Humanitarian rules minimise the harmful consequences of armed conflict Attacks on schools are prohibited unless they become military objectives Incidental child death/injury is permissible if targeting respects principles of proportionality & precaution etc fromsaltintears.com/blog//conver...

The categorical and retributive framing of this threat to attack Iranian infrastructure makes clear that this a threat to commit war crimes.

Where the leaf sings and (my favourite) the wind woman* blows. *L M Montgomery’s Emily of New Moon

A Syrian Father who lost his leg in an Air strike holding his Son born without limbs due to his mother being exposed to nerve gas during the War.

Westminster is steadfast in its refusal to recognise the differences here, or to contribute to our work on what they recognise as a “national emergency”. And, of course, there’s the shadow of the gunman that lurks close by; paramilitaries continue to operate, an incubus in the most deprived... [4/n]

Rights are never given they are claimed. Over and over again.

How many emigrant children have suffered this injustice quietly? Feeling it more than understanding?

How many times have I stopped just here to watch the mist & the soft light rising, or fading away? To the sound of redwinged blackbirds in the reeds, & cattle lowing in a further field somewhere.

Not only is the state breaching every child’s right to transformative justice online—through failing to take effective measures to ensure they can exercise their rights safely through age responsive safeguards & accommodations—but their claim to remedial justice for breaches of their rights online

No innocent children = every child is a target This has long been the case: first the target was children with stones resisting an oppressive system and/or learnt fear of ill treatment; overtime assisted by the complicit silent of the international community every child became a target

false buffer of empire that shrouded my hearing / veiled my sight, turned / me bastard child away from my true mother — from Esther Phillips’s My Ancestors Gifted Me Their Silence recited yesterday re UNGA Decl calling on states to engage in dialogue on reparative justice youtu.be/zQ62jsqP0SM

Why? Surely Daniel O’Connell will come back to haunt Ireland? #spéirgorm

Even if a mistake of fact negates the requisite mental element for a war crime under the ICC Statute, the US attack on the Minab school may still constitute a war crime under customary humanitarian law on the basis of recklessness

Can you see it? The sand is dancing!

‘What was the difference between those children [the children killed in the US attack on the Minab school] & the children killed in the protests of last January? What was the difference between the life of Khamenei’s grandchild & dear Kian [1 of 43 kids killed by state security forces in 2022]’?

‘Nowhere in this country [Lebanon] is safe right now.’ — Secunder Kermani

And here it is in bloom in last summer…

‘Nowhere in this country [Lebanon] is safe right now.’ — Secunder Kermani

Trump must retract deeply irresponsible threats that the USA would postpone strikes on #Iran’s power plants & energy infrastructure by 5 days pending the outcome of discussions on the “resolution of hostilities”.

Also relevant today in every way

Painting created 1974, in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital, Surrey, by an individual who was compelled to live there, currently identified to us only as Francesca.

"A laboratory of calculated cruelty" - UN expert @franceskalbs.bsky.social warns torture of Palestinians is state doctrine in #Israel. Regime of humiliation, pain & degradation has degenerated Israeli prisons into instruments of genocide & torture. #HRC61 www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

The Ghost crime against humanity (age persecution of children) felt more than known, present more than said fromsaltintears.com/the-time-to-...

This facility was opened by Obama. I say that not to downplay what’s happening now but to emphasize that family detention was horrific from the moment it began.

What is Emmanuel Grégoire, the new Paris mayor, planning for the city over his new term in office? —60,000 new social housing units —15 express bus routes —Completion of city's full bike network —Transformation of ring highway into a boulevard —1000 new pedestrian streets —300 new hectares of parks

‘What follows is not satire. Satire requires exaggeration, and you cannot exaggerate something that is already operating at maximum absurdity. This is simply the news, and nothing but the news. …because apparently the universe was running low on irony and needed to top up.’

Explore the beauty www.oireachtas.ie/en/oireachta...

“These days, there are many voices that go unheard and much suffering that goes unseen...”. Thanks to @clodaghfinn.bsky.social and @irishexaminer.bsky.social for allowing this voice through.

“You cannot bomb a people into agreeing with you. You can only bomb them into hating you.” - Colin Sheridan www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm... @colinivan.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

“…systemic use of double tap strikes…” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

"While Big Bird was doing wheelies around Rush on his tiny quad bike, in the true spirit of St Patrick’s Day, the Fianna Fáil leader once again sought to cement Ireland’s status as an ally of a country that, a matter of weeks ago, blew up a primary school full of Iranian children."

West Cork, Ireland The land is being unwilded The hedgerows depleted And the Larks near us have gone portending the Silent Spring to come #spéirgorm Will you hold the Government to account @corkgreens.bsky.social @labour.ie @social-democrats.bsky.social & demand they incentivise the opposite?

Caused by a crime against humanity that’s seldom invoked: age persecution of children fromsaltintears.com/the-time-to-... To only invoke Israel’s responsibility for its racialised purpose i.e,. apartheid and genocide is to disregard children’s dignity—intrinsic worth—& claim to possess rights ⚖️

Zoom in and marvel in awe at these new moss-built homes awaiting camouflage.

This #Eid marks a decade since my last visit to my homeland where Beijing has committed atrocity crimes against Uyghurs. I chose to speak out for my father and others and that choice cost me a disconnection, maybe forever, from those I love back home. www.hrw.org/news/2026/03...

A scarlet dawn over the warm valley & the Bay this morning. Birds beginning one by one, after alarm & protest cries from those I startled in the dark.

Spain's renewables build-out has structurally decoupled its electricity prices from gas markets. Gas now sets the price in only 15% of hours, compared to 90% in Italy. Countries that invested early in clean power are far less exposed to fossil fuel price shocks. Those that didn't now pay the price.

En 12 ans, Paris s'est transformée comme jamais.

“… nature is not separate from our economy… …it’s the *foundation* of it…”

30 backpacks. 138 pairs of shoes. 168 people — children, parents, and teachers — lost to a senseless war. Today on Capitol Hill we’re memorializing the children killed in the Minab school strike, and demanding accountability for a disastrous war that Congress never authorized.

8 months later the UN Fact Finding Mission for Iran concluded it was a war crime webtv.un.org/en/asset/k14... & www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

The importance of the Rohingya genocide case in the ICJ, including for the Gaza case. eastasiaforum.org/2026/03/17/t...

NEW Somewhat unexpectedly, the US government has submitted an Article 51 letter to the UNSC articulating the US int'l law justification for attacking Iran. As someone who used to help draft these letters for the USG, I find the administration's legal arguments completely unconvincing. 1/n

‘Weep with those who weep…’