Ian Bickis

Opinion | The moment I knew the world would try to move on from Jamal Khashoggi I could see it coming at Time’s 2018 Person of the Year celebration.

The Saudi government murdered Jamal Khashoggi seven years ago today. His editor @karenattiah.bsky.social wrote this two years ago.

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated' The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

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“i’m still required to laugh at my own humiliation”

From a poster called “just shower thoughts“ reading: when people talk about traveling to the past, they worry about radically, changing the present by doing something small, barely anyone in the present to really thinks that they can radically change the future by doing something small.

I may have found my defining quote.

Pair this with my pinned post and you will see what I mean!

Despite all the net zero pledges, all the marketing, researchers found only 2% of companies had aligned their capital investment with their net zero goal

As they say, money talks and it’s speaking volumes

Once again, marginal tax rates are too low & pose an existential threat to 🇺🇸 democracy

ANALYSIS | As hunger grows in Gaza, warnings that starvation hits the most vulnerable first | CBC News Despite Israel’s denials of famine and a recent uptick in food delivery, starvation in Gaza is getting worse. Before his death, a 17-year-old described to CBC News how his body and life were shutting ...

17-year-old Ahmed Ali Al-Batniji told the CBC what it's like to starve to death shortly before he died. www.cbc.ca/news/world/g...

Opinion: To recognize aboriginal title is not to abolish property rights, but to uphold them Consequences of decision on the Cowichan’s claim are far-reaching, though not as cataclysmic as claimed

"True to his word, Douglas appropriated certain lands, including the village at Tl’uqtinus, as future Indian reserves. Only it never happened. The Cowichan’s lands were later sold to settlers, without the Cowichan’s consent or even knowledge"

Israel murders five Al Jazeera staff in Gaza, including Anas al-Sharif Al-Sharif was killed along with Mohammed Qreiqeh two cameramen and an assistant in an Israeli attack on Gaza City.

Last month, Anas al-Sharif sounded the alarm on starvation in Gaza. Israel accused him of terrorism.

"We warned this felt like a precursor to justify assassination," said Jodie Ginsberg of the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Today he was killed in a targeted strike on a tent housing reporters.

Smart cities know that, as hot as they already are, they’re just going to keep getting hotter. Greening the city not only cools it down, it cleans the air, quiets the noise, improves mental health & happiness, saves public money, & more. Strand Aldwych, London. 2021 vs. 2025. Via @modacitylife.com

Liebreich: The Pragmatic Climate Reset - Part I | BloombergNEF As the tide on clean energy turns, Michael Liebreich makes a strong case for a pragmatic climate reset.

As kids know, filling up a pool seems to take forever when it's just getting going, but that doesn't mean it isn't getting there. It definitely doesn't mean giving up and filling it with tar instead.

Palestinian activist and participant in the Oscar-winning film, No Other Land, Odeh Hadalin was shot in the chest and killed by an Israeli settler in the Occupied West Bank.

The shooter, Yinon Levi, has been under sanctions by both the EU and the US.

Top central banker defends climate work after US pushback Head of Network for Greening the Financial System also admits supervisors underestimated risks of warming planet

"The effect on GDP from physical risks such as higher temperatures and rainfall had quadrupled compared with work carried out the previous year." The clearest thing about the financial risks of climate change seems to be that we're underestimating them.

Joint statement on Gaza from AFP, AP, BBC News and Reuters

A mother in a tent in Gaza clasping her starving child, who appears close to death.

“Just outside Gaza, tons of food, clean water, medical supplies, shelter items & fuel sit untouched with humanitarian organisations blocked from accessing or delivering them," write 109 aid agencies today.

Israel is committing Palestinian genocide and it is monstrous.

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"Solar panels in China are cheaper than a same-size piece of window glass. You can use panels as siding and fencing as if it’s a building material that just happens to produce some electricity
The future is panels everywhere"-@dfeldman.org
Thread: Solar Hockey Stick of Hope bsky.app/profile/70sb...

Damn.

That there’s a police state.

4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

Among all the big bad things happening on our planet, there's one Big Good Thing, the sudden, startling rise of solar energy.
It changes the power dynamic, in every sense of the word 'power.'
www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

Miss Rachel continues to have more of a moral backbone than 99% of public figures

“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”

Inside the digital publishing industry, which I try to monitor closely, this is the big news. By Julia Alexander at Puck.

They're giddy.

Think about how insane this is. I know we normalize every abnormal thing Trump does, & he floods the zone & numbs us, but a leading media organizing rolling over & agreeing to pay $16m to the president because he didn’t like how they edited an interview?? What country is this?

'It's a Killing Field': IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans Waiting for Humanitarian Aid IDF officers and soldiers told Haaretz they were ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near food distribution sites in Gaza, even when no threat was present. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed, prompting the military prosecution to call for a review into possible war crimes

IDF soldiers have now themselves admitted they have been ordered to murder aid-seekers in Gaza.

Truly an atrocity built on atrocity.

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Lot of respect for any politician who can walk the walk.

Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium.

ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.

I tend to not buy into most of the “this is straight-up Nazi shit memes” — but handcuffing a top federal legislator because he nonviolently challenged a bureaucrat is some straight-up Nazi shit.