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Trump calling in the national guard on the ICE protests in Los Angeles

Colombia: Right wing presidential candidate Miguel Uribe shot and possibly killed. No culprits yet.

Scenes on the ground of continuing resistence to ICE raids in Paramount, California can be found here: https://bsky.app/profile/acatwithnews.bsky.social/post/3lqzzoky4cc24

Larges amounts of less-lethal munitions being used, some of which causing brush fires. Residential areas are being flooded with tear gas. CW for police violence on any clips, I haven't seen anything excessively graphic though but it is all generally upsetting.

video out of Paramount California of people pelting a convoy of trucks with rocks as they invade a city to abduct people and imprison them in camps. They really are turning the USA into israel, huh?

Israel raises record $5bn in bond sales to US investors as Gaza genocide strains economy

Israel has raised a record $5 billion through Israel Bonds, a US-based broker-dealer, to help finance its ongoing war on Palestinians in Gaza, marking a surge in foreign support for the country’s economy despite mounting concerns over domestic fiscal sustainability.

Since the start of the war, Israel has spent some $67 billion to destroy Gaza and slaughter some 110,000 Palestinians, an estimated 80 percent civilians. US taxpayers provided Israel with nearly $18 billion in military aid during the first year of the war alone, according to the Costs of War Project at Brown University.

Israel’s war-related spending has ballooned, leading to a record government borrowing of nearly $76 billion last year. While most of Israel’s debt is raised in the local bond market, international placements and Israel Bonds play a vital supplementary role. US states such as New York, Texas, Ohio, and Florida, particularly Palm Beach County, its largest single investor at $700 million, are among the most prominent backers.

But even as capital flows in, experts have warned about the war’s long-term economic toll. Karnit Flug, a former Governor of the Bank of Israel and a senior fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute, stated this week that increased war spending threatens to collapse essential public services, including hospitals, schools, and public transportation. Speaking ahead of the Eli Hurvitz Conference on Economy and Society, Flug cautioned that the current path is unsustainable. “Without changes in the government’s course of budget policy and without internalizing the potential snowball effect of sanctions and restrictions, Israel will find itself on a very risky path,” she said.

As taxes rise and public services deteriorate, she warned that the burden is falling disproportionately on high-productivity, tax-paying Israelis—many of whom are the most mobile and capable of leaving the country. Flug urged the government to reassess its budget priorities and reduce dependence on wartime borrowing, citing Israel’s heavy reliance on human capital and infrastructure for future growth.

Netanyahu’s ultra-Orthodox partners move ahead with Knesset dissolution plan

Ultra-Orthodox (Haredim) Israeli parties in Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition said on 6 June that they are moving forward with an effort to dissolve the Knesset over the government’s failure to pass a law exempting members of the Haredi community from military service.

On Thursday, Israel’s Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara announced that the army will issue over 50,000 conscription orders to ultra-Orthodox students next month, further fueling outrage across the Haredi community. The attorney general said the matter of drafting ultra-Orthodox into the army “is not progressing sufficiently, as the army urgently needs new recruits, which requires imposing personal sanctions on draft evaders,” according to Israel’s Broadcasting Corporation (KAN).

Ultra-Orthodox Israeli Jews of military age have been able to avoid compulsory enlistment into the army for decades by enrolling in yeshivas (religious schools) and obtaining repeated one-year service deferrals until they reach the age of military exemption. Since the war in Gaza began, a manpower crisis plaguing the army has compelled the government to move forward with drafting the ultra-Orthodox into military service – to the chagrin of the far-right, religious parties in the prime minister’s ruling coalition.

Harvard author Steven Pinker appears on podcast linked to scientific racism

I still remember when I worked for a company that took on contracts with the USAF and the CEO defended it to upset employees by telling them to read “Better Angels of Our Nature”

Bit late, but did ya hear that the modern Ukrainian nazi government was mad at Poland for publically remembering how their people were genocided by ww2 Ukrainian nazis? They decided to say no Ukrainians did a genocide against their silly Polish neighbors and the Ukrainian national heroes that are celebrated by the Ukrainian government has had their honor tarnished by the Perfidious Polish Sejm, and that the Poles need to remember the true enemy - who didn't genocide them with impunity for their nazi German masters - the Russians

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine considers the decision of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland to establish 11 July as a Day of Remembrance for the victims of the so-called “genocide committed by the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) in the eastern territories of the Second Polish Republic” to fly in the face of the spirit of good neighbourly relations between Ukraine and Poland.

Such unilateral steps do not contribute to achieving mutual understanding and reconciliation, which our countries have been working on for a long time, particularly in the format of the Joint Ukrainian-Polish Working Group on Historical Issues, which operates with the participation of the ministries of culture and national memory institutions from both countries.

Ukraine consistently advocates for a scientific and unbiased study of the complex pages of our shared history. We are convinced that the path to true reconciliation lies through dialogue, mutual respect and joint work by historians, rather than through unilateral political assessments.

We urge the Polish side to refrain from steps that could lead to increased tension in bilateral relations and undermine the achievements gained through constructive dialogue and cooperation between Ukraine and Poland.

Despite the bias and political context of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland's decision, we continue to conduct search and exhumation work in Ukraine and Poland, respectively. We have already achieved practical results in this area, which should be developed further in the future.

Once again, we remind you that Poles should not look for enemies among Ukrainians, and Ukrainians should not look for enemies among Poles. We have a common enemy – Russia.

For the sake of the common strength, freedom and security of our two friendly countries, we must resolve problematic issues together, rather than exacerbating them.

A Russian missile took out a bunker^[https://xcancel.com/mog_russEN/status/1931248908283355191] in Kiev yesterday.

~~Zelenskyy hasn't posted in over 21 hours^[https://xcancel.com/ZelenskyyUa]...~~ Edit: He just posted.

His normal post volume is about fifteen per day.

ABC: Zelenskyy says Russian drivers 'didn't know anything' about role in audacious drone attack

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the Russian truck drivers who transported what would become platforms for Ukraine's large-scale surprise drone attack on Russian warplanes a week ago did so unwittingly.

Literally caught in 4K admitting to a cut-and-dry war crime on US national TV. He didn't even leave any wiggle room for himself.

And of course, Western media is jerking him off for violating the Geneva Convention.