KatharinaBieberstein

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[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

I was briefed this morning on the U.S. military capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, as well as their planned imprisonment in federal custody here in New York City.

Unilaterally attacking a sovereign nation is an act of war and a violation of federal and international law.

This blatant pursuit of regime change doesn’t just affect those abroad, it directly impacts New Yorkers, including tens of thousands of Venezuelans who call this city home. My focus is their safety and the safety of every New Yorker, and my administration will continue to monitor the situation and issue relevant guidance.

[Thomas Mayer @TomMayerEuropa]

Die Pressekonferenz von US-Präsident Trump zu Militäraktion gegen #Maduro und #Venezuela gerade vorbei. Mir blieb mehrfach der Mund offen bei dem, was Trump sagte. Unglaublich selbst für Trumpverhältnisse! #Thread 1/7

[Matthias Goldmann @MattHGoldmann]

Die völkerrechtliche Lage ist nicht komplex. Militärische Interventionen in anderen Ländern sind verboten. Ein Selbstverteidigungsrecht liegt nicht vor. Auch der Schutz der Demokratie rechtfertigt keine militärische Intervention ohne Mandat des Sicherheitsrats. 1/

[UNRWA @UNRWA]

In #Gaza, learning continues despite immense challenges.

With schools damaged or closed, thousands of children are attending classes in Temporary Learning Spaces — supported by UNRWA teachers who adapt every day to keep learning going.

#UNRWAworks

[Agnes Callamard @AgnesCallamard]

IDF database suggests 83% of Gaza dead were civilians, contradicting by a huge margin Israel claims of a 1:1 or 2:1 ratio of civilian to militant casualties. Israel’s bombardment of Gaza has killed civilians at a rate with few parallels in modern warfare.
https://t.co/3RwosCcX8v

[Haaretz.com @haaretzcom]

Two Palestinian children have been killed on average each day since the cease-fire began, according to Gaza Health Ministry data and a UNICEF report
https://t.co/edDMmnPpUP

[Florian Warweg @FWarweg]

Aussagen des Bundeskanzlers zu #Brasilien provozieren Eklat: Doch #Merz verweigert jede Form der Entschuldigung

Hintergrund:
@bundeskanzler @_FriedrichMerz hat mit einer allgemein als abfällig interpretierten Aussagen über Brasilien und insbesondere die Amazons-Metropole Belém einen diplomatischen Eklat bei einem der bisher engsten Partner Deutschlands auf dem südamerikanischen Kontinent ausgelöst.

Da Merz keine 20 Stunden bei der Weltklima-Konferenz in Belém verbracht hatte, wollten ich wissen, was der amtierende Kanzler denn außer Hotel und Tagungsort überhaupt zu Gesicht bekommen hat, was so sein Missfallen erregt hat, um sich entsprechend öffentlich zu äußern. Zudem kam die Frage auf, ob er plane der Forderung nach einer Entschuldigung nachzukommen, um die Wogen wieder zu glätten...

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.

Le Monde has a long article (https://t.co/HsWFThQ5wF) describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.

Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.

He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.

That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund

and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.

Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic relations.

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

The Israeli military's utter disregard for Palestinian civilian life, already clear from its conduct, is now being confirmed by its soldiers. https://t.co/YBEuEMhqjx

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

In their own words (Israeli whistleblowers). I suspect this is just the beginning of them coming to terms with the genocide they have carried out in Gaza.

[Loay_Mudhoon @Loay_Mudhoon]

Treffender Kommentar von @stephandetjen im DLF:

"Das Weinen von Kanzler Merz angesichts der Schoah wirft ein Schlaglicht auf die Selbstverblendung Deutschlands. Deutsche Politiker erkennen die Realität des Vorgehens Israels in Gaza nicht an."

https://t.co/aTQbgYgnKJ

[MSF International @MSF]

“We have been left with no choice but to stop our activities, as our clinics are encircled by Israeli forces... This is the last thing we wanted.”

