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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/38874829

https://archive.ph/2025.07.25-161813/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/business/mamdani-globalize-intafada-business-leaders.html

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/6982

Leaked emails show Epstein working on a wire transfer to Ehud Barak's top aide, Yoni Koren, who regularly stayed at his mansion.

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I do not doubt that caving now might well be the optimal political move.

And this is one reason—one of many—why I am not a politician.

Because if caving is the right thing to do now, it was the right thing to do 41 days ago and Democratic senators should have been willing to stand up and look their constituents in the eye and say, “I don’t think we will get anything in a shutdown that exceeds in value the pain we will inflict.” Some did this, and that actually took courage.

But if caving was not the right thing to do then, it is no more so the right thing to do now. Because nothing has changed except that reasonably anticipatable pain is now realized pain. It took exactly no imagination to fathom that this would happen.

Trump also addressed reports that demolition has not gone over well with a notable group: first ladies

Sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell has enjoyed 'unprecedented' luxury since she gave an interview praising Donald Trump

Hundreds of VA staff warned that policy changes under Trump will “negatively affect the lives of all veterans.”

Ghislaine Maxwell, the co-conspirator of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, is in the process of seeking a commutation of her 20-year prison sentence from President Donald Trump, a whistleblower has told House Democrats.

According to the whistleblower, whose identity the committee has not revealed, Maxwell has received what was described as “concierge-style” treatment at the minimum security prison camp that she was transferred to, including customized meals, permission to go to the exercise area after hours, and time to play with a puppy that was being trained by an inmate to become a service dog, among other things.

The whistleblower also claimed that a top official at the prison camp complained he is “sick of having to be Maxwell’s bitch.”

Chi Ossé, a far-left city councilman aligned with the policies of Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect of New York City, has told political allies that he is planning to challenge Representative Hakeem Jeffries, the top House Democrat, in next June’s primary.

But he may not have the mayor-elect’s support.

Mr. Mamdani has privately tried to discourage his ideological ally from running. The mayor-elect and his team fear that another high-profile challenge from the left might compromise his own bid to push the Democratic establishment to support his affordability agenda.

Mr. Mamdani has privately tried to discourage his ideological ally from running. The mayor-elect and his team fear that another high-profile challenge from the left might compromise his own bid to push the Democratic establishment to support his affordability agenda.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/38843027

Israel kills three Palestinians in Gaza in the past 24 hours. Over 6,000 amputation cases registered in Gaza, a quarter of them children. The Israeli militarized “yellow line” potentially becomes a de facto border within Gaza. The U.S. shares a revised draft of its peace plan with the UN. The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights releases a report that details systematic sexual abuse in Israeli prisons. Ben-Gvir hands out candy after the Knesset advances a death penalty bill. Former Al-Qaeda affiliate and current Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa visits the White House. ICE agents pepper-spray a one-year-old in Cicero. New York City Councilman Chi Ossé prepares to run against Hakeem Jeffries. Departing NYC Mayor Eric Adams is set to make his third trip to Israel this week. Pakistan’s military takeover of the government passes its senate. Thailand suspends its ceasefire with Cambodia. Clashes in Nigeria’s northeast kill 200. Russia takes three more villages in Ukraine. At least 12 killed in car bomb outside judicial complex in Islamabad. At least 13 killed in car bomb near metro station in New Delhi.

Following years of organizing by LGBTQ+ activists, advocates for queer rights and Palestinian solidarity announced Tuesday that the Human Rights Campaign, one of the largest LGBTQ+ organizations in the world, has stopped taking cash from manufacturers Northrop Grumman and Raytheon, according to the statement from the Gender Liberation Movement and Adalah Justice Project.

Protesters had accused HRC of “pinkwashing,” a term used to describe the use of Israel’s publicly pro-LGBTQ+ stance to distract from its violations of Palestinians’ human rights.

“Organizations like HRC can no longer prioritize proximity to power over the well-being of our people, nor center inclusion in the very systems that are killing us,” said the statement from the Gender Liberation Movement and Adalah Justice Project. “Freedom, equality, and justice for our queer and trans siblings here can only be achieved when we collectively confront the systems that are harming communities everywhere.”

‘I always get the money from someplace regardless, it doesn’t matter,’ president tells Fox News host Laura Ingraham in latest interview as he dismisses public’s concerns about the economy

Ayman Soliman, a former chaplain at Cincinnati Children's Hospital, spent 73 days in ICE detention, where he faced fears of deportation and execution.

He was here legally as a refuge, showed that he was here legally, and still spent 73 days in jail.

Ayman Soliman speaks after release from jail

LANDOVER, Md. (AP) — Donald Trump became the first sitting president in nearly a half-century at a regular-season NFL game, attending the Washington Commanders’ 44-22 loss to the visiting Detroit Lions on Sunday.

There were loud boos from some spectators in the stands when Trump was shown on the videoboard late in the first half — standing in a suite with House Speaker Mike Johnson — and again when the president was introduced by the stadium announcer at halftime.

The jeering continued while Trump read an oath for members of the military to recite as part of an on-field enlistment ceremony during the break in the game.

As Senate Democrats moved to reopen the government, private jet travel was in jeopardy.

This likely means:

• a huge display of force in Chicago before they go
• other places are now going to get the kind of treatment that Chicago did, so pushback is going to be really important

Bank of America is facing a proposed class and collective action lawsuit that accuses the company of failing to pay hundreds of hourly workers for time spent booting their computers, logging in, and launching required software before officially starting their shifts.

The complaint, filed by former employee Tava Martin, focuses on a routine familiar to many in the modern workplace: unlocking encrypted drives, signing in through multi-factor authentication, connecting to a VPN, and launching business-critical applications. According to the filing, these tasks could take up to 30 minutes each day and were required before employees could access the company’s timekeeping system to clock in.