On the climate crisis, the EU seems to be accepting reality on the key cause - fossil fuels - and acting accordingly. Trump, er... not so much. My Daily Brief:
📰 Read: https://www.hrw.org/the-day-in-human-rights/2025/01/23?story=paragraph-10073
🔊 Listen: https://www.hrw.org/video-photos/audio/2025/01/23/climate-update-good-bad-and-ugly-daily-brief-january-23-2025
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Good news: Europe made more electricity from solar than coal in 2024, and wind now tops gas.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/22/rising-star-europe-made-more-electricity-from-solar-than-coal-in-2024
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An image of Musk’s Hitler salute has been beamed onto Tesla's Gigafactory in Berlin.
https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-controversial-salute-image-beamed-tesla-factory-berlin-2019279
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Trump rapidly issued one executive order after another... As far as human rights are concerned, it was like turning on a firehose of terrible policies, soaking to the bone anyone who still had even the slightest hope that Trump’s second term might not be as awful as his first.
My Daily Brief:
📰 English: https://www.hrw.org/the-day-in-human-rights/2025/01/22?story=paragraph-10063
📰 Français: https://www.hrw.org/fr/news/2025/01/22/les-nouveaux-decrets-de-trump
📰 Deutsch: https://www.hrw.org/de/news/2025/01/22/trumps-neue-dekrete
🔊 Listen: https://www.hrw.org/video-photos/audio/2025/01/22/trumps-new-executive-orders-daily-brief-january-22-2025
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"Accepting a pardon would only insult the Capitol police officers, rule of law and, of course, our nation," she said.
"I pleaded guilty because I was guilty, and accepting a pardon also would serve to contribute to their gaslighting and false narrative."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvged988377o
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Exactly.
https://www.zeit.de/kultur/2025-01/elon-musk-hitlergruss-amtseinfuehrung-donald-trump
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I've stopped posting & engaging on X.
It's a decision I've been moving toward bit by bit, weighing both ethical problems and practical value of remaining on the platform. The former have been increasing; the latter decreasing.
This was the last straw for me.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/21/the-gesture-speaks-for-itself-germans-divided-over-musks-apparent-nazi-salute
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I was faked in a nasty video made with AI, and it’s sort of been bothering me ever since it happened late last year.
📰 English: https://www.hrw.org/the-day-in-human-rights/2025/01/21?story=paragraph-10059
📰 Français: https://www.hrw.org/fr/news/2025/01/21/un-faux-brief-du-jour
📰 Deutsch: https://www.hrw.org/de/news/2025/01/21/ein-fake-daily-brief
🔊 Listen: https://www.hrw.org/video-photos/audio/2025/01/21/fake-daily-brief-daily-brief-january-21-2025
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If you say those weren't Nazi-style salutes done to express solidarity with white supremacists and white supremacist ideology, then you are either completely illiterate in history or you are deliberately trying to gaslight people to make them think they saw something else.
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A Nazi-style salute to demonstrate support for Trump's white supremacist ideas.
Performed twice, just in case you missed it the first time.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/20/trump-elon-musk-salute
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"challenging Trump does not require us to romanticise what went before"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/19/postwar-liberal-order-populism-rise
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"The coincidence of MLK Day and Inauguration Day is not a harbinger of doom but a profound reminder of the choice before us—to despair or to act."
https://newsone.com/5868445/mlk-dream-vs-trump-presidency/
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[#]Iran court sentences pop star Tataloo to death for blasphemy https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/19/iranian-court-sentences-pop-star-tataloo-to-death-for-blasphemy
"Blasphemy" is not a real crime. There's no victim, no harm, no nothing. It’s a manufactured crime with zero foundation in objective reality.
https://www.hrw.org/the-day-in-human-rights/2024/01/09?story=paragraph-7422
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Will Trump’s second term as US president be as bad for human rights as his first – or worse?
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Hey, whad’ya know? Most people don’t like a foreign oligarch interfering in their country’s politics.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/17/elon-musk-uk-germany-favourability-yougov-poll
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"U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's return to the White House next week threatens freedoms at home and abroad, the head of Human Rights Watch said on Thursday, warning that his second term could be more damaging than his first." https://www.reuters.com/world/human-rights-watch-chief-says-trumps-return-threatens-freedoms-2025-01-16/
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"What we saw in 2024 is that there has been an absolute failure of powerful states that have tried to build a reputation as being defenders of human rights around the world, like the US, UK & EU. They were tested and they failed." - Human Rights Watch's Executive Director Tirana Hassan
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/jan/17/2024-witnessed-absolute-failure-of-west-to-lead-fight-for-human-rights-says-watchdog
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Here’s my take on Human Right’s Watch’s World Report…
⚠️ World on the Brink of Doom (or Maybe Not)
📰 English: https://www.hrw.org/the-day-in-human-rights/2025/01/16?story=paragraph-10034
📰 Français: https://www.hrw.org/fr/news/2025/01/16/le-monde-au-bord-du-gouffre-ou-peut-etre-pas
🔊 Listen: https://www.hrw.org/video-photos/audio/2025/01/15/world-brink-doom-or-maybe-not
[#]Rights2025
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📘 546 pages.
🌍 More than 100 countries covered.
📢 Human Rights Watch’s 35th annual World Report.
🚨 Now live: https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2025
[#]Rights2025
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“Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedoms, and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/15/joe-biden-farewell-address-trump-oligarchy-america
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