Bless the tears that fall.
They are proof you are still human.
Curse the tears that will not fall.
They are part of the humanity stolen from you.
X: @caitoz (& Tim Foley)
TikTok: caityjohnstone
Been reading about the death of Mona Khalil, a Lebanese woman who spent 20+ years protecting sea turtles and their habitats on the Lebanese coastline. She was killed by an Israeli strike on her home last month. https://t.co/dmSKLAGvaY
@MarkJCarney israel is committing a genocide synagogues in canada are facilitating the sale of land stolen by the israeli gov’t being sold to would be settlers, atleast your defending the most canadian shit ever
James Lovelock is one of the greatest climate scientists that ever lived.
We're about find out how on point his statements from over 18 years ago were.
42 years ago, Mary Manning — a 21-year-old Dublin cashier — refused to ring up South African grapefruit. She was suspended. Ten colleagues walked out with her, and their strike lasted almost three years, until Ireland became the first Western country to ban apartheid goods.
This is the aircraft that committed the most horrific massacres against us. It is the very same aircraft that continues to issue evacuation and displacement orders that haunt us to this day.
This is the aircraft that directly targeted my family, causing injuries to both me and my wife last year.
It may appear small in size, but it carries death. It continuously fires bullets and drops bombs on us without stopping.
I can never forget the moment it was flying directly above my head, nor can I forget its terrifying roar. Then it dropped its bomb on us, sending shrapnel flying in every direction, killing an unarmed civilian before my eyes—a scene that will remain etched in my memory for the rest of my life.
Time is not the same in Gaza, I don't feel aging or not counting it... Idk.. weird how the world is going on and we are in 2023 waiting sth we don't know. it's okkkkkkkkkay, but I am still alive and living y'all, gonna do what must be done, either time is running or has stopped
Missouri just passed a terrible new law on "harmful" content. Any site with 1/2 or more "harmful" content must now run ID checks on visitors. This means govt ID or pulling records from mortgages, schools, and employment.
It's being sold as child protection, but it allows the state to build a system that ties your offline identity to private browsing habits.
I don’t think most people understand that we’re only at the beginning of climate change and there’s a real chance that it’s going to collapse human civilisation and kill hundreds of billions if not billions.
Really good analysis from @ripplebrain Link below
“The key to the American air campaign has always been to degrade Iranian air defenses to the point that cheap and plentiful glide or even gravity bombs can be used against targets in Iran. Dwindling stocks of long-range cruise missiles make this a necessity. To accomplish this, American air forces have to conduct Suppression/Destruction of Enemy Air Defenses (S/DEAD) operations, which require long loiter times with aircraft remaining in the air to respond to ISR and emissions from air defense radars. These missions are exceptionally dependent on tanker support, so any degradation of US tanker operations in turn degrades American S/DEAD capabilities.
By all available evidence, the Iranian debasification campaign appears to be working. The US force in the region is likely incapable of generating the same combat power in its air operations against Iran as it could when the war started, and things are trending ever further in a negative direction. Even worse, there’s no clear solution on the horizon. The most obvious lever for American planners to pull is to accept more casualties and losses of personnel and airframes, but this is an unprecedented step the modern incarnation of the US military has never faced.”
This right here was the UN peacekeepers pouring sewage into a river in Haiti which triggered a cholera outbreak in 2010 that killed thousands of people
But I was told many, many times by DSA "leftists" in DSA forums that Maduro was elected fraudulently, and thus deserved to be overthrown.
When I questioned this, or voiced support for the Bolivarian Revolution, I was attacked emotionally by "leftists" who believed the CIA.
BREAKING: Jake Tapper: “…why were you worried about offending people who support the Ayatollah?”
Abdul El-Sayed: “Jake, on a day where we’re mourning the loss of two more service members in a war we never should have fought I think all of us ought to step back and ask whether or not everybody in Michigan, frankly everybody in America shouldn’t be sad about the fact that this president backed by the prime minister of a foreign government took us to a war we had no business fighting in. So yeah, I didn’t want to comment on it then because it’s a ridiculous pretext, and now you’re asking me about the Ayatollah who’s dead by the way, and you’re not asking me about the service members who’ve died. You’re not asking me about whether or not this war should have ever been fought. You’re not asking me about whether or not the costs that are being borne by Michiganders in the tax dollars we pay or the gas prices that are insane right now, are worth it…”😳
Far-right US commentator Tucker Carlson has established himself as one of the most prominent opponents of Israel’s genocide.
