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I’m a someone who carries the wounds of the people I’ve loved. They replay in my mind and the sadness becomes my own.
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I am uploading assets and testing things for a formal publicised release in a day or two.
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I am web developer.
This is how I am handling things until I learn to patch the PHP vulnerabilities on some old Ubuntu server that itself is way past its expiry date.
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Harsh reaction from President Erdoğan to hate posts following Gültekin’s death
21.10.2026 13:12 President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan reacted sharply at the AK Party Group Meeting to hateful posts on…
#EuropeSays #Turkiye #RecepTayyipErdoğan #Erdogan #following #from #Gültekin #Harsh #hate #posts #President #PresidentofTürkiye #Reaction #to
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Harsh reaction from President Erdoğan to hate posts following Gültekin’s death
21.10.2026 13:12 President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan reacted sharply at the AK Party Group Meeting to hateful posts on…
#EuropeSays #Turkiye #RecepTayyipErdoğan #Erdogan #following #from #Gültekin #Harsh #hate #posts #President #PresidentofTürkiye #Reaction #to
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Support for #OccupiedPalestine is being subjected to increasingly harsh pushback. In the so-called UK you can be arrested for displaying a cardboard sign. In so-called America you can kidnapped, imprisoned, expelled from university, and if your papers are not in order, you can be deported. In Occupied Palestine you can be killed. #FreePalestine won't come easy.
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Gruber's review of the iPhone Duo is scathing. I think he's a little bit harsh but I also want someone who is going to sweat all the small stuff. I'm starting to think Apple might have whiffed it on the Duo....
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Bombing every moment, a third famine looming, harsh living conditions, winter approaching, dilapidated tents—how can a human being endure all of this at once? ‼️‼️‼️😓🇵🇸
https://chuffed.org/project/154249-israas-hope-a-familys-fight-to-rebuild-after-war
#Gaza #gazaverified #palestine #Israel #genocide #US #food #usa #helping #MutualAidBoost #MutualAidThread #mutualaidrequest #gazagenocide #Help #Donate #share #quote #Gaza #Humanity #HelpUsSurvive #MutualAidRequest #helpingfamilies #Urgent
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It took me forever to post the #glaze test results, but here they are! It's hard to see due to the harsh shadows, but I'm particularly pleased with the one in the upper right hand corner with warm 60s/MCM tones.
Here are more photos of the three of these (#SelfPromo): https://morinopottery.etsy.com/listing/4600300587/color-wheels-ceramic-jewelry-dish-tiny
I've made more of these little dishes to test a bunch more glaze combinations for a little project I'm hatching. 😈 🐣
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HOW TO KILL META!
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That's it, in a nutshell. Some details need to be worked out, and that's why I am seeking your help.
A Free Software project might be able to provide the compute resources to host the site.
As for the culture shock of transitioning from FB ( where an evil billionaires algorithm holds your hand, and censors...ahem...curates your feed ) I am not too worried. People will adapt, to yet another new thing.
Maybe we should start new users with a relatively private Fediverse setting, so that only their network can reply to their posts. Rawdogging voices from the whole Internet, without a billionaire's insular algorithm, can be a bit harsh. We will never hear the end of complaints about that bogeyman of the Fediverse — the "reply guy".
"On FB, I didn't get replies from people I didn't know!!!"
( Welcome to the discomforts and joys of the Free World )Thoughts?
#FaceBook #Meta #instagram #WhatsApp #Twitter #X #Musk #Zuckerberg #SocialMedia #Fediverse #Mastodon #Technology #Tech #Justice
#EatTheRich #NoBillionaires
#FuckZuck #FOSS #Linux #OpenSource #FreeSoftware
#EqualRights #Justice #Truth
#Freedom #Liberty
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HOW TO KILL META!
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That's it, in a nutshell. Some details need to be worked out, and that's why I am seeking your help.
A Free Software project might be able to provide the compute resources to host the site.
As for the culture shock of transitioning from FB ( where an evil billionaires algorithm holds your hand, and censors...ahem...curates your feed ) I am not too worried. People will adapt, to yet another new thing.
Maybe we should start new users with a relatively private Fediverse setting, so that only their network can reply to their posts. Rawdogging voices from the whole Internet, without a billionaire's insular algorithm, can be a bit harsh. We will never hear the end of complaints about that bogeyman of the Fediverse — the "reply guy".
"On FB, I didn't get replies from people I didn't know!!!"
( Welcome to the discomforts and joys of the Free World )Thoughts?
