Matias

[jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill]

For more than two months, I have been working on a truly horrific story about one of the gravest war crimes committed by the United States since Vietnam: The bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab, Iran. It was one of the first targets struck in the opening hours of the war on February 28, 2026.

At least 156 people were killed in the U.S. cruise missile strikes—120 of them were children and 26 were teachers. We spoke to survivors, first responders, parents, doctors, teachers, psychologists, and other witnesses. Some of them had never before shared their experiences of that day.

It would be impossible to do justice to what happened in Minab that day with words alone. In more than 25 years in journalism and reporting on war, I do not believe I have reported on a more heinous single crime.

Massacre at Minab: The School That Became a Grave

https://t.co/6zcGDYIzCC

Please share this story with as many people as you can.

[روافد الياسري @fidaia4343]

جميل و مؤثر جدا
فيديو مؤثر جدا حاز على اكثر من مليار مشاهدة على وسائل التواصل الاجتماعي من انتاج تلفزيون برس الايراني

[Carlos A. Scolari @cscolari]

La idea del fin del mundo tiene cara de algoritmo, avanza a paso de ganso y suda la gota gorda del cambio climático. Lo aclaro: tanto la acelerada difusión de las inteligencias artificiales como la no menos rápida degradación de las condiciones planetarias son procesos preocupantes y exigen intervenciones urgentes, por no hablar del avance de los partidos autoritarios en todas las latitudes. Hasta ahora, las acciones para contrarrestar todos esos procesos han sido limitadas y llegan tarde. Pero hoy me interesa hablar de otra cosa. Me pregunto: en la larga historia de los sapiens: ¿hubo alguna vez un momento donde la sensación de fin (de una época, del mundo) se expresara simultáneamente en el plano tecnológico, político y climático?

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[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

In 1290 all Jews were driven out of England. In 1306 they were expelled from France. In 1430 exiled from Germany, followed by Spain and Portugal. Boycotted in Italy, and time after time tossed out of every major European city.

After the centuries of expulsions, in 1492, Muslims (The Ottoman Empire) opened their doors for the Jewish. in the late 17th and 18th centuries, as the Ottoman Empire became less stable, Jews were finally allowed back into England after 366 years of total banishment.

After 1848, hundreds of thousands of Jews left Central Europe to escape rising nationalism and "pogroms" (anti-Jewish riots).

After WWI, Britain took control of Palestine from the Ottomans. From 1917 to 1939, Muslims (Palestine) opened their doors for the Jewish as usual.

In 2026, some Western politicians lecturing us (Muslims) on how to live peacefully with Jews!

Read some history.

This is not a war between Jews and Muslims. It is a Zionist war against Jews, Muslims, and Christians. Zionism is not a Jewish project; they are willing to kill Jews, Muslims, and Christians if they stand in their way.

As an Arab, a Lebanese, and a Palestinian—and as a Semite from southern Lebanon—we have no problem with Jewish people; our true Semitic cousins.

The idea that this is a war between Jews and Muslims is funded by Zionists and promoted by media, has been normalized by politicians and other figures, to serve the Zionist project.

Never forget that and don’t let them divide and conquer.

[Matias @soto_ari]

@IndiraHuilca Orgulloso de mi voto, Indira. Siempre inteligente y valiente 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[Mehdi (e/λ) @BetterCallMedhi]

quand on sait que tiktok recrute à coup de millions des ingés en neurosciences comportementales et des spécialistes du design persuasif pour hacker nos circuits dopaminergiques, je me félicite chaque jour de n'avoir jamais créé de compte sur cette plateforme mdr

regardez ces études scientifiques en IRMF et eeg qui montrent très clairement quele format vidéo court attaque directement le cortex préfrontal et le cortex cingulaire antérieur (pour info ces zones gèrent le contrôle exécutif, la prise de décision et la régulation de l'attention)

sachez qu’een bombardant le cerveau de micro stimuli imprévisibles, l'algo altère la densité de matière grise et réduit l'activité du réseau par défaut & cette surstimulation permanente entraîne une incapacité chronique à penser à long terme et détruit la capacité à être focus, 2 facultés qui pour moi sont littéralement indispensables à notre époque pour construire l'avenir 

bref je pense que refuser d'entrer dans ce système, c'est simplement préserver son autonomie cognitive et la souveraineté de sa propre attention face à une ingénierie de l'addiction taillée sur mesure

