A legal resident of New Hampshire was “violently interrogated” for hours, stripped naked, and forced into a cold shower. Given little food or water and prevented from taking medication, he collapsed and was hospitalized.

Italians looking to avoid “egg-flation” have been flocking to a farm in northern Italy for classes in how to raise hens.

#COVID19 joins syphilis, AIDS, and tuberculosis as diseases that persist despite medical breakthroughs. A medical historian explains why social and economic factors are just as crucial as #vaccines in eliminating epidemics. buff.ly/ta6FzA7 By Powel H. Kazanjian, University of Michigan 🗃️ 🩺 #episky

Fools. Pretending climate change doesn’t exist won’t help the farmers who have to deal with it. Every farmer should be demanding the government help them adapt rather than pretend there is no problem

I hope your students grapple with MLK’s broader prophetic legacy, beyond civil rights, and being a canary in a collapsing constitutional coal mine. The “intersecting evils” he identified conspired to create the climate crisis—but few today give him credit for that. open.substack.com/pub/shahidbu...

They weren't doing anything about climate change anyway, and now they're telling us they're not doing anything. Several large U.S. financial institutions, including the Federal Reserve, have withdrawn from climate action networks as the convicted felon Donald Trump's presidency begins.

Pretty sure that multiple disparate actors can provide villainous inputs to contribute to the emergence of a single outcome! (also see: climate change)

In September 2024 around 100,000 people of all ages turned up on the streets of Vancouver to take a stand on climate change. #Canada www.sfu.ca/communicatio...

"ExxonMobil, the world’s biggest oil company, knew as early as 1981 of climate change – seven years before it became a public issue, according to a newly discovered email from one of the firm’s own scientists. Despite this the firm spent millions over the next 27 years to promote climate denial."

"Exxon Mobil misled the public about the state of climate science and its implications. …a systematic, quantifiable discrepancy between what Exxon Mobil’s scientists and executives discussed about climate change in private and in academic circles, and what it presented to the general public."

Came across red-tide bands today on the outer side of Bruny Island. It’s a dinoflagellate called Noctiluca scintillans, & it’s bioluminescent. It first appeared in 1994, probably transported in warm water incursions of the East Australian Current. So it’s a climate change thing. 1/

so many of the places i love are coastlines and seaside communities facing existential threats from climate change marylandmatters.org/2024/12/31/a...

Em 1 ano, Força Nacional apreende 1 arma de fogo no RJ

The Guardian view on the tenacity of hope: a necessary virtue in troubled times | Editorial

➡️ Bombeiros confirmam uma m0rte e 2 desaparecidos em queda de ponte Estrutura cedeu no início da tarde deste domingo (22/12) e está totalmente interditada. O Dnit divulgou rotas alternativas Leia: curt.link/vTagC

How to detect more antimicrobial resistant bacteria in our waterways

Le vice-premier ministre italien, Matteo Salvini, jugé pour avoir bloqué en mer un bateau de migrants, a été relaxé

Thousands of workers are striking, as picket lines formed outside seven Amazon distribution centers from New York to California Thursday morning.

📽️ WATCH: The morning that Coast Guard Cmdr. Elizabeth Nakagawa was scheduled to have a D&C, or dilation and curettage, to remove fetal tissue after having a miscarriage, she learned the surgery had been canceled because Tricare, the military’s health insurance plan, refused to pay for it.

#OPINIÃO Ninguém é obrigado a ser feliz no Natal ↪️ Respeitar as emoções do outro pode ser o maior presente de Natal que podemos oferecer 📝 Daniel Guanaes

Emergency workers raced to find survivors and restore services to the French overseas territory of Mayotte, where hundreds or even thousands are feared dead from the worst cyclone to hit the Indian Ocean islands in nearly a century reut.rs/3DdRfPk

Five people have died after a migrant boat sank off the Greek island of Gavdos, according to Greece’s coastguard, with 40 others reported missing and 39 rescued ⤵️

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council said Friday it was deeply concerned about the recent decision by Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers to ban women from medical education, which could leave millions of women and girls without health care in the future.

