The #US #House again passes resolution seeking to halt #military action in #Iran as some #Republicans defect

The House narrowly passed a resolution to halt military action in Iran, sending a warning to #Trump for the 2nd time as the #war has escalated & the future of the conflict is increasingly uncertain.

The 214-208 vote requiring congressional approval for the war comes as the #Senate is expected to consider a similar resolution later Thursday.

#law #WarPowers
https://apnews.com/article/iran-congress-war-powers-resolution-vote-0ba2387a476fe08de0bfd6281adb9639

A quotation from The Talmud

When the Egyptians were drowning in the Red Sea, the angels in heaven began to break forth in songs of jubilation, but the Holy One, blessed be He, silenced them: “My creatures are perishing — and ye are ready to sing!”
 
בִּקְּשׁוּ מַלְאֲכֵי הַשָּׁרֵת לוֹמַר שִׁירָה, אָמַר הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא: מַעֲשֵׂה יָדַי טוֹבְעִין בַּיָּם, וְאַתֶּם אוֹמְרִים שִׁירָה

The Talmud (AD 200-500) Collection of Jewish rabbinical writings
Babylonian Talmud, Seder Moed, Megillah 10b.26 [Rosten (1972)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/talmud/4579/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #talmud #callousness #celebration #compassion #creation #creator #divineintervention #divinelove #divinewrath #God #grief #inappropriateness #mercy #sorrow #tragedy #war

It is disturbing to see the military strikes on the #Wildberries warehouses in #Russia, which have killed civilian workers and injured others, and resulted in the loss of consumer goods intended for civilians. The justification used to support #Ukraine is that #Russia orders equipment for their military through this online marketplace, they say.

#news #war

"Some #American #Jews have been explaining to non-#Jewish friends, neighbors, and colleagues the fear and apartness they have felt since #Oct7, 2023, when #Hamas breached Israel’s southern border and launched an attack that sparked the #Gaza #war and the anti-#Israel – and in some cases #antisemitic – backlash that followed.

In interviews, they describe a sense of disorientation, as if they have been jolted into an entirely new era, in which some have lost friendships and a sense of belonging. This is especially true in some #progressive social circles that never condemned the Oct. 7 violence, and in some cases even within their own Jewish communities that hold differing opinions on what supporting Israel means.

Jewish #writers and #filmmakers report being excluded from talks and festivals and experiencing difficulties in getting new #books #published."

https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2026/0722/american-jews-antisemitism-violence?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

@NOUR_GAZA_s2m @RadicalGraffiti @simon_brooke
My sympathy to all - I'm not a fan of hearing this.

But the overall importance than even my own life is people realising we need to go away from #economic #war and those people (#banks etc #funding it).

It's not a 100% jump from one to the other - knowing who is bad in the world and using other ways / people other than money is essential (eventually / "slowly but surely").

[continued...]

#TaxpayersMoney

Is this what you voted for #MAGA?

#Hegseth estimates #IranWar has cost US Taxpayers $37.5 Billion so far

#Defense Secy Pete Hegseth faced questions & #protests Tuesday over the #US #war with #Iran, which he *estimated* has cost $37.5 billion so far [meaning double that, at a minimum], as #Republicans prepare a $95 billion #GOP budget package to #fund the #military, along with other #Trump priorities.

#TrumpsWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #service
https://apnews.com/article/iran-war-hegseth-military-deaths-95-billion-7d158708c3e5385683930f8b839d0344

War does not only kill and displace people, it poisons rivers, wetlands and farmland and leaves communities and ecosystems scarred for decades.

Toxic pollution from the war on Iran will continue to devastate the country’s environment for years to come.

