Today, Brad Lander, rabbis, and other New Yorkers accompanied Palestinian farmers during the olive harvest. For that, they were detained by the Israeli government.  Harvesting olives is not illegal. The occupation is. I am thankful that Brad has been released. But other New Yorkers remain detained, and they must be released immediately. The same Israeli government detaining them has committed a horrific genocide against Palestinians, killing more than 74,000 people over the last few years alone.  The detention of these New Yorkers must end. The occupation must end. The genocide must end.

There is a very disturbing trend being seen in early voting. Texas, Florida, Tennessee, Ohio are reporting difficulties getting the machines to accept democratic votes. The machines change them back to Republican unless the voter persists, pressing several times to get the correct vote to go through. Check your machine, check to see that it accepted the correct vote. Make sure your voice counts.

RT @PaperWhispers: 95%* of Black children in the UK have heard or directly experienced racist abuse at school. It is interesting that ther…

George Cottrell also forged a passport but @reformparty_uk did not report him - in fact, they even put his former boss Mehrtash A'zami, who knew about the identity fraud, as their treasurer.

MR. LIN FROM THE CHINESE TAKEOUT I don't know how many hours Mr. Lin works in a day. And I can't remember exactly how many daughters he and Mrs. Lin have. But I do know that for years, maybe 30 years, as I've stopped down at his takeout, the last real business in the empty strip plaza, he has been there, over the burners, moving like the wind. Mrs. Lin has been beside him, synchronized, each of them cooking, feeding my family and some evenings it seems like half of our town. Hours on end, years on end, growing gray in our service. With the girls at a table by the window in the front. Coloring and drawing when they were younger, pouring over their homework when they were older, hopping up to run the cash register or take an order. Remembering the names of everyone in town, addressing us all as Mr. So and So or Mrs. So and So. Happy family. That's always what I order. Happy family. And that is what they are. A happy family. In the land of the free. One of the best personifications of the American dream I've ever seen in my life. For years, it seemed like if it wasn't a Lin girl who was the valedictorian up at the school it was a Medina boy from out on the farm. The two best families in town were the two whose parents spoke the worst English. We went to Lin graduation parties, we cheered as they played soccer, we heard reports back from college, we kept the secret when one was dating a boy from a couple of towns over. We wondered at how Mr. and Mrs. Lin could work so hard. We wondered how they could keep it up with the girls almost all grown. And we love them. They are good people. A good family. Wonderful daughters, and a mother and father who were best judged, like Jesus said, by the fruits they bore -- the girls they raised, the business they ran and the community they served. Until today. In the brilliant sun of a cool autumn day. In a town named after the financier of the Revolution; in a county named after a signer of the Declaration; in a village where the man who wrote the Pledge of Allegiance was born. Until today. In a traffic stop as he drove to work. A couple of heavyset fellas, in tactical vests, with one of them in a Buffalo Bills cap. Within sight of the takeout which Mr. Lin may never see again. Within sight of the takeout where the mayor and school superintendent would soon gather to support the family. It was federal officers. Agents of an administration that's a stickler for civil immigration law but seemingly blind to constitutional constraint. An administration I voted for but which has metastasized into a cancer on the body politic. And today my country embraces Putin and kicks out Lin. And I've had enough. It makes no sense anymore. But my problem is fixed with a voter-registration form. I don't know how to fix Mr. Lin's problem. I don't know how to convince an autocratic government that snatching up a salt-of-the earth family to meet a deportation quota is immoral and wrong, and contrary to the values that made America great. The politicians say we need to keep it quiet. But that didn't work in Iraq or Syria or Guatemala or Argentina or Pakistan. Silence in the face of evil is complicity. And when the Declaration said that all are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, it meant all. Even the man who cooks your Chinese takeout. And a country or a political party that isn't smart enough to figure out how to throw out the bad people and keep the good people has larger problems than immigration. Mr. Lin is a better man than I, and he has proved it year after year down at the strip plaza, where he and his wife raised their girls and fed our town. He has earned the right to be here, as assuredly as my birth gives me the right to be here.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Navi Pillay has called for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stand trial for genocide in Gaza. trib.al/YAT9y9I

I’ve been detained by the IDF, along with a group of rabbis & volunteers. We were simply harvesting olives in a grove near Nehalim in the West Bank. The occupation is a crime under international law. Harvesting olives isn’t a crime under any law I know.

A complete lie," Hegseth said. Today: 21 dead, 865 wounded. 🚨 Pentagon just confirmed what they buried for weeks — soldiers' bodies hidden to protect Trump. They knew. They lied. They counted the corpses in secret. Absolute monsters, and the flag they wrapped it in. 🔥

The new chair of the US vaccine advisory committee has questioned whether children still need the polio vaccine Polio is still circulating in parts of the world, and the only reason American kids don't get it is the vaccine. That's not a reason to stop. It's proof it works.

🚨#BREAKING: JD Vance’s Fraud Whistleblower Incentive Program has been flooded with reports of blatant fraud committed by Republicans in the Trump Administration & Congress. Over 97% of reports over the past 24 hours have been against corrupt MAGA politicians.

If you want to talk about illegally influencing an election... I have a big red bus to sell you.

I think it opens him right up to a defamation case...

If you're not watching Al Jazeera investigates live now, you *really* should The most remarkable undercover footage I've ever seen. Turning Point UK actively involved in soliciting what they think is a hit UK police really need to be watching aljazeera.com/video/live

Remember Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak announced Eat Out to Help Out without consulting the scientists? Turns out Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper proscribed PA as a terrorist org without involving the UK’s National Security Adviser, Jonathan Powell. What a scandal!

Farage is now polling at the same level as Starmer before he resigned so why aren’t you advocating daily for Farage’s resignation? @ChrisMasonBBC @SamCoatesSky @bbc5live

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The UK cannot have an inquiry into Gaza because it would prove conclusively that the UK has provided non-stop surveillance flights over Gaza, the pictures of which have been used for Genocide And that the UK has also allowed weapons to be produce non-stop in the UK to commit 1/2

I now have absolutely no doubt that Donald Trump has major mental decline. Just think for one minute if Joe Biden had waved into the abyss like Trump just did here. Imagine what Fox News would be saying. There is absolutely no rational explanation for this that I can see. How about you?

Do you get it yet? The US is in deep 💩💩💩 and so is the rest of the world. #TrumpIsATraitor #TrumpIsARussianAsset #TrumpIsCorrupt #MAGA #MAGAMORONS