Footballer Borja Iglesias reacted to the forced eviction from her home of 87-year-old Maricarmen, who lives in Madrid:
“We cannot normalize real estate speculation leading to people being evicted from the homes where they built their lives. Housing cannot be treated solely as an investment. Let’s fight together.”
Maricarmen, who has a 50% disability, had been living in her home in Madrid’s Retiro neighborhood since 1956. The company that purchased the property increased her rent from €500 to €1,650 and rejected all negotiation proposals. Hundreds of people waiting to prevent the eviction were attacked by police, and numerous people were detained. Following the incident, tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Madrid to protest for the right to housing and against police violence.
Footballer Borja Iglesias on the forced eviction of 87-year-old Maricarmen, who lives in Madrid:
“We cannot normalize real estate speculation leading to people being evicted from the homes where they built their lives. Housing cannot be treated solely as an investment. Let’s fight together.”
1. RIP 60 Minutes.
2. Did anyone ever doubt that Weiss would simply import unqualified people from her blog to work at 60 Minutes and destroy the brand/legacy/investigative journalism?
3. Lukyanova co-authored the infamous Olivia Reingold FP piece denying the starvation in Gaza.
A reminder that multiple academic studies - as well as international comparisons - show 100s of 1000s of Americans died from COVID who didn’t need to die had Trump taken it seriously from the beginning and been a minimally more competent president.
All the noise now about Fauci and lab leaks is a distraction from that one simple undeniable fact.
And Democrats who moved on from the pandemic, and holding Trump accountable for all those early deaths in 2020, left a vacuum which RFK and Rand Paul and the rightwing grift machine happily filled with character assassinations, conspiracy theories, and pro-Trump deflection.
This is Dani Bensky, a survivor of pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, asking other survivors to rise while they held up photos of their younger selves at the time of their abuse.
They were there to ask the Senate Judiciary Committee to OPPOSE the confirmation of @DAGToddBlanche
"Now look at our faces and remember the women and families of who the DOJ revictimized,” she said.
"Todd Blanche has been at the helm of the release of nude images of survivors, the outing of Jane Does and the exposure of more than 100 victims identifying information and documents describing horrific acts of abuse, including my own."
"We are not activists," Bensky said. "We are crime victims."
An Iraqi soccer player was detained for hours when he arrived here for the World Cup.
A Somali referee was outright denied entry.
Iran's team is not allowed to stay in the U.S.
The World Cup is supposed to bring the world together. Instead, Trump is using it as an excuse to be racist and cruel.
Thousands of Albanians protested in Tirana against the development of a luxury resort planned by US President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Edi Rama
MELANIA, the film
A Historic Moment
I am deeply humbled to have been surrounded by an inspiring room of friends, family, and cultural iconoclasts at the White House last night. Each of these individuals each brought their unique vision to the world, making a lasting impression.
Our personal stories endure time and serve as a reminder of our mutual obligation to one another. It was an honor to present my new film, MELANIA, ahead of its global launch.