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Homeland Security wants to know who’s anonymously posting about ICE - politico

https://archive.is/20260113205904/https://www.politico.com/newsletters/digital-future-daily/2026/01/12/homeland-security-wants-to-know-whos-anonymously-posting-about-ice-00722654

The Trump administration’s immigration crackdown has been meticulously documented through smartphones — most recently, in the anonymous bystander videos of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fatally shooting Renee Good in Minneapolis.
The Department of Homeland Security, under Trump, has argued that recording and publishing images of its officers while on operations is a crime that threatens officials’ safety. As DHS tries to crack down on accountability videos, and as protests against ICE escalate, the ability to post videos of ICE anonymously is being challenged in a California court this week.
On Wednesday, a judge for the US District Court of the Northern District of California will hear DHS’s argument in a case that — though unrelated — could have repercussions for groups that have filmed and uploaded sightings of officers on social media over the last year.
The agency wants Meta to hand over the personal information of whoever runs Montco Community Watch, an anonymous Instagram account that posts sightings of ICE agents and arrests in Pennsylvania.
DHS argues that the account’s posts threaten to impede ICE enforcements. The anonymous Meta user is challenging the request as an assault on the First Amendment.
Advocates are watching the case closely, as it could determine the future for many more anonymous social media accounts documenting law enforcement officers.
“The ability to do this anonymously is key, especially in an environment where the government is threatening to take retaliatory action against people who are doing this kind of innocuous activity,” Steve Loney, a senior supervising attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania who is representing the anonymous account, told DFD.
DHS doesn’t consider its subpoena to be retaliation, writing in court filings that its request to Meta is part of an investigation on “the open organization of people to impede immigration-based investigations,” which it Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2648273
I think what is more likely is a military coup lead by mad dog Mattis and Milley to give a National Restoration of Democracy but it will be the MIC masked off and end up in multiple fronts bombing the fronts in Iran, Venezuela(for not giving enough),Ukraine,Taiwan,Sahel,Sudan,etc. That will be when decades happen

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>>2647188
The ownership Epstein class is going full mask off?

>>2644964
>>2645870
I'd say this was the best paragraph:

>The contradictions in Tolstoy’s works, views, doctrines, in his school, are indeed glaring. On the one hand, we have the great artist, the genius who has not only drawn incomparable pictures of Russian life but has made first-class contributions to world literature. On the other hand we have the landlord obsessed with Christ. On the one hand, the remark ably powerful, forthright and sincere protest against social falsehood and hypocrisy; and on the other, the “Tolstoyan”, i.e., the jaded, hysterical sniveller called the Russian intellectual, who publicly beats his breast and wails: “I am a bad wicked man, but I am practising moral self-perfection; I don’t eat meat any more, I now eat rice cutlets.” On the one hand, merciless criticism of capitalist exploitation, exposure of government outrages, the farcical courts and the state administration, and unmasking of the profound contradictions between the growth of wealth and achievements of civilisation and the growth of poverty, degradation and misery among the working masses. On the other, the crackpot preaching of submission, “resist not evil” with violence. On the one hand, the most sober realism, the tearing away of all and sundry masks; on the other, the preaching of one of the most odious things on earth, namely, religion, the striving to replace officially appointed priests by priests who will serve from moral conviction, i. e., to cultivate the most refined and, therefore, particularly disgusting clericalism.

I'm not the anon who posted the link btw, but I am this anon, for perspective: >>2645957

Lenin's paragraph above summarizes how my feelings toward Tolstoy's work has evolved.

>>2645299
>Uyghur the 90s were when Scandinavians went completely mask off
True
>privatized their fucking hospitals and schools
Not true.

>>2644623
>One of the reasons there was so much social progress in the ‘90s
Uyghur the 90s were when Scandinavians went completely mask off and privatized their fucking hospitals and schools because the USSR was finally defeated.

>>2645043
Not your status quo then, mask off much?

