BREAKING🚨 @guardian journalist admits he fabricated entire story about Iran stoning women in 2010.
This is exactly the kind of lies that manufacture consent for war.
Yet the guardian still has a fake story up about there being women and children in Sednaya prison Syria.
The Afroman Trial.
-Cops raid Afromans house for bullshit reasons.
-Steal money, break his door, fuck his house up.
-No criminality found whatsoever, no charges at all pressed on Afroman.
-Afroman spends the next 3 years making songs that make fun of all the officers involved by name, even using footage of the raid from his own CCTV cameras.
-Songs had titles like "Randy Walters is a son of a bitch" and "Lick Em Low Lisa" accusing one of the officers of being a lesbian and sleeping with the other officers wives.
-During the raid one officer looked like he was about to eat some lemon pound cake sitting on Afromans counter, Afroman made a whole album calling the officer fat.
-The cops get mad and file a lawsuit for defamation.
-Afroman turns up to court in a whole American flag suit.
-Officers performatively mald and cry while listening to the songs really trying to oversell how badly the songs upset them.
-One officer was suing because Afroman made a whole song about him saying he was fucking the officers wife. When the officer was asked if Afroman was really fucking his wife, he said "I don't know". Nuking his own case and establishing that there is a non-zero chance that Afroman might actually be fucking his wife.
-As his only witness for the trial, Afroman brought a deputies EX FUCKING WIFE.
-The jury ruled completely in favour of Afroman.
This entire thing has been a great win for free speech and absolutely fucking hilarious.
what you're looking at is a fuel depot burning in the middle of a megacity of 9 m people & nobody is talking about what this smoke actually contains
when refined petroleum burns at this scale it releases a cocktail of particulate matter, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, benzene, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, heavy metals & volatile organic compounds, these particles are small enough to bypass bypass your lungs entirely and enter your bloodstream directly…
we're talking PM2.5 concentrations that can spike to 50 to 100 times safe levels within a 20km radiu
right now in tehran people are breathing this in, eyes burning, throats closing, children coughing, asthmatics flooding emergency rooms & outside acid rain is falling on the water supply, the soil, the crops…everything that sustains daily life in a city of 9m
but the real damage comes later, years later, elevated cancer rates, leukemia clusters, respiratory disease, cardiovascular failure, neurological damage, reproductive issue
this is what happened after the Kuwait oil fires in 1991, after the mosul refinery burns in 2016, after every single conflict where fuel infrastructure was deliberately targeted, the medical literature on this is extensive & devastating
deliberately bombing fuel infrastructure insidde a civilian megacity knowing full well what the toxic fallout does to the population over decades is chemical warfare without the label, you achieve the same mass casualty outcome over a longer timeline and somehow it stays legal because the weapon is fire instead of sarin
these people are being sentenced to cancers they will develop in 2035 by bombs dropped in 2026 & they call it liberation
@BayesGaussusw@janedazey Very obsessed with these stories on how the freshly human process everything. It’s so unburdened & existential & precious, all at once. 🥰
@unactivebai@wtflanksteak Yes! This also me when ppl say “could care less” instead of “couldn’t care less” because it butchers the whole meaning & no longer makes sense…like, so you do care?? Hate it.
@HakataQueen You’re cooking w/ gas, I’ve been wanting to write abt how clinically & socially, non-SA abuse in women is automatically seen as less severe. Ppl are relieved when they learn a girl is beaten, terrorized—as long as it’s not SA. I think you’re right on the money as to why that is.
In a French occupied territory in the Pacific, French forces detained an Indigenous leader and flew him to the other side of the world. He was held in a French prison for a year without trial. He told AJ+ what the French government was trying to force him to do:
In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.
Le Monde has a long article (https://t.co/HsWFThQ5wF) describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.
Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.
He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.
That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund
and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.
Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic relations.
@galactavids All I can think about is how greedy of him to ask literally as she was lighting it! Can the girl kindly get a good hit in before you start tapping her shoulder?! 😭😭😭
@kabrieltwt Not to keep beating a dead horse but from the beginning of these clips making their rounds, I found the “journalist” to be the most frustrating part. She is too nervous & starstruck to even make eye contact?? It’s bizarre!
Events like the storming of the Winter Palace or the sans-culotte bursting into Versailles, I really don't think anyone can fully comprehend the feeling that must have washed over these people, the awe & despair of such opulence and waste while so many starved in the streets.
Why does the journalist seem so nervous & like she is struggling to pose effective questions? LMAO wrong job, babe! It’s like they got a blushing fan who won a random sweepstake doing the interview.