#FaceBook #Meta #instagram #WhatsApp #Twitter #X #Musk #Zuckerberg #SocialMedia #Fediverse #Mastodon #Technology #Tech #Justice
#EatTheRich #NoBillionaires
#FuckZuck #FOSS #Linux #OpenSource #FreeSoftware
#EqualRights #Justice #Truth
#Freedom #Liberty
#Law #USA -
HOW TO KILL META!
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That's it, in a nutshell. Some details need to be worked out, and that's why I am seeking your help.
A Free Software project might be able to provide the compute resources to host the site.
As for the culture shock of transitioning from FB ( where an evil billionaires algorithm holds your hand, and censors...ahem...curates your feed ) I am not too worried. People will adapt, to yet another new thing.
Maybe we should start new users with a relatively private Fediverse setting, so that only their network can reply to their posts. Rawdogging voices from the whole Internet, without a billionaire's insular algorithm, can be a bit harsh. We will never hear the end of complaints about that bogeyman of the Fediverse — the "reply guy".
"On FB, I didn't get replies from people I didn't know!!!"
( Welcome to the discomforts and joys of the Free World )Thoughts?
#FaceBook #Meta #instagram #WhatsApp #Twitter #X #Musk #Zuckerberg #SocialMedia #Fediverse #Mastodon #Technology #Tech #Justice
#EatTheRich #NoBillionaires
#FuckZuck #FOSS #Linux #OpenSource #FreeSoftware
#EqualRights #Justice #Truth
#Freedom #Liberty
#Law #USA -
Your Compassionate Support, Would Be Most Valued Today;
#Disability #Poverty #Aging #Health
🚨 URGENT HELP NEEDED TODAY 🚨I am a 48-year-old disabled man living in poverty, and I am struggling to survive.
Every day is a battle against constant pain, sleepless nights, hunger, declining health, worsening vision, vertigo, mobility issues, cognitive decline, and the harsh reality that my disability income does not come close to covering the cost of living.
I face impossible choices every day:
Food or hygiene.
Medication or necessities.
Survival today or survival tomorrow.I have no safety net. No financial cushion. No family support. No meaningful support system.
I am asking for help because I genuinely do not know how much longer I can continue carrying this burden alone.
My Reality
I live solely on SSDI.
I have no health insurance.
I do not drive.
I live in a rural area with no public transportation, meaning everything I need must be delivered or depend on finding someone willing and able to help.
My housing situation is unstable. Part of my rent is paid through helping maintain the property where I live, but my disabilities and declining health are making even those responsibilities increasingly difficult.
I am aging in poverty, and every year brings new physical limitations, more pain, and greater uncertainty.
I am not getting better.
I am getting worse.
My Health Is Declining
My days are consumed by:
Chronic pain
Exhaustion
High blood pressure fluctuations
Vertigo and dizziness
Poor mobility
Knee, hip, ankle, and joint pain
Numbness and weakness in my hands
Cognitive and executive functioning decline
Vision problems and light sensitivity
Dental issues
Anxiety, PTSD, and Bipolar DisorderSome days my vision becomes a fuzzy blur. Bright light hurts. Low light makes basic tasks difficult.
If I sit too long, my joints lock up.
If I stand too long, my legs burn and stiffen.
If I lie down, pain spreads throughout my body.
Simple daily activities that most people take for granted are becoming harder and harder to accomplish.
Why I Am Reaching Out
I am exhausted.
Physically.
Mentally.
Emotionally.
Spiritually.
I have spent years contacting organizations, charities, government agencies, advocacy programs, nonprofits, and anyone I could think of for help.
Most of the time I receive lists of resources, referrals, phone numbers, websites, and suggestions.
What I do not receive are results.
I desperately need someone willing to understand my actual circumstances and help create real, concrete solutions.
I do not need more lists.
I need advocacy.
I need a social worker or case manager who can help navigate housing, healthcare, benefits, food security, transportation, and long-term stability.
I know resources exist.
I simply cannot seem to access them on my own.
A Recent Example
A few months ago, I developed a serious dental problem.
The pain became so severe that my landlord had to take me to the emergency room simply to obtain antibiotics.
After extensive effort and repeated requests, I was able to receive an examination and X-rays, only to be referred elsewhere for additional care I could not afford and could not reliably travel to.
Multiple emails and follow-ups produced little more than apologies and delays.
This experience reflects a much larger problem:
Many disabled people are given information about help.
Far fewer are actually able to obtain that help.
