Stacey Stowe

Journalist

[Stacey Stowe @staceystowe]

My story for @VanityFair about the vivid life of Peter Hill Beard

Peter Beard’s Life, From His Art to His Wives to His Death | Vanity Fair https://t.co/lzfvNAWuUb

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

[🔻agitprop + absurdity🔻 @agtprpnabsrdty]

A months-long Sky News investigation into the US double-tap strike on a Minab girls' school found the Pentagon had tracked the site by satellite since 1987 and could still count children's shadows in the courtyard before firing anyway.

What the evidence shows:

Three Tomahawk missiles fired from the USS Spruance, 716 kilometers away in the Arabian Sea, hit the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab on Feb 28, the opening day of the US-Israeli war on Iran. Witnesses described a second strike hitting the exact spot where a teacher had moved surviving students for shelter, killing nearly everyone who had taken cover there. A third strike followed on the same site. Death tolls range from 156 to over 170, most of them girls aged seven to twelve. The school had been walled off from the adjacent IRGC naval base since at least 2015, had its own website, and was geolocatable through open-source materials any analyst could have pulled in minutes.

Built to fail:

The Pentagon's own machinery for preventing exactly this outcome had already been dismantled. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth slashed the Civilian Protection Center of Excellence workforce by roughly 90 percent and cut CENTCOM's civilian casualty assessment team from ten people to one, months before the war started. A May Pentagon Inspector General report found the office had become a shell on paper with no budget, no mandate, no real mission. A functioning warning system was defunded on purpose, then blamed for not warning anyone.

Accountability buried:

Four months on, CENTCOM's commander told reporters the investigation was near complete, yet nothing has been released. Asked in June whether anyone would face consequences, Trump called it a strange question, adding that mistakes are made and war is nasty. The mistake was choosing not to fund the office that exists to catch mistakes like this one.

My take: A military that surveilled a schoolyard for four decades didn't fail to see the children, it decided in advance that seeing them wouldn't change the targeting. Nobody in this chain lacked information.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Britain is still supplying arms to Israel. Britain is still supplying intelligence. Britain is still complicit in genocide.

[Stacey Stowe @staceystowe]

“And then, to fulfill her dream of a public, Instagrammable proposal, he proposed at Inness, a hotel in Accord, N.Y., with lots of flowers, friends and family members present. “She got her moment. I got my moment. It was a good compromise,” he said.”
@NYTWeddingsBot

[Andrey X @the_andrey_x]

I tried to go to Gaza, Israel didn't let me in:

[Gavin Jacobson @GavJacobson]

A landmark essay in @Equatormag by one of the foremost Palestinian intellectuals today on why the western mind represses the reality of the Palestinian catastrophe in order to salvage the rotting fiction of its own moral innocence. Essential: https://t.co/G1MAdqwKDL

[Save the Children UK @savechildrenuk]

This is your legacy on the occupied Palestinian territory, Prime Minister @Keir_Starmer. History will remember your complicity.

Despite a partial arms suspension in 2024, Keir Starmer's government has continued to enable Israel's atrocities against Palestinians, their families and children through the supply of F-35 fighter jet parts.

Nothing can change the horrors Palestinians have faced. But the next Prime Minister has an opportunity to put an end to the UK Government's role as an ally to atrocities.

The UK Government must:
🔴 Suspend all arms sales to Israel
🔴 Suspend the UK-Israel trade and partnership agreement
🔴 Ban trade with illegal Israeli settlements

To the next Prime Minister: what will your plaque say?

