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https://xcancel.com/GazaFFlotilla/status/1931706070470418675#m

https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20250608-israel-orders-military-block-aid-flotilla-carrying-greta-thunberg-gaza-freedom-flotilla-coalition-madleen

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/6/4/madleen-gaza-flotilla-live-greta-thunberg-activists-to-arrive-on-june-7?update=3759913

https://xcancel.com/GazaFFlotilla/status/1931694144378007864#m

https://xcancel.com/GazaFFlotilla/status/1931692514572128639#m

The video on the tweet says that they are 24 hours from reaching Gaza and that Israel has started to jam the ships communication signals. That they are expecting to be attacked or intercepted.

The "Israel Minister of Defense" Israel Katz instructed the Israel Forces to prevent the ship from reaching Gaza.

Madleen is the ship carrying Greta Thunberg.

| World Affairs in Context"

The first few paragraphs.

WHITTIER, Alaska (AP) — They were born on U.S. soil, are entitled to U.S. passports and allowed to serve in the U.S. military, but 11 people in a small Alaska town are facing criminal charges after they tried to participate in a fundamental part of American democracy: voting.

The defendants, who range in age from their 20s to their 60s, were all born in American Samoa — the only U.S. territory where residents are not automatically granted citizenship at birth. Prosecutors say they falsely claimed American citizenship when registering or trying to vote.

The cases are highlighting another side of the debate over exaggerated allegations of voting by noncitizens, as well as what it means to be born on American soil, as President Donald Trump tries to redefine birthright citizenship by ending it for children of people who are in the country illegally.

Here’s what to know about the prosecutions in Alaska and the status of American Samoans when it comes to voting.

This is disgusting

Donald Trump’s “Border Czar” Tom Homan said Saturday the administration is planning to send in the National Guard Saturday evening to quell protests in Los Angeles.

“This is about enforcing the law, and again, we’re not going to apologize for doing it,” Homan said on Fox News. He continued: “We’re already ahead of the game. We were already mobilizing. We’re gonna bring National Guard in tonight. We’re gonna continue doing our job. We’re gonna push back on these people, and we’re gonna [enforce] the law.”

On Saturday night, following Homan’s on-camera remarks, both national Democratic and Republican figures were scrambling to figure out if he was just mouthing off, or if the federal troops were actually on their way, or just … what the hell was going on.

Two Trump administration officials say they learned about the alleged National Guard plans from journalists such as Rolling Stone’s who had reached out to them on Saturday evening, asking for clarification.

Homan did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment.

“The federal government is moving to take over the California National Guard and deploy 2,000 soldiers,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) wrote on Bluesky Saturday evening. “That move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions.”

He added, “LA authorities are able to access law enforcement assistance at a moment’s notice. We are in close coordination with the city and county, and there is currently no unmet need. The Guard has been admirably serving LA throughout recovery. This is the wrong mission and will erode public trust.”

The president can request, but not order, a governor to deploy their state’s National Guard. The governor can refuse the request, and Trump would not be allowed under the Constitution to send National Guard troops to California from other states. However, the Trump administration has previously mulled invoking the Insurrection Act, which could allow the president to deploy the U.S. military domestically, federalize the National Guard, and send in troops to quell uprisings or civil disorder.

Editorializing beyond here:

The Insurrectionist invokes the Insurrection Act.

it looks to be happening folx

cross-posted from: https://rss.ponder.cat/post/201234

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https://x.com/MFA_Ukraine/status/1930577884889977099

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine considers the decision of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland to establish 11 July as a Day of Remembrance for the victims of the so-called “genocide committed by the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) in the eastern territories of the Second Polish Republic” to fly in the face of the spirit of good neighbourly relations between Ukraine and Poland.

In WW2, it is historically known that the OUN and UPA collaborated with Nazi Germany and engaged in genocidal campaigns of massacre against the Polish and their own people. While I'm not particularly fond of contemporary Poland, I fully support them in ensuring the truth of the crimes perpetrated against them by nazi Germany and their rabid Ukrainian fascist dogs isn't buried in the name of appeasing the modern Ukrainian fascist state.

