Nikhil Shah

Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...

"The populist parties are also failing to address it in that they are not offering long-term solutions. But they’re much more successful at exploiting it for electoral support.”

Resilience of Europe’s populist right carries warning for US Democrats As Democrats bask in electoral success the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary offer a cautionary tale

"Another is the failure of liberal or centrist parties to find a lasting solution to economic discontent resulting from a rapidly changing economic landscape that has seen traditional manufacturing jobs disappear – a scenario familiar to many parts of the US,"

Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians IDF soldiers tell documentary of opening fire unprovoked and arbitrary designations of who was an enemy

“One time, the brigade rabbi sat down next to me and spent half an hour explaining why we must be just like they were on October 7. That we must take revenge on all of them, including civilians. That we shouldn’t discriminate, and that this is the only way,”

Predator: Badlands was a lot of fun!

Please give Dan Trachtenberg the keys to everything!

Credit where due, fucking with air travel was genius MAGA move. It impacts upper & middle class and, more importantly, a powerful business interest. Starving millions of poor people doesn't piss off Wall St.

They shut down the government for nothing. Literally nothing.

"The ICJ ruling makes clear the obligation of rich global north states to rapidly phase out fossil fuels to avert further loss and damage, and to provide financial and technical support to global south states for adaptation to minimise harm and respond to the irreversible loss and damage."

"and that a state’s failure to regulate these greenhouse gas emissions and emitters constitutes an internationally wrongful act susceptible to legal consequences."

"The duty extends to an obligation to regulate private businesses responsible for emissions and other significant harms to the climate system operating within their borders,"

"the ICJ provided the boldest-ever language on fossil fuels, specifically spelling out the legal obligation by states to exercise “due diligence” in ending extraction, consumption, licences and subsidies – due to the mountain of unequivocal evidence on the harms caused to all life"

‘Existential and urgent’: what impact will ICJ climate ruling have on Cop30? Decision by international court of justice hailed as a gamechanger for climate justice and accountability

rejected arguments from high polluting countries who opposed the ICJ case including the US, UK, China, the EU, Russia and Saudi Arabia that their obligations were limited to the consensus based climate regime, that is the UN framework convention on climate change, Kyoto protocol and Paris agreement

‘Godfather of the Trump presidency’: the direct through-line from Dick Cheney to Donald Trump A proponent of the unitary executive theory, Cheney helped expand the vast presidential powers Trump enjoys today

"Trump is unchained because Dick Cheney had been at war for half a century against the restraints put in place after Vietnam and Watergate. He believed that action was more important than following constitutional rules.”

Border patrol chief reprimanded for lying claims shots were fired at immigration officers in Chicago Gregory Bovino was called out by a judge only two days earlier for lying about being assaulted by a protester

Big surprise
“Mr Bovino and the Department of Homeland Security claimed that he had been hit by a rock in the head before throwing the tear gas, but video evidence disproves this. And he ultimately admitted he was not hit until after he threw the tear gas,”

Trump’s assault on voting intensifies as midterms loom:‘a wholesale attack on free and fair elections’ White House is manipulating voting system, from redistricting to rule changes, to affect midterms

"But on the campaign trail last year, Trump told evangelical Christian supporters they would need to vote for him only one more time. “Four more years, you know what, it’ll be fixed,” he said. “We’ll have it fixed so good, you’re not gonna have to vote.”

What to do if your flight gets canceled because of the government shutdown The FAA is cutting 10% of air traffic at 40 of the nation's busiest airports, canceling hundreds of flights and creating uncertainty for many more passengers. Here's what to do if you're one of them.

The FAA is cutting 10% of air traffic at 40 of the nation's busiest airports, canceling hundreds of flights and creating uncertainty for many more passengers. Here's what to do if you're one of them.

The guys who got famous for "just asking questions" about vaccines and social justice issues had zero critical questions to the Nazi about his batshit crazy claims. And people still listen to this shit here.

Hernández, the Puerto Rican left fielder ....“I may not be [an Angeleno] born and raised,” he wrote, “but … I cannot stand to see our community being violated, profiled, abused and ripped apart.”

The LA Dodgers won the World Series but for Latino fans, it’s complicated The fact that Latino stars were at the forefront of the victory over the Toronto Blue Jays sits alongside the club’s near silence on the immigration raids roiling the city

"Many fans who share Galindo’s misgivings appear to have decided that they can continue to support the team and its roster of international players, including the Japanese megastar Shohei Ohtani, while pouring scorn on the team’s corporate overlords."

Israel’s underground jail, where Palestinians are held without charge and never see daylight Exclusive: Detainees at Rakefet include nurse deprived of natural light since January, and teenager held for nine months

"Prisoners told the lawyers they faced regular physical abuse including beatings, assaults by dogs with iron muzzles, and guards stepping on prisoners, in addition to being denied adequate medical care and given starvation-level rations."

NEW: @govpritzker.illinois.gov's office says 3 masked ICE agents stopped & questioned an IL Department of Transportation employee working in Park Ridge about his immigration status & whether he had traveled to New York and his awareness of NYC Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social before leaving.

"Newsom is stepping in to fill the void, compelled by “the complete abdication of the Trump administration that is joining the Saudis and Russia and the Gulf states,” he told Politico on Wednesday, referring to the president’s “drill baby drill” ethos embracing fossil fuel production."

How thousands of fossil fuel lobbyists got access to UN climate talks – and then kept drilling Exclusive: Research shows oil, gas and coal firms’ unprecedented access to Cop26-29, blocking urgent climate action

"Just 90 of the fossil fuel corporations that sent lobbyists to climate talks between 2021 and 2024 accounted for more than half (57%) of all the oil and gas produced last year,"

French study says climate change-driven storms endanger flight safety Storms have become more intense, producing stronger winds and often resulting in greater in-flight turbulence, the study found.

"Southern parts of the U.K., northern France, the Netherlands as well as the eastern coasts of Taiwan and Japan and the southwestern parts of the U.S. are experiencing more intense turbulence compared with the situation 50 years ago, the researchers said."

U.S. Military Draws Up Nigeria Plans, With Limited Options to Quell Violence

In batshit crazy news of the day.

Immigrants with health conditions may be denied visas under new Trump administration guidance People seeking visas to live in the U.S. might be rejected if they have certain medical conditions, including diabetes or obesity, under a new directive from the Trump administration.

"Foreigners seeking visas to live in the U.S. might be rejected if they have certain medical conditions, including diabetes or obesity, under a Thursday directive from the Trump administration."

Grandpa is getting drowsy in the recliner

Only if you are white.

So the Nazi became a trillionaire.