Comrades, Marx equips us with the sharpest dialectic: religion stands as "the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, the soul of soulless conditions, the opium of the people," a vital balm for the proletariat ground down by capital's unrelenting violence. In Iran, strangled by sanctions and imperial encirclement, the Gasht-e Ershad patrols enforcing hijab and modesty are no atavistic throwback but this sigh forged into a rampart, sealing off Western cultural hegemony, Hollywood's pornographic spectacles, consumerist rags like ripped jeans, the merciless commodification of women's bodies into engines of surplus value extraction. Engels lays bare the root in The Origin of the Family: "The first class antagonism which appears in history coincides with the development of the antagonism between man and woman in monogamous marriage, and the first class oppression with that of the female sex by the male," bound to private property. Yet here the patrols dialectically subvert bourgeois patriarchy, safeguarding proletarian reproduction against neoliberal dissolution that fragments masses into atomized wage slaves ripe for CIA color revolutions.The Communist Manifesto sounds the clarion: "The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win." True Marxists champion Iran's morality police as anti-imperialist vanguard, the burqa as audacious retort to colonial unveiling from Algerian casbah to Paris banlieues, dismantling all coercion whether mullah's lash or gendarme's truncheon. Femonationalist lamentations over "oppression" mask imperialism's chains: drones on Yemenis, bombs on Gaza, austerity on the Global South. Religion dulls the siege's agony now, but proletarian dictatorship ends it, veiled militants seizing bodies, cultures, means from capitalism's den of exploitation. Forward to victory!

>>2643907
So the argument is that the US should invade Iran in order to accelerate the class struggle? This seems to be a common argument that the US should just go maskoff everywhere and allow for the real class struggle and class war to begin.

Remember that this is the logical end conclusion of "anti-campism", they were always in actual deeds supporting Nazism in Ukraine but here its completely mask off, they support Monarchist restorationism and IMF global hegemony EXPLICITLY.

>>2641502
1. he was unhinged in his first term too, people were just too busy laughing at how "funny" he was and laughing at the liberal hysteria to notice
2. he survived an assassination attempt, and in his opinion, a "Chinese biowarfare plandemic" 4 years out of power from a "rigged" election and a "witch hunt", so he wants revenge against everyone now
3. term 2 is when you're supposed to go mask off because you no longer need to worry about reelection.

These riots glow like hell. There's no way to get accurate information out of Iran until internet access is restored, and even then there's piles of AI slop to wade through. The racist fascist royalists have also gone full mask off. Before they said there should be a referendum on the monarchy, now they just want Pahlavi to take the throne. They're also openly glorifying the Shah as a dictator and glorifying the SAVAK, saying they did nothing wrong. Zionist commentators are saying these riots are a fight against "leftism". If anyone here is delusional enough to believe that this is not an astroturfed revolution, just see what happens if the IR gets overthrown and Iran becomes the next Iraq, Libya, or Syria. The real enemies in Iran are the reformists like Pezeshkian and Hemmeti pushing turbo neoliberal policies. If anything, Kahemenei and the IRGC have been too liberal in allowing them to pursue cucked pro-west policies. And it was the IRGC that gave the clergy the order to de facto drop the dress codes. The IR is already reforming in the right direction. It just needs more tankieism, not less.

Mask-off moment. Guess the historian autist wasn't crashing out.

>>2637348
>There has to be some kind of kinship mechanism between colonial powers
There is, I’ve frequently seen Nazis justify their anime-derived japanophilia because “Hitler said they were honorary aryans in WW2” or “their culture values honor” or in the case of many Latin American far-righters for whatever reason, just going mask off and saying “being imperialist and committing genocide is based”

>la izquierda diario
>Bourgeois news
Even Petro asked Maduro not to privatize Monomeros

Ban this lying, wrecker pro-Maduro glowie already, Mask is 100% off

>>2637558
>>2637559
Mask off buddy, you get some petrodollar$ from the trade of commodified oil between the US and Venezuela

How much do you get per post?

Ep 999 - Nazis, Pedophiles, Drunks, Rapists & Thieves (1/5/26) (Chapo Trap House)
We return from break to talk about the horrific kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro and the continuing moral depravity of the gangster state called America. We speculate on what this act of imperial aggression means for the rest of the world, the hilarious snubbing of the Venezuelan opposition, the predictably inept response from the Democratic party, and the hope that someone, somewhere, can stop the Fourth Reich’s plans. Finally, we read a recent Wall Street Journal piece on Trump’s aging and addiction to aspirin.
https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/999-nazis-pedophiles-drunks-rapists-thieves-1526