Real security means escaping deadly fossil fuel dependency and protecting people and nature.

https://truthout.org/articles/us-israeli-bombing-has-harmed-irans-wildlife-farms-and-water-supply/

#iran #pollution #war #peace

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Truthout article screenshot: US-Israeli Bombing Has Harmed Iran’s Wildlife, Farms, and Water Supply. Toxic pollution from the war on Iran will continue to devastate the country’s environment for years to come. By Kourosh Ziabari , Truthout. PublishedJuly 17, 2026. Picture: Farmworkers harvest crops as smoke billows following overnight airstrikes on oil depots in Tehran, Iran, on March 8, 2026. Majid Saeedi / Getty Images

"His first day on the team, his commander gestured to the American with a vest full of grenades and said, 'Stick with Giggles.'" Laura Beil for Texas Monthly https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texan-risked-everything-defend-ukraine/?src=longreads #profiles #ukraine #russia #conflict #war #invasion #longreads

Good #morning to readers; #kyiv remains in #ukrainian hands.

Natalia works as an #car #mechanic a male-dominated field she would likely have never chosen on her own.

However, when her #husband left for #war Natalia, like many #ukrainian women, had to step up.

https://www.counteroffensive.news/p/how-conscription-pushes-women-into

Explore what human-centered #war #reporting looks like

Stay tuned to #TheCounteroffensive

Catch our #newsletters through the link

https://www.counteroffensive.news/p/how-conscription-pushes-women-into

DOG OF #war

On Thursday, Oleksandra met this little #dog at the #protest . When #society wants change, not even dogs will stay on the sidelines.

Dive into our #newsletter to #experience the #reality of living on the ground in this #war .

Don't miss #journalism that makes a difference.

https://www.counteroffensive.news/

#Ukraine is not only fighting for the existence of their country but also for mother earth

By destroying a large part of the Russian oil industry

Very sad it has to be this way but rather this then not at all

#Russia #war #FossilFuel

A quotation from Carlyle

At length, after infinite effort, the two parties come into actual juxtaposition; and Thirty stands fronting Thirty, each with a gun in his hand. Straightway the word “Fire!” is given: and they blow the souls out of one another; and in place of sixty brisk useful craftsmen, the world has sixty dead carcasses, which it must bury, and anew shed tears for. Had these men any quarrel? Busy as the Devil is, not the smallest! They lived far enough apart; were the entirest strangers; nay, in so wide a Universe, there was even, unconsciously, by Commerce, some mutual helpfulness between them. How then? Simpleton! their Governors had fallen-out; and, instead of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Sartor Resartus, Book 2, ch. 8 (1834)

More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/85019…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #pawns #battle #casualties #classwarfare #death #soldier #war #waste

Wait, I forgot who is obstructing the Strait of Hormuz 🤔

I thought we were opening the Strait, or is it opposite day now?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/jul/15/us-iran-war-live-updates-strikes-trump-power-plants-bridges-middle-east-crisis-latest-news

#iran #uspol #war

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US military says it disabled tanker trying to breach blockade amid new wave of strikes on Iran – Middle East crisis live

@elsua54 No failure when wanting to do the same various economic reasons.

After the World Wars I believe they simply moved from physical-economic #war to #financial-#economic war

#WW1 #WW2 still continues #Today just in a different / optimised style.

@Christo_459 @aral Want Less Fascism? Use Less Finance...

Easy to let #Fascism in - just use #money and #banks often !

Fascism & Financial-Fascism are together. (same thing now as idea / platform).

Finance is what keeps Fascism going (material & mentality).

Less finance & less banks = all that mentality to be harder to exist / not funded / less influence / less #investment.

Less #Finance = Less #Fascism

#Banks spend for #war / #loan to wrong ppl etc

#Bank is growing / invests in the #bad

New satirical statue on Mall gives Trump ‘participation trophy’ for Iran War; White House weighs in https://www.dcnewsnow.com/news/local-news/washington-dc/new-satirical-statue-on-mall-gives-trump-participation-trophy-for-iran-war/
#humor #satire #trolling #TrollingDonald #Iran #war #resist #protest #art #news

@elsua54 @timbray I'm against the people who don't have the will (even in first person) to really connect #deeply or #invest in others for just something more.

(for example: money makes it much easier but is also a fake / symbolic virtual material which cheapens upon every new #loan... #Banks behind it all are helping spend for #war - *on both sides*).

It's the lack of humanity or trying - not just #Mastodon.

All are too comfortable with the #bad they know or don't want to #face / #delay it.

