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.
I've long maintained that satire as a film genre is dead because:
1/ Irony has become the default voice of our culture. Satire needs a sincere baseline to subvert. When everything is a joke, nothing is.
2/ Satire needs a filmmaker who is ahead of the audience. That's impossible today because the audience is already ahead through a hundred-thousand tweets, reels and hot-takes published and consumed everyday about everything that can be parodied and satirized.
@socialistadri@UTAustin His hosts really owe it to @hasanthehun to announce this impressive fact: "Not only does he speak at these college campuses for free [he also] pays out of pocket for his travel."
not enough people seem to get that Australia is like this. the northern coast is a near-uninhabitable hellhole and just because it's near water doesn't mean it's that habitable
The homeless woman murdered in Central Park was a beloved artist and birdwatcher who made beautiful pieces dedicated to birds. She went by Lee Rogers, but also was known as Elise Bainbridge Hill. Her art was awesome. I hope her life story is shared and not just the grisly details
Here is Peter Chung's (Aeon Flux) breakdown of the "Unreliable Narrator" mechanism used in "A Clockwork Orange".
This is not only a great insight on how to see this movie but how to approach artistic intention in general
not to be all "i just got my social work masters degree so i know everything" but like our collective sense of what promotes child well-being is so far out of sync with both settled and developing research about what keeps kids safe and healthy
The demonization of Stalin and the entire Soviet project continues unabated in 2026. We proudly publish an antidote: Aymeric Monville, through meticulous research, dismantles enduring myths & offers a compelling defense of Stalin's legacy in ‘For A Few Canards More.’
FREE PDF👇🏼!
for years now we've been deluged with opinion pieces & full-length books about how young men are so sad/isolated/afraid to approach girls & women/oppressed by feminists & #MeToo/victims of a cruel anti-male culture ad nauseam; yet, as we see here, these entitled young men at Cornell had not the slightest hesitation or the mildest anxiety about committing a group rape of an intoxicated young woman, a classmate of theirs.
please spare us any more of those pathetic opinion & books pieces about sad young men pining away in loneliness & fear of girls & women.
& especially, please spare us blaming girls & women for their being so sad & oppressed.