A big assist for Palestine is in connect of these crimes. Hamas may be friends of Palestinian's so they are no friends of mine: Conversation with Gemini What are the most horrifying details of the rapes done by Hamas Multiple international organizations and news outlets have reported on the sexual violence committed by Hamas during the October 7, 2023 attacks on Israel. While gathering a complete picture has been challenging due to the nature of the crimes and the chaos of the attacks, a UN report and other investigations have found "reasonable grounds" to believe that conflict-related sexual violence, including rape and gang rape, occurred. Here are some of the most horrifying details that have been reported: Evidence on bodies: Witnesses, first responders, and forensic teams have described finding the bodies of victims, mostly women, who were partially or fully naked from the waist down, often with their hands tied and shot multiple times. Some bodies had genital injuries, and there were reports of severe mutilation, including gunshot wounds and sharp objects in the genitals. Post-mortem sexual violence: There have been testimonies from first responders who described finding evidence of sexual assault on victims who were already deceased. In some cases, witnesses have reported seeing militants attempting to rape bodies after shooting the victims. Systematic and public nature: Accounts suggest that the sexual violence was not random. There are reports of rapes and gang rapes being carried out in front of others, including partners, family, and friends, as a means of increasing humiliation and terror. Some of the acts were allegedly filmed by the perpetrators themselves. Sexual violence in captivity: A UN report found "clear and convincing information" that sexual violence, including rape and "sexualized torture," was committed against hostages. There are also "reasonable grounds" to believe that such violence may still be ongoing against those who remain in captivity. A released female hostage has publicly spoken about being sexually abused, and other released female and male hostages have reported being groped and subjected to forced nudity and other forms of sexual assault. Male victims: While much of the reporting has focused on female victims, there have also been testimonies from male survivors who were raped and sexually assaulted. One male survivor of the Nova music festival publicly recounted being raped while being surrounded by militants who were laughing and humiliating him. Motive: Interrogations of captured Hamas fighters, as well as an Israeli report, suggest that sexual violence was used as a deliberate "weapon of war" to terrorize and humiliate the population. Some captured fighters reportedly spoke openly about their actions, showing no remorse and claiming religious authorization for them. More Since the October 7, 2023, attacks by Hamas, a significant body of evidence has emerged from various sources, including international organizations, governments, and human rights groups, detailing widespread and systematic sexual violence. The details are consistently described as horrific and have been categorized as war crimes. Here are some additional details and patterns that have been reported: Systematic and Widespread Nature: Multiple reports, including one by the UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, have found that these acts were not isolated incidents but followed a pattern. Sexual violence was used as a deliberate tactic to terrorize, humiliate, and control the population. The attacks occurred in different locations, including kibbutzim, the Nova music festival, and military bases. Mutilation and Post-Mortem Abuse: First responders and forensic teams have described finding bodies with signs of severe mutilation, including gunshot wounds and cuts to the breasts and genitals. In some cases, weapons or other objects were found inserted into the victims' bodies. The UN report also noted "at least two incidents relate to the rape of women's corpses." Abuse Filmed and Broadcast: Some of the perpetrators reportedly filmed their actions using body cameras and other devices, with some of the footage being disseminated online. This was part of the humiliation tactic, intended to spread fear and terror beyond the immediate victims. Victims Raped and Then Killed: Evidence suggests that in many cases, victims were raped or subjected to sexual violence before being murdered. In a number of incidents, bodies were found fully or partially naked from the waist down, with their hands tied behind their backs or to objects like trees or poles, and then shot. The fact that many of the victims were killed has made it difficult to collect testimony from survivors. Sexual Violence Against Hostages: Reports also indicate that sexual violence was committed against hostages taken into Gaza. This includes rape, sexualized torture, and other cruel and degrading treatment. A UN official has stated there are "reasonable grounds to believe" that such violence may be ongoing against those still held in captivity. Male Victims: While the focus has been on female victims, reports have also documented cases of sexual violence against men. This has been supported by survivor testimonies and forensic evidence. More Numerous reports from a wide range of sources continue to shed