Jon Letman

Hawaii-based independent journalist covering human rights, the environment, and the impact of US foreign policy in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond.

[Jon Letman @jonletman]

#Indigenous wisdom at #IUCNCongress: We are maybe of different color and area but we belong to one Mother Earth.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

BREAKING: A US Air Force B-52 Stratofortress bomber has crashed shortly after taking off from Edwards Air Force Base in California.

It is not immediately clear whether there were any casualties in the crash north of Los Angeles.

🔗: https://t.co/d04pmIFxLQ

[Jon Letman @jonletman]

#GeneShalit #RIP 🥸😢

[Mairav Zonszein מרב זונשיין @MairavZ]

Solidarity with @tparsi

[Jon Letman @jonletman]

This is how trump views the nation. As soon as the visitor says he is from Portland, trump hisses "liberal" like it is a curse.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

TRUMP: Where are you from?

SOME GUY: Portland, Oregon

TRUMP: Liberal! Probably more people than you think are Republicans if we could count the votes properly

[Emma Vigeland @EmmaVigeland]

Solidarity with our friend @tparsi, one of the most important voices covering Iran and the Middle East.

US administration investigating Iran war critic Trita Parsi, says report https://t.co/8aR1sKZdQ0

[Jon Letman @jonletman]

@OJoelsen he must be tired of all that "winning" and all of the enthusiastic cheers (boo!)

[Dan Drollette @DanDrollette]

The more nuclear weapons, the greater the possibility of nuclear weapons use. This is the ultimate threat to the human civilization, and efforts to limit this threat demand leadership from the great powers today, not tomorrow. @BulletinAtomic https://t.co/pB5b42Y5YE

[ICAN @nuclearban]

‼️According to new research released @nuclearban, in 2025, the nine nuclear-armed states spent $16.8 billion (19%) more on their nuclear arsenals than the year before, a total of $119 billion, or $3,768 per second on nuclear weapons. More here: https://t.co/9amB5Nnz3r
#NuclearBan

[Jon Letman @jonletman]

#Indigenous wisdom at #IUCNCongress: We are maybe of different color and area but we belong to one Mother Earth.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Reporter: Are you concerned, Mr. President, about the latest inflation number which came out this morning?

Trump: No, I love it. I love the inflation.

[ICAN @nuclearban]

How much public funds did the 9 nuclear armed states waste on nuclear weapons? At a time when the cost of living is soaring and millions struggle to afford food and fuel, this is outrageous. Read more here: https://t.co/9amB5Nnz3r

#NuclearBan #Divestment

[Jon Letman @jonletman]

But to be corrupted by totalitarianism one does not have to live in a totalitarian country." —George Orwell, from 'The Prevention of Literature', Polemic, January 1946; The Atlantic Monthly, March 1947

[Jon Letman @jonletman]

"Totalitarianism...does not so much promise an age of faith as an age of schizophrenia. A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lots its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud...

[Jon Letman @jonletman]

Such a society, no matter how long it persists, can never afford to become either tolerant or intellectually stable. It can never permit either the truthful recording of facts, or the emotional sincerity, that literary creation demands.

[ICAN @nuclearban]

🧵Every year, the 9 nuclear armed states spend high amounts of public funding on nuclear weapons. Weapons of mass destruction intended to kill hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians in the blink on an eye and destroy our planet. #NuclearBan

[Jon Letman @jonletman]

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[Lost In Film @LostInFilm]

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[StudiocanalUK @StudiocanalUK]

Remembering the brilliant Marjane Satrapi, the extraordinary artist and filmmaker behind Persepolis.

Through this deeply personal and powerful film, she gave audiences a story of identity, freedom, exile and resistance that continues to resonate across the world.

[Les Inrockuptibles @lesinrocks]

Marjane Satrapi est décédée à l’âge de 56 ans, "morte de chagrin" un peu plus d’un an après le décès de son mari, ont indiqué ses proches.

On lui doit notamment l’immense œuvre Persepolis, une bande dessinée autobiographique retraçant son enfance en Iran sous le régime de la République islamique. Cette situation l’a conduite, avec sa famille, à quitter son pays afin de poursuivre ses études à Vienne, puis en France.

Adapté au cinéma en 2007, Persepolis a marqué toute une génération, notamment grâce à son préambule : "Il ne faut jamais juger un pays à travers ses éléments les plus extrêmes."

[Agence France-Presse @afpfr]

💭 🎬 L'artiste franco-iranienne Marjane Satrapi, qui s'est fait mondialement connaître avec la bande dessinée et le film "Persepolis", est décédée à l'âge de 56 ans, a annoncé son entourage jeudi à l'AFP.