thirdwave

Financial Times: "The west’s shameful silence on Gaza.. After 19 months of conflict that has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians and drawn accusations of war crimes against Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu is once more preparing to escalate Israel’s offensive in Gaza... This would be a disaster for 2.2mn Gazans who have already endured unfathomable suffering. Each new offensive makes it harder not to suspect that the ultimate goal of Netanyahu’s far-right coalition is to ensure Gaza is uninhabitable and drive Palestinians from their land. For two months, Israel has blocked delivery of all aid into the strip. Child malnutrition rates are rising"

Abramson, The Guardian: "[2016] The Clintons turned the Democratic party over to donors. Can it recover?..[H]edge fund managers and media titans.. had built the most formidable fundraising network ever seen in American politics. They pumped more than $4bn into various Clinton campaigns and related political and charitable groups over four decades. Many of them have been cutting huge checks since Bill Clinton’s first presidential campaign in 1992. In 2016, they expected their 1.2bn dollar infusion to catapult Hillary Clinton back into the White House and were astonished, like the rest of the country’s elite, to see all that money go down the tubes...

Back in 1991, I was one of the only reporters with Bill Clinton at one of his early Hollywood shakedowns. I saw how he loved schmoozing with rich people, how his body language literally changed as he mixed with the ultra-rich.. Bill and Hillary Clinton are the people responsible for turning the Democratic party into the party of Wall Street and their glitzy friends. During his time in office, Bill Clinton did little to change a campaign finance system that has always been fundamentally at odds with the party’s egalitarian message"

"@ktdoggett@c.im

'What radicalized you?

Nothing.

Not wanting people to starve and suffer is not radical, it's normal. Stop saying it is radical to be base level empathetic, and start asking what made people into sadists. Call out sick behavior, because kindness should be the default"

"French prime minister François Bayrou signed a $169 million grant supporting the construction of a water electrolysis plant in Normandy’s Le Havre port area that will produce 34 metric tons (t) per day of hydrogen when it starts up in 2029. The company receiving the funding is Lhyfe, which builds onshore and offshore green hydrogen plants. Under the agreement, the French firm will receive 20 million dollars by June and the rest over the next 4 years as reimbursements"

FCW: "China’s Green Hydrogen Surge: 2025 Electrolyser Orders Already Outpace Entire 2024"

Ba dum tss!

"This guy doesn’t just understand sin. He understands cos."

Has some technical chops, nice.

Wiki: "Prevost earned a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics at Villanova University in 1977"

Commie Pope

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Wiki: "In his famous 1891 encyclical Rerum novarum, [Pope Leo XIII] outlined the rights of workers to a fair wage, safe working conditions, and the formation of trade unions"

The selected name gives some clues on how new Pope wants to lead, right? If he is 14th, we need to look at the 13th?

NPR: "Cardinal Robert Prevost becomes the first American pope, choosing the name Leo XIV"