“Almost all the 165 people killed in the attack were girls aged between seven and 12, according to local officials. There were around 170 girls at the school in southern Iran’s Minab at the time.“
A double-tap strike on little girls at school.
When it comes to Lebanon, this has always been the case; the suffering is ranked at the lower end regardless of how far removed most people are from Hezbollah, and occupation of the south is seen as a prophylactic measure with little to no nuance.
Same: The vector in our house was school letter home => parents googling to see adults on podcasts condemning and calling for calm => asking teenager who said it was the first she’d heard of it. More of an adult viral thing in some places.
Did she mention the schoolchildren in Iran killed in the illegal war her husband just kicked off?
If you’re another UNSC member the only thing to do is come through the door and say ‘oops sorry, wrong room,’ right?
We could combine the greek for “the rule of the worst” with “a harsh discordant mixture of sounds”?
kakistocracy + cacophony = kakophony
Film poster for The Report featuring Adam Driver
A top ten spy film that’s left out of top ten lists of spy films:
Clowns but make it art
A voter from 1900 would be very confused at today’s party political landscape.
Hemedti, RSF leader.
New: We've linked Hemedti, the leader of Sudan's RSF militia, to a Dubai property portfolio controlled by an apparent front company, Prodigious Real Estate Supervision Services.
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#KeepEyesOnSudan
A big big button that makes a section of the green benches disappear, swallowing up MPs who ask planted questions.
Published today for the first time today, "Plan Victoria 82" is an essential Guatemalan army document describing its counterinsurgency strategy during the year of the Dos Erres massacre. nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/338...
Try David:
bsky.app/profile/nick...
The portfolio is worth $1.7m, but we think this is just the tip of the iceberg. Please get in touch if you know more about the Dagalo clan's properties.
Read more in this investigation by The Sentry: thesentry.org/reports/heme...
ENDS
Prodigious, Naser Alhammadi and Islam Abdalla have failed to reply to repeated requests for comment but I'd love to hear from them. 👋
Many thanks to @occrp.org and @c4ads.org for help with data.
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Organagram showing links between Prodigious and the sanctioned Capital Tap companies, through lines showing shared past ownership by Habib, Abdalla and Alhammadi.
Prodigious used to be owned by Emirati businessman Naser Alhammadi & Sudanese national Islam Abdalla. All three (including Abozer Habib) were past owners or directors of the Capital Tap group, sanctioned in 2025 for links to the RSF.
More here: thesentry.org/wp-content/u...
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A photo of Abozer Habib
Prodigious is owned by Abozer Habib (AKA Abu Dharr), sanctioned by the US for his links to the RSF. He has previously declined to comment and has said matters are subject to legal proceedings.
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A map of Dubai showing the approximate locations of the apartments and the office.
Prodigious also owns an office in Dubai.
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A picture of the apartment complex with a swimming pool in the foreground.
Hemedti bought three apartments in Dubai in 2020 in his own name, and then sold them to Prodigious in 2022.
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Hemedti, RSF leader.
New: We've linked Hemedti, the leader of Sudan's RSF militia, to a Dubai property portfolio controlled by an apparent front company, Prodigious Real Estate Supervision Services.
🧵
#KeepEyesOnSudan
Similar pattern at Happisburgh, but footprints only 800,000 years old…
Yes….. Plus Charles’ Wichita Linesman is amazing
This is brilliant Chris. Proper fist bump finding.
There will be interviews, rightly, of police protection officers for their potential role in turning a blind eye to potential wrong doing. But these poor sods had bosses in the police who in turn liaised with the Palace, who in turn kept the Queen and, presumably, the heir - the King - informed, no?
SOCIAL POLICY CORRESPONDENT Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested at his home on the Sandring-ham estate yesterday in relation to revelations about his relationship with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. After his arrest - the first of a member of the
Andrew and Epstein
What did the King know? And when did he know it?
Today I’m proud to launch the Investigative Simulations Lab (@investigativesimulations.org), an organization that designs and delivers simulation games that show journalists and researchers how to follow the money and uncover wrongdoing.
British M&S ham and cheese rollies that are the same size as cigarillos
You tap the pack and out pops one of these for your homies
Overdue use of American Oligarch, hitherto reserved for use “over there”
In inverse relation to the FCDO talking about soft power recently (soft power council, appointing Catriona Laing as a SP lead, soft power programme fund….
