Arlene (Beth) Graves @mobilelene

#Gaza – Given the high number of civilian casualties & the scale of destruction following Israeli airstrikes on Jabalia refugee camp, we have serious concerns that these are disproportionate attacks that could amount to war crimes.

.@UNReliefChief briefed @UN member states on the humanitarian situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory today. Here are some highlights from his remarks.

WHO pleads for immediate reversal of Gaza evacuation order to protect health and reduce suffering WHO joins the wider @UN in appealing to Israel to immediately rescind orders for the evacuation of over 1 million people living north of Wadi Gaza. A mass evacuation would be disastrous—for patients, health workers and other civilians left behind or caught in the mass movement. With ongoing airstrikes and closed borders, civilians have no safe place to go. Almost half of the population of Gaza is under 18 years of age. With dwindling supplies of safe food, clean water, health services, and without adequate shelter, children and adults, including the elderly, will all be at heightened risk of disease. The Palestinian Ministry of Health has informed WHO that it is impossible to evacuate vulnerable hospital patients without endangering their lives. Vulnerable patients include those who are critically injured or dependent on life support. Moving them amid hostilities puts their lives at immediate risk. The two Ministry of Health hospitals in the North of Gaza that continue to be operational, have greatly exceeded their combined 760-bed capacity with severe overcrowding. Of the thousands of patients with injuries and other conditions receiving care in hospitals, there are hundreds that are severely wounded and over 100 who require critical care. These are the sickest of the sick. Many thousands more, also with wounds or other health needs, cannot access any kind of care. The compressed timeframe, complex transport logistics, damaged roads, and, above all, lack of supportive care during transport all add to the difficulty of moving them. Furthermore, the four Ministry of Health hospitals in the south of Gaza are already at or beyond capacity, and lack the critical care capacity and supplies needed to treat additional patients. The lack of medical supplies is already endangering patients and hampering health workers. Supplies which WHO had pre-positioned in Gaza have mostly been consumed. On 9 October, WHO Director-General @DrTedros met with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, who agreed to a WHO request to facilitate the delivery of health and other humanitarian supplies from WHO to Gaza via the Rafah crossing. WHO has prepared medical supplies in its logistics hub in Dubai and is ready to deliver them to Areesh, Egypt—just 20 minutes from Rafah—as soon as landing permit is received. The supplies would be enough to care for more than 300,000 patients with a range of wounds and diseases. WHO asks for the immediate establishment of a humanitarian corridor for their onward, safe delivery to health care facilities in Gaza, including via Rafah. WHO reiterates its plea for humanitarian access for life-saving supplies and the delivery of fuel, water, and food; for protection under international humanitarian law for civilians, health workers and health infrastructure; and ultimately, for an end to hostilities and violence.

A new study shows that cutting the world's meat and dairy consumption in half would be the equivalent of not burning 1.8 trillion pounds of coal annually. motherjones.com/environment/20…

You should care about this regardless, but if you think Republican efforts to ban puberty blockers for minors won't lead to banning birth control for them, too, you're not paying attention

The onion saw it coming

Don't take the bait! Debating someone with zero credibility or validity only helps them to gain status and spread lies. By trying to negate their false ideas, you'll end up activating them. They win by making the difference between lies and truth seem like a matter of opinion.

In medicine, we don’t “debate” big topics. We peer review them. We study them. It doesn’t mean that opinions don’t change and can’t vary. It just means that practice isn’t changed in arguments with Presidential candidate lawyers who can out gish gallop doctors and scientists.

What Wikipedia did: we stood strong for our principles and fought to the Supreme Court of Turkey and won. This is what it means to treat freedom of expression as a principle rather than a slogan.

Elon Musk @elonmusk

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@mattyglesias Did your brain fall out of your head, Yglesias? The choice is have Twitter throttled in its entirety or limit access to some tweets. Which one do you want?

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Thank you @climateplan climateplan.org for signing the Budget Request for the Active Transportation Program and Complete Streets Infrastructure. ✍️ Sign the petition: calbike.org/invest-divest/

"Advertising guns for an imminent political conflict has reshaped American gun culture … in part because its members dream about someday engaging in murderous political violence," argues @AdamSerwer: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Not so #BreakingNews because it’s normally in this country but: Three mass shootings yesterday. In Louisville, Alabama, and Pennsylvania. As I write this tweet, another mass shooting is probably breaking out. It’s the goddamn guns. #GunReformNOW #AlabamaShooting

Facebook and Google are handing over user data to help police prosecute abortion seekers businessinsider.com/police-getting…

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The relative silence from other groups re: AP African American Studies mess is quite... loud. Imagine a state trying to formally wipe Jewish history, Asian American history, or other marginalized groups from AP curricula. If they come for us, they can come for yall, too.

Tyre Nichols should be alive. Charges alone aren’t justice. Change is. At least 1,176 people were killed by law enforcement last year - a record. Billions in trainings, body cams, and reforms haven’t stopped it. In fact, it’s gotten worse. We must grow out of this cycle together

Activist @iamcorabarry worked to make the Dr. Martin Luther King Holiday a reality 40 years ago. Why she’s sad for young activists today.