Buried in the list of nearly 1,500 people whose criminal sentences were commuted by President Joe Biden Thursday is the name of a Pennsylvania judge who took kickbacks for wrongfully sentencing minors to juvenile detention. https://newrepublic.com/post/189369/biden-commute-sentence-kids-cash-judge

Death feels imminent for 96% of children in Gaza, study finds

‘Not intended to rehabilitate people’: inside America’s broken parole system

Martedì il primo ministro israeliano Benjamin Netanyahu ha iniziato a testimoniare nel processo in cui è accusato di frode e corruzione. È la prima volta nella storia di Israele che un primo ministro in carica affronta un processo penale

Donald Trump derailed his 2020 election subversion indictments by winning back the White House, but dozens of his allies still face state criminal prosecutions that he, even as president, can’t shut down or short-circuit with pardons.

Pedro Moreno is serving life in prison for marijuana and money laundering charges—less than five miles from a legal marijuana dispensary. Watch an exclusive early stream of the powerful documentary.

#Opinião 📝 Juliano Spyer | Quando a igreja tem dono e lucra, deve pagar imposto. O que as disputas sucessórias na Lagoinha e na Bola de Neve nos ensinam sobre a fé como negócio?

En direct, guerre au Proche-Orient : plus de 44 700 personnes tuées depuis le début de la guerre entre le Hamas et Israël, selon le ministère de la santé du groupe islamiste

Ônibus é pior opção para chegar ao trabalho em SP

‘They covered up child rape’: how the New Orleans archdiocese protected a priest who preyed on children

Syrian rebels declared President Bashar al-Assad's ouster after seizing control of Damascus on Sunday, ending his family's iron-fisted rule after more than 13 years of civil war reut.rs/4f2V5YN

In a nearly 300-page report, Amnesty International concluded that Israel's actions constitute genocide. “Our damning findings must serve as a wake-up call to the international community: this is genocide. It must stop now.”

"Israelis don’t get the news that everyone else in the world is getting" about atrocities committed in Gaza, says @haggaim.bsky.social. "That is not being shown on Israeli television, in Israeli newspapers." https://www.democracynow.org/2024/12/3/haggai_matar_israel_palestine_gaza_972mag

Belgium found guilty of crimes against humanity in Congo https://www.ft.com/content/72605bed-5c27-4a04-9754-eb088ec97f61

Agricultura intensiva e desmatamento levam planeta ‘à beira do precipício’, diz ONU

“I am compelled to warn about what is happening there and is being concealed from us.” Former Defence Minister under Netanyahu, §, has accused Israel of war crimes and ethnic cleansing in Gaza. 🔴 LIVE updates ⤵️

Influenciadora critica magreza e é punida pelo Instagram

Thailand is sending almost 1,000 highly endangered tortoises and lemurs home to Madagascar in a landmark victory against animal trafficking. The repatriation is the largest ever between the two countries, according to Thai officials.

“One of the strongest messages of my education was that you’re supposed to love Israel, and anyone who tells you something bad about it is lying and trying to manipulate you,” said Eliana Padwa, founder of the Halachic Left.

Israeli military strikes killed at least 17 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip, medics said, as forces stepped up bombardments on central areas and pushed tanks deeper in the north and south of the enclave reut.rs/3ZskB59

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Mexico would retaliate if US President-elect Donald Trump followed through with his proposed 25% across-the-board tariff, a move her government warned could kill 400,000 US jobs and drive up prices for US consumers reut.rs/4ePqqOf

After running into overtime, the Conference of the Parties (COP29) at Baku in Azerbaijan, hosting 198 countries for nearly a fortnight, finally adopted a ‘roadmap’, or a weaker form of an agreement, to say in traditional climate-talks parlance. www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/ene...

O custo humano do aquecimento global em 2024

A Coreia do Sul afirma reciclar 73% dos resíduos, mas os activistas acusam o governo de divulgar números falsos que não abrangem o tratamento dos resíduos após chegarem às instalações de reciclagem.

Breaking news: U.N. talks have reached a deal to offer $300 billion a year in climate aid to poor nations. Follow live updates here.

COP29 host Azerbaijan released a final draft of a climate finance deal, calling on rich nations to commit at least $300 billion a year in climate financing to the developing world.