Israel on Sunday launched its heaviest wave of attacks on Gaza since a fragile cease-fire took hold a week ago and said it had temporarily suspended humanitarian aid after accusing Hamas of violating the truce by firing on its soldiers, killing two.
After nightfall, the Israeli military said in a statement that it had “begun the renewed enforcement of the cease-fire” after carrying out a series of significant strikes against Hamas targets and in accordance with a directive from the government.
The deadly flare-up of violence on Sunday and the temporary suspension of aid were the most serious tests yet of the cease-fire, which was negotiated under heavy pressure by the Trump administration and signed with great fanfare by President Trump himself.
The aid was halted because of the intensity of the Israeli strikes, and was expected to resume once the bombing was over, according to an Israeli official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter. Israeli officials had initially said that humanitarian aid would be suspended until further notice but later appeared to step back from that decision.
I understand. It’s tough quitting genocide cold turkey.
Rogue Shell Almost Takes Out Vance Motorcade:
Just asking: Were the Nazis this inept? Or this stoopid?:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-posts-ai-video-himself-034917003.html
After spending the day golfing while his allies downplayed and mocked millions of Americans marching against his administration, Donald Trump fired off a Truth Social post with an AI-created video showing himself wearing a crown, flying a “KING TRUMP” fighter jet, and bombing a crowd of No Kings protesters with brown liquid.
The video, shared on the president’s personal and government social media accounts, shows the president soaring above a protest crowd in what appears to be Times Square. The jet then dumps brown liquid on the demonstrators as Kenny Loggins’ “Danger Zone” plays in the background, an apparent reference to the Top Gun movies.
This is perfectly normal. Don’t get your bowels in an uproar.
You guys want a steady diet of Trump Schadenfreude? The Meidas Touch has got you covered. Here’s a sample. Well worth a contribution.
The Guardian has identified eight instances in which military veterans have been prosecuted or sought damages after being detained by federal agents. Two of those individuals were arrested in late September protesting outside a Chicago-area Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (Ice) facility.
One, 70-year-old air force veteran Dana Briggs, was charged with assault after a video of an incident showed Ice agents advancing on the elderly veteran and knocking him over. The other, Afghanistan war veteran John Cerrone, was tackled by a group of Ice agents, another video shows. Cerrone was detained, held for nine hours in solitary confinement and charged with disorderly conduct.
The justice department says Briggs committed assault when he “made physical contact with an agent’s arm while the agent attempted to extend the safety perimeter”. A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesperson said Cerrone had picked up a teargas canister fired by an Ice agent and thrown it back earlier in the day.
In Portland, video shows an agent grabbing Afghanistan war veteran Daryn Herzberg by the hair and slamming his face into the ground multiple times while saying, “You’re not talking shit any more are you?” according to a Federal Tort Claims Act complaint filed by his attorney.
Herzberg, who has not been charged with a crime, was hospitalized and is seeking $150,000 in damages.
A DHS spokesperson said Herzberg, a former marine sergeant who was honorably discharged in 2012, “is well known for acts of violence outside the Ice facility” and had “used fake blood to falsify injuries”. His attorney denied the allegations.
Representative Maxine Dexter, a Democrat who represents Portland, said military veterans “are literally putting their lives on the line to protest”.
“We are seeing unjustifiable and excessive force at the Portland Ice facility,” said Dexter, a physician who practiced for eight years at the Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals. She noted that on 4 October, an 84-year-old demonstrator sustained a concussion when she was rushed and knocked to the ground by federal agents during what the Oregonian newspaper described as a “peaceful protest.”
These ICE agents are goons. You’ve seen the recruitment ads. Noem is recruiting resentment-fueled goons to don masks and beat the crap out of ordinary citizens. Call it what it is: Fascism. Which reminds me, a huge shout-out to all the veterans who marched in No Kings marches here in Delaware and across the country. Your continued service to our country is of vital importance.
‘What is the state of Delaware’s liability, if any, for unlawfully evicting a man who is blind and his two school-age daughters during a snowstorm while executing an order to remove the previous tenant?’ That is the lead sentence of this fascinating article from Cris Barrish:
Before being left outside on the cold, sleeting morning about four-and-a-half years ago, the Murphys were permitted to grab warm clothes but had to leave behind the girls’ school laptops, clothes, furniture and one precious item — an urn with Murphy’s late wife Lakia’s ashes.
“It was just one of the worst feelings when you feel like you failed as a parent and you know it’s not because of you,’’ Murphy recalled last week during an interview with WHYY News. “I never thought I could live in some place and be homeless within five to 10 minutes. It didn’t make any sense to me.”
The Murphys’ lawsuit claims that landlord Kenneth Stanford, the state Justice of the Peace Court and its three constables violated their constitutional rights to due process and legal protection against discrimination based on the disability of William Murphy, who lost one eye after a childhood attack and has severe glaucoma in the other eye.
More Delaware Way Insider Stuff From–The Caesar Rodney School Board:
In August, the Caesar Rodney School Board asked state education officials for permission to purchase a nearly $10 million piece of land, near Camden, from its own elected board vice president.
Although the deal would have lost money for the board member, David Failing, the district never publicly disclosed his involvement, raising questions around transparency.
The five-member school board steadily formed the plan over the past year, but its members did not reveal during public meetings that the potential seller of the 207 acres next to Postlethwait Middle School on South State Street was a member of their school board.
Failing also did not abstain from a vote in August on a motion to submit the district’s land purchase request to the Delaware Department of Education. That formal request – called a certificate of necessity – does disclose that Failing is the current owner of the property.
In an interview with Spotlight Delaware, Failing acknowledged that a plan for a school board member to buy land and sell it back to a school district looks odd. But, he said, it isn’t out of the ordinary in districts, like his, in Kent County.
That, right there, is vintage Delaware Way. In Kent County, you had developers (and at least one politician) buying property, only to sell it to DELDOT for both the Route 1 project and even Route 13 improvements. They made out like bandits because they were bandits. Maybe the school board member thought he was being altruistic. Maybe he was willing to swallow the purported loss due to his ‘altruism’. Or, you know, maybe not. Tax write-offs and stuff. But, to me, the issue is the complete lack of transparency on the part of the Board. The question, as always, is why?
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