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Mashhour Yassin, 51, was shot dead at his doorstep defending his home from an armed settler mob in Yasuf, West Bank.
IDF: ยซlooking into it.ยป
For context: of 1,701 settler violence ยซinvestigationsยป since 2005, just 6.6% led to an indictment and 3% in a conviction.
Israeli settlers shoot and kill Palestinian, wound others in West Bank village haaretz.com/west-bank/2026-1โฆ
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Africa causes the least of the carbon heating the planet and pays the most to fix it: financing costs 2 to 3x higher than Europe or China for the same solar and wind projects, rated ยซriskier.ยป
The climate does not recognize borders. Why does the cost of fixing it?
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The climate doesn't check passports before it floods a coastline or dries up a harvest.
Global problems need global cooperation.
But right now, countries most at risk from disasters get rated as the riskiest to lend to, so they pay the highest premium to build the solutions.๐ค
โ๏ธ | Africa gets only 23% of the climate finance it needs โ and pays too much forย it, @LopesInsights argues in his latest piece via The Conversation: theconversation.com/africa-gโฆ
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ยซLethal injectionยป has become ยซpossibly lethal injectionยป what an unbelievable story.
Not sure what's next for Christa Pike.
In the end, why kill anyone to assert that killing is wrong?
If they deserve to die, must we become killers?
RIP to Colleen Slemmer, say her name.
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The equivalent of 6 Hiroshimas was dropped on Gaza.
That was always the plan.
A textbook case of unjustifiable, undeniable genocide.
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๐ฒ๐ฆ Morocco just named its first woman head of government: Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri, Marrakesh's first female mayor since 2009.
Her own words: ยซFor the first time in our country's history, a woman is taking on the responsibility of leading the government.ยป
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The ICRC, about as neutral as an institution gets, just said life in the West Bank is becoming untenable.
Dozens killed, hundreds hurt, homes destroyed.
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ICRC: West Bank conditions becoming 'untenable' amid settler violence, settlement expansion
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The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has called for the urgent protection of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, warning that surging violence, increasing movement restrictions, and accelerating settlement expansion are causing serious harm to civilians and making "everyday life untenable."
The organization said that dozens of Palestinians have been killed, hundreds injured, and many displaced this year, while homes and property have been damaged or destroyed, leaving many without shelter or livelihoods.
ICRC Head of Delegation Julien Lerisson said "the frequent and severe violence must be brought to an end," stressing that Israeli authorities are responsible for protecting the population from violence, including violence inflicted by settlers, respecting access to essential services, and protecting public and private property.
He added that movement restrictions are preventing patients from reaching healthcare, children from attending school, and families from accessing their homes and livelihoods, while delays at checkpoints are also obstructing ambulances and first responders.
The ICRC said that, as the occupying power in the West Bank, Israel has obligations under international humanitarian law to protect Palestinians, restore and maintain public order and civil life, and treat protected persons humanely.
Lerisson added that restoring the population's safety and dignity requires protecting civilians from violence and ceasing the expansion of civilian settlements.
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Not sure why I woke up with the urge to listen to Alan Parsons's The Three of Me. Y'all have a great day!
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Through his ยซPeople's IPOยป, Aliko Dangote gave Africa's youth a factual model of success to look up to.
It shows what happens when a continent decides to process its own resources and take ownership of its future.
A deeper dive: substack.com/home/post/p-217โฆ
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JUST IN: Anthropic reportedly plans to spend $518,000,000,000.00 in cloud, computing, & infrastructure obligations over the coming year.
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Trump's ยซPeace for mineralsยป accord is basically the US getting whatever riches they want from the Congo in exchange for providing peace.
First part of the deal, the extraction part, is going fine.
The thing is, the Congo Administration believed both parts.
Who else did?
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Excellent point.
If you were Israeli leaders, and believed you were being globally accused of crimes you didn't commit in Gaza, what's the first thing you'd do?
Urge the international media to go to Gaza and report the truth.
But if you know the accusations are true, you'd ban international media from reporting freely. That's what Israel is doing even a year after a "cease-fire," and the reason could not be more obvious.
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They look you in the eye and tell you, ยซItโs not a genocide.ยป
But they know. We know. Every human who remembers knows. History knows.
From day one, it was a genocide.
And that truth will stand forever.
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At UNESCO in Paris this week, Pope Leo XIV:
ยซThose in power invoke the law when it serves their interests and disregard it when it restrains them, treating justice itself as a commodity to be bought and sold.ยป
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Pope Leo XIV, at UNESCO, named who tests a society's real values: children in war zones, the disabled, the elderly, migrants, refugees,
ยซAll those arrogantly excluded as unproductive.ยป
Scapegoating them was never the fix. It's the symptom of what's already broken.
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๐ฎ๐ท๐บ๐ธUPDATE: Trump privately rejected Iran's seven-day peace plan.
WSJ reports he expects to resume bombing after the November midterms.
Iran's FM, at the UN: ยซeverything is now prepared.ยป
The offer is still on the table. The war didn't have to keep going. It was scheduled to.
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More about this on Substack
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