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Video: British police are using Palestine Action proscription to target even mentioning Palestine, Gaza or freedom in protests of any kind. If you tick off having 2 opinions that are associated with Palestine Action the police have reasonable cause to suspect you of support for a proscribed terrorist organisation and to act on that. For example supporting Palestine and wishing for Gaza to be freed meet this threshold.

https://skwawkbox.org/2025/07/15/video-police-using-palestine-action-proscription-to-target-even-mention-of-palestine-gaza-freedom/

So yeah. Currently the vast majority of the population would meet the criteria.

Pro-Palestine protesters breach fence of Edinburgh arms firm factory

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25314744.pro-palestine-protesters-breach-fence-edinburgh-arms-firm-factory/

Proscribing Palestine Action was never going to stop anything.

John MacArthur, pastor of the Grace Community Church megachurch and founder of Grace to You Ministries is dead at 86

Most of you who were not raised in American Evangelicalism probably don’t know who this bozo was, but for those who were, please celebrate with me!

Reddit is introducing a photo ID requirement for anyone in the UK to see anything on the site marked as nsfw.

https://hexbear.net/post/5560292

This is quite bad for queer people, particularly access to some very important trans subs. /r/transdiy for example has the entire sub marked as nsfw.

Belgian court bans further transit of all military equipment to Israel in landmark ruling

https://pers.11.be/belgian-court-bans-further-transit-of-all-military-equipment-to-israel-in-landmark-ruling

In its ruling, the court immediately prohibits the Flemish government from authorizing any new transit to Israel. Since 2009, there has been an agreement that no arms strengthening Israel's armed forces would be exported — a policy that in practice has been severely undermined. To enforce the ban on new transits, the court has imposed a penalty of €50,000 per shipment that still leaves for Israel. The judge criticized the Flemish government for providing little to no information and stated that Flanders gave the impression it "did not have the situation under control." This passive attitude is particularly problematic given the “crushing responsibility,” the judge said.

“Some of our favs may be implicated.”

After celebrating the overthrow of Assad and staying silent for months of pogroms against Syrian minorities (and attacks on other Palestinian factions), Hamas has bravely come out to condemn the “martyrdom” of the HTS militants bombed by Israel in Syria. Their position on Syria overall remains a major weak point and one to be dissected

https://t.me/hamaswestbank1/8584

Here’s some footage of the mass executions, church burning, and drone bombing that HTS have committed in the last 24 hours:

https://t.me/stayfreeworld/45260

https://t.me/nayaforiraq/35095

https://t.me/PalCommie/5591

Anyways, these future “martyrs” are now marching on Al-Suwayda after failing to take it yesterday. Hoping for safety for anyone not fighting for Zionist interests, as of right now Israel is backing both horses

https://xcancel.com/johnkonrad/status/1945308143212249566

Massive shipbuilding changes in DC. None of them good. @gCaptain has confirmed from a White House source that Trump has closed the shipbuilding office at the NSC. Reuters reports that Ian Bennitt, the President’s Special Assistant for Shipbuilding at the White House, has been fired. Favored candidates for Provost and Superintendent positions at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy have received denial notices. At a recent USNI shipbuilding conference, it became clear: major shipbuilding primes are actively fighting plans to expand commercial shipbuilding.

Sources inside the Pentagon say Admirals and SES are digging in their heels on several key shipbuilding objectives. Some Jones Act companies now expressing fear that building new ships could devalue their current fleets.

lol. lmao

Congressional sources say progress on the SHIPS Act is stalling in committee. It’s also unlikely the new Commandant will be confirmed before the August break. We’ve confirmed that the French billionaire who offered to invest $20B in U.S. shipping sent a letter to Trump saying he’s not getting the support he needs to move forward. The U.S. Coast Guard is slashing cutter orders left and right.

Reports from my sources in Korea say the new far-left, pro-China president is chilling U.S.-Korean shipyard cooperation.

man, I love when Americans will label the most milquetoast of libs as communists for simply not being frothing-at-the-mouth psychos

Nobody has seen or heard from @SecDuffy’s new acting Maritime Administrator. The plan to centralize shipbuilding under the Department of Commerce is apparently stalled or stalling. I spoke with half a dozen senior sources in DC—every single one is frustrated. Yes, there’s still optimism around @SECNAV’s commitment to shipbuilding but his plate is full with emerging priorities. Not a single Admiral has publicly supported the SHIPS Act or the White House’s “Restoring America’s Maritime Dominance” plan.

Deadlines are being missed or pencil-whipped on the Maritime Executive Order, and with the NSC shipbuilding office closing, no one knows how the next deadline will be met. Zero follow-through on Trump’s State of the Union promise to open a dedicated White House shipbuilding office. New intel confirms more Navy shipbuilding delays, including further slippage in carrier programs. ... It’s been 252 days since the election, and not a single new ship has been ordered.

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The Baltimore Bridge removal is delayed another 9 months, and retrofits to prevent future bridge strikes around the nation are postponed. Still zero word from @PeteHegseth on fixing the Army Corps of Engineers, the agency responsible for inland rivers and dredging. What am I missing? The number of panicked and/or depressed calls I’ve received from DC in the last few days is unreal. I’m struggling to find a silver lining.

It's clear Israeli expansionism is going to collapse the US client system in West Asia, fascism doesn't know when to stop, a smart group of genociders would use a mercenary regime like HTS to attack its enemies in Lebanon or pay to ship them to Gaza and Yemen to do it's dirty work

But no, Israel is actively trying to destroy its new client sibling, because an ideology of racial supremacy demands it for the sake of short term popularity in Israeli polls

Another good sign that there is no long term viability for this disgusting nazi abomination

Did trump just order coke to put cane sugar back in the soda the same week as slapping Brazil with a ludicrous tariff?

Massive arms shipment from Iran to Ansarallah/Houthis in Yemen was intercepted by the US and Saudi Arabian supported Yemeni groups/government, known as the "National Resistance Force". Apparently a 750 ton shipment. Many components, referred to as knockdown kits (weapon comes disassembled in many different parts, and is reassembled after shipping, like giant Legos), for anti ship ballistic and cruise missiles, electro optical seekers for anti ship ballistic missiles, surface to air missiles, MANPADs, and most interestingly an Iranian clone of the US "counter UAV" Coyote system, one way attack drone components, manuals for the weapons systems (the manual posted is instructions for how to use a rangefinder), etc. Too much to identify right now. Anyone familiar with Iranian and Yemeni missiles will immediately recognise many components in the pictures. Feel free to reply and comment on anything you recognise or find interesting.

Obviously this is quite a negative development, as the US will get first hand access to some of Iran's most advanced weaponry, and the large shipment of weapons will not arrive in Yemen. It is confirmation that the Iranian and Yemeni arsenal of weapons is very similar (if not the exact same), and that Yemen gets the "latest and greatest" from Iran.

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