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Palestinians are beginning to die from starvation. Aid Groups Blame Israel’s Gaza Restrictions for ‘Mass Starvation’ More than 100 organizations, including Save the Children and Doctors Without Borders, added to growing calls for aid restrictions to be eased and the war to end. More than 100 aid agencies and rights groups, including Save the Children and Doctors Without Borders, warned on Wednesday that “mass starvation” was spreading across Gaza, adding to calls for Israel to lift restrictions on humanitarian aid to the besieged enclave. The joint statement is the latest attempt to draw attention to a growing hunger crisis in Gaza. It was released after the European Union and at least 28 governments, including Israeli allies like Britain, France and Canada, on Monday condemned the “drip feeding of aid” and said that civilian suffering had “reached new depths.” Doctors Without Borders in Gaza has reported a “sharp and unprecedented rise in acute malnutrition.” Adults frequently collapse from hunger, the aid groups said in their statement, adding that stockpiles of food and other supplies warehoused outside the territory were being prevented from reaching people in need. Gaza’s health ministry said on Wednesday that hospitals had registered 10 deaths because of famine or malnutrition in the previous 24 hours, bringing the total number of deaths from hunger since Saturday to 43. There was no independent confirmation of the toll and the ministry did not give details. Health experts say that deaths from malnutrition are often undercounted because acutely hungry patients often die of other causes, such as diarrhea or viral infections, that their bodies are too weak to fight. The United Nations’ World Food Program said this week that nearly a third of Gaza’s population, which stands at 2.1 million, was not eating for multiple days in a row. “People are dying for lack of humanitarian assistance,” it said in a statement. Israel blocked deliveries of aid between March and May after it ended a cease-fire with Hamas. Since then, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a private Israeli-backed group, has managed a new system in which people go to a few distribution sites to obtain aid. The government says that the new system is designed to prevent Hamas from stealing aid, and the sites are in areas of Gaza controlled by Israeli forces. But the new system has been marred by near-daily violence. The United Nations said last week that more than 670 people had been killed near the new aid sites, many as a result of gunfire, and that hundreds of others had been injured. One consequence has been that some people have been deterred from approaching the sites, which itself has exacerbated hunger, aid groups say. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/world/middleeast/aid-groups-gaza-starvation.html https://archive.is/wR60n
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If you believe that talking shit about another country is "Cloak Room," you had better not participate in any thread ever again that talks shit about a foreign country. I can be a pretty fucking petty person, so I will look out for it from you and will pester the shit out of you every time I see it.
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
bolverk replied to Captainant's topic in Daily Texan
This is some fucked up shit. Basically, it looks like they're trying to make protesting ICE illegal, in plain violation of the First Amendment in many cases, by intentionally conflating opposition to their activities with serious crimes. This is the kind of stuff that dictators do. And give me a break about "doxing" agents. Pretty soon, some local jurisdiction will make the same argument about regular beat cops, saying their identities should also be shielded from the public for their safety. Imagine the next time you get stopped for a broken taillight or something, and the cop who comes up to your car door is wearing a fucking mask, like in The Watchmen? Is this what people want, living in a police state where bullshit laws are enforced based on assumptions and not facts or evidence? https://theintercept.com/2025/07/23/feds-criminalize-protests-masked-ice/ https://archive.is/sQii5 Speaking on Fox News last week, a top official from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said the agency was expanding its dragnet for arrests. “I think we all know that criminals tend to hang out with criminals,” ICE Deputy Director Madison Sheahan said. “And so when we start to build a case, we’re going to be going after everyone that’s around them. Because these criminals tend to hang out with like-minded people who also happen to be criminals.” The pledge to broaden arrests came as an immigration sweep that sowed fear across the Los Angeles area has been met by a growing protest movement to stop the raids and arrests. In addition to arresting hundreds of immigrants across Southern California, the government is targeting a mounting number of people who are responding to the raids or helping protests. Some of those targeted have provided supplies to protesters or tried to identify ICE agents conducting raids in masks and plain clothes. The remarks from Sheahan, the ICE official, came three days after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to stop indiscriminate ICE raids in LA. In the order, Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong condemned the administration’s use of a person’s characteristics — like their