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Gaza's amputees offered easy-to-fit prosthetics using UK technology - #BBCNews
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c624zz6m1kvo

The tragedy behind the headline:

#Israel #Gaza #Politics
After analysing emergency medical data, the UN’s World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that at least 94,000 people are injured. More than 24,000 people – one in every 100 Gazans – has a life-changing injury. These include serious burns, trauma to the head and spine and limb amputations.

At the same time, it has become virtually impossible to leave Gaza for medical treatment and only 16 out of 36 hospitals are functional. Rehabilitation services are heavily disrupted. The WHO says just 12% of equipment needed for injured people - such as wheelchairs and crutches - is available.


Why haven't I seen any reporting on people having trouble voting?

Why haven't I heard about any ongoing litigation by voting rights advocates?

I haven't seen anything on cable news, or print stories via Mastodon.

Nothing. Zero.

What's going on?

#politics #journalism


Labour has a problem on international trade - as posted yesterday - an increase of US tariffs will badly hit UK exports across the Atlantic - so, does Starmer cuddle up to Trump to see if he can keep the UK outside any protectionist measure Trump sets up against importers....

or does he shift his attitude to the EU & start to seek a constructive engagement on trade (hoping that an EU threatened by Trump might be more amenable to 'help' the UK into a proper trade deal of some sort)?

#politics


A post-election message from Interim Editor-in-Chief @gusbova to our members, readers, and the rest of our extended community.

https://texasobserver.fundjournalism.org/donate

#journalism #Media #Texas #politics #USpol #fundraiser #nonprofit #future #immigration #news
All, 

I can’t tell you that it’s more important than ever right now to support the Observer and other local journalism. I mean, I’d thought Kamala Harris would win a narrow victory and that Trump wouldn’t do a whole lot better in Texas than he did in 2020. In other words, for the moment, I’m out of both the prediction game and the game of even just making confident statements. 

All I can say is that Trump’s explicit plan is to hurt specific people — undocumented immigrants spring first to mind, but they are one of many groups — and many of these people live in Texas. And that the Observer intends to be here, on the ground, exposing these harms as they play out. We did it last time, we plan to do it again, 

I suppose I can also say that investigative journalism, the bulk of what we do, isn’t terribly contingent on politics. Whoever’s in charge, they want to hide things; we dig, and we publish.


https://www.altrenotizie.org/spalla/10475-usa-il-peggio-che-sovrasta-il-male.html

#news #press #politics


It won't save everyone and yes, we are not free until all of us are free, and also: that should not mean that you cannot accept saving some people or making their lives easier.

Or, in the worst cases, giving them more time.

We are not free until all of us are free just means that the work doesn't stop. It means that when you lift someone up they are now in a better position to help lift someone else up in turn.

Think locally. Politically, socially. Get fine-grained here.

5/5

#politics


Mutual aid organizations are not "passing around $20 on social media to people you barely know." Mutual aid organizations—like Food not Bombs—have a very long history in the US of helping a lot of people in a very local capacity.

Same with a lot of local religious groups. The difference between having a local community that accepts you and will protect you versus one that doesn't is massive.

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#politics


Colorado has now enshrined a right to abortion in our state constitution

We have laws in place to protect people coming here for an abortion or to start gender affirming care, including for teenagers starting puberty blockers

Can the federal government go against this? Absolutely, but it is much, much harder than in a state like Florida

These local protections _matter_. Having your city have anti-discrimination laws _matters_ even if they are stripped from you at a federal level

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#politics


The earliest worker protections? Almost always came from unions, not laws.

During the "freedom of contract" and "yellow dog contract" eras—when unions were often functionally unlawful and enjoyed next to no legal protections even in the best of circumstances—we still saw huge movements among workers. Including but not limited to the Colorado Coalfield War, the Newsboys Strike in NYC, and the railroad strikes that still get talked about a century later.

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#politics


Fundamentally I'm of the view that leftist power discourse over the last 80 years or so has taken a serious wrong turn in looking _up_ rather than _locally_ for power.

We want to save everyone—which is a worthy goal—and so we focus on things like the Supreme Court, the Presidency, etc.

But historically that's not where our power comes from and historically your local protections matter a _lot_.

The earliest protections against child labor were because of unions, not laws.

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#politics


🇮🇱🇫🇷🇪🇺 [Vidéo] Incident diplomatique franco-israélien à Jérusalem, deux gendarmes français arrêtés https://www.election-politique.com/index.php?display=M

#VuDansLaPresse #newspaper #politique #politics #international #Israel #Jerusalem #France


Inhaltswarnung: Politics


The Influence of Donald Trump’s 2024 Re-Election on Indian Politics and Indo-U.S. Relations.

https://aliyesha.com/sub/articles/news/display/al_influence_donald_trump_india_politics

#india #press #news #usa #america #donaldtrump #elections2024 #politics #china #quad #trade #visa #bjp #pmmodi

Enjoy tracker free reading with us. #privacy #privacymatters


Il fallait oser, c'est même à ça qu'on le reconnaît.
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[FranceInfo] - Dégradation des finances publiques : #BrunoLeMaire réfute toute "faute" ou "dissimulation" et renvoie la responsabilité au gouvernement actuel.

