Keith M. Judge

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UN humanitarian chief says Gaza is now 'uninhabitable'

Middle East Eye
France issues arrest warrant for Syria's President Assad - source

French judges have issued arrest warrants for Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, his brother Maher al-Assad, and two other senior officials over the use of banned chemical weapons against civilians in Syria, a judicial source said on Wednesday.

Reuters

"Miller thinks America faces a constitutional crisis whenever an entity makes the merest nod toward the importance of a workforce that isn’t just white and male. But the real crisis is Miller himself."

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/stephen-miller-america-first-legal-explained

Stephen Miller's "America First Legal" is more dangerous than you think

Miller is a clown. But his organization is racking up wins advancing a deeply reactionary agenda.

Public Notice

"Records obtained and analyzed by POLITICO reveal the practice failed to identify suspects a majority of the time and is disproportionately used against Black people."

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/31/new-orleans-police-facial-recognition-00121427

‘Wholly ineffective and pretty obviously racist’: Inside New Orleans’ struggle with facial-recognition policing

Records obtained and analyzed by POLITICO reveal the practice failed to identify suspects a majority of the time and is disproportionately used against Black people.

POLITICO

"A Jewish school in Montreal was targeted by gunfire on Sunday for the second time this week."

https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/jewish-school-in-montreal-targeted-by-gunfire-for-the-second-time-this-week-1.6641831

Jewish school in Montreal targeted by gunfire for the second time this week

Yeshiva Gedola, as well as another Montreal Jewish school, were also hit by bullets on Friday.

Montreal

"the factory has also pumped billions of rounds of military-grade ammunition into the commercial market . . . leaving the 'LC' signature scattered across crime scenes, including the sites of some of the nation’s most heinous mass shootings."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/11/us/army-ammunition-factory-shootings.html?unlocked_article_code=1.90w.anUj.FfliKvvXbJlt&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Army Ammunition Plant Is Tied to Mass Shootings Across the U.S.

The site was built for the military, but commercial sales are booming with little public accountability. Rounds have been bought by murderers, antigovernment groups and others.

The New York Times

"When you see Palestinian children dying, what’s your emotional reaction as a human being?"

"I go by a very basic human law of nature. My children are prior to the children of the enemy, period. They are first."

https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-extreme-ambitions-of-west-bank-settlers

The Extreme Ambitions of West Bank Settlers

Isaac Chotiner interviews Daniella Weiss, one of the leaders of Israel’s settlement movement, about her thoughts on the Israel-Hamas war and Palestinian rights.

The New Yorker

"Rabies kills about 59,000 people worldwide annually, but only one or two people in the United States die of the disease in a typical year . . .In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, however, both of those interventions may be threatened by vaccine hesitancy"

https://thebulletin.org/2023/09/rabid-anti-vaxxers-could-help-spread-deadly-disease/

Rabid anti-vaxxers could help spread deadly disease

Many owners are hesitant to get their dogs vaccinated against rabies. Vaccine hesitancy may also affect human vaccination after potential exposure to the world’s most lethal infectious disease.

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Reminiscent of the Alien and Sedition Acts.

https://popular.info/p/criminalizing-dissent

Criminalizing dissent

Sixty-one activists appeared before Fulton County Court yesterday on racketeering charges related to their protest of Atlanta’s new “Public Safety Training Center,” commonly known as Cop City. The arraignment comes after the Georgia Attorney General’s Office

Popular Information

"A Republican resolution censuring Rep. Rashida Tlaib accuses the Michigan Democrat of leading an “insurrection” at the Capitol last month over a protest inside a House office building — a clear effort to trivialize the events of Jan. 6, 2021."

https://news.yahoo.com/house-vote-resolution-trivializing-jan-165653239.html

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