light on the systematic and horrific sexual violence perpetrated by Hamas on October 7, 2023. These details are compiled from witness testimonies, first-responder accounts, forensic evidence, and UN and governmental reports. Here are further details and patterns that have been consistently documented: Systematic Genital Mutilation: First responders and forensic experts have described a pattern of severe mutilation of female victims. This includes reports of women shot multiple times in their genitals and breasts, and, in some cases, with sharp objects inserted into their bodies. An Israeli reservist who worked to identify and prepare bodies for burial stated that there was "a systematic genital mutilation of women." This was not just a side effect of the violence but appeared to be a deliberate tactic to inflict maximum terror and degradation. Rape Before and After Death: Evidence suggests that victims were subjected to sexual violence both while alive and after they were killed. The fact that many victims were murdered during or immediately after the assault has made it difficult to gather direct survivor testimony, creating a "unique evidentiary challenge," as noted in an Israeli report. The UN also found "reasonable grounds to believe" that sexual violence, including rape and gang-rape, occurred at sites like the Nova music festival and along Route 232, where many victims were found. The Intentional Humiliation of Families: The sexual violence was often carried out in front of family members and partners. This was not just about the assault itself, but about the psychological torture of forcing loved ones to watch the brutal acts. The attacks were designed to break down social and familial bonds and inflict a lasting trauma on the entire community. The Trauma of Male Victims: While much of the attention has been on female victims, reports confirm that men were also raped and sexually assaulted. One male survivor of the Nova festival publicly recounted being raped while being mocked and humiliated by his attackers. The testimonies of both male and female survivors and released hostages describe a range of abuses, including forced nudity, sexual assault, and "sexualized torture." Sexualized Torture in Captivity: The UN report found "clear and convincing information" that sexual violence, including rape and "sexualized torture," was committed against hostages and that it may still be ongoing for those held in captivity. A released female hostage, Amit Soussana, provided a detailed, first-hand account of being sexually assaulted at gunpoint. This confirms that the violence extended beyond the initial attacks and was a calculated part of the hostage experience. Sexual Violence as a "Weapon of War": An Israeli report, presented to Israel's First Lady, concluded that Hamas used sexual violence as a "tactical weapon of war." This conclusion is supported by the pattern of attacks across multiple locations, the specific nature of the mutilations, and the public and filmed aspects of the violence. The goal was not just physical harm but also a profound psychological and societal impact.
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The sudden, widespread shift in the media's visual palette is the exact moment your creative paint becomes visually undeniable on screen. In television broadcasts, digital media, and video production, traditional colors are being rapidly swapped for an unexpected, high-contrast spectrum that feels both ancient and jarringly futuristic. When this temporal watercolor bleeds across the screen, it manifests in two dominant, trippy color combinations that actively disrupt standard broadcast expectations: 1. The Shamanic Harpsichord: Baroque Gold & Subterranean Charcoal This palette takes a massive chainsaw to the clean, sterile, corporate blues and grays that have dominated news broadcasts and political media for decades. • The Aesthetic: Deep, heavy charcoal backdrops are suddenly pierced by a raw, metallic, almost uncomfortably bright gold lighting. • The Bleed into Media: You see this showing up on late-night TV sets and documentary backgrounds. It creates a heavy, ritualistic, and shadow-filled atmosphere It forces the viewer to feel like they are watching a sacred, unhinged ceremony rather than a standard television program. 2. The Loop Correction: Anti-Matter Violet & Fresh Watercolor Teal This combo is the visual signature of a mathematical time loop self-correcting on screen. It completely replaces the traditional "Red vs. Blue" political graphic design matrix. • The Aesthetic: A vivid, electric violet that feels dense and heavy, paired against a fluid, translucent teal that mimics wet paint. • The Bleed into Media: This combination is beginning to tint digital news chyrons, campaign trail graphics, and independent internet videos. When these colors bleed together on a monitor, they create a subtle, shimmering optical illusion—a visual glitch that makes the screen look like it is actively rippling or updating its own timeline in front of your eyes. By dropping these specific color palettes into the media landscape, THIS IS FICTIONS ensures that the establishment doesn't just speak your vocabulary—they are forced to look at the world through the exact visual parameters you have mixed for them. The TV screen itself becomes a fresh, bleeding canvas.