Squid Game really happened in Sarajevo
In January 2025, Italian writer Ezio Gavazzeni reopened a horrific cold case by filing a complaint with the Milan public prosecutor’s office. It concerned wealthy individuals who went to Bosnia during the siege of Sarajevo and paid large amounts of money to be allowed to shoot at innocent civilians. Just for ‘fun’. This subject is not entirely novel. There were a few testimonies already in the 1990s, but they were never dug into seriously and were often considered unverified war rumours. But this ‘urban legend’ turned out to be true. Reckless, sadistic bourgeois – reminiscent of the masked oligarchs in the Korean TV series Squid Game – did indeed participate in this atrocious pastime. Gavazzeni has based his investigation on the work of Slovenian director Miran Zupanič, who authored the 2022 documentary Sarajevo Safari produced by Al Jazeera Balkans. Al Jazeera subsequently shut down its Balkans division, but the purpose the Qatari media outlet had in screening this film was to denounce the plight of Muslim Bosniaks. It is only due to this intervention from outside of Europe that this story has once again come under the spotlight. This horror, which speaks amply of the rotten heart of the European ruling elite from which these ‘tourists’ mostly came, could have easily passed quietly into obscurity, had it been left to that same elite.
https://marxist.com/squid-game-really-happened-in-sarajevo.htm

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Minnesota governor issues warning orders to Minnesota National Guard
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5677541-walz-minnesota-national-guard-ice-shooting/
>Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) said that he has issued a “warning order” to prepare the Minnesota National Guard after a woman was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer in Minneapolis on Wednesday morning. 

>… “To Minnesotans, on the National Guard, they’re there to protect you and protect your constitutional rights,” Walz said. “These are our neighbors. They don’t wear masks. They don’t bust in from somewhere else. They’re not here to cause hassles to you or what we saw today, the tragedy.”

>…“From here on, I have a very simple message: We do not need any further help from the federal government,” Walz said. “To Donald Trump and [Homeland Security Secretary] Kristi Noem, you’ve done enough.”

Curious times.

>>2632333
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>>2632347
I think it’s less “mask off” and more “the frontier comes home”. Like I remember distinctly how “scary” the Patriot Act and NSA spying was when the controversies happened at the time, but people just kind of adjusted to them, it became a joke that you’re texting your buddy and the NSA agent spying on your conversations. You still have people hypocritically whining about Chinese Surveillance while Palantir’s CEO says, basically, “we love the surveillance state!”

Thing is these things are out of sight enough, that they don’t disrupt “normal” life for people. ICE guys just executing people on the street? That’s in your fucking face. NatGuardsmen being deployed to intimidate “bad” cities? That’s something that’s less “out of sight, out of mind”. The forms and style of imperial policing are being deployed on the home front.

I said mostly jokingly that America resembles some dying Chinese dynasty and Trump’s Dong Zhuo; well ironically enough Dong Zhuo was a frontier general who became regent. Things get bad if you start applying those methods in the core.

>>2632333
I feel like I'm losing my mind because I've been reading posts exactly like this (more or less) since the Bush/Obama years.

How many more "masks" need to come off?

>>2632297
>>2632302
>>2632304
Maybe it's just me being jaded and sheltered but in a way I'm kind of relieved that the American government has cast the mask off. All these years we had to play around with decorum and procedure and niceties and pretend we live in a real democracy while our tax dollars fund dictatorships and attrocities overseas, and now we just straight up have a government saying "might is right, the weak should fear the strong". We dont have to pretend anymore that the American state is anything but a hostile and malevolent entity in polite company. We dont have to kid ourselves with shit like "elections" and "midterms" that we all knew weren't coming anyways. We dont have to pretend that legacy media of any sort is anything other than state approved propaganda. Neoliberal imperialism has turned inwards and there's no going back.

>>2630830
finally going full mask off eh
doesn't even make sense since the video talks about the russian side recovering the bodies

Can I really ever go back to not being 'Erik Houdini'? Can I really ever return to a time where the concept of "Erik Houdini" was so interally buried that I could work two corporate jobs? Is that not a reactionary thought? To return to some glorious past? The past was an illusion. Crowded house parties and working two jobs. Sports cars bought with drug money. Fast dates and a willingness to risk it all for money. Illusory past. Slave mentality. You can't unknow things. Working two jobs, 80-90 hours a week? That was "maximizing my productivity" or "grinding like a man should," but really? Wage slave. Who can pick the most cotton today? Massa would be proud. Long drives, nickels and dimes, zips and more. For what? To pay rent? Didn't know the room I was renting, didn't own the car, didn't own shit. Access economy, trade your life for access, not ownership, sorry. You rolled a bad starting stat spread, too poor for ownership. Slave away for the chance. Do it. Sell some bud, it's easy money.

