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#PressFreedom / Police raids journalist’s house in Brussels without showing warrant

What are the chances that this is connected to #Israel’s ongoing genocide in #Gaza?

[…] The 82-old journalist, who also is a historian who has written books about human rights and the roots of the EU, has been advised to avail himself of an experienced lawyer to find out why his belongings were seized and to protect his legal rights.

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#HumanRights #EU #policestate #belgium


Police raids journalist’s house in Brussels without showing warrant

“They came, they burglarized, they left without a trace.”
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We Are All Palestine Action: NY War Crimes


“If we defeat the government’s attempts to destroy our organization, victory in our fight against Elbit is near,” a spokesperson for Palestine Action told us this week. “If they do proscribe us, then let a thousand Palestine Actions bloom.”

Writers Against the War on Gaza
July 2, 2025

On Friday, June 20, two members of Palestine Action rode into the UK’s largest military base on e-scooters, carrying a Palestinian flag and fire extinguishers filled with red paint. After spray-painting two military airplanes, effectively (if temporarily) grounding them both, the actionists escaped. This bold direct action forced the media to cover what it had long ignored: the participation of the Royal Air Force in the war on Gaza. On Wednesday, July 2, a humiliated and reactionary British parliament voted to proscribe Palestine Action as a “terrorist” organization, threatening members and supporters with up to 14 years of prison.

The same moribund empire that first authorized the Zionist project in 1917 continues to abet mass death and displacement in Palestine. The UK’s F-35 jet fighter program supplies 15% of the components making up Israel’s warplanes — including ejector seats, rear fuselage, active interceptor systems, targeting lasers, and weapon release cables. Its bases in Cyprus are likely waypoints for the transfer of arms to the genocidal state, and the R.A.F. itself flies planes over Gaza to provide the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) with intelligence.

In the five years since its founding, and particularly over the past 20 months, Palestine Action has put the death-dealers on notice like no other political organization in the U.K. or the U.S. By strategically and systematically targeting Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest arms company, they have already brought about the closure of several Elbit factories; forced dozens of companies and contractors to cut ties with Elbit; and helped bring about a “debanking crisis” for the entire so-called defense industry.

Proscription would endanger the whole of the Palestine solidarity movement, criminalizing word and deed alike. It would punish not only members but supporters of Palestine Action: To publicly praise their brave acts would be to risk a 14-year prison sentence. We call on our British readers to take this risk. The label of “terrorist” has long been wielded by Western powers to brand their sins onto all those who challenge their impunity. In this way, it is an honor.

But the epithet is also a threat. It is through this designation that the West has justified the imprisonment and slaughter of journalists, activists, poets, musicians and cultural workers throughout the history of our movements. We must remind ourselves and the world that terrorism is the true legacy of Western imperialism and colonization, and resistance is the real counter-terrorism.

Palestine Action has offered us a template for resistance in the imperial core, for an insurgency that strikes unflinchingly at the supply chain of death. Proscription may force the organization to formally disband, but it cannot stop the action happening everywhere, every day, in the name of Palestine.

The entire movement must defy the draconian criminalization of resistance, which haunts us with the specter of incarceration. We cannot allow fear to distance us from our conscience or our will. Thousands of political prisoners — many who are Palestinian, others who have been radicalized by Palestine — have already shown us that while the cost of resistance can be high, it can never outweigh the power of a united front. The effectiveness and popularity of anticolonial resistance is why organizations like Samidoun and Palestine Action have been targeted by fascist governments and other counterinsurgent forces attempting to divide the movement with fearmongering and hysterical finger-pointing. As Samidoun wrote in their July 2, 2025 statement of solidarity with Palestine Action, “The British colonial mandate was the first to introduce ‘administrative detention’ — imprisonment without charge or trial — to occupied Palestine, a policy enthusiastically adopted by their Zionist colonial successors.”

Almost two years into this genocide, the Zionist and Western powers have sent clear signals to the world that their final solution is the extermination of the Palestinian people in Gaza and beyond. Day after day, we see images too horrific to comprehend and hear the unforgettable screams of children. But as Israel’s attacks intensify, so does our conviction. Popular support for the Palestinian cause continues to build, both despite and because of escalating fascist repression. Hundreds of people have joined Palestine Action in the past 10 days. “If we defeat the government’s attempts to destroy our organization, victory in our fight against Elbit is near,” the group’s spokesperson, Max Geller, told us this week. “If they do proscribe us, then let a thousand Palestine Actions bloom.”

