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Police shoot dead Black woman who called 911 to report domestic violence

Los Angeles deputy opens fire on mother of two while responding to 911 call

*she went to the hospital seeking help when she was miscarrying *a nurse contacted police after the miscarriage Stories like this will make it harder for women to trust medical providers https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/12/15/ohio-woman-miscarriage-abuse-of-corpse-grand-jury/

She miscarried in her bathroom. Now she’s charged with abuse of a corpse.

An Ohio woman, still recovering from a potentially fatal miscarriage, is being investigated by a grand jury, outraging health-care professionals and reproductive rights activists.

Do you know how hard you have to be ethnic cleansing for both Ethiopia and Eritrea to say whoa whoa whoa perhaps a bit too much ethnic cleansing there, buddy? Like, a year after the War in Tigray??

UN General Assembly votes by large majority for immediate humanitarian ceasefire during emergency se...

The UN General Assembly met on Tuesday afternoon in Emergency Special Session on the decades long Israel-Palestine conflict and as the ongoing crisis in Gaza shows no signs of abating.

…and speaking of the danger of debates about antisemitism becoming weaponized as politicized wedge-issue over a floating signifier, abstracted from concerns for the safety of actual Jews 😬

Yes! “The justifications of military necessity and national security would cleanse all sins…Killing masses of civilians…was not illegal if motivated by military goals: victory, not destruction….[S]o long as the perpetrator uses that grotesque euphemism ‘collateral damage,’there is no genocide.” Ugh!

“The term [genocide] is somehow too narrow and too ambiguous; its definition is too strict and too indistinct. As a piece of law…it excuses and exonerates more perpetrators of mass murder than it condemns….What if genocide is a part of the problem of civilian destruction rather than its solution?”

“Genocide” Is the Wrong Word

We reach for the term when we want to condemn the worst crimes, but the U.N.’s Genocide Convention excuses more perpetrators of mass murder than it condemns.

Exploring the claim, “You made me do it…” and the urgent question, “How much pain can anyone hold in their mind at once? Must my pain always be greater than yours for it to count?”

Jacqueline Rose · ‘You made me do it’

How to make a reckoning between the people whose most traumatic moment is the industrial genocide of the Jews in Nazi...

"Speaking up for things that align with your values doesn’t ruin your career, it clears the way for you to have an ethical one." @asxmaali

BREAKING: Abortion rights groups just secured their 7th state-level referendum victory post-Roe -- this time in Ohio, despite Republicans controlling basically all the levers of power. They plan to build on this unbroken streak next year in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Missouri, Nebraska and beyond.

Ohio votes to protect abortion rights – rejecting a 6-week ban

Voters overwhelmingly approved a constitutional measure Republicans tried to kill earlier this year.

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