Tesserae

Many wonders under the sun, the stars and the sea.

"Focus on... enjoying every moment." JK

[🐞Monaliza🐞 @MONALI4T]

🇲🇽GRACIAS MEXICO (Tijuana) DESDE IRÁN🇮🇷 Saca nuevo video agradeciendo a México, incluye al #PatoMerlín #mundialdefútbol2026

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

The latest images of Dr Hussam Abu Safiya have reignited outrage over his detention.

Once seen walking through the rubble of Kamal Adwan Hospital as Israeli forces advanced on northern Gaza, Abu Safiya reappeared in a Jerusalem court on Wednesday over a video call, after more than 500 days in detention.

Rights groups say he remains held without formal charge under administrative detention, while his legal team has raised concerns about his deteriorating health

[Sovey @SoveyX]

Paper Pepper is a Korean papercraft artist who gave Van Gogh a makeover, fixed his ear, and proved Korean skincare is so good it can regrow body parts.

Not a filter. Not AI. Just paper, patience, and Seoul-level beauty standards.

[Zadig @piebyfour]

"Our country doesn't drop bombs on other people, we don't have biological or nuclear bombs. But we train our doctors to help other nations."

- Fidel Castro

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

“IF WE FAIL TO STOP THE SUFFERING OF PALESTINIAN CHILDREN, WE ARE FAILURES”

ICELAND’S FOREIGN MINISTER BREAKS DOWN IN TEARS OVER THE HORROR IN GAZA

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Protesters in Naples, Italy have unfurled a giant shroud bearing the names of 18,457 Palestinian children killed by Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.

[InfoGram @_InfoGram_]

This is MASSIVE 🔥

🇪🇸 Spain, under Pedro Sánchez, has called on Israel to end its expansion of settlements or face strict action 🔥

🇮🇹 Italy Declared the same
🇫🇷 France Declared the same
🇬🇧 UK Declared the same
🇩🇪 Now Germany is declaring the same

These countries got their spine thanks to Spain’s leader, Pedro Sánchez.

95 % People think Pedro Sánchez is the spine of Europe 🔥🫡

[Medea Benjamin @medeabenjamin]

After days on top of that bridge, Guido Reichstadter is finally down and free after being jailed for his act of protest.

No food. No water. Wind. Rain. Arrest. And still, his message was simple: “We have the power. We just have to have the courage to use it.”

Guido climbed that bridge to demand an end to war and to remind all of us that ordinary people still have the power to resist violence and empire through courage and nonviolent action.

[CPJ MENA @CPJMENA]

#Kuwait: CPJ condemns the Kuwaiti government’s decision to revoke the citizenship of U.S.-Kuwaiti journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin and his two sisters, just days after his release from two months of wrongful detention.

https://t.co/40p51gGs9Y

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇰🇼🇺🇸 Kuwaiti-American journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin has been locked up in Kuwait for 6 weeks, just for posting a video of a crashed U.S. fighter jet.

He shared verified footage of the friendly-fire incident back in early March.

Now he’s facing vague charges like “harming national security” and “spreading false info.”

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🎥 🇰🇼 Prominent journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin has been jailed in Kuwait since March 3 and is facing prosecution before a special state security court on allegations that reportedly include spreading false information and harming national security.

Sharif Abdel Kouddous said Shihab-Eldin’s arrest appears to be tied to his social media posts, including the resharing of footage already circulating online showing a U.S. fighter jet crash near a U.S. base in Kuwait.

Jeremy Scahill placed the arrest in a wider context, arguing that GCC states have escalated repression during the Iran war while advancing a narrative that casts Iran as the sole aggressor and erases the U.S. and Israel’s role in launching the war. He highlighted how Ahmed’s case is part of a broader crackdown on dissent, journalism, and online speech across U.S.-allied Gulf states over the past six weeks.

@sharifkouddous | @jeremyscahill

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

One of the most gentle souls the genocide has brought into my life is Ahmed ShihabEldin, journalist of rare strength, integrity & compassion. US-born Kuwaiti citizen, Ahmed has been imprisoned by Kuwaiti authorities for his work since 3 March. Journalism is not a crime #FreeAhmed

[Ben Marmarelli بن مرمريلي בן מרמרלי @mrmrly44557]

April 12, 2026, I visited Marwan Barghouti in my capacity as his lawyer.