appearance, accent, or occupation — as a basis for arrest. “Roving patrols” operating without reasonable suspicion and denying access to lawyers violated the Fourth and the Fifth Amendments, the judge wrote. “What the federal government would have this Court believe — in the face of a mountain of evidence presented in this case — is that none of this is actually happening.” Now, those accused of helping the anti-ICE movement are facing prosecution or investigation. Earlier this month, a federal grand jury indicted a man after he handed out face shields to people protesting ICE in Los Angeles two days after President Donald Trump deployed the National Guard. Alejandro Orellana, 29, pleaded not guilty to a charge of conspiracy to aid and abet civil disorders. According to a grand jury indictment, the face shields were “advertised as designed to protect from chemical splashes and flying debris.” “Alejandro Orellana’s arrest for distributing supplies is an outrageous violation of civil rights and should be a wakeup call to people everywhere,” said California attorney Thomas Harvey. “This appears to be a targeted, political attack on resistance to a military incursion on our communities,” Harvey said. “Distributing supplies to protesters is not a crime. It’s a critical role to help keep people safe — especially in the face of some of the most violent police repression I’ve seen since the Ferguson uprising.” In Orellana’s case, an agent from the FBI made a claim similar to the one the ICE deputy would later make to Fox News — that it was assigning criminality to people based on assumptions, not on evidence. The agent claimed in an affidavit that wearing such gear like the face shields, designed to protect against law enforcement using pepper spray or tear gas, “is not common amongst non-violent, peaceful protesters.” Instead, he argued, the face shield was “the kind of item used by violent agitators to enable them to resist law enforcement and to engage in violence and/or vandalism during a civil disorder.” Identifying Masked ICE Agents As part of expanding its definitions of criminal activity to include forms of protest responding to ICE, the government ramped up its efforts to investigate people suspected of providing identifying information about ICE agents. On July 11, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem released a statement condemning “anarchists and rioters” in Portland who posted flyers with identifying information about ICE agents and said the department would prosecute “those who dox ICE agents to the fullest extent of the law.” Last month, Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., introduced a bill that would make identifying ICE officers a federal crime. In another case in May, ICE agents raided the home of a family in Irvine, California, on a criminal search warrant. They were investigating the source of flyers that had been posted around LA earlier this year with identifying information about ICE officers. The government suspected the family’s son was responsible. Rep. Dave Min, D-Calif., issued a statement after the May raid saying he was “deeply concerned” with news of the raid and had asked federal law enforcement for more information. Min’s office did not respond to questions about whether they had yet received any such information. Several of the efforts to further criminalize protest flyers or mutual aid have also been used against pro-Palestine student protesters, Cop City activists in Georgia, and people providing water to migrants. Police charged protesters opposing the construction of the so-called Cop City police training facility with felonies for posting flyers in 2023, The Intercept reported. The activists had posted flyers in a neighborhood where a police officer lived, naming him and alleging that he was connected to the killing earlier that year of Manuel “Tortuguita” Terán. Police shot Tortuguita 57 times, killing the activist during a multiagency raid on the Atlanta Forest protest encampment. In 2023, prosecutors brought charges under Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations law against 61 activists for their participation in organizing bail funds for Cop City protesters. Prosecutors dropped charges against three of the activists last year, and others are still awaiting trial. In a slew of other high-profile cases, elected officials have been arrested for aiding migrants being pursued for arrest by ICE agents. Earlier this year, the FBI arrested a judge accused of helping a man use an alternate exit from a courtroom when ICE agents were waiting outside the main door. In Arizona in 2018, prosecutors famously slapped humanitarian volunteers offering food, shelter, and water to migrants in the desert with federal criminal charges. Border Patrol targeted their faith-based group as a criminal organization. In 2005, activists with the same group faced criminal charges for transporting migrants to receive medical care; the charges were later dismissed. “It should be terrifying to every person that the U.S., which has long held political prisoners, is ramping up its oppressive tactics,” said Harvey, the California attorney. “And now, with the new funding, ICE will have more money than any policing force in U.S. history to build a gulag system filled with localized versions of ‘Alligator Alcatrazes’ to cage immigrants and political dissidents.” -
Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
bolverk replied to Captainant's topic in Daily Texan