Has he finally developed some empathy for the downtrodden? @harriepw explains what might be behind his recent critiques.
Elon Musk's Twitter doesn't want anyone to talk about Israel's network of concentration camps and torture dungeons, where at least 10,000 Palestinian hostages are being abused and starved day and night.
@TheAgentNDN i mean this has been settled, we have video evidence of them ordering the implementation of the hannibal directive. almost all of the déath and destruction came from that order to the IDF to incinerate their own people.
🚨 The fact that they knew he was a citizen and kept him five days should concern EVERY ONE OF US!! 911 DENIED A US CITIZEN HELP. “Calling 911 and being a U.S. citizen weren’t enough to protect Javier Ramirez from being detained by immigration agents for five days.
🇮🇷 Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has given a detailed account of the 40-day war, revealing that Tehran believed war was inevitable before it began, had preplanned retaliation across the region, and entered last-minute nuclear talks largely to exhaust the diplomatic path before an expected U.S.-Israeli attack.
In a sweeping interview with filmmaker Javad Mogouei, Araghchi described Iran’s preparations for war, the opening attack that killed Iran’s leader and senior officials, Tehran’s regional retaliation, secret diplomatic exchanges, and the calculations that ultimately led Iran to accept a ceasefire.
➤ Iran believed war was coming before negotiations ended.
Araghchi said Iranian political and military officials were “certain” an attack was coming. Tehran nevertheless entered three rounds of negotiations because there remained some chance of avoiding war and so no one could later claim Iran had refused diplomacy.
The central dispute remained enrichment. Washington demanded zero enrichment and later a multi-year suspension. Iran refused, Araghchi said, “even at the cost of war.”
He said that by Friday, after the final round of talks in Geneva, he had concluded war was certain. Oman’s foreign minister, Badr al-Busaidi, traveled to Washington and warned Araghchi that the atmosphere there had become “completely” oriented toward war, even as he sought a meeting with JD Vance amid concerns that Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner had not accurately conveyed the negotiations.
➤ Iran had preplanned its response if the leadership was killed.
Araghchi said the Supreme National Security Council had prepared written plans for scenarios ranging from a U.S.-only attack to joint U.S.-Israeli strikes, attacks on infrastructure, and the killing of Iran’s leader.
The last scenario was reportedly assigned a code because officials did not want to say it aloud: “Code 110.”
Araghchi said the plan included immediately closing the Strait of Hormuz if the leader was targeted and activating a broader regional military response.
➤ Araghchi says he survived the opening attack himself.
At around 9 a.m., he was inside the leadership compound warning a senior official that an attack was imminent when multiple buildings were struck.
He described three explosions, ceilings and walls collapsing, wounded people screaming, and himself and Mohammad Hejazi climbing through steel beams and rubble to escape. A stranger eventually drove the dust-covered foreign minister back to his ministry.
Araghchi said simultaneous attacks targeted meetings involving military commanders, intelligence officials and senior leadership, exposing a major “security breach.” He suggested the breach may extend beyond espionage to attempts to influence Iranian decision-making and the country’s psychological environment.
➤ Tehran immediately warned the Gulf that U.S. bases would be hit.
Within hours, Araghchi said he personally called Gulf foreign ministers and told them Iran would strike American forces stationed on their territory.
He said Tehran had warned regional governments even before the war: if Iran’s nuclear facilities were struck, equivalent targets would be hit; if the U.S. entered the war, American bases across the region would be attacked; and if Iran was prevented from exporting oil, “no one in the region” would export oil.
One regional leader, Araghchi recalled, confidently told him before the war that Iran’s nuclear and oil facilities would be destroyed and Tehran would be unable to respond because its leadership would also be targeted.