Pendant trois heures, l'ex-ministre de l'#Economie a été interrogé jeudi matin par le #Sénat sur sa gestion du #budget de la #France durant les sept années où il a été en poste.

https://www.francetvinfo.fr/economie/budget/degradation-des-finances-publiques-bruno-le-maire-refute-toute-faute-ou-dissimulation-et-renvoie-la-responsabilite-au-gouvernement-actuel_6883124.html#xtor=RSS-3-[lestitres

#Politique #politics #RevueDePresse #Press


It's time for charities and for-good organisations to ditch X - a platform which helped grow and fund the Trump campaign - and move to alternatives where they aren't at the mercy of a single persons politics.

As a start, we're excited to be featured as an organisation which can help in this @BylineTimes article

There's a lot of hard work to be done, but we like hard work. Hard work is good work.

https://bylinetimes.com/2024/11/07/x-odus-charities-and-campaigners-to-abandon-musks-twitter-after-trump-endorsement/

#Fediverse #Charity #NGO #News #USPol #Politics #X #SocialMedia #Twitter


A Q. on political parallels:

Is the new Labour government now in the position that the Biden administration was in four years ago?

If so, having beaten a Right Govt. in the election, will the next four years see Labour buffeted by global events, losing contact with voters 'reality' & perceptions, while the Right gains further influence & support?

and if this plays out like the USA over the last four years, who will be the UK's Trump?

Farage? Badenoch?

Or can we swerve this fate?

#politics


Crimes? What crimes? I don't see any crimes. Did you see any crimes?
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Donald Trump started this year fighting two federal prosecutions that threatened to send him to prison. But he will end it free and clear of his most significant criminal legal problems.

Special counsel Jack Smith is taking steps to end both federal election interference cases against Trump before the President-elect takes office, according to a source familiar with Justice Department deliberations.
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➡️ https://www.npr.org/2024/11/06/g-s1-33021/trump-trials-jack-smith-election-2024

#USA #Politics #Trump
Screenshot from top of linked article. Headline says: "Special council Jack Smith taking steps to wind down federal cases against Trump." Below this is a photo of Smith.


यमुना नदी में छठ पूजा की परमिशन नहीं, हाईकोर्ट ने कहा- गंदे पानी में नहाकर बीमार हो जाओगे।

https://aliyesha.com/sub/articles/news/display/nd_no_permission_chhath_puja_yamuna

#newdelhi #delhi #india #press #news #politics #government #mismanagement #pollution #rivers #WaterPollution #sewerage #IndustrialWaste #religion #chhath #chhathpuja #HighCourt

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I'm not sure I can keep using masto right now. It's impossible to mute the type of political despair that I can't afford to expose myself to right now, as people don't hashtag these things reliably. So if I disappear for a bit, that would be why.
#despair #politics @actuallyautistic


Let me make sure I've got this right. She proposed an expansion of the Child Tax Credit to $6,000. She proposed $25,000 in down-payment assistance for first-time homebuyers. She proposed expanding Medicare to offer home care services for the elderly. She was part of an administration that presided over the best economy in 50 years. Her opponent, meanwhile, simulated fellatio and said immigrants were eating dogs. But *she's* the one who didn't focus enough on the economy? #Politics #Election2024


#JonathanCook | It's time to stop buying into tooth-fairy #politics. No one's bringing salvation

Harris "lost because, if your political and media system – rigged by donors – limits the choice to two hardline neoliberal candidates, with anything else denounced as “communism”, the most hardline, neoliberal candidate has an edge."

https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/its-time-to-stop-buying-into-tooth

#USPol #Democracy


It's not just the misogyny and racism, I'm astounded that over seventy million Americans hate America so much they would vote for a man hellbent on destroying it.

#politics #USPolitics #USElection #USElection2024 #trump


Armed Israeli settlers torch Palestinian homes, cars and olive trees across West Bank


Wave of attacks on towns and villages begins on Sunday night, with residents of Burqa noting Israelis destroyed ancient trees that were older than Israel itself
Damaged cars and burnt building show the aftermath of Israeli settler arson attacks in the West Bank city of al-Bireh, 4 November, 2024 (Reuters/Mohammed Torokman)

#Terrorism #WestBank #palestine #Israel #Occupation #Apartheid #Politics
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/armed-israeli-settlers-torch-palestinian-homes-cars-olive-trees

@israel group @palestine group