What I Need Most
Immediate Needs
Food and groceries
Hygiene supplies
Clothing
Medical and dental care
Transportation assistance
Household necessities
Relief from immediate financial crisis
Long-Term Needs
Stable, permanent housing
Consistent food security
Reliable healthcare access
Advocacy and case management
A sustainable future with dignity and securityMy greatest need is stability.
I need a forever home where I can live safely for the rest of my life without constantly fearing homelessness, displacement, or crisis.
This Is About Dignity
This is not a request for luxury.
It is a plea for dignity.
Poverty is expensive.
Disability is exhausting.
Hunger is cruel.
Isolation is crushing.
I am trying to survive while my body and mind continue to deteriorate.
Despite everything, I continue to fight every day.
I continue to hope.
I continue to ask for help.
Financial Needs
Today's Goal$8,455
Annual Survival Need
$27,255
Monthly Survival Need
$1,500
Immediate Stabilization Goal
$25,000
Long-Term Housing and Security Goal
$5,000,000
A stable, accessible, permanent property would not only give me safety and security, but potentially allow me to spend the remainder of my life helping others who struggle as I have.
How You Can Help
Donate🔗 PayPal:
paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=…💸 Cash App:
$woctxphotogShare
If you cannot donate, please share this with others.
Every dollar helps.
Every share matters.
Every act of compassion makes a difference.
Final Words
I am tired.
I am hungry.
I am in pain.
I am scared of what tomorrow may bring.
But I am still here, still fighting, and still hoping someone will hear me.
If you have ever known hardship, loss, fear, hunger, loneliness, disability, or uncertainty, then you know that compassion can mean everything.
Please help if you can.
Thank you for taking the time to read my story.
#MutualAid #Disabled #Disability #Poverty #Housing #Health #Healthcare #DentalHealth #FoodInsecurity #ChronicIllness #MentalHealth #PTSD #Bipolar #Survival #Support #Compassion #Empathy #Aging #Help #Dignity #Rent #Groceries #Hygiene #CommunitySupport #Life
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https://www.alojapan.com/1556752/gujarat-dy-cms-japan-visit-focuses-on-fresh-investments-technology-partnerships/ Gujarat Dy CM’s Japan visit focuses on fresh investments, technology partnerships #Chemicals #DeputyChiefMinister #GreenEnergy #Gujarat #HarshSanghavi #investment #ITOCHUCorporation #Japan #KanekaCorporation #LifeSciences #Shizuoka #textiles #Ultrafabrics #VibrantGujarat #VisitJapan ANI | Updated: Oct 20, 2026 12:18 IST Gandhinagar (Gujarat) [India], October 20 (ANI): Gujarat Deputy Chief Minister Harsh Sanghavi held investment discussi
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How Israel has redrawn the map since the October 7 terrorist attack
By Matthew Doran, Emily Clark, Maryanne Taouk, Sami Sockol, Mark Doman, Cherine Yazbeck, Katia Shatoba, Thomas Brettell, Josh Nicholas, Jack Fisher, Hamish Harty, Bhat Burhan, and Clare BlumerABC analysis reveals the extent of Israel's expansion on four fronts: Lebanon, the West Bank, Gaza and Syria.
#MilitaryOccupation #UnrestConflictandWar #WorldPolitics #War #MatthewDoran #EmilyClark #MaryanneTaouk #SamiSockol #MarkDoman #CherineYazbeck #KatiaShatoba #ThomasBrettell #JoshNicholas #JackFisher #HamishHarty #BhatBurhan #ClareBlumer
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#Disability #Poverty #Aging #Health
🚨 URGENT HELP NEEDED TODAY 🚨I am a 48-year-old disabled man living in poverty, and I am struggling to survive.
Every day is a battle against constant pain, sleepless nights, hunger, declining health, worsening vision, vertigo, mobility issues, cognitive decline, and the harsh reality that my disability income does not come close to covering the cost of living.
I face impossible choices every day:
Food or hygiene.
Medication or necessities.
Survival today or survival tomorrow.I have no safety net. No financial cushion. No family support. No meaningful support system.
I am asking for help because I genuinely do not know how much longer I can continue carrying this burden alone.
My Reality
I live solely on SSDI.
I have no health insurance.
I do not drive.
I live in a rural area with no public transportation, meaning everything I need must be delivered or depend on finding someone willing and able to help.
My housing situation is unstable. Part of my rent is paid through helping maintain the property where I live, but my disabilities and declining health are making even those responsibilities increasingly difficult.
I am aging in poverty, and every year brings new physical limitations, more pain, and greater uncertainty.
I am not getting better.
I am getting worse.
