Melissa Martin

through most of late 2024 and 2025, Ukraine was taking down 200 to 500 or more of these literally almost every night, including shooting from rooftops and big guns on pick-up trucks, and at the time few seemed to recognize that as uniquely valuable knowledge of modern self-defense.

It’s very surreal to randomly stumble across her face in collages like this. She was a person! I still find her hair ties lying around our friend’s apartment where she lived. How can she be a symbol now?

Third row, left is our friend Khrystyna. She was cool and warm and brave. Gave everything she had for Ukraine. We were supposed to grab a drink, just for girl talk. I kept being too busy. Then she was out on mission and I figured I’d text when she got back. She never did. And she’s never forgotten.

Thank you for including a photo of our friend Khrystyna. (Third row, left.) She was wonderful and brave and gave everything she had, every minute and every hryvnia, for Ukraine.

we joke but we're going to end up learning hegsgeth and/or his staff are really doing this

Iranian journalist reports in front of the flames of a burning Oil depot.

These people are, to be blunt, substantially less intelligent than they believe they are.

One of the lessons of the Iran war is that it was a huge mistake not to even try to put any of the Iraq war architects in prison. We shouldn’t make it again.

I’ve lived in Ukraine over three years and, while there is a far-right here as many places, I assure you I see and hear far more about Nazis in Ukraine from folks like you on Bluesky than actually in Ukraine in all that time. Reality here is not the highly selective propaganda image you’ve been fed.

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

They're going to poison a city with 17 million people

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.

Dozens killed as Israeli special forces raid Lebanese village in search of 40-year-old remains Overnight, one Israeli operation saw at least 41 people killed and 40 injured, according to the Lebanese health ministry.

Pretty serious allegation here. "Witnesses told the BBC that the Israeli soldiers had arrived disguised in Lebanese military fatigues and used ambulances with signs of Hezbollah's Islamic Health Organization."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Anything I have to say about Hegseth would get me banned from America for life, which come to think about it isn’t actually a problem

They couldn’t even keep up the “liberating the people of Iran” lie for more than five seconds

For those keeping track, we’re at the “secretary of war announces genocide” stage of the US descent into fascism.

Apocalyptic scenes from Koohsar Blvd. in the Shahran neighbourhood of northwestern Tehran.

Hegseth needs to stand trial after this as a war criminal. Between this attack and the girls' school, there's no ambiguity. He is responsible for mass murder and must be held accountable.

From Tehran: "It’s catastrophic. The smoke has entered our homes, the flames are still rising and it feels like the sun is shining… The flames are so bright the highways look like it’s day time. So bright but doesn’t feel right... Help please!”

It's amazing people will claim "Canada and the USA have the same culture" and then on something as fundamental as "do you trust your fellow citizens to be good" we are further apart than any other two countries

Minister on the move always willing to adapt to expansive western Manitoba parish’s shifting demographics It’s early on a Sunday morning. The city of Brandon is still sleeping. Downtown, across from the courthouse, the only sign of life stirs in the parking lot of St. Hedwig’s Catholic Church, as Rev. Phi...

For this month’s edition of One Day: I spent one day with a priest in rural Manitoba, tending a parish that traces a journey through how the face of Western Manitoba is changing — including a thriving young Hispanic community.

www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...

I respect and value you @wilwheaton.net but Americans are the ones who need to say enough. The world cannot fix this for you. You need to fix this for the world.
Look at Minnesota and scale that nationally.

Minister on the move always willing to adapt to expansive western Manitoba parish’s shifting demographics It’s early on a Sunday morning. The city of Brandon is still sleeping. Downtown, across from the courthouse, the only sign of life stirs in the parking lot of St. Hedwig’s Catholic Church, as Rev. Phi...

For this month’s edition of One Day: I spent one day with a priest in rural Manitoba, tending a parish that traces a journey through how the face of Western Manitoba is changing — including a thriving young Hispanic community.

www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...

Analysis Suggests School Was Hit Amid U.S. Strikes on Iranian Naval Base

New NY Times ’visual investigation’ strongly suggests that the US fired the missile that hit the Minab school Saturday. (Though is very careful with its language to not say it conclusively.)

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...

Holy shit. I spent a lot of time in Myrhorod last summer on three different visits — I went there in part to get away from Kyiv. Did hear drones many nights but that’s the craziest I ever saw there.

Exclusive: Iranian girls killed by ‘double-tap’ strikes on Minab school Eyewitnesses describe second blast which killed survivors as they sheltered in prayer hall

The girls’ school in Iran, where 165 people were killed by an apparent US-Israeli attack, was hit with two strikes, with the second missile killing sheltering survivors, two first responders and the parent of a slain child have told Middle East Eye.

Trump admits there were no evacuation plans for Americans abroad due to his war with Iran "because it all happened very quickly."

So the US asked Israel to launch the attack on Iran [which the two countries planned together], in order to give the US war dubious legal cover. Once Israel attacked, Iran was likely to retaliate against the US, ergo US attack on Iran is defensive. QED.

Suez, the slapstick version.

The unthinkable happened. US-Israeli bombs have damaged the Qajar palace complex of Golestan in central Tehran. The hall of mirrors is damaged. 200 year old wooden panels are destroyed. I have no idea what else. This is now personal.

Allow me a moment to be human. This sucks. Displaced people are everywhere again. Strikes ongoing in Beirut and around the country. Not sure how much longer neighbor will trust neighbor.

We were already living in a difficult situation and now it’s much harder. Still, I’m one of the luckier ones