'There is an Arabic expression, hameeha harameeha – meaning “its protector is its thief”, that comes to mind as those who have plied Israel with weaponry gather to figure out how to achieve peace in Gaza.' #gaza #peace #erasure #history #politics #complicity #genocide #palestine #israel

'I’ll go further: undemocratic parties produce undemocratic societies, where a small section of society owns the resources we all need to survive. Democratic parties produce democratic societies; where wealth and resources are owned by us all.' #corbyn #yourparty #democracy #politics #accountability

'The Republican House speaker, Mike Johnson, told Fox News Sunday that the crisis had been orchestrated by Democratic leaders in Congress as a partisan move “so that they can prove to their Marxist base that they are willing to fight Trump”.' #trump #authoritarianism #vance #military #politics #law

'Robby Starbuck pushes a dangerous anti-LGBTQ agenda, spreading disinformation and denying the very existence of transgender people. There’s nothing unbiased about that.' #meta #ai #starbuck #disinformation #propaganda #maga #politics #law

'For decades, elite law firms have been essential to Democrats, supplying both the funding and talent that sustains the party’s infrastructure. Yet when faced with punitive executive orders, some of these very institutions – once defenders of liberal democracy – folded ...' #democrats #trump #law

“Middle age is so much harder to write about, because youth is kind of like a trope. We’re very familiar with reading books about the aspirations or disappointed aspirations of youth, but middle age is much crazier ground." #autofiction #literature #culture #writing #books #publishing #addiction

'After Kirk’s assassination, the rightwing influencer Jack Posobiec called Bray a “domestic terrorist professor” on X. The Rutgers chapter of Turning Point USA then circulated a petition that accused the professor of being an “outspoken, well-known antifa member” and called for his dismissal.' #d0x

“Why is academia bending over and folding on our basic principles in such a blatant way? It’s a violation of the first amendment in such a blatant way that nobody should have obeyed it. But instead, there is this climate of fear.” #academics #doxxing #harassment #universities #usa #kirk #guns

'[Canada] published a government handbook that labels the mere naming of Israel’s overt criminality not just inaccurate but antisemitic. … [It is] an Israel immunity handbook and must be understood as such.” #canada #israel #zionism #antizionism #palestine #law #government #politics

'The peat bogs and wetlands had been buried under nearly 25ft of dirt and gravel more than a century ago, in an attempt to pacify the remaining scraps of wild around what is now one of North America’s largest cities.' #environment #ecology #urban #toronto #science #revitalization #wetlands

“The fact is, we cannot allow them to rampage throughout our city with no checks or balances. Nobody is above the law … if Congress will not check this administration, then Chicago will.” #chicago #ice #military #trump #authoritarianism #politics #usa

'A study published in May of this year found that nearly 40% of glaciers are doomed to melt because of global heating. If such heating increases by 2.7C, which the world is currently on track for, as many as 75% will disappear, causing sea level rise and mass displacement.' #climate #glaciers #melt

Basic principles of liberalism that include equality and the protection of individual rights for all do not cohere with present-day Israel even on a generous reading. The permanent occupation [...] has undermined any plausible claim to Israel as a “liberal” country. #israel #usa #zionism #liberalism

“The growth in global renewable capacity in the coming years will be dominated by solar PV – but with wind, hydropower, bioenergy and geothermal all contributing, too.” #wind #solar #hydro #geothermal #climate #environment #green #energy

“We are freeing up our forests so we are allowed to take down trees and make a lot of money,” Trump has said. “We have massive forests. We just aren’t allowed to use them because of the environmental lunatics who stopped us.” #logging #forests #ecology #environment #trump #clearcuts #roads

'During a visit to Ashdod on Thursday night, Israel’s far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, was filmed calling the activists “terrorists” as he stood in front of them.' #thunberg #flotilla #detention #abuse #gaza #palestine #israel

