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cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/52120645

“Fran and I are thankful Dr. Amy Acton was not hurt, and we send our thoughts to those who were injured. We spoke to Dr. Acton this afternoon and she said to share with Ohioans that she is ok," said DeWine in his statement. “We are grateful for the quick work of the Ohio State Highway Patrol and other law enforcement on the scene at the Canfield Fair today when a man tried to forcefully push himself toward Dr. Acton as she was speaking and injured other attendees at the Mahoning County Democrat booth."

Oh no! How....terrible..... LMAO

Oklahoma, El Reno city asserts that none of the costs related to the water leak at the property will be passed on to citizens.

A Flock webinar teaches police how to surveil protests, fireworks shows, parades, bike races, and more.

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.404media.co/flock-taught-cops-how-to-surveil-no-kings-protesters/

It’s exactly where it was on day one,” Hamid Ali, Eygi’s husband, told Anadolu from his home in Seattle. “We’re still asking for the same thing, which is an investigation as a first step into getting justice for her.”

Eygi, 26, a dual Turkish-US citizen, was killed Sept. 6, 2024, while participating in a protest against Israeli settlement expansion in the West Bank town of Beita, near Nablus.

The Israeli military said she was hit “indirectly and unintentionally” by Israeli military fire that “was not aimed at her” as its forces fired at protesters allegedly throwing rocks.

Donald Trump’s war with Iran is likely to drag on for another six months, Leon Panetta, the former US defense secretary, has warned, as the US president struggles to find his way out of the controversial conflict.

Panetta declared in an interview that the war with Iran – launched by Trump over six months ago – risks becoming another “forever war in the Middle East”, with no clear end in sight.

“It’s no mystery that the United States and Iran are caught in a terrible stalemate, in which there really are very few options available to bring this war to an end,” said Panetta, who also served as CIA director under Barack Obama, suggesting the conflict is on course to become “another failed war” in the Middle East “like Iraq and Afghanistan”.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/70510788

Twenty-five years on, September 11 is remembered as a day. Its more consequential legacy is a set of decisions.

In the weeks and months after the attacks, Washington claimed open-ended war powers, invaded two countries, built a surveillance apparatus aimed at its own citizens, and normalized detention without trial.

Those choices reshaped American foreign policy, but they also reshaped American life: how we travel, what the government knows about us, which powers a president now assumes are his, and how much of the federal budget flows toward war.

Quincy Institute Senior Research Fellow Steven Simon, who served as a National Security Council director under two presidents, sat down with Steve Coll, the Pulitzer prize–winning author of Ghost Wars and The Achilles Trap, to reckon with those decisions, what they cost, and how they continue to inform America's future.

Absolutely BATSHIT crazy interview, your brain will fold into a balloon dog trying to make sense of this, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V97AG1b4H54