The maritime security firm Ambrey claimed that communications from a #US coalition cruiser had been intercepted, instructing Central Park to disregard the signals

https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israeli-affiliated-tanker-captured-off-yemen-coast--pentagon

AP reports the tanker is full of Phosphoric Acid

You could share some or all of this with libs.

IDF messaging suggests Gaza truce unlikely to last much beyond Tuesday | The Guardian

Israel’s military estimates it has killed between 1,000 and 2,000 Hamas fighters out of a military force it believes is about 30,000 strong. The country’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has pledged to eliminate the group, but Hamas remains a coherent fighting and political operation able to negotiate over hostages.

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Israel has killed approximately 15,000 people in Gaza. And according to their own data between 87% and 94% have been civilians. Utterly indefensible.

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So at that ratio, we would see 10 times more civilian casualties before Israel comes anywhere near its claimed objectives - ~130,000+ civilians killed by IDF violence and just about all of Gaza made desolation. Plus the inevitable death toll of wounds, disease and starvation.

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NYT: Why I Am a Liberal

More than at any other time since World War II, liberalism is under siege. On the left, some people insist that liberalism is exhausted and dying and unable to handle the problems posed by entrenched inequalities, corporate power and environmental degradation. On the right, some people think that liberalism is responsible for the collapse of traditional values, rampant criminality, disrespect for authority and widespread immorality.

Fascists reject liberalism. So do populists who think that freedom is overrated. In ways large and small, antiliberalism is on the march. So is tyranny.

Many of the marchers misdescribe liberalism; they offer a caricature. Perhaps more than ever, there is an urgent need for a clear understanding of liberalism — of its core commitments, of its breadth, of its internal debates, of its evolving character, of its promise, of what it is and what it can be. Here is one attempt at an account, in the form of 34 sets of claims about liberalism.

Today's challenge is see how far you can get down this list before you have an aneurysm. I personally managed to get to point 18 before I had to stop:

Liberals abhor the idea that life or politics is a conflict between friends and enemies. They associate that idea with fascism and with Dachau and Auschwitz.

People are arguing about the gender of a Hamas fighter

https://nitter.cz/NTarnopolsky/status/1728133272226668771

Hey Newsgang, I'm starting a reading group on The Will to Change by bell hooks, come check it out! You will find why patriarchy is a core of fascist ideology and why we must learn how to love each other. linky

I had a dream you could hire knights for protection.

I can't believe nobody has tried using footage from Hamas's video game in war crime allegations

US thwarted plot to kill Sikh separatist on American soil

US authorities thwarted a conspiracy to assassinate a Sikh separatist on American soil and issued a warning to India’s government over concerns it was involved in the plot, according to multiple people familiar with the case.

The target of the plot was Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, an American and Canadian citizen who is general counsel for Sikhs for Justice, a US-based group that is part of a movement pushing for an independent Sikh state called “Khalistan”.

The people familiar with the case, who requested anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the intelligence that prompted the warning, did not say whether the protest to New Delhi led the plotters to abandon their plan, or whether the FBI intervened and foiled a scheme already in motion.

The US informed some allies about the plot following the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Canadian Sikh separatist killed in Vancouver in June. In September, Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said there were “credible allegations” linking New Delhi to Nijjar’s fatal shooting.

The US justice department is debating whether to unseal the indictment and make the allegations public or wait until Canada finishes its investigation into Nijjar’s murder. Further complicating the case, one person charged in the indictment is believed to have left the US, according to people familiar with the proceedings.

The US justice department and FBI declined to comment. The National Security Council said the US does “not comment on ongoing law enforcement matters or private diplomatic discussions with our partners” but added: “Upholding the safety and security of US citizens is paramount”.

Washington shared details of the Pannun case with a wider group of allies after Trudeau went public with details of the Vancouver killing, the combination of which sparked concern among allies about a possible pattern of behaviour.

India has rejected Canada’s claims about New Delhi’s possible involvement in Nijjar’s murder as “absurd”.

One person familiar with the situation said the US protest was issued after Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a high-profile state visit to Washington in June.

Separate from the diplomatic warning, US federal prosecutors have filed a sealed indictment against at least one alleged perpetrator of the plot in a New York district court, according to people familiar with the case.

Modi’s office referred questions about the case to India’s external affairs ministry, which declined to comment.

Contacted by the Financial Times, Pannun declined to say whether US authorities had warned him about the plot, saying he would “let the US government respond to the issue of threats to my life on American soil from the Indian operatives”.

“The threat to an American citizen on American soil is a challenge to America’s sovereignty, and I trust that the Biden administration is more than capable to handle any such challenge,” Pannun told the FT.

Pannun angered Indian officials this month by issuing a video in which he warned Sikhs not to fly on Air India because it would be “life threatening”. He told the FT he was not making a violent threat against the airline.

Washington has urged India to help the Canadian investigation, but has avoided being too critical of New Delhi in public over the Vancouver case. The Biden administration views India — a member of the Quad security group along with Japan and Australia — as a critical part of a broader strategy to counter China.

Several people familiar with the debate inside the Biden administration said officials were aware that any public disclosure of the US plot, and Washington’s protest to New Delhi, would renew questions about India’s reliability as a trusted partner.

The Biden administration has faced criticism from human rights groups for its efforts to deepen relations with India.

India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata party is a Hindu nationalist party, and Modi has been accused by his political opponents and human rights groups of fomenting violence against religious and ethnic minorities in India.

The Indian prime minister was feted this summer in Washington, where he delivered a speech to Congress. Ahead of his visit, US national security adviser Jake Sullivan said President Joe Biden would raise human rights with Modi but said the US-India relationship would be “one of the defining relationships of the 21st century”.

The FT previously reported that Biden raised the Canadian allegations with Modi at the G20 summit in India in September. The White House declined to say whether Biden raised the Pannun case with Modi in September.

https://www.ft.com/content/56f7d6d6-6a93-4172-a49e-d8a91991e29d

Not to go full but I am genuinely pretty worried about project 2025.

If the GOP does take power again in 2024, how "safe" would I be if I were to move to a blue state? I know that blue states are already expensive hell but if it means I can enjoy life at least a little bit, then it would be worth every penny.

Being active in politics where I live can be extremely distressing. I haven't been able to sleep tonight since being sent a video of what appears to be a girl under ten selling herself for the equivalent of twenty usd. The footage goes well beyond the "pitch" and I turned it off as soon as the guy took his pants off. I'm trying to do anything to distract myself and hope I can eventually just fall asleep.

So the DPP is going all-in with their US alignment, huh? That sweet, sweet NED support must be hard to turn down.

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Protests against Netanyahu hasn't stopped although it's sadly peaceful: https://nitter.net/AryJeay/status/1728454478733480423