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CHICAGO (AP) — A man accused of pepper spraying pro-Palestinian protesters who gathered near an Israel solidarity rally over the weekend has been charged with hate crimes and aggravated battery, prosecutors said Wednesday.

Zevulen Ebert, 33, of Skokie, Illinois, is charged with two felony counts of aggravated battery and two felony hate crime charges, according to Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s office.

apnews.com/article/698b1c9dc57
#israel #gaza #usa

@LALegault @stephanie FFS. I’m rewatching the 1978 series Holocaust, mostly out of curiosity as to how the subject was approached for American TV back then. I remember when it first came on how brutal the depiction was (relatively speaking, for the time).

I *just* watched the scene where a German family (Dorf’s) is talking about this really nice piano they got for free from a medical clinic around the corner… The former owners of the piano, and said clinic, “were some Jewish people” who “went away” 😕

If you're performing a “necessary evil," you're still evil.

(Standard disclaimers apply, this is not the only point of view I possess, I contain multitudes, and a minority portion of *any* group of people are assholes that most of us would wish behaved better. Let's all strive to not be in that minority)

In demanding Israel “free Palestine,” these apologists ignore Israel withdrew entirely from Gaza and has periodically attempted to trade land for peace. refusing to differentiate between bloodthirsty terrorists and the Palestinians doesn’t help the latter washingtonpost.com/opinions/20

BREAKING: Turkish leader Erdogan: "Hamas is not a terrorist group but rather a group of fighters defending their homeland."

#turkey #russia #terrorism #middleeast

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Republicans just elected the most extreme, far-right speaker in modern history. With multiple global crises raging and only a few weeks left to avoid a government shutdown, House Republicans cycled through a roster of incompetent, unqualified candidates and landed on Mike Johnson.

Ziggy Marley, the son of legendary reggae artist Bob Marley, posted this picture on his Instagram account. It's worth mentioning that Ziggy is married to Orly Agai, an Israeli woman.

Even though a turd can’t be polished, it *can* be elected Speaker of the House, apparently.

So, where are my fellow #Whovians? We've finally got air dates for the 60th - I am officially very, very excited. Saturday nights just got even better; the only question is will #DoctorWho be on before or after #Strictly? Hopefully before, so we can do away with that awful Alan Carr quiz 🤞

So it turns out all it took to reunite the Republican party was to marry Trumpy “crimes and coups” fascism to old-fashion Dubya-y Evangelical fundamentalist fascism.

I am not happy that this worked. Not happy at all.

Flu shots may protect against the risk of Alzheimer's, related dementias - Vaccines are the great public health benefit of our age. news.yahoo.com/flu-shots-may-p via @Yahoo #Health

…so another $5,000 fine then?

What’s that in Trump Bucks?

While it's certainly accurate to call Speaker Mike Johnson an election denier, it’s also incomplete — because while he cast an indefensible vote on Jan. 6, that was hardly the only thing he did to undermine the 2020 results. msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/m

Watch as an estimated 100,000 Icelandic women go on a nationwide 24-hour strike in the biggest walkout since 1975. Women refused to cook, clean, or do unpaid care work, women took to the streets demanding greater gender equality and protesting against the gender pay gap, gender-based violence, and sexual violence.

#kvennaverkfall #iceland #WomenStrike

❝ Louisiana Rep. Mike Johnson described his 2020 visit to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount as ‘the fulfillment of a biblical prophecy’; his election is the most significant victory to date for evangelicals in D.C. ❞

“New House Speaker Mike Johnson, an evangelical Christian, holds ties to Israel’s far right”
haaretz.com/us-news/2023-10-25

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