day on average into Gaza since the ceasefire began, but it was still below what was needed. Continue reading...

Gaza aid still critically scarce, say agencies, as Israel delays convoys

Cheryl Hines clarifying her mutant husband only had a bit of his brain eaten by an actual worm

This is possibly the all-time funniest real answer to an interview question

Dave Matthews is seated in Seattle for the Blue Jays and Mariners game

Ya know what else had a Big Dumper? A certain band’s tour bus

Israel’s Mounting Ceasefire Violations in Gaza “The matter is not a ceasefire — we are talking about a managed genocide, a managed forcible displacement.”

I write for @theintercept.com about Israel’s mounting CEASEFIRE VIOLATIONS — withholding Gaza aid and killing Palestinians.

w/ brief commentary from @ramyabdu.bsky.social and @tksshawa.bsky.social who both say the GENOCIDE is continuing but through different means.

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Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!”

Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”

Charlie Browns mom: Waaah wah wah wah waaah waaah waaah wah

Charlie Brown: oh, you mean pigpen

Charlie browns mom: Wah way. Waaaah wahwahwah wah wah waaah waaaah wahwhawah wah wah

Charlie Brown: yeah I get that. It’s pretty bad over there but I don’t think they hit him

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t. Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

It’s funny how the old media depiction of Nazis was always that they’re evil but dignified gentleman and now they’re openly just like “Hello. I’m the Anime Pedophile”

Every time a Democrat gets caught on tape saying like “Some Trump voters are racist” we have a national scandal and JD Vance demands an entirely new kind of apology and meanwhile every Republican group chat is like “Good morning fellow SS members. Who’s ready to respect Hitler today?”

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents ‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Circled is a teargas canister thrown by Donald Trump’s thugs flying towards a family as they flee with their baby from ICE’s violent escalation in Chicago.

He really put a "but I'm different" in his eulogy. What a mind.

Succession "Have you ever read Mein Kampf" scene.

Down at Young Republican HQ

BREAKING: Major clashes in southeast Chicago this pm.

DHS agents who crashed a car had eggs thrown at them. According to ABC7, they then fired pepper balls at local residents. It’s now a scene of flying rocks & tear gas.

Chicago was never a war zone. But Trump’s militia is turning it into one.

israel has already broken the ceasefire

The hostage exchange isn’t nothing but Bibi will never stop terrorizing Palestinians

‘You cease, I fire’: Israel kills 9 Palestinians despite Gaza truce Israeli army confirmed it opened fire saying a group of people approached soldiers before being targeted.

LIVE: Israel shoots dead at least 9 Palestinians in Gaza despite ceasefire

Israeli soldiers kill at least nine Palestinians trying to return to their homes in northern Gaza City and southern Khan Younis

We’re seeing a lot of pop-up protests against ICE in the Chicago area, such as this one outside a Home Depot in Evanston, IL, where 2 of our neighbors were taken yesterday.

When I worked a customer service job we were expected to maintain 4.5/5. Most customers didn’t bother to take the survey at all so if we got one bad one we were fucked.

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

A great moment from Oliver:

“While I would love to keep splitting hairs on whether a country’s starving kids is better or worse if those kids are already sick, let’s just table that discussion for when I see you in hell.”

Columbus Day Protests Once Again Erupt As Nation Struggles With Its Dark, Anti-Italian Past

Columbus Day Protests Once Again Erupt As Nation Struggles With Its Dark, Anti-Italian Past https://theonion.com/columbus-day-protests-once-again-erupt-as-nation-strugg-1829604693/