@journotopia
Investigative reporter for Reuters • Three-time Pulitzer Prize winner • Author of "The Trouser People: Burma in the Shadow of the Empire" • Co-author of “Aum: The Cult at the End of the World” • Signal: AndrewMarshall.13
“Deliberately attacking a school or hospital or other civilian structure would likely be a war crime under international humanitarian law.
“If a U.S. role were to be confirmed, the strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East.”
“Deliberately attacking a school or hospital or other civilian structure would likely be a war crime under international humanitarian law.
“If a U.S. role were to be confirmed, the strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East.”
Home page of the U.S. Embassy in Egypt. Missiles, drones, security alerts . . . and "the Trump Declaration for Enduring Peace."
After many years of court reporting, I've just had a completely new (to me) reason for a hearing delay: “The lights have gone off downstairs”
The courtroom is fine but the cells appear to be in darkness 😬
01 Mar 2026 14:50:19 - U.S. SAYS THREE U.S. SERVICE MEMBERS HAVE BEEN KILLED IN ACTION AS PART OF IRAN OPERATION -CENTCOM Oil jumps 10% on Iran conflict and could spike to $100 a barrel, analysts say
Two consecutive @Reuters headlines just now. How long before Donald Trump has to change course?
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A major shift, via Gallup. More from @joshuakeating.bsky.social www.vox.com/politics/480...
“Bezos doesn’t understand how to run a news organization any more than Woodward and Bernstein could figure out how to deliver dog kibble to your door by drone.”
Tina Brown on WaPo’s sad demise.
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United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory, Francesca Albanese poses for photographer ahead of the conference on "A Cartography of Genocide: Israel's Conduct in Gaza since October 2023", an investigative project on Israeli-Palestinian conflict, at the Roma Tre University, in Rome, Italy, October 6, 2025. REUTERS/Remo Casilli
Despite U.N. insistence that she had diplomatic immunity, the Trump administration imposed sanctions on Francesca Albanese for “writing threatening letters” to U.S. companies and urging the ICC to investigate, Reuters found.
Trump's unprecedented campaign against U.N. expert Francesca Albanese and the International Criminal Court is partly aimed at averting future attempts to hold him or his officials accountable for U.S. military action overseas. My story with @reuters.com colleagues.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
“This is unjust, unfair, and persecutorial,” Albanese told Reuters. “I’m being punished because of my human rights work.”
United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory, Francesca Albanese poses for photographer ahead of the conference on "A Cartography of Genocide: Israel's Conduct in Gaza since October 2023", an investigative project on Israeli-Palestinian conflict, at the Roma Tre University, in Rome, Italy, October 6, 2025. REUTERS/Remo Casilli
Despite U.N. insistence that she had diplomatic immunity, the Trump administration imposed sanctions on Francesca Albanese for “writing threatening letters” to U.S. companies and urging the ICC to investigate, Reuters found.
Trump's unprecedented campaign against U.N. expert Francesca Albanese and the International Criminal Court is partly aimed at averting future attempts to hold him or his officials accountable for U.S. military action overseas. My story with @reuters.com colleagues.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
'the UK creative industries — which contributed £125 billion to the economy in 2024 and supported 2.4 million jobs — are being destroyed by an AI sector that... contributed just £11 billion in the same year and supported only 85,000 jobs." www.thetimes.com/culture/film...
OMG - Sepp Blatter is now occupying the moral high ground.
Which says everything you need to know about how far the rest of the ground has fallen.
ICE's standards of professional conduct require that its employees be "professional, police, respectful, considerate, helpful and patient in all official activities ... even in the face of considerable provocation."
www.ice.gov/doclib/foia/...
Nice transatlantic military alliance you’ve got there. Be a shame if anything happened to it.
This is excellent . . . and terriying.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Meanwhile in Russia: pundits rejoiced about Trump's approach to Greenland, which they surmised is "delivering a catastrophic blow to NATO" and is "truly tremendous for Russia."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ThS...
I also grew up in 1970s Britain. Life in the 2020s is immeasurably better.
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The Telegraph, the UK's most conservative major newspaper, has this editorial view (link at end):
"Donald Trump’s attempt to strongarm Denmark and Europe into accepting the annexation of Greenland is a disgraceful betrayal of the Western alliance..."
I passed my PhD. If I gave my PhD certificate to my stepmother’s cat, that wouldn’t make her a doctor.
"Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking."
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“The Liz Truss Show (is) a weekly YouTube interview format that makes QAnon feel like the Periodic Table.”
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/con...
Gregg’s sausage roll v. glucagon-like peptide.
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Why is every new AI announcement a solution you don't want to a problem you don't have
“You are not entitled to a response from us, or anyone, ever,” Department of Education spokesperson Madison Biedermann wrote after our reporter repeatedly asked agency officials for comment to ensure fairness and accuracy.
Thin Lei Win on changing her Myanmar passport for an Icelandic one.
“I don’t think I fully appreciated the mental load of carrying a passport that turns routine immigration appointments into nerve-wrecking ordeals; of being a citizen of a country whose government actively wants to harm you.”
How combative videographers fire up Britain's asylum hotel protests reut.rs/4s3hGvY