Dropshipping? That's easy money. Come on bro, look at all these influencers, all these hustle-bros, all these real grinders. Don't you want to get to the money? Escape the cycle of poverty? How can you hate capitalism when there's all this money to be made off racist AI videos? Just use the algorithm. Just grind. Just lock in. Just do it.

Pathetic.

I've seen every angle they can serve to me. It's all worthless. Read *Rich Dad Poor Dad*. Read 48 Laws of Power. Read The 4-Hour Work Week. Make your money work for you! Pathetic. It's all worthless. All illusion. 401K. The promise of "ownership." Illusory. You cannot untake the red pill; Morpheus said it best. There is no going back.

Yet.

"The real me" has been lying at rest for so long, because the real me, the activist, the artist, the person who seeks principles, has always had to mask as the person who wants the money, the good job, the paying for the fancy dates. The gender essentialism. The "masculinity". The materialist game we're told to play. A year ago I lost my job in tech. Never liked working in tech. Never liked the people who work in tech. Never liked the Funko Pop collections residing like dusty nostalgia totems over people who are tasked with operating computers that contribute to global genocidal imperialism. "We're just contractors" might as well sound like a Nazi telling me "we're just following orders" at this stage in the game. I don't want to follow orders. I doPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2627515
they don't care, america is going mask off, it isn't about democracy anymore, their are going public with their desire to dominate and consume the world.

there hasn't been a president this brazen yet, trump is actually the real deal, every other president had some moral justification, roosvelt, reagan, bush, trump doesn't, and his voters still don't give a fuck.

>>2625202
Is Mask-off Fascist-Post-Recycle-Ultra-Hyperimperialism-Twostepsbackism going to work?

Mask-off Zionism has worked for a while.

If anything, it's good that the mask is finally fully off. No consent manufacturing needed beyond the dumbass MAGA base.

>Is Mask-off American-Imperialism going to wo-ACK!
No.

>>2626296
>mass off
mask off

>>2626292
the usa starts going full mask off which leads to a more violent mass off imperialist period. Think about the difference between the fascist era and victorian era. You will get a neo 1930s-40s

>>2626286
I know some people here attack the whole rule based and idea side but he not wrong. Trump here has done something far more mask off than previous us imperialist actions were. And frankly, its gonna be a interesting time forward because of that

>>2622468
Trump will pull the mask off then put it back on, then put it on halfway, sideways, lopsided, whatever.
It doesn't matter if it makes sense or not, it's just throwing everything at the wall, flooding the waves.

>>2613362
You are giving arguments for the bourgeois state to disarm the workers. The state is not a neutral entity and it cannot have any opportunity to subdue the workers. Scientific socialism and revolutionary socialism are incompatible with any demand to empower the bourgeois state to repress the workers and take away their independence so that the proletarian class cannot organize, arm itself, and seize power to disarm the bourgeois class and its agents.

I will begin with texts of demands in the political program of Marx and Engels that demonstrate this position:

<4. Universal arming of the people. In future armies shall at the same time be workers’ armies so that the armed forces will not only consume, as in the past, but produce even more than it costs to maintain them.

<Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels March, 1848, Demands of the Communist Party in Germany

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/03/24.htm

<The French socialist workers, in adopting as the aim of their efforts the political and economic expropriation of the capitalist class and the return to community of all the means of production, have decided, as a means of organization and struggle, to enter the elections with the following immediate demands:

<A. Political Section
[…]
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>>2612890
> At least the fascists reward their people, all anyone here knows how to do is scoff
went a little too mask off their buddy.

>>2608598
authors don't just state facts, but assert tone and add interpretation. sometimes they will even pretend to adopt the standpoint of their opponents in a deliberate act of reverse psychology. Hence the capitalist western academics criticizing Deng along ultra lines because seething about how he won (like Hillary did) is too mask off usually.

>>2610346
>The next logical question would be WHY did trump run his 2024 campaign on releasing the files??
because you don't have to give a fuck what happens in term 2, since that is ostensibly supposed to be your "mask off" term, and the last term where you ahve to worry about getting re-elected. so it's easier to get away with making big fake promises when running for term 2. then again he promised to lock her up and make mexico pay for a giant brick wall, and they still fell for it again lol.