There have been significant attempts to isolate Palestine Action by liberal forces within the movement. We maintain that — as with resistance in occupied Palestine — there must be a visible, aboveground movement that serves as a popular cradle for underground militancy. WAWOG will always stand with militants in the imperial core. We call on all people of conscience to do the same.

Death, death to the IOF.

Free Palestine.

A version of this statement appears in the eighteenth issue of The New York War Crimes, out July 4, 2025.

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#europe #ny #nyWarCrimes #palAction #palestine #repression #Solidarity #uk

UK’s F-35 exports more important than stopping genocide, lawyers to argue

High court case to test whether ministers have illegally supplied Israel parts that may be used to attack Palestinians
Patrick Wintour (The Guardian)

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Thanks again BBC for introducing Bob Vylan into my life. A vegan punk musician who raps about staying healthy so you can always outrun the cops.

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Bob Vylan - Health Is Wealth (Official Visualizer)

'Health Is Wealth' Taken from the upcoming album 'Bob Vylan Presents The Price Of Life' out April 22nd. Pre-order here: https://bobvylan.bandcamp.com/Merch: ...
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This proposal from @leaverou looks really interesting 👀

Now that we have `:has()` it should be possible to create `inverted` combinators.

A new parent combinator `B < A` could be syntactic sugar for `A:has(> B)`. Similarly we could add previous sibling and ancestor combinators.

The symmetry could make it easier for students to learn, and it could improve readability.

Child selector: `A > B`
Parent selector: `B < A`

What do you think?

Go check it out:

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[selectors] Backwards combinators

Combinators that could go "backwards" have been proposed before, but until :has() they were rejected on the basis of feasibility. However, now that we have :has(), they are merely syntactic sugar: ...
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Una idea para construir un mundo un poco mejor. Cuando encontréis un contenido que os indigne profundamente evitad compartirlo. Si necesitáis responder podéis hacerlo sin difundir el contenido.

Por ejemplo con lo de que nos sobran bosques. Es algo que intentan instalar en el imaginario colectivo, no sé muy bien quién, no sé muy bien con qué interés.

Es evidente que no tenemos tantos bosques y que no sobran. Pero si desde la indignación compartimos el argumentario del que dice que sobran lo instalamos en el imaginario colectivo. El personal tiene argumentos para argumentar en ese sentido y acabamos pensando que sobran bosques.

La alternativa es explicar qué es un bosque, por qué necesitamos más y mejores bosques. A ser posible obviando el argumentario contrario que, quien más quien menos ya conoce y ha tropezado con él.

Quizá no es el mejor ejemplo, pero es lo que intenté hacer en su día con esta entrada en mi blog: productordesostenibilidad.es/2…

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An attack on a #DeutscheWelle news crew in the #WestBank by zionazi settlers.

Members of a Deutsche Welle television crew in the West Bank were attacked by fascist settlers, according to a statement from German service. To guarantee the safety of the media personnel, the #German government pleaded the #Zionists at the same time as it attacks and arrests every German citizen who opposes the #Genocide

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Drop Bear

"... our leaders and all businesses and organisations need to stop fearing the Israel lobby and being intimidated by it. ... Jews not in the Israel lobby camp say enough is enough and Australia should act decisively and loudly in not giving Israel a leave-pass ..."
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#CrimesAgainstHumanity
#Israel
#genocide
#AusPol
#WarCrimes
#Palestine


J’accuse (Part 2) – The Israel lobby

Readers may recall a piece published here on Pearls and Irritations (J’accuse!... the Jew who accuses his fellow Jews of being antisemites on 23 February, 2025 — in which I wrote about an offensive tweet Mark Leibler (lawyer and leader of AIJAC) post…
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This horrendous thought @tsyum is talking about here is in fact for many MAGA voters the explicit goal of all this immigration cruelty, except for the job market instead of used cars:

“fewer immigrants → smaller labor supply → $$$ for me yay”

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ts 🚉 (@tsyum@thepit.social)

If you say something like, "ICE raids have been a complete game changer for the used car market. Get on facebook marketplace before the market recorrects," may you fall quickly and die a slow, miserable death.
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Paul Cantrell

But that’s not the endpoint. Oh no.

