Catch-up:
* Ten-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon comes into effect
* Netanyahu says Israeli troops will stay in the Lebanon ‘security zone’
* Epstein pal Peter Mandelson failed his vetting to be UK Ambassador to the US but the Foreign Office overruled it. Starmer said he didn’t know
The U.S. Has Murdered 175 People in Boat Strikes. We’re Tracking Them All.
51 attacks and counting. All of them chronicled @theintercept.com
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“Imagine a world where Microsoft, Google, McKinsey, et al … get to determine what and how you learn from cradle to retirement.”
EXCLUSIVE: “The [State] Department is actively preventing experienced, cleared, available officers from helping American citizens in crisis,” a group of nearly 250 mostly mid-career and senior State Department foreign service officers told lawmakers.
theintercept.com/2026/04/12/a...
Next week, MPs will vote on a bill to give police unprecedented powers to ban recurring protests, turning a fundamental freedom into a privilege granted by the state. It must be opposed
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That speech from Carter was spot on about many elements of the USA culture. It reminded me of Erich Fromm's similar observations. Here in brief: www.nytimes.com/1973/12/15/a... Such clarity should be more common. 😔
I have to admit that I liked ALL the lines.
"Even as Americans grow, for the second time, disillusioned with a Trump presidency, we have put drapes over all the mirrors." 🔥
Making America great again one bombing at a time. Excellent work everyone.
We just got the first numbers showing economic effects of the war in Iran. Headline inflation is up sharply, and there's more to come. Stay tuned.
We’re about to experience the largest loss of health insurance coverage in U.S. history. The Pitt helps explain how it will happen—in the mundane morass of undone paperwork. But this is exactly as Trumps One Big Beautiful Bill planned it.
The United States is behaving in a way that is indistinguishable from how an advanced Third Reich would had it emerged victorious from World War 2, and nearly every leader in the developed world is now abandoning their duty to confront it, having acclaimed and legitimated it every step of the way.
Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.
Donald J. Trump K @realDonaldTrump A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!
Evil.
No other word for it.
www.wired.com/story/border...
MAGA bringing "democracy" to every corner of the Global South.
They killed him.
It takes a lot to infuriate me and break my heart only because you have to be able to tolerate a lot when covering Trump and fascism and try your best to stay centered and hopeful.
This story I can't let go.
They chose to let him just die.
www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...
"Today's arrest is extraordinary and unprecedented...
The last time a British royal was arrested was in the 1600s.
That saw King Charles I tried and executed while on the throne.
He was tried on tyranny and treason and condemned by four judges in January, 1649."
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
A "potentially catastrophic" decline in Australia's childhood vaccination rates has contributed to the sharpest increase in cases of whooping cough in 35 years, infectious disease experts say.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02... #aushealth
Elon Musk Wants to Build an A.I. Satellite Factory on the Moon In a meeting with employees at his company xAI, Mr. Musk revealed a vision for a facility that includes a giant catapult to launch his satellites into space.
insane to be reporting this stuff with a straight face. like what are we doing here man
This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
"Experts and witnesses attributed this phenomenon to Israel’s systematic use of internationally prohibited thermal and thermobaric weapons, often referred to as vacuum or aerosol bombs, capable of generating temperatures exceeding 3,500 degrees Celsius [6,332 degrees Fahrenheit]."
All flights to and from El Paso, Texas, have been grounded for ten days for “Special Security Reasons”, the Federal Aviation Administration announced.
Shutting down airspace of a major US city for such an extended period hasn’t happened since the aftermath of 9-11.
It's important to know that the British student targeted by ICE and by Google is Black. Racism here has the function of providing a vanguard for further attacks on all our rights and liberties.
"(ii) causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (iii) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; and (iv) imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group."
"The Commission concludes on reasonable grounds that the Israeli authorities and Israeli security forces have committed and are continuing to commit the following actus reus of genocide against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, namely (i) killing members of the group;"
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Drop Palantir worldwide.
