Its interesting that Iran shooting down one (or possibly two) US aircraft in its airspace is being treated as an 'escalation'.... Given Iran is clearly under attack from US/Israeli forces, defending its airspace is not so much an escalation as a perfectly reasonable defensive response (and certainly legal as far as international law is concerned).
But the narrative remains, whatever the media may think its doing, one that privileges the US's positioning on the 'war'!
4 April 1940 | A Polish Jewish boy, Izrael Rozenbaum, was born in Trzebinia.
He was murdered in a gas chamber in #Auschwitz.
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🎧/📖 The development of the mass murder infrastructure at Auschwitz: https://www.auschwitz.org/en/education/e-learning/podcast/transformation-of-auschwitz-concentration-camp-/
2 April 1935 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Lea Benjamins, was born in Amsterdam.
In 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz together with her mother Branca and brothers Simon and Marcus. They were all murdered in a gas chamber.
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▶ Video about the first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU
27 March 1937 | An Italian Jewish girl, Sara Gesess, was born in Padua.
She was deported to #Auschwitz in August 1944, where she was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.
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▶ A short video showing the ruins of gas chamber and crematorium III: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ipQmBPAlJQ8
The Iranian children killed in the airstrike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school early on in the US/Israeli assault on Iran were not as the popular trope increasingly has it 'killed by AI' but rather were killed by years & years of lazy & inaccurate bureaucracy; hiding behind AI allows the real culprit(s) to enjoy impunity from an atrocity & likely war crime.
Kevin Baker's detailed exploration of what was behind the airstrike is a long read but worth it!
#iran
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blame-for-the-iran-school-bombing-the-truth-is-far-more-worrying
Our latest Climate Shift Index alert is out, summarizing the additional record heat this week: https://www.climatecentral.org/climate-shift-index-alert?#record-breaking-march-heatwave-intensified-by-climate-change-continues-to-shatter-records-across-the-us
"From March 24 through 27, more than 42.5 million people across the western U.S. will experience at least one day with maximum temperatures at CSI of 3 or higher, indicating a strong influence from climate change."
Join our press briefing later today with Covering Climate Now for more: https://coveringclimatenow.org/event/press-briefing-virtually-impossible-heat-the-future-of-the-american-west/
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