Such unilateral steps do not contribute to achieving mutual understanding and reconciliation, which our countries have been working on for a long time, particularly in the format of the Joint Ukrainian-Polish Working Group on Historical Issues, which operates with the participation of the ministries of culture and national memory institutions from both countries.

Which constantly is having problems from what I hear through the grapevine, which isn't surprising concidering the representatives of the current Ukrainian government have been constantly engaging in fascist palingenetic ultranationalist historical revisionism in a vain attempt to turn their fascist national myth forgery into reality.

Ukraine consistently advocates for a scientific and unbiased study of the complex pages of our shared history. We are convinced that the path to true reconciliation lies through dialogue, mutual respect and joint work by historians, rather than through unilateral political assessments.

Never have I ever seen modern country actively use actual nazi race science (shut up I know you're about to snicker to yourself and say 'what about America'. I know!) To create a whole separate and distictive race of pure blue eyed blonde haired Ukrainians that's being contaminated by "filthy asiatics" of Russia. They literally use fucking skull calipers to differentiate between pure Ukrainian stock and barbaric spawn born from "miscegenation". The fucking Poles should call them out more openly.

We urge the Polish side to refrain from steps that could lead to increased tension in bilateral relations and undermine the achievements gained through constructive dialogue and cooperation between Ukraine and Poland.

Such as recognizing genocidal massacres done by the current Ukrainian regime's nazi heroes

Despite the bias and political context of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland's decision, we continue to conduct search and exhumation work in Ukraine and Poland, respectively. We have already achieved practical results in this area, which should be developed further in the future

Anti-fascism is completely unbiased and unpolitical. As far as I'm concerned it's simply a scientific process of sociological pathology.

Once again, we remind you that Poles should not look for enemies among Ukrainians, and Ukrainians should not look for enemies among Poles. We have a common enemy – Russia.

5 bucks for when Ukraine loses, there's gonna be acts of revanchist terrorism against the Polish People.

For the sake of the common strength, freedom and security of our two friendly countries, we must resolve problematic issues together, rather than exacerbating them.

Easy solution. Denounce your nazi ideology, purge the fascists from the government, then round up all the fascists and offer them to either die running into Russian machine gun fire or die running away from Ukrainian machine gun fire.

LOS ANGELES, June 6 (Reuters) - Helmeted police in riot gear turned out on Friday evening in a tense confrontation with protesters in downtown Los Angeles, after a day of federal immigration raids in which dozens of people across the city were reported to be taken into custody.

Live Reuters video showed Los Angeles Police Department officers lined up on a downtown street wielding batons and what appeared to be tear gas rifles, facing off with demonstrators after authorities had ordered crowds of protesters to disperse around nightfall.

Early in the standoff, some protesters hurled chunks of broken concrete toward officers, and police responded by firing volleys of tear gas and pepper spray. Police also fired "flash-bang" concussion rounds. It was not clear whether there were any immediate arrests.

An LAPD spokesperson, Drake Madison, told Reuters that police on the scene had declared an unlawful assembly, meaning that those who failed to leave the area were subject to arrest.

Television news footage earlier in the day showed caravans of unmarked military-style vehicles and vans loaded with uniformed federal agents streaming through Los Angeles streets as part of the immigration enforcement operation.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents targeted several locations, including a Home Depot in the city's Wetlake District, an apparel store in the Fashion District and a clothing warehouse in South Los Angeles, according to the Los Angeles City News Service (CNS).

CNS and other local media reported dozens of people were taken into custody during the raids, the latest in a series of such sweeps conducted in a number of cities as part of President Donald Trump's extensive crackdown on illegal immigration.

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-send-vice-premier-he-lifeng-britain-us-trade-talks-2025-06-07/

A deadly station roof-canopy collapse in Novi Sad, Serbia, last fall sparked months of protests. Blockades and rallies have mobilized masses of people — but the difficulty forcing institutional change has made some activists look to the electoral arena.