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#Hostilities in the occupied #Palestinian territory (oPt) - 11 November 2025 - Public Health #Situation #Analysis (PHSA) (#WHO, summary), https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2025/11/hostilities-in-occupied-palestinian.html

Letters from an American – November 1, 2025 – by Heather Cox Richardson

Letters from an American, November 1, 2025

By Heather Cox Richardson, Nov 01, 2025

Yesterday I wrote that President Donald J. Trump’s celebration of his new marble bathroom in the White House was so tone deaf at a time when federal employees are working without pay, furloughed workers are taking out bank loans to pay their bills, healthcare premiums are skyrocketing, and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits are at risk, that it seemed likely to make the history books as a symbol of this administration.

But that image got overtaken just hours later by pictures from a Great Gatsby–themed party Trump threw at Mar-a-Lago last night hours before SNAP benefits ended. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel The Great Gatsby skewered the immoral and meaningless lives of the very wealthy during the Jazz Age who spent their time throwing extravagant parties and laying waste to the lives of the people around them.

Although two federal judges yesterday found that the administration’s refusal to use reserves Congress provided to fund SNAP in an emergency was likely illegal and one ordered the government to use that money, the administration did not immediately do as the judge ordered.

Trump posted on social media that “[o]ur Government lawyers do not think we have the legal authority to pay SNAP,” so he has “instructed our lawyers to ask the Court to clarify how we can legally fund SNAP as soon as possible.” Blaming the Democrats for the shutdown, Trump added that “even if we get immediate guidance, it will unfortunately be delayed while States get the money out.” His post provided the phone number for Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer’s office, telling people: “If you use SNAP benefits, call the Senate Democrats, and tell them to reopen the Government, NOW!”

“They were careless people,” Fitzgerald wrote, “they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

This afternoon, Ellen Nakashima and Noah Robertson of the Washington Post reported that the administration is claiming it does not have to consult Congress to continue its attacks on Venezuela. The 1973 War Powers Act says it does.

In 1973, after President Richard M. Nixon ordered secret bombings of Cambodia during the Vietnam War, Congress passed the War Powers Resolution to reassert its power over foreign wars. “It is the purpose of this joint resolution to fulfill the intent of the framers of the Constitution of the United States and insure that the collective judgment of both the Congress and the President will apply to the introduction of United States Armed Forces into hostilities, or into situations where imminent involvement in hostilities is clearly indicated by the circumstances, and to the continued use of such forces in hostilities or in such situations,” it read.

The law requires a president to notify Congress in writing within 48 hours of the start of hostilities, including the legal grounds for those hostilities, the circumstances that caused them, and an estimate of their scope and duration. The law requires the president to get the approval of Congress for any hostilities lasting more than 60 days.

On September 4, 2025, Trump notified Congress of a strike against a vessel in the Caribbean that he said “was assessed to be affiliated with a designated terrorist organization and to be engaged in illicit drug trafficking activities.” The letter added: “I am providing this report as part of my efforts to keep the Congress fully informed, consistent with the War Powers Resolution.”

Monday will mark 60 days from that announcement, but the administration does not appear to be planning to ask for Congress’s approval. It has been reluctant to share information about the strikes, first excluding senior Senate Democrats from a Senate briefing, then offering House members a briefing that did not include lawyers and failed to answer basic questions. The top two leaders of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Roger Wicker (R-MS) and Jack Reed (D-RI), have both said the administration has not produced documents, attack orders, and a list of targets required by law.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: November 1, 2025 – by Heather Cox Richardson

#2025 #America #Caribbean #Congress #DonaldTrump #Education #FScottFitzgerald #Health #History #Hostilities #HungryAmericans #Libraries #Library #LibraryOfCongress #Murder #Opinion #Politics #Reading #Resistance #Science #SNAP #Substack #TheWashingtonPost #Trump #TrumpAdministration #UnitedStates #Venezuela #WarPowersAct

Top Russian official urged Putin to halt war

Dmitry Kozak, deputy head of Putin’s administration, recently urged Putin to stop war in #Ukraine & begin #PeaceTalks

#Kozak, longtime #Putin ally & 1 of few senior #Russian officials privately opposed to #war, presented plan to end #hostilities with proposals for internal reforms

