Yossarian

Replacing Hercules with the heroic sounds of Formby.

[Yossarian @Mattrice2]

@NiallODowd @wickedfairysad Brutal US Black & Tans trained by the brutal IDF, who themselves - as the Haganah - were trained to use the brutal tactics of UK Black & Tans.

A common thread of violence running from the British colonial thugs, Orde Wingate in Israel, the IDF, and on to Jonathan Ross & ICE.

[B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم @btselem]

משפחת עסעוס עמדה לאכול ארוחת ערב כאשר נשמע קול של ירי מהרחוב. כל בני ובנות המשפחה השתטחו מיד על הרצפה כדי להגן על עצמם. ליילא בת השנתיים ישבה בחיק אמה כאשר כדור פגע בראשה. מותה נקבע מאוחר יותר בבית החולים. היורים היו חיילים ישראלים שהשתלטו על ביתם של שכני המשפחה בכפר מות'לת א-שוהדאא שבמחוז ג'נין, ב-25.1.25.

ליילא היא אחת מתוך 54 ילדים ונערים שנהרגו על ידי כוחות ישראלים בשנת 2025 בגדה המערבית. דו״ח חדש שפרסמנו השבוע, ״ילדות חשופה״, מציג את סיפוריהם ואת הנסיבות שהביאו למותם של כל אחת ואחד מהם.

מאז אוקטובר 2023 הרגה ישראל בגדה 241 ילדים ונערים - היקף ההרג הגבוה ביותר של קטינים פלסטינים מאז נכבש השטח ב-1967. זוהי התוצאה של מדיניות ישראלית המאפשרת ומגבה את ההרג, מבלי שאיש יידרש לתת על כך את הדין.

קראו את הדוח המלא>> https://t.co/cQRWr4OyFP

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Some of us warned that this was the goal in October 2023 but we were told it was about the hostages. It was never about the hostages. It was always about conquest and ethnic cleansing.

[B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم @btselem]

"A year ago we published a report called 'Our Genocide'. we portrayed the model of this genocide - how the system works. we tried to show the world and to explain how close to 80 years of apartheid, ethnic cleansing, occupation, superiority, can make a system become very fast - genocidal".

Yuli Novak, Executive Director of B'Tselem, speaks with @AhmedMoor on the @FMEP podcast.
Listen to the full episode >>
https://t.co/3aF648p1hZ

[Yossarian @Mattrice2]

@finbarmcd @itsdaniryan Do you genuinely think the West was surprised? The West who loudly monitored the build-up of Russian troops? The Americans who produced policy papers like the 1992 Wolfowitz doctrine, PNAC 2000, or RAND's 2019 'Extending Russia'? D'you think they're naive innocents? The goodies?

[Yossarian @Mattrice2]

@MartinMurphy72 @BarrettNatSocP @WarrenJJF @john_mcguirk Hahaha, Justin has deemed this empirical fact check grounds for a block. Very upsetting.

[Yossarian @Mattrice2]

@MartinMurphy72 @BarrettNatSocP @WarrenJJF @john_mcguirk Pico, looking paler than Matthew McConaughey.

[Yossarian @Mattrice2]

@MartinMurphy72 @WarrenJJF @john_mcguirk Ah right, you're one of those 'patriots'.

[Yossarian @Mattrice2]

@MartinMurphy72 @WarrenJJF @john_mcguirk I'd imagine it's a lot to do with the fact the country he switched his allegiance to is the one that colonized and still occupies the one he switched his allegiance from.

[Will Schryver @imetatronink]

⚓️ IRGC releases video and audio of the last time the USS Brave Sir Robin (CVN-69, aka USS Dwight D. Eisenhower) transited the Strait of Hormuz. This was in late November 2023.

I predict it will be a VERY long time, if ever, that we again see a US carrier enter the Persian Gulf.

[Yossarian @Mattrice2]

@ImJulianAssange For various people in the replies:
https://t.co/Ni8L3Fz7V9

[Canadian Joint Operations Command @CJOC_COIC]

On #OpUNIFIER, #CanadianArmedForces members continue to share expertise, including drone capabilities, by delivering hands-on training to members of the Armed Forces of #Ukraine.

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

Genocide in Gaza

73,041 Palestinians killed
595 aid workers killed
260 journalists killed
81% of structures destroyed/damaged
58,000 children have lost one or both parents
87% of cropland damaged
850,000 in need of emergency shelter items

https://t.co/z4G6vtcqY7

[some tech thing @somet3chth1ng]

@vonderleyen Your retailers literally just buy things from China and dump it here for 10x price.

