Just to spare everyone another rollercoaster of emotions, over the next few months several times over Trump will threaten Russian, then do nothing, and then berate Ukraine, and then do nothing even as the war continues to drag on.

A reminder that treating Russian territorial gains as inevitable is a Kremlin talking point. Since 2014, the Kremlin has pushed that Russia is so powerful and giving up some land is better than giving it all. It doesn't lead to peace, it leads to pause-and-push land grabs.

Good story on clerical sex abuse cover ups by prominent Catholic church leaders in Mexico losangelespress.org/english-editio…

It’s likely Leo XIV is open to agree to demands (by specific nat churches) to ordain married laymen (viri probati), and so make priestly celibacy optional But the elephant in the room will continue to be the ordination of women

BREAKING: The UN-backed IPC has officially declared a famine in Gaza trib.al/kdXA2Dr 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube

🇵🇸🇮🇱 A Gaza non si può più vivere. Il 41% degli edifici della Striscia è stato raso al suolo da Israele. Un altro 24% ha subito danni tali da renderlo inagibile. L'ultimo aggiornamento di UNOSAT fotografa una realtà spaventosa.

I was a war correspondent in Vietnam. Some 63 journalists were killed there in 10 years. But never did we fear we were deliberately targeted by the VC or the NVA. The UN says the Israelis have killed >240 journalists in Gaza in less than two years. Deliberately and criminally.

Around 250 Palestinian journalists have been killed by Israeli forces in the Gaza strip since October 7th 2023. That's an average of one journalist being murdered every three days.

This is EXACTLY what a double-tap airstrike looks like: bomb a location like hospital, school or apartment block, wait 10-15 minutes for first-responders, medics, press and surrounding residents to get to the site, and strike again, maximizing the number of people killed.

🇵🇸🇮🇱 Fame a Gaza: la polemica sul 12% o 16% di bambini gravemente denutriti è orribile, specchio del puro negazionismo. Si studiano i bambini perché sono gli ultimi che si lasciano senza cibo in carestia. La denutrizione in donne gravide e in allattamento è del QUARANTA %.

I just watched aid workers bombed live on TV as they tended to the wounded at a Gazan hospital that had been bombed just moments before. The bullshit concept of a “rules-based order” Of International law And the notion that the West holds any moral high ground …dies with

World’s largest Catholic aid group calls for end of ‘man-made famine and assault’ in Gaza americamagazine.org/vatican-dispat…

MARIAM, giornalista uccisa e madre di 1bimbo di 12anni, già evacuato, doveva essere messa a tacere, perché raccontava storie di umanità, per lo più di piccoli affamati, al cuore di quel popolo che per Tel Aviv è feccia da annientare! Mariam aveva donato un rene all'anziano padre!

The IDF has "investigated" the attack on Nasser hospital and found (without naming names or ascribing responsibility) that the attack did not receive the proper authorization and that the firing force used tank shells rather than "percision armaments". That is the cause of the

Very good article on women church leaders

Authority on genocide Prof Schabas (from a Holocaust survivor family) argues ICJ Gaza case is "arguably strongest case of genocide ever brought before the Court" & leaders could be prosecuted as individuals for failing to prevent genocide & abetting Israel populismstudies.org/professor-scha…