Barbaric Israel Authorities Responsible for 2/3 of Press Killings Worldwide
/More journalists and media workers were killed in 2025 than in any other year since the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) began collecting data more than three decades ago.
This is the second consecutive year-on-year record for press deaths.
Israel was responsible for two-thirds of all press killings in both 2025 and 2024.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has committed more targeted killings of journalists than any other government’s military since CPJ began documentation in 1992.
Drone killings of press members are on the rise: surging from two in 2023 — the first year CPJ documented such killings — to 39 in 2025.
At least 104 of the 129 journalists and media workers were killed amid conflicts in 2025. While the number of journalists killed in Ukraine and Sudan increased, the majority were Palestinians killed by Israel.
Very few transparent investigations have been held into the cases of targeted killings documented by CPJ in 2025, and no one has been held accountable in any of these cases. [MORE]
Gallup Ends Presidential Approval Polling After 88 Years—Likely Because an Unwanted, Unpopular President Disapproved
/The Gallup Poll announced this month it would no longer measure presidential approval or other national leadership ratings. It was a surprise to pollsters and journalists who report on public opinion, because George Gallup was the pollster who initiated presidential approval ratings in the 1930s. Over the past nine decades, the organization has developed the most extensive database available, allowing journalists to compare approval ratings among all presidents since Franklin D. Roosevelt at various stages of their tenure.
In fact, that very ability may have been the catalyst for Gallup dropping the ratings. Last November, Gallup (11/28/25) reported President Donald Trump’s approval rating as the lowest in his second term (36%), just barely above his lowest rating ever in January 2021, after he fomented the insurrection in an effort to avoid leaving office. His average approval rating in his first term was the lowest of any president since such polling began.
The November report also noted that Trump’s net approval ratings had dropped significantly on several items since the previous February/March: immigration (-9 points), situation in the Middle East (-7), economy (-6), federal budget (-12) and the situation in Ukraine (-10).
The December report (12/22/25) was not any better. Trump’s approval rating remained at 36%, while ratings on seven other personal characteristics were at a new low or near a new low:
Also problematic for Gallup was that its approval ratings consistently showed numbers below the average of other polls. Across ten approval ratings Gallup published in 2025, the net rating averaged 8.7 points lower than the average that Nate Silver (formerly of 538 and now of Silver Bulletin) compiled from other polls. [MORE]
Lynching Commission says Maryland Authorities and Agencies were Complicit in ‘Racial Terror,’ Officially Niggerized Blacks between 1854 and 1933
/From [HERE] 38. That's the number of unresolved murder cases Maryland’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission has documented in its final report.
Lawmakers created the commission six years ago to research Maryland’s history of racial terror through lynching between 1854 and 1933.
The work is now complete, and the board has sent 84 recommendations to the General Assembly aimed at repairing the harm caused by these killings.
Commissioner Nicholas Creary spoke about the findings and why the work matters. The transcript below has been edited for clarity and length.
KAMAU: Nicholas, how did you first get pulled into this work? What drew you to this history, and how did that lead to your role on the Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission?
CREARY: It actually started as a research project with students when I was teaching at Bowie State University. We were surprised to see there was a racial terror lynching in Prince George's County, not far from campus. We went through that and saw the numbers of of racial terror lynchings that occurred across the state. I began thinking about the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. And thought, ‘What would something like that look like if we were to do that here in Maryland? ’
UN Backs Resolution that Calls the Transatlantic Slave Trade "the Gravest Crime Against Humanity." Israel and US Authorities Voted Against It
/From [HERE] The United Nations General Assembly this week overwhelmingly backed a resolution declaring the transatlantic slave trade "the gravest crime against humanity".
Welcoming the vote, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that the wealth of many Western nations was "built on stolen lives and stolen labour".
Noting the "barbaric punishments that maintained control - from shackles and iron collars to flogging and sexual violence", he said it "was not simply forced labour".