[Ethic @Ethic_]

La #filosofía ha intentado adentrarse en el misterio de la #belleza para entenderla y explicarla.
https://t.co/QBa2lAG0X9

[EL PAÍS México @elpaismexico]

En un mundo disperso, la lectura es un acto de rebeldía

Leer no es una capacidad innata del ser humano: requiere aprendizaje, atención y concentración absoluta. En un momento de constante agitación, detiene la vida unos instantes https://t.co/xZ85dSY5CO

[Ethic @Ethic_]

🎙️Joseph Stiglitz: «Tenemos ahora una oligarquía destruyendo las reglas del juego». #EntrevistasEthic
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[Israel Exposed @xIsraelExposedx]

'The Israelis are worse than the Nazis, at least the Nazis has the decency to try and hide what they are doing. The Israelis boast about it. It's demonically evil.'

- Jewish actor Wallace Shawn doesn't mince words.

ft @kthalps @KatieHalperShow

[Julio Rodríguez, PhD | Genética Clínica @bitacorabeagle]

Un estudio de Lancet muestra que gravar a los multimillonarios y redistribuir la riqueza salvaría millones de vidas

En concreto habría un24% menos de mortalidad general estandarizada por edad y un 33% menos de mortalidad infantil en menores de 5 años
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[Ihtesham Ali @ihteshamali]

Bloomberg just dropped the most disturbing investigation I have read this year, and every AI builder should read it and take it seriously.

On February 28, two Tomahawk missiles hit an elementary school in Minab, a small town in southern Iran. 156 people died. At least 123 were children. The Pentagon knew within hours that it had bombed a school.

The school had its own website. It was labeled on Google Maps. You could see the soccer pitch from a satellite view. You could see the brightly painted walls. Any 12-year-old with a browser could tell what the building was.

The AI system could not.

Inside US Central Command, personnel were using Palantir's Maven Smart System. It is an AI targeting platform running on a $1.3 billion Pentagon contract, and embedded inside it is Anthropic's Claude.

On day one of the war, more than 1,000 targets went through it in 24 hours. Work that used to take a team hours per target got compressed into minutes.

The satellite imagery Maven was pulling from was seven years old. The site was still tagged in the database as an Islamic Revolutionary Guard facility.

The system spat it out as a recommended day-one target. Humans signed off. The first missile flew. Then a second one landed minutes later to hit the people who came to help.

Investigators later found that some Central Command staff had assumed Maven would flag stale intelligence for them. It did not. Nobody had told it to.

Palantir told Bloomberg the government is responsible for the underlying data. The Pentagon's civilian harm mitigation team, the people whose actual job is to catch a target like this, had been cut back before the war started.

This is not AI going rogue. This is the opposite.

This is AI doing exactly what it was built to do at exactly the speed it was built to do it. And a school full of little girls got vaporized because the humans in the loop trusted the machine more than they trusted their own eyes.

I keep thinking about the version of this story that comes next. What happens when the system is faster. When the target list is not 1,000 in a day but 10,000. When "review" becomes a button the operator has three seconds to hit before the next target loads. When there is no human left slow enough to notice that a soccer pitch is not a helipad.

We are not talking about a spam filter mislabeling an email. We are talking about a system that turned a seven-year-old database entry into two cruise missiles landing on children in the middle of a morning class.

A UN-backed panel has now called it a potential war crime.

In terms of children killed, it is the deadliest American targeting error of the entire 21st century. And according to Bloomberg, some of Defense Secretary Hegseth's own advisors are worried that too much public scrutiny of Maven might slow down its adoption inside the Pentagon.

Read that last line again.

If you build this stuff, you own what it does. You do not get to hide behind "the government owns the data." The whole pitch of your product is that speed and integration save lives. When it takes them instead, that is also on you.

I am not against AI in defense. I am against AI in a hurry. Speed is the entire mechanism that made Minab possible. Every guardrail we already know how to build takes time, and time is exactly what the system was designed to eliminate.

So here is the question I have not been able to stop asking, and I genuinely want to know what you think.

