Martin O’Malley was the answer.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Israeli soldiers shot a 7 month old baby dead.

They then lied about it.

This is what the Israeli state does.

They commit war crimes, lie about it, commit more war crimes, lie about it, in an endless cycle of murderous horror.

[Kegham Balian @kbalian90]

BREAKING: Taybeh, the last Palestinian Christian village in the West Bank, is on fire!

Local residents report that Israeli settlers torched the fields.

[The Empire Files @EmpireFiles]

There are hundreds of mock cities for Spec Ops to train for urban combat. The reason they are using your towns is because they are training for you.

[Mark Ames @MarkAmesExiled]

Not that it matters, but the US blockade of Iran is a war crime, as part of the illegal war of aggression launched Feb 28. International law seems so quaint now. Even legacy media, which until Feb 28 pontificated so much about “rule of law” miraculously lost interest just in time

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

And ironically humanity will spend the next few decades as this unfolds arguing about migration.

In reality, the country that can overcome its baser instincts and attract and welcome younger immigrants will be at a major advantage. US is well poised to win on that front, given our immigrant-friendly tradition, but we still might lose for obvious reasons.

[Todd Spence @Todd_Spence]

George Carlin's standup over footage of Splinter from the live Ninja Turtles show from the '90s 🤣 so good

[Peter Harrell @petereharrell]

The two best statistics in the WSJ’s genuinely great article on North Korea’s economic boom:

Pyongyang built more housing last year than LA. (Says something about CA housing dysfunction).

North Korea assembled more cellphones than the USA.

(Assuming the #s are true!)

[jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill]

⚡️Iranian official says, “At this point, reaching an agreement [with Trump] is not really feasible.”

🔺 “The primary person responsible for the current situation is Donald Trump himself,” the Iranian official told me, referring to Israel’s massive escalation in its attacks against Lebanon and Iran’s retaliatory strikes against Israel.

🔺 “Should Israel carry out another attack on Beirut in the coming days, missiles will immediately target areas within the occupied territories in retaliation,” the official said.

🔺 “For nearly 20 days, the draft of a potential agreement has been on [Trump’s] desk,” said the official, adding that Trump is “driven by his fear of the Israeli lobby and his hope that the naval blockade plan will prove effective.”

“Iran will no longer accept or tolerate his current position.”

🔺The two central issues the official emphasized are: Israel’s war against Lebanon and expanded occupation of the south; and Trump’s refusal to unfreeze Iranian funds for reconstruction.

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

Statement from the Operational Headquarters of the Islamic Republic of Iran Armed Forces, following tonight’s Iranian ballistic missile attack against Northern Israel:

“In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful, the Zionist aggressor regime, by repeatedly violating the ceasefire, has been increasing its evils against the oppressed people of Lebanon day by day with the green light and support of the criminal America and the silence of the international community, and has been committing war crimes using banned weapons, including phosphorus bombs, since Friday. Despite the previous warnings of the Islamic Republic of Iran, its child Zionist regime has crossed all red lines and intensified attacks in southern Lebanon, targeting the Beirut suburbs. We had previously decided that if the crime in the Beirut suburbs expands, we will bombard targets in the occupied territories. The Zionist army must stop its attacks on southern Lebanon and the suburbs, and if it expands its attacks on that region or responds to Iran's actions, it will face more crushing and regrettable blows and destructive attacks will begin against the regime and its supporters. And there is no victory except from Allah, the Almighty, the Wise.”

[🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇦🇷🇵🇸 @whuabz]

US fumbling the easiest sportswashing opportunity is so funny, Qatar/Russia did a million times better job

[Cory Archibald @CMArchibald]

Insane to think that all through the 90s we were told we absolutely had to let the Klan march in American cities to protect free speech and now they're withholding diplomas, firing people, imposing travel bans, qmd running weekslong smear campaigns for saying the word genocide.

[Dr Andreas Krieg @andreas_krieg]

ISIS-esque images from the West Bank - just that the terrorists in balaclavas on the back of pickup trucks are Jewish fundamentalists

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

if nazis are marching in your parade, it’s a nazi parade. democrats participated in a nazi parade.

[🏴based opossum🏴🚬 @CrustPunk161]

Fascists when they see mutual aid without a profit motive. They are the most ideologically and morally bankrupt people you will ever encounter.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Today, among the goods that are universally intended for everyone, we must also include new forms of property, such as patents, algorithms, digital platforms, technological infrastructure and data. In a context where the wealth of nations depends increasingly on knowledge and technology, when these goods remain concentrated in the hands of a few, without adequate forms of sharing and access, a new imbalance is created that contradicts the universal destination of goods. In turn, it widens the gap between the included and the excluded, between those who can participate in the digital revolution and those who remain on the margins. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Humanity, created by God in all its grandeur, is today facing a pivotal choice: either to construct a new Tower of Babel or to build the city in which God and humanity dwell together. In Jesus Christ, this humanity in its grandeur becomes the Way, the Truth and the Life, opening the path for each of us to grow toward fullness. #MagnificaHumanitas
https://t.co/6i9MWs6LJl

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

This has historically been referred to as a "concentration camp."

[Ollie Vargas @Ollie_Vargas_]

Bolivan miner on strike: The police are raised by working class families then grow up to shoot at their own people.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

As evidenced by the unbridled promotion and implementation of technology at the expense of human dignity, we are truly experiencing an eclipse of the sense of what it means to be human. It is imperative to recover an understanding of the true meaning and grandeur of humanity as intended by God. It is in this sense that the challenge we currently face is not technological, but anthropological, and it is my hope that the Encyclical Letter to be published within a few days will contribute to answering this challenge.

[Hadi @HadiNasrallah]

For a second, imagine it were an Iranian minister publicly assaulting and humiliating multinational humanitarian activists, who had been abducted simply for attempting to feed starving children. Now imagine how the world would’ve reacted