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The blockade has led to famine-like conditions for the two million people living on the Strip, and at least 9,000 children have been admitted for treatment of acute malnutrition since the start of the year

For years, California Democrats have defended their landmark program to put ethnic studies classes in high schools across the state. But one particular area of study threatens to unravel the Democratic consensus: Palestine.

Police conspired to violently attack anti-genocide protesters at the University of California, Los Angeles last year, according to a suit filed last week in Los Angeles Superior Court.

An internal email obtained by ProPublica said the agency made the change to be “consistent” with a Trump executive order.

“If you look at the early Putin or the early Orban or Erdogan, they didn’t move at this speed. This resembles more after there’s been a coup.”

Jessica Corbett May 05, 2025

According to a recent Gallup poll, 70% of Americans now believe the American Dream is no longer attainable for the average person. This stark figure represents a seismic shift in national consciousness.

Welcome to America: Imperial core. Festival of insanity.

Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that freeing the Israeli hostages in Gaza was not his top priority, suggesting instead that defeating Hamas should take precedence over a hostage deal.

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The Trump administration is fighting an undeclared war in Yemen, and it has not been shy about publicizing the details of its attacks.

The US Treasury ramped up its estimate for federal borrowing for the current quarter to account for a much smaller starting stockpile of cash than it had projected — a consequence of Congress having failed as yet to raise the federal debt limit.

A further aspect of post-truth is that participants often willingly participate in their own deception because ignoring the truth makes them feel good.

Marc Andreeeeeeessen

By Doyinsola Oladipo, Karen Freifeld and Rich McKay May 1, 2025 8:01 PM EDT

Rachel Leingang, Léonie Chao-Fong in Washington and Marina Dunbar in New York Thu 1 May 2025 21.57 EDT

Brett Wilkins May 01, 2025

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Across the United States and much of the West, criticism of Israel and solidarity with Palestine are increasingly being criminalized—a project long championed by Israel’s government and its powerful lobbying networks.

A top House Democrat is stepping down from a key committee post and not running for reelection months after beating out socialist Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) for his current position.

Climate change's profound reshaping of conflict dynamics is already underway. The question facing humanity now is not whether we will confront these pressures, but how we will choose to do so.

The National Retail Federation expects U.S. imports to drop at least 20% in the second half of the year if tariffs continue at their current levels

The Biden administration allowed Israel unprecedented leeway to carry out its military offensive, despite the enormous death and devastation it inflicted on Gaza. Former Israeli ambassador, Michael Herzog, made a startling admission about Biden’s support:

Two families — among them three U.S. citizens aged two, four, and seven — were abruptly deported under "troubling circumstances," says the ACLU of Louisiana

"The upheaval and loss of experience will leave the division unable to enforce the nation's civil rights laws," said one voting rights advocate.

The researchers' bots generated identities as a sexual assault survivor, a trauma counselor, and a Black man opposed to Black Lives Matter.

Reports in 2010 suggest that the DOJ (which is the only entity which can prosecute crimes committed by non natives on reservations) declined to persecute 2/3rds of sexual violence cases.

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A few years ago, Jeff was working for a California bank that asked him to look into getting the business listed on a website called PublicSquare.

The girl was deported Friday with her mother to Honduras, despite her father’s efforts to keep her in the United States.

The World Food Programme on Friday said months of Israeli blockades have entirely depleted food stocks in Gaza. The WFP warned that thousands of Palestinians could die of starvation as a result of the policy.

The Justice Department quietly authorized immigration agents to seize power in arresting people under the Alien Enemies Act—no warrant required.

Dugan is accused of escorting the man, Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, and his lawyer out of the courtroom through the jury door on April 18 as a way to help avert his arrest, according to an FBI affidavit filed in court.

Yale University has become the latest top institution in the United States to ban a pro-Palestine group, this time for protests against a visit by far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.

Donald Trump is making it pretty clear he plans to say in power forever.

Israel has completely wiped out Rafah, turning a fifth of Gaza's territory into a giant buffer zone. This is part of Israel's plan to permanently remain in Gaza and facilitate the ethnic cleansing of its people.

Border agents forced the 19-year-old, who cannot read, to sign a transcript of his arrest he says was false.

