Journalist Amal Khalil was killed in an Israeli bombing of the town of Al-Tayri in southern Lebanon.

Would be surprised if it was anything but the transit fee.

While Virginia redistricting is relatively minor news I had a look into US gerrymandering and OH BOY, how is this even a democratic country? Holy DEMs are being suppressed

AR: 34% Democratic, 0 Seats
IA: 43% Democratic, 0 Seats
OK: 32% Democratic, 0 Seats
NE: 39% Democratic, 0 Seats

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A disgraceful reality of our era is the lack of anger and condemnation towards Moscow for the enormous massacres of Ukrainian civilians it perpetrated especially in Mariupol. Nobody knows the death toll, but it is clearly in the tens of thousands. And the criminal state is destroying the evidence.

CATL has developed a battery capable of allowing an electric vehicle to drive 1,500km on a single charge, the Chinese group claimed on Tuesday, as it challenges BYD for supremacy on range and charging speed. The company's latest version of its condensed Qilin battery has a greater range than the distance by road from London to Barcelona and marks a leap from the 1,000km limit of its previous edition. CATL also released an upgrade to its Shenxing, which can charge from 10 per cent to 98 per cent in six-and-a-half minutes, an improvement from the previous edition which charged from 5 per cent to 80 per cent in 15 minutes. It is also considerably faster than the nine minutes taken for BYD's latest Blade battery, which was unveiled last month, to charge from 10 to 97 per cent. CATL and BYD, which together account for more than half of the global EV battery market, are pouring billions of dollars into research and development, targeting innovations in cell chemistry and manufacturing.

Zum Glück wussten wir in Europa ja frühzeitig, dass Batterietechnologie sowieso eine Sackgasse ist und es sich deshalb nicht lohnt, da in Forschung und Entwicklung zu investieren. Außerdem haben Elektroautos keine Seele, und Gas aus Russland ist billig. #CATL #BYD
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OTD in 2021 German Foreign Minister decided that the Russian army massing on Ukraine's border was not a reason to cancel Nordstream 2.

To Kremlin it meant "an invasion will not stop commercial relations". It thus made an invasion more likely. Cos that's how appeasement works.

Following repeated executions of male opponents of the barbaric Iranian regime,it is now reported that a group of female political prisoners are to be executed by hanging. They are:
Bita Hemmati
Ghazal Ghalandari
Golnaz Naraghi
Venus Hossein Nejad
Panah Movahedi
Ensieh Nejati
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January 2026 Uprising: Four Detained Protesters Are Sentenced to Death The clerical regime's Judiciary has sentenced another four detained protesters from the January 2026 uprising to death and ordered their

A group of female political prisoners to be executed by hanging
wncri.org/2026/04/14/j...

Amidst the churn in Iran, Ukraine has quietly been turning things around. My latest at The Bulwark.

Another interesting post from Z-infosphere, this time by war correspondent Aleksandr Kharchenko: "About the current situation:

Yes, we are losing. We are doing this together. You and I, reading this. We have been living in limbo for four years. The army is fighting, but no one else cares.

Globe showing the Atlantic Ocean with arrows depicting the AMOC circulation: warm surface currents (pink/red) flowing northward from the tropics toward the Arctic, and cold deep return currents (blue/purple) flowing southward. The background shows sea surface temperature trends, with a prominent blue cold patch, the "cold blob", south of Greenland, contrasting with warming (orange/red) across the rest of the ocean.

1/ There's a system of ocean currents in the Atlantic that shapes Europe's #climate, drives monsoons, and keeps sea levels stable along the US coast.

In the last 5 years, the scientific evidence that it could collapse has shifted dramatically.

Most people have no idea. 🧵

Eine Frau geht wütend schimpfend an einem Naziaufmarsch vorbei. sie ruft den Nazis zu: Ihr Gottverdammten Freizeitnazis!!! Jedes Jahr Führers Geburtstag feiern und jedes Jahr aufs neue vergessen, sich zehn Tage später eine Kugel in den Kopf zu jagen! Schande!

