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Progressive International reporting that the Global Sumud Floatilla has been struck in a drone attack off the coast of Tunis

Death to the Zionist entity

Link to a video from the Floatilla

fuck the zionist entity. it looks they have launched a new series of strikes inside iraq and syria.

Can anyone fill me in on the implications on the Murdoch deal I’m too busy to look into it

Sounds to me like the son who wants to keep news corp super conservative won out? So now there won’t be drama when the old fucker croaks and nothing will happen?

Supreme Court lifts restrictions on ‘roving’ ICE raids in Los Angeles

The justices, who apparently divided 6-3 along ideological lines, put on hold a federal district judge’s order that reined in what critics called “roving” raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. That judge had found the tactics were likely unconstitutional because agents were detaining people without probable cause at car washes, bus stops and Home Depot parking lots based on stereotypes.

The high court’s majority offered no explanation for its decision to grant the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to block the district judge’s order. However, Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote separately in support of the decision, saying it was reasonable to briefly question people who meet multiple “common sense” criteria for possible illegal presence — including employment in day labor or construction, and limited English proficiency.

They’re not even bothering to workshop their bullshit explanations anymore

“We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote, joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson. “Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent.”

If you put this in a book people would say it was too on the nose

Spain Will Formalize its Arms Embargo on Israel

Spain continues to lead opposition to Israel among European states. Not a high bar to clear, but credit where it's due to the extent that it is.

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/epstein-birthday-book-congress-9d79ab34

Epstein Birthday Letter With Trump’s Signature Revealed

Lawyers for Epstein’s estate have given Congress a copy of the 2003 birthday book

https://t.me/kalibrated/23989

General Gerasimov turned 70 years old today, the age limit for high ranking officers in the Russian Armed Forces, and Putin reportedly awarded him the Order of Courage. There's a good chance he will retire and be replaced.

The timing is kind of a weird coincidence. Trump's 50 day sanctions deadline just expired, Russia and Ukraine are getting more aggressive with their missile strikes, and the "hot phase" of the Zapad military exercises in Belarus is beginning this weekend.

Man arrested after driving child-size pink Barbie Jeep through Prince George, B.C.

First norwegian election results are in: *Succdem-led block on top with a lead of ~9 mandates *Fascist party second largest party with ~24% of votes counted

apparently I managed to post these a couple of hours right before the last thread ended:

• Government Accountability Office on the F-35

• Government Accountability Office on aircraft mission readiness

another french cracker got no-confidenced

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/8/french-no-confidence-vote-whats-next-if-the-government-collapses

unlimited macrons on the french budget

(watch ps suggest some dipshit for prime minister with policies of unlimited police/military budgets, but they would also re-privatize the edf to saudis to limit the austerity)

Turkish police seize opposition HQ in Istanbul:

Riot police stormed the Istanbul headquarters of the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) on 8 September, forcing entry after hours of clashes to escort court-appointed interim chief Gursel Tekin inside.

The Istanbul 45th Civil Court of First Instance had dismissed provincial head Ozgur Celik last week, ruling that delegate votes in the party’s 2023 provincial congress were influenced by alleged bribery.

The court threw out the elected board and named former CHP deputy chair Tekin as interim provincial head, a decision rejected by both Celik and CHP headquarters.

Tekin, who earlier said he would not enter the headquarters with police, requested riot police support after both the CHP headquarters and Celik rejected his appointment.

He arrived to find the building barricaded and occupied by party members, including MPs.

Riot police used pepper spray and shields to disperse demonstrators, with CHP member Suat Ozcagdas telling Halk TV that officers fired tear gas “inch by inch” as they moved floor by floor inside the building.

“There are elderly people and people with asthma. On every floor they enter with gas. This is a human rights violation,” he said.

Protests began on Sunday, when the CHP called on Istanbul residents to gather outside its offices after police cordoned off the site.

Earlier on Monday, several political influencers who had voiced support for the protests were detained.

Internet watchdogs reported bandwidth throttling that slowed access to social media platforms.

The CHP denounced the takeover as a “siege.”

In a separate interview with the Financial Times (FT), party leader Ozgur Ozel accused the government of staging “a coup against the future ruling party.”

“They are trying to take over the party that won the last election, was the founding party of the Turkish republic, is the party leading every poll … We’re facing an authoritarian government and … the only option is to resist,” he said.

In Istanbul, Tekin claimed those resisting him “were not CHP members.”

“Nothing can stop us, even if they shoot us,” he said, insisting he would not back down, after a water bottle was thrown at him as he attempted a press statement.

The party’s general headquarters later announced it would close its provincial branch headquarters and operate from another location until a new Istanbul congress is held.

The Istanbul decision has drawn attention to a separate lawsuit in Ankara, scheduled for 15 September, which could annul the results of the CHP’s 38th Ordinary Congress in 2023 and unseat Ozel.

Since October 2024, more than 500 CHP members and officials have been detained nationwide, according to state disclosures reviewed by Reuters in July.

The arrests have included Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, who is Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s main rival, and 16 CHP mayors accused of corruption. CHP figures have described the campaign as a political operation to dismantle the party after its victories in last year’s local elections.

a more substantial article on nakedcapitalism on european militarization, austerity, and the shift from fever dream balkanization of russia via shipment of arms to their ukrainian proxy towards domestic crackdown with the same military assets.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/09/is-europe-preparing-for-war-against-russia-or-against-own-populations.html

The money graph:

[Protests in western European capitals] might look like child’s play once the current European leadership is finished decimating national economies with endless self-destructive decisions all stemming from a ruling class dream to balkanize Russia. In the name of that goal, they have replaced cheap and affordable energy with the expensive kind, killed industry, engaged in economic warfare with much of the rest of the world in a failed bid to isolate Moscow, and become completely beholden to American vultures.

I think that connecting the dots between proxy dreams, militarization, austerity, and domestic crackdowns is very important for the actual left.