Mike

#Gaza
First published on CagleCartoons.com, July 28, 2025 | by Christopher Weyant

In a functioning democracy if a politician has a low approval rating they work on increasing that till they are a proved by the majority of the electorate, autocrats work on reducing the electorate until their base is a numerical majority…any move to reduce participation is anti-democratic

Two Israeli rights groups say their country is committing genocide in Gaza Two prominent Israeli rights groups say their country is committing genocide in Gaza. It's the first time that local, Jewish-led groups have made such accusations against Israel during nearly 22 month...

Two Israeli rights groups say their country is committing genocide in Gaza.

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BON APPÉTIT #Gaza
(First published on caglecartoons.com, July 24, 2025 | by Becs)

Well done, my dear.

Whatever excusses there are, it can not be right that Palestinians are starving or being killed by Israeli troops while seeking aid.
(Photograph: Seham Tantesh/The Guardian) #Gaza

Fear is the universal tool of authoritarians.

Western diplomatic chiefs, EU Commissioner Lahbib condemn Israel’s treatment of Gaza civilians In a statement they slam the “dangerous” delivery of food and water to Gaza after over 100 people seeking aid were killed over the weekend.

#NoComment #StopKilling

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Israeli strike hits Gaza church, killing 3 and wounding priest who was close to Pope Francis An Israeli shell slammed into the compound of the only Catholic church in the Gaza Strip, killing three people and wounding 10 others, including the parish priest, according to church officials.

Israeli strike hits #Gaza #church, killing 3 and wounding priest who was close to Pope Francis.
#Netanyahu statement: "Israel deeply regrets that hit at Gaza’s Holy Family Church.”
There's nothing to "regret", just stop hitting a chutch and civilians!

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Trump administration tells US diplomats abroad not to opine on foreign elections U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio instructed U.S. diplomats worldwide not to comment on the fairness or integrity of elections conducted by foreign countries, according to an internal note seen by Reuters on Thursday, in a significant departure from Washington's traditional approach of promoting free and fair elections overseas.

Does this directive include Trump, Vance and Rubio?

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

The Credibility Gap
(by @mwuerker.bsky.social)

The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.

WTF

www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

‘Humanitarian city’ would be concentration camp for Palestinians, says former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert says forcing people into camp would be ethnic cleansing, and anger at Israel is not all down to antisemitism

‘Humanitarian city’ would be concentration camp for Palestinians, says former Israeli PM www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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EU ready to retaliate after Trump hits bloc with 30 percent tariff “We will take all necessary steps to safeguard EU interests,” says European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

Enough. Let us confront him with reality. 🇪🇺

After the EU have been dropping its plans to levy a tax on digital companies, the President of the USA sets a 30% tariff to all goods from Europe.
www.politico.eu/article/dona...

Far too many credible stories of people actually disappearing now.

I Let AI Agents Plan My Vacation—and It Wasn't Terrible The latest wave of AI tools claim to take the pain out of booking your next trip. From transport and accommodation to restaurants and attractions, we let AI take the reins to put this to the test.

AI takes over...
www.wired.com/story/i-let-...

We just announced a bunch of featured speakers for @HOPE.net! Journalists, activists, ex-government insiders, and more! Plus Spawn Camp! www.2600.com/content/hope...

Digital Privacy at the U.S. Border: Protecting the Data On Your Devices by Sophia Cope, Amul Kalia, Seth Schoen, and Adam SchwartzDownload the report as a PDF.EXECUTIVE SUMMARYThe U.S. government reported a five-fold increase in the number of electronic media searches at ...

Read before entering the USA (by @eff.org)
www.eff.org/wp/digital-p... #travel #advice #security #privacy

Graph from NetBlocks showing the network connectivity in Iran, from June 6, 2025, to June 18, 2025. The y-axis represents normalized connectivity, ranging from 0% to 100%, and the x-axis represents the dates. The green line representing Iran's connectivity remains stable at around 100% until June 13 when the decline begins with a sharp drop on June 18. The drop in connectivity aligns with escalating conflict by Israel. The minimum and current connectivity levels are indicated as 3% and 3%, respectively. The chart has a dark background with a red circle highlighting the decline at the end of the period.

⚠️ Confirmed: Live network data show #Iran is now in the midst of a near-total national internet blackout; the incident follows a series of earlier partial disruptions and comes amid escalating military tensions with Israel after days of back-and-forth missile strikes 📉

You voted for Trump, deal with it.

Reminder: Deploying active duty troops on American streets is a violation of the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits direct involvement of federal troops in law enforcement.

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Trump threatens EU with 50 percent tariff from June 1 Ultimatum comes hours before crunch call between U.S. and EU trade negotiators.

If this guy isn't looking for a 'deal', #Europe shouldn't hold back any longer. This will hurt the people everywhere, but the #USA will suffer more b/c we have dignity and reliability and therefore options to work and cooperate worldwide. Remember who started this #tradewar.

Thanks, but no thanks!
#tradewar #usa #europe

First published on CagleCartoons.com, Costa Rica, May 9, 2025 | By Arcadio Esquivel

Bill Gates lashed out at Elon Musk, accusing the world's richest man of "killing the world's poorest children" through huge cuts to the U.S. foreign aid budget. That's true.

Here's the source code for the unofficial Signal app used by Trump officials Yesterday, I published an analysis of what I could publicly find about TM SGNL, the obscure and unofficial Signal app used by Mike Waltz, and presumably also by Pete Hegseth, JD Vance, Tulsi Gabbard, ...

The source code for the TM SGNL apps (basically a backdoored version of Signal used by Trump officials) is public! Since it's open source, I've pushed it to github for easier research micahflee.com/heres-the-so...