2020 wurde ich wegen dieses Cartoons nach kurzem hin- und her für Facebook und alle Metaprodukte auf Lebenszeit gesperrt, weil er gegen die Konzernrichtlinien verstößt. Wo die Richtlinien Nazis schützen, kann kein Platz für mich sein. Seither poste ich diesen Cartoon jährlich an Führers Geburtstag.

I was once a militant Jewish atheist.

Then I mellowed into ‘I don’t understand how intelligent people can believe any of this, but some do, so live and let live.’ Jewish atheist.

But now, seeing what the Trump Regime is doing I’m an ‘outraged on behalf of Christianity’ Jewish atheist.

📸 Israeli soldier smashing a Jesus statue’s head in southern Lebanon.

russia has officially begun the process of illegally extracting manganese from the Velyko-Tokmak deposit in the occupied Ukrainian Zaporizhzhia region. 🧵 1/ #neocolonialism

Imagine a 1970s propeller trainer taking on high-tech 21st-century drones. In Ukraine, the Yak-52 has been pulled from flight schools and repurposed as a "drone hunter." It’s a low-tech solution to a high-tech problem, and it’s working remarkably well. 🛩️🇺🇦 #Aviation #UkraineWar #Yak52 🧵 1/

"I want to hug my daughter; that is what I survived for,"

says a Ukrainian soldier who held his position against Russians for 86 days.

The constant focus on the "remarkable" and "inspiring" "resilience" of Ukrainians continues to displace the focus from the horrendous psychological trauma Ukrainians are suffering from the endless death and destruction rained upon them by Russia day after day after day.
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The essence of monarchism as an ideology:

(1) the leader has a magical bond with the people
(2) which bypasses institutions
(3) is imbued with permanent emergency powers (there is a bad world that needs fixing)

THREAD: Putin wants you to believe that Russia single-handedly won World War II.

Reality check

1. Lend-Lease Lifeline: Without U.S. trucks, food, and raw materials, Soviet supply chains and industry would’ve collapsed. Half their army’s mobility came from Allied aid. 🔽

Exposing a global ‘online rape academy’ that is teaching men how to abuse women and evade detection CNN exposes an online network of men encouraging each other to drug and assault their partners, and swap tips on how to get away with it.

CNN exposes a global “online rape academy” that teaches men how to drug and rape women without detection. Over 62 million men attended in February alone.

Решетников посчитал резервы экономики РФ «во многом исчерпанными» Подробнее на сайте

Russian Business news 17/April/2026:

The Russian Minister of Economic Development Reshetnikov said that while previous years business adapted to the shortage of staff and rising wages through finding internal reserves which are now largely exhausted.

www.kommersant.ru/doc/8603848

The fact that "being taxed on a wealth that would take most people dozens of generations to gather" is "the scariest thing she's ever seen" means the world isn't scaring millionaires and billionaires nearly enough yet.

Der Ausfall gestern war tatsächlich ein Angriff - unser kleines, feines, elon-freies Netzwerk gefällt offenbar nicht allen. Tja 🙃

Tankies are soft. Call them out for their lies, they run.

4 Dinge, die ich Woche mal wieder „gelernt“ habe:

1.) Eingriffe in den freien Markt sind Sozialismus, außer es geht um Spritpreise.

2.) Dass Menschen auf dem Land das D-Ticket mitbezahlen ist ungerecht, aber das alle den Tankrabatt für Verbrenner mitbezahlen, oberste Bürgerpflicht.

3.)...

Doomerism is libs' and lefties' way of obeying in advance.

Or from the 1%

Nice! Did you name it after this?

Study: New York Times Has Published Extensive AI-Generated Articles The alarming analysis using AI detection software implicated numerous newspapers of record, including The New York Times.

And it's not alone.