Guess which country is about to abandon pretty much all public health measures to control Covid.

It is increasingly clear that there's now a concerted effort under way in parts of the British press to derail action on the #ClimateEmergency. This🧵highlights key examples & shows how the main arguments are textbook #ClimateDelay 1/n

Boy howdy am I having a lot of feelings about Afghanistan today I deployed there twice--once in 2008 and once in 2009-10 It was already obvious that the Taliban would sweep through the very instant we left And here we are today

"The Taliban is not the North Vietnamese army. There's gonna be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of a embassy of the United States from Afghanistan." —Joe Biden, July 2021

"The ultimate, hidden truth of the world, is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently." —David Graeber

The countries at the top want you to think the countries at the bottom are to blame for climate change. Canada’s historic emissions per person are almost *30 times* those of India #COP26

This is striking: the emissions of the richest 1% are 30x higher than what is compatible with staying under 1.5 degrees. And national climate policies do basically nothing to change this.

Lots of people not professionally involved in climate change may be finding it difficult to understand what is going on at COP26. Many of the people here have no idea either! So I have tried to summarise where we are with three days to go. Hope it may be helpful. 🧵/1

#COP26

This line from #DontLookUp perfectly encapsulates what is special about Earth, and why we should fight for it. Evolution of intelligent life requires a planet that’s continuously habitable for 3 or 4 billion years. That such a planet exists is a miracle. nature.com/articles/s4324…

Remind yourselves how the Met Police dealt with the women holding a vigil for someone abducted, raped, and murdered by one of its own because COVID guidelines were being breached. Scumbags.

Astonishing and truly bizarre. How can anyone take Newsnight / BBC News seriously?

GHG emissions not to decline over the next 20 years- that's life over

It comes to a point where there aren’t words. Unelected head of state uses immense wealth to help ensure immunity of son accused of sexual assault by a woman who he met through the world’s most famous paedophile.

#Nagasaki mayor Shiro Suzuki defended today his decision to invite Palestine instead of Israel to the peace ceremony. The threats from U.S. and its vassals to boycott the annual event to commemorate the hibakusha could not work on the mayor, whose parents were a-bomb survivors.

EXCLUSIVE: Palestinian-American Layla Elabed broke down in tears while speaking w/ VP Harris before MI rally yesterday. Elabed tells us VP Harris will "100 percent" lose MI if she doesn't announce Gaza policy change & meet demands of Uncommitted movement. FULL INTERVIEW below...

Kamala improved her response to Gaza protestors. At the same time Biden admin unpaused billions in weapons to Israel, and unbanned unit that murdered a Palestinian American. We are being good-cop bad-copped. We need action not words.

Pretty incredible -- though totally believable -- that the final DNC platform has a one-side condemnation of sexual violence, and it's aimed at Hamas, even as the Knesset engages in a full-throated debate as to whether the acknowledged rape of Palestinian detainees is ok or not.

I truly do not care if the guy had “bad politics” and I think it’s weird if you do. The most class-uniting event I’ve seen in my lifetime and some of you are turning it into a culture war because he retweeted Peter Thiel. This is unironically why we lose.