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The #games #children play mirror the world they live in. In #Gaza, #Palestinian children play funeral.

Watch Israeli soldiers beating and arresting Christians who were celebrating Orthodox Easter in Jerusalem: 🎥 Rafi Ghattas

We absolutely need to investigate the accusations against Swalwell, and prosecute him if necessary. But the fact that this is big news, and 40+ similar accusations against Donald Trump isn't, is beyond me. api.omarshehata.me/substack-proxy…

According to ship tracking data from Kpler, just 15 ships had entered or exited the #StraitOfHormuz since the #ceasefire was announced on April 8. Before the U.S. & #Israel campaign began, 138 ships passed through the #Hormuz on average. reuters.com/graphics/IRAN-… #Iran #IranWar

A complicating factor in negotiations. ⬇️ According to U.S. officials,#Iran has been unable to open the #StraitOfHormuz to more shipping traffic because it can't locate all of the mines it laid in the waterway & lacks the capability to remove them nytimes.com/2026/04/10/us/… #IranWar

@nntaleb The death of the king and the destruction of the Hungarian army led to the collapse of the independent Kingdom of Hungary and its subsequent division between the Ottoman Empire and the Habsburgs. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of…

In 1526, the Ottoman sultan Suleyman the Magnificent sent an envoy to the king of Hungary. The envoy was supposedly executed. Suleyman's anger prompted the war that led to the Ottoman invasion of Hungary.

Since Herodotus (& before the Egyptian-Hittite treaties) civilization meant sparing negociators; diplomaticide is banned by the Geneva convention; Sharia imposes safe passage, etc. I am breaking my rule of never commenting (first) on someone I met socially but I noticed that @mdubowitz was a complete retard, & made a note there & then to investigate the intelligence of propagandists (& financial conditions).

Wow

#Lebanon: How #Hezbollah is rising from the ashes "Unable to secure a decisive military breakthrough against Hezbollah, #Israel appears to have shifted toward plan B: a strategy of widespread punitive strikes killing hundreds of civilians across Lebanon." middleeasteye.net/opinion/lebano…

'We got into the stage where we're not even allowed to turn up on the street with a bit of paper for being absurdly peaceful people' Over 90 arrested as over 500 gather to defy #PalestineAction ban in London middleeasteye.net/news/over-arre… #Palestine #Gaza #GazaGenocide #EndTheOccupation

The #StraitOfHormuz is one of the world's most strategic waterways, but where did its name come from? Is it Persian, Zoroastrian,or something else entirely? Here's the layered history behind the name that has echoed across trade routes for centuries. indiatoday.in/education-toda… #Iran

#Iran is drafting a law to impose transit fees on vessels passing through the #StraitOfHormuz,to be paid in #rials (IRR), Iran’s national #currency, according to a sr parliamentarian,as the US warned it would not accept such a move. newarab.com/news/iran-move… #Petroyuan #Petrodollar

Fmr US Sec. of State #JohnKerry says #Netanyahu lobbied for #Iran strikes for decades "#Biden refused. #Bush refused. The only president who has agreed to this, obviously, is #Trump" US-#Israel strikes have killed over 2,000 #Iranians & wounded 26,500. newarab.com/news/john-kerr…

I sort of miss the 1990s and early 2000s when people could go ballistic in public, especially when driving, and those raw, messy human moments would just fade in the moment. No camera phones and viral clips. Not everything was documented and judged by the world on social media.

@GiorgioCafiero Authentic Memory vs. Digital Records.. In Greek religion, Mnemosyne (Memory) is the mother of the Muses. Indigenous traditions often see memory as something woven into the land & the body itself -- "internet" or "smartphone" cannot act as an external replacement for this "Mother"

#BREAKING 💫 MISSION SUCCESS!! #ArtemisII #Astronauts Splash Down, Concluding Historic Journey Around the Moon The #NASA flight parachuted into the #PacificOcean, bringing to an end a journey that sent humans into deep space for the first time since 1972. nytimes.com/live/2026/04/1…

#BREAKING 💫 MISSION SUCCESS! The Orion spacecraft Integrity splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean at 8:07 p.m. EDT. The four astronauts—#ReidWiseman,#VictorGlover, #ChristinaKoch,& #JeremyHansen—have become the first humans to visit the vicinity of the Moon in over 50 years!

This week,an Israeli soldier shot a 3-yr-old #Palestinian boy in the head. Expect a similar dynamic to unfold in #Iran, where the US is waging, if not a war for #Israel, at least a war waged in the style of Israel… @ZoydintheVoid counterpunch.org/2026/04/10/mad… #IranWar #Gaza #WarCrimes

Netanyahu appeared ready to sabotage the 🇺🇸🇮🇷 ceasefire, ordering strikes in Lebanon that killed hundreds even after Hezbollah paused its fire. This is not strategy but self-preservation: perpetual war from a leader who cannot survive without emergency. 👇 haaretz.com/israel-news/is…

Absurd and inhuman violence is spreading ferociously through the sacred places of the Christian East, profaned by the blasphemy of war and the brutality of business, with no regard for people’s lives, which are considered at most collateral damage of self-interest. But no gain can be worth the life of the weakest, children, or families. No cause can justify the shedding of innocent blood.

🚨🚨🚨#Trump’s admin. this week acknowledged it made a significant error in figures it used to help justify a #fraud probe into #NewYork’s #Medicaid program, a glaring mistake that undercuts a fed campaign to tackle waste, mostly in Democratic-led states. apnews.com/article/new-yo…

BREAKING: Survivors of the missile attack that killed 6 Americans say Hegseth is LYING – it wasn’t a lucky shot, they were completely unprepared to defend themselves thanks to Trump’s incompetence! CBS News is reporting that the survivors of an attack on a US base in Kuwait that killed 6 Americans and wounded 20 more are disputing Secretary of War Crimes Pete Hegseth’s version of the events, who said the missile was a “squirter” that managed to sneak through their defenses. The reality, they said, is that they were completely unprepared to defend themselves. "Painting a picture that 'one squeaked through' is a falsehood," one of the injured soldiers told CBS News. "I want people to know the unit … was unprepared to provide any defense for itself. It was not a fortified position." In a post on Twitter, Secretary of Defense Sean Parnell claimed that "every possible measure has been taken to safeguard our troops — at every level" and that "[t]he secure facility was fortified with 6-foot walls." The survivors, however, said that "We moved closer to Iran, to a deeply unsafe area that was a known target. I don't think there was a good reason ever articulated." CBS reports that the soldier “said they were protected by little more than a thin layer of vertical standing blast barricades that did not provide cover from above. ‘From a bunker standpoint, that's about as weak as one gets.’Asked to describe the degree of fortification, he responded: ‘I mean, I would put it in the none category. From a drone defense capability … none.’” It is well-documented at this point that Trump and Hegseth plunged headfirst into this war with very little preparation, drastically underestimating Iran’s ability to respond to their unprovoked and illegal attacks and putting thousands of Americans in harm's way because of it. Now six Americans are dead because of Trump and Hegseth’s arrogance and incompetence – and they’re lying to us about it. Pete Hegseth needs to be removed from office IMMEDIATELY.