Jesus. Read this portion of my sentence again very carefully: "the overall argument is that ICE agents shouldn’t be going to schools to round up children, which you apparently agree with." I'm a little tired today, so maybe I could've been clearer, but I'm stating that you agree with the idea that children shouldn't be rounded up at schools. -
Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
bolverk replied to Captainant's topic in Daily Texan
As someone who hasn’t been part of this conversation, may I ask the purpose of this crusade you’re on? ICE agents attempted to gain entry into an elementary school, according to various news reports. Had the principal not denied them access, they would have. You stated you’re glad they couldn’t go in, but your making nine posts on this page about this pedantic quibble is a bit odd. If we’re going to get really technical about it, I’d bet they at least opened the front door and made it to the front office. My daughter’s no longer in school, and I did teach high school for a year in the early 1990s. But from my experience, when walking into a school, there’s rarely a person actually guarding the door throughout the day, much less the principal. Now, granted, things may have changed in the past several years with all the fucking school shootings, and this is Los Angeles, so I could very well be wrong, but this is a really weird argument over such a minor detail when the overall argument is that ICE agents shouldn’t be going to schools to round up children, which you apparently agree with. Again, I’ll ask, what point are you trying to make here? Do you demand verbal precision in every conversation that you have? If so, may I point out the number of grammatical errors in your previous posts?- 859 replies
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Yeah, I know. Just realize that where I live now is 80/20 Trump country. From my backyard, which sits on a steep ridge, there’s a creek that’s less than two football fields away from a creek that feeds directly into the Colorado River, and eventually the Highland Lakes. Stuff gets filtered, ends up in Spence, Ivie, Buchanan, and then on down the line. Fortunately, for me, I'm now on a well now, drinking ancient dinosaur piss. Unfortunately, you and the rest of Austin aren't so lucky. Enjoy. What we choose to do directly affects others. Refusing to force them to take care of their own shit will eventually fuck you over, too. You know this, and I know you know this, and I'm as embittered by everything as much as you are, but I don't know what else to say at this point in terms of flood mitigation and/or water quality. A regional authority of some sort should be the answer. Look, my stating obvious answers to hydrological conundrums isn't going to solve shit. I know that -- I'm not naive. I'm just giving voice to obvious fucking answers that shouldn't require a degree for such a simple gotdam response. Mystic? You fucked up. Children in your care died. Kerrville/Kerr County? You fucked up, too. Both children and daytrippers died. Texas? Yeah, treat flood stuff like you did 100 years ago when state highways -- along with FM and RR roads -- became a priority because those corrupt early-20th-century knobs who implemented such a far-reaching system were more sophisticated than current state leadership is today. Hell, who gave LCRA the authority to budget its waters? It's all so gotdam obvious. But, without state leadership, nothing is going to get done. This state needs an LBJ-type guy to throw his considerable swinging dick weight around for these numbskulls to even consider thinking more than one step beyond what grandma is cooking for Sunday lunch.
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Here’s the shitty thing about living in a fucking society: the insanity of others affects us and/or others, one way or another. In this particular case, Comfort apparently has a flood warning system to protect it, and New Braunfels has the dam at Canyon Lake. Yes, lucky them. But fucked up shit happening -- due to negligence, slothfulness, spite, or idiocy -- tends to have downstream effects on innocent parties, regardless of whether we’re citizens, taxpayers, or just visiting places with the worst gotdam leadership in the state. Greater good, social contract, and all that. Believe me. I’d prefer to let Kerr County molder at this point, but chickens come home to roost to peck all our eyes out and bingo-shit all over the place. I don’t know what else we do unless we want to just live in a Mad Max world with walls and shit around the sanctuary cities, which wouldn’t be great for commerce, going to away games, or going hiking. "On the Road Again" would be a very different song.
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Not sure which trip it was, but I don't think I've ever been more miserable than being dragged around old New Orleans cemeteries, hungover, on an August afternoon.
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Trump calls for former Guardians and Commanders names.
bolverk replied to boilerhorn's topic in Cloak Room
Thanks for this. It's been posted before but I'd totally forgotten about it. It's absolute perfection for the past few pages of this thread. -
Trump calls for former Guardians and Commanders names.
bolverk replied to boilerhorn's topic in Cloak Room
Honestly, we're all fucking weird -- otherwise, we wouldn't be hanging out here. But, yeah, my weirdness was on full display during Shaggy's heyday with way too much oversharing. -
Trump calls for former Guardians and Commanders names.