My Health Is Declining
My days are consumed by:
Chronic pain
Exhaustion
High blood pressure fluctuations
Vertigo and dizziness
Poor mobility
Knee, hip, ankle, and joint pain
Numbness and weakness in my hands
Cognitive and executive functioning decline
Vision problems and light sensitivity
Dental issues
Anxiety, PTSD, and Bipolar DisorderSome days my vision becomes a fuzzy blur. Bright light hurts. Low light makes basic tasks difficult.
If I sit too long, my joints lock up.
If I stand too long, my legs burn and stiffen.
If I lie down, pain spreads throughout my body.
Simple daily activities that most people take for granted are becoming harder and harder to accomplish.
Why I Am Reaching Out
I am exhausted.
Physically.
Mentally.
Emotionally.
Spiritually.
I have spent years contacting organizations, charities, government agencies, advocacy programs, nonprofits, and anyone I could think of for help.
Most of the time I receive lists of resources, referrals, phone numbers, websites, and suggestions.
What I do not receive are results.
I desperately need someone willing to understand my actual circumstances and help create real, concrete solutions.
I do not need more lists.
I need advocacy.
I need a social worker or case manager who can help navigate housing, healthcare, benefits, food security, transportation, and long-term stability.
I know resources exist.
I simply cannot seem to access them on my own.
A Recent Example
A few months ago, I developed a serious dental problem.
The pain became so severe that my landlord had to take me to the emergency room simply to obtain antibiotics.
After extensive effort and repeated requests, I was able to receive an examination and X-rays, only to be referred elsewhere for additional care I could not afford and could not reliably travel to.
Multiple emails and follow-ups produced little more than apologies and delays.
This experience reflects a much larger problem:
Many disabled people are given information about help.
Far fewer are actually able to obtain that help.
What I Need Most
Immediate Needs
Food and groceries
Hygiene supplies
Clothing
Medical and dental care
Transportation assistance
Household necessities
Relief from immediate financial crisis
Long-Term Needs
Stable, permanent housing
Consistent food security
Reliable healthcare access
Advocacy and case management
A sustainable future with dignity and securityMy greatest need is stability.
I need a forever home where I can live safely for the rest of my life without constantly fearing homelessness, displacement, or crisis.
This Is About Dignity
This is not a request for luxury.
It is a plea for dignity.
Poverty is expensive.
Disability is exhausting.
Hunger is cruel.
Isolation is crushing.
I am trying to survive while my body and mind continue to deteriorate.
Despite everything, I continue to fight every day.
I continue to hope.
I continue to ask for help.
Financial Needs
Today's Goal$8,455
Annual Survival Need
$27,255
Monthly Survival Need
$1,500
Immediate Stabilization Goal
$25,000
Long-Term Housing and Security Goal
$5,000,000
A stable, accessible, permanent property would not only give me safety and security, but potentially allow me to spend the remainder of my life helping others who struggle as I have.
How You Can Help
Donate🔗 PayPal:
paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=…💸 Cash App:
$woctxphotogShare
If you cannot donate, please share this with others.
Every dollar helps.
Every share matters.
Every act of compassion makes a difference.
Final Words
I am tired.
I am hungry.
I am in pain.
I am scared of what tomorrow may bring.
But I am still here, still fighting, and still hoping someone will hear me.
If you have ever known hardship, loss, fear, hunger, loneliness, disability, or uncertainty, then you know that compassion can mean everything.
Please help if you can.
Thank you for taking the time to read my story.
#MutualAid #Disabled #Disability #Poverty #Housing #Health #Healthcare #DentalHealth #FoodInsecurity #ChronicIllness #MentalHealth #PTSD #Bipolar #Survival #Support #Compassion #Empathy #Aging #Help #Dignity #Rent #Groceries #Hygiene #CommunitySupport #Life
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I've been meaning to do this for a while. I have a small job that runs a language model over my own blog posts, and I'd been running models like that locally with Ollama. This morning I moved it to DigitalOcean's serverless Inference and kept notes as I went. It reads like a video log, minus the video.
The rule I set myself: same model on both sides, same prompts, same code. Only the place the model runs changes.
Early morning, the account is blocked
My first call of the day to DigitalOcean Inference:402 {"id": "Payment Required", "message": "This account has been blocked"}
Yesterday I drained my prepaid inference credit in the middle of another experiment, and I hadn't topped it up. That's how prepaid works here. When the balance hits zero, calls stop. There's no surprise bill at the end of the month. I topped up at 10:27, and at 10:31 the same kind of call came back 200.
