Mandy

Legal advisor- #Environment crime. Tweets- Intl environment policy, #conservation, #IWT, etc. Some politics too. RT not endorsement.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

⭕️ Human Rights Watch’s Lebanon researcher points out that the new Israel-Lebanon framework requires Lebanon to forgo pursuing all legal claims and diplomatic actions against Israel in international political and legal forums.

That waiver would foreclose accountability for a war in which Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have documented extensive apparent war crimes by Israeli forces, including:

🔹 The demolition of more than 10,000 civilian structures in the south between October 2024 and January 2025, much of it carried out with explosives and bulldozers after the ceasefire and outside active combat, which Amnesty says must be investigated as a war crime

🔹 Attacks on medics and hospitals, including strikes that killed paramedics in Beirut and the south; Lebanon’s Islamic Health Association says Israeli forces killed 155 paramedics and destroyed 43 emergency centers during the war

🔹 The killing of journalists, including the October 2023 strike that killed Reuters photojournalist Issam Abdallah, which a UN expert found appeared to be a war crime

🔹 Indiscriminate attacks on civilians between September and November 2024, including unlawful strikes on residential buildings that killed children, per HRW and Amnesty

🔹 The widespread and unlawful use of white phosphorus in populated areas, documented by HRW

🔹 Repeated attacks harming UN peacekeepers (UNIFIL) in apparent violation of the laws of war

🔹 In the 2026 war that began March 2, more than 4,200 people have been killed in Israeli strikes, the majority of them civilians, with over one million displaced. Homes and infrastructure systematically destroyed.

🔹 That followed the earlier 2023-2024 war, after whose November 2024 ceasefire Israel killed more than 380 additional people, including at least 127 civilians, 57 of them in the first 60 days while trying to return home, per the UN

🔹Between October 2023 and the November 2024 ceasefire, Israeli strikes killed more than 3,961 people in Lebanon, including 248 children, 736 women, and 222 health and rescue workers, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry.

[Gromit Stevens @mdpollak]

Every time someone talks about a "divisive" issue for Democrats, it's a division between the voters and the donors

[Colin McCarthy @US_Stormwatch]

The Netherlands just shattered its all-time lightning record, over 300,000 discharges in a single day on June 27.

[Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson]

Here's what @DarializaforNY told me about the kind of congressperson she wants to be. https://t.co/WKvmdI8fCe

[GENeva Environment Network @GENetwork]

On the margins of #HRC62, this #GENeva #ToxicFreeTalk will examine the significance of threats & adverse impacts of #PFAS, so-called “forever chemicals", for the enjoyment of human rights, in light of @SRtoxics' report at #HRC63.

📆 26 June, 13:45 CEST
▶️ https://t.co/5ujnhgrBqJ

[Darializa for Congress @DarializaforNY]

There aren’t words to describe this moment but there are policies to uphold. WE WON!!

[Colin McCarthy @US_Stormwatch]

Even as night falls, the heat remains unrelenting across France.

At 9 pm local time, some towns are still recording humidex values up to 50°C (122°F).

Beyond oppressive and potentially deadly wet heat.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇵🇸 Mahmoud Khalil’s ICE detention became a defining issue in the NY-13 race after pro-Palestine challenger Darializa Avila Chevalier highlighted that Rep. Adriano Espaillat, Khalil’s congressmember, did not publicly defend him or meet with his family during his detention. Tonight, @ryangrim caught up with @mahmoudkhalel at Chevalier’s election night watch/victory party in New York City.

[Our Revolution @OurRevolution]

This will be the kind of upset that redraws the map for an entire generation of challengers.

A political newcomer with no machine, no establishment money, and a fraction of the resources just unseated a five-term incumbent who chairs the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.

People are tired. Tired of money deciding elections before they vote. Tired of harassment standing in for an answer. Tired of the same old, do-nothing politics. They see right through all of it, and they know who’s actually serving them.

Darializa Avila Chevalier, congresswoman-elect. 🗳️✨

[NYC-DSA 🌹 @nycDSA]

SOCIALISM WINS UPTOWN! Darializa Avila Chevalier will be the first Afro-Latina to represent NY-13. We can’t wait to see how @DarializaforNY fights to abolish ICE, end the genocide in Gaza, and fight for working class people every day.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

NEWS: In a stunning upset, Mamdani-backed Darializa Avila Chevalier will defeat five-term incumbent Adriano Espaillat in the NY-13 congressional primary.

With victories by Brad Lander, Claire Valdez, and now Avila Chevalier, Zohran Mamdani went 3-for-3 with his endorsements in New York City's Democratic primaries.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

BREAKING: Claire Valdez wins the Democratic NY-7 primary and will be the district's next congresswoman.

Claire worked in fast food and at Trader Joe's, and organized a union before seeking office.

She joins a wave of working people entering Congress to fight billionaire power.

[Courthouse News @CourthouseNews]

Seven states sue Trump over terminated offshore wind project in New York @ryan_knappy https://t.co/tOFEq90sG5

[Colin McCarthy @US_Stormwatch]

After London reached an unprecedented 35°C (95°F) today, southern France could make a serious run at 40°C (104°F) in the next few days.

We have never seen a heatwave this intense this early in the year across Western Europe. It's only late May.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

BREAKING: Israel has begun deporting detained Gaza flotilla activists after their release from the Ktziot detention facility where they were forcibly taken to.

🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/aGuApuR3EY

[Peter Dynes @PGDynes]

Parts of Spain/Portugal will approach 40°C next week, and we are still only in MAY. This is not “just summer arriving early”. Europe is heating faster than almost any continent on Earth. European agriculture, ecosystems & infrastructure were not built for these extended extremes.

[DREAM for NYC @dreamfornyc]

how it started: how it's going:

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

they were trying to secure a fair contract for three years, the state conceded in three days. this is why they dont want you to unionize your workplace

[Climate Defiance @ClimateDefiance]

This is what it looks like when tech billionaires have bought our politicians. Steering electricity away from the the people and to an unthinking, unfeeling data center. It is a disgrace

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

When we came into office, we uncovered a $12 billion budget deficit.

Today, I’m proud to say we brought it down to zero.

We didn’t close the gap on the backs of working people.

We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets and making historic investments in public housing.

Call it Pothole Politics. Call it Democratic Socialism. It's government that delivers for the people who make this city run.

That’s what New Yorkers deserve. And that’s what we will keep fighting for every single day.