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![1/6 Settlers have set up an outpost less than 24 hours after four Palestinians were killed and four others wounded — three critically — after Israeli settlers attacked the town of Tel, southwest of Nablus, under the protection of Israeli forces. Within 24 hours, a UK-sanctioned contractor uprooted hundreds of olive trees, the outpost went up on the same site, and settlers filmed themselves narrating what comes next. "The retaliation [against] the murderous people's village has begun". Drop Site contributor Younis Tirawi | يونس breaks down the past 24 hours. 🧵](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2081050132355641722/amplify_video_thumb/2081049655173890048/img/LJtX_Dg7fHWpcqi5.jpg)
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"Let's leave universities alone." A bill coming up for a vote in the House would deny federal funding to any university that chooses to divest from Israel, Israeli companies, or Israeli institutions — including those in the occupied West Bank and settlements. Drop Site's Julian Andreone asked members of Congress: what constitutional grounds exist for a bill that ties federal funding to whether a university invests in a foreign government?
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💢 “Why should a child filling up water die?”: Israeli attack kills four, including two children and a woman, in Gaza City Eight others were also wounded in Tuesday’s attack in the Al-Katiba area of western Gaza City, where families had gathered to collect water. “We were just sitting there, minding our business. Nothing was happening. The water tanker came, and we started filling up water, us and our children,” Faiza Al-Bahtini, the aunt of one of the children killed, told Drop Site’s Mohamed Ahmed. “Then we heard gunfire coming from every direction. After that, the vehicles came, the Israelis started bombing, and the massacre happened.” The Israeli military claimed its special forces were targeting the head of Hamas’s internal security apparatus in Gaza and accompanying strikes were carried out to “remove threats.” A resistance-affiliated security channel said the operation targeted a senior Hamas figure but was thwarted, while acknowledging that a security official was abducted. It said three “collaborators” who provided support and intelligence were detained. Members of Israeli-backed Palestinian militias were reportedly seen in the area during the attack. “My nephew was martyred. His brother was wounded. Their mother was wounded too, covered in shrapnel and badly burned,” Al-Bahtini said. “Wherever we go, wherever we are displaced to, there is bombing around us. Where are we supposed to go?” Abu al-Abd, an eyewitness who was filling water with his four children, said: “What is the crime of a child filling up water? … Because a child was filling up water, Netanyahu shot at him. What have these children done to you? Go and see for yourselves so you know we’re telling the truth. Go look at those killed. They’re all children.” 🎥 Mohamed Ahmed
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🚨Nine-year-old Palestinian child Israa al-Hissi was shot and killed by Israeli forces east of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza on Tuesday. She was one of three children among at least 7 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since Tuesday morning. 🎥 Salah_ostaz, Yousef Deeb
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🇻🇪 Venezuela’s US-installed government unveils 25-year oil deal handing American firms access to vast reserves Venezuelan acting President Delcy Rodríguez addressed the nation on Saturday night detailing a 25-year energy agreement with the United States that opens the country’s oil fields to US capital. The deal comes 8 months after US special forces captured and removed President Nicolás Maduro on January 3, installing Rodríguez as interim leader. In her address, she framed the agreement as preserving “sovereignty,” saying Venezuela retains ownership of its resources while inviting US investment. Other details: 🔸 The plan covers 17 strategic fields with 65 billion barrels of proven reserves, roughly a fifth of Venezuela’s total, plus eight undeveloped “greenfield” blocks in the Orinoco Belt. 🔸 Rodríguez projected over $100 billion in investment and more than $209 billion in state tax revenue, with production targeted to exceed 1.5 million barrels per day. 🔸 Chevron, which has operated in Venezuela for a century, is among the firms expected to finalize expanded stakes, alongside other international majors. 🎥 Full speech in English.
