Tilman Ruff AO

Physician, @IPPNW board, past co-president, founding chair @ICAN, grandfather; Wurundjeri, Taungurung, Muwinina country. Born: CO2 314 ppm, 2636 nuclear weapons

[Tilman Ruff AO @tilmanaruff]

A brief history of Australia eating shit on AUKUS via @crikey_news https://t.co/RpKL6dhioo

[Tilman Ruff AO @tilmanaruff]

B52s at Tindal and soon to be nuclear-capable subs in Perth will escalate our nuclear weapons complicity.
Best way to deliver on promises and help make everyone more secure: join the #nuclearban

AUSTRALIA’S SECRET EMBRACE OF U.S. NUCLEAR PLANNING https://t.co/GEROZXFPI7

[Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson]

The experiment is over – we know what does and doesn’t work to address climate

If we look at what has been proposed to address global warming, air pollution, and energy security during the past 25 years, only one solution – electrification of all energy sectors and generation of the electricity with wind, solar, geothermal, and hydro sources -- has made an impact. This solution has reduced enough world emissions and technology costs for the @IPCC_CH, to eliminate its worst-case climate scenario. What are the proposed climate solutions that never worked? (1) Fossil gas replacing coal, (2) ethanol replacing gasoline, (3) carbon capture, (4) direct removal of CO2 from the air by equipment, (5) blue hydrogen, 6) nuclear, and (7) geoengineering. We knew these were poor solutions back in 2009, when they were first evaluated. But, it has taken 17 years to overcome lobbyists pushing these techs. On the other hand, electrification of world transport, buildings, and industry and using clean renewables to provide the electricity while growing energy efficiency, also proposed in 2009, has worked, as evidenced by the world growth in electric vehicles, heat pumps, electric furnaces, and clean, renewable electricity generators. All-of-the-above policies, or let’s try everything and hope something works policies, have failed. Given the short time we have, we should never see another IPCC scenario that includes biofuels, carbon capture, direct air capture, nuclear, geoengineering or their derivatives, blue hydrogen, electo-fuels, or sustainable aviation fuels. We know what works. Let's focus on that going forward.

References

Elimination of most extreme IPCC scenario
https://t.co/y2F2mAbCTU

Components of a WindWaterSolar system
https://t.co/viWz8mbv3v

2009 paper evaluating energy technologies
https://t.co/QzjG2d417e

2009 paper proposing to transition the world to 100% WWS
https://t.co/axJJKhHr5n

More details here: "Still No Miracles Needed"
https://t.co/K6Yd0rGJ9e

Video
https://t.co/2U4FMPUC6l

[Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus @DrTedros]

At least 40 million children aged 13 to 15 are already using tobacco products, and 15 million children are using e-cigarettes -- as tobacco and nicotine industries continue to drive addiction, particularly for young people.

World #NoTobacco Day is an annual reminder of the harms of tobacco in all its forms.

@WHO calls on governments to act decisively!

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

“I want to kill someone today & it might be you"

"They wrenched my trousers & underwear down & I was raped by one of the soldiers"

"Other people had guns inserted inside them"

"My daughter was syringed with an unknown substance"

Juliet Lamont's Gaza Flotilla testimony:

[Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) @PHRIsrael]

Dr. Musab Samaan, a physician at al-Aqsa Hospital, was detained on February 16, 2024, while treating patients at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. He remains in custody without charges or trial and has not had legal representation at any of his hearings.

During a conversation with him, Dr. Samaan expressed deep despair, saying all he wants is to return to his family. He reported suffering from abscesses across his body caused by a scabies outbreak in prison. Despite repeatedly requesting medical treatment, he says his pleas have been ignored by prison staff.

Dr. Samaan is among dozens of healthcare workers from Gaza who are being unlawfully detained by Israel and subjected to inhumane conditions and ongoing medical neglect.

Over the past two years, detained healthcare workers have reported enduring severe prison conditions, including starvation, medical neglect, violence, and torture. These conditions have led to the deaths of at least 103 detainees, including five healthcare workers from Gaza. As Gaza’s healthcare system continues to collapse under the weight of widespread destruction and critical shortages, Israel continues to detain its physicians without trial, in violation of international law.

Gaza’s healthcare system cannot recover while the physicians responsible for saving lives remain imprisoned. We call for the detention orders against these physicians to be revoked and for their immediate release, so they can reunite with their families and communities and resume their life-saving work.

It is our responsibility to demand their immediate release.

Use of the photo is made in accordance with Section 27A of the Copyright Law.

#ReleaseThe14Doctors

[B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم @btselem]

On Saturday, 14 March 2026, a group of Israeli settlers entered the village of Qusrah in Nablus District, some carrying clubs and slingshots and others with firearms. They smashed windows of homes, vandalized two cars and damaged other property.