If a piece of software helped kill 123 children in a single morning while behaving exactly as designed, what does "responsible AI" even mean anymore?

[mustafa yazıcı @myzccc]

🚨 SON DAKİKA:

Belçika Başbakanı: Gazze'de uzuv kaybı nedeniyle 15.000'den fazla insana protez gerekiyor. Bu mağdurların 10.000'i çocuk... Bütün bunlarda insan onuru nerede?

[Pedro Sánchez @sanchezcastejon]

La humanidad tardó siglos en sustituir el derecho del más fuerte por la fuerza del derecho y nosotros no podemos ser la generación que recorra ese camino en sentido contrario.

[🅰pocalypsis 🅰pocalypseos 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 🅉 @apocalypseos]

Jeffrey Sachs: a president stood at the UN and claimed the right to annihilate a civilization. Congress said nothing. That is the constitutional order collapsing in public.

“I shuddered then, and I shudder now that a president of the United States can stand at the podium of the UN General Assembly speaking to world leaders in a language of annihilation of other countries and of sending them to hell. It was ghastly, unprecedented, totally disgusting, disgraceful for the United States. But I would also say a measure of how broken the constitutional order of the United States is.

Trump basically said, like a madman, which I think arguably he is, that he and he alone will decide the survival of Iran. He said that he has a big, big choice to make. Maybe Iran will be a great country. Maybe Iran will be annihilated. Maybe Trump will send it to hell. And not only was the language vulgar in a way that I certainly could never in my lifetime have imagined coming from a president of the United States or anybody standing at the UN podium—because what Trump said was odious and completely in violation of every religious, moral, ethical, and legal standard that we have in this world—it was also a measure of the brazen collapse of our Constitution.

Is there a political system where one man decides the fate of another civilization? Is that how the American system works? Of course the answer is no. The founding fathers who rebelled against a mad King George III were very explicit in the Declaration of Independence, celebrated this year 250 years after its issuance. We’re in the 250th anniversary, one that Trump says is about our freedom. It was explicitly that King George arrogated, took on the authority to put the military above civil rule. And when the founding fathers wrote the US Constitution, they assigned specifically the power to declare war not to the commander-in-chief, but solely and exclusively—and not by choice, not if they care about it or want to or want to delegate it or not, but solely—to the United States Congress.

And Trump said yesterday he doesn’t care what the public thinks. He doesn’t care what the vote is. He says it doesn’t even cross my mind. And he said earlier this year, when he was asked, well, are there any limits on your power? He thought about it. He said Yes, my morality, but it’s my will. It’s what I want to do. Otherwise, no, there are no other limits.

What did our Congress do on that occasion? I can tell you, as we know, that the majority party in both houses simply remained silent. That is a violation of their sacred oath of office, which is to uphold the Constitution. Trump yesterday said he’s going to have the difficult choice of whether to annihilate, by the way, one of the most ancient civilizations in the world, 5,000 years old, twenty times older than the United States of America. And what did our Speaker of the House say? Well, he said nothing, of course. What did our Senate majority leader say? He said, of course, nothing. What did all of the party of the president of the United States say, the members of Congress? They said, of course, nothing. This is worse than the Roman Empire. There was a Senate that actually still said something. Our Senate says nothing.

We are so broken that not only do we have a madman in power, but there is no respect for our constitutional order. And the president can make statements as he made yesterday, unprecedented in the chamber of the General Assembly in front of the world leaders, speaking like the worst tyrant or gangster imaginable, and not a murmur from the Republican Party which dominates the House and the Senate. You know, I am not partisan. And a Democratic president who dared to be as absolutely mad and deranged as this president would probably find subservience in that party too. So I’m not even making a partisan point. I’m making a point about the collapse of our constitutional order.

Have we come to a point where one man, who I happen to think is utterly incompetent, utterly sociopathic, actually—when people are killed under his order, not a moment of reflection or remorse when 150 schoolgirls are murdered, and he knows the truth. He says, yeah, the Iranians probably did it. We’ll find out. No, not any control at all in our system of government.

