The new sanctions target Kimberly Prost of Canada, Nicolas Guillou of France, Nazhat Shameem Khan of Fiji and Mame Mandiaye Niang of Senegal.

Guillou is an ICC judge who oversaw a pre-trial panel that issued the arrest warrant for Netanyahu, while Khan and Niang are the court’s two deputy prosecutors. The US Department of State cites the role all three played in issuing and upholding the Israeli arrest warrants.

The ICC is also probing possible war crimes by US forces in Afghanistan, although it said it will prioritise abuses by the Taliban and ISIL (ISIS) in that investigation after fierce US pushback.

A senior official in Libya's internationally recognised government has held talks with Israeli officials over a proposal to resettle hundreds of thousands of Palestinians expelled from Gaza, multiple sources have told Middle East Eye.

The source said that Ibrahim Dbeibah had already received guarantees that the US Department of Treasury would release some $30bn in frozen state assets.

In May, separate sources had told MEE that Massad Boulos, an adviser to Trump and father-in-law to his daughter Tiffany, had held discussions with Ibrahim Dbeibah about unlocking billions of dollars in sanctioned frozen wealth funds.

The assets were frozen in early 2011 by former US President Barack Obama, several months before the Nato-backed ouster of longtime leader Muammar Gaddafi.

US President Donald Trump has quietly authorized the Pentagon to carry out military operations against what his administration calls “narco-terrorist” networks in Latin America. The directive allows the US to target groups unilaterally labeled as both criminal and terrorist. Once that designation is made, the military can operate without the consent of the targeted country, a move that violates international law. In a region with a long history of US-backed coups, covert wars, and destabilization campaigns, the risk of abuse isn’t hypothetical; it’s inevitable.

While the order applies across Latin America, Venezuela stands at the top of the list. The Trump administration has accused President Nicolás Maduro’s government of working with transnational cartels, and has doubled the bounty on him to $50 million (double the bounty for Osama bin Laden). It’s a lawfare tactic designed to criminalize a head of state and invite mercenaries and covert operatives to participate in regime change.

The core premise of the accusation is that Maduro is involved in a cocaine trafficking network of Venezuelan military and political figures called Cartel de los Soles. The Venezuelan government denies the cartel’s existence, calling it a fabrication to justify sanctions and regime change efforts. Multiple independent investigations have shown no hard evidence exists and that this narrative thrives in a media-intelligence echo chamber. Reports from outlets like Insight Crime cite anonymous US sources; those media stories are then cited by policymakers and think tanks, and the cycle repeats until speculation becomes policy.

A New Zealand woman who is being held at a US immigration centre with her six-year-old son after they were detained crossing the Canada-US border, is being wrongly “treated like a criminal”, according to her friend and advocate.

Sarah Shaw, 33, a New Zealander who has lived in Washington state for just over three years, dropped her two eldest children to Vancouver airport on 24 July, so they could take a direct flight back to New Zealand for a holiday with their grandparents.

When Shaw attempted to re-enter the US, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detained her and her youngest son, in what was a “terrifying” ordeal, said Victoria Besancon, Shaw’s friend who is helping to raise money for her legal fight.

“Sarah thought she was being kidnapped,” she said. “They didn’t really explain anything to her at first, they just kind of quietly took her and her son and immediately put them in like an unmarked white van.”

On Thursday, New York congresswoman Claudia Tenney, along with 15 other lawmakers, wrote to US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent asking that he investigate whether Ireland’s proposed law violates US anti-boycott law.

The letter urges the Department of the Treasury to conduct a formal review under Section 999 of the Internal Revenue Code and consider adding Ireland to the list of countries that require or may require participation in international boycotts against the US or its allies. If added to the list, there is the potential that American citizens or businesses in Ireland would be subject to additional tax reporting rules.

In a statement, Ms Tenney said that the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement was “anti-Israel” and would “economically isolate America’s closest ally in the Middle East”. She said the Irish legislation “aligns with the global BDS movement, which seeks to delegitimise Israel and create legal uncertainty for US companies operating abroad”. “This proposed boycott is discriminatory, dangerous, and would violate US law.”

The order provides an official basis for the possibility of direct military operations at sea and on foreign soil against cartels.

You Can Just Do That

Here You Can Borrow Some of Mine. They All Read Horrifically

Six years after her son was killed by a Seattle police officer involved in multiple deadly encounters, a federal judge cleared the way for Rose Johnson’s excessive force lawsuit to move forward.

U.S. District Judge Thomas Zilly set a tentative trial date of Sept. 15 after an appeals court this year rejected the officer’s claim of qualified immunity, the much-debated legal doctrine that can shield police officers from civil rights claims.