"The #Hamas murderous attacks of #October7, 2023, and the #war that followed transformed the landscape of #antisemitism across #Europe. What began as outrage over a conflict in the #MiddleEast quickly spilled onto #European streets, #campuses, workplaces and #online platforms. Too often, the distinction between criticisms the policies of the #Israeli government and #Jewish citizens living in Europe simply disappeared.

This is perhaps the most significant change of all. Increasingly, #Jews in #Paris, #Berlin, #Brussels or #London are treated not primarily as #French, #German, #Belgian or #British citizens, but as representatives of Israel, expected to answer for events thousands of kilometers away. #Collectiveresponsibility, one of history's oldest prejudices, has returned in modern form.

Jews are singled out in a way no other #religious, #ethnic or national community in Europe is that is connected to one of the dozens of conflicts currently raging across the globe."

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-902347

“#Russians are there,” she typed.

It happened after Diana heard how the Russian #tourists she was #serving were discussing the #war. Diana found them unpleasant at first sight. They were a #married #couple

A quotation from Orwell

I suggest that the real objective of Socialism is not happiness. Happiness hitherto has been a by-product, and for all we know it may always remain so. The real objective of Socialism is human brotherhood. This is widely felt to be the case, though it is not usually said, or not said loudly enough. Men use up their lives in heart-breaking political struggles, or get themselves killed in civil wars, or tortured in the secret prisons of the Gestapo, not in order to establish some central-heated, air-conditioned, strip-lighted Paradise, but because they want a world in which human beings love one another instead of swindling and murdering one another. And they want that world as a first step. Where they go from there is not so certain, and the attempt to foresee it in detail merely confuses the issue.

George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1943-12-20), “Can Socialists Be Happy?” “As I Please” column, Tribune Newspaper [as John Freeman]

More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/47663/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #aspirations #brotherhood #cause #contentment #details #dissent #happiness #hope #love #loveyourneighbor #materialism #physical #planning #protest #sacrifice #socialism #struggle #torture #utopia #war

A quotation from Molly Ivins

It’s hard to convince people you are bombing that you’re doing it for their own good.

Molly Ivins (1944-2007) American writer, political columnist [Mary Tyler Ivins]
Essay (2001-12), “What Osama Bin Wants,” The Progressive, Vol. 65, No. 12

More about this quote: wist.info/ivins-molly/16357/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #mollyivins #bombing #civilians #heartsandminds #propaganda #war

"Yehor stepped and knelt and spun and raised his arms into the emptiness where Masha should have been. In the footage playing behind him, she was still the star." —Siobhán O’Grady and Liubov Sholudko for The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/world/europe/russia-ukraine-prom.html/?src=longreads

#longreads #prom #ukraine #russia #war #reading #writing

Anders Puck Nielsen is a military analyst who makes in-depth videos about geopolitics and ongoing conflicts. You can follow at:

➡️ @anderspuck@muku.dk

Don't worry if the account looks blank to you, that just means no one from your server follows it yet. Follow the account and its videos will start gradually showing up on your server too.

You can also follow Nielsen's non-video account at @anderspuck@mastodon.social

#FeaturedPeerTube #Geopolitics #Ukraine #Putin #War #PeerTube

Urgently. Please read this.

We owe 4 months rent for the land our tent sits on — $150/month. The owner is threatening to evict us. In Gaza. With nowhere to go.

A kind friend covered one month. I still need $450 in the next 48 hours.

$450 is the difference between having ground under our tent — or nothing.

I have never been this scared of losing what little we have left.

Please donate any amount :
https://chuffed.org/project/help-mai-and-the-gaza-camp-kids
#urgent #gazagenocide #palestine #war #support #donate #mastodon

You cannot claim to act on climate while ignoring the massive emissions of war.

