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[Scalawag @scalawagmag]

Three activists who distributed flyers exposing a police officer's role in the murder of Cop City forest defender Manuel "Tortuguita" Esteban Paez Terán are being held on intimidation and stalking charges. Dozens more face domestic terrorism charges. https://t.co/hYuy90bnfR

[🦕 Isaiah Cole Torre 🦖 @IsaiahCTorre]

Reminder that the House will be putting KOSA on the table TOMORROW at 6:30PM. If it passes, online privacy and free speech are dead.

Call your reps or the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121. Flood the House with calls and emails today and tomorrow. This bill must be stopped.

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

🚨: U.S. scientists fired by Trump launched a new website to make the government's climate data freely accessible

[𓂀 𝕋𝔼𝔸ℍ 𓂀 @TeahCartel]

Woodburn, Oregon, permanently removed its Flock Safety cameras after an audit revealed that federal agencies had accessed the data without the city's knowledge.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Has there ever been a World Cup where a team is playing in the host country on the literal same day that the host country is bombing that team's country?

[Free Palestine @BigDenimEnergy]

@harrisonjaime Sneering at your own voters is crazy

[Victims of Capitalism Memorial Foundation @karaokecomputer]

Starting today till end of July, the US Military hosts the biannual RIMPAC War Games - the world's largest military exercises - in Hawai‘i. Over the course of the next month they will destroy marine life and bomb sacred, stolen lands. Israel is one of 31 participating countries.

[mustafa yazıcı @myzccc]

🇮🇱 İsrail, Filistinliler tarafından kullanılan su kaynaklarına beton döküyor.

🚨 Medyada yer bile almadı.

Hangi kitapta böyle bir kahpelik yazar?

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

I know this tweet is going to make me lose what rest of my career but: the United Nations high commissioner for human rights is complicit in the genocide in Gaza and Lebanon. He’s the biggest Zionist inside the UN human rights, alongside some members of his team—including Arabs.

[Free Palestine @BigDenimEnergy]

@harrisonjaime what happened to vote blue no matter who ? Or is that only for conservatives lmao

[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

Honestly, I don’t know how to describe what I lived through today. Even though I have been living in Gaza and documenting what is happening since the beginning of the war, what I witnessed today was one of the most shocking and painful scenes of my entire life.

A group of families living in a very remote camp, almost directly beside the Israeli sand berms, contacted us. They told us they had not received water for a long time. At first, we hesitated because reaching the area with a water truck meant entering an extremely dangerous zone. In the end, we decided to try.

Throughout the journey, I saw destruction and rubble everywhere, but the scene that awaited us near the camp was unlike anything else. Directly in front of us were the sand berms and Israeli cranes, surrounded by a landscape of devastation where little remained except tents and ruins.

When the water truck was still about a kilometer away, people began shouting and running toward it. Women, children, and elderly people carried empty water containers and ran with all the strength they had, terrified that the water would run out before their turn came.

The moment the truck stopped, large numbers of people emerged from among the rubble and damaged tents. They were not looking for food, shelter, or anything else. They were looking for water. Just water.

This time we distributed 6,000 liters of clean water, more than we had distributed before, but even that was not enough. Many people remained waiting, and some left without receiving enough water for their families.

As we distributed the water and documented what was happening, fear never left us for a single moment. Yet what I felt in the face of such immense suffering was greater than fear itself.

Today I witnessed a level of thirst I never imagined I would see. I saw mothers running after a water truck, and children clutching empty containers as if they were holding on to their last hope.

I thought I had already seen everything during this war, but what I witnessed today made me realize that the humanitarian catastrophe is far greater than what the world sees on television screens. This is not simply a shortage of services or difficult living conditions. It is a daily struggle for the most basic necessities of survival.

We are facing a real humanitarian disaster that grows worse with each passing day, while thousands of families wake up every morning searching for one thing only: water.

[Vitalist International @VitalistInt]

#Prairieland update

Judge O’Connor stated that he is delivering long sentences in order to “send a message to anyone who shares similar ideologies.” He was not the trial judge. He arrived only to sentence. The judge in the California Casey Goonan trial used the same language.

[DFWSupportCommittee @DFWSupCommittee]

Sentences are starting to come out:

Zachary Evetts - 50 years
Maricela Rueda - 70 years
Savanna Batten - 50 years
Autumn Hill - 50 years

We will not stop fighting for their freedom.

[Hannah Riley Fernandez @hannahcrileyy]

sentencing is happening now and 5 of the defendants have received 50 year sentences. chilling and should be a huge story

[Hannah Riley Fernandez @hannahcrileyy]

people who showed up to a protest outside an ICE facility and left when things got chaotic are getting HALF CENTURY sentences in federal court right now, my god

[Joseph Bouchard @GeopolWonk]

Bolivia: Government gets ready to enter militarily into the Chapare, to capture or kill socialist former president Evo Morales. From Bloomberg.

[ArceusBowser @ArceusBowser212]

BTW if this passes the internet is as good as dead, your privacy will disappear and anything you say on it will be used against you despite free speech

[Free Palestine @BigDenimEnergy]

@AllisonRFloyd It’s so they can remotely access our car engines

[Ben Norton @BenjaminNorton]

The US empire is waging a neocolonial assault all across Latin America.

The US blatantly meddled in Colombia's election. Trump and Marco Rubio backed the far-right, multimillionaire candidate Abelardo de la Espriella (a defender of fascist paramilitaries), and there are serious irregularities in the results.

Colombia's current left-wing President Gustavo Petro has been very pro-Palestine and pro-China. He cut relations with the genocidal Israeli regime and joined China's Belt and Road Initiative.

De la Espriella vows to form a close alliance with the US and Israel, and minimize relations with China. Just a few weeks before the elections, he was in Florida, meeting with far-right US politicians who are close allies of Trump and Rubio.

The same thing is happening across the continent. The US carried out a blatant electoral coup in Honduras, to put a drug cartel-linked, pro-US, pro-Israel, anti-China puppet in power.

The US is currently trying to steal the election in Peru, to put the daughter of the fascist former dictator in power.

The US empire already has far-right puppets in power in Argentina, Chile, and Ecuador. The leader of Chile is the Pinochet-defending son of a Nazi war criminal. The dictator of Ecuador is the son of the country's richest billionaire oligarch.

Brazil is the next target of the US empire's neocolonial assault, in this year's election.

This is the colonial Monroe Doctrine in the neo-fascist era.

[Ethan Wechtaluk @EthanforMD]

For almost six months, I followed the money behind the largest data center campus in Maryland — going up right now on the old Eastalco site in Adamstown.

I expected a local development story. What I found was a Texas private-equity firm and a consortium anchored by the sovereign wealth funds of Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, and Singapore, buying critical American infrastructure and building it on Frederick County farmland.

I found a county that doubled its data-center zone over the objection of its own planners — after the developers who stood to profit had funded the majority that voted yes.

I found 21,000 neighbors who gathered signatures in the dead of winter to put it to a vote, and a consortium of global capital that went to court and got that vote thrown out on a technicality last week.

And I found the bill the rest of us pay: power bills projected up as much as $70 a month, five million gallons of water a day in the middle of a drought, and 99 diesel generators permitted within a thousand feet of Carroll Manor Elementary.

It's all here, sourced line by line. The referendum is dead. The fight is not. Please read it, and share it with someone in MD-06 before Tuesday.