The ruling on March 3 by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is a sign of the incremental change unfolding in courts and statehouses across the country as legislative efforts to reform qualified immunity in Congress have stalled.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/41274094

NOTE: The City Council’s criminal-justice committee is slated to discuss surveillance cameras at 10 a.m. today (Monday).

The New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) is spying on you and lying about it. On May 29th, 2025, the Washington Post revealed NOPD’s secret collaboration with Project NOLA to use banned Chinese facial recognition cameras all over New Orleans to spy on you. There are more than 5,000 cameras across NOLA. All of them are run by Project NOLA executive director Bryan Lagarde, a former NOPD cop.

I had no idea they were meeting about this today in one hour! I even checked the meeting agenda last night, and didn't see anything related to surveillance.

I was prepared for the meeting on July 10th, and once again, I only found out about this bc I went out of my way looking for any mention of this.

Zero information from City officials or any mainstream local news. Only one mention from a small independent publisher that has been tracking this bullshit since the Palantir scandal of 2018.

I am getting so sick of this evasive bullshit!

Anyone that happens to see this, please watch the live stream at 10 am if you can:

https://cityofno.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?publish_id=185

If it doesn't work on mobile, it should work on desktop. If they do that pre-meeting, meeting adjourned BS again, close out the window and re-open the Livestream.

San Francisco author and activist Rebecca Solnit reported her account on Meta’s social media network was suspended in a post to Bluesky on Tuesday, June 10, adding that she was soon told the decision was permanent.

But less than 24 hours later, the account was reinstated after a Meta spokesperson said the suspension had been made in error.

On Tuesday, Solnit wrote, “Facebook decided to suspend my account because of a piece I wrote Monday about violence which in no way advocates for it (but does point out who is violent in the current ruckus).”

Taken from the Facebook Group

In response to someone calling me out for the information when I said very confidently, oh I have that.

here you go. I’m a guy on the internet so this isn’t comprehensive but it’s a workable overview. I don’t count anything before 1847, because I’m actively trying to argue that those are peasant revolts, and didn’t count Indian uprisings before the frontier closed either for the same reason.

Thank you for the prompt. I do quite a lot of research and I talk quite a lot of sh*t and I absolutely need to be finishing functional interpretations of things way more regularly. 

The map chopped off my descriptors, these are the: Colorado,Ludlow Massacre,1914

Washington, D.C.,District of Columbia,Bonus Army March,1932

Oxford,Mississippi,Ole Miss Riots,1962

Orangeburg,South Carolina,Orangeburg Massacre,1968

Kent,Ohio,Kent State Shootings,1970

Attica,New York,Attica Uprising,1971

With the great railroad strike of 1877 thrown in for good measure because there were dozens and that is solidly a, not-localized workers revolt

I am aware that the ole Miss riot executions were not officially carried out by the National Guard, but it was with one of them’s service weapons so it’s on the list 

The FBI have been just reporting this to the government and those reports have been accessed regularly by freedom of information requests just this whole time like solidly solidly since the mid 90s the FBI has been fully aware and just you know letting you all know whenever anyone wants to do something about it that every police department in the country is positively riddled with neo Nazis

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I have decided that comments pointing out my derangement are in fact veined deliberately ableist with someone who is visibly dictation and can’t or won’t edit it.

Consequently I will be taking no questions and you can gargle my balls

crosspostato da: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/36248806

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It was framed as a purge of “counter-revolutionary” elements, but at its core, it was a campaign to reassert Mao’s authority by turning the population, especially the youth, against the country’s own institutions, intellectuals, and even families.

Millions of students became Red Guards, emboldened by Mao’s rhetoric to dismantle the old world. Schools shut down, libraries were burned, and educators were beaten in the streets. Temples, artworks, and ancient traditions were destroyed in the name of ideological purity.

The upheaval lasted a decade and led to the persecution of millions, the death of hundreds of thousands, and the psychological trauma of a generation. In the short term, it left China culturally and economically paralyzed. In the long term, it created a vacuum where trust in knowledge, civility, and progress had been deliberately destroyed.

It would take decades for China to repair even a fraction of the damage, and some consequences, such as its demographic collapse from later policies like the One Child Rule, were seeded in that same era of authoritarian absolutism.

Fifty years later, in the United States of 2015, Trump accelerated the simmering Culture War created by Republicans in a similar fashion.

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Under Trump, America abandoned not just institutions but ideals. Loyalty to the Constitution became conditional, subordinated to a total allegiance to Trump. Religion became a political tool, hollowed of compassion and reduced to performative wrath.

Education was vilified. Science was mocked. Bureaucrats were demonized. The judiciary was packed, not for fairness but for toxic ideological gain. And every setback, including pandemics, protests, and lost elections, became fuel for conspiracies, each more fantastical than the last.

