The Sydney thug department wants to treat even potential participants at a pro-Palestine rally as criminal suspects: searching them arbitrarily and jailing people who refuse to show their papers.

Setting off flares on an outdoor stairway is not violence, neither against persons nor against property. Neither is chanting slogans, even odious slogans of bigotry such as antisemitism. We should detest those slogans but not arrest people for them.

Sydney has also banned all marches in support of Gazans. Human rights defender condenm this action.

I condemn HAMAS's terrorism. I condemn Israel's siege and killing in Gaza also.

Note, I capitalize "HAMAS" because it is an acronym.

California is setting up an alert system to help find missing black women and girls who may have been kidnaped or coerced.

Russia failed to get enough votes for a seat on the UN Human Rights Council. This says the world has a little more moral commitment than I thought.

Ex/Twitter's coverage of the conflict in Gaza is so full of lies and deepfakes that it is hard to find anything that is truth.

I urge people to stop reading Ex/Twitter — to avoid wasting their time, as a protest against what the Musk-rat is doing, and to reject the nonfree app that Ex/Twitter says you have to use.

I tried recently to look at a specific tweet using Nitter, and it did eventually work after a substantial delay.

HAMAS carried out a massive terrorist attack on Israeli civilians in areas neighboring Gaza, killing at least 1000. It also took over 100 hostages.

In revenge, Israel bombed residential neighborhoods of Gaza. It has not finished yet, and I expect it will kill many thousands of Gazan civilians. The report I've seen is that at least 830 in Gaza have been killed by shelling which has hit a school a well as hospitals and homes.

In the past, Israel has always offered some sort of excuses after killing unarmed Palestinian civilians, individually or massively. But the excuses are often strained. Israel's attacks have hit press offices and medical clinics, as well as residences too. Israeli snipers have shot medics attending protests.

I can't conclude that Israel's attacks on Gaza are really other than larger terrorist attacks.

Meanwhile, Israel has put Gaza under total siege, keeping out food and medicine even as the hospitals are overwhelmed.

I expect that Netanyahu will use this to force through the final blow against judicial independence in Israel.