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documentary filmmaker, author belgesel sinemacı, yazar

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Some clarity on the, reported, (Iranian) Kurdish mobilization in Iran - it’s, actually, Iraqi Kurds not Peshmerga, out of Iraq to the, shared, border

05.03.2026 01:02 — 👍 9    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

Erbil:

04.03.2026 22:24 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
Israel says it will reopen the Kerem Shalom crossing, Gaza’s main gateway for aid, after U.S. pressure pushed Israeli officials to restore deliveries following days of closure, Haaretz reports. The paper says Aryeh Lightstone, a senior adviser to U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff, directly urged Israel to resume aid flows and override the shutdown. Israeli authorities announced Tuesday the crossing would allow the “gradual entry” of humanitarian aid, after it was closed alongside other crossings during the U.S.–Israeli strikes on Iran.

🎥 Kerem Shalom is Gaza’s only entry point for aid and commercial goods, and its closure is catastrophic for the roughly 1.9 million displaced Palestinians now living mostly in tent camps. Dr. Mimi Syed (
@Memers1st
) explains.

Israel says it will reopen the Kerem Shalom crossing, Gaza’s main gateway for aid, after U.S. pressure pushed Israeli officials to restore deliveries following days of closure, Haaretz reports. The paper says Aryeh Lightstone, a senior adviser to U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff, directly urged Israel to resume aid flows and override the shutdown. Israeli authorities announced Tuesday the crossing would allow the “gradual entry” of humanitarian aid, after it was closed alongside other crossings during the U.S.–Israeli strikes on Iran. 🎥 Kerem Shalom is Gaza’s only entry point for aid and commercial goods, and its closure is catastrophic for the roughly 1.9 million displaced Palestinians now living mostly in tent camps. Dr. Mimi Syed ( @Memers1st ) explains.

Israel says it will reopen the Kerem Shalom crossing, Gaza’s main gateway for aid, after US pressure pushed Israeli officials to restore deliveries following days of closure, Haaretz reports. The paper says Aryeh Lightstone, a senior adviser to US envoy Steve Witkoff, directly urged Israel to...

04.03.2026 22:32 — 👍 38    🔁 23    💬 2    📌 0
Nancy Youssef, ..guil @ X.com
@nancyayoussef
The preliminary Pentagon cost estimate of the war in Iran is $1 billion a day, a congressional official told me.
12:20 PM • 3/4/26 • 44K Views

Nancy Youssef, ..guil @ X.com @nancyayoussef The preliminary Pentagon cost estimate of the war in Iran is $1 billion a day, a congressional official told me. 12:20 PM • 3/4/26 • 44K Views

Preliminary Pentagon cost estimate of the war in Iran is $1 BILLION a day. So far.

04.03.2026 19:15 — 👍 1120    🔁 513    💬 91    📌 252
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Photos show people fleeing and buildings wrecked after Israeli strikes in Lebanon Many people in Lebanon are fleeing their homes after Hezbollah launched missiles into Israel from Lebanon in response to the killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, and Israel retaliated with ...

Photos show people fleeing and buildings wrecked after Israeli strikes in Lebanon

apnews.com/photo-galler...

04.03.2026 22:37 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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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.

04.03.2026 22:40 — 👍 1658    🔁 905    💬 70    📌 175
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She quit her job to fight for her father’s freedom—and for everyone else inside Alligator Alcatraz Inside the weekly vigils that refuse to let Florida's most notorious detention camp and the immigrants detained there be forgotten.

“What we’re asking for is something very basic: provide confidential outgoing legal calls in detention, make sure this information is posted to make sure detainees know it’s available, let attorneys come to the facility without scheduled visits. It’s nothing out of the ordinary.”

04.03.2026 23:10 — 👍 301    🔁 97    💬 3    📌 1

March 5 (Reuters) - Iran's Tasnim news agency said on Thursday its reporters in three border provinces denied reports of armed Kurdish militants crossing into Iran from Iraq.

04.03.2026 23:30 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

A navy torpedo detonates under the target, lifts it out of the water and cracks the hull. The people who aren’t thrown overboard by the blast are knocked unconscious and buried alive in their compartments when the ship sinks. We did that to 141 people today for no reason.

04.03.2026 16:10 — 👍 2573    🔁 1132    💬 225    📌 47
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Palestinians in Gaza fear famine returning as Israel cuts off food amid Iran war Once Israel and the U.S. launched their war on Iran, Israel closed the crossings into Gaza and cut off all aid. Palestinians in the Strip now fear a return to famine amid food shortages and soaring prices.

Once Israel and the U.S. launched their war on Iran, Israel closed the crossings into Gaza and cut off all aid. Palestinians in the Strip now fear a return to famine amid food shortages and soaring prices.

mondoweiss.net/2026/03/pale...

#Palestine #Israel

05.03.2026 00:14 — 👍 51    🔁 55    💬 3    📌 4
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05.03.2026 00:30 — 👍 98    🔁 47    💬 2    📌 1
Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt on X: "The Hague Group has been the political silver lining of the past year. May this mark the start of a new, DECOLONISED MULTILATERALISM: where every state is equal, sovereignty is respected, and human rights are upheld consistently and universally, not cherrypicked when convenient." / X The Hague Group has been the political silver lining of the past year. May this mark the start of a new, DECOLONISED MULTILATERALISM: where every state is equal, sovereignty is respected, and human rights are upheld consistently and universally, not cherrypicked when convenient.

>>> x.com/FranceskAlbs...

