I find it shocking that this is the level to which climate debate has been dumbified to.
It's no longer second-order consequences, or even first-order inconvenience. It's literally just "I can just pretend everything is fine so there's no problem".
Dawg, the crops, the food.
It’s now been 1,000 days since the genocide in Gaza began. I’ll never forget the overwhelming feeling of dread and horror, knowing the hell Israel would unleash on October 8th. Their sadism surpassed my wildest expectations. Free Palestine, always and forever 💔🇵🇸
A Palestinian father is mourning his 3-year-old son that was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers.
Bahaa Abu al-Ajeen says IDF soldiers fatally shot his son Rayan in the head, while simultaneously wounding Bahaa as well.
(https://t.co/c3ajZtuT8q)
🇨🇱 | Did you know that FIFA once forced a World Cup match to be played inside a concentration camp?
The Soviet Union refused to play in Pinochet's Estadio Nacional, where thousands were tortured.
So Chile took the field against no one and scored into an empty net. Read on.
genuinely hard to stomach, that in addition to all their crimes, the fact that isr*el has been relentlessly bombing palestine, releasing tonnes of Co2 in the air & has absolutely had a hand in an accelerating global warming, yet there are not and will be no consequences for them
¡ESTA IMAGEN NOS ROMPIÓ EL CORAZÓN! 💔🇮🇷
Ramin Rezaeian marcó el gol del empate, fue elegido como el mejor futbolista del partido… pero eso no alcanzó.
Tras el pitazo final, no pudo contener las lágrimas. Irán estuvo a segundos de conseguir la clasificación, pero el gol de la victoria en el último minuto fue anulado.
La imagen de Ramin recibiendo el premio con los ojos llenos de lágrimas lo dice todo. Refleja el dolor de un equipo que no solo luchó dentro de la cancha, sino también fuera de ella.
Mientras otras selecciones viven el Mundial con normalidad, Irán ha tenido que entrenar en México y viajar el mismo día de cada partido a Estados Unidos. Un contexto que ha complicado enormemente su participación.
Esto fue mucho más que un partido de fútbol.
TIENEN TODO NUESTRO RESPETO, IRÁN. 🇮🇷❤️
Her name was Marion Stokes and in addition to being an amateur archivist, she was also a civil rights activist and got fired from her job as a librarian for being a communist.
For those who wanted a donation link to help Venezuelan earthquake victims, here's a gofundme from the I Love Venezuela foundation.
Will keep an eye out for any other links that might be of help.
https://t.co/idnxFWQVMt
Toni McBride (below), is an LAPD cop who killed Daniel Hernandez in mental health crisis in 2018. Her sister Jacqueline McBride, LAPD cop, just killed a woman in Rampart. They are the 2 killer daughters of cop union mafia boss Jamie McBride who himself was involved in 6 shootings
In Texas if you protest against the illegal kidnappings of your neighbors, you’ll get sentenced to 50 years in prison because the judge wants to “send a message to anyone who shares a similar ideology.”
Egregious.
“Judge O’Connor stated from the bench that he is giving maximum sentences to the Prairieland sentences because “the state wants to send a message to anyone who shares a similar ideology.”
Sentences are starting to come out:
Zachary Evetts - 50 years
Maricela Rueda - 70 years
Savanna Batten - 50 years
Autumn Hill - 50 years
We will not stop fighting for their freedom.
💢 NEW: Anti-corruption Polish activist Monika Silva Koniuszek was murdered after investigating allegations involving Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa’s family business, including claims cocaine had been seized in banana shipments exported by Noboa Trading, her friends and fellow activists tell the Guardian.
Ecuador’s government initially said her death appeared to be a suicide. However, a postmortem has found she died from a blow to the head and strangulation.
Silva Koniuszek, who had also investigated alleged land trafficking involving politically connected figures in Santa Elena province, as well as environmental crimes, had received repeated death threats, and told friends she had recently delivered a dossier of allegations to the U.S. Embassy in Quito.
Ecuadorian authorities are investigating. Full story in reply.
🚨🇨🇺 US Supreme Court Clears Exxon to Sue Cuba Over Property It Nationalized 65 Years Ago
The US Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Exxon Mobil can sue Cuban state-owned companies in American courts for more than $1 billion over an oil refinery, terminals, and hundreds of service stations that Cuba nationalized after its 1959 revolution, handing Washington a fresh weapon against the island it has blockaded for decades.
The 6-3 decision, written by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, held that the 1996 Helms-Burton Act strips Cuban state enterprises of the sovereign immunity that normally shields foreign governments from US lawsuits. The court’s three liberal justices dissented, with Justice Elena Kagan writing that the law contains no such provision.
Helms-Burton is the 1996 law that codified the decades-old US embargo of Cuba into statute, stripping any president of the power to lift it alone. Its Title III provision lets US nationals sue over property the Cuban government reclaimed from foreign corporations after the revolution, and sue all companies that later do business using those assets. The provision was considered so aggressive, and so likely to anger allies whose firms invest in Cuba and to poison any future US-Cuba settlement, that every president continued to suspend it in six-month incremental waivers for over two decades, until Trump let the suspension lapse in 2019. Exxon sued the same day.
The ruling lands as Trump tightens the screws on Havana, which is already reeling under a renewed US oil blockade that has caused brutal shortages and hardship across the island. Together with a similar decision last month (Havana Docks Corp. v. Royal Caribbean Cruises), it opens the door to thousands of pending claims, nearly 6,000 certified ones worth almost $2 billion before interest, seeking to extract wealth from a nation the US has worked to isolate since Cubans first took control of their own resources in 1960.
(Based on information from the Supreme Court ruling and reporting by the AP, CNN, and Bloomberg Law.)
📸 Photo: March 12, 1996, President Clinton signs the bill into law.