It’s a lesser-known front in the decades-long tension between the US & Iran.

It involves a multi-billion-dollar industry, American businessmen siphoning money to anti-Iranian lobby groups - and now, the bombings of Iranian pistachio farms.

This is the story of the tumultuous pistachio market

“We stand in solidarity with Palestinian calls for public broadcasters, performers, screening party organisers, crew, and fans to boycott Eurovision until the EBU bans complicit Israeli broadcaster KAN."

1,000-plus artists have signed a new open letter calling on a boycott of Eurovision:

The Warsaw Ghetto uprising and the Great Palestinian Revolt in Palestine both began on April 19th.

History will ask: why did no one send armies to liberate Palestine?

It's complicated isn't an answer.

This sunset photograph by niaxilin captures the upper tiers of Osaka Castle, its white walls and dark rooflines dramatically illuminated by the warm, amber light of the setting sun. The gold-leaf accents, including the iconic shachihoko (mythical carp) and decorative relief panels, catch the light with intense clarity against a soft, gradient sky. The composition emphasizes the verticality and formidable structural detail of the castle, framed by the dark, textured silhouettes of pine branches in the foreground.

Osaka Castle at sunset. Japan. Photography by niaxilin on Flickr.

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Cut. All. My. Hair. Off. Myself. It was so hot this past week and the A/C isn't on in my building yet. I needed some relief. Chopped about 31/2 to 4 " off. ✂️🪞🥵😎

An Israeli soldier smashing the head of a Jesus Christ statue during operations in southern Lebanon. Any comment, “Christian” @jd-vance-1.bsky.social ? @washingtonpost.com @nytimes.com

An Israeli soldier smashing the head of a Jesus Christ statue during operations in southern Lebanon. Any comment, “Christian” @jd-vance-1.bsky.social ? @washingtonpost.com @nytimes.com

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A Weeping Tree of His Own: Yasunari Kawabata's Dandelions - The Rumpus Blindness as a concept is central to Kawabata’s novel, where every character is blind to something.

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'The Barren Zone': A POW's trauma doesn't end at home Toyoko Yamasaki's 'The Barren Zone' is a chilling portrayal of the harsh realities of being a POW and the social difficulties faced by survivors upon returning to Japan.

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My painting SUPERSTITION MOUNTAINS

"Late Evening" - my oil painting

by artist JB Cornish

Tell Congress to Say NO to Warrantless AI-Powered Mass Surveillance The battle to rein in the surveillance state's most abused and expansive tool is coming to a head this week. Title VII of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which includes the warrantl...

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Block the Bombs to Israel! Join me in asking your Member of Congress to support H.R.3565, the Block the Bombs Act. This bill would prevent the Trump administration from delivering weapons to Israel to inflict genocide against P...

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Dogs are being used to test drugs on Skid Row, advocates say Animal advocates say dogs living on downtown Los Angeles’ Skid Row are living in filth and are being abused and neglected. Local rescuers say animals are being denied medical care, even after advoc…

Dogs are being used to test drugs on Skid Row, advocates say

My hometown was close to flooding dangerously. It seems everything is alright at this point.

Postcard-style collage of protests and the Mackinac Bridge urging Gov. Whitmer to reject Enbridge Line 5 oil tunnel.

Enbridge and its dirty fossil fuels have no place in our Great Lakes - and Michiganders sure as hell shouldn't be on the hook for extending the lifespan of its aging Line 5 oil pipeline for another century. 

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Women of the IRA, Ireland, 1970.

I honestly don’t get our enthusiastic support for Netanyahu? When the IRA were blowing up London we didn’t carpet bomb & level cities in N Ireland killing 40,000 women & kids to kill 1000 terrorists cos that would’ve been dumb. We wouldn’t have had applause from our allies either

Women IRA soldiers - Ireland, 1970's