"Images verified by Human Rights Watch show Israel fired white phosphorus in populated areas of southern Lebanon."
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/9/israel-unlawfully-used-white-phosphorus-in-lebanon-hrw
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mastodon 4.7.3Writer. Critic. Queer. Trans. Ex-performing artist. LGBTIQA+ activist. Gamer. Somewhat dismayed.
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Gosh, how terrible 😏
#cruelty #endangeredspecies #environment #gamehunting #animalrights #eattherich
The Australian government and allies would rather enter a messy illegal war and associated blockade ("Hey, we're just hanging out in Hormuz in a purely... cough... defensive way") than tell the orange man to stop attacking countries on a fucking whim.
#waroniran #australia #adf #militarysupport #illegalwar #StraitOfHormuz
Models - Hold On (1987)
Make it make sense, I dare you.
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"The owl of Minerva takes its flight only when the shades of night are gathering"
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@dangillmor Laws for thee but not for me is, after all, the ethos of a rapidly encroaching religious techno fascism.
A reminder that only one trans woman (in 2021!) competed in the Olympics since 2004, the date trans women could compete in the women’s category. This trans competitor did not win a medal. And yet we're expected to believe trans women are or have the capacity to dominate elite sports. At best this obsession with trans women is a political distraction.
#transwomen #olympics #olympicsban #transgender #antitransgender #EndDiscrimination #transwomenarewomen
Oh, yeah? So why aren't these world leaders calling out the genocide in Gaza?
Australia in a nutshell: A decorated soldier charged with multiple horrific war crimes, shown to be a flight risk yet out on bail and attending an ANZAC Day service, in the midst of a nationally coordinated campaign to heckle Aboriginal ANZAC Day speakers, and political leaders feigning outrage when they're complicit in creating the very conditions for racism and discrimination to fester in Australia.
"Scientists say a crucial Atlantic system is more likely to collapse than previously thought. But the billionaire death cult that steers humanity’s destiny doesn’t do existential crises"
#georgemonbiot #climate #environment #collapse #billionaires
Speaking on Drop Site News, Iranian analyst Dr. Hassan Ahmadian, Associate Professor of Middle East Studies at Tehran University, says it could take months for the US and Israel to rearm, stating that they cannot "just restart the war in 2 weeks, they cannot just restart it in 2 months, they need a lengthy period. The 8 months that ensued after the Twelve-Day War [with Israel in 2025] is quite telling on them rearming."
The Iran War at the Crossroads: Diplomacy or Escalation? An Interview With Hassan Ahmadian
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@lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org During the 1991/2003 gulf wars, the US used depleted uranium munitions, which have a lasting radioactive impact, in order to stop a state from possessing (nuclear and chemical) WMDs, which we later discovered didn't actually exist. Sites in southern Iraq and Kuwait that were battlegrounds in 1991 still remain contaminated and will remain so essentially forever. So the US has form.
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