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🚘 Professor Jeffrey Sachs joined Drop Site’s Ryan Grim and Murtaza Hussain after traveling 15,000 kilometers from Rome to Hong Kong in a Chinese electric vehicle this summer to tell us what he learned. He said he encountered modern, middle-class societies across Asia, with roadside shopping malls “indistinguishable from what you would see in Cincinnati or Pittsburgh or upstate New York,” and infrastructure often newer than America’s. In our full interview, now live on YouTube, Sachs argues that Washington mistook American dominance, born from two world wars, protected shores and an influx of scientific talent, for a permanent and natural order. That delusion, he says, led the U.S. to assume it could maintain primacy over Eurasia, home to 70% of humanity, despite America accounting for just 4.2%. 🔗 Watch on YouTube at link below.
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NEW: Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is finally defending streamer Hasan Piker, rejecting a “massive effort to cancel Hasan” and arguing that critics are deliberately distorting his views. “They’re trying to equate him and David Duke and him and Nick Fuentes,” El-Sayed said. “The fact that they’re working so hard to character assassinate him suggests that there is a disjunct there between what he’s actually saying and what people hear him saying who actually pay attention.” El-Sayed said Piker streams for hours every day, making it easy for opponents to selectively clip him: “Whenever anybody tries to cut you out of context, they’re never doing it in good faith.” He also stressed that he agrees with Piker on a great deal: “There are a lot of things he says that I deeply agree with. People deserve health care. We shouldn’t be fighting dumb wars. The war in Iran is ridiculous. Donald Trump is a fascist. All true.” While saying there are also comments he disagrees with, El-Sayed argued that “if you sat down with Hasan” and asked whether he hates particular groups of people, “it’s not what they’re trying to turn him into.” He accused Republican opponent Mike Rogers of using guilt by association because he has “nothing to say about anything.”
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⛽️ Trump is talking up a recovery in oil supplies, declaring “Hormuz Oil Volumes are BACK!” and circulating a graphic showing flows at 18 million barrels a day, close to prewar levels. The available shipping data does not yet establish that recovery. 🔹 The 18 million-barrel figure matches a claim by U.S. officials, reported by CNN, about vessels escorted through Hormuz on a single day on Monday. Even if confirmed, one day’s passage would not establish a sustained daily rate. 🔹 The accompanying Kpler-based chart shows a seven-day regional average of roughly 9 million barrels a day, with the latest two daily readings around 5–6 million. Crucially, those totals also include shipments from Fujairah and Oman that bypass Hormuz and Hormuz. The chart cautions that recent figures are preliminary and will revise upward as shipments are confirmed. 🔹 “Hardest they’ve leaned into a jawbone in a while,” Eurasia Group analyst Gregory Brew wrote of the administration’s effort to talk up flows. While transit data takes days to update, he noted, “right now flows don’t show such a big spike this week as the admin is claiming.” 🔹 Meanwhile, Saudi crude exports fell to around 3 million barrels a day in August, their lowest in records dating to early 2017, according to Bloomberg News, as Ansarallah attacks disrupted shipping through Hormuz and the Red Sea. 🔹 Trump’s boasts have not stopped oil’s rally. Brent was up 1.7% at $97.29 a barrel on Thursday, reaching a six-week high. 🔹 Brew also pointed to AAA’s U.S. diesel average of $5.78 a gallon. He said it looked “very likely” to surpass the all-time high of $5.82 a gallon, unadjusted for inflation, by Labor Day. Gasoline was also climbing, reaching $4.14 a gallon.
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💢 Israeli forces killed four Palestinians, one of them a child, and wounded others across Gaza on Thursday, the latest in daily violations of the ceasefire in effect since October. Filastin Online reported: 🔸 Military vehicles opened fire on civilians near the Abbas Kilani roundabout in northern Beit Lahia, killing 13-year-old Aayed Mohammed Ali Salama and Hisham Hani Sobh, and wounding several others. (Video) 🔸 In western Gaza City, an airstrike on an electric bike near the al-Nour Mosque killed Ahmed Fouad Halas. 🔸 Rescue teams recovered the body of Ahmed Maher al-Nuwairi, killed by Israeli fire northeast of Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza. 🔸 Medical teams began evacuating Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza after Israeli forces fired directly on the facility, medical sources told the outlet. 🎥 Video: Gaza City
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📹 “I don’t want any family to suffer the way my family has.” New Hampshire Senate candidate Karishma Manzur was seven when her father, a hero of Bangladesh’s independence war, was killed in military custody after being accused of involvement in President Ziaur Rahman’s assassination. She and her family were arrested and endured years of persecution. After finding refuge in America, she worked multiple minimum-wage jobs just to cover rent. Her mother and sister both died young after years without access to health care, she says. Now challenging establishment Democrat Chris Pappas, she spoke to Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky about why her fight for universal health care, livable wages, and an end to war profiteering is deeply personal. Ryan Grim | Breaking Points | Karishma Manzur for Senate | Emily Jashinsky
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Jewish surgeon Dr. Mark Perlmutter, who stars in the new documentary American Doctor, calls Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer “prostitutes for the Israeli lobby.” He says srael’s influence over Washington is so extensive that “the United States Congress building is the most occupied territory by Israel.” “It’s not the West Bank. It’s not Gaza. It’s the U.S. Congress.”