bolverk replied to boilerhorn's topic in Cloak Room
I don't think he's from the cast of past characters. He's a legitimately different guy as far as I can tell. There's a lot more to him that can be found elsewhere, but I won't go into further detail. In a general sense, I think he's just a techbro or engineering type of dork who seems to have found a middle-aged love for partying and gets really enthusiastic (and compulsive) about sharing shit. Based on the content I've read, he doesn't seem to be much into circumspection or deep thought -- at least that's how he portrays his personality through his posts. I don't think he's a terrible guy necessarily. He tends to throw caution to the wind a lot, without much reflection, is the best way I can think to put it. He's also a pretty frequent poster over on the Football and 9.95 boards, if I recall correctly. Edit: I'll also add that I went kind of crazy in my early 40s, too, but that was because I was fucked up over my divorce, got laid off from a dream job at the tail end of the Great Recession, and made an ass of myself A LOT on these boards, too. -
Well, that fucking sucked. Seriously, the proposal to form a committee from the public and private sectors by THIS regime over the next few years gives me zero hope.
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I assume you've read "Bowling Alone." Putnam was on to something.
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I get it, and it's frustrating as shit. "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink." Bullshit. You shove a hose down his neck and make him, in this instance. It's a regional public safety matter, and the State should take the lead. As it stands now, the patchwork quilt of flooding mitigation has too many holes in it. Some local governments have stepped up, but Kerr County made a conscious decision not to do so. Don't give them an option to be short-sighted and stingy fuckheads. None of the entities at any level (city, county, state) want any responsibility or accountability in this, which, ironically, makes them all fucking culpable. State leaders have been warned about it, and planners have been requesting it from all levels of government. Likely, what will happen is that they patch up a couple of holes and call it a day until the next tragedy in 5-10 years, when another Hill Country town gets flooded.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
bolverk replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
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Communist subterfuge disguised as pragmatism.
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Ghislaine "Sgt. Schultz" Maxwell: "I know NOTH-ING"
bolverk replied to Gil Bang's topic in Cloak Room
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Fake fiscal "conservatism" in a nutshell. Overall, my view is that since it's a regional problem that individual cities/counties have trouble with, the State of Texas has a responsibility to step in and assist with planning, funding, operating, and coordinating among all the regional entities. That said, I don't think local jurisdictions should get it entirely funded for free. Those communities benefit significantly from the revenue gained from visitors, as does the State. Shared benefit. Shared burden.
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Go read my last post in the CR flood thread about what the Texas lege has failed to do in implementing flood plans. There's a good ol' boy in Seguin complaining about the bureaucracy being at fault. Great example of what you're saying. These people know they need to point the finger at someone, but have been so thoroughly conditioned that they keep failing to identify the real culprit behind their woes.
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Penny wise, pound foolish. Also, the Guadalupe County guy knows things are fucked up, but like the typical DTer, he points his finger in the wrong direction. This is pretty long, so I tried to snip it down to as bite-sized as I could. Link has full article. Texas lawmakers largely ignored recommendations aimed at helping rural areas like Kerr County prepare for flooding [A] ProPublica and Texas Tribune analysis of legislative proposals, along with interviews with lawmakers and flood experts, found that the Legislature has repeatedly failed to enact key measures that would help communities prepare for frequent flooding. Such inaction often hits rural and economically disadvantaged communities hardest because they lack the tax base to fund major flood prevention projects and often cannot afford to produce the data they need to qualify for state and federal grants, environmental experts and lawmakers said. Over the years, legislators have declined to pass at least three bills that would create siren or alert systems, tools experts say can be especially helpful in rural communities that lack reliable internet and cell service. A 2019 state-commissioned report estimated flood prevention needs at over $30 billion. Since then, lawmakers have allocated just $1.4 billion. And they ignored the key recommendations from the state’s 2024 flood plan that are meant to help rural areas like Kerr County, which is dubbed “Flash Flood Alley” due to its geography. Spokespeople for Gov. Greg Abbott and House Speaker Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, did not answer questions about why the plan’s recommendations were overlooked but defended the Legislature’s investment in flood mitigation as significant. They pointed to millions more spent on other prevention efforts, including flood control dam construction and maintenance, regional flood projects, and increased floodplain disclosures and drainage requirements for border counties. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick did not respond to questions. This week, the Legislature will convene for a special session that Abbott called to address a range of priorities, including flood warning systems, natural disaster preparation and relief funding. Patrick promised that the state would purchase warning sirens for counties in flash flood zones. Similar efforts, however, have previously been rejected by the Legislature. Alongside Burrows, Patrick also announced the formation of committees on disaster preparedness and flooding and called the move “just the beginning of the Legislature looking at every aspect of this tragic event.” Burrows said the House is “ready to better fortify our state against future disasters.” But Rep. Ana-María Rodríguez Ramos, a Democrat from Richardson, near Dallas, said state lawmakers have brushed off dire flood prevention needs for decades. “The manual was there, and we ignored it, and we've continued to ignore these recommendations,” said Rodríguez Ramos, who has served on the House Natural Resources Committee overseeing water issues for three sessions. “It’s performative to say we’re trying to do something knowing well we’re not doing enough.” One recommendation from the 2024 flood plan would have cost the state nothing to enact. It called for granting counties the authority to levy drainage fees, including in unincorporated areas, that could fund local flood projects. Only about 150 of 1,450 Texas cities and counties have dedicated drainage fees, according to a study cited in the state assessment. Kerr, a conservative county of 53,000 people, has struggled to gain support for projects that would raise taxes. About a week after the flooding, some residents protested when county commissioners discussed a property tax increase to help cover the costs of recovery efforts. The inability to raise such fees is one of the biggest impediments for local governments seeking to fund flood mitigation projects, said Robert R. Puente, a Democrat and former state representative who once chaired the state committee responsible for water issues. Lawmakers’ resistance to such efforts is rooted in fiscal conservatism, said Puente, who now heads the San Antonio Water System. “It’s mostly because of a philosophy that the leadership in Austin has right now, that under no circumstances are we going to raise taxes, and under most circumstances we’re not even going to allow local governments to have control over how they raise taxes or implement fees,” he said. Another one of the flood plan’s recommendations called for lawmakers to allocate money for a technical assistance program to help underresourced and rural governments better manage flood prone areas, which requires implementing a slew of standards to ensure safe development in those hazardous zones. Doing this work requires local officials to collect accurate mapping that shows the risk of flooding. Passing this measure could have helped counties like Kerr with that kind of data collection, which the plan recognized is especially challenging for rural and economically disadvantaged communities. Insufficient information impacts Texas’s ability to fully understand flood risks statewide. The water board’s plan, for example, includes roughly 600 infrastructure projects across Texas in need of completion. But its report acknowledged that antiquated or missing data meant another 3,100 assessments would be required to know whether additional projects are needed. In the Guadalupe River region, which includes Kerr County, 65% of areas lacked adequate flood mapping. Kerrville, the county seat, was listed among the areas identified as having the “greatest known flood risks and mitigation needs.” Yet of the 19 flood needs specific to the city and county, only three were included in the state plan’s list of 600. They included requests to install backup generators in critical facilities and repair low-water crossings, which are shallow points in streets where rainwater can pool to dangerous levels. At least 16 other priorities, including the county’s desire for an early warning flood system and potential dam or drainage system repairs, required a follow-up evaluation, according to the state plan. County officials tried to obtain grants for the early warning systems for years, to no avail. Gonzales County, an agriculture-rich area of 20,000 people along the Guadalupe River, is among the rural communities struggling to obtain funding, said emergency management director Jimmy Harless, who is also the county’s fire marshal. The county is in desperate need of a siren system and additional gauges to measure the river’s potentially dangerous flood levels, Harless said, but doesn’t have the resources, personnel or expertise to apply for the “burdensome” state grant process. “It is extremely frustrating for me to know that there’s money there and there’s people that care, but our state agency has become so bureaucratic that it’s just not feasible for us,” Harless said. “Our folks’ lives are more important than what some bureaucrat wants us to do.” For years, Texas leaders have focused more on cleaning up after disasters than on preparing for them, said Jim Blackburn, a professor at Rice University specializing in environmental law and flooding issues. “It’s no secret that the Guadalupe is prone to flash flooding. That’s been known for decades,” Blackburn said. “The state has been very negligent about kind of preparing us for, frankly, the worst storms of the future that we are seeing today because of climate change, and what’s changing is that the risks are just greater today and will be even greater tomorrow, because our storms are getting worse and worse.” At a news conference this month, Abbott said state committees would investigate “ways to address this,” though he declined to offer specifics. When pressed by a reporter about where the blame for the lack of preparedness should fall, Abbott responded that it was “the word choice of losers.”
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