Author: Aidan
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Several killed in Israeli attack on UN shelter housing 800 in southern Gaza
Several people have been killed after a United Nations shelter in Gaza’s southern city of Khan Younis was shelled by Israeli forces, the Gaza head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees has said. “Two tank rounds hit building that shelters 800 people – reports now 9 dead and 75 injured,” Thomas White, the Gaza director…
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Doomsday clock stays at 90 seconds to midnight
Atomic scientists have kept their Doomsday Clock set at 90 seconds to midnight as they did last year, citing worry about Russia’s potential use of nuclear weapons amid its invasion of Ukraine, Israel’s war on Gaza and worsening climate change as factors driving the risk of global catastrophe. I do kind of wonder if the…
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Republicans Push To Legalize ‘Property Owners’ Killing Homeless People in Kentucky
Republican politicians in Kentucky are rallying behind a new bill that would authorize the use of force—and potentially deadly force—against unhoused people who are found to be camping on private property. The bill would also criminalize unsanctioned homeless encampments and restrict cities and towns from preempting state laws. The bill, known as the “Safer Kentucky…
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Being American Requires Conformity
A Texas school district superintendent defended the continued suspension of a Black student over his locs hairstyle in a full-page newspaper ad, paid for by an education foundation. Darryl George has been suspended repeatedly by the Barbers Hill Independent School District for his hair. The teen’s family filed a federal civil rights lawsuit saying the punishment violates the CROWN Act,…
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The absurdity of the return-to-office movement
corporate titans are still pushing for their employees to return to their offices. Banks like Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase and tech giants like Meta are demanding that their staff be back at the office several days a week. Those return-to-office demands are often couched in non-falsifiable claims about the necessity of having chance encounters at the office where folks…
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Israel’s war on Gaza causes ‘cracks in the edifice of hypocrisy’
The extremity of Israel’s war on Gaza has become so unbearable that there are at last cracks in its political support. And the massive effort that Joe Biden has undertaken to back Israel no matter what it does is raising questions even in mainstream politics. There is, to begin with, the crisis over Netanyahu’s declaration that there must never…
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Ecuador police arrest gang members who stormed hospital
Ecuadorean security forces have arrested 68 gang members after they stormed a hospital in the town of Yaguachi, in Guayas province. Officials said the men tried to take over the facility, at which a member of their gang was receiving treatment. Police said the intruders’ aim was to guard the patient from potential attacks from…
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Treaty could make people ‘feel more divided’, Victorian opposition leader says, as Coalition withdraws support
The Victorian opposition leader, John Pesutto, has refused to say when the Coalition decided it would withdraw its support for a treaty with the state’s Indigenous people, ending years of bipartisanship on the issue. Pesutto on Monday told reporters the Coalition had discussed the issue internally and with stakeholders “on an ongoing basis for many…