In a move alarmingly close to outright chattel slavery, there is talk of ICE capturing immigrants and then •selling them back to their former employers•, presumably under much-worsened employment conditions.

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Comparing the detention camps to similar programs in other countries, Snyder warns that incarcerated workers will likely be offered to employers on special terms, a concept Trump appears to have embraced with his suggestion that the administration will figure out how to put workers back in the fields and businesses by putting them under the authority of those hiring them. Trump has called the idea “owner responsibility.”

July 5, 2025

Yesterday afternoon, President Donald J.
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Paul Cantrell

People are still not paying nearly enough attention to what @pluralistic wrote here:

pluralistic.net/2024/07/14/fra…

“The American right is a brittle coalition.”

The topic above is a prime example. There are two MAGA constituencies here — employers and workers — who think they’re about to get exactly opposite things. Both are going along with the ICE program because they think they’re the ones who will really get what they want in the end. At least one of them is going to get screwed over.

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It's a huge mistake to think of the right as a stable, unified force, marching to victory after inevitable victory. The American right is a brittle coalition led by a handful of plutocrats who have convinced a large number of turkeys to vote for Christmas. The right wing coalition needs to pander to forced-birth extremists, racist extremist, Christian Dominionist extremists …frothing anti-Communist cranks, vicious homophobes and transphobes, etc, etc. Pandering to all these groups isn't easy: for one thing, they often want opposite things – the post-Roe forced birth policies that followed the Dobbs decision are wildly unpopular among conservatives, with the exception of a clutch of totally unhinged maniacs that the party relies on as part of a much larger coalition. Even more unpopular are policies banning birth control, like the ones laid out in Project 2025. Less popular still: the proposed ban on no-fault divorce. Each of these policies have different constituencies to whom they are very popular, but when you put them together, you get Dan Savage's "Husbands you can't leave, pregnancies you can't prevent or terminate, politicians you can't vote out of office.” The constituency for "husbands you can't leave, pregnancies you can't prevent or terminate, politicians you can't vote out of office" is very small. Almost no one in the GOP coalition is voting for all of this, they're voting for one or two of these things and holding their noses when it comes to the rest.

Pluralistic: The true, tactical significance of Project 2025 (14 Jul 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Paul Cantrell

You think ICE is going to “bring the jobs back?” Bullshit. They’re gearing up to sell imprisoned immigrants back to employers as slave prisoners who work for free. You think your wages are going up? You’re a sucker. Your wages are going down.

You think ICE is going to sell you imprisoned immigrants as cheap labor? Bullshit. They’re too beholden to the radical white supremacist extremists. Those people will •never• let those immigrants stay in the country. ICE is going to steal your labor force and you won’t get them back.

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I fear some of them may have a plan for managing that contradiction; that white labor pool only needs fooled for a few months. They’re buying a bit of consent now to bridge them into the next crunch.

Concentration camps stateside to lease convict labor, concentration camps abroad to traffic people permanently - why both? The white nationalist project. Impoverish & criminalize en masse, exile non-whites to a new worst outcome, remake a frightened, paler, part-convict labor pool.

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@cwicseolfor
I mean…maybe? It takes an extraordinary amount of squinting to imagine all of that working out.

There’s an almost compulsive urge on the part of the Thoughtful Left in these situations to figure how to resolve the contradiction, how to square the circle, how to say that these people really are all the same — and that’s just doing the right’s work for them! We’ve got to stop that!

Focus on what you said on your subsequent post: the cracks are there, the window of opportunity is short, they’re feeding the base a fantasy, and we need to FUD that fantasy to death.

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cwicseolfor

This is still a strategic opportunity to break the coalition because it’s showing that they absolutely will cannibalize each other the moment they see a chance. The cracks are there. But the window of opportunity feels very short; they’re still feeding a racist base the comforting fantasy that they’d only treat Other People that way, and that base has hardly ever caught on before, because even as their material conditions worsened, things were usually worse for minorities *faster.*

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In a sane world, this would be the biggest, most important news story in the world.

‘Tipping points’ experts issue urgent message to world leaders.