[Spooky Scary Socialist @SpookySocialist]

Watching Jeremy Scahill make Ro Khanna visibly uncomfortable by needling his support for Iron Dome and condemnation of the Palestinian Resistance was a great start to the day

Wish there were more principled left voices holding politicians accountable for their liberal Zionism

[The Grayzone @TheGrayzoneNews]

Under Israeli pressure, US seizes Max Blumenthal's devices on return from reporting trip to Iran

Blumenthal was targeted with smears by an Israeli doxxing outfit and Laura Loomer when he arrived in Iran to report on Ali Khamenei’s funeral and the war
https://t.co/7PkYhEipDs

[Patrick Gaspard @patrickgaspard]

I don’t have it in me today to express any horror at Supreme Court decision on Haiti TPS that we all saw coming.
But I am gobsmacked that a Vice President can say this out loud. They count on the ignorance of the population and the reality that the news media will allow this vice signaling to indeed be a short lived story. Richard Nixon was engaged in high crimes that subverted the Constitution and diminished the office. His threat was existential. The abuse of the IRS alone warranted prosecution. This quote should follow Vance into his ultimate obituary. But we move on to the next entertainment.

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

USS Liberty deniers will say Israel’s 1967 attack on the U.S. spy ship was a total accident. Marine Staff Sergeant Bryce Lockwood was on the Liberty and says there’s no doubt Israel meant to kill every American on board.

0:00 The Story of the USS Liberty
11:14 What Really Happened During the Attack?
21:28 Did Israeli Boats Help Survivors After Receiving Their Mayday Call?
26:13 Did the Johnson Administration Allow the Attack?
29:14 How Many Americans Were Killed in the Attack?
32:51 When Did Lockwood Realize the Attack Came From the Israelis?
35:06 What Was the Motive?
37:00 Was Lockwood Told Not to Talk About the Attack?
47:25 The People Dismissing the Attack as a Mistake
52:25 Why Did the US Ignore This?
55:59 What Should Congress Do?
58:33 Is Lockwood Still Preaching?

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

An Amercian member of congress is threatened by foreign terrorists carrying American rifles, backed by a foreign military paid for by American taxpayers, and the US ambassador to that country says not a word in defense of his own countryman, and instead uses his social media accounts to promote his own vapid cable news appearances, which amount to propaganda for that same foreign country. It’s too much, too insulting and humiliating to America. This is how revolutions start. For the sake our nation, Mike Huckabee should be removed from his post immediately.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

MUST READ!

Congressman @RoKhanna after visiting Israel and Palestine:

“In Palestine, I felt first as someone who was brown,” he said. “We really saw the apartheidlike conditions, the inequality.”

He added: “No American would support this if they knew the details of what was going on here.”

https://t.co/PRor7hF8ux

[Kegham Balian @kbalian90]

BREAKING: U.S Democratic Representative Ro Khanna has become the first American congressman in history to be detained by Israeli settlers while on a visit to the West Bank.

[Dr/Ranouch🇪🇬 @Rosanoury2]

كل ما ننزل الفيديو يتمسح هنفضل ننزله 🤣👌

[Mohamed Salah @MoSalah]

أنا عارف إنكم لسه زعلانين، بس وعد مني إني هعمل كل اللي في قدرتي عشان أضمن إن دي تكون بداية جديدة للكورة المصرية على الساحة الدولية. التأهل لكأس العالم مش هيكون كفاية، والمشاركة كمان مش كفاية. الفريق ده يستاهل ثقتكم

[The New York Times @nytimes]

The Israeli military confirmed the authenticity of a photo of a stripped and bound detainee that circulated online after it was reposted by a Palestinian activist, who wrote that an Israeli soldier first shared it. Rights groups said it depicted a war crime. https://t.co/3fWbGyrkxw

[The New York Times @nytimes]

From @TheAthleticFC: Egypt’s goal against Argentina should never have been ruled out, a former referee writes. "Argentina’s collective failure to defend their goal because they allowed Ziko to run past them is not part of the decision-making process." https://t.co/AlmLb8xqLH

[David Ornside @David_Ornside]

🚨🗣 Egypt's Coach Hossam Hassan couldn't control himself after full-time:

"I will say what's on my mind regardless of the consequence, this was clearly a rigged match and the whole world saw it"

"And I want to say one more thing, if they want them [Argentina] to win so bad, why call everyone to come and participate?"

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

⚠️The Egyptian Relief Committee in Gaza had been organizing public screenings of World Cup matches for displaced families across the Strip. About an hour before today’s Egypt-Argentina match, Israel killed the committee’s public relations director in a strike on his vehicle. Two others, including a child, were also killed.