In 2022, Russian forces committed brutal atrocities in the town of Bucha. Streets like Vokzalna and Yablunska becoming sites of mass killings. Vasyl Molchan secretly documented the violence. His footage was later used in investigations of Russian war crimes. www.dw.com/en/ukraine-b...

The Strait of Hormuz is effectively shut down. Iran controls this waterway, charging ships for safe passage & threatening them w/ drones, small attack boats & possible sea mines. Analyst Megan Sutcliffe warns reopening the strait quickly & safely is increasingly unlikely. www.dw.com/en/iran-war-...

🇺🇸 La guerre était nécessaire, elle est quasiment gagnée, elle sera bientôt terminée: au bout d'un mois de conflit et de communication désordonnée, Donald Trump a tenté mardi de justifier l'opération militaire contre l'Iran auprès d'Américains mécontents. ➡️ u.afp.com/Sb7p

Narrator: In fact, it was always a binary choice between the JCPOA and war. The people who opposed it were, in fact, warmongers who believed the sooner that war came, the better.

🚨🚨🚨 The 🇨🇿 Czech Republic just sanctioned Russian broker 🇷🇺 Konstantin Rogach, linked to the shadow fleet This isn’t about ships. It’s about targeting the service layer : insurance, brokerage, logistics, that keeps Russian oil flowing despite sanctions.

#ΝΑΤΟ: Ο Ρούτε σπεύδει να συναντήσει τον #Τραμπ μετά τις απειλές για αποχώρηση

Sent this free piece out yesterday morning, but Trump's speech confirmed it. Trump is stuck in Iran. He would like to leave, but as of now he cannot because Iran will not do what he wants. So, all he can do is babble and possibly escalate. Plus it helps Putin, so for Trump that's good.

#Trump boasts about destruction and killing but says nothing about political objectives amid #Iran retaliation Does not mention ground ops --- Concedes control of #StraitOfHormuz, telling other countries, "You grab it" Oil price surges 6% and global stock markets down 1%-2.5% #IranWar

A 7.4-magnitude earthquake hit Indonesia at 06:48 local time on Thursday (22:48 BST on Wednesday). Authorities have lifted tsunami warnings after earlier saying that waves were possible along the coasts of Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia www.bbc.com/news/live/c8...

There’s good historical reason to worry that an authoritarian government leader collecting a registry of Jews, under the pretext of protecting Jews, while that leader has referred to Jews as “disloyal,” may not end up so well for The Jews. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/u...

Magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes in Indonesia, sparking tsunami alert

If you want to actually understand science, this book is one of the best places to start 📚 #BrianCoxTalks #STEM #Universe #AmazonAffiliate #ad #paidlink

It seems we just bombed some residential buildings in an attempt to kill a former diplomat who was trying to facilitate negotiations. A civilian trying to *end* hostilities, surrounded by other civilians in their homes. We are completely lost.

WhatsApp says Italian surveillance company tricked around 200 users into downloading spyware reut.rs/4vlbfGi

Ukraine fears that North Korea is becoming a greater military threat by helping Russia in its war. What has it gained in assisting Russia, and how does its new knowledge affect global security? www.dw.com/en/north-kor...

“We’ve got to take care of one thing: military protection.”

The latest update by @ocmedia.bsky.social. Now we are at 31 dictatorial laws shaping contemporary Georgia. And the brittle sprint continues. oc-media.org/explainer-th...

Israël a annoncé, mardi, mettre fin à toutes ses importations d’armes venant de France, après que Paris a refusé le survol de son territoire à des avions contenant des équipements militaires destinés de l’Etat hébreu.

Read our joint Statement on the commemoration of the victims of the mass atrocities in Bucha ↓ link.europa.eu/VnYdVC

Bucha has come to symbolise the cruelty of Russia’s war. Of the civilians killed, many were shot at close range. Some with their hands tied behind their backs. Four years after these mass killings, we remember the victims. What happened here cannot be denied. (1/2)

David Dimbleby labels King Charles’ US visit ‘an embarrassment’ - urging ministers to call it off BBC presenter says he feels sorry for monarch having state dinner with leader who ‘goes out of his way’ to insult Britain, UK troops and Nato www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

"This discriminatory law adds to a growing list of actions which enables illegal settler violence while dehumanizing the Palestinian people… "Canada unequivocally opposes its application. We reaffirm our commitment to human rights and the global movement to abolish the death penalty."

Cambridge Disinformation Summit, Th 9 Apr: Manipulation of elections and the political agenda Anya Schiffrin, Columbia University Damian Collins, Former Member UK Parliament Anneliese Dodds, Member UK Parliament Alexandra Geese, Member European Parliament www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/events/cambr...

