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Colombia has accepted hundreds of deportation flights in the past years. It rejected two flights using military planes, but agreed to continue taking flights using normal ICE planes.

In response, the Trump administration has done the equivalent of punching them in the face.

A recap of today's crisis:

- Colombia: Deportations are fine, but don't use military planes.
- Trump: F*** YOU. 50% tariffs, visa bans, and sanctions.
- Colombia: If you're going to be that way, screw you too, 50% tariffs back at you, we're breaking up, and we'll see other people *coughChinacough*.

Apropos of nothing, Colombia is basically the only country with a substantial oil reserve that has put some breaks around its state-owned oil company and started trying to ramp down its production and move away from fossil fuels.

Australia leads the world in arresting climate and environment protesters A new study shows more than 20 per cent of climate and environment protests in Australia lead to arrests, more than in the UK, Norway, and the United States.

Labor and Liberal governments have passed 49 anti-protest laws across the country over the last two decades.

It is damning (& history will judge us harshly) but no surprise that 🇦🇺 leads the world on climate protest arrests.
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Hundreds feared dead as Cyclone Chido devastates French island of Mayotte Witnesses tell of ‘apocalyptic scenes’ after worst storm to hit the Indian Ocean territory in almost a century

Hundreds feared dead as #CycloneChido devastates French island of Mayotte

- Witnesses tell of ‘apocalyptic scenes’ after worst storm to hit the Indian Ocean territory in almost a century

#ClimateCrisis
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Lest we forget. The #Bali9 were tipped off by the AFP. 2 were executed, 1died of cancer in an Indonesian prison. The Aus gov basically outsourced the death penalty at the time. Utterly despicable

Image of a public health warning from the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) regarding a recall of cream top, whole raw milk produced by Raw Farm, LLC. The milk, with lot code 20241109 and Best By date of 11/27/2024, has been contaminated with bird flu virus. CDPH advises the public to avoid consuming this batch, and the company has issued a voluntary recall.

Putting a raw milk advocate like RFK, Jr. in charge of HHS is insanity. If you’ve got milk, get it pasteurized.

I’m a Climate Scientist. I Refuse to Give Up Hope We can solve the climate challenge. But I also have to acknowledge my growing worry that I’m wrong, and the remaining steep obstacles ahead.

"I refuse to give up hope that the world will finally openly embrace science and act... That requires we hold accountable the powerful financial, fossil-fuel, and political interests who reap economic benefits while sowing climate destruction. I know we can. I hope we will."
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Another year, and another UN climate summit ends with polluting wealthy countries failing to fulfill their obligations under the Paris agreement, leaving developing countries without sufficient funds or support to tackle the climate crisis they didn’t create.

The Great COP Co-opting: New Documents Show Big Oil Has Been There All Along As global leaders call for overhauling the COP process, new documents show it’s been flawed from the start.

COP29 is wrapping up this week and people are (finally) calling for the process to be overhauled to *maybe* reduce oil industry influence over it. New documents we uncovered reveal they used a little known UN org to infiltrate from jump. First of three stories: drilled.media/news/IPIECA1

Netanyahu, Gallant ‘wanted men’ as Israel bombards Gaza, Lebanon ICC issues arrest warrants for Israeli prime minister and former defence minister as well as Hamas military commander.

Israeli forces have, on average, killed three Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank every week since October 7, 2023, according to the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

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This is the most bizarre hill to die on, and with approx 5-6 months to go until an election, it's an even more bizarre hill to risk votes over

Cost of living Anthony - cost of living

The man's determined to drive the tractor through the fence *and* through the shed before he drives it into the dam

Situation in the State of Palestine: ICC Pre-Trial Chamber I rejects the State of Israel’s challenges to jurisdiction and issues warrants of arrest for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant Today, on 21 November 2024, Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (‘Court’), in its composition for the Situation in the State of Palestine, unanimously issued two decisions rejectin...

The ICC has just issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu

"Mr Netanyahu and Mr Gallant bear criminal responsibility as civilian superiors for the war crime of intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population of Gaza"

Newcastle protest continues after restrictions are removed - The Wire Thousands from across the country have gathered for Rising Tide protestival in Newcastle to raise awareness about the largest coal...

Spoke to The Wire earlier today, about #democracy and #climate and Rising Tide.

On the one hand, you’ve got the NSW Government suppressing the right to protest, or even go to the beach.

On the other, deep democracy, community, and consensus, at the protestival

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The COPs seem to becoming increasingly meaningless and more and more performative.

Countries could use nature to ‘cheat’ on net zero targets, scientists warn By relying on natural carbon sinks such as forests and peatlands to offset emissions, governments can appear closer to goals than they actually are

Another reminder: offsetting is a con. We need to BOTH care for nature as a carbon store AND stop burning fossil fuels

#COP29 #ClimateEmergency
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Can we swap the #Copouts for something real maybe? Like ecosocialist revolutions that actually try to save people and planet?! #Cop29

How my family has survived the famine in Gaza It is a daily struggle for survival under the Israeli-imposed siege on Gaza. Families are surviving on scraps of bread and contaminated canned food, and my children dream of a simple chicken meal. In ...

"We are now living through the harshest chapter of our lives, as winter has arrived with empty stomachs, cold bodies, and partially destroyed homes or tents that give us neither security nor warmth; inside, it is colder than outside."
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God this is embarrassing!!!

Thinking of survivors today, and all those who tried to come forward and weren't heard, or were deliberately silenced.♥️

'The Trump family?

Yes, Kushner persuaded Morocco to join the Abraham Accords recognizing Israel. In return, the United States recognized the Moroccan claim on the Western Sahara'

Trump picks oil and gas industry CEO Chris Wright as next energy secretary Oilfield services exec denies climate crisis and is expected to support Trump’s plan to maximize oil and gas production

“There is no climate crisis, and we’re not in the midst of an energy transition, either,” Chris Wright, Trump's energy secretary pick, said in a video last year.

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Hi. Am new to this thing.

Trump names fossil fuel executive Chris Wright as energy secretary President-elect Donald Trump has selected Chris Wright, a campaign donor and fossil fuel executive, to serve as Energy secretary after his second administration begins in January.

Ugh

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