As of April 23, over 270 colleges and universities have identified 1,730-plus international students and recent graduates who have had their legal status changed by the State Department.

President Donald Trump has a long history of treating women like property.

Customs and Border Protection has broad authority to search travelers’ devices when they cross into the United States. Here’s what you can do to protect your digital life while at the US border.

Christopher D. Cook Apr 17, 2025 Common Dreams

Donald Trump’s tariffs have unleashed a “major negative shock” into the world economy, the International Monetary Fund has said, as it cut its forecasts for US, UK and global growth.

Sass is a popular open-source CSS framework for building websites. It is commonly used in some of the most popular open source projects, like Next.js. It is one of the few open source projects that when developers navigate their website for docs or whatever, they see a banner at the top of the page that says "Free Palestine." It is a shame that more software projects are too scared to show their support for Palestine, or that are actually opposed to Palestine's existence.

Since the fall of the USSR, a large part of developing world elites, middle classes, and intellectuals have been effectively transformed into ideological parrots of US liberal propaganda through USAID-funded NGOs, educational and media projects.

Bluma Altmed, a Polish Jew disguised as a Gentile outside the ghetto, recalled a conversation with a Catholic woman who was upset with Jewish resistance fighters for disturbing her sleep: “I have a constant headache because I can’t sleep in such conditions. All night long, I hear machine guns. . . . The explosions and shootings never end. What are those Yids thinking, anyway? They have to die, one way or the other. The least they could do is to give up.”

One of the thorniest issues that has arisen in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs—which, in overturning Roe v. Wade, devolved legal authority over abortion to the states—is whether restrictive states can prevent or deter their residents from obtaining abortion care in a state where it is legal.

Prejudice and anti-science ideology destroyed the world’s leading math department. It couldn’t happen here, could it?

Massive Blue is helping cops deploy AI-powered social media bots to talk to people they suspect are anything from violent sex criminals all the way to vaguely defined “protesters.”

Palestinian Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi pleaded with the school for protection for months, and expressed concern about an apparent FBI visit and a possible break-in to his residence before the Trump administration detained him during a citizenship interview this week, emails obtained by Zeteo show.

A movement based on “tech Zionism” seeks to create “The Next America”

Israel targeted displaced Palestinians in a tent encampment in the Mawasi area of Khan Younis, designated for civilians. Eight children were burned alive and charred beyond recognition alongside six others.

It will take a concerted effort by every sector of our society to respond to Trumpism’s threat.

Harvard is refusing the plainly illegal demands by the Trump administration. That sends an important signal: resistance is possible.

from The Wire [online publication of #JewishVoiceForPeace #JVP in #USA]

Hogg, a 25-year-old gun control activist, who was elected the DNC’s vice chair, has sparked an intra-party uproar over his announcement that his political group, Leaders We Deserve, would be spending $20 million to challenge “asleep-at-the-wheel” Democrats in deep-blue districts.

Bernie Sanders has been repeatedly uttering the phrase “Israel has a right to defend itself” on his “Fighting Oligarchy” tour with Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, which in the year 2025 can only be interpreted as blatant genocide apologia.

The White House said China is now facing up to a 245 percent tariff on imports to the U.S. "as a result of its retaliatory actions," another escalation in a trade war between the world's two largest economies.

Harvard University has been hit with a $2.3bn federal funding freeze after the Ivy League institution took a stand against the Trump administration’s ongoing demands.

At home, people can use EWG’s updated Tap Water Database to find out what contaminants are in their drinking water. It describes which home water filters are best to use for removing disinfection byproducts, based on the contaminants found in a particular system. Activated carbon and reverse osmosis home water filtration systems are usually the most successful.

Timothy Snyder

The US State Department has found no evidence to support allegations that Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish graduate student at Tufts University, was involved in antisemitic activity or supported terrorism, according to a report in The Washington Post.

By world-outlook.com on April 14, 2025

A green card holder, Columbia University protest leader Mohsen Mahdawi faced attacks from pro-Israel activists.

The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

Homeland Security officers visited two Los Angeles public elementary schools this week to do a welfare check on migrant children, not for immigration enforcement, the department said Friday.