Notices by JuneSim63 (junesim63@mstdn.social)

"The thing you must understand about starving children is they die so much quicker than adults. They suddenly fade away when an adult might have hung on a few weeks. This means a starvation blockade is primarily the mass murder of children"
RickyHale

https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/a-starvation-blockade-is-primarily

#Israel #Gaza #Starvation #Genocide

"It’s worth noting that 116,000 tons of food sits at the Gaza border and Israel is refusing to allow that food in which means it’s refusing to save the lives of all those children. Imagine being able to save a starving child and refusing to do so. Now imagine refusing to save 290,000 children. The level of evil is incomprehensible"
Ricky Hale

#Gaza #Israel #Starvation #Genocide

"The vital role of communities as growers and foragers in urban resilience has largely been overlooked by city officials, urban planners and developers. Yet, these community-led efforts are bringing more life and vitality to urban spaces"

#CommunityGardens #Gardening #Cities #Healthcare #Wellbeing

How growing and foraging food can become a common part of cities
https://theconversation.com/how-growing-and-foraging-food-can-become-a-common-part-of-cities-253868

"Project 2025, the thing that he is seeking to deliver, deliberately set out to destroy the idea of the nation state, and its right to intervene in an economy and its right to supply services. That is what he wants to do. We need politicians who will understand that the reaction to the catastrophe that he's going to create as a result requires them to deliver exactly the things that he does not want"

Excellent & worrying from @RichardJMurphy

#Trump #USPolitics
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/04/23/when-is-trumps-crash/

"We have been on our feet all day. We are stretched to the thinness. But never think that you are not important to us … You are the reason we come to work every day.” By the end his voice is cracking. He seems to be on the verge of tears.

999: The Critical List shows you why"

Review of last night's new Channel 4 series. Let's hope it has the same effect as 'Mr Bates vs the Post Office'.

#NHS #TheCriticalList #Healthcare #NHSCrisis #UKPolitics

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/apr/21/999-the-critical-list-review-its-rare-to-see-doctors-crack-like-this?CMP=GTUK_email

He's been out and about all morning and now he's taking a well deserved nap.
#Caturday

EU standards on food health and safety will never be part of the negotiation ‘with the US or anyone else’, European Commission says"

Can Starmer and his flaccid government members take note in the UK?

#EUPolitics #UKPolitics #Trade #Trump

https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2025/04/16/eu-dismisses-us-demands-on-food-standards-and-ties-to-china/

"So let’s consider the latest..The Israeli defence minister, Israel Katz, has publicly confessed to deliberately starving the Palestinian population.."

Owen Jones, with righteous anger.

#Israel #Gaza #Starvation #Genocide

https://www.owenjones.news/p/israel-says-its-deliberately-starving

A good analysis of the Supreme Court ruling today by Jess O'Thomson.

#Trans #Transgender #SupremeCourt #Law #UKPolitics #BiologicalSex

UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren’t Women under the Equality Act 2010
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/uk-supreme-court-rules-that-trans-women-arent-women-under-the-equality-act-2010/

"Meta has removed over 90,000 posts since 7 October within 30 seconds of Israel making the request. In other words, no consideration was put into these decisions, the requests were just accepted. A whopping 38.8 million posts were acted upon in total, meaning they were either removed, suppressed, or the user was banned"

#Israel #Palestine #Meta #Censorship

Israel is working with Meta to censor pro-Palestinian posts across the world
https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/israel-is-working-with-meta-to-censor?publication_id=1336368&post_id=161184837&isFreemail=true&r=55ldjt&triedRedirect=true

"Most of our writers lost their homes. They lost their laptops. They don’t have electricity or internet connection. But they write their stories on their phones, wait a few days for internet connection and then submit them to us. Every month we publish 35 to 40 stories.”

“We’re chronicling history in Gaza, not by facts and statistics and news stories, but by the lived experiences of the people. It’s not a political project: it’s a human project.”