04.03.2026 12:13 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt on X: "The Hague Group has been the political silver lining of the past year. May this mark the start of a new, DECOLONISED MULTILATERALISM: where every state is equal, sovereignty is respected, and human rights are upheld consistently and universally, not cherrypicked when convenient." / X The Hague Group has been the political silver lining of the past year. May this mark the start of a new, DECOLONISED MULTILATERALISM: where every state is equal, sovereignty is respected, and human rights are upheld consistently and universally, not cherrypicked when convenient.

>>> x.com/FranceskAlbs...

04.03.2026 12:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Iranian state media shows crowds mourning in Minab after a strike on a girls’ school killed 150 students. The UN called the attack ‘absolutely horrific’ and urged an investigation

03.03.2026 16:07 — 👍 56    🔁 26    💬 4    📌 3

She is a founding member of the Raha Iranian Feminist Collective and a member of Feminists for Jina, a global network which formed in fall 2022 to support the women, life, freedom uprising in Iran.

03.03.2026 23:48 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Hear, learn, act: Iran in focus at JVP Power Half-Hour this Thursday
Thursday, 3-3:30pm ET
Register now: jvp.org/powerhour

03.03.2026 23:44 — 👍 29    🔁 15    💬 1    📌 0
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How Israel helped whitewash Indonesia's anti-leftist massacres - +972 Magazine To advance its political, economic, and security goals, Israeli intelligence helped whitewash the murder of half a million members of Indonesia's Communist Party and other leftist groups in the 1960s.

to have been this consistently horrible for so long is almost impressive www.972mag.com/israel-white...

04.03.2026 00:11 — 👍 72    🔁 27    💬 1    📌 1
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Polyak'ta direnen işçiler kendini madene kilitledi: Barikatların kaldırılması için süre verdiler Polyak maden işçilerinin, gasp edilen hakları için Çinli Qitaihe şirketine “Hisseyi devret, Kınık’ı terk et” diyerek verdiği süre bugün doldu. İşçilerin örgütlü olduğu Bağımsız Maden İş Sendikası Gene...

Polyak'ta direnen işçiler kendini madene kilitledi: Barikatların kaldırılması için süre verdiler
www.birgun.net/haber/polyak...

02.03.2026 10:26 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Koyduğunuz fotoğraf bu olayla ilgili mi?

02.03.2026 10:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The real reality > x.com/i/status/202...

02.03.2026 10:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is a stunning result. Americans hate this war. 8 out of 10 of us. That means half or more of Trump’s most loyal base.

01.03.2026 21:14 — 👍 302    🔁 124    💬 11    📌 1

Iran has a great many Mandelas and Walesas. Most of them are in a prison that Israel bombed back in July.

01.03.2026 20:11 — 👍 507    🔁 146    💬 9    📌 1

The Israelis just bombed Beirut.

02.03.2026 00:42 — 👍 260    🔁 117    💬 21    📌 15
A translation of a statement from Hezbollah saying that it had attacked an IDF base in Haifa.

A translation of a statement from Hezbollah saying that it had attacked an IDF base in Haifa.

A statement from Hezbollah saying that it had attacked an IDF base in Haifa.

A statement from Hezbollah saying that it had attacked an IDF base in Haifa.

Hezbollah has issued a statement saying that it launched an attack against an IDF base in Haifa in retaliation for the killing of Ayatollah Khamenei.

I won't link to the channel with the statement because I'm not sure how BlueSky handles that.

I've attached a screenshot and translation.

02.03.2026 01:05 — 👍 27    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 1

This will be extremely familiar to Latin Americans and indeed Filipinos that remember the 20th Century

01.03.2026 15:51 — 👍 347    🔁 96    💬 3    📌 2

Hâlâ şu X'te kalmanın anlamı üzerine düşünmek isteyenler için:

01.03.2026 15:41 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Elon Musk’s Secret Web of Companies in Texas

Elon Musk’s Secret Web of Companies in Texas
The megabillionaire was tied to about 90 companies in the state, which he uses for everything from paying nannies to buying land to supporting Donald Trump’s re-election, according to a @nytimes.com examination.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/t...

01.03.2026 13:33 — 👍 85    🔁 57    💬 6    📌 3
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Death toll from Iran school bombing reportedly rises to almost 150 Strike on girls’ elementary school in south of Iran has killed 148 people and injured 95 others, according to Iran state media

People love to see things get blown up. But they don’t like to look under the rubble. In this case, they would see the bodies of 100+ little girls killed by US and Israeli bombs. This is not regime change. It’s murder. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

01.03.2026 14:22 — 👍 44    🔁 25    💬 4    📌 0
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Iran vows revenge for Khamenei’s death as missiles fired toward Gulf, Cyprus Iran vowed revenge on Sunday for the death of its Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who was killed in US and Israeli strikes in the Iranian capital, Tehran, a day earlier, as Iranian attacks across the Gul...

DAY 2: US/Israel - Iran war

• Drones hit Oman, missiles @ Cyprus, UAE heavily hit
• Leadership of 3 post-Khamenei
• 🚢 stranded, turn from Hormuz
• 1000s of flights ❌
• Bomb shelter hit near Jerusalem
• Israel, US bombing
• > 300 total casualties www.al-monitor.com/live-blog/ir...

01.03.2026 14:45 — 👍 10    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0
US-Israel attacks on Iran: Death toll and injuries live tracker

US-Israel attacks on Iran: Death toll and injuries live tracker

US-Israel attacks on Iran: Death toll and injuries live tracker https://aje.news/id8o27

01.03.2026 15:00 — 👍 77    🔁 69    💬 4    📌 2