Dont feel sorry if free market is taking them out.

[Yossarian @Mattrice2]

@ElBobble White collar betting for the front, blue collar for the sleeve.

[Richard @ricwe123]

That time when an unarmed Iranian ship was invited to take part in an Indian naval exercise alongside the United States.
Its sailors were welcomed on land and paraded before Indian President Modi as a gesture of respect.
Then, at the last moment, the United States suddenly abruptly withdrew from the exercise,only to wait and torpedo the very ship it had just stood beside.

What followed was even more grotesque.
After attacking an unarmed vessel, the US refused to rescue the sailors it had blown into the sea, abandoning them to drown.
The grim work of recovering bodies was left to the Sri Lankan Navy.

This wasn’t warfare,it was treachery of the most disgraceful kind: an ambush carried out under the pretense of diplomacy, followed by a cold refusal to show even the most basic human decency to the dying.
It would represent a collapse of every norm that supposedly governs civilized conduct at sea.

And yet, instead of outrage, much of the American media response has been indifference or rationalization.
The bombing of a girls’ school is brushed aside; talk of carpet-bombing Tehran is floated as if it were just another policy option.
When atrocities are normalized and cruelty is laundered into “strategy,” the line between reporting and complicity begins to disappear......

[B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم @btselem]

The extensive killing of Palestinian children and teenagers in the West Bank is not a series of isolated incidents. It is a practice backed by every arm of the Israeli regime.

From 7 October 2023 to 29 June 2026, Israel killed 1,087 Palestinians in the West Bank, including 242 children and teenagers.

In 2025 alone, 54 minors were killed. Our new report, “Unshielded Childhood,” tells their stories.

The Israeli legal system helps whitewash these killings, grants impunity to the perpetrators, and shirks its duty to demand accountability from those responsible. The Israeli public remains largely indifferent, while some segments openly support the violence.

To legitimize this routine killing in the eyes of the Israeli public and the world, Israel systematically dehumanizes Palestinians. When the military almost automatically labels Palestinian children and teenagers who posed no threat as “terrorists” or “involved in terrorism,” it creates a reality in which their lives are treated as entirely disposable and harming them is seen as legitimate and permissible.

While the world looks away and grants Israel international impunity, the reality on the ground is clear: under the Israeli regime, no Palestinian is protected, and any Israeli who harms them enjoys full impunity.

Read the report, “Unshielded Childhood” >> https://t.co/DkrBDTGysN

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

Liberal imperialism in one image.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

The irony in this story is overwhelming.

The guy fled China in 2014 because he faced prison for fraud and corruption. No-one believed China, despite them issuing an Interpol Red Notice for his arrest. Western media and US officials universally presented him as a brave dissident unfairly harassed by the "CCP" in a "politically motivated" way (https://t.co/z0vpZvYDrT) because he was fighting corruption (see this VOA story for instance: https://t.co/0rC47K7QDM), a complete inversion of reality.

Steve Bannon even started a nonprofit with him called the "Rule of Law Society." The irony writes itself.

Long story short and true to form, Miles Guo used his "dissident" credibility in the US to - guess what - defraud Americans of $1 billion.

And here we are, 12 years afterwards, with US courts essentially concluding "yeah no, he is actually a crook, our bad."

Which makes it probably the most expensive fact-check in history: $1 billion of damage to verify what an Interpol Red Notice said a decade ago.

I know I'll sound like a broken record but this is yet another fantastic illustration that the kneejerk anti-China bias in Western media is actively harmful. When China says "careful, that guy is a dangerous crook" maybe, just maybe, it's worth checking before branding him with a heroic "dissident" narrative that he can then use to rob your people's life savings... Just a thought 🤷

[Paulie Doyle @BigPaulieDoyle]

When the left pretends to like an awful movie because they broadly approve of its politics, generally it's stuff like the all woman Ghostbusters. When the right does the same, it's films about a guy who goes around shooting muslims

[Peter Davies @MastermanDavies]

28/5/26 Canary: Ex-BBC Mid-East correspondent Tim Llewellyn: BBC central to ‘Labour antisemitism’ scam. BBC generated a “tidal wave of lies & misreporting” on Corbyn’s party & the left in general.
New book: “Killing Corbynism: Zionism’s War on Socialism”
https://t.co/5lNemaZYEO

[Will Schryver @imetatronink]

🤔 I note the stir being made by the film Citizen Vigilante.

I've not seen it, but I've read dialogue excerpts. I understand the arguments. The grievances of the case have merit.

But my sense is that it's a PSYOP, and as such, I can only repeat what I've said many times before: