“trillions of dollars of public subsidies ... have been wasted on directly propping up the few companies that have engineered our fossil-fuelled economies to promote wasteful lifestyles for personal profit”
Rep. Bill Johnson told me he will resign from Congress early next year, further shrinking the already narrow GOP majority until a special election is held. “I'll be leaving sometime in the first quarter, first quarter of next year,” he said
Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA): “Why do you think that Chicago has become America's largest outdoor shooting range?”
Dr. Megan Ranney of the Yale School of Public Health: “Mississippi, Louisiana, and Missouri actually have higher firearm death rates.”
russians destroying memorials to victims of Holodomor in temporarily occupied areas of Kherson region.
First, starve millions to death, then erase memory about your victims. Classic russian "liberation".
Al Jazeera just interviewed one of the Palestinians released, Amani al Hashim, a mother of two, who was sentenced to ten years for, in her words, "driving too close to an Israeli soldier". Israel claimed she had attempted a "car ramming". Bear in under military order 1651
She says (on Al Jazeera) that because of “Israel” & her extended detention, she doesn’t know what her children’s favourite foods are, what they like & dislike, & that when they’d only allow her to hug one of the 2, her other kid would ask “why is mama not hugging me?”
Israel claimed there’s a Hamas command and control center under Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza. US media repeated the claims. Once it was clear this wasn’t true, everyone moved on. Palestinians died based on these lies, including ICU patients. This is akin to Iraq WMDs reporting.
The colossus has awoken. #Iceberg#A23a is on the move almost 40 years after it calved from the Filchner Ice Shelf. For nearly all the intervening time, it's been stuck in the Weddell Sea bottom-muds. It's now about to spill beyond Antarctica @BAS_News https://t.co/XZAWL6GrpH
הצעת החוק לביטול אזרחות בגין מעשה שנעשה בעת מצב מיוחד בעורף מעניקה לגורם פוליטי, להבדיל מביהמ"ש, סמכות חסרת תקדים לבטל אזרחות. ההצעה אינה מתיישבת עם המשפט החוקתי והבינ"ל ופוגעת באופן שאינו מידתי בזכויות החוקתיות לאזרחות ולחופש ביטוי, ובעקרון הפרדת רשויות.
https://t.co/WgRflHXCVU
Of the list of 300 Palestinians to be released (only 150 will be released) there are:
- 270 children under age of 18
- 230 have never been convicted
- 4 are under age of 14
Russian military footwear companies import $4.1 mn worth of goods from Europe
In 2023, Italian, German, and other European companies supplied the Russian army with footwear production components, the sanctions monitoring project Trap Aggressor reported.
https://t.co/mNBSUc1FOd
Israeli general Giora Eiland in today's Yediot Ahronot: “The international community is warning us against a severe humanitarian disaster and severe epidemics. We must not shy away from this. After all, severe epidemics in the south of Gaza will bring victory closer (…)” /1
A four day truce based on release of Palestinian women and children held captive in Israeli prisons. These are the legitimate demands Palestinians had been making before and since Al-Aqsa flood. This deal could have been reached weeks ago and tens of thousands of lives saved 🧵
By racializing October 7 as an irrational savagery, it left extermination as the only legitimate option. If it is irrational and savage, then it has no legitimate demands, and cannot be reasoned with. This is what has authorized Israel's genocidal war on Palestinians on Gaza.
🧵Some context and background on Palestinians detained & imprisoned by Israel: 1) A Palestinian "prisoner" does not refer to someone tried & convicted in a normal court of law that follows due process. Palestinians are detained by Israeli soldiers, https://t.co/TxA4IgjeFg