I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.
I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.
1/ Here's what I can share:
I have been following Heather Delaney Reese for a few short weeks. Her posts are excellent. This latest one is so astute and informative. As a European, I feel very grateful I don't live in the US or need to travel there soon. How has US society let it come to this? heatherdelaneyreese.substack.com
Images verified by Human Rights Watch show Israel fired white phosphorus in populated areas of southern Lebanon.
Intriguing and revealing interview with Jessie Buckley on Desert Island Discs this morning. Might need VPN to listen if not in the UK.
BBC Radio 4 - Desert Island Discs, Jessie Buckley, actor share.google/cSoDqoupqxqo...
"Beirut is under assault too. The Israeli military orders hundreds of thousands of people to leave the southern suburbs"
What do we call a regime that terrorises hundreds of thousands of people in a neighbouring country?
A terrorist state.
Léargas iontach suimiúil sa phodchraoladh seo ar na fadhbanna móra a bhaineann le droch-aistriúcháin agus aistriúcháin leisciúla ó Bhéarla go Gaeilge sna meáin - rud atá ag dul in olcas de réir na n-aoichainteoirí - @antainmac.bsky.social ina measc
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scanned page of a poem: “to the young who want to die” by Gwendolyn Brooks
by Gwendolyn Brooks
❤️🩹
So poignant.
Since 1953, the U.S. has poured an estimated $9–12 TRILLION into wars, weapons, bases, training programs & proxy conflicts across the Middle East—arming rivals, toppling governments & fueling endless instability. The price of “influence” and oil control has been measured in both dollars and lives.
A billion dollars a day for war, while healthcare for millions is treated as unaffordable. The math exposes the priorities: endless military spending is “necessary,” but basic human care is negotiable. That is not security. It is policy failure. #USDemocracy
Wonderful new Oscar-nominated short film starring Miriam Margoyles and Stephen Fry that I just on YouTube - available free till 5th March. Warning ... you might shed a tear ...
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Israel is preparing to invade Lebanon as predicted, probably the entire reason for the attack on Iran.
They wanted Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon.
After they have finished there they will take some more of Syria too.
These boots are made for walkin', and that's just what they'll do.
One of these days these boots are gonna walk all over this festering pumpkin carcass of American rot crammed into an ill-fitting suit.
It’s been tweetin’ when it oughta be leadin’, a dumb orange clown shoutin’ greed as substitute.
The inconvenient TRUTH about social media. History happens to catch up with you in the end #TrumpTheWarCriminal and your ILLEGAL #TrumpsEpsteinWar.
The death toll from the Iran school tragedy has hit 148, mostly children aged 7–12, with 95 others wounded. A staggering, unforgivable loss that defines our current moral decay.
via Expose Racism
"Of those who voted Labour [in 2024], just 37% would vote Labour again".
Read that again to absorb the full, astonishing weight of what it means.
Starmer, Reeves and co have burnt their house down.
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A poem by Mary Oliver, first published in her 1986 collection Dream Work Wild Geese By Mary Oliver You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting - over and over announcing your place in the family of things.
i’d like to hope that the world goes on
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers.
See a pattern here?
I hate how accurate this tweet is.
We are trapped in a bit of a nightmare, aren't we?
You cannot talk like this about any other minority in America.
And if it was any other president’s adviser who said something like this about any other minority, it’d be the instant end of their presidency.
Daragh Fleming
If I Ever Have Girls
I’ll have put this here:
Daragh Fleming: If I ever have boys
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If the three main left-leaning parties formed a coalition after the next Irish general election, all three party leaders would be female.
This is Trump's America.
Just saying, but when people are trying to do everything they can to prevent you from voting, that’s when you absolutely need to vote.
Ready to make this the biggest midterm turnout in history?
"Let's be blunt. Let's be brutally honest with ourselves. When you lose an election in a democracy, you deserve to. You don't look at the electorate and ask them, what were you thinking? You look at yourself and ask, what were we doing?"
Keir?
Every senator who voted to confirm RFK Jr owns this tragedy. Every single one.
