Marie DesYeux

Netanyahu now says openly what he said behind closed doors in 2001: “America is a thing you can move very easily.”

The US and Israel are losing the war.

a picture of a huge, low, heavy cloud of black oil over Tehran

This is the cloud of oil currently hovering over Tehran, released when the US bombed the city's oil depots. A stew of particulate matter, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, benzene, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, heavy metals & volatile organic compounds is raining down into the city right now. 1/2

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U.S. Tomahawk Hit Naval Base Beside Iranian School, Video Shows The evidence contradicts President Trump’s claim that Iran was responsible for a strike at the school that killed 175 people, most of them children.

Breaking News: New video adds to evidence that a U.S. missile likely hit an Iranian school where 175 people, many of them children, were reportedly killed.

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The March 15, 2025, killing of Ruben Ray Martinez drew almost no public attention.

But Martinez is now the first known American citizen shot to death by federal immigration agents during President Trump’s second term. https://wapo.st/4lbpGYC

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"I teach a child with disabilities, at their home. Today, I was only out in my car for 15min. Now, I have a headache. My face, especially my lip where it is dry, feels a stinging sensation, like diluted tear gas. My eyes are irritated, and I constantly have to clear my throat."

"Just after starting on Cars 2, I was told by a superior that I would be uninvited from all weekly art department meetings because Lasseter 'has a hard time controlling himself' around young women... It was clear that the institution was working hard to protect him, at the expense of women like me."

Graphic showing European opposition percentages to US-Israeli attacks on Iran: Spain 68%, Italy 56%, Germany 58%, UK 49%. Source: MEM.

"Recent public opinion polls across Europe on Friday showed that large segments of the population in many countries oppose US and Israeli strikes on Iran"(PalTimes News) #US #Iran #Europe

Trump ‘will not sign other bills’ until Republicans pass SAVE America Act The statement is a blunt ultimatum to Congress — pass the anti-voting bill or risk seeing other legislation stalled.

NEW: Trump says he will not sign any other bills until Republicans pass the SAVE America Act — escalating his push to force the voter suppression measure through the Senate.

He also repeated demands to include a mail voting ban and anti-trans provisions.

Thankfully our President has more courage, honesty and empathy than our government and is willing to stand up for international law. This is exactly why the Irish people elected her.

Honouring Gaza’s women who refused to let the world look away Women journalists in Gaza have paid a heavy price for refusing to stay silent and continuing to expose Israel’s crimes.

Honouring Gaza’s women who refused to let the world look away

Women journalists in Gaza have paid a heavy price for refusing to stay silent and continuing to expose Israel’s crimes.

www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

The first lesson of war is ‘know your enemy’ – and Britain’s enemy now is Donald Trump | Simon Tisdall As the Iran disaster escalates, the US president should be seen as an enemy whose actions threaten the lawful, democratic way of life everywhere, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdal...

What more proof is needed that the US, an outlaw state like Israel, is a hostile power that fundamentally threatens the UK?

It’s not in Britain’s national interest that Iran be reduced to smoking ruins.

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‘A very dangerous person’: alarm as Pete Hegseth revels in carnage of Iran war Critics say brash, bombastic Fox News host out of his depth to guide US military through murky new Middle East conflict

Hegseth’s mother: You are an abuser of women – that is the ugly truth & I have no respect for any man that belittles lies cheats, sleeps around, &uses women for his own power &ego You are that man it pains me & embarrasses me to say that but it is th sad sad truth
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

What Trump REALLY Wants From His War We must not give it to him

What Trump REALLY Wants From His War
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"When you treat a country like a business, every person then becomes a dollar sign."

How generous of you Brian.
For folks who can't afford a copy, check your local library!
I've put it on hold at my library, and am very much looking forward to reading it.

If cost is an issue, please feel free to reach out—I'll find a way to get you a copy!

This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.

ICYMI: the paperback edition of THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US is now out.

I wrote a thread earlier this week about the engineered neglect that millions are living under while this administration funnels a billion dollars a day into a war of aggression.

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

Climate breakdown is occurring more rapidly with the heating rate almost doubling, according to research that excludes the effect of natural factors behind the latest scorching temperatures.
#climatecrisis #auspol www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Text: "For a split second I thought something had gone terribly, biblically wrong with my cat" Picture has a cat lying in front of a pillow that has a deer head on it (could be an elk?) but the way the cat is positioned it looks like the cat has the deer/elk's head.

Happy Saturday / #Caturday!

If there's media you care about, it's hard to overstate how important it is that you subscribe to it. Ad rates are garbage, and the changes to search mean fewer new folks discovering sites they didn't already visit.

Lucifer has a point

Wake up before it’s too late: Oppose the unjust, cruel war on Iran Silence in the face of US–Israeli aggression will destroy the international legal order and endanger global peace.

Wake up before it’s too late: Oppose the unjust, cruel war on Iran

Silence in the face of US–Israeli aggression will destroy the international legal order and endanger global peace.

www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

Map showing Dahieh in red and orange

The IDF just ordered the forced evacuation of *all of Dahieh* a day after ordering the forced evacuation of all of South Lebanon.

Israel is taking advantage of the focus on Iran to destroy Lebanon

orange grey skies above a dark hill side horizon with a single star-like object, which is Venus

Venus, setting in the west just now

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How to flourish in a broken world | CBC Radio The world is full of problems — a democracy in shambles, our broken healthcare, out-of-reach housing and a dying planet. But philosopher Angie Hobbs suggests there's a way to flourish and continue to...

your individual flourishing to some extent depends on the flourishing of your community.
She adds that to live a good life we all need access to good healthcare, clean air and water, housing, job opportunities, and leisure time.
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At least 13 hospitals and health facilities hit during attacks on Iran, WHO says Global health body investigating reports that four medics are among the 1,230 people killed in Iran since start of war

The US and Israel have bombed at least 13 hospitals and health facilities in Iran and one in Lebanon.