Gunman who fired on tourists at Mexican pyramid carried materials related to 1999 Columbine massacre The gunman who opened fire on tourists at Mexico’s iconic Teotihuacan pyramids carried materials that were apparently related to the deadly 1999 shooting at Columbine High School.

There's US soft power and then there's US dark power

A dozen or so Israeli settlers that want to occupy southern Syria, cross the border yet again today, and this time climb on top of a building in Syria and raise a banner to push for settling southern Syria, which they call “Bashan”

Global War on International Law

Morally reprehensible and damaging to US interests. Why would anyone help us in the future?

Wow

Environmental damage can be a war crime

"While it is unclear if the cuts to CHMR can be tied to any specific civilian casualties in Iran, including the Minab strike, it is clear that the Pentagon is deemphasizing civilian protection, even as current and former defense officials say that internal demand for programs like CHMR remains high"

Wow

"when a violent male intimate partner has access to a gun, the chance that he will kill the female partner goes up 5x..We also know that there is more likely to be other victims as well"

Our electeds know this, yet they continue to do the same thing: nothing. What's that definition of insanity?

U.S. Considers Financial Support for Oil-Rich U.A.E.

I swear to god if we do anything even resembling a bailout for the UAE, one of the richest countries on earth and a major corrupt crypto donor to Donald Trump and the key backer of Sudan genocide

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/b...

"While it is unclear if the cuts to CHMR can be tied to any specific civilian casualties in Iran, including the Minab strike, it is clear that the Pentagon is deemphasizing civilian protection, even as current and former defense officials say that internal demand for programs like CHMR remains high"

Morally reprehensible and damaging to US interests. Why would anyone help us in the future?

If you're a historian of (many) diseases, you have no choice but to engage with the histories of war, conflicts, armies etc because you know, THEYRE ALL RELATED

Amid US Pressure and a Deepening Crisis, Cubans Are Braced for Change With prolonged blackouts, empty water tabs and crippling inflation, daily life on the island has become untenable

“Most Cubans who spoke with @newlinesmag.bsky.social  expressed wariness about the possibility of a U.S. invasion. All of them, however, voiced a desire for some kind of change, because conditions on the island have become untenable.”

More NYC landlords threatening tenants with calls to ICE, lawyers say Attorneys told a City Council hearing that tenants need more protections.

gothamist.com/news/more-ny...

This was from my thread 2 weeks ago during the horrifying "civilization will die" waiting game. I'm maybe a smidge less terrified because Trump so desperately wants a deal (and Iran does too though they still have the leverage). But the choices are still humiliation or escalation.

Environmental damage can be a war crime

"when a violent male intimate partner has access to a gun, the chance that he will kill the female partner goes up 5x..We also know that there is more likely to be other victims as well"

Our electeds know this, yet they continue to do the same thing: nothing. What's that definition of insanity?

Diffusion of illiberalism

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I knew about 2 of these. And none of this is about Trump family profiteering

Diffusion of illiberalism

Hungary’s PM-elect Peter Magyar says he would enact an ICC arrest warrant for Israeli PM Netanyahu and detain him on arrival.

The election winner said Hungary would stay a member of the International Criminal Court which his predecessor Viktor Orban began withdrawing from last year.

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Opinion | I Have Watched the Catastrophe of My Country Be Reduced to Nothing

"volunteers w/little funding, & hardly any recognition, have reached places the UN cannot.They are not waiting for permission..They are simply doing what the Sudanese have always done: showing up for one another. This is the story the world fails to see — our stubborn refusal to surrender to misery"

Another day in the US

“The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.”

Another day in the US

Today in life under competitive authoritarianism

The Catechism of the Catholic Church on Just War Doctrine.