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By SAMY MAGDY and MARIAM DAGGA Updated 9:15 PM EDT, July 26, 2025

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — A mother pressed a final kiss to what remained of her 5-month-old daughter and wept. Esraa Abu Halib’s baby now weighed less than when she was born.

On a sunny street in shattered Gaza, the bundle containing Zainab Abu Halib represented the latest death from starvation after 21 months of war and Israeli restrictions on aid.

The baby was brought to the pediatric department of Nasser Hospital on Friday. She was already dead. A worker at the morgue carefully removed her Mickey Mouse-printed shirt, pulling it over her sunken, open eyes. He pulled up the hems of her pants to show her knobby knees. His thumb was wider than her ankle. He could count the bones of her chest.

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago

Just crossposting from .ml as always lol, I have started posting to [email protected], but in this case when I did my run through it was already crossposted there, so I just went to the next one

I mean, afterall, what could be better than having 2 privacy comms beating the .ml version 😂

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and his wife, Angela, are longtime owners of a $1.5 million house in a gated community outside Dallas. In 2015, they snapped up a second home in Austin. Then another.

The problem: Mortgages signed by the Paxtons contained inaccurate statements declaring that each of those three houses was their primary residence, enabling the now-estranged couple to improperly lock in low interest rates, according to an Associated Press review of public records. The lower rates will save the Paxtons tens of thousands of dollars in payments over the life of the loan, legal experts say.

The records also revealed that the Paxtons collected an impermissible homestead tax break on two of those homes, and they have routinely flouted lending agreements on some of their other properties.

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A livestream shared by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition shows at least half a dozen Israeli soldiers have boarded the aid vessel.

The activists aboard are sitting together, wearing life jackets and with their arms raised.

We have obtained a video clip of Huwaida Arraf, a Palestinian American activist and lawyer who was aboard the Handala, shortly before the boat was intercepted by Israeli forces.

Here is what she told the Israeli Navy:

“Israeli Navy, this is a civilian vessel, Handala. Let me give you a lesson in international law.

“Any blockade that deliberately starves a civilian population is a violation of international law. It is not only that – it is a war crime. You have no legal authority to enforce an unlawful blockade. And as such, you have no authority to use force to enforce an unlawful blockade.

“Therefore, we demand that you stand down. You are responsible for the well-being of every civilian onboard this vessel. As an occupying power in Gaza, you are responsible for the health and well-being of the civilian population there.

“Not only have you disregarded that obligation, but you are actively exterminating the people. You have engineered a famine. You are deliberately starving civilians and children before the eyes of the world.

“Our vessel does not constitute any threat to you. We carry only humanitarian aid, and therefore you have no authority to intercept or otherwise attack our vessel. We demand again that you stand down.”

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Thanks, I knew I was forgetting something LMAO

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Lol it had found its way (via a different user) to the .ml meme comm where I picked it up for cross-posting. But yea, already upvoted there since it was on [email protected]

Why am I cross-posting .ml content?

I cross-post from .ml to the nearest relevant non-.ml comm to reduce the influence of .ml comms and indirectly, the instance as a whole, to make it an easier decision for other instance admins to defederate because one key reason I identified that admins don't want to defederate is because .ml still has some very large comms and some niche comms.

Megathread on the issue

Some highlights from the link:

"Don't worry guys, the Uyghur Genocide was REALLY just birth control! ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/30580167

"See! nobody died IN Tiananmen Square, just AROUND it, so it doesn't count!!" ~ Davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/30673342

.ml admin, Nutomics continued transphobia https://lemmy.world/post/29222558 The original transphobic Comment from Nutomic: https://lemmy.world/post/18236068

"NK is actually good and anything counter to that is Western propaganda!" ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/31595035

General negative sentiment to other instances who haven't "seen the way" yet ~davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/27426510

"If you don't support Russia then you just don't understand geopolitics" ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/27352415

And so so much documentation on clear heavy handed censorship and bias also on the link. So much I can't even put them all here because this comment would be really long.

