Benjamin Kunkel
@kunktation
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This is truly shocking. The terrorist Israeli soldiers executed two Palestinian men who had been besieged inside a house in Jenin. The two men emerged with their hands raised in surrender, but the soldiers ordered them to step back before shooting them.
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“The year featured a record number of violent incidents over water around the world, far surpassing the 355 in 2023, continuing a steeply rising trend. The violence more than quadrupled in the last five years.”
latimes.com
Violence over water is on the rise worldwide. Researchers counted a record 420 incidents of conflict in 2024, many in Ukraine and the Middle East.
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crazy way to learn that the CIA used child soldiers
Clarification about NCTC vetting of alleged Afghan shooter from a senior US official: The alleged Afghan shooter Rahmanullah Lakanwal began working with the CIA around 2011 (yes he may have been 15 but it was common at that time for Afghans to forge birth certificates to appear
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It was under President Obama that the mission in Afghanistan became all about assassinations, aka “night raids.” His CIA developed and deployed the Zero Unit death squads in which Rahmanullah Lakanwal reportedly served. Apparently the horror of it shattered his mind.
Violence has no place in America. Michelle and I are praying for the servicemembers shot in Washington, DC today, and send our love to their families as they enter this holiday season under the most tragic of circumstances.
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Probably just coincidence after the hottest year ever recorded, carbon dioxide levels higher than in millions of years, records falling across the Earth....
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Until a few weeks ago, most immigration arrests in NYC were happening at appointments in the Manhattan federal building or immigration offices. That's over: we're now in the randomly-grabbed-while-out-getting-coffee stage of lawless enforcement.
thecity.nyc
Activists and legal advocates are tracking seemingly random detentions of immigrants on the streets in what they say is a campaign of ethnic profiling.
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I have some incredible news to share. Today, after 9.5 agonizing months, Mohammed Zaher Ibrahim was released from Israel’s Ofer Prison and into his father’s arms. The Israeli military had no right to take him in the first place, and the family credits the relentless grassroots
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Awful
💔Blue whales going eerily silent Blue whale vocalizations dropped nearly 40% alongside a collapse in krill and anchovy populations "it’s like trying to sing while you're starving,” Ryan adds “They were spending all their time just trying to find food" https://t.co/Xat9YqLBBE
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"Last week, the International Energy Agency revised its projection that fossil fuel consumption would peak this decade, saying under current policies it would rise for the next 25 years."
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UK allowed arms exports to UAE after being told weapons given to RSF
middleeasteye.net
Britain licenced £172m in military equipment exported to the UAE between April and June this year
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Man, I'm sorry, but it seems pretty dire that a fantasy book marketed to adults needs to explain the entire concept of fiction to readers... (Photo from https://t.co/Y4A11YknEB)
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You might have heard that the UAE is helping destroy Sudan, but at the next Semafor event, all is well.
@IChotiner Just asking questions! Come on. You genuinely know better. Or read Mohammed's long career of work covering the Gulf and the Syrian war before you imply he's some kind of stooge.
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I'm excited to announce that I have been asked to join the Mamdani Transition Team to work on community safety issues. A New Era for NYC.
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‘Congo remains one of the world’s deadliest commodity frontiers, even more so for the extractive assets required for the global green transition. Seen from this angle, the Lumumba case seems anything but histoire ancienne’—@AntonJaegermm
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