Three days ago, Israel ordered the south evacuated. Two days ago, they did the same to the southern suburbs. That’s more than one million people. Some, the most vulnerable, are sleeping rough by the sea or on sidewalks. Today, it is raining. War harms the poor the most.
I am not interested in purity, I am interested in communicating, learning and winning. The block function mainly works, I use it A LOT, I am able to have interesting conversations and even make new friends, a bit like the old days. To everyone their choice.
Honestly the responses confirm my choice - people being clanishly upset rather than engaging with content. I don’t like nazi bars more than anyone else, but twitter is where the media are, it is where Polanski & Mamdani are taking on the far-right and winning.
Hi Matthew, I hope you are getting good care, nay excellent care. Sadly I am quite geographically stuck in Romandie for the foreseeable future, between work, single parenting and my mom in Geneva. Perhaps another time!
Let's face it, I'm back on twitter, because that's where the news and journalists and everyone are and everything is happening. Sorry bsky. Anyway, I wrote this thing.
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Ding ding ding. That's the whole point.
Well. Seems relevant.
If you are not part of an organisation with the power to stop tyrants and bullies from harming you and anyone you might hold dear, that organisation does not exist.
Not a new insight, but it's truly something to see how many Westerners have internalised that the people we are supposedly freeing through our imperial warfare don't have to be alive to be free.
I hate to ask this, but Tehran is still on the cusp of running out of water and Iran is running very low on food. Whatever the regime was doing to help is obviously no longer happening, so are we just going to let 7M people die of thirst and 100M starve?
As good a time as any to remind people that the vast majority of deaths from the Iraq war were due to preventable disease from destroyed infrastructure and sanctions.
this is where it feels important not to lose sight of the fact that the specific flavor of evil that has formed the Trump family is via real estate. destroying land that has been people's homes for thousands of years so that Jared Kushner's besties can build golf courses on top of their graves
The goal *is* the wasteland-ification of much of MENA so that Israel and the Emirates can rule over rubble.
Gaza, south Lebanon, the West Bank, southwest Syria, this is the model that Israel wants across MENA: weak, permanently unstable, incapable of infrastructural reconstruction or administrative cohesion.
"The death toll from the strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ primary school in Minab has climbed to 108, according to Iran’s Mizan News Agency.
Citing the Minab Prosecutor’s Office, the agency said the number of casualties continues to rise..."
www.middleeasteye.net/live/live-us...
How many times do we have to say this but: dead people do not come back. Dead children do not come back. Death is permanent.
What happens in 3 months means fuck all to the deaths happening RIGHT NOW
The American people are sick and tired of endless wars built on false promises and paid for with innocent lives.
Congress must immediately pass Khanna-Massie War Powers Resolution.
The first deaths announced from the US-Israeli strikes on Iran: dozens of school girls. They hit an elementary school in Hormozgan.
Repeat after me: being bombed to hell is not liberation or democracy. It is imperialism.
Not only, actually. It's quite a mixed term.
I'm fine with populist actually. Means aiming for mass support.
So apparently according to @Keir_Starmer I am an "extreme leftist."
I support economic equality, good public services accessible to everyone, human rights and international law, and bringing ecological impacts back within safe limits.
"extreme" 🤷♀️. Sure.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
"Sadly, a hypothetical future of high consumption and high well-being is simply impossible, because high consumption is incompatible with remaining within planetary boundaries."
Brilliant interview with so many vital insights. E.g.
"Scientific understanding, both natural and social, is essential to comprehend the emergency of our time. And that understanding, especially the social and political part, can only lead to rage."
Can we rally the spam troops and convince the FCC to not allow what is so OBVIOUSLY the plot of a cartoon supervillain?!
This needs at least a half million reposts.
The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan.
darksky.org/news/two-sat...
This is an absolute abomination.
The comment process is a little kludgy, but the link below is a great guide. It took me under a half hour to respond to both (hideous) proposals.
If you've ever looked up at the night sky in wonder, do this.
Billions of your tax dollars are going to Palantir — and the police state it's helping Trump build could soon be used against you.
I advocate for scientifically informed rage We need natural & physical science to understand the reality of the climate crisis We need social science & humanities to understand how powerful actors have acted
Scientific understanding, both natural & social, is essential - @jksteinberger.bsky.social