So for me, you asked how I feel. I shudder at the last 24 hours, both at what the president said. It made my skin crawl. I was sitting there in the chamber listening to this madness. I mean it really, psychopathic madness, speaking in this way, with a vulgarity that is unimaginable. But then I’ve shuddered since then at the lack of response by the leaders, the majority leader of the US Senate, the Speaker of the House, Supreme Court justices, anybody to say no. In our system of government, it’s not one person who decides on the fate of another civilization.

We are a country, we say, first of all, of representation, and the American people are aghast at this. They oppose it overwhelmingly. They do not support this war of Netanyahu and Trump, which is a two-person war of murder and destruction and assassination of leaders of another country. They do not support it. And the constitutional order is that we are a representative government, and our representatives have an oath of office that only they can declare war. So where are they standing up to say No, you don’t have a penny to spend on this? We control the power of the purse. The tens or hundreds of billions of dollars that Trump has wasted of American income in this flagrant war of whim. Where is Congress to say you have no authority whatsoever to spend that because only we can decide on the spending and only we can declare war.

So this is the grim fact. It wasn’t just the awful statements. That was my first reaction. But then I thought, what have we come to when one person can make a statement like this and then remain essentially unchallenged in the United States system of government?”

Annihilation is not diplomacy. Congressional silence is not restraint. A constitutional republic cannot survive if one man claims the power to decide whether another civilization lives or dies.

[Paul Kirschner @New_Old_Paul]

How to stay smart in the age of AI: the science of critical thinking https://t.co/kMlQDNwpiv

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

UN expert Francesca Albanese said Gaza is beyond what legal frameworks can explain. Beyond words. Mothers, fathers, children - chopped up. Bodies evaporated. Entire landscape turned to powder.

Chopping people into pieces. Starving them. Profiting from it. Perfecting weapons out of it.

[Aprajita Nafs Nefes 🦋 Ancient Believer @aprajitanefes]

🇮🇷|Trump calls Iran terrorists. But Iran is the victim of terrorism.

Pezeshkian said it at the UN. He didn't flinch:

"Yesterday, Trump described us as terrorists. We have been the victims of terrorism."

He comes from an Iran where the Supreme Leader was assassinated without any legal framework. An Iran where a school was bombed. Where children perished under American and Israeli bombs. Innocent children who committed no crime.

And then he held up their pictures. The 168 little angels of Minab. Their faces. Their small bodies.

This is the inversion of reality. The US and Israel bomb schools, kill children, assassinate leaders — and then call Iran the terrorist.

They commit genocide in Gaza. They bomb hospitals in Lebanon. They assassinate scientists in Iran. They impose sanctions that kill patients. They blockade medicine and food. And then they call Iran the terrorist.

Iran has never started a war. Iran has never bombed a school. Iran has never assassinated a leader. Iran has never committed genocide.

But Iran is the terrorist.

They call it "precision strikes." We call it what it is: terrorism. State terrorism. The terrorism of the strong against the weak. The terrorism of the occupier against the occupied. The terrorism of the empire against the sovereign.

Trump called Iran terrorists yesterday. Today, Pezeshkian showed the world who the real terrorists are. He showed them the children. He showed them the pictures.

And the world saw.

#Iran #UNGA #Pezeshkian #Trump #StateTerrorism #Minab #168Angels

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian:

Atomic and nuclear bombs are in the hands of the Israeli regime, but the inspectors are requested to come to Iran.

Israel has murdered savagely over 70,000 innocents in Gaza, but Iran, while behind the table of negotiation, was bombed.

Israel has the bombs, has weapons of mass destruction, is not a member of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, during her shameful life has not allowed a single inspection, but they are rewarded by all the means necessary for them to be able to bomb any capital in the region at will.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Μόνο μια Ασυμβίβαστη Αριστερά μπορεί να νικήσει τους φασίστες. Το Ακραίο Κέντρο έχει χάσει τον έλεγχο της καπιταλιστικής κρίσης στην οποία συνέβαλε και, ως αποτέλεσμα, η ακροδεξιά κερδίζει έδαφος σε όλη την Ευρώπη. Η μόνη αντιφασιστική οικονομική πολιτική που μπορεί να την σταματήσει είναι μια ανεπιφύλακτα σοσιαλιστική οικονομική πολιτική. https://t.co/eUnt8Bl1sY