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With another break-the-siege flotilla now en route, Eman Abu Zayed, a writer in Gaza, says that hope — despite its weight — keeps finding its way across the sea again and again. A woman in Catania, Sicily, holds the flag of Palestine on June 1, 2025, before the Freedom Flotilla’s Madleen departs on its voyage to Gaza. (Tan Safi / Freedom Flotilla ) By Eman Abu ZayedZ Network When word of an upcoming maritime flotilla coming from countries thousands of kilometers away first began circulating, Palestinians were in the heart of this war, in one of its harshest moments, with…

Julie Davis, the acting U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, is expected to retire in the coming weeks after having grown frustrated with President Donald Trump’s lack of support for the country, per a Financial Times report. Subscribe Today Get daily emails in your inbox Davis, who has been the temporary chargé d’affaires in Kiev since last May, leaves an opening at a major post for the administration, which came into power pledged to bring the Russia–Ukraine War to a quick settlement. Negotiations so far have proven fruitless, and the White House has recently given the matter little attention as…

Photo by Niek Doup In the eight years since Murphy v NCAA delivered a resounding victory for the digital gambling industry, have sufficient safeguards been implemented so as to adequately hinder underage access to and gambling via online platforms? And should the advertising for these platforms on streaming video services be more stringently regulated so as to approximate the norm expected of the Bally’s corporation when they purchase airtime from traditional television broadcast stations in local New England markets? According to a February 2025 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association’s Internal Medicine publication (vol 185, no…

The former FBI director James Comey has been indicted and charged Tuesday with threatening President Donald Trump’s life over a post on Instagram depicting seashells spelling out “86 47,” according to a document released by the Department of Justice. “Eighty-six” is slang for “cancel” or “remove.” Subscribe Today Get daily emails in your inbox “James Comey disgracefully encouraged a threat on President Trump’s life and posted it on Instagram for the world to see,” FBI Director Kash Patel said at a press conference announcing the indictment. This will be the second time the Trump administration has taken Comey…

Former Fauci aide charged. Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that they’d charged David Morens, a former adviser to Anthony Fauci, with evading federal transparency laws while he worked behind the scenes to reinstate funding for risky coronavirus research in the midst of the pandemic. The Reason Roundup Newsletter by Liz Wolfe Liz and Reason help you make sense of the day’s news every morning. In a number of almost comically blunt emails that involved debates about the origins of COVID-19, Morens instructed his correspondents to communicate with him via his private Gmail account to avoid Freedom of…

In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we’re doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to pay our writers and staff. Please consider a tax-deductible donation. Marc Steiner for TRNN Sharif Abdel Kouddous has reported from war zones and disaster areas across the world—from Egypt, Syria, and Libya, to Iraq, Algeria, Haiti, and the United States—but nothing compares to what he’s seen in Gaza. In this episode of The Marc Steiner Show, Marc speaks with Abdel Kouddous about the impossible task of documenting the full scale…

Physically AND metaphorically… WhatsApp promises end-to-end encryption. Signal promises it. iMessage promises it. And you know what? They’re telling the truth. What you say is private. The actual content of your messages – scrambled into mathematical gibberish that only you and your recipient can decode. Military-grade encryption. Unbreakable. No one can read your words. Not Meta. Not Signal. Not Apple. Not the government. Not hackers. The technology works exactly as advertised. Except. There’s this thing attached to every message. It’s called “metadata”. It’s who you messaged. When you messaged them. How often. How long the conversation lasted. Your location when you sent it. Their…

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In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we’re doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to pay our writers and staff. Please consider a tax-deductible donation. The Grayzone Desperate to secure a conviction of Palestine Action defendants, a draconian British judge has forbidden them from referring to the principle of jury equity in their closing speeches. It is one of countless restrictions aimed at blocking the activists from mounting an effective defense. Since the retrial of six Palestine Action (PA) activists began on April 13,…