As we approach the 2026 Cambridge Disinformation Summit, it seems important to note that academics and independent journalists still face significant threats that include online harassment, SLAPP-like lawsuits or testimony hearings, doxing, and deportation. youtu.be/-M9lhTm-7f0?... (1/3)

No sitting president has ever appeared before the Supreme Court during oral arguments in the history of the United States.

VICTORY! Court ruling maintains Johnson Amendment protections www.au.org/the-latest/p...

“Just one month in, Operation Epic Fury is already among the most consequential unauthorized presidential uses of force in all of American history—probably the second most consequential, after the Korean War.” open.substack.com/pub/executiv...

The data we are getting out of ICE now conclusively destroys their "worst of the worst" narrative. Since the Los Angeles raids began in June last year, there has been a massive expansion of ICE arrests against people with no criminal record, while arrests of others remained flat.

As if congressional Republicans haven’t damaged our health care system enough, they’re calling for further cuts to fund a war no one asked for.

The Israeli defense minister threatens an illegal occupation and crimes against civilians www.reuters.com/world/middle...

This is not the first time Trump threatened to send troops into these & other American cities. Listen again to the remarks he gave the day they abducted Maduro; trump openly drew a through-line between the attack on Venezuela & deployment of troops in our cities. For this regime, War will be had.

Trump just lifted sanctions on three Russian ships, one of them tied to stolen grain & other resources from occupied Ukrainian territory, in another gift to Moscow I have lost track of how many gifts Trump has given to Russia as it continues its genocidal war olgalautman.substack.com/p/trump-lift...

And they are not coy about it:

France, Spain & Italy go one way (away from Trump’s war), and the Labour govt chooses war. • UK ​will deploy Sky Sabre, a ground-based air defence system, in Saudi Arabia; • Deployment of British Typhoon fighter jets in Qatar, where the ​UK operates a joint squadron with Qatar, will ​be extended.

This 👇 is a very welcome development in consensus building! Keep up the momentum, Europe, and develop this into true coalition forming.

If this is where the US ends up, the Trump administration is waving the white flag. Nothing about Iranian nukes, nothing about keeping the Strait open and free, nothing about regime change. A strategic waste and failure of historic proportions.

"All this time Putin had, and still has, a mole in all European and NATO official meetings. If the integrity of these meetings is to be maintained, it would be appropriate to ban Hungary from all of them. Every generation has a Kim Philby” theins.press/en/inv/29091...

Worth noting that Donald Trump just announced the end of NATO and the Special Relationship in one tweet.

"Italy refuses US aircraft use of Sicily base for Middle East operations, sources say" www.reuters.com/business/aer...

"Trump Hits Out at France For Closing Airspace to US Military" www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...

#BREAKING Indonesia announces fuel rationing, orders civil servants to work from home one day a week, amid price hikes due to Mideast war

Last year I wrote about how Musk’s suit was both a travesty of antitrust law (“the element of financial gain [among the supposed conspirators] is attenuated almost to nothingness”) and an assault on the First Amendment rights of the advertisers. Good riddance to this abusive litigation. /2, end

MAGA loves to agitate on the theme that noncitizens, especially those not lawfully present, are draining social welfare programs. Lately states have been checking up on the Medicaid rolls, and finding that reality doesn't back the nativist narrative.

Une intersyndicale de l'Éducation nationale appelle les enseignants à la grève mardi pour contester les suppressions de postes et les fermetures de classes et exiger une revalorisation des salaires, une mobilisation nationale que les syndicats anticipent très inégale. ➡️ u.afp.com/SbQL

Viktor Orban is waging cognitive warfare on a scale no one else has tried before. "Emotions are high because the stakes are high. If he succeeds, he will once again blaze a path that others will follow. And if he loses, an era comes to an end." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I genuinely think the president and many of his advisers, scammers, hustlers, and keyboard gangsters, don’t understand this concept at all and you can see it in the pattern of their mistakes from Minneapolis to Tehran www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/o...

“The threat from Russia has never been more urgent.” General Carsten Breuer, head of Germany's armed forces, is urging Western leaders to “join the dots” on the war in Iran & the Russia invasion of Ukraine. General Breuer in discussion with the BBC's Allan Little: 👇 m.youtube.com/watch?v=w2IO...

The Kremlin said on Monday that Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke to his counterpart, Aleksandar Vucic, at the Serbian president’s request. Yeah, great journalism right there, N1, put that on your English page. The world NEEDS to know, plus you get points for Putin-related stuff. *rolleyes*

Continued war crimes in today’s forecast:

Israel killed a Lebanese soldier and injured 5 more. The Lebanese army is expected to replace Hezbollah while also being unable to respond to Israel while also having no control over Lebanon. This is why there won’t be a resolution on Hezbollah’s weapons as long as Israel isn’t held accountable.