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The End Times
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🇵🇸 Refeef Lubbad, a 17-year-old 11th grader, was shot and killed by Israeli forces Thursday as she walked home from school in the al-Faluja area of Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza.
Her name was Refeef Lubbad. She was 17, an 11th-grade student, shot and killed as she returned home from school.
You did not, and will not, see a breaking news alert about her killing. The New York Times and other complicit media outlets will not put her face on their front pages. But here, you will see her face and know her name.
May the day come when those who killed Refeef and our families are brought to justice, and when the names of journalists who justified, condoned, or dismissed their deaths as insignificant are displayed on every street, so their complicity is never forgotten.
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So this cop was verbally talking to this guy, and the guy was very respectful. He was just protesting the ticket to the cop.
So the cop gets mad and body slams this guy and kills him. He’s dead now.
This elderly 70-year-old man is dead
All because he protested getting a ticket because he felt like he shouldn’t have got a ticket
And the cop couldn’t let it go
So he body slammed him, and the man ended up dying from his injuries
I don’t think a man would do this. I don’t think this cop is a man.
Only a punk thug would do something like this to an elderly old, frail, weak old man🇺🇸
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17 State Attorneys General have signed a letter supporting passage of the Epstein Files Transparency Act II that @RepRoKhanna, @RepTeresaLF, & I introduced. We’re just 2 signatures short of forcing this to a floor vote. I believe we’ll get them soon.
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BREAKING: "Speculative data center debt is being repackaged and sold to pension and retirement funds, university endowments, and other institutional investors in a manner eerily reminiscent of the subprime bubble," per AFR
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All 18 US Intelligence Agencies confirmed to Donald Trump that Iran did NOT have a nuclear weapons program.
•@grok• TRUE or FALSE
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This many cops for allegedly shoplifting diapers? SHOOTING INTO A MOVING VEHICLE FOR ALLEGEDLY SHOPLIFTING DIAPERS?? Reader's note: SHE DIDN'T EVEN FUCKING STEAL ANYTHING
Bodycam footage of the police shooting that killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley has leaked through Dark Horse Press.
Mississippi DPS claimed the Senatobia officer who fired the fatal shot feared for his life. His bodycam has not been released.
Background: mississippifreepress.org/pol…
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I mean they're both right
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The donor list for Trump's ballroom is finally public, and it blows the lid off a huge can of worms.
There’s a LOT here, so let’s break it down:
1) Surprise, surprise...a ton of the donors conveniently got things they wanted after donating, and several of them asked to remain anonymous. Makes you wonder why.
2) Roughly HALF of the money for the ballroom came from companies or executives whose firms have had federal contracts under Trump.
3) Julio Herrera Velutini, an international banker indicted on bribery charges, was pardoned after his daughter gave $3.5 million to Trump’s PAC and pledged another $2.5 million for the ballroom. Trump pardoned him after the first check for the ballroom hit.
4) Charles Ergen, a telecoms exec whose company was being investigated by the FCC, had a closed-door meeting with Trump and the Chair of the FCC. That meeting reportedly involved talks about his political donations. The Administration dropped the investigation, and Ergen donated a total of $25 million.
5) Rocket, a housing fintech company, needed federal approval of a major acquisition. The deal raised a ton of questions from lawmakers about potential anticompetitive business practices. The Trump Administration gave the company the green light, and three weeks later, a Rocket subsidiary donated $10 million to the ballroom.
6) Salesforce committed a total of $3 million in three installments. Between those payments, the Army awarded the company a $5.6 billion contract, the largest public government contract in the company's history.
7) ServiceNow committed $5 million just one month after the federal government announced a deal to make their AI software available across federal agencies.
And this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Trump has created a system where the people who need something from his government know exactly how to get his attention.
These companies and executives are foaming at the mouth to shower him with money, because he’s made it clear that he’ll help them in exchange.
There is no honest word for that other than corruption.
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welcome to bizzaro world 2026 where going after weapons makers and banks is a form of racism, something that is objectively insane and something that objectively violates the most basic intellectual honesty but nonetheless something we have to take seriously as a liberal conceit
NYC Council Speaker Julie Menin on this morning’s vandalism of a Capital One branch on the Upper East Side, where windows were smashed and graffiti reading “DROP ELBIT” and “PAL ACTION” was left on the entrance:
“What the NYPD is doing now is they're investigating it as a hate crime. They're gonna do a fast investigation; we appreciate their work on this, and the community is deeply concerned and upset about it.”
