National Maritime Museum

 

John Hammond - Walking Blues (Robert Johnson) IN MEMORIAM

 

Kristi Noem is just the first to fall

 

 "This is the Republican Party heading into the midterms. A president who doesn’t care if Americans die. A fired Cabinet secretary being shuffled into a made-up diplomatic title. A Congress that just voted to give one man the unilateral power to wage war. A sitting congressman whose subordinate set herself on fire. And pardoned insurrectionists molesting children. This is not a party in power. This is a party in moral collapse. And voters are watching."

read stack by Heather Delaney Reese

Kristi Noem is just the first to fall

CASTRO ROCHA e a cultura milenar do Iran

 

National Maritime Museum

 

O outro lado da matança de inocentes

GENILDO

 

 

 

Alaide Costa - Tatuado

 

Se a dor do amor deixasse o corpo da gente marcado Ahhh eu tinha o corpo inteiro tatuado

3 x Paquetá

 

A Tribute to Leonard Cohen - Famous Blue Raincoat - Nathaniel Rateliff

Messing with the Mullahs - FRESH HELL Tina Brown's Diary

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"The rules of hubris usually dictate that you should quit while you’re ahead. After the slam dunk of O

 

peration Midnight Hammer’s bombing of Iran’s nuclear sites and the piping hot Maduro snatch, the White House was very unlikely to be three times lucky with a dangerous foreign intervention. This was the moment for Trump to cash in the Maduro winnings and turn to the subject that bores him to tears: America’s domestic problems. Is that what Chief of Staff Susie Wiles was saying to him in that picture in the Mar-a-Lago war room, where she wears the intense, beseeching look of an aide tasked with steering a president to consider political issues closer to home?"

 

read stack by TINA BROWN

  

Messing with the Mullahs - FRESH HELL Tina Brown's Diary

Impasse

 

Área de risco, Risco na área

ROMULO  GARCIAS 

 

 

JBOSCO

 

 

LUTE 

 

 

 

Willie Colon & Ruben Blades - Pedro Navaja

 

Un carro pasa muy despacito por la avenida
No tiene marcas, pero to' saben que es policia, hum
Pedro Navaja, las manos siempre dentro 'el gabán
Mira y sonríe, y el diente de oro vuelve a brillar

ARWA

 

 

EU opens up funding to guarantee abortion rights across bloc

Women in EU member states with near-total abortion bans, such as Poland, will be given help to access legal and safe abortions elsewhere, it was announced on Thursday. This is being hailed as a “victory for women” and was the result of the My Voice, My Choice citizens’ initiative. Nice to see democracy working properly for a change!

Tennessee Republicans try to introduce the death penalty for abortions

A number of Republican state lawmakers, including representative Monty Fritts, who is also running for governor, recently introduced an amendment to the criminal code which would classify abortion as “homicide of an unborn child”, punishable by life imprisonment or death by lethal injection. It looks like this bill will stall indefinitely, but the fact that it was even introduced shows just how far right the Overton window has shifted.

Palestinian journalists raped in Israeli prisons, report alleges

Almost 60 Palestinian journalists detained in Israeli prisons have been beaten, starved and subjected to sexual violence, including rape, a report by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) alleges. Another CPJ report, released on Wednesday, found Israel is responsible for two-thirds of a record 129 press killings in 2025 and to blame for 81% of “intentionally targeted” journalist killings.

 

Israel continues to kill Palestinians daily during the Gaza ‘ceasefire’

“At least 425 Palestinians have been killed and over 1,200 wounded over the past three months of the ‘ceasefire’ – a rate of nearly five Palestinians killed every day,” Drop Site News reports. The fact the media persists in causing the horror show in Gaza a “ceasefire” shows how little Palestinian lives matter. Do you think it would be called a ceasefire if nearly five Israelis were being killed daily?

 

Mike Pompeo wants “to make sure history books don’t write about the victims of Gaza”

The former US Secretary of State received rapturous applause at a pro-Israel conference on Tuesday after saying that “we need to make sure that the story [of October 7] is told properly so that when the history books write this, they don’t write about the victims of Gaza, right?” The good news for Pompeo is that journalism is supposed to be the first draft of history, and there is precious little journalism coming out of Gaza – by design. The international press still isn’t freely allowed to report from Gaza, where babies are continuing to freeze to death.