Before that, picking the model
I wanted a model that exists in both places, so the comparison is fair. DigitalOcean's model list hasopenai-gpt-oss-20b, and Ollama hasgpt-oss:20b. Both are OpenAI's open-weight 20B model. It also fits on my laptop, an M4 MacBook with 24 GB of memory.brew install ollama
ollama pull gpt-oss:20bThe download is 13 GB. I started it while I was still sorting out the credit.
10:34, the job
Something real and small. I have 57 published posts on dev.to, and each has four tags I chose myself. The job asks the model to suggest four tags for each post from its title, description and the first 1,500 characters of the text. Then I count how many match the tags I actually picked.That gives me a score I didn't make up: my own tagging. It's a harsh score. If the model says
nodejsand I taggednode, that counts as a miss. But it's the same harsh score for every run.The script talks to any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, and both Ollama and DigitalOcean's Inference are OpenAI-compatible. The base URL, model name and key come from the environment:
BASE_URL = os.environ["BASE_URL"]
MODEL = os.environ["MODEL"]
API_KEY = os.environ.get("API_KEY", "ollama")10:34, first local call
I sent a two-word prompt to warm the model up. It took 21.9 seconds, most of it loading 13 GB into memory. The second call took 1.9 seconds.10:35, the local run starts
All 57 posts, one after another. It finished at 10:52, 17.1 minutes later.- median time per post: 16.6 seconds
- slowest 10%: 29.1 seconds or more
- memory used by the model server: 14 GB, more than half of the laptop
- tags matching mine: 91 of 228, which is 40%
- posts with at least one matching tag: 51 of 57
gpt-oss is a reasoning model, so most of each call goes into thinking before it answers. On a laptop that thinking is slow. The answers were fine.
I didn't wait for it to finish. Ten minutes in, about halfway through, I got impatient and started the migration alongside it.
10:45, the migration
This is the whole migration. Three environment variables:BASE_URL=https://inference.do-ai.run/v1
MODEL=openai-gpt-oss-20b
API_KEY=<a DigitalOcean model access key>No code changes. Not a new SDK, and not a different response format to parse.
10:45 to 10:47, the same run on DigitalOcean
The same 57 posts took 2.1 minutes. It finished while the local run was still going.- median time per post: 2.1 seconds
- slowest 10%: 3.1 seconds or more
- tags matching mine: 93 of 228, which is 41%
- posts with at least one matching tag: 51 of 57
- cost: $0.0068 for all 57 posts, at $0.05 per million input tokens and $0.45 per million output
Same accuracy, about eight times faster, and none of the work happened on my laptop.
One detail I liked: both runs counted exactly 31,451 input tokens across the 57 prompts. Same model, same tokenizer, the same prompts. That's a decent sign the two really are the same model.
10:47, a false alarm
I grepped the results file for "error" and got one hit. My heart sank for a second. It was a tag. For a post about QR codes, the model suggestederrorcorrection.10:47 to 10:51, the model I can't run at home
The real reason to move is that the bigger models become a one-word change.openai-gpt-oss-120bwouldn't fit in my laptop's memory. On DigitalOcean it's just another model name:MODEL=openai-gpt-oss-120b
- tags matching mine: 103 of 228, which is 45%
- posts with at least one matching tag: 54 of 57
- median time per post: 3.9 seconds
- cost: $0.010 for all 57 posts, at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.70 per million output
It was a bit slower than the 20B model and still four times faster than my laptop. It also wrote less reasoning: 9,722 output tokens against 11,685 for the 20B.
What the misses looked like
Many of the "wrong" tags were reasonable.nodejswhere I usednode,postgresqlwhere I usedpostgres,pythonon posts where Python was only the language of the test script. All three runs also suggesteddigitaloceanon posts where I hadn't tagged it. In fairness to the models, those posts were about DigitalOcean.What I got wrong
I tried to download all 57 posts from the dev.to API at once and got429 Too Many Requestsafter a few. I had to slow down to about one request a second.I wrapped the warm-up call in
timeout, which isn't installed on macOS by default, so the first attempt didn't even run.The grep that scared me at 10:47 was my own sloppiness. I should have checked for an
errorkey, not the word anywhere in the line.Yesterday's blocked account was my mistake too. I knew the credit was small and didn't estimate the experiment's cost before starting it. This time I did: 57 short prompts on these models cost about a cent each run.