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Alleged killer of Hind Rajab traveling freely in the United States
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The Hind Rajab Foundation has filed an urgent request with the US Department of Justice demanding the immediate arrest and criminal prosecution of an Israeli military officer currently traveling freely in the United States, according to a public filing by the organization.
The petition targets Sean Glass, a former company commander in the Israeli army whose occupation unit is directly implicated in the cold-blooded killing of six-year-old Hind Rajab, her family members, and the first responders dispatched to save her in Gaza City.
Extensive investigative findings place Glass and his "Vampire Empire" company—operating under the 52nd Armored Battalion—in the immediate vicinity of the family's vehicle during the massacre, which saw Israeli occupation forces shell and riddle the civilian car with hundreds of bullets.
The legal advocacy group warned that allowing an officer accused of egregious war crimes and acts of genocide to walk unbothered on US soil represents an intolerable collapse of international law and universal jurisdiction.
"It is like reporting on the Civil Rights movement in the US and only interviewing outraged Whites."
Can anyone remember the last time @BBCNews interviewed a Palestinian about their experience of the racism of Zionism? Having spent the last two weeks interviewing elderly Nakba survivors in Jordan, driven off their land in their teens because of their ethnicity and religion, I'd be happy to suggest some astonishingly articulate victims of Israeli racism who would be only too happy to tell their tragic stories of eviction, slaughter and dispossession. It is like reporting on the Civil Rights movement in the US and only interviewing outraged Whites
@bbclaurak @bbcnickrobinson @JustinOnWeb
@BBCr4today
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James Carville says he'd rather have Republicans keep control of the House than Democrats winning the chamber by 5 seats.
"I would rather the Republicans keep the House by five than the Democrats win by five, because if that happens, they’re hostage to the DSA. Like, Hakeem cannot move. There’s no place for him to go."
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Citizen Lab just exposed AdFection, the first confirmed zero-click mercenary spyware delivered through targeted ads. Here's what you need to know.
The report was published today, Oct 15, 2026, and WIRED, Reuters and the FT all covered it. Citizen Lab calls it the first-ever public confirmation of zero-click mercenary spyware delivered via targeted ads. It names the technique AdFection. A normal-looking ad loads. If you're a target, you're infected. No click needed. Citizen Lab's John Scott-Railton says to protect yourself, block ads.
The company behind it is an Israeli digital ad firm called Discover-Tech. Researchers say it used a huge ad network to track internet users and route chosen targets to spyware servers. The spyware was Candiru's, a vendor the US government has blacklisted. Discover-Tech also gave other Israeli surveillance firms access to ad platforms. Reuters and The Cradle report it used Google and Comcast ad networks. Citizen Lab says it infected dozens of devices.
The targets included journalists. Researchers say 45 Al Jazeera computers were infected through ads in 2024 and 2025. Citizen Lab also saw ad impressions inside the networks of the European Parliament, the European Commission and the Council's General Secretariat, plus NATO and the UN. EU lawmaker Hannah Neumann is calling for an urgent investigation across EU institutions.
Other researchers back this up. Amnesty's Security Lab says it independently tracked Discover-Tech and that Citizen Lab's findings match its own. Candiru's ad infection ability was first reported by Haaretz in 2023, which also described Insanet's Sherlock product as an optional zero-click method. Corporate records show surveillance vendor Intelos shared owners with Discover-Tech. Google has banned the firm from its ad platforms. Researchers say regulators and companies like Google and Microsoft need to act. One said today's online advertising is a systemic security threat.
Key numbers:
- 120,000+ websites and 75,000+ apps carried Discover-Tech's malicious ads (Citizen Lab)
- Hundreds of millions of people likely reached (Confiant)
- 45 Al Jazeera computers infected in 2024 and 2025
- Zero clicks needed from the victim
The first confirmed case of spyware delivered through ads means any ad network can become a delivery route for state-grade surveillance.
Researchers at The Citizen Lab have for the first time released technical evidence of sophisticated mercenary spyware being distributed via online advertising. buff.ly/K8nohp5
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Apropos of nothing, I’d like to point out that when poll after poll showed Democrats losing ground with Arab Americans by massive margins in 2024, the media did not read it as a signal that Democrats had lost their way but as a moral failing by Arab American voters themselves.
