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The UN says 1.3 million Palestinians urgently need shelter and tents, tarps and basic materials for all of them have were pre-positioned for entry just outside Gaza’s borders two months ago. But Israel is deliberately blocking any of it from entering for a third straight winter, forcing displaced...
Post See new posts Conversation Drop Site @DropSiteNews The UN says 1.3 million Palestinians urgently need shelter, and tents, tarps, and basic materials for all of them have were pre-positioned for entry just outside Gaza’s borders two months ago. But Israel is deliberately blocking any of it from entering for a third straight winter, forcing displaced Palestinians to endure cold, rain, and flooding in shredded makeshift tents.
December 16, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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“Let me tell you a story. In 2007, President Jimmy Carter visited me. I respected him because he conducted himself with high moral standards. He wrote books supportive of the Palestinian cause. I valued him, and he gifted me some of his signed...

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“Let me tell you a story. In 2007, President Jimmy Carter visited me. I respected him because he conducted himself with high moral standards. He wrote books supportive of the Palestinian cause. I valued him, and he gifted me some of his signed books. I remained in contact with him. I was saddened when he passed away,” Khaled Meshaal, the acting Chairman of Hamas’s Political Bureau told Drop Site in an in-person interview in Doha, Qatar, on December 11. He continued: “This man, with his deep humanity, asked me about my parents—who were living in Damascus at the time in 2007. He asked, ‘Do you mind if I meet them?’ I said no, so he met with them. My father, spontaneously, said to him: ‘Mr. Carter, listen—I fought the British Mandate. I fought the British.’ President Carter replied, with a beautiful spontaneity: ‘And we fought the British too.’ Meaning that even the Americans fought the colonizer or forms of colonialism and guardianship over the United States. So, I am not speaking [only] about Vietnam, South Africa, the peoples of the world, or Cuba—I am talking even in Western societies. You know that from the BBC in London, the British authorities allowed [Charles] de Gaulle to ignite the spark of popular resistance by the French people against the Nazis—against Hitler’s forces? So this is [part of] culture—resistance is something natural. Accordingly, what Palestinians do in resistance is natural, and their holding on to their weapons is natural. It is essential that this background be clear to everyone. When Trump’s plan emerged, followed by the Security Council resolution, and dialogue began between us and the Egyptian, Qatari, and Turkish mediators, the central matter became, how do we deal with what was stated in the plan and in the Security Council resolution? Our position was clear: Do not resort to an approach of disarmament. This would lead to clashing, violence, and confrontation from the side seeking to impose it on us. We do not want to clash with anyone or confront anyone, but we will not accept being forcibly disarmed. We told them, if you want results, let us look for a realistic approach that includes guarantees. We outlined several such guarantees.” (Read the full list of guarantees below. Continues 👇) 📸 Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, right, embraces Meshaal upon their arrival in Damascus for a meeting on October 19, 2010. Photo: AFP PHOTO/LOUAI BESHARA via Getty Images. Trump on Gaza: We have countries that want to go in and clean that out, if we want them to do it. But Hamas said that they are going to disarm, we are going to find out if that is true or not.
December 16, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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dropsitenews.com
Fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has sharply escalated as the M23 rebel movement pushes beyond its North Kivu strongholds into South Kivu. According to analysis by the Critical Threats Project, M23’s capture of Uvira earlier this month & its advance down the RN5 toward Fizi mark a...
Fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has sharply escalated as the M23 rebel movement pushes beyond its North Kivu strongholds into South Kivu. According to analysis by the Critical Threats Project, M23’s capture of Uvira earlier this month and its advance down the RN5 toward Fizi mark a major shift in the conflict’s geography and stakes. Uvira, on Lake Tanganyika near the Burundi border, is a vital commercial, military, and logistical hub linking eastern Congo to regional trade routes and to Kalemie further south. Critical Threats Project notes that its fall severs key FARDC supply lines, weakens Burundian coordination, and removes Kinshasa’s last major base in South Kivu. The offensive, widely reported to have been enabled by heavy Rwandan support in breach of the Washington Accords framework, has displaced more than 200,000 people across South Kivu, with tens of thousands fleeing into Burundi. Rwanda denies backing M23, but UN reporting and U.S. officials have repeatedly linked Kigali to the group’s operations. Burundi, warning that “what threatens Uvira also threatens Bujumbura,” has said all options remain on the table amid rising border incidents with Rwanda. UN officials warn the advance has shattered already fragile talks, boosting M23’s leverage while deepening fears that a localized conflict is sliding toward a regional conflagration. See new posts Conversation Critical Threats @criticalthreats In today's Congo War Security Review: M23 advanced south from Uvira town into Fizi district in South Kivu. The Congolese army (FARDC) reportedly bombed M23-aligned positions in the highlands near Minembwe town in Fizi district. The FARDC bombed an M23 position near Nyabiondo town in Masisi district in North Kivu. M23 attacked Wazalendo fighters in southern Masisi district. Read the full brief here: https://criticalthreats.org/briefs/congo-war-security-review/december-15-2025
December 16, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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josephpolitano.bsky.social
Why should other countries sign deals with the United States when this president is breaking **his own deals** after less than 6 months?
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US suspends technology deal with Britain, FT reports
The United States has suspended a technology deal it struck with Britain earlier this year, which was intended to boost ties in artificial intelligence, quantum computing and civil nuclear energy, the...
www.reuters.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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heathercherone.bsky.social
NEW: Nearly 180 positions charged with implementing a court order that requires the Chicago Police Department to stop routinely violating Black and Latino residents’ constitutional rights are vacant, according to records obtained by @wttw.bsky.social news.
40% of Jobs Charged with Implementing Chicago’s Court-Ordered Police Reforms Are Vacant, Records Show
Of 439 positions in the Chicago Police Department charged with implementing the consent decree, 179 positions were empty at the beginning of December, according to a Freedom of Information Act request...
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December 15, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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""A program for deaf-blind children helped 3-year-old Annie Garner, born with poor vision and no ears, learn to communicate. The Trump administration cut the program’s funding over diversity goals." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/u...
Trump’s Diversity Rollback Ends Crucial Aid for Deafblind Children Like Annie Garner
A program for deafblind children helped 3-year-old Annie Garner, born with poor vision and no ears, learn to communicate. The Trump administration cut the program’s funding over diversity goals.
www.nytimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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mjsdc.bsky.social
Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.
pbump.com Philip Bump @pbump.com · 18h
utterly incapable of grace
December 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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moreperfectunion.bsky.social
Utah has repealed a law that barred public unions from negotiating on behalf of their members.

