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[Noah Samsen @noahsamsen_]

Ethan Klein Lawsuit Update: CASE DISMISSED!

[Mohammed El-Kurd @m7mdkurd]

NEW: The Board of Directors at the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) will formally change its definition of who qualifies as a journalist, to broadly exclude slain Palestinian and Lebanese journalists who worked for government-funded media outlets. Israeli, American, and Ukrainian journalists who work for state-funded outlets or are embedded with the military will remain recognized as journalists, of course.

The move was catalyzed to appease the right-wing Zionist rag The Free Beacon, which has repeatedly accused Palestinian and Lebanese journalists of being undercover militants or used their political opinions or affiliations as justification for their killing by the IOF.

This is a racist scandal of massive proportions for everyone involved, and it makes a mockery of the purported mission of the organization. It is absolutely abhorrent that the organization’s resources are wasted on this cowardly witch-hunt, at a moment in history that is the deadliest for journalists, especially in Palestine and Lebanon.

[Shervin Malekzadeh شروین ملک زاده @Swarthy_Bastard]

Probably my all-time favorite front cover

[jasper nathaniel @infinite_jaz]

1. Settlers break an old man’s skull while he sleeps in Tayasir
2. Soldiers assault @JDiamond1’s crew while he reports on it, admit to working for settlers
3. Footage goes viral; IDF condemns/suspends
4. IDF continues allowing attacks on Tayasir
5. Settlers murder man in Tayasir

[Steve Sweeney @SweeneySteve]

Reeling from the news that dear friends @ftounifatima and @cheib1970 have been killed in an I$raeli strike in the south of Lebanon.

Heartbroken beyond words. And make no mistake that this was a deliberate, targeted assassination of journalists. A war crime.

We owe them a debt that can never be repaid. Words are not enough right now

Rest in power. We will continue our work in your honour.

[Heidi N. Moore @moorehn]

I can't tell you how alarming it is that this smug, arrogant, narrow-minded woman is running The Economist. How are you getting circles run around you by a Temu white supremacist podcaster?

[sofie ☭ @darlingube]

im supposed to believe this is necessary so women can wear their hair out in public

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

notice how "the bloodthirsty enemy of mankind" iran has let in a us journalist as it's currently being bombed by us, but our "most moral ally" israel hasn't let in western reporters in to gaza. makes you think.

[overzealots | isaac @overzealots_]

Mark carney is a servile dog to the AmericIsraeli empire. Might as well just accept annexation and become the 51st state at this point

[Chris @chriskunzler]

The ‘unknown’ person in this video is Ehud Barak, then Israeli prime minister, I wonder why sky decided to pretend it is a mystery

[LUKE2FREEDOM @L2FTV]

New York City Council Member Chi Osse calls for ICE to be abolished and Nuremberg trials at a Union Square protest after a man named Alex Pretti was shot and killed earlier today in Minnesota by federal agents.

[Yves Engler @EnglerYves]

Yesterday a Quebec judge made a ruling that subverts the public’s right to petition state officials. In finding me guilty of three charges related to emailing the Montreal police, Karine Giguere established a terrible precedent. I’ll appeal.

Judge Giguere found me guilty of obstruction of police work, harassment of a police officer and indecent communication. The three charges were related to my promoting an Action Network email campaign in February calling on supporters to petition the police to drop a release condition and charges. I spent five days in jail to defeat the release condition muzzling me and the charges were dropped in July.

I promoted the Action Network email petition to the police after an investigator with the Montreal police’s hate crimes unit said she was charging me for “harassing” anti-Palestinian media personality Dahlia Kurtz. (I never met Kurtz, messaged her or threatened her in any way. All I ever did was respond to Kurtz on X and the supposedly aggrieved Kurtz never even blocked me on that platform. After the criminal charges were dropped Kurtz sued me for defamation in civil court. That matter is ongoing.) After I wrote about the charges and asked people to email the police to abandon them, the police charged me with harassing the police and interfering with their work.

Friday’s ruling is a blow for everyone who might disagree with a decision by the government or its representatives. The email campaign was not unlike petitions sent to all levels of government, reporters or corporate officials, which are generally lawful.

Central to the ruling was the court’s acceptance of the prosecution’s argument that I was responsible for the actions of thousands of individuals who autonomously emailed the Montreal police. The judgment placed the legal responsibility squarely on the organizer of the Action Network alert campaign, concluding that the volume of email interfered with police operations and thus became criminal conduct.

The judge acknowledged that the Crown failed to cite any previous case law in which someone was convicted for encouraging people to send emails to a public official as part of a political campaign. Regardless, she proceeded to convict me for “harassment” even though the email was polite in tone — beginning with “dear” and ending with “sincerely”.

The verdict also drew a distinction between email campaigns directed at police and those aimed at other public figures. It effectively creates a special category of protection for police officers, insulating them from coordinated public pressure.The ruling grants police broad discretion to define criticism of their actions as criminal interference and to define communication/pressure as “obstructing” justice.

The judge failed to weigh the constitutional implications of criminalizing collective political advocacy or whether the convictions unjustifiably limit protected political speech. The ruling treated the case primarily as an issue of police inconvenience, ignoring the freedom-of-expression impacts.

I have 30 days to appeal. If successful, the appeal could clarify the limits of criminal law in relation to email petitions and political advocacy without risking criminal sanction. Conversely, if the verdict stands, it curtails our right to petition state officials and undercuts democratic participation.

Alex Tyrrell assisted with this article.

If you can assist with the legal appeal: https://t.co/IGGn5S5py9

[Polling USA @USA_Polling]

He shot her and called her a fucking bitch to her dead body

[Mohammed El-Kurd @m7mdkurd]

I took this footage when I was about 13. What you’re seeing is Jewish American tourists parading around our house like it’s a zoo, gloating about stealing it, harassing us and hurling insults. This is some of what we are protesting when we protest land theft events at Yeshivas.

[Samuel 🇲🇽 @resisres]

“If Iran shoots protesters we’ll invade” — ICE shoots woman in the face

“We must take down the narco regime in Venezuela” — pardons Honduran narco dictator

“Maduro runs a torture camp in Caracas” — has torture camp in Guantánamo

Every accusation is a confession.

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

This is why the DOJ had to downplay its phony Cartel of Suns allegations against Maduro in its new indictment

Not only does the Cartel of the Suns not exists as a real criminal syndicate, it was literally founded by the CIA to traffic cocaine into American cities

[Bruce Arthur @bruce_arthur]

Gotta say, if I were a Canadian politician, I would be very careful about praising Donald Trump for illegally bombing an oil-rich country and arresting its leader on what are pretty much imaginary allegations of narco trafficking

[Guillermo del Toro @RealGDT]

Rob Reiner was a true and good human being and an extraordinary director. He was vital and honest and him and amichele were cornerstones of their community and committed to their art and the good of everyone around them. A staggering loss.

[David Austin Walsh @DavidAstinWalsh]

So basically the Epstein files vindicated the most conspiracy-theory-brained understandings of American geopolitics, where it's all just corrupt politicians, establishment luminaries, and intelligence agencies fucking kids and blackmailing each other all the live-long day.

[Jeffrey Sachs @JeffreyASachs]

Unacceptable. Press charges.