#WeAreNotNumbers #Gaza

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/13/ahmed-alnaouq-pam-bailey-we-are-not-numbers-the-voices-of-gazas-youth

"The firing of USGCRP staff guts the entire climate research and services ecosystem leaving teetering silos of climate teams, already reeling from federal cuts due to Doge"

#ClimateEmergency #Trump #USPolitics

White House ends funding for key US climate body: ‘No coming back from this’ | Trump administration | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/09/trump-national-climate-assessment-usgcrf

"No amount of photoshoots featuring Labour MPs with hammed up indignation on their faces will erase the central fact. This government is helping to facilitate genocide. Under legal pressure, it has suspended fewer than 9% of arms export licences to Israel, and continues to send crucial components for F-35 jets to rain death and destruction on Gaza’s traumatised survivors"

#Israel #Gaza #UKPolitics

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/09/israel-deport-labour-mps-british-government

"Gaza has been deported to another dimension in which no rules apply. Geographically it has been sealed off and wrenched away from the Earth. Foreign journalists and politicians are not allowed in. Local journalists are killed. Foreign aid is blocked. Local relief workers are murdered"
Another excellent column from Nesrine Malik

#Gaza #Israel

Politicians want to normalise what’s happening in Gaza. Our moral outrage won’t let that happen | Nesrine Malik | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/07/politicians-normalise-gaza-moral-outrage

"The city of Rafah is no more. It has been reduced to rubble by a settler-colony established just 77 years ago. All of the historical buildings, the archaeological sites, the museums, the modern homes, the civilian infrastructure, the shops, cafes, restaurants, hospitals, schools, and universities, all the beautiful places that contained so many memories, are all gone"

#Israel #Gaza #Rafah #EthnicCleansing
https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/israel-has-wiped-the-city-of-rafah

@RichardJMurphy
Starmer and Reeves have already fallen for it.
"The chancellor insisted the UK would not jeopardise the possibility of its own economic deal with the US by “posturing” in response to tariffs.

“We don’t want to be posturing here. The prize on offer is a good economic agreement between us and the United States. We are not going to do anything to put that in jeopardy"

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/apr/02/trump-hits-uk-with-10-tariffs-as-he-ignites-global-trade-war

Research from the homelessness charity Crisis and the campaign group Health Equals found fewer than three in every 100 private rental properties listed in England were affordable for people on housing benefit between April and October 2024.

The Labour freeze on housing benefit will push many more thousands into homelessness and arrears.

#LabourAusterity #TaxTheRich #UKPolitics

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/apr/01/private-renting-england-affordable-housing-benefit-study?CMP=firstedition_email

"BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him

Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown"

From Zeteo's Prem Thakkar on Bluesky

#NoOtherLand #Israel #Settlers #Kidnap #WestBank
https://bsky.app/profile/premthakker.bsky.social/post/3ll5fat7iq22v

"In an era of rolling crises, Sudan stands supreme. By some margin it is the world’s largest, most devastating humanitarian catastrophe. Every metric confirms it is worsening. Thirty million Sudanese need aid to survive; half of them are children. Fighting has precipitated the worst famines in decades. Atrocities mount daily. More than 12 million Sudanese are at risk of sexual violence"

#Sudan #RSF #WarCrimes #Africa
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/mar/23/atrocities-mount-daily-promised-aid-does-not-arrive-why-has-the-west-turned-its-back-on-sudan

"The group that drafted a key blueprint for Donald Trump’s second term convened a meeting in Washington D.C. this week to consider proposals for bulldozing the European Union (EU).
..the Heritage Foundation gathered hardline conservative groups on 11 March to hear how they would overhaul the current structures of the EU"

#EU #HeritageFoundation #FarRight #USPolitics #EUPolitics

Heritage Foundation and Allies Discuss Dismantling the EU - DeSmog
https://www.desmog.com/2025/03/14/heritage-foundation-project-2025-allies-mcc-ordo-iuris-discuss-dismantling-the-eu-european-union/