“Every fraction of a degree above 1.5°C matters. And every year of “overshoot” matters too.”

“It’s ultimately a matter of survival.”

#ClimateCrisis
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‘Tipping points’ experts issue urgent message to world leaders - News

World leaders must take “immediate, unprecedented action” to prevent devastating climate tipping points, experts say. The Global Tipping Points Conference is taking place in Exeter this week, and almost 200 delegates have endorsed a statement
Alex Morrison (News)

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I am so proud of the heroic ocean protectors standing up for the moana. 🌊

The time for excuses is over. It's time for action. 🦈

Stop Bottom Trawling. 🦑

Action to Stop Bottom Trawling
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#ProtectTheOcean #BanBottomTrawling #oceans #fisheries #greenpeace


Action to Stop Bottom Trawling

Oceans are life. They're the cradle of our planet, the heartbeat of existence, but right now underneath the waves, destruction is unfolding.Bottom trawling h...
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#Israel / The state has informed the Supreme Court that it will continue to ban foreign and Israeli journalists from entering Gaza to report freely on the situation

This ban has been in place since October 2023, with multiple legal challenges filed by the Foreign Press Association (#FPA). While some limited access with military escort has been granted, Israel maintains that free movement for journalists poses unacceptable security risks.

The FPA has stated journalists will bear responsibility for any harm they face in Gaza, but Israel disputes this, fearing potential legal challenges and risks to operational security.

A court hearing on the FPA's petition is now scheduled for October 23rd, over a year after the initial request.

[...] The FPA's petition, filed approximately ten months ago, was originally scheduled for a hearing last April. However, the hearing was postponed due to "court calendar constraints." Subsequent hearings planned for May and June were also canceled, in part due to Israel's attack on #Iran.

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@palestine
@israel
#GazaGenocide #PressFreedom


המדינה הודיעה כי תמשיך את המצור התקשורתי על רצועת עזה ותאסור כניסת עיתונאים | העין השביעית

לאחר עיכוב של כעשרה חודשים, מסרה המדינה תגובה לעתירת התאחדות העיתונאים הזרים • ישראל מתעקשת להמשיך את המצור התקשורתי בטענה כי כניסת עיתונאים תהווה סכנה לכוחות, לעזתים ולעיתונאים עצמם ותצריך השמשה של מעברי הגבול למעבר בני-אדם • עוד טוענת המדינה כי אין…
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David Suzuki says something I believe: it's too late to save the civilization we're used to, but not too late to save some of your neighbors for a while. Some quotes:

"Q: You’ve been quoted many times over the last couple decades saying it’s not too late to tackle climate change, so when did you come to this realization that the battle is lost?

A: It’s been coming all along.

We had previously said that the choice with climate change was mitigation and adaptation, and people began saying 20 years ago that we had to talk about adaptation. Other people said we can’t talk about adaptation because that acknowledges that climate change is real and impacting people. Well, we’re way past the time when we should have been thinking about adaptation.

[....]

For me, what we’ve got to do now is hunker down. The units of survival are going to be local communities, so I’m urging local communities to get together. Finland is offering a great example because the Finnish government has sent a letter to all of their citizens warning of future emergencies, whether they’re earthquakes, floods, droughts, or storms. They’re going to come and they’re going to be more urgent and prolonged.

Governments will not be able to respond on the scale or speed that is needed for these emergencies, so Finland is telling their citizens that they’re going to be at the front line of whatever hits and better be sure you’re ready to meet it. Find out who on your block can’t walk because you’re going to have to deal with that. Who has wheelchairs? Who has fire extinguishers? Where is the available water? Do you have batteries or generators?"

Read the whole thing, it explains more.

ipolitics.ca/2025/07/02/its-to…

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LIVE: Israel pounds Gaza, Yemen; Houthis fire more missiles | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
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- What’s in the ceasefire proposal and could it end the war on Gaza?
- French jurists appeal to judge to stop military shipment to Israel
- WATCH: Israeli forces intensify attacks on Gaza City: "Witnesses described apocalyptic scenes as neighbours retrieved body parts from trees. "
- Israel’s war on Gaza – In numbers

#Palestine #Gaza #Israel
@palestine

LIVE: Israel pounds Gaza, Yemen; Houthis fire more missiles

Attacks come as Trump says a truce between Israel and Hamas could be reached this week.
Nils Adler (Al Jazeera)

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🎺🐋 Breaking Atlantis News!!

