You cannot just kill the leaders of another religion because it and they are abhorent to you. You cannot just murder whoever gets selected next to lead a religious movement. You cannot just murder the survivors of your previous massacre who vote on new leadership for their religious community.

Oh no. Please no. Anything but that.

They've now killed four people -- three U.S. citizens and a Mexican national. They've shot several more. They've lied about all of them. They haven't shaded the truth. They haven't "misled" us. They've brazenly, knowingly lied while in possession of the evidence disproving their lies.

This is one of the curlers on the USA Paralympic curling team and I told him today that he should post about his Paralympic experience on BlueSky because people on BlueSky get very excited whenever anybody doing anything cool in the world posts through it on BlueSky instead of other websites

All of this. Despite the OTT rhetoric at times, most of Jesus’ debates with the Pharisees make the most sense if you read them alongside other rabbinical debates of the time.

Re:LRT—I mentioned the other day the way passive voice in our media shapes our thinking. Like the way we envision the Middle East as just inherently dangerous without stopping to consider why. Lava pits? Tidal waves? Specific conflicts occurring for Specific reasons?

Oh no, I can't believe all those slurs forced themselves into that defenseless group chat!

Markwayne Mullin Reportedly Fingered Nostrils of Colleagues and Their Spouses During Visit to Israel

i cannot stress enough that if you know anything about how kristi noem found out she was fired you must tell me

"The planes flying overhead are not on practice runs, but are flying on or returning from a bombing mission, with the intention of killing people." @sgcjerusalem.bsky.social writes from Jerusalem, where planes carrying bombs fly overhead #MiddleEast #MiddleEastConflict #Iran

"So we've got the firestone and the wood, but no sheep. And you're saying we're going to do a sacrifice with no sacrificial animal?" ABRAHAM:

This happened before—there was some fawning coverage of the beeper attack by Israel in the US press. “So advanced! So technical!” Leaving out the parts about the indiscriminate killing and death of civilians, because what was IMPORTANT was how Technology works and Technology is never wrong, ok?

So, the robots intentionally targeted a girls’ elementary school for a double-tap strike, is what you’re saying. And we should be ok with this because it was ‘very advanced’. ‘Very advanced’ doesn’t equal ‘acceptable’ or ‘moral’, you absolute ghouls.

I seem to have some new folks around, so welcome. I am your local friendly Episcopal priest, though I speak of many things here. My opinions are not my employers. Sometimes I live tweet very old church records for funsies.

SIRI WHAT IS A FUCKING HISTORY TEXTBOOK o wait we already burned them all except the ones published by Ghislaine's daddy lolsob

At least 1,097 civilians had been killed in Iran so far, including 181 children.

If you didn’t know what it was before, today is a great day to learn about the Sykes-Picot treaty.

Greg Davies: That is one absolutely sodden infant. Excellent work. Thetis: It's not as easy as you might think, dipping a baby in a river Alex Horne: So the instructions for the task were to dip the *whole baby* in the river...

If the past few days has made you think “Wow, I wish there was some ethical basis for waging war. Or just deciding whether it was ok to go to war.” Then good news, everyone! I did a podcast on that thing a little while ago! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

Because she was working with a federal task force, she was considered a federal officer, and thus protected by SCOTUS rulings making it all but impossible to sue federal cops, even for egregious abuse. Now consider what this means for Trump's immigration thugs. Democrats had two years to fix this.

Whole world: OMG THAT LITTLE MONKEY LOST HIS MOM AND NEEDS A STUFFIE WE MUST PROTECT HIM/STUFFIE AT ALL COSTS Also world: What do you mean adopted/foster kids have unique needs? They should suck it up and stop being so complain-y. 🙃🧐

This isn't a Christian war.. Is a you've been bamboozled war.

Let's talk about the real problem here... These nincompoops think the are bringing about Armageddon and Jesus return for a whole group of people who don't believe Jesus is the (or their) Messiah...

Politics of semantics 😏

When my country drops a bomb on 100 schoolchildren or a hospital or a random apartment building, that's a tragedy and also it didn't happen and also if it did they were Hamas/IRGC/Houthis/Hezbollah/Hitler. When THEY do that to ME, however

“Concepts of a plan” but make it for causes belli

Ossoff’s statement is 1000x stronger than Schumer-Jeffries. This is a moderate Jewish Senator from a Trump state. The split isn’t moderate vs progressive, but leading vs poll-reacting

Iran has a great many Mandelas and Walesas. Most of them are in a prison that Israel bombed back in July.

I HAVE BEEN SAYING. No shade to Iran (it’s hardly the only country that likes martyrs) but this was obvious to anyone who has ever read a book.

Time is a flat circle.

Hi, I have diagnosed c-PTSD and this is true and if you suck at tetris, any bright coloured fast game requiring rapid eye movement and decision making will do! it also helps if you witness something triggering and are trying to stave off an episode

Listen. Because our government sucks and I don’t want someone else’s government deciding we’re moving too slow to fix it and bomb us!

rough day for anyone who believes in the sanctity of human life

We hate kids. Like SO MUCH. We vote for the guns. We vote for the bombs. We protect the rapists. We have LEOs physically restraining parents from trying to save their children in Uvalde. We just blew up a school in Iran. We love Jeffrey Epstein and his friends. They run the country.

A few things here: 1. Israeli military intelligence not always reliable narrators 2. Know which religious tradition has a lot of emphasis on martyred leaders? Shia Islam. It’s kind of a thing. Like the “unite conflicted populace against the enemy invader” sort of thing.

Call me a raving radical but I literally do not care whether your imperialist massacre of children is “constitutional” or not.

Action alert from the Episcopal Church’s Public Policy Network on the attacks on Iran today: “Condemn Attack on Iran and Assert War Powers” ⚓️ www.episcopalchurch.org/ministries/o...

A reminder that Iran still doesnt have nukes, and that Israel most definitely does.

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Additionally, I want to speak directly to Iranian New Yorkers: you are part of the fabric of this city — you are our neighbors, small business owners, students, artists, workers, and community leaders. You will be safe here.

it continues to be utterly galling to me that I, someone who took 3 classes on general MidEast religion in undergrad, has more sense about the region than her entire freaking government.

That it may please thee to make wars to cease in all the world; to give to all nations unity, peace, and concord; and to bestow freedom upon all peoples, We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

I was right Omani FM:

I can't fucking believe we're doing this again.

One of the Biblical prophets needs to make a special return trip to denounce this level of absolute evil. BETTING ON WAR. WHERE PEOPLE DIE.

There are a hundred thousand reasons why this war is a bad idea, and illegal, and shouldn’t be happening. We’re torching international law, the Constitution, the world order, etc. And also war is just wrong, God doesn’t want us to kill each other. Christ have mercy.

The first deaths announced from the US-Israeli strikes on Iran: dozens of school girls. They hit an elementary school in Hormozgan.