Caveats
This is one laptop, one job, and one run of each. A faster Mac, a smaller quantized model or a GPU box would close some of the speed gap. Ollama ran with its default settings. The timings from DigitalOcean include the network round trip from Bulgaria. The two DigitalOcean runs overlapped with the end of the local run. They only use the network, so I don't think they slowed the laptop down, but I didn't measure that. My scoring counts exact tag matches, so it undersells all three models. The cost figures are my own token counts multiplied by DigitalOcean's published prices. The month-to-date usage on my account moved by 7 cents over the morning, which also covers my test calls.Where I ended up
For this job, DigitalOcean was the better place to run the model. Same model, same answers, about eight times faster, under a cent for the whole run, and a bigger model one variable away. My laptop got its 13 GB and its memory back.When I was done I uninstalled Ollama and deleted the model. If I ever want it local again, the three environment variables go back the other way.#digitalocean #ai #llm #ollama #software #coding #development #engineering #inclusive #community
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Who Will Stop Increasingly Unpopular War Criminals Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu?
The answer is an updated 2026 version of Benjamin Franklin’s famous quote: “An International Criminal Court, if you can keep it.”
Article republished by Jerry Alatalo | October 21, 2026
[Editor’s note: Here is my comment in response to law professor Marjorie Cohn’s very timely, urgent, truly important article:
by Dave DeCamp, Antiwar. com, October 19, 2026
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released footage on Monday of a call with President Trump, during which the US president told the Israeli leader, “You’re the man I want by my side.”
The call came after Trump endorsed Netanyahu for the upcoming October 27 Israeli elections in a long post on Truth Social, where he suggested that the US may have to “finish the job” against Iran without the help of Israel if Netanyahu doesn’t remain prime minister. In the phone call, the two leaders alluded to the Iran war, with Netanyahu using the same language as Trump’s post.
“Donald, we have a job to finish. You said it, and we’ll finish it together. We’ll finish it, and no one else will do it,” Netanyahu said.
Trump told Netanyahu that he “crafted” the post himself. “You’re a warrior, and you’ve been treated unfairly by your country and from some others … but you’re a great warrior, and we will prove that. We will prove that very soon,” he said. “I think you’re terrific, Bibi … You’re the man I want by my side, Bibi.”
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Sunday responded to Trump’s post and the suggestion that the US and Israel will “finish the job” against Iran, suggesting that Netanyahu was leading the US into another war.
“Last time you wanted to ‘finish the job,’ Iran emerged even stronger. Want to try your luck again? Be our guest. But be careful; we have unfinished jobs too,” Araghchi wrote on X. “Netanyahu is driving America into another war to stay out of jail, whatever the consequences for Israel—let alone POTUS.”
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Americans and Israelis tend to support their presidents/prime ministers when their countries are at war, an historical fact of which Trump and Netanyahu are certainly aware. Given both are rapidly losing popular support before important elections, their likely choice of ordering another criminal bombing campaign against Iranians and blowing up the region becomes completely understandable, – but no less criminally insane, reckless and repulsive.
Peace.
Please share Professor Cohn’s vital message far and wide. Please feel free to share your thoughts and/or responses in the comments. Thank you very much.]
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Trump’s Intensifying Sabotage of the ICC
October 20, 2026
The battle to save the global court and its capacity to enforce accountability for the most heinous crimes is one struggle with many fronts, writes Marjorie Cohn.
International Criminal Court at The Hague in the Netherlands. (Vysotsky, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0)
The U.S. government has long sought to incapacitate the International Criminal Court (ICC), the world’s first global court that was created to prosecute the most atrocious crimes.
As the ICC seeks to provide accountability for Israeli crimes, the Trump administration has become increasingly aggressive in its attempts to hobble the court.
On Oct. 9, Team Trump imposed punitive sanctions against the court itself, which constitutes the gravest intensification of its war on the ICC. But there are several strategies available to mitigate the worst effects of these sanctions.
Executive Order 14203, Signed February 2025
In February 2025, President Donald Trump issued Executive Order 14203, which authorizes the imposition of sanctions against the ICC. The sanctions amount to illegal unilateral coercive measures because only the U.N. Security Council has the authority to impose sanctions.
The executive order prohibits U.S. persons from providing material support or services to certain designated persons and entities, including financial services. It exposes non-U.S. persons to secondary sanctions for engaging in conduct prohibited under the order. U.S. persons who violate it may face criminal penalties of up to 20 years imprisonment and fines of up to $1 million.
Trump’s 2025 order has led to the sanctioning of nine of the ICC’s 18 judges, three ICC prosecutors, the ICC president and a senior ICC trial attorney.