 

 

 

 

 

Why in the world is Melania Trump leading a UN security council meeting?

 

 

"while DEI may be dead, WTF hiring is very much alive. Being Wealthy, Trumpy, and/or Fox News-famous seem to be the only qualifications you need for success in Trump’s USA. See, for example, the entire Trump administration: a horrifying hodgepodge of unqualified sycophants. See also, hot off the press, Melania Trump’s new gig at the United Nations. It’s been announced that the first lady will lead a session of the United Nations security council on Monday titled Children, Technology, and Education in Conflict.

It can’t be stressed enough that this is highly unusual. As the White House noted in a statement: “Mrs Trump’s leadership will mark the first time a sitting US first lady presides over the security council.” Back in precedented times, you see, you generally needed a qualification or two to lead the security council. Now, however, we’re squarely in the WTF economy: Melania is a Trump, ergo automatically qualified to do anything her little heart desires."

read column by ARWA MAHDAWI  

Why in the world is Melania Trump leading a UN security council meeting? | Arwa Mahdawi | The Guardian

Building London | Construindo Londres

 

Big Change Seems Certain in Iran. What Kind Is the Question.

 

 Experts say that Iran’s clerical rulers may be too deeply entrenched for Iranians to topple them, and that the U.S. and Israeli strikes risk setting off deeper radicalization or violence. 

 Could Iranian protesters topple their government?

Could Iran’s current regime survive?

Could Iran descend into chaos?

READ ANALYSIS BY ERIKA SOLOMON 

 

Iran’s Regime May Survive, but the Middle East Will Be Changed

 

 A badly weakened Iran will no longer intimidate or threaten its neighbors in the same way. The regional impact could be comparable to the collapse of the Soviet Union.

"It is unclear if even a more moderate government would make new concessions over its nuclear program under the pressure of war. It is also unclear if any Iranian leader would feel able to trust President Trump, who tore up President Obama’s nuclear deal in 2018, and now has bombed Iran twice in the middle of ongoing negotiations. Would Tehran deem it necessary to give in on the nuclear issue to survive? Or if a hard-line, more security-dominated government emerges, will it try to race toward a nuclear weapon, more convinced than ever of its need?" 

READ REPORT BY STEVEN ERLANGER

4 Imagens

 

Desculpe a demora

THIAGO LUCAS

 

Trump wants to distract Americans from scandals at home with a diversionary war

 

 

 "Trump’s foreign policy is not guided by a coherent theory of order, deterrence or alliance management. It is driven instead by the demonstration of dominance, the creation of spectacle and the command of the news cycle. Military force, in this framework, is not a tool subordinated to strategy. It is the strategy."

read analysis by Christopher Chivvis

Trump wants to distract Americans from scandals at home with a diversionary war | Christopher S Chivvis | The Guardian

There was no need for this |

 

 

"Now, as in the past, the predictable result of today’s renewed, expanded and apparently open-ended US-Israeli aggression against Iran will be instant, spreading chaos. Civilians will be killed, children orphaned, families torn apart. Regional turmoil and international oil-price panic will follow the Iranian retaliation that has already begun, and which may be backed by Tehran’s Hezbollah and Houthi allies. New hatreds will be seeded, terrorist vendettas sown. The west’s foes will rejoice. And almost nothing of enduring value will be achieved. That was the bitter outcome of the failed US-led interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq. Today, it’s Tehran’s turn to reap the whirlwind."

 READ COLUMN BY SIMON TISDALL  

A world on edge as Trump bombs Iran and triggers war in the Middle East. There was no need for this | Simon Tisdall | The Guardian

Antonio Vivaldi, Concerto for Strings A-major, Trevor Pinnock

 

4 fotos na janela da sala de Luke & Fernanda

 

Trump abre a campanha eleitoral de 2026

MARINGONI

LAFA 

AROEIRA

 

GEN ILDO

Aerosmith - Coime Together (Lennon-McCartney)

 Here come old flat-top, he come groovin' up slowly

He got ju-ju eyeball, he one holy roller

He got hair down to his knee

Got to be a joker, he just do what he please