Count military emissions, expose the damage, and make those responsible pay for the harm done to the climate and ecosystems.

https://theconversation.com/wars-destroy-lives-and-the-climate-why-arent-we-counting-military-emissions-281129

#Iran #Ukraine #Gaza #war #military #climatechange #climatecrisis #pollution

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The Conversation article screenshot - by Tamara Krawchenko Associate Professor, School of Public Administration, University of Victoria. Title: "Wars destroy lives and the climate. Why aren’t we counting military emissions?" Published: May 4, 2026 4.13pm CEST . Picture: Displaced Palestinians walk through the rubble of an area decimated by Israeli bombing of Gaza City, in October, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

RE: https://mastodon.social/@DrALJONES/116823309001369282

#JeffreyEpstein’s “genius” was to use the rape of children (there were boys too) to organize and radicalize who he saw as the new USA #oligarchy emerging in Silicon Valley and ―up to the now significant year of 2005―, mostly went to work for Wall Street or the military-industrial complex.

yes, there were people from other countries, but when you see his emails, it’s clear he was organizing the #techbros #gringolarchy.

so, if #tech is the #broligarchy’s #war machine, they’re military targets.

Man has two choices:

Fight against each other

or

Serve one another...

And mankind no longer serves each other in brotherly love, and therefore they are fighting with each other.

#love #war #spiritual #Iran #Russia #China #USA

There was a terrible event in #WWII in #Saipan where as American troops advanced the Japanese civilians committed mass suicide. They believed due to #propaganda that the Americans would be monstruously cruel

Here we see a similar sentiment as #Ukraine captures #Russia's troops

Traditional #media and #socialMedia lies lead to this

Pointless #war and stupid #projection of one's own malice

It's why the lies we see can't just be dismissed. They are rat poison. They must be fought

#UkraineWar

#Military secrets are fiercely guarded for obvious reasons. But also obviously in a #war your enemy gets a lot of exposure to the operating parameters, capabilities, and weaknesses of your #technology. And gets plenty of physical samples

So #Ukraine just open sourced all of #Russia's military secrets 😆

Well not strictly, it's only for allies

And a knock-on effect is it devalues Russian arms sales because potential buyers know it's all exposed

It's called #TrophyLab

#UkraineWar

OBLIVIOUS IN RUSSIA

"I watch the news, of course, but I didn't think things were this bad..."

Complaining about the fuel crisis, a Russian woman is shocked to discover that things in Russia are far worse than what Russian propaganda shows.

She will probably have more shocking discoveries to make if Russia continues the war.
#AureFreePress #News #Ukraine #Russia #war

@aral Still wandering when looking at your posts and discovering if / how #SmallTalk can answer the #trust we need to increment ourselves and then extend out to #Gaza (a way to solve the whole trust #war thing or #community from wherever we all are to eventually get to them / us all ?)

e.g. If Mastodon & #Jitsi / #WebRTC aer good enough #bridge then neither seems to have regular community-making sessions itself - mostly one-way posts or "look here's another bad guy / #enshitiffication tool..."

A few nights ago I had a memorable dream that keeps coming to mind, so I think I should share it.

I saw Vladimir Putin as an MMA fighter, in a home improvement store.

What could it mean? Come and see....
http://john1126.com/770

#AIimage #dream #Putin #Russia #war #spiritual

That time the Arkansas state government was heckled by an angry crowd....

The next time the ruling class insists we all get new vaccines, the citizens will revolt, adding more fuel to the next American Civil War.

#COVID #pregnancy #fertility #infertility #Arkansas #conspiracy #vaccine #war

A quotation from Orwell

It is commonly assumed that what human beings want is to be comfortable. Well, we now have it in our power to be comfortable, as our ancestors had not. Nature may occasionally hit back with an earthquake or a cyclone, but by and large she is beaten. And yet exactly at the moment when there is, or could be, plenty of everything for everybody, nearly our whole energies have to be taken up in trying to grab territories, markets and raw materials from one another. Exactly at the moment when wealth might be so generally diffused that no government need fear serious opposition, political liberty is declared to be impossible and half the world is ruled by secret police forces. Exactly at the moment when superstition crumbles and a rational attitude towards the universe becomes feasible, the right to think one’s own thoughts is denied as never before. The fact is that human beings only started fighting one another in earnest when there was no longer anything to fight about.

George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1946-11-29), “As I Please” column, Tribune Newspaper

More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/84548/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #comfort #fight #humancondition #humannature #imperialism #needs #possibilities #progress #struggle #war #wealth #aggression