While everyone’s attention is being zapped away by all the Chaos of Trump, this study was published today, on catastrophic losses in butterfly species abundance across the US.
“Between 2000 and 2020, total butterfly abundance fell by 22% across the 554 recorded species.” 😔
It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.
While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change.
And they’re right.
Israel is deliberately killing the children of Gaza.
An aid truck filled with medical and nutritional supplies for 10,000 children in Gaza was turned around by Israel for no reason. —James Elder, a spokesperson for UNICEF
This is an act of genocide.
Human Rights Watch reports Israel has committed another serious war crime, dropping white phosphorus munitions on densely populated residential areas in Southern Lebanon, burning inside these 17 municipalities. @hrw says white phosphorus produces excruciating burns and lifelong suffering. Under federal law this would lead to suspension of weapons, but Biden is okay with violating these and other federal laws which specifically condition military shipments to foreign countries. -R
I just received notice that I am suspended through the entire fall semester for my participation in the first Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia. Admin silently went back on their own deal with students in which they agreed to reverse our mass suspensions due to the outrage.
"The only moral thing Palestinian civilians can do apparently is to die. The only legal thing the rest of us can do is to watch them die. And be silent. If not, we risk our scholarships, grants, lecture fees & livelihoods."
- Arundhati Roy
Using starvation as a weapon is a war crime.
We know that children in Gaza are dying of malnutrition.
As long as Israel continues to prevent aid groups and journalists from entering the most desperate areas of Gaza, we will not know the full extent of the famine there.
Nearly 2 million Palestinians in Gaza are facing either emergency (IPC phase 4) or catastrophic (IPC phase 5) food insecurity and the amount of food aid from humanitarian organizations getting into the Strip is the lowest it’s been since October
LIVE: Even democratically-elected officials can commit war crimes. We cannot apply international law only when it’s convenient. https://t.co/0arq3ensqH
Israel influence agent @RepBrianMast tonight voted to remove constitutionally protected free speech rights of Americans who criticize Israel's genocide and its blatantly racist policies that deny basic human rights to Palestinians. I will defeat Brian Mast on August 20.