What I confirmed through this visit is deeply alarming. In recent weeks, Marwan Barghouti has been subjected to three violent assaults. On April 8 in Ganot Prison, he was severely beaten and left bleeding for more than two hours. He requested medical care and was denied treatment. On March 25, he was assaulted during his transfer from Megiddo to Ganot. On March 24, in Megiddo Prison, guards entered his cell with a dog, forced him to the ground, and the dog repeatedly attacked him. 

These are not isolated incidents. They form a clear pattern of escalating abuse: violence, medical neglect, and treatment that places him at immediate risk.

He had a great deal to say. Above all, he wanted to know more about his family and the Palestinian people, What is happening in Palestinian and Israeli scene I tried to tell him everything I know.

But even that conversation took place under absurd conditions: the phones did not work, so we had to shout through the glass just to hear each other.

For five hours, I sat there without food or water, trying to make sure this visit meant something.

This is what a legal visit looks like today: basic conditions denied, communication obstructed, and even the most elementary human and professional standards ignored.

And still, despite all of that, his mind was sharp, focused, and deeply engaged with everything happening outside those prison walls.

[B.M. @ireallyhateyou]

Mohammad should have much more followers. He brings important and often exclusive coverage from the ground in Masafer Yatta, West Bank.

Now more than ever, we must support local Palestinian reporters, risking their lives every day to let the world know.

@MohammadHuraini

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson didn't invoke Weimar Germany as a rhetorical flourish. She cited a specific scholar by name in a footnote: Ernst Fraenkel, a Jewish labor lawyer who observed the Nazi legal system from the inside, smuggled his manuscript out of Berlin in 1938, and published "The Dual State" at the University of Chicago in 1941.

Fraenkel's framework is precise. The Nazis didn't immediately collapse Germany's legal system. They left courts functioning - particularly in contracts and economic matters - while placing Jews and political enemies in a separate lawless zone where no legal protection applied. Most Germans lived in the law-bound "normative state." The targeted lived in the "prerogative state." The facade of normalcy was the mechanism of control.

Jackson invoked Fraenkel to name what the court's Republican majority is doing in real time. In 21 consecutive shadow docket cases, the six conservative justices have let Trump opt out of the law - often with no explanation given at all. They blessed ICE racial profiling without citing a single legal justification. They allowed Trump to ignore $4 billion in congressionally appropriated foreign aid. They stripped lower courts of the ability to issue universal relief, meaning only those with resources to file individual lawsuits get protection from illegal presidential action.

Constitutional law professor Evan Bernick put it plainly: "The court is adjusting the law to make place for arbitrary power."

Jackson's dissent is not hyperbole. A footnote citing a 1941 manuscript about Nazi legal architecture is a Supreme Court justice blowing the cover on what her colleagues are building.

[Media Lens @medialens]

This is the world we're living in:

'Trump’s executive order sanctioning Albanese prohibited any American person or entity from providing her with “funds, goods or services” – a description so broad it has been compared to a “civil death”. Her apartment in Washington, bought when she and her family were living in the US capital, has been seized. She can no longer use a credit card anywhere in the world, as almost all such transactions are processed by US-based services. “I go around with cash or I have to borrow from friends or from family members,” she says.

'She accuses pro-Israel activists based in Geneva of hounding her husband, Massimiliano Calì, a senior economist at the World Bank, in a campaign that led to him being removed from his lead position running its Syria file. “The World Bank was completely craven,” Albanese says. “He has stellar records of performance in all his positions.”'
https://t.co/w6j2l1gEYM

[Will Christou @will_christou]

“A person’s whole life is in that place, their work, their memories, everything. Suddenly you see it exploding in front of you,” said Ahmad Abu Taam, a 56-year-old resident of Taybeh. “From that moment, I felt that I had become a refugee. I feel like I have no home.”

“You feel a deep sense of frustration. Like someone has the power to erase you,” said Abu Taam.