In fact, the news from #WallStreet lately has mostly been about retreat from #climate goals, rather than recommitment. #Banks & asset managers are withdrawing from #international climate alliances & chafing at their rules. Regional banks are stepping up #lending to #FossilFuel producers. #Sustainable#investment funds have sustained crippling outflows, & many have collapsed.
@flexghost I saw clips of this rally. Really, it's incredibly sad how far the #us has fallen due to #trump. This nation has become the #punchline on the #international stage. It will take us generations to recover from this, provided he does not win #reelection.
The stakes are high and even with all this realtime #insanity unfolding at his rallies, his supporters still see him as the bringer of the #gospel of the #honest#truth.
First Metal 3D Printer on Space Station dribbles molten Steel.
The first metal 3D printer aboard the International Space Station successfully dribbled out a molten “S curve” last week, in what the European Space Agency (ESA) is calling a “giant leap forward for in-orbit manufacturing.”
The #SupremeCourt on Tues cleared the way for Texas to immediately begin enforcing one of the nation’s harshest immigration laws, which opponents say would disrupt more than a century of #federal control over #international borders.
In the past decade, #Putin has taught the world a master class on using #homophobia as a political weapon. Now he is showing us what #homophobia looks like as a #WeaponOfWar.
Investigators have a chance to build a case in #Ukraine unlike anything ever seen under international law: that persecuting #LGBTQ+ people constitutes a #CrimeAgainstHumanity.
The targeting of #LGBTQ+ people in #conflict — such as #ISIS making a spectacle of executing men accused of homosexuality by throwing them off buildings — has received much attn in recent yrs, but no #international#tribunal has ever held that this kind of persecution violates #InternationalLaw.
Jurists have done painstaking work to make clear how existing international #law gives the #ICC the power to investigate persecution on the basis of #sexuality & #gender identity. #Russia#Putin#Ukraine
Russian opposition leader #AlexeiNavalny has died after feeling unwell & losing consciousness following a walk on Friday in the penal colony where he was held, according to the country's prison service. He was 47. Kremlin spox Dmitry Peskov told reporters today that Russian President Vladimir #Putin has been informed of his death, & prison medics are working to identify the cause of death.
Yulia #Navalnaya, Navalny’s widow is attending the #Munich#Security Conference & just spoke.
“I would like to call upon all the #international community, all the people in the #world, we should come together & we should fight against this #evil,” she said. “We should fight this horrific regime in #Russia today.”
Navalnaya received a standing ovation. #Putin#AlexeiNavalny
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