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⚠️ 🇵🇸 An estimated 564,000 children in Gaza are living in "critical or catastrophic" shelter conditions as winter rains flood displacement camps, Save the Children said. Israel, as the occupying power, "must be held accountable for any child deaths that result," the group said, noting that “tents, shelter kits and fuel are waiting at Gaza's borders while children sleep in floodwater, because the Israeli authorities are blocking their entry.”
The group's Middle East regional director said “this is a choice, and children are paying the price." Citing an assessment by the Palestine Shelter Cluster of UN agencies and NGOs, Save the Children reported:
🔹 1.2 million people, 58% of Gaza's population, live in critical or catastrophic shelter
🔹 Israel has repeatedly blocked the caravans the ceasefire promised as an alternative to tents
🔹 48% of families burn plastic, tires or garbage to cook, which releases toxic fumes that cause respiratory illness and carbon monoxide poisoning. 84% still can't heat their shelters
🔹 Winter clothing covers just 1% of the over 1 million people who need it
🔹 464,000 people live in sites at high risk of flooding
🔹 60% of the $283 million needed for winter is unfunded
Last winter, 11 children reportedly died of hypothermia. the group said.
NEWS: As rains flood #Gaza, #Israel's restrictions leave over half a million children without safe shelter
Read the press release: savethechildren.org/us/about…
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Read “Be a Bitch or Develop an Autoimmune Disease” by Meghan Bhatia in Total Woman Victory: Back to Basics at totalwomanvictory.substack.c…!
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Absolutely beyond the pale inhumanity. Shame on Germany, Italy and others who block action against israel for this. – at Dublin City, Ireland
This weekend, a massive winter storm battered Gaza. Our teams report that thousands of tents were damaged or destroyed.
Strong winds tore away makeshift shelters, while families waded through centimetres-deep floodwaters as rain soaked their few remaining belongings. People were left cold and wet, with nowhere else to go.
This is the fourth winter that displaced Palestinians have been forced to endure these conditions.
Nearly 13 months after the ceasefire agreement, 2.1 million Palestinians are confined to just 30% of Gaza. Nearly one million people are living in areas at medium to high risk of flooding.
Yesterday’s storm exposed the consequences of years of restrictions and shortages. There is not enough heavy machinery in Gaza to prepare sites and mitigate flooding. Even the machinery that is available cannot operate properly because of shortages of engine oil.
Those organisations who support with shelter are mobilising to deliver tents and essential household items to families who have lost what little they had. But there are not enough tents and supplies to meet the scale of the need, let alone replace those damaged by the storm.
And tents and tarpaulins are not the answer to Gaza’s winter. They cannot withstand heavy rain and strong winds, and many are already worn out after months of use far beyond their intended lifespan.
In August, the NRC-led Palestine Shelter Cluster reported that 1.98 million people – 94% of Gaza’s population – needed shelter assistance. Since then, only a fraction of the required supplies have entered, while severe funding gaps are forcing humanitarian agencies to do more with less.
We must move beyond repeatedly replacing inadequate tents and scale up transitional shelters that offer families more durable protection.
We urgently need heavy machinery, equipment and supplies to enter Gaza to support flood mitigation, clear rubble and prepare safer sites.
Palestinians have the right to receive the assistance they need. States must press Israeli authorities to uphold their obligations and facilitate the entry of humanitarian aid and essential materials.
Palestinians must not face another winter without adequate shelter. They cannot wait.
David McCullagh being all dotey on dogs makes the vet bit on helping elderly dogs even more heart melting 💖
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I admit that I completely broke down today. I cried uncontrollably. I couldn’t hold myself together after witnessing what I saw with my own eyes.
Today, we went to film a journalistic report inside the displacement tents along the seashore. I swear, what we witnessed was beyond what any human being should have to endure.
I saw men crying bitterly. Men I had never seen cry when they lost their children or when their homes were destroyed. Today, I saw them crying because they were powerless to do the simplest thing: protect their children from the water and the cold.
We spoke to families who told us they had spent the entire night carrying their children in their arms after floodwater covered the floors of their tents and soaked their mattresses. They couldn’t find a single dry place to put their children. They couldn’t even give them a few hours of sleep.
I saw children no older than five, without proper clothes to protect them from the cold, without heating, and without a dry place to sleep. Children shivering inside tents that cannot keep out the rain, protect them from the wind, or provide even the most basic sense of safety.
What more must happen for this world to act? How much more suffering must people endure before someone remembers that they are human beings?
I am sick of this world. I am sick of its hypocrisy and empty slogans. To hell with a world that talks endlessly about human rights while leaving children to drown inside their tents. To hell with everyone who has witnessed this suffering and chosen silence, and to hell with the governments and institutions that have the power to act but continue to turn their backs on us.
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Against all odds, with almost no one outside of my family, friends, and closest team members believing it was possible - the woman who wrote the tweet below and started this journey by Googling “how to run for office in Texas,” has flipped an 18 pt Republican seat to become the next Texas State Representative for House District 132.
This is OUR home, and together, we did indeed take it back.
From my day one promise: Zero outside influence. Zero corporate PAC money. Zero values compromised. Just neighbors talking to neighbors and working together to fight for our community.
Of the PEOPLE.
By the PEOPLE.
For the PEOPLE.
PERIOD.
Tomorrow, we sleep. Thursday, we get to work.
Thank you for asking! And for anyone curious about my journey, I’m happy to share.