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🎥 “I think we’re going to have a major financial correction as the geopolitical bubble also bursts.” Dr. Jeffrey Sachs tells Ryan Grim and Murtaza Hussain that belief in enduring U.S. dominance is inflating expectations for American stocks, particularly the biggest tech companies. He argues that investors are overlooking competition from cheaper Chinese AI models, weakening demand for U.S. Treasury debt, and a shift of capital toward Asia. Sachs predicts we’ll look back on today’s stock market boom as we do the dot-com bubble and 2008, asking: “What were they thinking?” 🔗 Watch the full interview on YouTube at the link below.
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Briahna Joy Gray argues that the political debate over “defund the police” has been deliberately narrowed to whether the phrase is electorally damaging and what the wording means, rather than whether its underlying policy should be defended. Gray argues that “defund could not be more literal,” and says opponents have succeeded in pushing politicians to debate the phrase instead of explaining or defending their previous support for “defund the police.” She points to continued growth in police budgets since 2020 and argues that the underlying case for “defunding” is “one of the easiest things to prove and support.” Briahna Joy Gray | Famous Wealthy Youtuber F.D Signifier
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KRISTEN WELKER: Why join the DSA if you disagree with various parts of their platform? Does it not just become a distraction from your own campaign and your own agenda? ANGIE NIXON: You all are the only ones that are distracted. I’m actually going out, talking to voters about the things that matter to them. And so we should make sure that we’re pivoting to the right conversations. The fact remains that there are people who are dying because they don’t have access to quality health care.
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🇵🇷 “For 128 years of U.S. rule, Puerto Rico has been a colony” Darializa Avila Chevalier, the Democratic nominee for Congress in New York’s 13th District, marked the 128th anniversary of the July 25, 1898 U.S. invasion of Puerto Rico by calling for an end to American colonial rule and declaring her support for the island’s independence. U.S. troops landed at Guánica during the Spanish-American War, and Spain ceded the island under the Treaty of Paris without any input from Puerto Ricans. In 1900 the Foraker Act established that Puerto Rico “belongs to the United States, but is not the United States, nor a part of the United States,” a formula that has defined its status ever since. Congress imposed U.S. citizenship in 1917, months before Puerto Ricans were drafted into World War I, yet residents still cannot vote for president and have no voting representation in Congress. Avila Chevalier pointed to widespread poverty, recurring blackouts, the federal response to Hurricane Maria and the unelected fiscal oversight board known as La Junta, which was imposed by Congress in 2016 to restructure the island’s debt and holds power over its budget above the elected government. “I also support independence for the Puerto Rican people,” she said. “Because after 128 years, it’s the least the people on the island deserve.” 🎥 Darializa for Congress (via Instagram)
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Ta-Nehisi Coates on Kamala Harris’ 2024 Presidential campaign: “And yet… why are we here? Are we here to just act like white men have acted everytime before?” “The struggle means to me not just that we would get the boot of our necks, but that we would destroy the boot, that this would not happen to other people.”