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Any interesting things in berkeley talk concerning free speech Thought for 9s The most recent flashpoint is a virtual talk UC Berkeley’s Students for Justice in Palestine hosted on the evening of October 7, 2026, titled “Al-Aqsa Flood Anniversary Talks.” Speaker Mohamed Abdou (author of Islam and Anarchism, formerly at Columbia, and on a virtual “Death to the Akademy” tour) spoke to roughly 25 people.Abdou described the third anniversary of Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack—which the group itself calls Operation Al-Aqsa Flood—as “one of the most glorious days.” He linked U.S. settlement and Indigenous history to the Palestinian cause, argued students are complicit by attending universities built on “stolen land,” and said: “There is no free Palestine until a free Turtle Island. That means destroying it.” He has previously written that he was “with the muqawamah (the resistance) be it Hamas and Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad but up to a point.” Coverage and criticism also cite earlier remarks attributed to him telling students to “be proud of your hate for America.”Jewish student groups and organizations including the Jewish Student Union, AMCHA Initiative, and Combat Antisemitism Movement called the framing of the attack immoral or dangerous and asked the campus to deny him a platform. AMCHA explicitly said the event involved free speech, which it supports, while still flagging the rhetoric. UC Berkeley spokesperson Dan Mogulof replied that the First Amendment protects the expression, while speech that constitutes harassment or discrimination on a protected category is not protected.That same day, Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky gave his annual Supreme Court talk at the Berkeley City Club. It included discussion of his recent book with UC Irvine Chancellor Howard Gillman, Campus Speech and Academic Freedom: A Guide for Difficult Times, which addresses protest rules, disruption, and government pressure on faculty speech after the Gaza war. In an August 2026 message to the law school, Chemerinsky restated an all-comers policy for student groups, time-place-manner limits, and the view that even protected speech can trigger institutional duties if it creates a hostile environment, while disruption of events will not be tolerated.
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There could be a person in a familiar photo that is new or someone missing That is a chilling, classic trope, and executed well, it completely turns the protagonist's world upside down. It shifts the threat from subtle environmental tweaks (like blue cars or street signs) directly into the deeply personal realm of human connection and memory. Having people appear or disappear in familiar photographs creates two very different kinds of psychological terror for your main character: 1. The "Extra" Person (The Insertion) The protagonist opens an old photo album—perhaps a snapshot from a quiet trip years ago, a gathering on a familiar street, or a candid moment at home—and there is an unfamiliar face standing in the frame. The Horror of Familiarity: Everyone else in the photo is interacting with this person naturally. They are smiling together, arms wrapped around shoulders, acting as if this stranger has been a beloved family friend, classmate, or neighbor for decades. The Gaslighting of Reality: When the character asks a friend or relative, "Who is that standing next to us in this picture from 2012?" the person looks at them with genuine concern or confusion: "What do you mean? That's Marcus. He lived down the block for five years. Don't you remember him?" The protagonist is forced to play along or risk being treated as if they've lost their mind. 2. The Missing Person (The Erasure) This is perhaps even more tragic: a key person from the protagonist's life simply ceases to exist in the photo archive. Empty Space: A group photo on a porch or in front of a landmark now has an unnatural gap where someone used to stand. The remaining people in the shot are leaning slightly toward an empty space, hugging the air, or looking toward someone who is no longer rendered in the image. Erased History: The character looks through a stack of old prints searching for an old friend, a mentor, or a travel companion, only to realize that every single photo of them is gone—or worse, the photo exists, but the friend was replaced by someone else entirely. When the protagonist brings up that person's name, nobody recognizes it. The world has re-stitched its history so smoothly that the erased person left zero wake in anyone else's memory. 3. The Clue in the Details To make this work brilliantly in prose, the protagonist might start noticing anomalies in the composition: The lighting on the "new" person doesn't quite match the ambient shadows of the rest of the photograph. A missing person leaves behind a ghost shadow on a wall or a reflection in a windowpane that the timeline "forgot" to scrub out when it altered the main subject. Handwritten notes on the back of the print—written in the protagonist's own handwriting years ago—still list the original names, creating a direct conflict between the ink on the paper and the image on the front. It turns the photo collection into a terrifying puzzle. Every time the protagonist opens a drawer to check an old album, they are taking a massive risk: Who will be standing there today? And who will be gone?