I got my first job at Boston Market on Fry Rd when I was 15. It’s a McDonald’s now, which is a shame, because I miss the sandwiches.
My second job was at Schlotzky’s on Mason Rd (old location)
From age 17-19 I worked at Cracker Barrel at I-10 and Barker Cypress.
From age 19-22 I was a bartender. I also got married and had two kids.
At 23, I was divorced with 2 small children and at a cross roads.
I woke up one day and decided that wasn’t the life I wanted for myself or my children. So I moved home with my mom and I enrolled in a Radiology Technology program.
My schedule for the next 2 years was:
School M-F 7:00a-3:00p. Come home, spend time with my kids. Put them to bed and then go to my bartending job from 8:00p-2:00a - back at school at 7:00a the next morning.
I graduated and my first job out of x-ray school was as an x-ray tech in a hospital working what they call a compressed weekend. I worked both Saturday and Sunday from 7:00a-11:00p for a total of 32 hours.
Only, at $16.09 an hour, that wasn’t enough to support my family. So I got an advanced certificate in Mammography and worked at a mammography clinic during the week.
I did that for 4 years. 72 hours a week for 4 years.
Then I was fortunate enough to be promoted into an Imaging Manager position. Not yet ready to slow down, I worked in that position as my day job, while also working at a free-standing ED as a CT/x-ray tech for a 12 hour shift each weekend.
Oh, and while doing all this, I was also chipping away at my Bachelor’s degree.
It wasn’t until 2020 when I graduated from college that, for the first time in 25 years, I had only one job and wasn’t either working a second job or also attending school.
After a break of a few years, I am now working full time and running for office in every second of my spare time.
So, Jay G (if that is your real name), which part of that life experience would make me unqualified to understand the unique challenges that we are facing in this world?
Happy Sunday, everyone!
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“How could a heart that held so much be allowed so little time?”
Colin Sheridan
Irish Examiner
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They say the price of love is grief, and the hurt that’s being felt so deeply, so widely, across Ireland and the athletics world is a reflection of what so many felt for Ciara Mageean.
A reflection on the athlete and person she was:
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Irish Olympian and European champion runner Ciara Mageean has died aged 34 rte.ie/sport/athletics/2026/…
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I'm writing this from the guest room in a convent, about 20 km north of New York City, in Tarrytown.
It overlooks the Hudson River on one side, and the Potanico Hills on the other.
It is home to around 40 nuns. Many are from Ireland - I sat with sisters from Galway and Antrim, the oldest of them is 95 and from Kilkenny.
I want to pay tribute to these women. Many joined around or before their 18th birthdays, came to a different country, and served hard communities as teachers and headteachers. But not all - three are lawyers, working in human rights and immigration. One was a professor at Fordham.
They are lovely, and saw themselves as imaging what it was to live in a community, and a community of women.
They invited me to join them for their Halloween party, where they had a singalong ending in Irving Berlin's Sisters. They were in costumes - a group had dressed as crayons, another as cereal killers. They handed me a microphone and I told them how everyone back home sent their love, and was proud of the examples of selfless service and community they have given us.
It will not always be the case that we will have these nuns with us, a final generation who between 1960 and today carved paths between Ireland, a mother house in New York, and from here all up and down the US eastern coast.
'You must have some work to do. Don't do any of it - get some sleep,' Sister Eithne told me, seeing me to my guest room.
I inwardly resolve to be a much more frequent visitor to this convent and guest room.
If someone trades on their grandfather's name to give unearned heft to their criticism of the current incarnation of the organisation he co-founded (amnesty) seems fair to point out his political life showed the nonsense of her simplicities.
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Women's Rights Activists: Continuing the describe feminists as rape deniers even when it has been shown to be false and libellous.
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"Person who can't even find a conversation circle to join at their own farewell party"
All for women meeting & organising in exclusively female company but morto for ya that just so you make it clear you're slagging off a different exclusively female event you call yourselves 'ladies' you absolute saddos, just do your own thing, no need to debase yourselves.
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In 1929, Palestinian women organised a convoy of 70 cars to confront the British in Jerusalem.
On 26 October 1929, more than 200 Palestinian women gathered in Jerusalem for the first Palestine Arab Women's Congress. They had had enough of British colonial rule and the policies encouraging Zionist immigration to Palestine. A delegation went to confront the British High Commissioner with their demands. Then the women climbed into approximately 70 cars and drove through Jerusalem, sounding their horns and stopping at foreign consulates to deliver their resolutions. This was 1929. Women from different towns and religious communities had come together to organise a national political movement, and they intended to make themselves heard.
Look at the photograph. These aren't anonymous women. Among them was Nabiha Nasir, who founded Birzeit College, the institution that would eventually become Birzeit University. There was also Basma Faris, the principal of a girls' school, and Matiel Mughannam, a prominent Palestinian activist. They were educators, organisers and political thinkers, challenging one of the world's most powerful empires. The photograph was preserved by the American Colony photographers in Jerusalem and is now held by the US Library of Congress. It is a remarkable little piece of Palestinian history, almost a century old, showing women who refused to leave their country's future entirely in the hands of men.
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OldSpeak flies flag of this movement over their physical bookshop.
Feminists Against Antisemitism continue to offer no criticisms despite tmovement supporting Jew-hatred and deportation, this hypocrisy was pointed out
Julie Bindel + Shahrar Ali signed books, profiting OldSpeak.
