"Abu Safiya faced physical and psychological abuse and was kept in solitary confinement for extended periods, (Abu Safiya’s lawyer, Nasser) Odeh said following an appearance before Israel’s Supreme Court last month challenging his continued detainment without charge."

"Experts have also warned of a widening health crisis as thousands of displaced Venezuelans sleep in crowded temporary shelters or outside without access to clean water. Thousands have untreated injuries and infectious diseases, with the country’s healthcare system struggling to cope."

"Nearly two-thirds of the country was already without power ​when the grid collapsed on Monday, so many of the island's residents, largely without communications and accustomed to the ‌lack of ⁠electricity, hardly registered the difference."

"Although (DHS) said that the people arrested had a variety of criminal histories, from sexual assault and domestic violence to property damage and obstruction, local advocates have said that the vast majority of arrestees do not have criminal records."

“There was a preponderance of evidence, yet still this guy went home and my son is dead,” Valerie said. “It's almost as if it's taboo to even speak Philando up. Which, I get, because what happened to Philando was the biggest failure of Minnesota history.”...

"While authorities say the raids are part of counterterrorism investigations, government critics say the police crackdown is designed to prevent protests and silence dissent ahead of the summit in Ankara this week."

"Some dissenters are reformers who wish to fix the problems through a process of reform. Some are reactionaries who seek to address the problems by returning to the policies that existed before the problems arose."...

"The nightly demonstrations began over a luxury coastal resort development project in a protected natural area linked to U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, but have since evolved into broader anti-government and anti-corruption protests."

"Research by Rwanda’s health authorities found that one in five people in the country lives with a mental health disorder, with the figure rising to more than half among genocide survivors. More than three decades after the genocide, mental health professionals remain in short supply."

They arrested a guy for touching the reflecting pool but not the cops who killed two protesters.

Frederick Douglass gave this speech on July 5, 1852. More than 170 years later, his words still speak directly to a United States mired in the legacies of slavery and racist brutality. #july4th

"The simplicity of the phrase is really the framework behind the government’s ideology that they can do whatever they want to Indigenous peoples and call it progress, a necessity, as part of civilization."

"The replacement panels do not include some of detail in the earlier ones, such as a map of slave trade routes and a timeline on slavery. They also avoid critical headlines such as “The Dirty Business of Slavery.”"

"According to The Associated Press, the White House provided a list which consisted of 11 pardons. Nine of the people on the list faced charges over disabling emissions monitoring systems on vehicles or selling devices that enabled the bypassing of emissions systems."

Wisconsin wasn’t a state in 1776. What did life look like here 250 years ago? www.wpr.org/culture/... #wipoliticw

"Kimberlé Crenshaw, a law professor and scholar who helped shape critical race theory, said public institutions risk encouraging celebration while minimizing harms caused by policies and systems that helped shape the nation."...

"Gálvez served as commander-in-chief of Spanish forces in North America. His role proved crucial to the victory of the 13 colonies, led by General George Washington, over the British Empire."

“I didn’t vandalize anything,” Hearn, who had been cycling, told the Washington Post the following day. “I didn’t destroy or break or peel anything. By the time I realized what was going on, I was being put in handcuffs.”

"The Trump administration has yet to directly accept the blame or formally release findings of a Pentagon investigation into the bombing, even though the military possessed evidence almost immediately that the site of the school had been struck,..."

"...(T)he Title IX ruling is specific to sports—citing an amendment made to Title IX in 1974 that allowed schools to separate athletic teams by sex—and does not say whether Title IX allows or forbids discrimination against trans students in other contexts."...

"Americans are shamelessly taught by their educational and political institutions and leaders, not to mention their subservient and monotonous corporate media, that America is the best thing that ever happened to the world."

"More than 3.7 million people are internally displaced in Myanmar, according to the United Nations, and more one in five people face acute food insecurity amid a national backslide into poverty."