I believe the behavior of its admins (the main admins are Lemmy devs) does harm to the overall growth of the Lemmy-verse and maybe even the Thrediverse (since Lemmy kinda kicked off the Thrediverse) because of its association with the devs of Lemmy and their insistence to use .ml as their personal political platform to spread harmful propaganda

On the outside, bringing up Lemmy frequently leads to comments like "Lemmy? Isn't that the place with a bunch of tankies?" Or "Tried Lemmy, but found it full of pro Russia crap so I left". The best way forward from that I see is to either widely defederate from .ml like the rest of the Triad, or pressure them to put a fair and unbiased as possible admin team.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

That's not actually that simple of a question, so don't feel bad lol

It's not a code issue, but Lemmy is written in Rust and while being a pretty decent language, it is also a bit of a difficult one to master. So there's just not a whole lot of open source capable Rust devs out there who can take on such a commitment. If Lemmy had been written in any number of popular languages, like JavaScript, C#, Python etc it probably would have been forked awhile ago just because of the .ml issues

If it's a Lemmy specific issue, why is being federated with .ml more important than the health of the wider verse?

There are a few reasons that crop up, 1) .ml still has some very niche comms that haven't been created elsewhere and heavyish traffic (which I hope to fix with the boycotting) and 2) if an instance "burns the bridge" there's concern that dessalines would take it personally and be less likely to help an instance admin on technical issues

Many think that migrating to PieFed long term will be the way forward which is an alternative to Lemmy without any political baggage. That or someone rewrites Lemmy in a more opensource friendly language and then it can be a drop in replacement for instance admins lol

But yea, there's concern that this Tankie culture they cultivate as currently preventing wider uptake and damaging the outside rep of the Threadiverse

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

Welcome! This comm serves as a place for documentation of tankies on the Threadiverse. My megathread here has a slightly longer intro

But, in a nutshell, lemmy.ml is one of 3 instances that are mostly run by Tankies (Those who simp for authoritarian governments that merely claim to be communistic (China/NK) or otherwise "fighting against the evil west" (Russia)) known as the "Tankie Triad". So they'll do things like spread the Russian narrative that Ukraine is "full of Nazis".

They'll also censor you (and later, ban) if you post things they deem to be against their "ideology" under one of 2 instance "catch-all" rules. Rule 1 - "No Bigotry" or Rule 2 - "Be respectful.

Yours got censored under catchall rule 1, no bigotry.

The unfortunate problem with .ml is that it also has the notoriety as being the "dev run instance " as well, so most instances are quite hesitant to defederate from them, unlike the other 2 instances (Hexbear and Lemmygrad) who are largely considered to be worse than .ml and widely defederated from. The main devs, dessalines and Nutomic are, unfortunately, hardcore Tankies. Nearly all censoring actions on .ml though are done by dessalines and another admin, davel.

So the next best thing we can do as users is a general call to "boycott" their instance and not post comments or posts on a .ml comm. To choose to post to and grow other alternative comms that are off-.ml, no matter how big the comm on .ml looks (this also just leads to a better overall healthier Threadiverse). And to document things as we go, like I've done here

[-] [email protected] 45 points 2 days ago

Aww yea, the Threadiverse is in the big leagues now!

[-] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago

Do you WANT restricted access‽ Better do what the ~~scamm~~ legit support person wants!

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago

Goat simulator 3

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

Lol reading it wrong, that's the comment that @[email protected] wrote that dessalines removed

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Somebody's grandma is gonna buy that for their grandson and the cycle will continue

