Kristian Vester

Francesca Albanese: " Israel is actively pursuing the Greater Israel Project, warning that the ongoing genocide in Gaza is only one element of a larger apartheid system."

Reporter: 'Isn't bombing civilian infrastructure a war crime?' Trump: 'They're animals.' So that's the legal defense? 'They're animals'? He is dehumanizing Iranians using fake propaganda to justify war crimes.

Jesus Christ. Is the media really falling for this bullshit again? How many rakes in the face does it take until your brain reboots?

Destroying Iranian infrastructure would be the one step most likely to trigger a refugee exodus from the country. People who are used to a certain standard of living no longer being able to work, get around, or enjoy basic amenities of modern life like taking a hot shower will be highly motivated to exit somewhere they can reestablish a life. This is a country of 90 million people bordering Turkey and I predict that many Iranians will ultimately find their way to Europe.

Absolute bombshell on MS Now. Prominent legal experts confirm Donald Trump is ordering the US military to commit the most serious war crimes since WW2. By targeting Iranian civilian infrastructure, the Trump administration is forcing soldiers to break international law.

Trump is flirting with the idea of murdering 10 million innocent civilians by dropping a nuke on Iran. FUCK YOU CONGRESS, YOU PATHETIC COWARDS.

One of the things we don’t talk about enough is what a hypersexualised culture does to young girls. I remember being around 13 and already scared of “heterosexual” sex because were told it was inevitable, that it would hurt, that penetration was something that had to happen to “take away” your virginity, and that boys would expect things things such as a blow job. When I said I didn’t want that, I was mocked, dismissed, and told when I grow up I’d want that for myself. Meanwhile, boys are raised to look forward to sex, to see it as something they gain and take from girls. Girls, on the other hand, are prepared to expect discomfort, pressure, even humiliation as part of the experience. This is a very fucked up way to socialise children and teenagers, and I hope none of you are passing these ideas on to your kids.

In shadows cast by power's glare, A leader's words—a chilling snare. From Truth Social, issued like a curse, Profane threats unleashed, the world immersed. "Open the fin' Strait," the tyrant cried, With a fury born of ego and pride. "Face living hell," the stakes laid bare, A dangerous game, a reckless affair. Infrastructure marked for destruction's spree, "Tuesday's your day," he boasted with glee. Each volatile speak, a rattle of chains, As hope's soft whisper falters and wanes. Easter's dawn, for peace and grace, Tainted by rants that darken this place. "Unhinged," they say, as fear takes hold, In a realm where all values grow cold. The moral compass lost in the storm, A leader degraded, far from the norm. Religious hands laid in vain to restore, Nothing can change what he is at the core. So heed this tale of corruption laid bare, In a world where love is twisted, threadbare. For power without conscience breeds only despair, And the souls of the many are left in disrepair.

Absolute delusion on live TV. Donald Trump literally claims a Nobel Prize winner came to him and said he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for ending 8 wars. He is completely detached from reality while actively bombing the Middle East.

Wow. Everyone should read this 1983 article by Roald Dahl. Every word of it. It's literally the same fucking shit as now, with the same kind of impunity, only now it's even much worse. He called it. He fucking called it and they just ignored him and called him an antisemite.

This is a crucial point on Iran by Chas Freeman, the former US Assistant Secretary of Defense and, relevant to the topic, former US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (also, incidentally, one of the very rare former senior US officials who's a genuinely thoughtful diplomat as opposed to a sociopathic neocon). What Freeman explains is that Iran's control of Hormuz, which Trump implicitly admitted is beyond the US's ability to contest (by saying in his speech it's not his problem to solve, that "others" should deal with it), will necessarily lead to a reshaping of the regional order in Iran's favor. As Freeman says, "the Gulf Arabs have no alternative but to negotiate with Iran because they cannot survive indefinitely with the Strait of Hormuz closed to their exports." Meanwhile, countries like China, India, Japan, and Turkey have already worked out transit agreements with Tehran - de-facto recognizing Iranian authority over the strait. In effect, Iranian control of Hormuz is now a fait accompli: they control the valve on the single largest concentration of hydrocarbon exports on earth. This is a long-term reality with immense implications. In fact it's such a massive long-term win for Iran that the way the war may ironically be remembered by history is Trump giving Tehran the ideal casus belli to seize control of Hormuz - something the world would have never accepted had they done it unprovoked. It remains to be seen how the war ends - if it ends at all - but this may end up proving even more valuable to Iran than nuclear weapons. For instance, as Freeman points out, one of the conditions Iran set for Hormuz passage is an end to sanctions and hostility toward them. The logical endpoint is the collapse of the entire sanctions regime - Iran trading openly with the world (save, presumably, for the US and Israel), without having to make any guarantees on its nuclear program. In other words Trump tore up the JCPOA calling it "the worst deal in history," and his war may have replaced it with something infinitely more favorable to Tehran. Source for the whole video (worth a watch in its entirety as are all of Freeman's talks): youtube.com/watch?v=Rb0veg…

(🧵1/11) For the past year and a half, I've been investigating OpenAI and Sam Altman for @NewYorker. With my coauthor @andrewmarantz, I reviewed never-before-disclosed internal memos, obtained 200+ pages of documents related to a close colleague, including extensive private notes, and interviewed more than 100 people. OpenAI was founded on the premise that A.I. could be the most dangerous invention in human history—and that its C.E.O. would need to be a person of uncommon integrity. We lay out the most detailed account yet of why Altman was ousted out by board members and executives who came to believe he lacked that integrity, and ask: were they right to allege that he couldn't be trusted? A thread on some of of our findings:

Mary Trump on Democrats who want to return to normal after Trump: “If you think the solution to these horrors is to go back to where we were and resurrect the situations that made these horrors possible, you’re not a serious person. If you aren’t willing to reform the Supreme Court in significant ways. If you are not willing to undo every single thing Donald’s done and do away completely with traditions and norms and start codifying everything. If you’re not willing to get rid of the filibuster. If you’re not willing to draw a bright line in terms of Netanyahu’s government and in terms of Russia. If you’re not willing to abolish ICE and I would argue DHS also needs to be abolished”

Fourteen year old Mohawk and future Olympic gold medalist Waneek Horn-Miller cradling her younger sister after she herself was bayoneted in the chest by a Canadian soldier. Quebec, Oka Crisis, 26 September 1990.

An idiot paedophile might end the world tomorrow night because no one in the US can be bothered to stop him

“The Liberals are now on the verge of a ‘bloodless’ majority. Critics may object to the route, but the public doesn’t seem to care. If an election were held today, the Liberals would likely secure a huge majority.”

“His increasingly extreme actions, impossible to miss, cannot be glossed over. Something is terribly wrong with him. It is deadly dangerous…He must be removed from power.” americaamerica.news/p/donald-trump…

As it turns out, MAGA was the deep state pedophile ring the entire time. Disgusting, overweight, bloated weaklings raping minors and then covering it up and deflecting with a war in the Middle East to shift focus. Bury them under the prison.

Look at this map of Kharg in the New York Times 8,000 Iranians live on this Persian Gulf island. It is home to an old town and ancient monuments. But the Times ignores all of that and instead presents it exclusively as a military target. A master class in dehumanization:

He raped a 12 year old girl repeatedly for years. He sexually abused a child. Trump chose him to be his “spiritual advisor”. He was found guilty and only served 6 months. He destroyed that child’s life. She will never be the same. 6 months is an atrocity.