"It was a machinery of mass exploitation and deliberate dehumanisation of men, women and children. The wounds run deep and often go unrecognised."
The resolution, backed by African and Caribbean countries, is not legally binding but analysts say it sends a powerful message.
Almaz Teffera, a senior researcher on racism at Human Rights Watch says it could increase the chance of progress on discussions about reparations, or some form of compensation.
The resolution was adopted by 123 votes to three, while 52 countries abstained, including the United Kingdom and EU member states.
The United States, Argentina and Israel voted against it. [MORE]
Herds of Sheople Beg for Better Masters at “No Kings” Parade; Preferring to be Ruled by Representatives of a Tyrannical Majority and to Obey Authority They Disagree with Under the Threat of Violence
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BUT WHY HAVE ANY MASTER? Larken Rose states, How many millions have gazed upon the brutal horrors of history, with its countless examples of man’s inhumanity to man, and wondered aloud how such things could happen? The truth is, most people wouldn’t want to know how it happens, because they themselves are religiously attached to the very belief that makes it possible. The vast majority of suffering and injustice in the world, today and spanning back thousands of years, can be directly attributed to a single idea. It is not greed or hatred, or any of the other emotions or ideas that are usually blamed for the evils of society. Instead, most of the violence, theft, assault and murder in the world is the result of a mere superstition – a belief which, though almost universally held, runs contrary to all evidence and reason (though, of course, those who hold the belief do not see it that way). The “punch line” of this book is easy to express, albeit difficult for most people to accept, or even to calmly and rationally contemplate:
The belief in “authority,” which includes all belief in “government,” is irrational and self- contradictory; it is contrary to civilization and morality, and constitutes the most dangerous, destructive superstition that has ever existed. Rather than being a force for order and justice, the belief in “authority” is the arch-enemy of humanity.
Of course, nearly everyone is raised to believe the exact opposite: that obedience to “authority” is a virtue (at least in most cases), that respecting and complying with the “laws” of “government” is what makes us civilized, and that disrespect for “authority” leads only to chaos and violence. In fact, people have been so thoroughly trained to associate obedience with “being good” that attacking the concept of “authority” will sound, to most people, like suggesting that there is no such thing as right and wrong, no need to abide by any standards of behavior, no need to have any morals at all. That is not what is being advocated here – quite the opposite. [MORE]
Contrary to Massa Media, the US Gov are Not Viewed as “Liberators" but as White Supremacists in Iran: Hundreds of Thousands Martyrize the Murder of Khamenei after Attack on Another Non-White Country
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According to FUNKTIONARY:
terrorist – terrorist – a name or label for anyone that the over-rulers (ruling elite families) of these United (against us) States have declared war on. 2) anyone who challenges America’s hegemonic self-appointed right to rule the world. The distinction between a so-called freedom fighter and a terrorist is in the hands of those who have the power to define and propagandize their own subjective reality to make it an objective truth of others. A freedom-fighter typically is fighting an invader or occupier of his native land that has been stolen, whereas as terrorist is typically the one who has invaded or carried out acts of violence to take the land from an indigenous people. (See: War On Terrorism & Wargasm)
Hamid Dabashi: Trump-Netanyahu war aims to entrap Iranians into unconditional submission
/On Saturday, as President Donald Trump announced that the United States had launched a major attack on Iran, the Israeli military declared that the joint US-Israeli attack had targeted "dozens of military targets" in Iran.
Trump said the operation was intended to devastate Iran's military, eliminate its nuclear programme and bring about a change in its government.
Meanwhile, massive explosions were reported in Tehran, while residents said they were seeing smoke rising from districts believed to house senior Iranian officials.
As the world wakes up to this news and sits at the receiving end of multiple propaganda outlets trying to spin the news in one way or another, here are the four militant factors at work with the fate of more than 90 million human beings at stake.
The first factor is the unleashed power of the US military with Trump, an unhinged commander-in-chief eager and willing to distract attention from his domestic (Epstein files), regional (adventurism in Venezuela, Cuba and Greenland) and global (China and Russia) fiascos.