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This hacker news thread is absolutely heart-breaking.
Whoever thinks “humans will find a way” ought I read it.
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The Saudi-NATO proxy war against Yemen killed some 400,000 people, with nearly 20 million requiring humanitarian aid. The bombing campaign on its own killed around 20,000 Yemeni civilians. Children under 5 accounted for 60% of all non-combat losses.
Houthis have once again struck Riyadh’s airport, taking three innocent lives.
My thoughts are with the families of the victims.
We stand in full solidarity with the people of Saudi Arabia and all our Gulf partners.
Attacks on civilian infrastructure are unacceptable.
Iran's proxies must stop their reckless and violent acts.
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ICYMI: Zelensky responds to Trump’s comments saying ‘Ukraine needs a new leader who can make a deal’:
‘With all due respect to Trump, it's up to our people to choose their leader.’
Zelensky won’t allow elections and has effectively destroyed whatever ‘democracy’ remained in Ukraine:
Political parties banned by Zelensky:
1. Opposition Platform – For Life (OPZZh) which was the second largest party in Ukraine’s parliament
2. Shariy Party
3. Nashi (Ours)
4. Opposition Bloc
5. Left Opposition
6. Union of Left Forces
7. Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine
8. Socialist Party of Ukraine
9. Socialists Party
10. Volodymyr Saldo Bloc
11. Communist Party of Ukraine (banned in 2015, ban upheld in court in 2022 and assets seized by the state)
12. Nash Krai
Laws against trade unions:
Law 5371 (ratified August 17, 2022):
Removed collective bargaining rights for workers at companies with fewer than 250 employees (about 70% of the workforce), replacing them with individual contracts. It also stripped unions of veto power over dismissals and allowed employers greater flexibility to alter working conditions, such as extending the workweek to 60 hours.
Law 5161 (passed July 19, 2022):
Legalised "zero-hour" contracts, reducing job security and union influence by allowing employers to schedule minimal hours with workers on-call.
-Law on Organisation of Labour Relations in Martial Law (signed March 23, 2022):
Suspended collective agreements during wartime and banned strikes and protests, effectively paralyzing union activities under the pretext of national defense.
Zelensky’s censorship:
-Unified Information Policy (March 19, 2022):
Merged all national TV channels into a single state-run platform, "United News," ending independent broadcasts by private outlets.
-Banned the opposition news website Strana (dot) ua (banned August 20, 2021)
-Law on Media (signed December 29, 2022):
Expanded the National Broadcasting Council’s authority to regulate print, broadcast, and digital media, allowing the government to censor or shut down outlets like Google platforms. The National Union of Journalists of Ukraine called it "the biggest threat to free speech" in the country’s history.
‘Suicidal, unbelievably STUPID, and unbelievably devoid of historical awareness, and unbelievably RECKLESS.’
—Prof. Jeffrey Sachs SLAMS Baltic States’ hawkish rhetoric against Russia🇷🇺:
‘Lithuania is a little bit like Israel, but even radically more so, they think that they can say anything, that they can spew as much anti-Russia hatred, that they can talk about defeating a nuclear superpower with 1,600 deployed nuclear weapons and about 6,000 in total, that they can say all of this because they think the US has their back.
This is actually not how the world works, and they are so reckless and stupid to talk in these terms…
I just find what is being said right now suicidal, and unbelievably stupid, and unbelievably devoid of historical awareness, and unbelievably reckless, just reckless.
And who the hell is Lithuania to talk about defeating Russia? Come on, we absolutely have to behave like grown-ups if we’re going to survive and if we’re going to save this world for our children and grandchildren. And these people are not behaving like grown-ups.’
Watch the full interview in the quoted post below 👇
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I got a bill from my doctor for $464.
It was a 10 minute zoom to refill my prescriptions. Turns out they didn’t put the billing code on correctly. No problem, got it changed.
But then I’m looking back at my statements and it turns out, that call is always $464, I just pay my $40 co pay so I never noticed.
So you’re telling me, that taking a 10 minute zoom call, where he asks if I’m doing ok, and I say yes, and he clicks a button to refill my meds, is worth almost $500?? What in the fkn hell are we doing here?
Privatized healthcare is the root of all of this evil. Healthcare is a right not a privilege.
$500 for a ten minute zoom call is peak priviliage.
F*CK THIS TIMELINE.