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[Nick Kapur @nick_kapur]

The Trump Administration is prematurely dismantling an invaluable ocean monitoring system built at taxpayer expense that was supposed to last until 2041.

Because apparently climate change doesn't exist if you prevent scientists from measuring it.

[BDS movement @BDSmovement]

“We do not load death.”

Dockworkers’ unions from more than 35 ports sign joint declaration calling for an end to Israel’s genocide and apartheid against Palestinians and for a day of international struggle of dockworkers in October.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

The Israelization of our societies is already happening: posturing democracies where human rights can be suspended for people that those in power consider a disturbance.
Wake up Brits. Italians. Germans. French. North Americans. Dutch.

[Mark Ruffalo @MarkRuffalo]

Read the room guys. We don’t want to be Israel and we don’t want Israel to lead our military anymore. We are done with this dynamic.

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

This woman is expected to be Trump's next Director of National Intelligence

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

“My name is Amos Goldberg. I am an Israeli Professor of Holocaust Studies. For nearly 30 years I have researched and taught the Holocaust, genocide and state violence.

And I want to tell whoever is willing to listen that what’s happening now in Gaza is a genocide.

A year ago when October 7th happened, like all Israelis I was in shock. It was a war crime and a crime against humanity. 1200 people - more than 800 of them civilians - were killed in one day. Children and the elderly were among those taken hostage. Communities were destroyed. It was outrageous, traumatizing, personal. Like most Israelis, I know people who were killed, who lost loved ones or whose loved ones were taken hostage.

But immediately afterwards came Israel’s response and within weeks thousands of civilians were killed in Gaza. It took me some time to digest what was unfolding before my eyes. It was agonizing to confront that reality. I was reluctant to call it a genocide.

But if you read Raphael Lemkin – the Jewish-Polish legal scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ and was the major driving force behind the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention – what is happening in Gaza now is exactly what he had in mind when he spoke about genocide.

It does not need to look like the Holocaust to be a genocide. Each genocide looks different and not all involve killing of millions or the entire group. The United Nations Genocide Convention explicitly asserts that genocide is the act of deliberately destroying a group in whole or in part. Those are the words.

But there does need to be a clear intent.

And indeed, there are clear indications of intent to destroy Gaza: Israel’s leaders - including the prime minister and the minister of defence - and many high-ranking military officers, media personalities, rabbis, as well as ordinary soldiers were very open about what they wanted to achieve. There were countless documented incitements to turn the whole of Gaza into rubble and claims that there are no innocent people living there.

A radical atmosphere of dehumanization of the Palestinians prevails in Israeli society to an extent that I can’t remember in my 58 years of living here.

Now that vision has been enacted. Tens of thousands of innocent children, women and men have been killed. Over a hundred thousand were wounded. There is a near total destruction of infrastructure, intentional starvation and blocking of humanitarian aid. There are mass graves and reliable testimony of summary executions. Children that were shot by snipers. All the universities and almost all hospitals are gone. Almost all the population is displaced. There have been numerous bombings of civilians in so-called ‘safe zones’. Gaza does not exist anymore. It is completely destroyed. Thus, the outcome fits perfectly with the stated intentions of Israel’s leadership.

Lemkin - that scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ - described two phases of a genocide. The first is the destruction of the annihilated group and the second is what he called ‘imposition of the national pattern’ of the perpetrator. We are now witnessing the second phase as Israel prepares ethnically cleansed areas for Israeli settlements.

And therefore, I have come to the conclusion that this is exactly what a genocide looks like. We don’t teach about genocides in order to realize it retrospectively. We teach about it in order to prevent it and to stop it.

But like in every other case of genocide in history right now we have mass denial. Both here in Israel and around the world.

But reality cannot be denied.

So yes, it is a genocide.

And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent.”

- Statement to Led By Donkeys, December 2024
- Photo: Parliament Square, London, 8.40am, 4th December 2024

[Global Scope @SpotGlobals]

🇺🇸 Rep. Thomas Massie drops a bombshell... reveals the "hidden Epstein list" and accuses Kash Patel of lying to the American people

"The FBI is hiding the names of those involved in the Epstein network, including a senior government official."

[Monica @mc_conklin]

@StoriesBySammi @17frosted You would have thought the Chicago leases to foreign countries would have taught them something. We have idiots running our nation

[lawrence @lcagee]

@StoriesBySammi Plus they get to extract it free of charge and leave a toxic pit and destroy Boundary Waters with zero obligation to clean it up, which will never be cleaned up. Ever. The primary owner of the mining company rents his DC mansion to Jarod and Ivanka. The taxpayers subsidize this.

[Terry Jepson @terry_jepson]

@StoriesBySammi @TomTiffanyWI is chairman of the Subcommittee on Federal Lands which is responsible for the National Park System, U.S. Forests, federal lands, & national monuments. Toxic Tom's Committee removed the 20-year mining ban in the Superior National Forest.
https://t.co/yp8r0HULkA

[It's time to rise up & burn this shit down. @Sweetbarbaralee]

@StoriesBySammi Here's your answer.

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

The Senate's own bipartisan "Stewardship Caucus" was created to protect public lands.

When the vote came — they broke almost entirely along party lines.

One Republican senator on that caucus grew up canoeing the Boundary Waters.

He voted yes anyway.

The jobs from this mine won't even go to Minnesotans — the company has said workers will be sourced from outside the state and the country.

Chile gets the profits. China gets the copper. Minnesota gets the pollution.

If this is what "America First" looks like — who exactly comes first?

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

Earthjustice is calling this move "unprecedented and legally questionable."

The Congressional Review Act was weaponized in a way it has never been used before — to erase a 20-year mining ban protecting 225,000 acres of public watershed in one backdoor vote.

What does this mean legally?

And what's the fight that comes next?

https://t.co/f55NpD9Utn

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

Over a million acres of pristine wilderness lakes in Minnesota.

The most visited canoe country in America.

Generations of families have paddled it, fished it, camped it.

The Senate just sold it out outright.

They called it "America First."

Then handed it to a Chilean billionaire — so his company can ship the copper to China.

The Senate voted 50-49 to gut 20 years of Boundary Waters mining protections.

Here's the deal they made.

A Chilean billionaire's company digs the mine.

America can't smelt the copper — we don't have the capacity.

So the ore ships to China.

China processes it.

Sells it on the world market.

Chile keeps the profits.

Minnesotans don't even get the jobs.

Minnesota keeps the pollution.

And Americans get to buy it back from China at full market price.

This same company has a documented history at their Chilean mines: pipeline spills, regulatory fines, and locals fighting back for years.

They paid a former Trump Interior Secretary $380K.

The protection died by one vote.

Here's exactly how it happened — and who made it happen.

Who do YOU think this mine actually serves?

#DemsUnited

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

A former Trump Interior Secretary forms a lobbying firm.

A Chilean mining giant pays it $380K.

Republican senators who were leaning against the mine suddenly flip.

The White House applies pressure behind closed doors.

And a 20-year wilderness protection dies by one vote.

Outdoor Life pulled back the curtain on every backroom deal, every vote, and every senator who caved.

This is the full breakdown.

https://t.co/ugsf5YcXk8

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Alongside @weizman_eyal, I won't participate in the #HayFestival because of @Airbnb being their main sponsor. Profiting from illegal settlements, advertising properties built on stolen land makes Airbnb not ''just a sponsor''.

We must stop normalising Apartheid with a click!

[Amulya Shekhar @tweet_amulya]

Guys, please hit a follow on her handle.

She's one of the on-ground reporters providing live coverage from Lebanon's war zones and has been in the area for nearly 2 years.

Musk and Bier are throttling her reach.

Make sure to live/RT everything you see.

[Negan @Roger_Negan]

This

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

The USA has just claimed Cuba is being used by Russia and China to spy on them.

Cuba is 90 miles from the USA and the US blockade makes it impossible for Cubans to get to the USA.

Meaning spying is impossible.

Just another lie to justify US violence.