He habitually lied when he staged a false negotiation with the Iranians to buy time to have enough military buildup to strike Iran effectively.
In the US, this is a widely unpopular war waged on Iran. The singular task of the corporate media, led by The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, is now to sell this war as "preemptive".
They will fool no one. [MORE]
New Report says Black People Make Up 50% of the Homeless in Chicago despite being Only 33% of the Population
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PHOTO IS THE PROPERTY OF VINCENT BROWN, THE UNDECEIVER
From [HERE] More than 58,000 Chicagoans experienced homelessness in 2024, according to a new report from the Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness. The new data reveals homelessness in the city is more widespread than official counts show.
The report provides a stark contrast to the annual “point-in-time” count, a snapshot of the number of people experiencing homelessness in a single night, conducted each year by the Chicago Department of Family and Support Services. That count found that about 19,000 people were homeless in 2024. The city’s next point-in-time count will be Thursday night.
“The point-in-time count is flawed to begin with,” said M Nelsen, manager of city policy for the coalition. “It happens one night a year, in January. It’s led by volunteers, and it’s only going by the definition of homelessness as people who stay in emergency shelters or other places not meant for human habitation.”
Nelsen said volunteers may miss people living in abandoned buildings or in cars, or those couch surfing or staying at friends’ or relatives’ homes, what’s known as “doubled up.” Doubled-up homelessness, the report shows, is nearly three times more common than street and shelter homelessness in Chicago.
The coalition’s analysis found that 58,625 Chicagoans experienced homelessness in 2024, more than three times greater than the 18,836 reported by city officials for that year. The 2025 point-in-time count was 7,452 — a decrease resulting from fewer migrants seeking shelter than in 2024. The coalition will not have the 2025 tally until the end of this year due to a delay in data from the U.S. Census Bureau and other sources, Nelsen said.
“Both the estimate from the [coalition] report and the estimate from the 2024 [point-in-time] data are helpful. They represent different things, and we use these data points in different ways in our planning,” a spokesperson for the city’s family and support services said in a statement. The spokesperson added that the “point-in-time” count uses definitions of homelessness set by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
The report also showed that Black Chicagoans are disproportionately affected, with more than 12,000 in shelters or on the streets and nearly 21,000 doubled up. While Black Chicagoans make up less than one-third of Chicago’s population, they account for more than half of those experiencing homelessness.
Nelsen said the overall undercount of homeless Chicagoans matters because the point-in-time count is what is often used by lawmakers to create policies and allocate resources to combat homelessness. [MORE]
No Matter How Many Liberals Black People Help to Get Elected Their 2nd Class Citizenship Doesn’t Change: NYCLU Suit says 84% of NYPD Car Searches are of Blacks/Latinos, (whites Only 3%)
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From [HERE] the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU), The Bronx Defenders and Milbank LLP filed a lawsuit on behalf of the NAACP New York State Conference and two Black New Yorkers against the New York City Police Department (NYPD) for systematically targeting tens of thousands of Black and Latino drivers with unconstitutional vehicle searches. Black and Latino drivers are nearly ten times and six times more likely to have their cars searched by the NYPD than white drivers in New York City.
Following three NYCLU lawsuits in March, July, and October 2023 to obtain information on the NYPD’s vehicle stop practices, the NYCLU was able to reveal extreme racial disparities in the Department’s policing of Black and Latino drivers that were previously unknown to the public.
According to the most recent NYCLU analysis:
– The NYPD made 28,416 traffic searches in 2024, a nearly 83 percent increase from 2023.
– Over 84 percent of vehicle searches from 2022 until September 2025 were of Black or Latino drivers, while white drivers made up less than 4 percent of vehicle searches.
– In all 78 precincts, Black and Latino drivers were more likely to be searched after being stopped.
