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Israel flattens another Gaza City high-rise, displacing dozens Army kills 49 in Gaza City alone, destroys ‘vertical neighbourhood’, sending dozens onto to the streets.

Israeli PM Netanyahu has claimed that about 100,000 Palestinians have forcibly fled Gaza City, according to Israeli media reports, as the military pushes forward with plans to seize the city.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/26umx0

Video shows Israeli settler children assaulting a Palestinian Bedouin family near the village of Taybeh, east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, after setting up a new illegal outpost in the area.

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U.S. Suspends Visas for Palestinian Passport Holders, Officials Say The move will stop, at least temporarily, travel for medical treatment, attending university, visiting relatives or conducting business.

Revoking an entire nationality’s visas is collective punishment and never acceptable — especially in this moment when millions of Palestinians lack equal rights, basic healthcare, and so much more at home, forcing them out of the US is unfathomably cruel.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...

Mass Shooters Are Not Disproportionately Transgender Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.

Reminder: Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.

Can the media STOP referring to Jeffrey Epstein as a “financier”? The money he made came from SEX TRAFFICKING MINORS, RAPING CHILDREN, and BLACKMAIL. He was NOT a financier. I’ve seen at least five stories from three outlets refer to him this way in the past week. This is the latest from the Times:

California stepping up.

Generations of workers in America bled and died to win dignity on the job. They stood together against those who refused to recognize their humanity.

On Labor Day, as fascism rises again, we honor those who came before us and carry forward their spirit of solidarity & defiance. Fight like hell. ✊

No matter what @MarshaBlackburn keeps saying, it’s not criminals they’re targeting.

www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...

The Social Security Administration official who exposed that the Department of Government Efficiency had left millions of Americans’ personal data vulnerable says he has been forced to resign due to retaliation. Charles Borges, who served as the SSA’s chief data officer, told

BREAKING: Yemen’s Houthis have confirmed that an Israeli air strike killed the prime minister of the group’s government in the capital Sanaa aje.io/9b4j4f

Private-equity backed prison health companies continue despite decade of alleged constitutional violations The Guardian examined two private-equity backed companies that have been accused of failing to protect inmates from risk of harm, and even preventable death

Early one morning, screams echoed in the halls of a Santa Barbara jail. An inmate was moaning and hyperventilating. Her “guts are all twisted up”.

Staff ignored her pleas to go to the hospital.

She died.

And nobody got more than a slap on the wrist.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Fact-checking Trump's claim the U.S. is the 'only country' that uses mail-in voting President Donald Trump vowed to take action against voting by mail, which he said makes the United States an outlier.

“We are now the only country in the world that uses mail-in voting.”

– Donald Trump, August 18, 2025

Meanwhile, back in the real world . . .

34 countries or territories allow for mail-in ballots.
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I Luv a good music festival!
Release the Files!

Today is the 90th anniversary of SSA. Check out this great historical write up by @hcrichardson.bsky.social on our origin story and why we are so vital and embedded in the fabric of this country. ❤️❤️❤️

Yahhhhhh I was supposed to have my PCP appointment earlier this year. It was pushed to July when my PCP left. Now it’s been pushed to September because the covering provider I was supposed to see in July also left. I’ve been getting bridge scripts of my meds since June. So this is legit. 😑😑😑

Trump’s Call to Scrap ‘Horrible’ Chip Program Spreads Panic

The CHIPS Act set off a manufacturing boom, creating jobs and ensuring the technologies of the future are made here at home.

By rolling back this law, Trump is weakening American leadership and letting our adversaries get ahead.

DHS is delaying millions in already approved North Carolina recovery funds, documents show Communities across the region still need to be reimbursed for about a hundred projects including debris removal, waste water treatment repairs, roads and bridges, damaged buildings and parks, as well ...

The Department of Homeland Security is holding up more than $100 million preapproved dollars intended to help hurricane-battered North Carolina clean up storm damage and fix infrastructure, according to documents obtained by The Post.

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,263 Here are the key events on day 1,263 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Here are the key events on day 1,263 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

A deadly shooting at the CDC shook its scientists. Now they want answers from RFK Jr. CDC Director Susan Monarez convened an online all-hands meeting of the agency division that focuses on vaccines, and employees called out Kennedy’s rhetoric specifically.

Exclusive: CDC Director Susan Monarez met with its vaccine-focused center to talk about yesterday’s shooting. I listened to a recording. Scientists and officials are shaken & pointing fingers at RFK Jr. Many said his vilification and misinfo turned them into targets. www.msnbc.com/opinion/anal...

LEFT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has a tattoo in honor of a family member.

RIGHT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has facilitated and/or engaged in the sexual assault of over a thousand children.

U.S. citizen detained by Border Patrol captured arrest on video

Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. has called off nearly $500 million in grants and contracts aimed at advancing mRNA vaccine development. This technology, first deployed during the Covid19 pandemic, allows vaccines to be produced rapidly and adapted as viruses evolve. His brain worms are getting worse!

mRNA tech is some of the coolest, most powerful, most promising scifi shit humans are currently doing. They are being investigated to help with cancers, autoimmune diseases, M.S., stroke recovery, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and high cholesterol.

Jared Kushner got $2 billion from the Saudis after leaving the White House.
He defended Mohammed bin Salman, the Crown Prince, after Khashoggi was murdered and bone-sawed.
This is what corruption looks like in plain sight.

Silent prayers were held in the Japanese city of Hiroshima, marking 80 years since the atomic bombing of the city by the US on August 6, 1945.

Health secretary RFK Jr. shuts door on U.S. investment in mRNA vaccine research Vaccine experts and people steeped in pandemic preparedness expressed horror at the news that RFK Jr. has shut the door in U.S. investment in mRNA vaccine research.

Stat - HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces the government's emergency preparedness agency will no longer fund work on messenger RNA vaccines.

A new immigrant detention center will be opening in Indiana called the “Speedway Slammer,” modeled after Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz.”

On #playbookpod, Megan Messerly explains why the rhetoric used by the administration to describe these centers is significant.

🎧 Listen here: ow.ly/yY5B50WAzH8

Berman: Was the President right about the polling?

Enten: No. If we are comparing him to other presidents at this point in their presidencies, he is the second lowest on record compared only to himself.