“But absolutely, the plan has always been to replace Labour at the electoral level, starting at the local level, and I think we’re on track to do that.” #greens #uk #london #politics #parties #climate #environment

“I don’t think our representatives are doing enough to stand up against fascism. I feel like Democratic leaders in particular have missed the moment. I think they are working from a playbook that is not in 2025. This is not a dry run.” #chicago #ice #politics #authoritarianism #military #protest

'Lilith Fair was well organised, mutually supportive, entirely without crowd control problems and, from its profits, gave $10m to charity.' #feminism #music #culture #canada #rock #pop #hiphop #folk #misogyny #usa

'A US with a new, masked, secret immigration police with nearly unlimited funds, whose “red” government deploys its military to “blue” cities, and uses the criminal justice system to exact retribution on political opponents at the president’s behest ... necessarily affects European democracy.' #EU

'This autumn, Tate Britain will present the UK’s largest retrospective of the trailblazing surrealist photographer Lee Miller.' #photography #fashion #war #culture #art #surrealism

'The new arrangement comes amid ongoing concerns about a regional brain drain, with skilled professionals following lucrative salaries and opportunities in the UK, the US and Canada, leaving islands with gaps in critical fields such as healthcare and education' #caribbean #mobility #workers #economy

Bill and Ted's Excellent Samuel Beckett Play! #keanu #godot #culture #theatre #broadway #beckett

'Detective mysteries home in, whereas Pynchon stories unravel. The author respects the genre enough to pay lip service to its rules. But he’s geared towards irresolution and leaves his private eye hanging, blindsided and lost.' #pynchon #literature #fiction #writing #culture #usa #europe

'Overall, the assessment by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), found the number of days above 35C in 43 of the world’s most populous capital cities rose from an average of 1,062 a year from 1994-2003 to 1,335 from 2015-2024.' #climate #heat #trend #warming #carbon

You got a stupid man You got a Ku Klux Klan Your fucking battle plan It's the song I hate It's the song I hate A sieg heilin' squirt You're an impotent jerk Yeah, a fascist twerp It's the song I hate It's the song I

"America needs to learn from the mistakes and lessons that we’ve had, and one of the biggest mistakes that America ever had was re-electing President Trump.” #comey #law #trump #usa #authoritarianism #politics #crime

'By rushing to overturn injunctions with no regard to who is being harmed, as well as creating seemingly arbitrary technicalities to prevent future injunctions, the message from the supreme court is clear: It doesn’t matter how many laws they broke.' #law #constitution #usa #trump #democracy #resist

'Leonard, perhaps swayed by Woolf’s initial shyness about the stories, declined to purchase the works, deeming them unworthy of publishing. The stories then wound up in a London junk shop, and were bought for a shilling by Booker prize founder Tom Maschler.' #literature #woolf #manuscripts #writing

“That is why, from here in New York, I ask all soldiers in the United States army not to point their rifles at humanity. Disobey Trump’s order! Obey the order of humanity!” #petro #colombia #nyc #un #palestine #protest #speech #politics

'Kirk had been one of the right’s loudest anti-LGBTQ+ crusaders, and his anti-trans rhetoric was reflected in the 2024 campaign as Trump and other Republicans leaned into hate-filled ads.' #trans #lgbtqa+ #hate #legislation #usa #trump #kirk

'Any state that is serious about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza should not simply offer protection to our civilian fleet, but join us, deploying vessels at the scale that corresponds to the severity of Gaza’s present suffering.' #gaza #flotilla #humanitarian #blockade #aid #palestine #international

Pedro Sanchez: “When the voice of a society is silenced, it ends up dying. Open societies thrive on words. Freedom of expression, of belief, the right to participate in public life empowers citizens. Losing the freedom to dissent is opening the door to tyranny.” #trump #UN #multilateralism #politics

“This plant has a vast signature of contamination, mostly from an airborne pathway. It probably extends at least 10 miles in all directions,” says Michael Ketterer, professor emeritus of Northern Arizona University. "On the mass spectrometer, you see it right away.” #nuclear #health #environment

