I think we should stop saying 'the war in Ukraine' and start saying 'the war in Europe' instead.

This is the largest war on the European continent in eight decades.

Because heat-related deaths are so poorly counted, especially in the Global South, we will never know how many people are dying (to say nothing of suffering and economic losses) during this extreme heat wave in Southeast Asia. Thousands, most likely.

Shellfish industry on a 'knife edge' as sewage dumped in designated waters for 192,000 hours. The dirty water pouring into English seas was a 20% jump from 159,000 hours in 2022, #Pollution
news.sky.com/story/shellfis…

One of the most frustrating nights for press access i’ve experienced as a reporter. At Columbia & CCNY, police barricaded public streets for blocks, obstructing journalists from seeing what was happening even from a distance. A policy of exclusion cheered on by Eric Adams’ staff

Yep Josie is spot on. Years and years of faux outrage only to get to this point where they’re all cheering on the police as they violently crack down on college kids. Re their hypocrisy, I hate to say I told you so but…

I am watching a toddler die on a table in a field hospital in Rafah with half her face blown apart while listening to college students fight tears reporting on a police assault on their campus for protesting that, and I feel like I am losing my fucking mind.

At Brown, a Rare Agreement Between Administrators and Protesters. Brown students took down their tents on campus after the university agreed to discuss their demands for divestment from support for the Israeli military.

nytimes.com/2024/04/30/us/…

“It’s fucking awful,” the softly spoken scientist says, emerging from the ocean. “They said the bleaching was extensive and uniform. They didn’t say it was extensive, uniform and fucking awful.”
theguardian.com/environment/20…

Striking: A plurality of #Israelis , almost half, support release of all hostages in return for *complete end of the war* & 'release of thousands of terrorists' - poll commmissioned by Kan | News , Isrl's public broadcaster. Nearly 1/3 oppose & 1/5 don't know.

Begging some of you to imagine how you'd feel about this exact sequence of events if the president was the other guy.

The police will attack you if you protest for Palestine. They’ll attack you for doing mutual aid. They’ll attack you for going on strike. They’ll attack you for demanding affordable housing. They’ll attack you for demanding peace. A better world requires abolition.

Brilliant. Students are demonstrating to the cops and public that the ACAB attacking them have no moral authority.

I can’t get over this mirror image

Photo 1: NYPD lined up in dark navy shirts and light khaki pants before storming a building at Columbia tonight

Photo 2: Neo-Nazis in WV like three days ago wearing dark navy shirts and light khaki pants

This administration campaigned on listening to science and protecting people from disease. They have botched multiple public health crises now.

US finds Israeli units responsible for rights abuses in occupied West Bank aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/30…

Taken by Jelani Cobb, dean of Columbia Journalism School, inside campus

as you all may remember, the state of Virginia did not deploy cops like this to UVA/Charlottesville when there were Nazis on campus

In our first episode of Zeteo's newest segment 'UnShocked,' activist and author Naomi Klein tells Mehdi how she came to reinterpret the Exodus story from Jewish texts for her viral speech at a demonstration in Brooklyn. Watch in full here: zeteo.com/p/new-series-n…