Much like Mao’s Red Guards, fanatical MAGA loyalists turned against their neighbors, their teachers, and their cities. Facts became “fake news.” An alternative history was rewritten in real time, changing the obvious narrative of what people witnessed with their own eyes.

Paranoia supplanted patriotism. And a cult of personality emerged, not by accident, but as the core mechanism of control. In Trump, millions saw not a leader, but a messiah. He was a flawed, erratic, and cruel little man, but he was theirs.

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In Mao’s case, the revolution became indistinguishable from the man. His image adorned every wall, his quotations were sacred text, and to question his authority was to reject the very identity of the new China. People starved, struggled, and suffered, but they still chanted his name.

Trump’s MAGA cult may not involve Little Red Books, but it carries the same fanaticism. For millions of Americans, no crime is too egregious, no lie too big, no failure too obvious to shake their faith.

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Where Mao promised revolution, Trump promises revenge. And like all personality cults, the truth is irrelevant. Only belief remains.

What the Cultural Revolution did to China is a warning, not a historical footnote. Even long after Mao’s death, the emotional scars, broken families, and lost knowledge continued to haunt the nation. In the U.S., even if Trump were removed from power today, the legacy of Trumpism and its anti-intellectualism, authoritarian yearning, and contempt for civic life has metastasized.

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Where does it end? If history is a guide, it does not end cleanly. It ends in exhaustion. China’s Cultural Revolution collapsed under the weight of its own extremism, but only after immeasurable damage. It took the better part of two generations for Chinese society to begin reconciling with what was lost. Trust in institutions. Respect for scholarship. Hope for a unified future.

For the United States, the cost is already mounting. A generation of children is growing up in classrooms stripped of accurate history, civics, and science. Climate change is dismissed. Gun violence is endemic. Health care remains broken. Economic inequality deepens. And the solution offered by MAGA is not reform but revenge against the educated, the diverse, the compassionate. Against the very idea of shared purpose.

What made the Cultural Revolution so destructive was not just Mao’s power. It was the willing participation of the people. Students who turned in their teachers. Neighbors who reported families. Millions who became perpetrators of a system they thought would elevate them.

The same pattern is emerging in the United States, but with even darker intent. China’s revolution was born out of desperation, a people broken by war, famine, and colonialism, yearning for justice, even if it was misdirected.

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Every rollback of rights, every act of state censorship, every stunt of political theater is done with pride because it hurts the perceived enemy. The victims, who are immigrants, LGBTQ people, the poor, the non-White, the non-Christian, are not collateral damage. They are the targets.

This is how cultural revolutions work. They are not about culture, they are about control. And they do not end when the leader falls. They end when the people stop believing the lie.

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Originally Posted By u/limabeanseww At 2025-06-07 11:47:56 PM | Source

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Here is the Original Video Link, until youtube takes it down. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFhMjteL92Y

Half a million subscribers. That is fucking wild.

I’ve been wondering for a fucking while why there aren’t more shorts YouTube channels about triggering content like police interactions and it’s shaping up to look like the answer is beefy channels like this guy are weaponizing the copyright claim system

None of those clips come from him. He just compiles them. He’s probably gonna get away with it too. 😐. Man is the only one of us getting paid and I guess we know how. Gross.

I consistently get hit with the criticism of how I’m actually secretly trying to distract from all of the terrible things that Trump is doing, and you know I don’t usually air my anxiety about that sort of thing but today with this one I am because it’s actually awful And not intentional at all but yeah, I know seriously in the process of doing the research doing the reporting of how to exactly gauge how bad it is with what Trump is doing. We keep finding that oh actually this is this is barely half a step this is barely Out of line with standard policy for the United States. It’s just that now we’re talking about it now we’re able to actually give the abuses that happened under the American immigration system airtime because they’re being done by Trump.

Deporting anchor babies is standard policy and frankly when we knew this come on.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have in recent days deported the Cuban-born mother of a 1-year-old girl — separating them indefinitely — and three children ages 2, 4 and 7 who are U.S. citizens along with their Honduran-born mothers, their lawyers said Saturday.

The three cases raise questions about who is being deported, and why, and come amid a battle in federal courts over whether President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown has gone too far and too quickly at the expense of fundamental rights.

Lawyers in the cases described how the women were arrested at routine check-ins at ICE offices, given virtually no opportunity to speak with lawyers or their family members and then deported within three days or less.

It reminds me of the one scene in Inglorious Bastards:

"You are sheltering enemies of the state, are you not?"

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Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan was charged April 25 with two felonies for her role in helping an undocumented immigrant avoid arrest after he appeared in her courtroom.

According to a 13-page complaint, Dugan, 65, is accused of obstruction a U.S. agency and concealing an individual to prevent an arrest.