"I've grappled with being here tonight and around what to say about the present situation that we are all faced with. The stark contraction to the many advances we've made; watching the insidious erosion of women's rights, of trans and queer rights, the muzzling of free speech." #canada #music #film

'The pro-democracy protests were spearheaded by some of Brazil’s best-loved musicians, including a trio of legendary songwriters who were at the forefront of the fight against the country’s brutal 1964-85 military dictatorship: Caetano Veloso, Chico Buarque and Gilberto Gil.' #brazil #bolsonaro

“Every single day, energy from heaven going to waste while we drill down to hell for another dose of the stuff that is wrecking this planet.” #climate #usa #renewables #solar #wind #demonstrations #government #billionaires

'He repeated the rape accusations against Yusef Salaam, a member of the exonerated Central Park Five who is now a New York City councilman, calling him a “disgusting pig” who had gotten away with “gang rape.”' #junotdiaz #kirk #racism #misogyny #trans #usa #guns #politics #trump

'Since 1995, the annual average for the state was 29 tornadoes, with the peak season occurring in June and July. However, last weekend’s intense outbreak pushed the total to a staggering 73, surpassing the previous record of 61, set in 1999.' #weather #climate #environment #tornadoes

“Having named it a genocide, we must use every ounce of our leverage to demand an immediate ceasefire, a massive surge of humanitarian aid facilitated by the UN, and initial steps to provide Palestinians with a state of their own.” #gaza #palestine #genocide #UN #USA #politics #israel

'Antifa, short for “anti-fascists”, is an umbrella term for far-left-leaning activist groups and is not a single entity. These are groups that resist fascists and neo-Nazis, especially at demonstrations.' #antifa #repression #authoritarianism #propaganda #politics #USA #trump

“Protest is when I say I don’t like this. Resistance is when I put an end to what I don’t like. Protest is when I say I refuse to go along with this any more. Resistance is when I make sure everybody else stops going along too.” #terrorism #resistance #germany #politics #extremism #class #RAF #left

“In some places, Sun Day will be about fighting new gas pipelines. But everywhere it’s about making clear that this is no longer ‘alternative’ energy but instead the clear path forward. That is the greatest threat by far to the fossil fuel industry.” #climate #usa #environment #renewables #science

'I’m not sure the Israeli government, or indeed the wider Israeli populace, quite understands the extent to which the censorious policing of commentary around Palestine is breaking down. Indeed, the greater risk to some artists’ reputations may now come from not speaking out on Palestine.' #gaza #UK

'The vice-president was joined on Kirk’s podcast by Stephen Miller, Trump’s deputy chief of staff, who also vowed to crack down on what he called the “vast domestic terrorist network” he blamed for Kirk’s death.' #maga #doxing #harassment #fascism #censorship #politics #usa #vance #trump #kirk

'There is no point in platitudinous politicians telling us that violence is never the answer when the same politicians create the circumstances that allow or encourage violence to happen.' #trump #hegseth #anger #left #progress #politics #community

'Many people The Breach interviewed raised similar frustrations about Left organizing: discussions clouded with academic jargon, decision-making power that’s jealously guarded by a clique, and constant bickering and (self-)ejecting over small issues.' #canada #ndp #organizing #suburbs

“Indigenous-held lands with secure land tenure lose less tree cover, which helps keep forests intact and allows them to store more carbon and support higher biodiversity.” #amazon #forest #wilfires #indigenous #climate #environment #science #health

'Among those to have been fired, suspended or censured in recent days for their opinions include teachers, firefighters, journalists, politicians, a secret service employee and a worker for a prominent NFL team.' #media #socialmedia #repression #kirk #gagging #fascism

'Merkley described the strategy’s two components: “One is to destroy homes so that they cannot be returned to … That second strategy is to deprive Palestinians of essentials to live, food, water, medicine.”' #palestine #gaza #genocide #usa #complicity