How much, it seems, we are all now parenting those in power

Today: the government is back for day 2 of its appeal at the Royal Courts of Justice after the proscription of Palestine Action was found unlawful. Meanwhile at Woolwich Crown Court, the defence make closing speeches in the Filton 24 retrial. How did we get here? open.substack.com/pub/feelingt...

According to the Lebanese National News Agency, these panels supply the town with electricity, which is needed for its water supply, and Israel destroyed homes, roads and olive trees as well.

Meanwhile this is the news from Washington D.C. today:

Denmark's coal-to-wind transition is one of the most dramatic energy transformations of the past three decades. In 1990, coal provided 90% of Danish electricity. Today it is under 3%. Wind now covers roughly 60% of electricity generation. The last coal plant is scheduled to close by 2028.

Many Jewish people don't want non Jewish people telling us what to believe & say. For the Prime Minister to criticise the single Jewish party leader on Antisemitism demonstrates the lack of credibility and seriousness of Labour on the issue. www.thenational.scot/news/2604932...

Israel has killed more journalists in the last 2-1/2 years than any other nation in the 30+ years @pressfreedom.bsky.social have been tracking this.

It is deeply sad that we should need an “Earth Day” at all. The very idea carries the wrong implication. The planet is not a cause among others, nor a theme to be acknowledged once a year. It is everything we have. It is the ground of every life, every hope, every future.

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This is day 1 of the “ceasefire” bsky.app/profile/ayou...

There should be something where you get money just for being alive on account of you need it to live

BREAKING - Zarah Sultana MP exercises Parliamentary Privilege to expose the unjust nature of the Filton 24 re-trial. UK press has been court ordered not to publish these details. “If convicted, they and 18 others will be sentenced as terrorists, but the jury will not be told that”

94% of votes counted, with a clear 2/3 majority for Magyar's Tisza projected. And not to spoil the mood, but the new parliament will be composed solely of right- to far-right parties. Next to the right-wing Tisza and far-right Fidesz, extreme-right Mi Hazánk also seems to have won 7 seats. #Hungary

"Europe! Europe!" - chants the crowd. This is great to see.

Orban’s defeat also removes a major part of the far-right populist infrastructure worldwide, which I wrote about this fall: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Yet another generation of leftists holding their nose and doing the right thing. Hopefully we can build a future where the left might vote for politicians with leftist principles sooner rather than later

"After three hours, a record 16.89% of the electorate had voted, a dramatic six-point increase on four years ago" www.bbc.com/news/article...

Russian-occupied Oleshky, Kherson region. Yet another city destroyed by Russia's "liberation". Russia is effectively keeping the city under blockade: without fuel, electricity, medicine, and food. About 2,000 people currently remain in the city, including fifty children.

I've been reading Escaped Alone again and I got to the bit and it's never not satisfying but maybe it's particularly satisfying this week

The death toll in Lebanon is now 2,020 with 6,436 injured

America's oil execs have pocketed $1.4 billion selling stock during the Iran war, the WSJ reports This cash windfall won’t go primarily toward yachts and private jets, but toward political campaigns and lobbying orgs dedicated to blocking climate policy and fueling authoritarianism

"When I don’t know what to do, I often check in with myself about what I do know. I know that simply reenacting normalcy while the president threatens to wipe out civilizations is wrecking us."

Al Jazeera Mubasher correspondent in Gaza, Mohammed Washah, was killed after an Israeli drone targeted his vehicle.

"I am tethered, not just by romance and hope, but in a global web of heartache and loss. If I get to claim the connective power of the train, I have to also accept the connective horror of the bomb." Garrett Bucks on connection and complicity open.substack.com/pub/thewhite...

I cannot keep track with how many notifications I'm getting from all over Beirut and south Lebanon right now of the places that Israel is obliterating. There are multiple reports of multiple massacres in the past hour alone.

