After SB 1632 and HB 1471 cleared their final committees, the ACLU of Florida warned the bills would let the government brand its critics as terrorists. Meanwhile, the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops confirmed that amendments had addressed their concerns about Canon Law — a carve-out that revealed exactly who the bill’s religious law provisions were designed to target, and who they were designed to protect.
Florida’s domestic terrorist designation bill barely survived its second Senate committee hearing on February 25 — a grueling three-hour session in which approximately 95% of public testimony opposed the bill, the committee chair voted yes but couldn’t guarantee future support, and the bill’s sponsor struggled to explain how it wouldn’t be weaponized. Senate leadership’s response: pull the bill from its third and final committee and send it straight to the floor, bypassing one more opportunity for scrutiny.
The year 2025 was the deadliest on record for journalists worldwide — and Israel was responsible for the majority of those deaths. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, at least 86 press workers were killed by Israeli fire, most of them Palestinians reporting from inside Gaza.
A forensic investigation by Earshot and Forensic Architecture has reconstructed, minute by minute, how Israeli soldiers killed 15 Palestinian aid workers in Tel al-Sultan in March 2025 — firing over 900 bullets at clearly marked ambulances, executing survivors at close range, and then burying the evidence.
Israeli settlers set fire to the Abu Bakr al-Siddiq Mosque near Nablus before dawn prayers on the first Monday of Ramadan, spraying ‘Price Tag’ graffiti on its walls — as Israeli occupation forces conducted simultaneous raids, arrests, and a home demolition across the West Bank.
A landmark report by the Committee to Protect Journalists documents how 58 of 59 Palestinian journalists released from Israeli custody since October 2023 describe being subjected to torture or abuse — including beatings, sexual violence, starvation, stress positions, and psychological threats against their families.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres condemned the killing of 19-year-old Palestinian-American Nasrallah Abu Siam, who was shot and beaten by Israeli settlers in the West Bank village of Mukhmas while trying to prevent them from stealing his community’s sheep. Three others were wounded in the same attack.

A Palestinian Worker Said ‘Free Palestine’ at the Winter Olympics. Italy Fired Him.
A Palestinian worker at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics was dismissed after saying ‘Free Palestine’ toward a group of Israeli fans at the Cortina Sliding Centre, reigniting debate in Italy over free expression and the reach of Olympic ‘political neutrality’ rules.