The Trump administration also sanctioned three highly respected Palestinian human rights organizations — Al-Haq, Al Mezan and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights — for their assistance to the ICC. Francesca Albanese, U.N. special rapporteur on Occupied Palestine, who wrote three courageous reports documenting Israel’s genocide in Gaza, was sanctioned as well.
The Oct 9 Sanctions
Trump in the White House in June. (White House / Joyce N. Boghosian)
In December 2025, a top Trump administration official told Reuters there was “growing concern” that “the ICC will turn its attention to the president, to the vice president, to the secretary of war and others, and pursue prosecutions against them,” adding that this was “unacceptable, and we will not allow it to happen.”
He said the ICC had been warned that unless it amended the Rome Statute to ensure it would not investigate Trump and his top officials, new and very severe U.S. sanctions would be imposed on the court.
Sure enough, in an attempt to permanently paralyze the court, the Trump administration sanctioned the entire ICC on Oct. 9, pursuant to Executive Order 14203. These harsh financial sanctions prevent the court from using U.S. dollars and U.S.-based financial services and technology companies.
They bar U.S. citizens and companies from supplying the court with funds, goods, or services without a license from the U.S. Treasury.
U.S. sanctions have serious impacts on targeted individuals, whose bank accounts can be frozen or closed. Their financial transactions can be rejected, and they can be denied access to digital services and entry into the United States.
Sanctions have a chilling effect on non-U.S. banks and other companies outside the jurisdiction of the United States; they themselves could lose access to the U.S. banking system.
The ICC could lose access to companies on which it relies for its critical functions, including banking, information, technology and travel.
Although the sanctions contain a six-month wind-down period and exemptions for certain services, they still pose significant risks. In the face of global reliance on the U.S. financial and IT systems, even non-U.S. service providers, including banks, might stop providing services to the ICC for fear of penalties or reprisals by the U.S. Treasury.
This could affect the court’s ability to maintain a bank account, receive financial contributions from States Parties, pay staff, make payments, and maintain essential operations.
The imposition of these outrageous sanctions is the latest, and most devastating, chapter in the U.S.’s long campaign to undermine the ICC.
Moreover, these sanctions were imposed on the same day that the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Navi Pillay, a South African lawyer who served as a judge on the ICC for five years and led the U.N. Commission of Inquiry in 2025 that confirmed Israel’s commission of genocide in Gaza.
History of US Attacks on the ICC
The International Criminal Court, which became operational in 2002, is a permanent international court created to prosecute individuals for genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of aggression.
Nearly two-thirds of the nations in the world have ratified the Rome Statute, thereby becoming States Parties and taking responsibility for arresting and sending those under warrants to the ICC for trial. The court was established to complement, not replace, national criminal justice systems. It will assume jurisdiction only when national systems are unwilling or unable to prosecute.
Bill Clinton signed the ICC’s Rome Statute in 2000 as his presidential term was ending, but President George W. Bush removed the U.S. signature from it in 2002.
The U.S. Congress then enacted the “The Hague Invasion Act,” which says that if a national of the U.S. or its ally (which includes Israel) is detained by the ICC in The Hague, the U.S. military can use armed force to extricate them.
The Bush administration effectively blackmailed 100 States Parties to the Rome Statute by forcing them to sign bilateral immunity agreements in which they promised not to turn over U.S. persons to the ICC, or the U.S. would withhold their foreign aid.
In November 2024, after an investigation lasting more than three years, the ICC issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.
They stand charged with the war crimes of starvation as a form of warfare, and intentional attacks on civilians; and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution and other inhumane acts, for their actions in Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin with Netanyahu and Gallant in Tel Aviv, Israel, Oct. 13, 2023. (DoD / Chad J. McNeeley / CC BY 2.0)
The U.S. contends that the ICC has no jurisdiction over Israeli (or U.S.) nationals since neither Israel nor the U.S. are States Parties to the Rome Statute. However, the statute authorizes the ICC to exercise territorial jurisdiction over crimes committed by non-State Party nationals in the territory of a State Party.
Palestine is a State Party to the statute, so the ICC determined that it has jurisdiction over crimes allegedly committed by Israeli nationals in Palestine. Indeed, the U.S. has supported several ICC investigations and prosecutions of crimes allegedly committed by non-State Party nationals, including the arrest warrant that the court issued for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
On July 13, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio pledged to “dismantle” the International Criminal Court. He accused the ICC of “waging a war against our country, not with bullets or missiles,” but with “the force of so-called international law.”
