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It is obvious that the Israelis hate anything that starts with the letter “H,” such as Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis, and Hormuz. So, what do Israelis like? Here is a list of things that Israelis like to do:
Texas Grid Battery Plans
As a sign of how the grid is changing, Octopus Energy USA has introduced PowerStore, a new battery-powered retail electricity plan in the Texas market that allows homeowners to get a 30 kWh battery system installed in their home under a 36-month fixed-rate subscription plan.
The plan, which requires no down payment, offers low-cost electricity of 8 cents per kWh (in addition to utility distribution charges that generally run about 5 to 6 cents per kWh), along with a $45 per month subscription charge for the battery.
This program is similar to other battery-based retail energy plans currently available in Texas, such as those offered by Base Power and Solrite. These plans offer low-cost batteries to homeowners which are then combined and managed as a virtual power plant by the installation firms.
Measure 20-373, “The Lane County Watersheds Bill of Rights,” which is on the ballot for the May 19th election in western Oregon, would enshrine “rights of nature” for water and watersheds in Lane County.
If their spending is any indicator, corporate interests find this incredibly threatening.
Records show that as of April 25th, $188,825 in donations have been made to a group formed in February to oppose Measure 20-373.
According to Kunu Bearchum (Northern Cheyenne, Ho-Chunk Nation), one of the chief petitioners behind the Watersheds Bill of Rights, the opposition group “Protect Our County” is what is known as an “astroturf group” — an organization pretending to represent grassroots people but in reality funded by powerful business interests.
The headlines on Friday blared that the Trump Administration announced a return to the firing squad, but that's just bluster. Much more concerning are the proposed new regulations designed to expedite state executions by cutting access to federal appeals and empowering the U.S. Attorney General to help expedite state executions.
This cannot be allowed to stand, and YOU can do something about it:
People vs. Poison Rally
Monday, April 27, 2026, from 9am outside the Supreme Court
Register to attend or watch online: https://thepeoplevspoison.org
Amal Khalil, a 43‑year‑old Lebanese journalist and correspondent for the Beirut-based daily newspaper Al‑Akhbar, was known for her decades of fearless reporting from southern Lebanon. Her name, Amal (meaning “hope” in Arabic), became tragically symbolic when she was killed in an Israeli airstrike.
Born in 1984 in al‑Baisariyah in the Sidon District, Khalil grew up during the Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon. According to publicly available biographical sources, she later became a prominent voice documenting Israeli demolitions, occupation, and human rights abuses in the region. Colleagues described her as generous, courageous, and deeply knowledgeable about the south, often sharing contacts and resources with other journalists. Reporting from outlets such as Middle East Eye highlighted her commitment to truth‑telling and the impact repeated attacks had on her worldview.
Career and Reporting
Khalil began her career covering the 2006 Israeli war on Lebanon, which resulted in:
War is often explained through a familiar set of causes: competition for power and security, economic interests, nationalism, ideology, and state weakness. These factors remain useful, but applied uncritically, they risk becoming formulaic—describing conflict in general without explaining this conflict in particular. The 2026 war involving the United States, Israel, and Iran exposes the limits of these standard explanations and demands a sharper, more critical analysis centered on power, strategy, and intentionality.
Sometimes a seemingly insignificant story tells one more about what is going on than the attempts being made to perceive the larger reality. When Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon with his army the big developing story was the Roman Republic’s impending Civil War pitting Caesar against the country’s Senate and Pompey the Great, but the Rubicon was particularly revealing in that it indicated that Caesar was willing to defy the Senate’s political control in pursuit of his own ambitions. Caesar understood the significance when he commented “Alea iacta est!” meaning “The die is cast!” and there was no going back on his decision which eventually led to his defeating Pompey and becoming Dictator for Life before he was assassinated by Brutus and Cassius on the Ides of March in 44 BC.