France’s former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin has called for sanctions against Israel and the US over their attacks on Iran:
“We say clearly to the United States that their war against Iran is illegal, illegitimate, and dangerous.”
I find it extremely difficult to believe that anyone experiencing what honestly looks like the apocalypse is going to regard it as a form of liberation or that anyone responsible for it actually cares about how Iranians regard it at all.
So many people in important positions around the world are still operating as if we are in an era of neoliberal guard rails where "don't mess with the money and crash the global economy" is a self-evident hard limit to policy decisions by the powerful.
The consequences of this war for Americans will be bleak and take decades to unfold, but it will impoverish and provincialize them in ways that would have been unimaginable ten years ago
Americans have no idea how much the world is shook, folks. Here in Thailand they have a running tally of how many days' worth of fuel the country has left.
“Tehran is burning. And smoke has filled the streets. It’s impossible to drive out of the city right now and even with the windows closed, heavy smoke is making its way inside."
Read every word.
This woman has been in America for over 5 decades.
She came to the US as a toddler after being adopted by a US Air Force officer.
The regime wants to deport her to Iran.
A country they’re intent on destroying.
They want to send her to her death.
The WSJ calls it “the most severe energy crisis since the 1970s.” ⛽️
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The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE and Border Patrol, is using a broad web of surveillance tools — purchased as its budget has ballooned under this administration — to monitor, apprehend and intimidate the people it seeks to deport and the U.S. citizens critical of its policies.
Antonio and Caleb Gámez-Cuéllar went from performing with the Mariachi Oro vocalists before Congress to being imprisoned by ICE. I am doing everything in my power to make sure the boys and their family return home safely. #FreeOurChildren
Where’s De La Cruz now?
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Antonio and Caleb Gámez-Cuéllar, 18 and 14, are members of the McAllen High School Mariachi Oro, according to U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas). Last June, they attended a Capitol Hill event recognizing their talent, hosted by U.S. Rep. Monica De La Cruz (R-Texas)…
🧵 1/2 @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social needs help getting a McAllen family detained in TX released
Antonio, Caleb & Joshua Cuellar are State champion Mariachi band members
Congresswoman Monica De La Cruz (R) invited them to the White House & to play for congress - but has no interest now
see 🧵 👇
🧵 2/2 TX Rep Monica De La Cruz (R) isn’t stepping up to help a family that’s here documented & following the rules
Antonio, a HS SR, the state’s 1st chair trumpet player, is sitting in the Raymondville detention center & his parents & brothers are in the Dilley Center
They’re kids, not criminals
Sigh. Transferring people and not timely updating the ICE detainee locator or telling family or lawyers where they are has long been a tactic of enforced disappearance used by DHS to hinder the filing of habeas petitions to defend rights. This is just one recent example: apple.news/AhOtuCu2FTby...
Such short-term enforced disappearances prevent advocates from knowing where someone is for just long enough to enable other human rights violations, such as violations of due process or carrying out deportations that are otherwise contrary to law.
Freedom for Immigrants has an excellent report on this very issue from 2021: www.freedomforimmigrants.org/news-and-upd...
We need enforced disappearance legislation at state and federal levels to criminalize enforced disappearance, prevent officials from taking removal actions against an individual while they are held in incommunicado and unregistered detention, and to ensure remedies for victims and survivors.
For other examples of the ways that DHS has been forcibly disappearing people for decades, check out my article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
And, as always, if someone is disappeared (don't know where they are, not in any public registry, gov won't say where they are, and they're incommunicado), you can and should report it to the United Nations enforced disappearances experts here: www.ohchr.org/en/special-p...
Beyond the President Trump's vitriol against judges in speeches and social media posts, his administration has launched a more systematic effort at the U.S. Supreme Court to diminish the power of the federal judiciary, a Reuters analysis shows. ...
TAT: [Suppressing dissent | Undermining democracy]
Thick black clouds and oil‑saturated rain are shrouding Iran's capital this morning after major airstrikes hit refineries and storage sites south and west of the city. CNN's Fred Pleitgen reports. CNN operates in Iran only with government permission.
We are governed by idiots, dependent on idiot boxes to function:
"A documentary about Jewish women’s slave labor during the Holocaust? The focus on gender risked “contributing to D.E.I. by amplifying marginalized voices.”"
That as with Belit Onay in Hannover most normie voters view Özdemir as an uncontroversially familiar figure like their regular diaspora neighbours whose families have been in Germany for decades is in itself a sign of huge progress.
Despite every effort of the AfD.
The plaintiffs’ lawyers also asked Mr. Fox about some grants flagged in his original ChatGPT search, like one for a documentary about the 1873 massacre in Colfax, La., where dozens of Black men were murdered by a mob of former Confederates and Ku Klux Klan members. ChatGPT had deemed it “D.E.I.” Mr. Fox said he agreed. “Because it focuses on exclusively anti-Black violence, which is a race,” he said.
There's an obvious parallel between what's happening now with ICE and CBP to this racist violence of the 1870s, which led to a non-functioning electoral college in 1876. That's presumably what the current administration is hoping to do again.
“.. A woman who claims she was abused as a minor by both Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump has given the FBI vivid accounts that include aspects of her life corroborated by the The Post and Courier through public records.”
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WSJ finds that of 279 arrested for attacking ICE in what it unfortunately labels an "aggressive public-relations tactic," 181 were US citizens; none was convicted. But onviction isn't the point; harassment is.
Americans are Now a Target in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown www.wsj.com/us-news/immi...
This article is in the conservative Wall Street Journal, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch.
Thread of the day (the US targeting of water is a war crime—I realize that Trump doesn’t believe that international humanitarian law applies to him, but we shouldn’t lose sight of the crimes he is committing, day in, day out)
BREAKING: An Iranian drone attack caused “material damage” to a desalination plant, Bahrain said. It is the first time an Arab country has reported Iran striking a desalination plant. Follow live updates.
The desalination plant is seen next to the coastline of Qeshm Is.
For context, Tthe US has bombed the desalination plant on Qeshm Island, Iran, disrupting water supply to 30 towns.
These plants are protected under international law, specifically the Geneva Conventions, which prohibit targeting infrastructure indispensable to the survival of civilian populations.
