_{Photo: On Wednesday, May 28, Palestinians travelled long distances to the aid distribution point controlled by the ‘Gaza Humanitarian Relief Foundation’ in the southern Gaza Strip (Abdallah F.s. Alattar/Anadolu via Getty Images).}

It’s been a week since the Israeli government launched a widely condemned aid scheme, circumventing the UN to take control over the distribution of aid across Gaza. In the days since, Israeli forces have opened fire multiple times on starving Palestinians queuing for aid, massacring over 100 people.

The new book Empire of AI by longtime technology reporter Karen Hao unveils the accruing political and economic power of AI companies — especially Sam Altman’s OpenAI. Her reporting uncovered the exploitation of workers in Kenya, attempts to take massive amounts of freshwater from communities in Chile, along with numerous accounts of the technology’s detrimental impact on the environment. “This is an extraordinary type of AI development that is causing a lot of social, labor and environmental harms,” says Hao.

Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in Jabaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip, on May 27, 2025. (Photo by Mahmoud Zaki/Xinhua via Getty Images)

DEIR AL-BALAH, GAZA STRIP—The genocide in Gaza is fast approaching 20 months since it began. My family and I have been displaced from our home in the Jabaliya refugee camp several times, but this is the first time we were forced to leave the north and flee south to Deir al-Balah, from where I am writing to you.

The Supreme Court building. (Graphic by Truthdig. AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Megha Vemuri at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, last year. Photograph: Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

E-ZPass readers and license plate-scanning cameras are seen on Park Row in February 2025 in New York City. Photograph: Michael M Santiago/Getty Images

Opposition by former high officials in Israeli’s military and national security establishment and Israeli allies – France, England, and Germany – to the aimless killing of civilian families in Gaza is increasing. The mainstream, U.S. media has no excuse to cease its incomplete and biased reporting on the horrific genocidal mass slaughter in Gaza. Former  Deputy Minister of Economy Yair Golan called out Netanyahu for “engaging in baby killing as a hobby.”

Trump opened Memorial Day in the most disgusting way possible, not by praising our fallen heroes but by attacking Democrats. He wrote on his Nazi-infested social media site on Monday morning:

“Happy Memorial Day to all, including the scum that spent the last four years trying to destroy our country through warped radical left minds…”

Sorry for reposting this but I just heard former Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels implying that the Biden economic record has been poor for the economy. The material below indicates that under Republican rule in Indiana for over a decade the economic circumstances (and education, good paying jobs etc.) have worsened for Hoosier workers and their families..

Harry Targ (a relevant repost from December 24, 2021)

This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com

By John Krull
TheStatehouseFile.com
May 19, 2025

Here’s a serious question.

Indiana lawmakers have expanded the state’s school voucher program so starting in 2026, all Hoosier families will be able to use public funds to pay private school tuition. (Photo/Pexels.com)

Michigan State University education policy professor Josh Cowen has spent two decades studying and writing about voucher programs, in which state tax dollars pay students’ private school tuition.

At this year’s United Nations climate conference, China is expected to set

The Israeli leader doubled down on allowing "basic" aid into the Gaza Strip, even as the ground and air assault on the enclave killed 300 in the three days to Monday, health authorities said.

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A proposed map of the LEAP Innovation District in Boone County, taken from the state website on May 13, 2025. (From the IEDC’s LEAP webpage)

After buying thousands of acres in Boone County to home a contentious technology park, the Indiana Economic Development Corp. (IEDC) quietly listed two purchases for sale one month ago. Prices for both are less than what state taxpayers paid two years ago for the properties. 

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Notice of the viewing of Greg Palast's film, Vigilante, at the KanKan Theater in Indy on June 12,  which possibly will be followed by a zoom interview with Greg Palast. AND it's a fundraiser for Common Cause Indiana!!

What is the potential cost to U.S. families?

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GAZA CITY—On Wednesday, the Israeli military warned it would attack parts of Gaza City “with great force” and issued new displacement orders targeting several areas in the central and western neighborhoods of the city. Thousands of displaced families in Gaza City began fleeing their shelters in the evening in a state of panic and chaos.

More than two months ago, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a complete blockade of aid—including food, water and medical supplies—from entering the besieged Gaza strip.

Since the earliest days of the post–October 7 US/Israeli genocide in Gaza, corporate media outlets have claimed that Hamas uses Palestinian civilians as human shields. Protocol 1 of the Geneva Convention characterizes the practice thusly:

Trump is an illegitimate president, but he’s not the first. The last Republican who was elected president without fraud or naked treason was Dwight D. Eisenhower. And it’s damn well past time that Democrats started telling the story.

But let’s start with Trump, and then go to Nixon, Reagan, and Bush.

Twelve-year-old Rahaf Ayad holds a phone showing a picture of herself before the war, in her family's home in Gaza City on May 2, 2025. (Ahmed Ahmed)

Twelve-year-old Rahaf Ayad is so malnourished she can barely speak. Her hair is falling out. Her ribs protrude. She can hardly move her limbs. She blinks slowly, her eyelids heavy.

On Tuesday, the Israel Air Force killed nine children, between the ages of 3 and 14. Two airstrikes, a few hours apart, hit a school in al-Bureij refugee camp, in central Gaza, that sheltered displaced Palestinians.