Another view taken by one of my prev med colleagues

It's been 0 days since our last ecological disaster.

Overnight on Wednesday, Israeli soldiers raided more than a dozen boats carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza, blocked the ships’ communications, and abducted over 400 volunteers from 47 countries. During the raid, Israeli forces attacked volunteers with water cannons and doused them with “skunk water.”

Just as an aside Bluesky has addressed exactly zero of the concerns raised by the open letter to them about their treatment of Palestinians including the one basically set up for them to have a PR win- providing their TOS in Arabic

Major explosion north of our home in El Segundo at the Chevron Refinery. Literally shook the house. Wife and I are safe. Drove south and the sky was bright orange from the fire. Looked like the gates of hell.

“Miguel Viveiros de Castro, one of the Brazilians kidnapped by the State of Israel when it captured the humanitarian aid flotilla in Gaza, is missing.”

Nick Fuentes, a longtime white nationalist and antisemite, is being mainstreamed as podcasters and platforms amplify his reach while downplaying his extremism—exposing how far-right figures are normalizing in U.S. media and politics. Read more:

The humanitarian activists who were kidnapped out of international waters for trying to feed starving children were subjected to whatever this is from Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir

so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

Vought is gleeful at the prospect of shutting down the government. He has been doing it since the beginning of the year. It's clear that Republicans are the ones who *want* a shutdown. www.huffpost.com/entry/russ-v...

EXCLUSIVE: FBI Director Kash Patel fired an agent in training for displaying a gay pride flag on his desk while appointed to a field office in California last year, according to three people familiar with the matter and a dismissal notice reviewed by MSNBC. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/k...

New: Apple just removed ICEBlock, the app for reporting sightings of ICE, from its App Store after DOJ pressure. ICEBlock's developer tells 404 Media "we are determined to fight this." "Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never the right move." www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

Society really lost something when we all got cellphones, and lost the ability to angrily slam the phone down on jerks, instead of the pleasant little tones our idiot phones make now, at the end of calls.

Griffith was found guilty of failure to disperse and fined $50. That's unconstitutional -- even the DOJ recognizes journalists' right to cover how law enforcement disperses protesters. But it also shows what a giant waste of taxpayer funds it is to prosecute journalists for doing their jobs.

“Fuck them kids.” That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other. abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

Parents of U.S. college student killed in Tesla crash say design flaw in door trapped her as car burned

I figured out what my pink bubblegum liquid diamonds weed pen reminds me of: Know how dogs used to be wolves, but now, some of them are this? Yeah.

So DHS is saying we didn’t see what we thought we did. The dept has not responded to why immigration agents were allegedly responding to a robbery.

With armed gangs controlling 90 percent of Port-au-Prince, Haiti's outnumbered, outgunned security forces are fighting back with weaponized drones. There have been no reports of gang leaders killed, but the drones have blown up several children wapo.st/42BTjKT

⚡️Russia launched almost 6900 drones at Ukraine in September, Syrskyi says. "In September, the enemy used almost 6,900 drones during mass attacks on Ukraine, including more than 3,600 Shaheds," Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said.

⚡️NEW from Drop Site: “Death is Better Than This Life”: Displaced Palestinians in Gaza Are Being Bombed in Their Tents Abdel Qader Sabbah tracks Israel’s latest attacks on tent encampments and Al-Aqsa hospital, as tens of thousands flee the north. www.dropsitenews.com/p/deir-al-ba...

#BREAKING | A new wave of boats through Gaza Freedom Flotilla and Thousand Madleen stogaza are currently in route towards Gaza.

nah, after the most recent waffle incident i have to agree that bluesky the company really does not care about the users that made it what it is right now and telling people "you can leave" is the worst PR strategy i have ever seen the users that made this what it is can't just leave as of now

Police Open Fire at Anti-Government Protesters in Morocco, Killing Two People

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

He's gloating. But he's also sounding a warning.

Current and former police leaders are expressing alarm over a“disturbing rise in rhetoric” in the U.S. and calling for the criminal prosecution of “individuals, including elected and public figures, who incite violence or contribute to a climate that fosters targeted attacks.”

#BREAKING | Israeli far-right minister Ben Gvir MOCKS & ATTACKS Abducted Global Sumud Flotilla Members "This is the terroists of the flotilla, these are terrorists, they are terrorist, look at them, murderers supporters, They did full karachana (Hebrew slang for Chaos) they're the terrorist"

ICE is buying a location tracking tool that harvests data from hundreds of millions of phones a day. Protect your location data by updating a few settings on your phone 🧵 (1/4): www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-...

4 Dead After Listeria Outbreak Linked to Pasta Sold at Trader Joe's and Walmart

BREAKING: The director of the presidential library and museum in Abilene, Kansas, said he was suddenly told to resign or be fired. He refused to give the Trump administration a historic sword from the museum’s collection.

Just days after Doctors Without Borders (MSF) announced it had to stop medical work in Gaza City due to Israeli attacks, Israeli forces have killed staff member Omar Hayek & injured 4 others in Deir al Balah. Staff were wearing MSF vests, waiting for a bus to a field hospital.

The White House is bribing 9 top U.S. colleges and universities to support their culture war.

Israel kidnapped 500 civilians from 44 nations trying to help 2 million starving in Gaza.

People who are currently looking for work can attest that it is a shit show out there.

The virgin knower has logged on.

This should've ended careers. Instead, the person who oversaw this abomination is getting massively cashed out and receiving a major promotion.

it’s really good when “technology of the future” treats you leaving as if you were leaving a cult

The amount of exposure Nick Fuentes is getting right now is fucking terrifying.

Wait, Tyler Cowen has been writing about how to find virgins since 2009 while he was a professor at George Mason University

This explains a lot. For a moment, I wondered why they'd do something as ridiculous as drop agents on the roof of the apartment building from helicopters, but of course, they did it for this footage. The same reason they were marching in formation downtown and snatched a family in Millennium Park.

It baaaaack. "Just like a toppled confederate general forced back onto a public square, the Donald Trump Jeffrey Epstein statue has risen from the rubble to stand gloriously on the National Mall once again," the group Secret Handshake tells @huffpost.com.

Burger King abandoned its 'Creepy King' mascot, the one with the uncanny valley face and bizarre commercials, because it was too scary for families with young children who would end up at McDonald’s instead. bit.ly/4h2xppV

You might want to look up University of Washington psych class Nazi salute if you're looking to remember that we outnumber them.

Thousands of Overworked Air Traffic Controllers Are Now Doing Their Job With No Paycheck in Sight https://gizmodo.com/thousands-of-overworked-air-traffic-controllers-are-now-doing-their-job-with-no-paycheck-in-sight-2000666868

DHS posted a sizzle reel about it.

1. Led by Elon Musk, the far-right has exploded in a campaign to get Netflix to remove shows with queer and trans characters. If Netflix capitulates to their demands, an already strained market for LGBTQ+ animators might become even more dire. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Gaza flotilla live: Greta Thunberg to be deported after Israel says all but one Sumud vessel seized Activists accuse Israel of 'illegally' intercepting vessels carrying aid into Gaza. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...