Republican Gov. Spencer Cox approved the rollback of one of the most anti-union laws in the country after thousands of union members rallied outside his office for a week.

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Utah repeals ban on collective bargaining for teachers, firefighters and police unions
Utah has repealed a collective bargaining ban that prevented labor unions serving teachers, firefighters, police and other public employees from negotiating on behalf of their workers.
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December 15, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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jeetheer.bsky.social
There's a growing community in the US of people who have survived more than one mass shooting. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
In America, Mass Shooting Survivors Can Never Know Peace
A growing number of US residents have lived through more than one massacre.
www.thenation.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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people.com
🔗: bit.ly/4qecOCA

President Donald Trump posted a shocking reaction to the deaths of director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner.

📷️: Taylor Hill/FilmMagic; Eugene Gologursky/Getty
December 15, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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chriswarcraft.bsky.social
Buckle up Dem establishment, because me and my maximum wage tied to the minimum wage proposal are coming for your asses
scribeguy.bsky.social Michael Hawthorne @scribeguy.bsky.social · 1d
"For the first time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy. A remarkable 71 percent believe there should be a wealth tax. A majority believe there should be a cap on how much wealth a person can accumulate."
Opinion | The Billionaires Have Gone Full Louis XV
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December 15, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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wisconsinexaminer.com
Feds call out Wisconsin, 38 other states for diverting benefits owed to foster kids. @erikgunn.bsky.social reports
Feds call out Wisconsin, 38 other states for diverting benefits owed to foster kids • Wisconsin Examiner
Wisconsin is among the states that has diverted foster children's federal benefits to offset costs incurred by the child welfare system.
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December 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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thehighsign.bsky.social
A Few Good Men. Best in Show. A Mighty Wind. Miss Congeniality. Barcelona. All three movies in Linklater's "Before" trilogy. Music & Lyrics. Michael Clayton. All films that were able to be made because of the production company Reiner co-founded in order to give talented filmmakers creative freedom.
truggeri.bsky.social Tyler Ruggeri @truggeri.bsky.social · 1d
without Rob Reiner’s Castle Rock production company we wouldn’t have:

City Slickers, Honeymoon in Vegas, In the Line of Fire, The Shawshank Redemption, Before Sunrise, Dolores Claiborne, Lone Star, Waiting for Guffman, and more - in a six-year period alone
December 15, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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bylinesnetwork.co.uk
Below rock bottom: America’s descent under Trump 2.0

A scientist and mother gives an account of the Trump administration’s devastating impact on research, academic freedom, and America's future

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Below rock bottom: America’s descent under Trump 2.0
A scientist and mother gives an account of the Trump administration’s devastating impact on research, academic freedom, and America's future
westenglandbylines.co.uk
December 15, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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people.com
A man initially identified as a "person of interest" in the Saturday, Dec. 13, mass shooting at Brown University has been released from custody — and the real shooter is still on the run | 📷: Bing Guan/AFP via Getty