Massacre upon massacre in Beirut in the last hour. AUBMC announced a “code disaster.” Over 100 airstrikes in 10 minutes across the country. One hit right behind my house. Sirens ambulances & the smell of sulphur. The city is in total chaos the people in complete panic

A book to read today and everyday

I was going to write today, but until we know more, I don't have any new words for this moment. What I will say is that if you are reeling, and you know you want to be part of making things better, Mariame Kaba and I wrote a book for you. I hope it helps.

We are terrorizing an entire country. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

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“It seems that all this time Putin had, and still has, a mole in all European and NATO official meetings” This is a brilliant (infuriating) story -- reported out by six European media outlets working together no less www.occrp.org/en/scoop/hot...

If we ever needed any more reminder about the barbarity of the law

The bill was devised by Itamar Ben Gvir, who wore noose-shaped lapel pins in the run-up to the vote. Ben Gvir was convicted in 2007 of racist incitement against Arabs and support for the Kach group, a designated a terrorist organization by both Israel and the United States. He wrote the law.

Israel abolished the death penalty for ordinary crimes in 1954. Today they voted to bring it back — exclusively for Palestinians.

An Indonesian peacekeeper has been killed in Lebanon. Terrible news. news.un.org/en/story/202...

This entire medical team was murdered in an Israeli double-tap attack yesterday. 2 journalists 7 paramedics 1 Lebanese soldier After hitting Ali Shoeib’s (Lebanese journalist who covered Israeli war crimes for 30 years) car, Israel targeted the responding medics as they arrived to save him.

"What we learned at George Floyd Square, the spot in southern Minneapolis where Floyd was murdered, is that a protest ain’t a protest if you’re not fucking up somebody’s day." Read MFE Local 59 President Marcia Howard's dispatch:"They Hate Us Because We Don’t Hate One Another" tinyurl.com/5bfb5ar9

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Israel is closer than ever to passing a bill that would allow it to execute Palestinians by hanging, with no chance of a pardon. This is a clear violation of international law— it must be stopped.

This is horrible but not even the grimmest article I’ve read about the Sudan genocide. Western powers at best turning a blind eye and arguably complicit. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

At least 40% of Russia's oil export capacity halted, Reuters calculations show Ukraine intensified drone attacks on Russia‘s oil and fuel export infrastructure this month, hitting all three of Russia‘s major western oil export ports. www.nbcnews.com/world/russia...

Wind & solar are currently producing 65% of Britain's electricity. Meanwhile, renewables now offer 30,000 more UK jobs than oil and gas. Meanwhile, we're in a climate emergency. Meanwhile, we're in a fossil fuel supply crisis. Meanwhile, the Tories and Reform want to scrap Net Zero. grid.iamkate.com

A new example of the right-wing-media-to-Trump pipeline? "Linda from Arizona" might deserve the credit or blame for ICE agents deploying to airports today. Within 24 hours of Linda proposing it to Clay Travis on the radio, Trump announced it was happening. My CNN story about it:

📣 NEW FUNDING CALL: Environmental Humanities Research Groups at @uio.no . OCEH is looking for new research groups to join our community! We have a budget of 150,000 NOK per group for research activities, workshops, and public events. 🌍

Lest we forget: Palantir is owned by a Christian-capitalist techno-eugenist who believes that Greta Thurnberg could be Satan.

It is being reported on the ground in Cuba that everyone on a ventilator at this hospital died overnight. As a Cuban, I'm devastated.

A film about Mary Oliver is forthcoming. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJMd...

“In addition, we have ordered an acceleration in the destruction of Lebanese homes in contact-line villages" :- Katz. Netanyahu & Katz are not hiding their intentions whatsoever.

8/ The worst-case scenario is stagflation: shortages severe enough to crush output, unemployment rising, workers unable to keep up with inflation, stock markets falling, credit defaults rising. The far right was the last crisis's political winner. We cannot afford to repeat that.

The US-Israel war on Iran has emitted 5 million tonnes of CO₂ₑ in its first 14 days. The world currently has 0.6 million tonnes of novel and permanent CO₂ removal (CDR) capacity annually.