Barti Slatfass

@bartislatfass.bsky.social

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The situation in Haiti is terrifying. On Sunday, 150 gunmen swept down on a town to kill, rape, loot, and burn. 22 people were executed in a churchyard. 52 were taken hostage. Stephen Miller mockingly says Haiti is safe and ICE just sent its second deportation flight this month; with kids on board.

They arrived in silence, under cover of darkness, heavily armed as they surrounded the town and moved through Kenscoff’s rugged terrain and towering forests in the mountains above the Haitian capital. Numbering around 150, the gunmen swept through several locations as they made their way toward the center of the town, opening fire on resident who tried to flee. At least 13 people were shot and killed as the gunmen ran through downtown, according to an account by the United Nations human rights office. As more than 50 others sought refuge in L’Arche de la Nouvelle Alliance, a Protestant church that had been sheltering people already displaced by the violence, the gunmen pursued them. When they arrive, they forced residents from the church and executed 22 of them in its courtyard. A dozen others were killed behind the sanctuary. The attackers didn’t just stop there. Before withdrawing from downtown, an area encompassing City Hall and a Haiti National Police substation, they abducted at least 52 people, including a mother and her five children, as well as another mother and her infant. Children and elderly who could not run were killed inside their homes. Others were burned alive after gunmen set at least a dozen houses on fire, witnesses told the National Human Rights Defense Network. The attackers also shot horses and other livestock inside the rural enclave.
Miami Herald@miamiherald.com · 3d ago

Last month, U.S. officials warned Haitian authorities to expect an increase in deportations following the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision to allow President Donald Trump to end Haiti’s Temporary Protected Status designation even while litigation challenging the termination continues in the courts.

Also the whole “USAID was bad because it was imperialist and a tool for American soft power” was Musk’s exact stated reason for destroying it, because he—like most USAID opponents—is a consumer of Russia-driven National Socialist conspiracy theory about how it overthrew all his favorite dictators

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 2d ago

This is also why I really don't care for how an increasing number of people on both the left and the right (and in between) now claim that mutual aid is *better* than existing aid organizations, and therefore we don't really need to prioritize saving them.

A tetanus-diphtheria vaccine that doesn’t need a fridge has passed its first human trial. UK scientists reformulated a licensed shot using trehalose, the sugar that lets desert plants survive without water, keeping it stable for up to two years at 30°C. Gavi buff.ly/1kNIUHB #ShareGoodNewsToo

Fridge-free vaccine passes first human trial, raising hopes for the hardest-to-reach

Unreliable electricity makes it hard to keep vaccines at the right temperature – this development could change that.

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Die USA fordern von Partnerstaaten weitreichenden Zugriff auf deren Polizeidatenbanken, die EU-Kommission verhandelt dazu ein Rahmenabkommen. Nun liegt ein neuer Entwurf vor. Max Schrems kritisiert die enthaltenen Regelungen. netzpolitik.org/2026/erzwung...

Abkommen zum US-Datenzugriff auf der Zielgeraden

Die USA fordern von Partnerstaaten weitreichenden Zugriff auf deren Polizeidatenbanken, die EU-Kommission verhandelt dazu ein Rahmenabkommen. Nun liegt ein neuer Entwurf vor. Max Schrems kritisiert di...

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My blood donation questionnaire asked me if I’ve had any new sexual partners in the last three months and when I clicked No it sent me to a screen that flashed LOSER over and over and now I can’t get back to the main screen and yes I’ll hold

13 years since the huge Sarin attacks in Damascus. It's really hard to underestimate what a huge catalyst that was for a denialist network that has spent the last 13 years twisting themselves into knots to find ways to deny the use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime.

Ich habe von 2016 bis 2021 im Moskauer Goethe-Institut ein großes EU-Projekt geleitet. Alle Arbeit dort war engagiert, wertvoll und, vielleicht wichtiger noch, von vielen Menschen in Russland wertgeschätzt. Aus ganz unterschiedlichen Gründen, nicht .../2 www.faz.net/aktuell/poli...

Warum Deutschland das Russische Haus nicht schließen will

Im Streit über das Russische Haus in Berlin verweist das Auswärtige Amt auf das Goethe-Institut in Russland. Dessen Arbeit ist nach Ausweisungen aber ohnehin stark eingeschränkt.

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“Just to put that in context, that means 50 U.S. Citizen children a day experienced the arrest, detention, and potential deportation of one of their parents, 50 a day." Those kids are now more at risk because the Trump administration changed language in the “ICE detained parents directive.”

NBC News@nbcnews.com · 2w ago

A 19-year-old in Texas has spent nearly a year raising her 13-year-old sister after their parents were detained by ICE and deported to Honduras. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

If you were living in Europe in the 1580s and 90s, you would likely have heard a few herring prophecies from Norway. Fishes with words about evil, fighting knights symbolizing the Ottoman conflicts of the Habsburg monarchy etc. appeared, and they all predicted something about the state of the world.

a German broadside with a wondrous fish caught off Norway. Source: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1880-0710-3466 fishes with words from a small print of 1598 ("Prophetia halieutica nova et admiranda...", Source: https://www.e-rara.ch/zuz/content/titleinfo/1489626A broadside from 1587 showing a fish with wondrous inscriptions which reads 'Vici Malum' caught off Norway. Source: https://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/freytag/content/pageview/8433201

Using a slow CO2 ramp climate model simulation, we demonstrate the AMOC remains stable up to +5.5°C of global warming. By contrast, under faster CO2 ramps, it collapses at substantially lower warming levels (+2°C). Limiting the rate of emissions is critical for reducing the risk of an AMOC collapse.

Failure to track a stable AMOC state under rapid climate change - Nature Climate Change

Climate change is expected to alter oceanic circulation, with the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) at risk of collapse. This work shows that the stability of the AMOC is dependent on...

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In the wake of Arday's death, Nathan Cofnas (who led the X mob against him) states his motivation. Beyond whistleblowing, he states that after a 'revolution' removes professors like Arday, it will open opportunities for him to become 'head of the department of eugenics and race science at Harvard'.

To ask „where is Fridays for Future and why aren‘t they demonstrating now, given these heatwaves?“ is a remarkable variant of climate denial - in the form of delegated responsibility. They have done their job warning us. By now, Germany‘s forests and rivers are demonstrating on their own.