Venezuela and Chad announced their withdrawal from the Rome Statute following U.S. threats to reduce or withdraw assistance if they refused to do so.
ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan during a conversation in Brussels with E.U. foreign ministers that included the investigation of war crimes in Ukraine, April 11, 2022. (Raoul Somers / Dutch State Department, CC BY-SA 2.0 / Wikimedia Commons)
Meanwhile, the court faces a leadership vacuum following the firing in July of the ICC’s former chief prosecutor Karim Khan, who had requested the issuance of the arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant.
U.N. investigators said they “found evidence that Mr. Khan engaged in “non-consensual sexual contact”” with a lawyer who had worked as a special assistant to him in 2023. But after a three-month review of a 152-page report by the Office of Internal Oversight Services and of the 5,000+ pages of underpinning material, the Ad Hoc Panel of Judicial Experts unanimously determined that the facts did not establish evidence beyond a reasonable doubt of any wrongdoing on the part of Khan.
Nevertheless, the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute voted to fire him with no due process on July 24.
In December, the assembly will elect six judges to fill one-third of the ICC’s 18 judicial seats. The U.S. will invariably endeavor to interfere with those elections.
Lawsuits Challenging EO 14203
On July 15, Democracy for the Arab World Now and the Taxpayer Alliance Against Genocide filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleging that Trump’s EO 14203 violates the constitutional right to engage in Palestine-related human rights advocacy.
They claimed that the sanctions violate the First Amendment by limiting what people in the U.S. can say to an international tribunal or to foreign advocates and by limiting their ability to associate with sanctioned parties.
U.S. District Judge Jesse M. Furman granted Democracy for the Arab World Now and the Taxpayer Alliance Against Genocide a temporary restraining order on Oct. 13, which temporarily blocks the Trump administration from imposing civil or criminal penalties on the two organizations for supporting ICC’s investigations into alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
The judge said the two organizations were likely to prevail on their claims that Trump’s sanctions violated the First Amendment.
Democracy for the Arab World Now announced it would immediately resume its advocacy with the ICC for the prosecution of Israeli and U.S. perpetrators of grave crimes, and it will work with the three sanctioned human rights groups and the Special Rapporteur.
On Aug. 11, the American Friends Service Committee, the Center for Constitutional Rights, Human Rights Watch and the Open Society Institute filed a lawsuit in the same New York federal court, alleging that Trump’s executive order violates the U.S. Constitution; U.S. statutes; and international law, including the Genocide Convention, Geneva Conventions and customary international law.
Actions to Protect the ICC
On Oct. 12, the Coalition for the International Criminal Court (CICC), comprised of more than 120 organizations from over 60 countries representing all regions of the world, and dozens of legal experts, human rights defenders and members of the EU, issued a joint statement, urging States Parties to act now to protect the ICC from unlawful U.S. sanctions.
The statement condemned “unequivocally and in the strongest terms the decision by the United States to impose unlawful sanctions on the International Criminal Court.” The CICC said, “This unprecedented measure represents a direct attack against the rule of law, the independence of the Court and international justice, ultimately undermining the rights of millions of victims and survivors of mass atrocities worldwide.”
The CICC listed 12 actions that States Parties should take, individually and collectively, to protect the court. They include the immediate adoption or activation of blocking measures at the national and regional levels; for example, the immediate adoption of the EU Blocking Statute and equivalent domestic legislation elsewhere.
Blocking measures would shield those sanctioned, including the court and its officials, the U.N. Special Rapporteur and civil society organizations, from the extraterritorial reach of the sanctions.
In addition, the CICC urges States Parties to guarantee that the court and those cooperating with it have access to banking and other essential services; to find concrete measures to mitigate the impact of sanctions on civic space, freedom of speech and freedom of association; and to explore all possible diplomatic and legal avenues to challenge the sanctions and their legality under international law, including by supporting U.S. legal challenges and a referral to the International Court of Justice.
And the CICC implores States Parties to refuse, “without exception,” coercion by a non-State Party to influence votes, positions, or conduct within the Assembly of States Parties or any other body of the Rome Statute system.
The battle to save the ICC and its capacity to enforce accountability for the most heinous crimes is one struggle with many fronts: local, regional, national and international.
Marjorie Cohn is professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, dean of the People’s Academy of International Law and past president of the National Lawyers Guild. She sits on the national advisory boards of Veterans For Peace and Assange Defense, and is a member of the bureau of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers and the U.S. representative to the continental advisory council of the Association of American Jurists. Her books include Drones and Targeted Killing: Legal, Moral and Geopolitical Issues.
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