Secret footage from Gadigal Country - where Minns Regime Police have cooperated with their child abusing kameraden, the slimeball scumbags over at national socialist network - not to be confused with the ruling national workers party, the so-called Australian Labor Party

The boys at nsn held a sign on the near empty streets of so-called sydney, the police protecting them from a lone man...

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Why’d they call it “agentic AI” when Russian roulette was right there?

(Ah, because Russian roulette doesn’t destroy our habitat, drink all our water, and doom our species. I get it now, my bad.) front-end.social/@ariel/114675…


Ariel Salminen (@ariel@front-end.social)

Attached: 1 image “Cursor […] tried to delete some old files, didn’t work at the first time and it decided to end up deleting everything on my computer, including itself.” 😶‍🌫️ https://forum.cursor.
Front-End Social

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Can socialists break the political mould?

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Can socialists break the political mould? – weekly briefing

Lindsey German on the lure of the ballot box and Starmer the statal bullyboy Labour’s dreadful week came crashing to a close with the declaration on Thursday evening from Zarah Sultana MP that she was leaving Labour and joining the Independent MPs…
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It will be no surprise (in fact it was predicted by many) but as Chinese exports to the US dropped (due to Trump's new tariffs) so exports to other countries (primarily Asian & the EU) rose, partly to find 'new' markets for these good & partly to use third countries to disguise the origin(s) of imports to the US.

Of course, shippers will do well out of this but the impact of (further) competition from cheap(er) Chinese good will be unwelcome in these countries!

#Trade #China #Trump
h/t FT

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An international coalition for phasing out fossil fuels says it told the NZ govt after the election it would have to quit the group if it re-started oil & gas exploration, contradicting what Climate Change Minister Simon Watts previously told media.
#nzpol
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Government told after election it would have to quit fossil fuel group if new exploration started

An international coalition for phasing out fossil fuels says it told the government after the election it would have to quit the group if it re-started looking for new oil and gas, contradicting what the climate change minister told the media.
Eloise Gibson (RNZ)

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When teaching people about digital security for everyday people & organizers, is there are tool that anyone can recommend **for threat modeling, specifically?**

Folks can often fall into security nihilism or an extreme belief that anything technically possible, even if resource intensive, is likely to come to pass with them as a target, so I'd like to start by getting people grounded in likely threats they should be thinking about.

#DigitalSecurity #InformationSecurity #InfoSec #askfedi

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sleepfreeparent

threat modeling tools seem focused on building ever more complicated taxonomies and that's a waste of time and attention. A simple risk register on paper or in a spreadsheet is much better than a fancy tool. Build up a list, using a formula like this, just fill in the ones you know and figure out the others later:

ACTOR-TYPE is HOW-LIKELY to do ACTION to SUBJECT because MOTIVATION, and this would cause IMPACT to me, so I'd better do MITIGATIONS to bring about OUTCOMES.

Any time you have an "oh shit!" realization, add it to the risk register filling in what you know so far. Every so often, meet with others and compare your assessment to theirs. Rank risks by HOW-LIKELY * IMPACT and then see what MITIGATIONS you can think of, you're looking for OUTCOMES that either reduce MOTIVATION or IMPACT, or at least give you some detection of ACTION.

I use ACTOR-TYPE because you can somewhat predict the MOTIVATION of e.g. corporations or abusers or ransomware groups, and many risks are reusable between models when done this way, but feel free to name specific actors if it makes sense for a given risk.

I include SUBJECT because you can still be hit by the IMPACT when you're not the direct target of an ACTION, and it gets you thinking about what vulnerable components you may have and how all the parts talk to each other and the outside world.

You can start with the risk register, or with a system decomposition, whichever makes it easier, but the goal is getting used to enumerating and dissecting risks, writing them down and sharing them with peers.

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@fuknukl @verita84 ha! You and your... let's call it "twisted" mind! 🤣
Anyways, I'm kinda thinking it's all a huge troll he's pulling in both parties. It's not like he can possibly hope his merry bunch will actually get anywhere government-wise. Or can he... 🤔
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