We have been forced to suspend our activities and leave Gaza City.

https://t.co/rhCiKAirbo

[Berliner Zeitung @berlinerzeitung]

Schon am ersten Tag als Präsidentin der UN-Vollversammlung sorgt Annalena Baerbock für Aufsehen: Ein Zitat holt sie ein und bringt sie in Erklärungsnot. https://t.co/THuzwLeDjg

[Agnes Callamard @AgnesCallamard]

Finally....
The European political elite cannot run away from the facts. The evidence. The sufferings. Israel's genocide and repeated violations of international law.
The EU can no longer ignore millions of protestors who for the last 23 months have denounced Israel's crimes.
Shamefully late, @vonderleyen proposes action on Gaza.
But there is still no timeline, no recognition of genocide, no naming Israel as the perpetrator.
@Amnesty urges all Member states, to adopt these measures and explore others, unilaterally or collectively.
We especially call on 🇩🇪 🇮🇹 to Please NOT block these measures. Palestinian lives depend on you.
#Humanitymustwin.
#SOTEU

[Jüdische Stimme für gerechten Frieden in Nahost @JSNahost]

Wer öffentlich über nicht-existente Gräuelvideos lügt, wird natürlich auch über so etwas lügen.

[UNRWA @UNRWA]

Life in #Gaza:
🚨Over 700 days of war
🚨Families forcibly displaced
🚨Not enough food, shelter, sanitation
🚨Nowhere is safe

The Israeli Authorities continue to ban UNRWA aid supplies from entering. Political will is needed to end this and lift the siege.

#CeasefireNow

[MSF International @MSF]

Gaza City is facing a humanitarian catastrophe as Israel’s assault escalates.

Forcing 1 million people—including critically ill patients and newborns—into overcrowded, under-resourced areas would be a death sentence.
https://t.co/xCXxfBGCbd

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Journalist and college professor Stacey Patton goes viral by penning a stunningly powerful statement about how she was on Charlie Kirk’s “digital hit list” and recounting the horror that he inflicted on her.

We cannot allow this tragic assassination to whitewash Kirk’s legacy…

“I am on Charlie Kirk’s hit list,” Patton wrote to her 215,000 followers on Facebook. “His so-called ‘Professor Watchlist,’ run under the umbrella of Turning Point USA, is nothing more than a digital hit list for academics who dare to speak truth to power. I landed there in 2024 after writing commentary that inflamed the MAGA faithful. And once my name went up, the harassment machine roared to life.”

“For weeks my inbox and voicemail were deluged. Mostly white men spat venom through the phone: ‘bitch,’ ‘c*nt,’ ‘n****r.’ They threatened all manner of violence,” she continued.

“They overwhelmed the university’s PR lines and the president’s office with calls demanding that I be fired,” Patton wrote. “The flood was so relentless that the head of campus security reached out to offer me an escort, because they feared one of these keyboard soldiers might step out of his basement and come do me harm.”

“And I am not unique,” she added.

“Kirk’s Watchlist has terrorized legions of professors across this country. Women, Black faculty, queer scholars, basically anyone who challenged white supremacy, gun culture, or Christian nationalism suddenly found themselves targets of coordinated abuse,” Patton wrote.

“Some received death threats. Some had their jobs threatened. Some left academia entirely. Kirk sent the loud message to us: speak the truth and we will unleash the mob!” she continued.

“That is the culture of violence Charlie Kirk built. He normalized violence. He curated it, monetized it, and sicced it on anyone who dared to puncture his movement’s lies,” she wrote.

“And now, in the wake of his shooting, there’s all this national outpouring of mourning, moments of silence, yellow prayer hands, and tributes painting him as a civil debater,” Patton continued. “But the truth is that Kirk and his foot soldiers spent years terrorizing educators, trying to silence us with harassment and fear!”

“And now the same violence he unleashed on others has come full circle.”

“But what i find especially jarring is the dissonance in public mourning for a smug white man whose life work was actively hostile to certain groups,” she continued. “Kirk spent years demonizing LGBTQ people, mocking gun survivors, spewing racism about Black folks, and pushing policies that literally shorten lives.”

“It is so revolting to watch a bipartisan wave of grief sweep over this hateful racist as if he was a neutral community servant,” she concluded.

This is pure unvarnished truth from Patton. Charlie Kirk did not deserve what happened to him, but nor did his victims deserve the hell that he unleashed on them. If Americans are going to build a more peaceful future for ourselves we must condemn political violence while also condemning the hateful, bigoted rhetoric that made Kirk a multimillionaire.

Please retweet and ❤️ if Patton’s message struck a chord with you!

[Tarek Baé @Tarek_Bae]

Meine Güte, @tagesschau.

[Tarek Baé @Tarek_Bae]

Baerbock wird in ihrer Rolle als neue Präsidentin der UN-Generalversammlung gefragt, ob sie sich davon distanziert, dass sie Israels Kriegsverbrechen gegen zivile Ziele in Gaza rechtfertigt hat. Statt Selbstkritik zu zeigen, sagt sie, sie hätte so etwas nie gesagt. Baerbock lügt.