It's looking increasingly like these guys thought that if they could wreak more death and destruction than the other side then they would be respected as strong powerful men and they would "win" and that would make them big important heroes. Very possibly they had no rationale deeper than that.
Not really breaking any news here.
Bernie... thank you
#TympanumTuesday & hard not to feel sad about this one
The Shobdon arches: some of the finest work of the Hereford School, ripped out of the church & left on a hillside to erode
There's a cast of this in the V&A i need to go see
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For generations, women like her quietly stood at the threshold of life, welcoming new people into the world.
My new Sunday Letter tells the story of midwives in Ukraine
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Plaque with swallow (Late Period - Hellenistic Period (400-30 BCE))
Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy
When anyone who is a member of the Reform party or supports them bemoans the loss of British culture, show them this.
It's simple really, it's because he faced no real accountability for his actions.
It turns out the U.S. did a “double tap” attack just as emergency responders were arriving at the girls’ elementary school. This is what the Russians do routinely in Ukraine.
That’s a war crime under international humanitarian law.
Now more than ever I’m convinced losing Anthony Bourdain meant we lost probably the biggest person on tv who advocated for the wonders of meeting new people and calling anyone online who hated learning new cultures the children they were, ruthlessly to the camera.
Civilians and children are part of the slaughter
BREAKING: The US has bombed Tehran’s main refinery and burning oil is now flooding down the streets into the city’s sewers.
This is a vision from hell, unleashed by the US tonight.
(🎥 Vahid Online)
The Mail there, aiming at the three people in the U.K. who still trust Tony Blair on the subject of War In The Middle East, Read the Daily Mail and Yet Have Suffered Crippling Head Injuries Leading Them To Forget The Mail Think He Is Satan.
Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.
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this is a war between three roughly equally evil regimes.
it's so cool how the US is basically just announcing to the world that its medium-term strategy for the war is to inflict genocide through drought
Putin is pulling out all the stops to try to keep his best EU asset, Orban, in power.
The same Russian team which tried to interfere in Moldova's elections is now in Hungary, and the next 5 weeks are likely to get very ugly.
Expect even more unhinged statements shortly.🤡
The asymmetry of the value placed on human life is so striking. Israel has a goal to recover 40-year-old remains; to do so, it invades a sovereign country, and the lives of 26 Lebanese are an afterthought. Their names not even worth printing in the New York Times.
So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right
"I spoke to a former schoolteacher, who started his own business. He says he can no longer compete with these Mexican imports despite providing a higher quality product. I'm fighting for small businessmen like Walter White."
there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for
Reminder that northern canada is extremely desolate but also filled with genuinely absurd fantasy terrain
We don’t talk enough about how morally depraved the tech industry turned out to be. Every single ounce of their self-regarding statements of values was an outright lie.
Why do you all seem to struggle so hard to believe that Republicans are just a bit dim and extremely racist?