António Duarte 🇵🇹 🇺🇦
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Nisi utile est quod facimus stulta est gloria
Trump on approving congressional approved weapons sales to Taiwan: "I may not do it"
Trump on Taiwan: When you look at the odds, China is very, very powerful, big country. That's a very small island. Think of it, it's 59 miles away. We're 9500 miles away. That's a little bit of a difficult problem. Taiwan was developed because we had presidents that didn't know what the hell they were doing. They stole our chip industry.
Alarmed that a clearly-marked @UN vehicle was struck twice in Kherson city in Ukraine this week. Civilians & civilian objects must be respected & protected at all times. International law must be respected.
This is a hard article to read, but I hope you'll do so. I've spent some time reporting on widespread rape and other sexual violence of Palestinian male and female prisoners by Israeli authorities, and the article is now published. The assault victims were warned not to give speak of what they endured -- they were sometimes told they would be killed or raped if they gave interviews -- but they found the courage to do so. One man described being raped three times in a single day in Israeli prison, the third time after he tried to protest. A young woman said the guards would come in at the beginning of each shift and strip her naked and abuse her. Another reported that she was shown photos of herself being raped and warned they would be released unless she cooperated with Israeli intelligence. Even three children who had been detained told me they had been sexually abused. Look, whatever our position on the Middle East, we should be able to agree on being anti-rape. Sexual assaults were horrific when Israeli women were targeted on Oct. 7, and they're equally horrific when Israeli authorities use them against Palestinians day after day after day. We should be able to find common ground in opposing rape. Here's a gift link to the article: nytimes.com/2026/05/11/opi…
“Nobody wanted the lab‑leak conclusion.” A CIA whistleblower alleges suppression, withheld records and conflicts of interest shaping COVID‑origin intelligence. New story, via @USRightToKnow usrtk.org/covid-19-origi…
