It turns out that the Trumpist terrorist who assassinated Melissa Hortman and her husband in Minnesota first attacked John Hoffman and his wife at their home, and then went to a second home, where he fortunately failed to attack anyone but did encounter a cop who did not interfere with him in anyway.

He then went to Hortman’s home, where cops again encountered him and watched him murder Hortman and her husband before he escaped out the back door.

This isn’t quite “Uvalde cops arresting parents trying to save their kids while cops cower outside the classroom” helplessness, but I would dearly love to be able to finally put to bed the “cops protect us from bad guys” trope. They watched him commit the killings through the window! He escaped because they waited for a drone to enter the fucking house!

With all the horrible news coming from Palestine, Iran, and Israel, it is easy to forget the context.

And the context is that Netanyahu is on trial for bribery in Israel:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Benjamin_Netanyahu

But I'm sure this in no way influences his decisions that accidentally create a gigantic distraction and provide massive political cover for him.

Princess Meownonoke

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Don't blame people. Don't blame the whole world. Blame those who actually deserve it.

Blame the leaders of business and government in the world's richest nations. They are the ones actively destroying our climate and environment.
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Four wealthy nations — the United States, Canada, Norway, and Australia — account for the majority of planned oil and gas expansion over the next decade, according to new data published by Oil Change International.

The analysis, titled 'Planet Wreckers', notes that if those four Global North nations stopped their planned oil and gas extraction, 32 billion tons of carbon pollution would stay in the ground instead of being burned and released into the atmosphere where they fuel planetary heating. That's the equivalent of three times the annual global emissions created by burning coal.

"A handful of the world's richest nations remain intent on leading us into disaster. This is not just hypocrisy. It is a death sentence for communities on the frontlines of the climate crisis," Oil Change International's Romain Ioualalen said in a statement.

"It is sickening that countries with the highest incomes and outsized historical responsibility for causing the climate crisis are planning massive oil and gas expansion with no regard for the lives and livelihoods at stake," Ioualalen added.
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➡️ https://www.commondreams.org/news/oil-change-report-planet-wreckers

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