Sanders says he will force Senate votes to block arm sales to Israel
In a statement posted on X, the independent US senator from Vermont said that he will force votes on two Joint Resolutions of Disapproval he introduced to block certain offensive sales to Israel.
“Netanyahu has clearly violated US and international law in this brutal war, and we must end our complicity in this carnage”, he said.
The US has remained Israel’s number one backer – both diplomatically and materially – throughout its nearly year and a half long war on Gaza.
Netanyahu's illegal war has killed 50,000 Palestinians. Now, Trump wants to force out 2 million more to build a billionaire's playground in Gaza.
That is ethnic cleansing — and it’s a war crime.
Next week, I will force votes to block $8.8 billion in new arms sales to Israel. pic.twitter.com/IVGjBCIibl
— Sen. Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) March 27, 2025
Lawyers of detained Tufts University student file motion for US gov’t to produce her
The lawyers of a Turkish national and doctoral student at Tufts University, Rumeysa Ozturk, have filed an emergency motion requesting that the government produce her, after she was arrested by masked US Department of Homeland Security agents in broad daylight on Wednesday.
A federal judge presiding over her case ordered lawyers representing the government to respond to the motion on Thursday morning local time.
US District Judge Indira Talwani initially issued an order giving the government until Friday to answer why Ozturk was being detained. Talwani also ordered that Ozturk not be moved outside Massachusetts without 48 hours advance notice.
US Justice Department announces seizure of Hamas cryptocurrency
The US Justice Department has announced that it has disrupted a financing scheme through the seizure of approximately $200,000 in cryptocurrency held in wallets and accounts intended to Hamas, the department has announced.
In a statement, the DOJ said that the seized funds were traced from fundraising addresses purportedly controlled by Hamas that were used to launder more than $1.5 million in virtual currency since last October.
“These seizures show that this office will search high and low for every cent of money going to fund Hamas, wherever it is found, and in whatever form of currency,” US Attorney Edward R. Martin Jr. of the District of Columbia said in a statement.
According to court documents filed by the government, a group chat claiming association with Hamas on an encrypted communications platform provided Hamas supporters worldwide with a set of at least 17 cryptocurrency addresses, encouraging supporters to donate money to those addresses.
Wasn't the whole point of the crypto BS that governments can't seize crypto crap.
200K lol