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Political streamer Hasan Piker notes that more establishment Democrats have condemned him over comments he did not make than have demanded the release of Sama Safi, a 20-year-old American imprisoned by Israel without charge in the occupied West Bank since June. Her doctors warn that Israel’s denial of adequate medical care puts her at risk of irreversible, life-threatening damage to her internal organs. As journalist Prem Thakker points out, Chris Van Hollen is the only potential 2028 presidential contender in the Senate who has called on the Trump administration to secure Safi’s release. Van Hollen is also introducing a resolution requiring the State Department to provide answers about nine Americans killed in the West Bank since 2022 with zero accountability, as well as the broader abuses Palestinians face under Israeli occupation. He says he will bring it to a vote when Congress returns.
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The New Yorker’s David Remnick asks DSA co-chair Megan Romer whether “Israel has a right to defend itself.”
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🇺🇸 House Speaker Mike Johnson snapped at CNN after being confronted over his repeated predictions that the Iran war would end quickly and cause only a “temporary blip” in gas prices. Breaking Points’ Ryan Grim called Johnson’s response “such an impressive assertion of powerlessness” that he “thought that was a Democrat for a second.” Ryan Grim | Emily Jashinsky | Breaking Points
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![🇵🇸 Gaza engineers salvage damaged medical equipment to keep hospitals running In the face of crumbling medical equipment, teams of engineers in Gaza have resorted to salvaging parts from damaged machinery and refitting them in a desperate attempt to repair what they can and restore some functionality to various medical devices. “We now collect equipment damaged during the [Israeli] ground incursion and the bombing of the hospital. We collect them, dismantle matching equipment of the same type, salvage and repair the parts, and then reassemble the equipment,” Ahmed Younis, an engineer at Al-Shifa Hospital told Drop Site. “We have managed to restore only around 15% of the hospital’s equipment. Most of the equipment needs to be replaced and is difficult to repair under the current conditions.” “But the equipment is not operating at the level of efficiency it is supposed to,” he warned. “The MRI machines and other radiology equipment, such as CT scanners and lithotripsy machines, were completely destroyed.” The lack of functional diagnostic equipment has severely impaired doctors’ abilities to treat patients in Gaza. “This has resulted in severe complications and, in some cases, patients have lost their lives because we were unable to determine the correct diagnosis,” Dr. Mohammed Amin Matar, the head of the radiology department at Al-Shifa, told Drop Site.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2093046995132833877/amplify_video_thumb/2093046615481139200/img/YQuKPgjDd7xHpw3I.jpg)
🇵🇸 Gaza engineers salvage damaged medical equipment to keep hospitals running In the face of crumbling medical equipment, teams of engineers in Gaza have resorted to salvaging parts from damaged machinery and refitting them in a desperate attempt to repair what they can and restore some functionality to various medical devices. “We now collect equipment damaged during the [Israeli] ground incursion and the bombing of the hospital. We collect them, dismantle matching equipment of the same type, salvage and repair the parts, and then reassemble the equipment,” Ahmed Younis, an engineer at Al-Shifa Hospital told Drop Site. “We have managed to restore only around 15% of the hospital’s equipment. Most of the equipment needs to be replaced and is difficult to repair under the current conditions.” “But the equipment is not operating at the level of efficiency it is supposed to,” he warned. “The MRI machines and other radiology equipment, such as CT scanners and lithotripsy machines, were completely destroyed.” The lack of functional diagnostic equipment has severely impaired doctors’ abilities to treat patients in Gaza. “This has resulted in severe complications and, in some cases, patients have lost their lives because we were unable to determine the correct diagnosis,” Dr. Mohammed Amin Matar, the head of the radiology department at Al-Shifa, told Drop Site.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates rejects blaming voters who wouldn’t back Kamala Harris over Gaza for her loss to Trump in 2024, saying many were asked to vote for a Democratic administration enabling a genocide against their own families. “That’s you. That’s not me. And that’s not who I want to be,” he said. He drew a historical parallel: Black Americans didn’t accept being sacrificed for Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, whose Social Security and housing programs were written to exclude most Black workers in order to win Southern votes, and Frederick Douglass pressured and publicly criticized Abraham Lincoln through much of the Civil War, warming to him only late. The author of The Case for Reparations added, “If we get access to any sort of power, we can’t do what was done to us.”
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