About 10 village residents came to the families’ defense, including Mu’tasem ‘Odeh, 46, and his son Amir, 28. A confrontation developed and the settlers opened live fire at the residents. Amir ‘Odeh was shot in the chest, and two other residents were wounded in the legs.

Amir collapsed immediately, and when his father rushed to him, the settlers attacked him, beating him on the head with a club until he lost consciousness and then stabbing him in both legs. The settlers also beat the wounded Amir with clubs. They then moved away. Residents took Amir and Mu’tasem ‘Odeh to Rafidya Hospital in Nablus, where Amir was pronounced dead.

From October 2023 and to May 30, 2026, Israel killed 1,079 Palestinians in the West Bank, 35 of them killed by settlers. Under Israel’s apartheid regime, Palestinian lives continue to be treated as utterly expendable.

Read the full investigation >> https://t.co/xTVCne6FtR

[IAEA - International Atomic Energy Agency ⚛️ @iaeaorg]

The IAEA team at the ZNPP this morning observed damage to the exterior of a turbine building which the plant said was hit by a drone strike yesterday.
During a site walk down, the team saw damage to a metal access hatch located several levels up in the building, as well as a few pieces of debris and burned optical fiber remains on the ground. The team’s observations are consistent with the impact of a drone.
The IAEA has also requested access to the inside of the building - noting that it is located immediately next to reactor unit 6 - for further examination.
During the walk down, the team was told to shelter after hearing the sound of drones nearby and gunfire to repel them. The team was still able to confirm with their measuring equipment that radiation levels at the site remain normal.
DG @rafaelmgrossi says yesterday’s strike was a serious incident that endangered key nuclear safety principles. Attacks on nuclear sites are unacceptable and must stop in order to prevent the very real risk of a nuclear accident that would benefit no one, DG Grossi adds.

[Doug Cameron @DougCameron51]

The decision to abandon our sovereignty, blindly support US aggression and spend at least $368b on second hand submarines beggars belief.
Labor’s desperate attempt to avoid being wedged on AUKUS is proving to be politically,militarily, strategically and economically incompetent.

[UN Special Procedures @UN_SPExperts]

#Palestine: UN experts warn about escalating #Israeli settler terror and existential risk posed to Palestinian communities. “Attacks serve as instrument of coercion in the hands of the occupying power, facilitating ethnic cleansing.”

https://t.co/tJeguUFkyl

[Tilman Ruff AO @tilmanaruff]

"If there is no will to stop the bombing of our hospitals, the targeting of our colleagues, and the killing of our patients today, what chance do we stand when warfare becomes faster, more automated, and further removed from human judgment?"
https://t.co/y8pt549oNO

[MSF International @MSF]

Renan, our colleague in north Gaza, tells us about the night of 26 May, when Israeli forces struck the building next to her apartment without warning:

[Labor Against War @LabAgainstWar]

“Labor Against War once again calls on the Albanese government to cease throwing good money after bad, halt AUKUS funding immediately and stop subsidising Trump’s war machine." 3/3

[Labor Against War @LabAgainstWar]

"Richard Marles is selling the fact he’s been dudded - forced to take dodgy Pete Hegseth’s second-hand subs - as ‘significant savings’.” 1/3

“AUKUS overhaul: No new Virginia sub for Australia” https://t.co/5JaAOryeAO

[Nic Maclellan @MaclellanNic]

As timelines, budgets and planned capacities all blow out, AUKUS is more about reinforcing Australia's role as a suitable piece of real estate: rotating n-capable B-52H bombers through Tindal air base, and letting US nuclear subs operate from the SRF base in Western Australia.

[Tilman Ruff AO @tilmanaruff]

Last week the feds gave $7.2 million in response to a multistate diphtheria epidemic that started early March. Hundreds of cases, mostly in Indigenous people, of an easily vaccine-preventable disease we should hardly ever see here.
That's 0.002% of $368 billion for #AUKUS subs.

[Global Sumud Flotilla @gbsumudflotilla]

“They kept kicking until I had no breath.”

Arno recounts the brutal assault he endured after israeli forces illegally intercepted their boats in international waters. Beaten so severely that he suffered broken ribs and a collapsed lung, his testimony is one of many describing the extreme violence participants faced during the interception.

[Mark Kersten || @markkersten.bsky.social @MarkKersten]

The genocide case at the ICJ is proceeding predictably slow.

So, a reminder: the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide obligates states to **prevent** genocide where a risk of it exists.

In Gaza, that risk is years old and patently clear.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

At least 72,819 Palestinians have been killed and 172,894 have been injured by Israeli attacks since the beginning of its genocide in Gaza https://t.co/WCiu6WtJ4K

[Human Rights Watch @hrw]

The United Nations Secretary-General's reported inclusion of Israel's armed and security forces on the annual conflict-related sexual violence blacklist should be followed by action.

It’s up to other governments to take action to halt abuses — ending weapons sales, imposing targeted sanctions, and suspending preferential trade agreements.