Before full-scale invasion in 2022, he warned Putin about risks of fierce Ukrainian resistance

https://kyivindependent.com/top-russian-official-reportedly-urged-to-halt-war/

#RussianAggression #StandWithUkraine

Thursday, August 7, 2025

Russian soldier shoots civilian near Pokrovsk, video shows; prosecutors launch war crimes probe — Ukrainian drones reportedly strike Russian railway logistics hub in Rostov Oblast for second night — Death toll of Russian July 31 attack on Kyiv rises to 32 as another victim dies in hospital — Russian troops arrive in Belarus ahead of massive Zapad-2025 drills … and more

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/08/thursday-august-7-2025/

Rescuers lay toys and flowers on the site of Russia's Thursday night missile strike that hit a multistory residential house killing 31 civilians including five children in Kyiv

Diplomatic means in Russia-Ukraine war‘exhausted

Comments come as recent #Russian-Ukrainian #PeaceTalks failed to reach any progress in ending the #hostilities

“When a #criminal regime openly questions another country’s right to exist with military force and sets out to destroy the political order of freedom on the entire #European continent, the federal government I lead will do everything in its power to prevent this,” Merz said

https://kyivindependent.com/diplomatic-means-in-russia-ukraine-war-have-been-exhausted-merz-06-2025/

#RussianAggression #StandWithUkraine

#Health #system at breaking point as #hostilities further intensify in #Gaza, #WHO warns, https://www.who.int/news/item/22-05-2025-health-system-at-breaking-point-as-hostilities-further-intensify--who-warns

#Israel’s intensified military operations continue to threaten an already weakened health system, amidst worsening mass population #displacement and acute shortages of #food, water, medical supplies, fuel and shelter.

Thursday, May 8, 2025

Ukrainian drones hit Russian fiber optic plant in Saransk — Theater, drag shows, an&d art studios; Kharkiv’s cultural scene thrives, even in wartime — Military communications in Moscow Oblast sabotaged amid Russia’s Victory Day celebrations — [video/vlog] How Putin weaponized WW2 and Victory Day, historian explains … and more

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/05/thursday-may-8-2025/

rtem Bubeltsev, 22, a skater and roof jumper from Kharkiv, performs a jump over an anti-tank hedgehog left in the center of the city, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on July 9, 2024. On that day, Artem successfully completed this complicated trick for the first time, becoming a forerunner in the entire crew. (Amadeusz Swierk / The Kyiv Independent)

Wednesday, April 23 2025

The Kyiv Independent [unofficial] Russia’s war against Ukraine A view of damage after a Russian guided aerial bomb hit a residential neighborhood in Zaporizhzhia on April 22, 2025. The Russian strike killed a 69-year-old woman and injured 38 others, including children. (Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration/Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images) Putin offers US to freeze Ukraine war along current front line, FT reports. This could be the first formal indication from Russian […]

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/04/wednesday-april-23-2025/

Smoke rises over the site of reported explosions at a Russian weapons arsenal in Vladimir Oblast on April 22, 2025

Russia’s #Soviet-era military stockpile running low, faces equipment #shortages, media reports

The #Russian military has lost more than half of its available equipment, and unless an unexpected shift occurs, #hostilities could gradually fade by late 2025 or early 2026 due to a #shortage of tanks, armored vehicles, and artillery, the publication claims.

https://kyivindependent.com/russia-facing-equipment-shortages-media-reported/

#RussianAggression #RussianLosses #StandWithUkraine

"The situation in #Aleppo Governorate remains extremely dynamic. As of 29 November, intense #hostilities continued in areas in Aleppo Governorate allegedly resulting in some significant #TerritorialChanges with implications for #civilians as well as humanitarian operations."

https://reliefweb.int/report/syrian-arab-republic/syria-response-displacement-aleppo-flash-update-no-02-29-november-2024

Pls. everyone be careful with #news of any type about the current situation in #Syria. Basically there are NO INDEPENDENT observer on the ground, all #info you get is from different #ArmedFactions!

Iran launches drones toward Israel in retaliatory attack after consulate strike in Syria

Iran on Saturday evening launched drones toward Israel in a retaliatory attack, the Israeli military said.... #iran #us #israel #uk #hostilities #drones #worldnews

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-launches-drone-attack-toward-israel-idf-says/

#Trump has floated enacting a “universal baseline #tariff” on virtually all #imports, or ~$3 trillion worth of goods, which would amount to more than a ninefold increase in the amount of #goods subject to tariffs compared w/ his first term. He has also talked about pushing #legislation to have the #UnitedStates automatically impose “reciprocal” tariffs matching those of all countries on US #exports, which would almost certainly lead to a sharp rise of #trade #hostilities.