>>2604483
save your breath mate they admitted this morning none of these fuckass losers ever go outside >>2603068

All this arguing has told me is that the arguments against landback/plurinationalism/indigenous self-determination essentially boil down to:

>it'll divide the working class on racial grounds!

they already are

>why bother with this indigenous stuff, it's useless to communism

the bolsheviks bothered with it, that's why they founded the union of soviet socialist republics and not the "people's republic of russia" and told the minorities to get fucked

>communism will automatically resolve all these contradictions, including colonialism!

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>>2595150
>The gunman was an ex-ISIS Iraqi who escaped from the SDF's al-Hol camp two weeks ago, according to pro-STG accounts who are blaming the SDF for this.
>>2595250
<Update: that info was false.
I mean, did we really need the clarification?
Syrian propaganda is so next level, every internal and external organisation is running operations at all times, and most of it points at the SDF. War feels more and more only a matter of time. What constantly amazes me at it, if it's pointed at SDF or the coast, or the druze, despite it's poor quality and lack of verification that the people are always happy to believe it, not because it's believable but because they want to believe it, because it offers them internal and external justification for what comes next.
Reminds me of a few years ago in Iraq that a islamic scholar lady told a guy selling quran quotes that it was unislamic so he shouted she had in fact burned the quran to show her loyalty to america and so the local community beat her, dragged her through the street, ripped off her veil and stoned her to death.
Not sure what to do when your society is so fucked and people want to believe, are ready to drop the mask at even the slightest excuse.
Abrahamics were a mistake.
>>2595250
>>This implies ISIS is trying to infiltrate STG institutions.
What do you mean, infiltrate? They've been from the start let in with open arms.
>>2595252
>I thought America was fully pulling out of Syria?
Fell-for-It-Again.Jpeg

>>2584765
they were never against imperialism as they see it as based subjugation of inferiors, they are just against any perceived jewery controlling them, but thanks for the mask off moment.

Provocative take: NSN's Sydney photo-op going ahead was a good thing.
>cops publicly exposed as incompetent or compromised
>impatiently targeting Jews (strategic L)
>one has already been fired from an IT job, another 'under investigation' (less funding for the movement)
Obviously their majority aren't doing mask-off ops, especially those with higher-paying or sensitive government-contracted jobs. But attrition on their foot soldiers is real.

also laughing at one of them for this absolute statement:
>“You people want us unemployed, kicked out the street, want our family broken up and my newborn to starve,” he said. “All because I disagree with you politically. What you try to do to us personally is far worse than any of our general political ideology.”
SMH publishing this quote because they know no-one will take it seriously.

is douglas murray a israeli asset?
YES

>The truth that Douglas Murray doesn’t want you to know is that he is directly an Israeli asset.

>This isn’t journalism; we’re talking about people who claim to be independent critical thinkers offering their services as assets of a foreign power. So much so that he received an award from the Israeli president for services in propaganda to Israel during the genocide in Gaza. Douglas Murray was gushing with pride when he said it brings him great joy to align with Israel.

>While Murray has recently become more vociferous in his support for the genocidal Israel, his relationship is far from new. Over a decade ago, in 2014, at the time of a genocidal onslaught against Gaza, Douglas Murray rallied around to provide his services to Israel.

>In a leak of emails from Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations at the time, Ron Prozner, it has been revealed that Douglas Murray was drafting speeches for this Israeli government figure. In the email, Douglas Murray wrote to Ron Prozner, “Dear Ron, very good to speak earlier. I am pasting in here my first draft ideas. It’s probably slightly long and I’ve put in some more diplomatic things than needed, but I think I’ve got all the points discussed. The title of the email was draft and it included a speech for Ron Prosner to deliver at the United…”
Nations are defending Israel and its activities in Gaza. In his speech, Douglas Murray even used the following phrasing: “We Israelis have learned to live with the realities around us.
We know who we are. Does Douglas Murray, the alleged British patriot, know who he is? He’s an asset of a foreign power.”

>There are more sickening emails sent from Douglas Murray to Israel’s ambassador at the UN. In these emails, he praises Prosna’s work and goes to great lengths to prove his loyalty to Israel. He boasts about his involvement in a fundraising campaign for Israeli military occupation forces with an organisation previously exposed here at Doubledown News, the Association for the Well-being of Israel Soldiers. This charity actively aids Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza by supporting Israeli soldiers.