– The most searches occurred in Black and Latino neighborhoods. For example, the three precincts with the highest counts of vehicle searches are: the 75th Precinct where 83 percent of residents are Black or Latino, the 113th Precinct where 83 percent of residents are Black or Latino, and the 44th Precinct where 94 percent of residents are Black or Latino.
– The three precincts with the highest search rates are: the 113th Precinct where 83 percent of residents are Black or Latino, the 73rd Precinct where 89 percent of residents are Black or Latino, and the 46th Precinct where 94 percent of residents are Black or Latino.
– These vehicle searches almost never result in the recovery of a weapon.
“Far too many Black and Latino drivers in New York City are treated like criminals when their vehicles are searched during what should be routine traffic stops, merely because of the color of their skin. The NYPD’s targeting of Black and Latino drivers with baseless vehicle searches is nothing more than stop-and-frisk on wheels, and it must come to an end,” said Daniel Lambright, Senior Counsel for Criminal Justice Litigation at the New York Civil Liberties Union. “We call upon Mayor Mamdani to end this racist and shameful NYPD practice. The NYPD cannot treat our city like a constitution-free zone where Black and Brown New Yorkers’ rights don’t matter.”
The lawsuit alleges that the NYPD’s Vehicle Search Policy targets Black and Latino drivers for vehicle searches without reasonable suspicion or probable cause and thus violates the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments, as well as related state and local laws. The complaint details a pattern of NYPD officers stopping Black and Latino drivers for alleged minor traffic violations and then illegally searching their vehicles—purportedly for weapons and contraband—without probable cause or reasonable suspicion.
Further, many unlawful vehicle searches are perpetrated with the involvement of notoriously violent “anti-crime” units like the Neighborhood Safety Teams—a unit that the court-appointed NYPD Stop and-Frisk Monitor has found engages in a high amount of unlawful stops. While these unlawful searches purportedly seek to recover guns, they ultimately fail. Over 96 percent of vehicle searches conducted by the NYPD between January 1, 2022 and September 30, 2025 did not turn up any weapons.
Justin Cohen, one of the plaintiffs, is a 35-year-old Black man who was stopped by the NYPD in 2023 for allegedly speeding while driving in the Bronx late one night with his friend. Justin was frisked and the car he was driving was searched without probable cause or reasonable suspicion. Despite not finding anything illegal in the car, the officers seized the vehicle and arrested Justin. After being released from custody, over an hour after he was initially pulled over, Justin was given a speeding ticket that was ultimately dismissed. The New York City Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB), which is investigating the incident, concluded that the search of the vehicle was unlawful and racially biased.
“My ordeal at the hands of the NYPD adds to a long list of horrific stories about driving while Black and racial profiling,” said plaintiff Justin Cohen. “NYPD officers pulled me over in the middle of the night, subjected my friends and me to a humiliating search, and took my car away for no other reason than the color of my skin. This traumatizing experience has left a lasting impact on me. Now, anytime I get behind the wheel and see a police car, I feel my stomach drop. With this lawsuit, I want to help stop this from happening to anyone else.”
Christopher Oliver, another plaintiff, is a Black man who lives in New York City and who has been subjected to illegal vehicle searches by NYPD officers on at least four separate occasions. In each instance, Mr. Oliver did not consent to the search and officers did not have any legitimate basis to believe he was armed or in possession of a weapon. Officers did not issue Mr. Oliver a traffic ticket, let alone recovered any contraband, during any of these four unlawful searches.
“It’s awful every time the NYPD pulls me over and searches my car for no reason,” said plaintiff Christopher Oliver, “and it keeps on happening. I am now scared to drive anytime because I could get pointlessly pulled over and interrogated. But this is what driving while Black looks like in this city. I’m joining this lawsuit so the NYPD stops targeting me and other drivers for the color of our skin.”
