Antonio Guterres is up first at this Security Council meeting. He condemns this morning’s strikes by Israel and the US on Iran, and the return strikes by Iran on countries in the region. There is, he says, no alternative to the peaceful settlement of disputes
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Israeli officials tell Reuters Khamenei is dead.
Iran disagrees.
So we wait.
This is a table stakes statement and it’s remarkable when other Democratic leaders fall short of this basic standard.
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Senior Israeli officials have told Reuters that Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, is dead.
The latest from Al Jazeera on the widespread but still unconfirmed reports:
Iranian state media, citing the Red Crescent, on Saturday evening said at least 201 people had been killed and more than 700 injured. Iran retaliated by firing missiles and drones toward Israel and U.S. military bases in the region. https://to.pbs.org/4cTQcUj
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BREAKING: Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been killed and his body has been found, reports Reuters, citing Israeli media reports.
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I’m not watching that video st 3am but I don’t need to see it know this is a grave violation of US and international law. From my area of study I can tell you that it’s easy to think the UN Charter doesn’t mean much, but we want to live in a world that values its prohibition on aggressive warfare
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Over 80 little girls were killed by the US/Israel in just one strike on a school in the south of Iran near the Persian Gulf...
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"The system's power comes not from its truth, but from everyone's willingness to perform as if it were true, and its fragility comes from the same source. When even one person stops performing, when the greengrocer removes his sign, the illusion begins to crack"
- Mark Carney
I still don’t understand why they’re getting away with branding their product as akin to analytics when it’s just Wikileaks for insider trading on world events. Discord drops for bulk buying toilet paper and iodine tablets.
28.02.2026 16:17 — 👍 257 🔁 58 💬 2 📌 2That there were people that assumed an implicit ethical orientation is a tribute to people believing that he was also staking a claim against the direction Trump was taking the US. But yknow nothing beats an opportunity to ask the PM an actual question and hear the answer
28.02.2026 15:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0there’s been this budding antisemitic narrative since Kirk’s death in the usual spaces online, cheered on by Candace Owens and Alex Jones specifically, that is going to go off like a supernova inside the authoritarian movement‘s base when Iran goes sideways
28.02.2026 15:15 — 👍 89 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 1What the genocide in Gaza reinforced is that there are no "civilians" when it comes to Israel and the United States. The rest of the world learned the same lesson and the consequences are going to be felt across the world.
28.02.2026 14:35 — 👍 3236 🔁 1069 💬 18 📌 0He could dispel a lot of confusion by unpacking his vision of the new global order as he sees it to domestic audience. It’s called a lengthy sit down interview and I have been stunned by the fact that we never got that after Davos
28.02.2026 15:02 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Confusion among Canadians, however, is understandable given he never did unpack his speech in a lengthy interview for a domestic audience.
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The strikes on Iran are blatantly illegal. I explained in June why the strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities were unlawful under US and international law. Everything I wrote then is true today, but this is a far larger assault with far graver consequences.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/o...
When there are no consequences for the last bad thing, you'll get a next worse thing.
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-Zero Congressional consultation or approval.
-Zero preparation of public for need/consequences of war.
-Zero evidence of thought about "OK, what might the other side do?" Next month. Next year.
-Zero mention of anti-nuke agreement Trump voided, or Trump claim last year that nukes "obliterated."
The pundits that will rise to gamify public understanding of other people dying when we need only concern ourselves with breaches of international law
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Here is a very clear explanation of why this incredibly reckless and unnecessary war is illegal. www.ejiltalk.org/the-american...
28.02.2026 13:18 — 👍 59 🔁 28 💬 4 📌 4"Canada supports the United States acting to prevent Iran from obraining a nuclear weapon"
28.02.2026 13:00 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 1Feel deep shame reading Carney’s response
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Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada and his foreign minister, Anita Anand, backed the American action. “Canada supports the United States acting to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to prevent its regime from further threatening international peace and security,” they said in a joint statement.
What was the point of your big speech again, Mark Carney?
28.02.2026 12:59 — 👍 19 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 0Trump launches massive and massively illegal, perilous and costly war of aggression because he feels like it — with hardly even a pretense of legitimate grounds or coherent outcomes, a catastrophically world destabilizing and murderous folly.
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In the past, sometimes presidents have said it’s just a military operation or limited airstrikes to skirt Congress. Trump has unilaterally launched major combat operations, declaring war with the goal of regime change. A major violation of the U.S. Constitution, also illegal under international law
28.02.2026 08:46 — 👍 6311 🔁 2129 💬 236 📌 163Watching Official Secrets with Keira Knightley.
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Seven-year-old Mathias Bermeo, a detainee at Dilley wrote: “I’m writing this letter so that you can hear my story. I need you to help us I have been detained for 23 days with my mom and my 3-year-old sister. I cry a lot I want to get out of here go back to my school they don’t treat us Well here there are many children we are kidnapped help!”
“I’m writing this letter so that you can hear my story. I need you to help us... I cry a lot I want to get out of here go back to my school they don’t treat us Well here there are many children we are kidnapped help!”
- Mathias Bermeo, Dilley detainee, 7yo
www.propublica.org/article/dill...
The Guardian obtained the missing 302s. This story destroys the DOJ's excuse that they withheld the last three interviews because they were duplicative. The accuser covered different ground in different interviews.
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A beautiful crayon drawing of a meteor headed straight for Earth. The meteor is roughly Earth-sized, which ought to get the job done.
Kid just brought home her art project. The dreams of children are so beautiful. 🥲
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New: As David Ellison prepares to take control of CNN, legendary CBS News producer Mary Walsh, who is exiting, sent a goodbye note to colleagues.
In the note, Walsh writes, "We’ve been told to aim our reporting at a particular part of the political spectrum. Honestly, I don’t know how to do that."
