"Anyone who has served in the Israeli Forces in Gaza since October 2023 should be considered a suspect in relation to war crimes, crimes against humanity, and the crime of genocide"
-Chris Sidoti, UN Commission of Inquiry on Palestine
BREAKING: 8 people have been sentenced combined 450 years in prison for peacefully protesting outside ICE Facility
More years than any American has been sentenced over the Epstein Files
Israel has killed at least 1,031 Palestinians and injured at least 3,309 in nearly daily attacks on Gaza despite the ceasefire, which took effect at noon on October 10, 2025.
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Children.
Let that sink in.
According to a new UN inquiry, Israeli authorities and security forces have deliberately targeted Palestinian children in Gaza, resulting in genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes.
No government, army, ideology, or political argument can make the killing, starvation, displacement, and traumatizing of children morally acceptable. A world that excuses the destruction of children has lost its moral center.
We must not grow numb. We must demand an end to genocide, protection for Palestinian children, unrestricted humanitarian aid, accountability for these atrocities, and every child’s right to live in dignity, safety, and peace.
#Gaza #PalestinianChildren #CeasefireNow #BelovedCommunity #Nonviolence365
Lately on SoundCloud there’s been an ambient rap scene bubbling that seems to exist in direct opposition to the maximalist commercialization of rage. I linked up with @oliviersaidhi to dive into some of our favorite songs out of this scene right now https://t.co/xalhtrneKI
Protests have broken out in Beirut after Lebanese authorities signed a framework agreement with Israel that critics believe will further entrench Israel’s occupation of southern Lebanon.
The UN couldn't print the names of Palestinian children murdered and maimed by Israel.
Why?
Because they feared Israel would respond by killing and maiming the families of the children.
It is powerful to see other arbitrarily sanctioned legal professionals acting against this outright persecution and full-on assault on int'l justice. I hope their ordeal will end sooner than mine.
I am proud my family pioneered all this, even if the cost is extremely high.
He has had an emergency decompressive hemicraniectomy, left-sided, where the likely dominant brain side is damaged forever. He will probably never be able to speak again, and never be able to feel and move the right side of his body.
At his age, the reason for that is most likely a mass intracranial hemorrhage and swelling due to severe head trauma. He must have also spent a long time in a coma, hence the tracheostomy.
This is, without much room for doubt, the face of a tortured man who has barely survived an emergency procedure, which in normal circumstances would be extremely uncommon for someone his age - and whose quality of life has been reduced to almost zero forever.
A group of anti-ICE protesters in Texas were sentenced to 30 to 100 years in jail on Tuesday, after federal prosecutors accused them of being an "antifa terror cell."
The activists attended a protest and noise demonstration outside the Prairieland ICE jail in Alvarado, Texas. All nine defendants were found guilty after being tried before a federal judge in Texas.
The maximum sentences prosecutors sought in the case stand in stark contrast to the treatment of January 6 U.S. Capitol insurrectionists, says Sufia Khalid, who represented one of the defendants, Maricela Rueda.
Rueda has been sentenced to 70 years in prison for attending the demonstration, while "the average sentence in the Capitol riots, which had far more serious conduct than the Prairieland Nine defendants, was 26 months."
🇨🇩 How Jeffrey Epstein’s Israeli Network Shaped Congo’s Deadly Mineral Trade
🔸 A Drop Site investigation by Murtaza Hussain and Ryan Grim, drawing on U.S. Justice Department records and hacked emails from former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak’s account, reveals how Jeffrey Epstein and Barak built a business network that combined Israeli intelligence expertise, private military contracting, and access to Africa’s vast natural resources. The emails were obtained through the whistleblower group Distributed Denial of Secrets and independently verified by Drop Site.
🔸 After resigning as Israel’s defense minister in 2013, Barak worked with Epstein to market privatized Israeli intelligence, surveillance, and security services to governments confronting civil conflicts. Emails show Barak drew on his longtime intelligence contacts, including former Mossad chief Danny Yatom, to expand the venture across Africa.
🔸 One classified proposal from Yatom’s firm describes how Israeli intelligence veterans trained a 150-member elite Congolese special operations force during the 2012-2013 war against the Rwandan-backed M23 rebellion in eastern Congo. Yatom claimed the unit’s night raids and special operations helped turn the tide of the war.
🔸 As fighting subsided, the network’s focus shifted from military contracts to business opportunities. Emails show Epstein’s close associate Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, chairman of Dubai-based DP World, opening channels to Congolese President Joseph Kabila over investments in mining, oil, gas, ports, and transport infrastructure.
🔸 The investigation places those efforts within a much longer history of foreign governments, mining companies, intelligence agencies, and military contractors competing for influence over Congo’s enormous reserves of copper, cobalt, coltan, diamonds, and other strategic minerals. By 2018, Epstein was participating in discussions around U.S. Treasury sanctions targeting Congo’s mining economy, including the holdings of sanctioned Israeli mining magnate Dan Gertler.
🔸 Our report traces those same dynamics into the present. As Washington moves to challenge China’s dominance over Congo’s critical minerals, a U.S.- and UAE-backed consortium is seeking control of major copper and cobalt assets once tied to Gertler. At the same time, Blackwater founder Erik Prince, working alongside Israeli advisers, is helping retrain Congolese special forces to fight M23 around the same mineral-rich region.
🔸 The investigation highlights that while the geopolitical players and technologies have changed, the competition over Congo’s mineral wealth continues. Foreign governments, military contractors, and multinational investors remain deeply involved in the country’s resource sector, while little of the wealth generated by Congo’s vast natural resources reaches the Congolese people.
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NEW: Palantir has gone on a Democratic lobbyist hiring spree, picking up Hakeem Jeffries' former chief of staff, a top DCCC fundraiser, and a former Democratic senator to push its interests in Washington DC. https://t.co/BXJ859Ypb6
I interviewed rap legend AZ for @Passionweiss dot com.
We spoke about channeling the spirit of Nat Turner; using alliteration to dazzle; potentially doing a duo LP with Nas; Sosa > Tony Montana; the joys of reaching 50; and his great new record.
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