Never forget Trump's cynical betrayal of the Iranian protesters.

#IranWar #Iran #DonaldTrump

Are Iran hawks setting up Vance to take the blame for Iran not being defeated?

#USPolitics #IranWar #Iran #JDVance #LindseyGraham

The needless suffering of the people of Iran.

Image: Residents sit amid debris in a residential building that was hit in an airstrike earlier this morning on March 30, 2026 in the west of Tehran, Iran.
Majid Saeedi/Getty Images.

#IranWar #Iran

>> A duck swims over algae at the bottom of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, which has been painted blue at the directive of U.S. President Donald Trump, ahead of the 250th anniversary of U.S. Independence, in Washington, DC on June 14, 2026.
Eric Lee, REUTERS <<

#WashingtonDC #ReflectingPool

It amuses me to see business@newsmast.community boosting this post. I imagine business school types thinking this might be a post about corporate social responsibility and instead finding a video of a supercute Kpop girl group instead!

#Kpop #SocialMedia #CorporateSocialResponsibility #CSR #Business #GirlGroups

"Cat and I" -- Wanda Wulz -- 1932

I've only just heard of Wanda Wulz. I thought from her name that she was either German or Austrian, but Wikipedia tells me she was Italian.

Nevertheless, her native city of Trieste belonged to the Austro-Hungarian empire when she was born in 1903, so my guess was not completely off.

I thought this picture might speak to the many cat lovers of the fediverse.

Found on fromthebygone.wordpress.com

#WandaWulz #Photography #ItalianPhotography #1930s #Trieste #WomenPhotographers #Cats #SelfPortrait #Caturday

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/12/trump-ufc-fighting-cage

How is this going down in those Ohio diners?

Image: Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP

#USPolitics #DonaldTrump #UFC

Resolution:

I WILL go back to watch all those videos I have bookmarked, I promise...

#SocialMedia #Bookmarks #Videos #Procrastination

Image: Bookmarks -- Sergey Fedotov -- Wikimedia Commons -- Public domain

IVE -- Yujin

Definitely my IVE bias!

#Kpop #KpopPix #Yujin #IVE

Decided not to post on a hot-button issue opinion column that irritated me, but am unable to decide whether this is patience or cowardice on my part.

Images; The Cowardly Lion from " The Wizard of Oz" -- Allegory of Patience -- Giorgio Vasari --1552 -- National Gallery, London.

#SocialMedia #Patience #Cowardice

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/11/the-eu-is-inviting-the-taliban-to-brussels-europes-credibility-lies-in-tatters?CMP=share_btn_url

Just because Trump, Vance, Hegseth et al. continually attack the EU with regard to immigration, it does not follow that EU policies on this issue are anything to celebrate.

In fact, once one strips way the Brusselese, they are less distant than one might hope from those espoused by the US.

>>EU political elites tend to hide their harshest policies behind bureaucratic language and references to administrative necessity. Cash-for-migration deals are referred to as “partnerships”, deportation becomes “return management”, and those being forcibly sent home are cast as “criminals”, “illegals” or “irregular”.

The dehumanising language is meant to shift attention away from rights and dignity toward control, deterrence and enforcement, thereby making it easier to justify detention, pushbacks, accelerated procedures and collective suspicion.<<

Image: Ciro Fusco / ANSA

#Immigration #EU #EuropeanUnion

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/dec/19/colombian-mercenaries-sudan-rsf-us-sanctions-recruited-uk-registered-firms-investigation?CMP=share_btn_url

Only the most recent of Sudan's British problems:

>> ...there is a long, well publicised history of UK shell companies being used to broker weapons and military assistance to embargoed actors in Sudan, South Sudan...<<

Image: Rapid Support Forces paramilitaries: experts say the hi-tech weaponry used by the RSF would need outside help to operate. Photograph: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/10/belfast-southampton-civil-war-anti-immigrant-online?CMP=share_btn_url

I am old enough to remember the seventies in the UK, years in which the overwhelmingly right wing press was constantly warning of impending social breakdown, so this column from John Harris brings back ugly memories.

Amongst these ugly memories are....

Image: A car set on fire by protesters in Belfast, as disorder flared on Tuesday following a knife attack in the city. Photograph: PA

#UKPolitics

@crookedcuc12

Hello,

I enjoyed watching this TripleS -- Sad Girls Schemin' stage.

I can't name many of the members, so I wondered if you could identify the member in the picture I have pasted here.

Thanks if you can help, but I do understand if you can't; tripleS are a huge group!

#Kpop #TripleS

https://www.theguardian.com/uk?INTCMP=CE_UK

Musk stirring up violence:

>> Rightwing commentators from England and the US, including the MP Rupert Lowe and billionaire owner of X Elon Musk, posted about the attack. Musk shared a list of potential protest areas in the UK and wrote: “Only by protesting REPEATEDLY and LOUDLY will there be any change!!” <<

Hearts2Hearts -- Juun

Such is her power that she has for the moment extinguished my burning hatred of cargo pants.*

*This offer not available for men in cargo shorts.

#Kpop #KpopPix #Juun #Hearts2Hearts #H2H #CargoPants #KpopStyling #PetPeeves

What Bari Weiss is doing to CBS in general and 60 Minutes in particular is an unforgivable attack on the freedom of US television news.

Less serious, but significant nonetheless, is the harm Weiss has wreaked on attempts by some US liberals to question groupthink in some quarters of academia, the media, and the nonprofit sector.

By her using the pose of a "radical centrist" questioning "woke orthodoxy" to strengthen right wing power in education and the media, she has made honest and productive debate about conformity and freedom of expression even more difficult than it already was.

I cannot abide her bad faith posturing!

Image: Bari Weiss, Honestly podcast, Texas Tribune Festival 2023 -- Presia Debauch -- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ -- Flickr

#USCulture #BariWeiss #USEducation #USMedia

Marty Lauter -- Tony Awards 2026

What a wonderful outfit!

#Tonys2026 #MartyLauter #Fashion

https://medicare4all.org/

Getting more Democrats behind this should be a priority for progressives in the USA.

#USPolitics #MedicareForAll #Democrats #Health #HealthCare

John Ganz skewers Trumpist intellectuals:

https://open.substack.com/pub/johnganz/p/grand-delusion?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

#USPolitics #DonaldTrump #SohrabAhmari #ChristopherCaldwell #JohnGanz #Intellectuals