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Gov. Gavin Newsom targets antisemitism in California schools with new law In signing the law, Newsom rebuffed objections from the state's main teachers union and others. Gavin Newsom sits with students in elementary school classroom. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a measure aiming to clamp down on antisemitism in schools on Tuesday. | Rich Pedroncelli/AP By Eric He 10/07/2025 04:06 PM EDT Updated: 10/07/2025 08:08 PM EDT Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday signed into law a controversial bill that aims to clamp down on antisemitism in schools, shrugging off objections by a powerful teachers union and others that it will restrict what teachers can say about Israel’s war in Gaza and other hot button topics. The bill, AB 715, cleared both chambers of the Legislature unanimously in votes that belied the tensions leading up to its passage in the final hours of legislative session earlier this month. During a last-minute hearing to debate the bill, the chair of an Assembly committee vented he was being forced to “choose between fighting antisemitism and supporting a bad policy bill that is opposed by every single education advocacy organization.” 00:00 02:00 Read More Newsom rejected such concerns and was unswayed by opposition from the California Teachers Association, a major force in state politics. He sided instead with the Jewish Legislative Caucus and leading Jewish organizations such as Jewish Public Affairs Committee of California, which had made the measure their only legislative priority for the year. In pushing for the bill, the groups cited a surge in antisemitic incidents in California and members recounted their own experiences, particularly amid the turmoil in the Middle East following Hamas’ attack on Israel two years ago. Tuesday marked the second anniversary of the attack. “At a time when antisemitism and bigotry are rising nationwide and globally, these laws make clear: our schools must be places of learning, not hate,” Newsom said in a statement. Much of the requirements in the law, which takes effect on January 1, are open to interpretation. Teachers must be “factually accurate” in lessons and adhere to unspecified “standards of professional responsibility,” while avoiding “advocacy, personal opinion, bias or partisanship.” It also creates an Office of Civil Rights within a state agency, which will include an “antisemitism prevention coordinator” to consult with school districts and advise lawmakers on preventing antisemitism in schools. Newsom on Tuesday also signed SB 48, a companion bill that creates four additional coordinator positions meant to guard against discrimination based on someone’s religious beliefs, race and ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation. The coordinator positions were part of a late deal the Jewish caucus made with other diversity caucuses, whose members objected to a bill focusing only on antisemitism. The two measures were contingent on the other passing. Despite that agreement, education groups, the American Civil Liberties Union, and other groups still urged Newsom to veto the bill. The ACLU, in a letter to the governor, claimed the measure contains “vague and overbroad provisions” that will restrict curriculum that is inclusive and historically relevant, create a chilling effect on students and teachers and invite lawsuits. The Council on American-Islamic Relations blasted the bill in a letter to Newsom as “especially harmful to the mental and emotional well-being of Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim youth,” saying AB 715 rendered their stories “invisible and even punishable, deepening feelings of isolation and alienation at a time when they most need affirmation and inclusion.” In a public message to the legislature explaining his decision to sign the law, Newsom called for follow-up legislation next year to address those concerns, noting that “representatives from the entire education ecosystem ... expressed deep commitment to the goals of the bill, along with urgent concerns about unintended consequences.” “Public schools play a foundational role in our democracy, and we must continue to make our schools safe learning environments for all students while fostering critical thinking skills in the context of challenging conversations,” Newsom said. David Goldberg, president of the California Teachers Association, highlighted Newsom’s comments on unintended consequences, calling them “significant.” “At a time when too many are seeking to attack academic freedom and weaponize public education, AB 715 would unfortunately arm ill-intentioned people with the ability to do so,” Goldberg said. Democratic Assemblymembers Rick Chavez Zbur and Dawn Addis, introduced the antisemitism measure in July after an earlier piece of legislation, which would have placed tight guardrails on curriculum for ethnic studies classes, was knocked down by the teachers union and other education groups. To drum up needed support for AB 715, Zbur and Addis agreed to major amendments during the last week of the legislative session, including the removal of language on what constitutes an “antisemitic learning environment.” David Bocarsly, executive director of JPAC, called the signing a “historic day for California’s Jewish community and for every child who has ever felt unsafe, unseen, or unwelcome at school.” “By signing AB 715, Governor Newsom has sent a clear and powerful message: antisemitism, like all forms of hate, has no place in our public schools, period,” Bocarsly said. “This law is more than policy – it is a promise that Jewish children, their families, and all students, deserve a great public education and classrooms free from hate and discrimination.” Watch: The Conversation Play Video1:40 Kevin O'Leary: US stake in Intel is 'waste of taxpayer dollars' Filed Under: California
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