“The New York Police Department has too often relied on race in lieu of probable cause to escalate routine traffic stops into unconstitutional vehicle searches,” said L. Joy Williams, President of NAACP New York State Conference. “Driving while Black is not a crime and Black New Yorkers should not be so routinely subjected to such traumatic treatment as if it was. This is not a new issue. We have fought back against pretextual stops and searches before and once again we find ourselves in the midst of a return to form for the NYPD. Now is the time to confront and correct this behavior that, if left unchecked, will continue to erode community trust in law enforcement.”
“These humiliating searches almost never turn up weapons or contraband,” said Anne Venhuizen, Deputy Director of the Impact Litigation Practice at The Bronx Defenders. “The NYPD is harassing our clients based on their race, full stop.”
From 2022 t0 2024, NYPD vehicle searches resulting from traffic stops more than doubled. The increase is related to the NYPD’s focus on low-level quality-of-life offenses, which has also contributed to a recent surge in NYPD misconduct complaints. There is no evidence that traffic stops advance public safety, and advocates nationwide have called for non-police alternatives to traffic enforcement. In 2020, Virginia passed legislation that limits traffic stops for minor violations. A similar bill has been introduced this year in New York, where 70 percent of voters support legislation to limit or end police enforcement of certain minor traffic violations to reduce unnecessary police interactions with drivers.
NYCLU Counsel on the case includes attorneys Daniel Lambright, Bobby Hodgson, Thomas Munson, Elizabeth Gyori, Ify Chikezie, Molly Biklen, paralegal Zawareen Zakaria, Senior Legal Investigator Soleiman Moustafa, and Senior Data and Research Strategist Melissa Avilez-Lopez. Co-Counsel from Milbank includes Katherine Kelly Fell, Nicole Valente, Ariadne Ellsworth and Camille Cummings.
You can find case materials here: https://www.nyclu.org/court-cases/naacp-v-city-of-ny
You can find a NYCLU video featuring first-hand testimony from plaintiff Justin Cohen here.
For more of the NYCLU’s vehicle stops data analysis, see here and here.
An Unwanted, UnDeclinable “Public Service:” Ohio Cops [allegedly] Get Their Power from the People but the Legislature Never Authorized Cops to Use Drones to Surveil People
/From [HERE] Law enforcement agencies across southeast Ohio are increasingly turning to drones—not just for search and rescue, but “to deter crime, pursue suspects and gather aerial intelligence in high-risk areas.” But the ACLU of Ohio warns that without appropriate legislation, these tools could overstep constitutional boundaries. [without legislation here means without approval from citizens; lawmakers represent the people who are allegedly bound to the will of the people. Police departments, like all government agencies, are made up of unelected officials who are said to be servants subject to lawmakers.]
Departments in Perry and Athens Counties expanded their drone programs recently, using unmanned aerial systems equipped with thermal imaging and zoom cameras. While originally intended for emergencies and missing persons cases, the drones are now being deployed for broader crime-fighting operations.
Lt. John Morris of the Athens County Sheriff’s Office said technological improvements allowed them to begin using drones in more advanced ways.
The drones also patrol high-crime neighborhoods at night, detecting heat signatures of people who might be committing crimes.
Jeff Wilson, Perry County Sheriff’s Office drone program coordinator, said the department has flown more than 140 missions since 2020, using drones in mental health crises, criminal pursuits and to assist in firefighting.
But the growing use of drones for surveillance raises privacy concerns—especially when flights are conducted over private property or in residential areas.
Both Wilson and Morris said that law enforcement drone operators follow FAA guidelines and attempt to limit data collection until reaching their target. Flights are generally not recorded unless there is evidentiary or training value.
Both officers acknowledged that drones can legally fly over private property without permission or a warrant, so long as they remain within regulated airspace.
This is what worries the ACLU.
Gary Daniels, a policy analyst with ACLU Ohio, said the organization is pushing for laws at the local and state levels to regulate drone use.