"Workers at food shelves and food banks say they are hearing about more people electing not to apply for SNAP, even though they might qualify for it, because making sure they have all the documentation and meet the requirements is overwhelming."

"The court's decision reversed a 90-year-old precedent that had protected multimember and term-limited agency heads from being fired, except for misconduct or malfeasance in office."...

"“It’s a painful symbol. It’s a reminder of what we could be and how it’s failed to live up to that for Black people, for Indigenous people and people of color,” said Allison Wiltz, a Black author and founder of Writers and Editors of Color."

BREAKING: More than 100 Venezuelans who were deported from the U.S. hours before the earthquakes are missing after their hotel collapsed.

"...(A)nti-immigration figures blame foreign nationals for stealing jobs, overcrowding schools and collapsing the health system. However, according to the most recent South African Census (2022), migrants only make up 4.1 percent of the people living in South Africa."

"Polling shows a majority of Canadians now believe there is “too much” immigration to the country, and anti-immigrant rhetoric has become commonplace, with politicians talking about “bogus” asylum seekers and blaming newcomers for social ills."...

"In the eyes of the world, the US is no longer “the cause of all mankind”, but its scourge. Reanimating stalled pretensions to racial progress, or other such bargain basement promises, will not absolve the empire this time."...

"Teen birth rates have fallen dramatically in the past 20 yrs, according to federal Centers for Disease Control & Prevention data — about 72% since 2007. Experts attribute that decline to fewer teens deciding to have sex earlier, sex education & better access to contraception, especially for girls."

"At least 68,900 people have been reported unaccounted for by their families. Many civilians in La Guaira, one of the hardest-hit areas, have been using shovels and their bare hands to dig through the debris of collapsed buildings."

"Texas, which educates roughly 1 in 10 of the nation’s public school students,... ...The state also allows public schools to hire chaplains to counsel students and has approved an optional Bible-infused curriculum."

"Immigration lawyers maintain that both countries are in crisis and that people cannot return safely. They asserted that the administration neither assessed conditions in those countries nor consulted other government agencies, as required by law."

"Rights groups said some deaths and disappearances occurred during protest periods in 2024 and 2025, and that the total figures may be higher due to underreporting and unresolved cases."...

Lunacy. Here's Emmer 10 years ago.

"This cruel bill would knowingly cause suffering to some of our nation’s most vulnerable people, to farmers and their families, and to animals whose welfare hinges on democratic accountability. This unnecessary suffering can be enacted or repudiated."

"States across the country are making laws based on a binary view of gender that places an individual into one of two distinct categories determined at birth, just like they used to make laws based on a binary view of skin color."...

"Europe is the world’s fastest-warming continent, with temperatures increasing twice as fast as the global average since the 1980s, according to the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service."

"The report said sexual violence has accompanied both the geographical spread of the conflict and displacement routes, and has been used to terrorise and traumatise civilians."

"Black people are still overrepresented on state death rows. And whether someone gets the death penalty still depends more on where they commit a crime than on the crime itself."...

"The European entry into what we now call Wisconsin was not a conquest of armies. It was an entry of isolated groups: lone explorers, fiercely independent traders, and Jesuit priests who walked straight into an established Indigenous world."

"Typically about 8% of DOJ get dismissed, Pew found. But across the country, many protestors charged with impeding or assaulting ICE officers have had their cases dismissed."

"De la Espriella... ...hopes to replicate the right-wing wave that has swept rightist candidates to power in Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Honduras."...

"Wishah gained prominence during the Gaza war by accompanying and filming footage for his late brother, an Al Jazeera Mubasher correspondent killed on April 8. Together, they formed a media duo that documented the suffering of the Palestinian people and the unfolding events of the war."

"The UN resolution is non-binding but carries moral authority. Organisers said the Ghana conference was aimed at moving the reparations debate from recognition to concrete measures, including moves to require compensation under international law."

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