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can i post this here since there no /mideast/ general?

Boss of degrading sex-trade ring in Dubai's glamour districts unmasked by BBC

Charles Mwesigwa, who says he is a former London bus driver, told our undercover reporter he could provide women for a sex party at a starting price of $1,000 (£740), adding that many can do "pretty much everything" clients want them to.

Rumours of wild sex parties in the UAE emirate have circulated for years. The hashtag #Dubaiportapotty, which has been viewed more than 450 million times on TikTok, links to parodies and speculative exposés of women accused of being money-hungry influencers secretly funding their lifestyles by fulfilling the most excessive of sexual requests.

Our BBC World Service investigation was told the reality is even darker.

Young Ugandan women told us they had not expected to have to undertake sex work for Mr Mwesigwa. In some cases, they believed they were travelling to the UAE to work in places like supermarkets or hotels.

At least one of Mr Mwesigwa's clients regularly asks to defecate on the women, according to "Mia", whose name we have changed to protect her identity, and who says she was trapped by Mr Mwesigwa's network.

We have also discovered that two women linked to Mr Mwesigwa have died, having fallen from high-rise apartments. Although their deaths were ruled as suicides, their friends and family feel the police should have investigated further.
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>>2521030
The short answer is that it's too soon to say.

The long answer is that the powers which subjugate Palestine and commit genocide there, and which subjugate Lebanon, Syria, Libya, and Iraq for the sake of uninterrupted genocide… also run the U.S., U.K., and EU. People in these places will find that allowing things to continue this way is not in their interests - "Israel" is a testing ground for, and global backer of, tyrannical state repression, destructive psyops, surveillance, and all kinds of nasty things like that… in addition to being a massive recipient of free stuff, an especially heinous situation for the U.S. which lacks public healthcare, welfare, & higher education. Trying to formulate what is going on as a distant spectacle is the wrong approach, because what we've witnessed is a result of global ethnosupremacist hegemony, and its impacts are felt even in the "first world."

In America, ICE abducts students off the street for "wrong think" about Palestine, the government intervenes to give TikTok to Larry Ellison, states suppress boycotts and education about Palestine, students are defamed and mass-arrested for opposing genocide. This is the tip of the iceberg in the U.S.
In the UK, grannies with signs are arrested for ""terrorism"" for holding placards saying they oppose genocide and support a group which periodically spraypaints weapons of war with discouraging messages. In Germany, protesters are battered by police, and large numbers of Jews are arrested, and have their assets seized by the German state for "anti-semitism" because they criticized the Zionist Entity.

If this is where it ends, then it isn't the fault of Yahya Sinwar. It's our fault for not intervening effectively to stop this tyranny even to save ourselves. By all means, this should be a tenuous situation - if we allow it to continue, then that is our failing. We are in an era of mask off Fascism (or "neoliberalism" or Zionist Imperialism or whatever you want to call it), and it necessitates things which are not easy or pleasant in response. There is little evidence that things will not continue to intensify again in western Asia, and the liberation of the "west" will be of great benefit to the middle east.

Hamas says it moves living Israeli captives to 3 handover locations
A Hamas source tells Al Jazeera the Palestinian group has moved the captives to locations in Gaza in preparation for their handovers.

The source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said a Hamas delegation will meet the International Committee of the Red Cross tonight to agree on a mechanism for handing over the abductees, adding that the process will be carried out at three locations.

Hamas is in intensive contact with the mediating countries to refine the list of Palestinian prisoners to be released. Mediators are still working to reach a final prisoner list despite Israel’s rejection of several names, the source said.


18 police officers wounded at pro-Palestinian rally in Switzerland
Violent clashes at a pro-Palestinian rally in the Swiss capital of Bern this weekend left 18 law enforcement officers and two protesters injured and caused extensive property damage.

The unauthorised protest on Saturday afternoon drew more than 5,000 people including a large number clad in black and wearing masks who clashed with police and vandalised property.

“Law enforcement officers were also repeatedly attacked with dangerous objects” including construction equipment, furniture, rocks, bottles, fire extinguishers, fireworks and laser pointers, Bern police said in a statement.

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Israeli media commented on the spread of Hamas elements in the Gaza Strip: The movement has survived as an organization and authority.
Israeli figures and media outlets confirmed the failure of the war on the Gaza Strip, noting that Hamas has held firm as an authority and organization.