Ţ̷̡͎̞̬͓̖̪̩̏̽̋̒͠͝h̸̫̰̼̋̎͜͝ë̷͓̩̾̋̃͗̇̚ ̵̢̛̺̜̗̙͈͉̲̙̽̉̍̐͜c̴͚̅̕y̴̪͇͉͇̫̤̖̜̙͆̽̏͒̈́̉̾̄́͑c̵͚̥̗͚̝̻̩̩̀̐̄͆̂̍̿͂̏̋ͅl̵̹̲͉̗̭͙͌͆͑̒̿͑̑̔͌e̸̡̡͔͍̜͍̦̘̣̥͋̐͗̂̈̔̑̌̀ ̵̼͉̜̙̞̍͑́̒͑̈̾͝͝Ṁ̶̲̞̘̣͈͛́͂̊̈̋U̷͇̣̫̭̤̾̆͌͂̕͝S̸̢̠͔̠̠̳̆͑̓͆̿̃͜͜Ṯ̷̢͔̙̩͉̌͒̂̚ ̶̨̯͚̠̫̹̰͆̓͒̋ć̷̛̫̘͂̂́̆̃͜ȏ̸̡̘͕͈͖͍̝̈́̏̓̇̇͘͝n̸̛̖̻͚̻̩̗̦̦̿͆̏̓̋̕t̷̯͌̋͗͌̃̍͑i̷̛̟̠̪̲̦̳͌́̀̋͒͠n̵̻̰̫̮͇̄̂͋̽̇̌͝ű̶͕̤̣̪̞͎̜̦̄ę̷̯̤͍͗̀̊ ̸̲̲̮̿̽̕͝t̵̢͔̜̰̩̼͒͗̍h̷̢̛̪̩̖͖̬̝̼̑͋̑̍͌̿͝͝r̴̼̀̉͑̽̐̈́̔͘͜͝ͅö̵̼́͐͝ư̵̫̟͙̞̰̥̗̈́͛́͘̚g̵̫̳̔͠h̸̨̖͙̥̆̈̀̾̏̆͊͝ͅ ̶̢̖̰̥̙̦̪͔̅͐͑̾̉̈́̆̕͜͝ͅţ̶̻͙͔͎͉͐̈̊̓͒̈́̀̕͝ĥ̸̡̧̻̫͔̙͓̝͉͂͊̓͝e̸̢͎̜̙̅̍͐̊̎ ̸͇͕̱̜́ͅg̵̡̡̤̠̪̼̠̹̱̙̓e̵̢̡͙̞̟̯̩̳̼͐n̶̳̭͂͋̀́̌͌͘̕é̵͚̙͖͈̜̌́͌̿͋͑̕͝ͅr̷̛̮̱͉͔̓̌̈̎̾͝͝a̷̰͙̘̜̜̩͍͗t̴̢̞̱̗͔͖̙́̄͗͌̕i̷̳̹̞̥̞̿̾̈́̄͝o̸̠̼̱͓͔̮̲̲̍̔͠ń̵̨̡̘̗̘̩̤̤̝̒̌̿ͅs̵̛̖̫͕̩̬̩̩̍̋̎͆̉̓͌̚͝ ̷̲̖̐̊̈̆̾͊̄̆͠f̵͎̯̹̜͉̝̽͌͛ó̴̡̱̱͈̳͎̥̂̄̐̒͛̈́r̷̢͙̝̺͗̉͐̕̚ͅ ̷̡̒̆̈́a̵̡̞̲͛͗̌l̵̫͕̔̇̂͐͝͠l̷̤̖̝̣̺͎͠ ̷̗͇̜̗̩̾̽͊̈́̅̈́̈́͘͝͠ë̷̡͓̫͍̩̗̗̙͇͔̍̈́̀͑͠ẗ̵͈̫̫͖̰̣́̑̔͊̑̓e̷̜͋̐̍͆̀̚r̴̘̅̒̒̆̐̀̒̿͘n̴̨̪̘͍͙͓̟̜͔̐̊͊i̸̧̩̕t̶̡̢̘̪̫͖̩̝̺͈̿̂̉y̴̧̙͙̩̲͈͐

[-] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/10/27/2024-elections-live-coverage-updates-analysis/hogan-sees-no-stinking-nazis-in-here-00185757

Donald Trump’s campaign teased some surprise guests at tonight’s rally and the first one is former professional wrestler Hulk Hogan, who wore a Trump tank top, red and yellow boa and held an American flag as he walked out on stage. “Usually when I’m at MSG I’m bodyslamming giants,” said Hogan. “The energy in here is something like I’ve never felt.”

“You know something Trumpmaniancs, I don’t see no stinking Nazis in here,” he said, referring to the infamous 1939 Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden. “We know Trump is the only one who can fix America today.”

I have 0 sympathy for anyone of influence who helped Drumpy get elected

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

AND they're easily frozen, good for long term storage!

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