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.@the_andrey_x and I were charged with assault, along with five other offenses. After being kept up all night and interrogated for seven hours, we finally saw a judge. He watched the footage and concluded it was clearly a one-sided attack and that we were the victims. His response was to ban us from the West Bank for two months, let the police keep my phone, and bring no charges against the settlers he had just watched attack us.
Hi, I'm free.
Beat up but fine. Police stole my phone. Settlers punched me in the face several times, likely broke @AdeleShoko's wrist and gave @the_andrey_x a concussion. They threatened to shoot us with an assault rifle over and over.
Will tell the full story later, but for now, I just want to be clear about what happened. We witnessed two settlers locking a military gate in Umm al-Khair, blocking the only way to more than twenty Palestinian communities: trapping families inside, preventing students from reaching school and workers from their jobs, blocking delivery of food and access to ambulances, etc.
It's a crime that the military has this ability at all--but last night, we discovered that random settler terrorists also have the key. We confronted them and began asking questions on camera, and they nearly murdered us for it. When the police finally arrived, they arrested Andrey and me and charged us with assault.
The gate is still locked.
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Jared Kushner hired a hitman to kill Jamal Khashoggi who was actively investigating his ties to MBS at the time of his murder
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In a just world, anyone facilitating the UAE’s genocide in Sudan would be facing prosecution at The Hague. Floating her to run the UN instead is ballsy.
Nusseibeh was the UAE’s point person on Sudan, according to Justin Lynch, managing director of the Conflict Insights Group research organization. “Throughout this war, she assured other governments that the UAE was not backing the RSF, even as Washington and other capitals knew internally that it was,” he told the AP.
The U.N. secretary-general’s role is to protect civilians from horrors like el-Fasher, Lynch said. “Handing the job over to the diplomat who ran cover for it would be an insult to the survivors.”
apnews.com/article/united-na…
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NEW: A newly declassified report reveals that the CIA was actively involved in resettling Nazis in Canada and that a leading CIA officer in charge of resettlement operations was later the CIA’s representative in Ottawa.
readthemaple.com/declassifie…
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Funny how it's always 'political' when it comes to Palestine but never Ukraine.
Metallica Frontman James Hetfield just called out artists who turn their concerts into political rallies: “Metallica is not here, like some other entertainers, to influence you with their BULLSH*T.”
It’s great to hear a musician say this instead of betraying their own fans and attacking them from the stage.
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This murder took place in 1960. Dude was CPD until he retired in 1987. If you’re capable of doing that literally anything else is on the board. All his cases at CPD are tainted, and who knows what he got up to before and after. Which fellow cops knew & covered for him?
Chicago police solve a 65-year-old cold case, discovering that the man responsible for killing a little girl in the 1960s was a homicide detective for the police department. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/chi…
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French journalist Marine Vlahovic was found dead in her home in Marseille while working on a documentary covering Israel's genocidal war against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
( Share your thoughts )
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An 8-year-old girl was abducted near her South Side home and found murdered in a ravine a few hours later in November 1960.
This year, CPD detectives cleared the case. The girl's murderer was a 24-year-old CPD officer who worked for the dept. until 1987.
chicagotribune.com/2026/10/1…
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Why do people only ever ask 'Does Israel have the right to exist?' How about Lebanon? Does Lebanon have the right to exist? Syria? At the moment, parts of those countries are under occupation. Do journalists ask questions about those countries' rights to exist?
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ALT tweet by Jon Klassen: "last year in a library in Alaska I read a folk tale in a random book on a random shelf & have been thinking about it since & today I wrote the librarian w/ no book title or author & in two hours I had a scan of the story & cover in my inbox - librarians should be running everything."