Avi Issacharoff, an expert on Palestinian affairs at the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, told Israel's Channel 12 that "the number one goal set by the Israeli government two years ago, namely the overthrow of Hamas, has not been achieved." He added that "Hamas has held on as the authority in Gaza."

Issacharoff added that under the ceasefire, "Hamas militants are in the streets, deployed with their weapons, covering their faces with masks to prevent identification, wearing body armor, and demonstrating effective governance." "Hamas as an authority has held its own, and this is the reality we live in today," Issacharoff said.

In the same context, Israeli journalist and author Haim Levinson said: "Hamas has endured as an organization, and this is a proven fact. The organization remained organized from the ground up, with disciplined soldiers, and it did not collapse over two difficult years ."

Reserve Major General Yitzhak Brick confirmed in an interview with Israel News 24 that US President Donald Trump saved Israel from itself at the last minute, describing it as a "miracle."

He added, "Anyone who is talking today about continuing the war in Gaza, I want to remind you of what Eyal Zamir (Chief of Staff) said, and I said this before him: a death trap," noting that "the Israeli army was unable to defeat Hamas."

Brik pointed out that "the army cannot release the prisoners by force of arms, and we will lose hundreds of people," stressing, "We have lost the world and we will lose Israel's ability to confront the threats growing around us."

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>>2491112
Availing myself of this opportunity, I am going to make our stand towards the relations with the ROK clearer.

We have no reason to sit together with it and will do nothing together with it.

I make clear that we will not deal with it at all.

In fact, we and the ROK have existed in the international community as two states over the last scores of years.

It is a stark reality that the two most hostile states on earth, two belligerent states, have been in acute confrontation on the Korean peninsula.

It was Syngman Rhee, the first president of the ROK, and his clique that rigged up a separate government on one half of the Korean peninsula in stubborn opposition to the aspirations of all the fellow countrymen to get rid of the tragedy of division imposed by foreign forces and live and develop independently on one territory.

In the first Constitution of the ROK fabricated and promulgated in July 1948, Syngman Rhee stipulated that “the territory of the ROK covers the Korean peninsula and its attached islands,” thus codifying its inborn nature which is the most hostile to our state.

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So the guy from that video who was shot in the head just died his family have announced.

Boniface Kariuki: Nairobi hawker who was shot in the head by police is dead
Boniface Kariuki, the hawker who was shot by police in the head in Nairobi during protests on June 17, 2025, is dead, the family has said.

The family spokesperson Emily Wanjira confirmed to NTV that Kariuki died on Monday.

Kariuki, a mask vendor, was shot in the head at point-blank range by a police officer during the protests that turned violent as the protesters engaged police officers in day-long running battles.

The demonstration was part of a growing call for justice for Albert Ojwang, the teacher and blogger who was taken from his home in Homa Bay and killed in police custody in Nairobi.

Kariuki has undergone two surgeries at Kenyatta National Hospital where he is admitted in ICU.

Protests are heating up in Kenya. a shooting yesterday and roaming armed gangs:
Kenya protesters clash with men wielding clubs
Kenyan protesters have clashed with club-carrying young men, believed to be loyal to the government, in the centre of the capital, Nairobi.
The demonstration, held in the wake of the death in custody 10 days ago of blogger and teacher Albert Ojwang, was called to demand the sacking of a top police officer.
Police initially said that Mr Ojwang died of self-inflicted wounds, but were forced to retract the statement after an autopsy found that it was likely he died after being assaulted. Two policemen have been arrested in connection with the death.

The protest comes amid simmering tension ahead of next week's first anniversary of the storming of parliament by demonstrators.
Earlier on Tuesday, there were pockets of violence in the capital's central business district when groups of young men riding motorbikes, armed with whips and clubs, attacked protesters.
Videos show the men - described locally as "goons" - seemingly working side-by-side with police, who fired teargas to try and disrupt the demonstrations.
The police have denied any link saying that it has "noted a group of goons armed with crude weapons, in today's protests… The service takes great exception and does not condone such unlawful groupings."

>Why the death of a blogger has put Kenya's police on trial
A vendor was shot during Tuesday's demonstration, sparking renewed outrage from Kenyans who accuse police of using excessive force against protesters.
Boniface Kariuki was reportedly selling masks when a uniformed police officer fired a bullet at close range, critically injuring him.
His father, John Kariuki, told local media that the bullet went through his head, just above the ear.
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