The captain of Iran’s National Team, Mehdi Taremi, calls out FIFA and the U.S.:
“This is a disaster World Cup. We can’t stay in the country and have to travel every time we play without any recovery. Now we can’t stay in Seattle and have to return to Tijuana. This is not fair.”
Elon Musk spent $290 million to elect Trump.
Musk got $512 billion richer since Trump was elected & is now worth $815 billion.
He wants to cut Social Security and Medicare by $500-$700 billion a year.
You’re not angry enough.
This is powerful!
Mary Hill, a 72 year-old Amazon warehouse worker, has a message for Jeff Bezos and she projected it onto his $120 million penthouse in New York City.
Professor Derek R. Peterson, a University of Michigan historian and MacArthur Genius Grant recipient, thanked “pro-Palestinian student activists” during a graduation speech today, for “opening our hearts to the injustices and inhumanity of Israel’s war in Gaza.”
Peterson teaches history and African studies at the University of Michigan, where he also became chair of the faculty senate in 2025.
Curtis Sliwa agrees with Mamdani, says the British royals should return the diamond:
“The royalty, they're a bunch of deadbeats, slackers, the worst welfare cheats in the world,” Sliwa says.
Ambassador Gingrich is pleased to lead the delegation from Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the SelectUSA Investment Summit, May 3-6, in National Harbor, Maryland. Apply now:
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Surveillance footage showed chaotic scenes at Iranian hospitals as strikes rain down on the country.
One scene captured a nurse rescuing three newborn babies at a hospital in Tehran and carrying them to safety.
Follow live updates on the war in Iran: https://t.co/nKmdwZI64K
In a world wounded by arrogance, people hunger and thirst for justice. We must encourage those who believe in peace and dare to engage in “countercurrent” politics, which focus on the common good. What is urgently needed is the courage of new visions and an educational pact that gives young people space and trust. #ApostolicJourney #EquatorialGuinea https://t.co/81zzJos7Ij
This video is both heartbreaking and life-inspiring.
A film crew tries to film the destruction caused by US/Israeli bombing at an apartment complex in Iran. One of the tenants, an old man whose apartment has been almost completely shattered, insists on inviting the film crew in and offering them something to eat.
"We have only come to film, we don't want anything," the crew says.
But the old man insists on at least offering them oranges and apples.
Ultimately, those who come out victorious from conflicts are those who retain their dignity. Who never let war make them lose their humanity and self-respect.
Who, even in the worst of situations, insist on upholding sacred traditions and beliefs, including that of hospitality.
That's what makes a civilization indestructible.
Please remember this video and do your best to forget the videos of the lost souls dancing and cheering on the streets when their countrymen, women, and children were being killed by "democracy and freedom" bombs.
Israeli soldiers encounter an unarmed Palestinian with his hands raised in the West Bank camp of Qalandia, proceed to take turns assaulting him before dragging him away off camera.
This is fucking insane. The only silver lining, to the extent that you can say that when someone is explicitly threatening war crimes, is that the world is nakedly seeing the US for the satanically evil militarized force it always has been.
Judge rules that 17-year-old Walid Ahmad likely starved to death in Israeli military detention, but closes the case anyway. Israel never charged him with a crime and still holds his body. Here’s how he died, as reported by his cellmate, 16-year-old American Mohammed Ibrahim: