Deby

[🔻agitprop + absurdity🔻 @agtprpnabsrdty]

A months-long Sky News investigation into the US double-tap strike on a Minab girls' school found the Pentagon had tracked the site by satellite since 1987 and could still count children's shadows in the courtyard before firing anyway.

What the evidence shows:

Three Tomahawk missiles fired from the USS Spruance, 716 kilometers away in the Arabian Sea, hit the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab on Feb 28, the opening day of the US-Israeli war on Iran. Witnesses described a second strike hitting the exact spot where a teacher had moved surviving students for shelter, killing nearly everyone who had taken cover there. A third strike followed on the same site. Death tolls range from 156 to over 170, most of them girls aged seven to twelve. The school had been walled off from the adjacent IRGC naval base since at least 2015, had its own website, and was geolocatable through open-source materials any analyst could have pulled in minutes.

Built to fail:

The Pentagon's own machinery for preventing exactly this outcome had already been dismantled. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth slashed the Civilian Protection Center of Excellence workforce by roughly 90 percent and cut CENTCOM's civilian casualty assessment team from ten people to one, months before the war started. A May Pentagon Inspector General report found the office had become a shell on paper with no budget, no mandate, no real mission. A functioning warning system was defunded on purpose, then blamed for not warning anyone.

Accountability buried:

Four months on, CENTCOM's commander told reporters the investigation was near complete, yet nothing has been released. Asked in June whether anyone would face consequences, Trump called it a strange question, adding that mistakes are made and war is nasty. The mistake was choosing not to fund the office that exists to catch mistakes like this one.

My take: A military that surveilled a schoolyard for four decades didn't fail to see the children, it decided in advance that seeing them wouldn't change the targeting. Nobody in this chain lacked information.

[sue goldstein - Mercury justice for #GrassyNarrows @radioragazza]

Get his name. Send him to The Hague. Nuremberg him and all of them. May this Nazi never know peace.

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

The typical “persecuted Jew” we see in Palestine

[AsBadasY★uThink @NowayitsNaya]

Rest in peace to all the women we’ve lost to femicide💐🩷

[Prof Zenkus @anthonyzenkus]

Thinking Netanyahu is the only problem with Israel is like thinking Trump is the only problem with America.

[🫶🏼💖 @SunshinesDeluxe]

Seeing one of gods most majestic and divine creatures, fight so valiantly against the destruction and rampaging of his home should do untold psychic damage to your psyche. We should be radicalized by this.

[Zo Brown @receipts_lol]

Israel gassed a hospital.

[𝒢𝒾𝓁𝒷ℯ𝓇𝓉 @AbakpaJob]

Decolonize your mind. Water was never meant to be sold.

[Jvnior @Jvnior]

Never forget when an Israeli settler
literally dragged the body of a lifeless
child with a rope behind his golf court.

He can even be seen touching the body later.

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz on Lebanon:

I said that Southern Lebanon would become Gaza. We would apply the Rafah model.

We would destroy everything there. We would deal with them in exactly that way.

And that is what we did.

The infrastructure has been destroyed. Homes in 24 villages along the border—villages that had existed for hundreds of years and were used by Hezbollah as military outposts against Israel—have been demolished.

The army systematically flattened the villages with bulldozers and explosives. Ninety percent of the houses are gone. Between 15,000 and 20,000 homes have been destroyed.

[kage @sukikage_]

i don’t think people realise how attractive emotional gentleness is

[jezz @JezziiB]

They keep using "woke" as an insult, like we're supposed to be ashamed of wanting people to have food, healthcare, and a home.

[Lou Diamond Phillips @LouDPhillips]

“When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can’t eat money.”

[Brian 🍄 @Is_Not_Brian]

This is maybe the most disorienting & upsetting developments recently. I can't believe how easy it was to get their hooks into Latin America.

[Fav ⛧ @Favwontmiss]

YOU KNOW WHAT KEEPS EVERYONE COOLER IN THE SUMMER? TREES, YOU IDIOTS. GIVE US BACK OUR TREES BACK.

[Defence Index @Defence_Index]

BREAKING: Israel has dropped a new type of bomb in Gaza.

Palestinians claim it’s a “mini nuke,” but analysis suggests it is likely a thermobaric (vacuum) weapon.

Thermobaric bombs detonate by dispersing a fuel–air mixture, producing a high-pressure shockwave and intense heat. This can collapse structures and cause blast effects similar to a nuclear detonation in terms of overpressure, but it is not a nuclear weapon.

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

Never forget this photograph

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Scandalous.
18 months in arbitrary detention. No charge. No evidence. Torture attested by his lawyer, marks visible on his body.
And instead of covering this, @BBC amplifies Israel's unproven claims casting doubt on a hostage doctor.

>BBC's journalism in the time of genocide.

[🇵🇸🇯🇵 Thoton Akimoto @AkimotoThn]

America did this.

[Parody Jeff @Parodyjeffx]

I'm kinda rattled at how fast people moved on from the fact that the Epstein Class are eating kids.