Everything we know: bit.ly/44tbbsh
December 15, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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Even starting to get the ‘same victims affected multiple times in their lives’ stories like with increased American mass shootings.
Nephew of Poway rabbi injured in 2019 synagogue shooting among those killed in Australia attack
One attack victim was nephew of Poway rabbi
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December 15, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
This NYT story failed the reader by not digging deeper. One subject dropped out of college after one year (five years ago) and lists "Windows" as his skillset. Story should be: young conservatives who blame immigrants for their personal failures and whose lives won't be improved w/ fewer immigrants
NYT headline reads: "The Young People Fixated on Who Gets to Work in America For some Gen Z conservatives, H-1B visas are a hot new topic." Excerpt reads: "Take Mitchell Boone, a 27-year-old Trump supporter. Five years after leaving a computer science program at the University of Missouri, and what he says are over 1,000 job applications later, Mr. Boone claims he has landed just a single job interview. Today, he says he keeps three part-time jobs in Greenville, S.C., and grows his own food to cut down on expenses. Having abandoned hopes of working in tech, Mr. Boone says he is exploring alternative fields like construction or farming. Mr. Boone, who said he voted for Mr. Trump in the last two presidential elections, spoke of his post-grad years with an air of exasperation. But he’s finally settled on an explanation for his bleak economic straits: the H-1B." On his LinkedIn, it says he spent one year at University of Missouri-Columbia, studying computer science from Aug 2022 to Sept 2023. He says he dropped out to join the workforce. Skillset includes Windows and attention to detail.
December 15, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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propublica.org
In a highly unusual move, the EPA is revising an assessment of the health dangers posed by formaldehyde, a widespread pollutant that causes far more cancer than any other chemical in the air.

By @fastlerner.bsky.social
Under Former Chemical Industry Insiders, Trump EPA Nearly Doubles Amount of Formaldehyde Considered Safe to Inhale
Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or...
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December 15, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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ohiocapitaljournal.com
Ohio U.S. Sen. Jon Husted wants to “freeze” ACA insurance subsidies ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/12/09/o...
Ohio U.S. Sen. Jon Husted wants to "freeze" ACA insurance subsidies • Ohio Capital Journal
U.S. Sen Jon Husted wants to "freeze" insurance subsidies to nearly 600,000 Ohioans. That would increase their costs or cut eligibility.
ohiocapitaljournal.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
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December 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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“We almost had a midair collision up here,” the JetBlue pilot said, according to a recording of his conversation with air traffic control. “They passed directly in our flight path. … They don’t have their transponder turned on, it’s outrageous.” www.cnn.com/2025/12/14/p...
JetBlue plane near Venezuela avoids ‘midair collision’ with US Air Force aircraft | CNN Politics
A JetBlue flight from the small Caribbean nation of Curaçao halted its ascent to avoid colliding with a US Air Force refueling tanker on Friday, and the pilot blamed the military plane for crossing hi...
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December 15, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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downwithdan.bsky.social
tesla owners admitting without shame they don’t know how to drive anymore
Oli @CARNØN X.com The other night I was driving in pouring rain, fully dark, and the car randomly lost GPS. No location. No navigation. Which also meant no FSD. I tried two software resets while driving just to get GPS back. Nothing worked. So there I was, manually driving in terrible conditions, unsure of positioning, no assistance, no guidance. And it genuinely felt unsafe. For me and for the people in the car. Then it hit me. This feeling - the stress, the uncertainty, the margin for error - this is how most drivers feel every single day. No FSD. No constant awareness. No backup. We've normalised danger so much that we only notice it when the safety net disappears. Chris Robovan @chrisrobovan • 1d So true. I couldn't imagine trying to figure things out myself anymore I feel it every time I have to take over to take a separate entrance or find an area different from the exact pin at a destination. 12.6.4 does 98% of my driving but that last 2% is tough I couldn't imagine also being without GPS 55 L7 14 118 ıhıl 96K 贝 Oli g @CARNØN• 1d It was a very tough situation • 21 4 • .. ill 74K 冂 山
December 14, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Hard pass.
www.axios.com/2025/12/14/k...
Harris stepping toward another White House run
Despite worries from party leaders and donors that she can't win, Harris is polling well and has strong support among Black voters.
www.axios.com
December 15, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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lollardfish.bsky.social
This is good.
marcelias.bsky.social Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d
I am often asked what laws I would recommend blue states adopt. While there is no one-size-fits-all approach, there are seven changes every state could adopt right now, for virtually no cost or administrative burden. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/seve...
Seven Voting Laws Every Blue State Should Enact Right Now
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 14, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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ohiocapitaljournal.com
Energy market watchers see Ohio electric bills rising as data center demand continues ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/12/11/e...
Energy market watchers see Ohio electric bills rising as data center demand continues • Ohio Capital Journal
The 13-state electric grid operator that serves Ohio is holding its second capacity auction of the year — setting a baseline electricity cost that will get baked into consumers’ bills in June 2027.
ohiocapitaljournal.com
December 15, 2025 at 12:00 AM