“We think it’s a no-brainer,” Daniels said. “If law enforcement is intent on saying and claiming that, ‘we’re only going to use it for these specific purposes, emergency purposes, exigent circumstances, you know, lay those out. Let’s get a law passed at the local or the state level so that law enforcement can go ahead and use these technologies for those types.”
Daniels noted that although some agencies, like Perry County, have internal drone policies —such as retaining footage for no more than 60 days unless needed for evidence— these policies are not legally binding and don’t offer adequate protection.
He argues that without legislation, there’s nothing stopping law enforcement from expanding drone use in ways that infringe on civil liberties (or from so called “public servants” doing things that “public masters” don’t want them to do in a so-called representative democracy).
Ohio lawmakers are considering House Bill 251, which would require warrants for most forms of drone surveillance, ban weaponized drones and mandate public transparency and data retention policies. It would still allow warrantless use in specific scenarios, such as emergencies, natural disasters or monitoring traffic.
Until such law is passed, Daniels says the risk of unchecked surveillance remains. [MORE]
DHS Now Demanding Names and Phone Numbers of Social Media Users Critical of ICE
/From [HERE] In a move that should send a chill down the spine of every American who still believes in the First and Fourth Amendments, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has officially weaponized the administrative subpoena to unmask and intimidate its online critics.
According to recent reports from mid-February 2026, the DHS has issued hundreds of these “shadow subpoenas” to tech giants including Google, Meta (Facebook/Instagram), Reddit, and Discord. The target? Accounts that document ICE raids, track agent locations in real-time, or—most disturbingly—simply voice criticism of the agency’s tactics.
For those unfamiliar with the terminology, an administrative subpoena is a tool that allows the state to bypass the judiciary entirely. Unlike a search warrant, which requires a judge to sign off based on “probable cause” of a crime, these subpoenas are issued by the executive branch itself.
DHS is reportedly leaning on 8 U.S.C. § 1225(d) and other customs-related authorities to demand sensitive subscriber data—names, IP addresses, and phone numbers—without ever having to prove to a court that a crime has been committed. While these tools were supposedly intended to track down human traffickers or customs violators, they are now being repurposed to silence neighborhood watch groups and peaceful dissenters. [MORE]
Marco Rubio declares war on non-white peoples worldwide
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From [HERE] If US President Donald Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth declared America a Christian republic at the National Prayer Breakfast in early February, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has now declared the country a white European Christian republic.
In a speech delivered last week to European heads of state at the Security Conference in Munich, Rubio declared war on all non-European non-white peoples inside the US and around the world.
Rubio made clear that America was, and should again be, a white country: "Our home may be in the Western Hemisphere, but we will always be a child of Europe."
To the detriment of more than 140 million Americans who are not white and do not issue from Europe, Rubio unflinchingly stated: "We want allies who are proud of their culture and of their heritage, who understand that we are heirs to the same great and noble civilization, and who, together with us, are willing and able to defend it."
Lest Europe forget, Rubio reminded it of its own Christian identity: "The United States and Europe, we belong together. America was founded 250 years ago, but the roots began here on this continent long before. The man who settled and built the nation of my birth arrived on our shores carrying the memories and the traditions and the Christian faith of their ancestors as a sacred inheritance, an unbreakable link between the old world and the new."
Rubio's remarks echoed the anti-non-white immigrant policies instituted in the US since the birth of the white Christian republic and reasserted by Trump.
He spoke directly of the threat that African, Asian, and Latin American immigrants constitute to Europe, as well as to the "fabric" of white America: "But we must also gain control of our national borders. Controlling who and how many people enter our countries, this is not an expression of xenophobia. It is not hate. It is a fundamental act of national sovereignty. And the failure to do so is not just an abdication of one of our most basic duties owed to our people. It is an urgent threat to the fabric of our societies and the survival of our civilization itself."
Rubio's rhetoric is not far removed from the white supremacist American discourse, policies and ideology that have defined the United States since its independence 250 years ago, let alone from the time-honoured white Christian supremacist tradition of its European counterparts. [MORE]
