Mars Watcher

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My reading bloghttps://https://reademall.blogspot.com/
Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City, K.J. Parker

  Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City by K.J. Parker  (the author is actually Tom Holt, but he writes fantasy under this pseudonym) is the...

Heaven's River, Dennis E. Taylor

  Heaven's River by Dennis E. Taylor is the next book in the Bobiverse series Started: August 19, 2025 Completed: March 26, 2026 Recommend...

The Everlasting, Alix E. Harrow

  The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow Started: March 16, 2026 Completed: March 24, 2026 Recommendation: Recommended Recommended By: Nobody, I...

A Marriage at Sea, Sophie Elmhirst

  A Marriage At Sea: A true story of love, obsession, and shipwreck by Sophie Elmhirst Started: March 12, 2026 Completed: March 16, 2026 Re...

Interview: "No Stupid Rules of Engagement” Pete Hegseth

Hegseth has "halted efforts to limit civilian deaths. People who were tracking civilian casualties have been reassigned to other jobs."

Conversations about, “What could this result in for us in terms of international law or war crimes under U.S. law?” aren’t happening.

"That puts civilians abroad at much greater risk & puts US service members at risk of being implicated in possible war crimes."

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/3/11/akbar_shahid_ahmed_iran_israel_huffpost

#IranWar #USPol .

“No Stupid Rules of Engagement”: Ahead of Iran War, Hegseth Halted Efforts to Limit Civilian Deaths

Iranian authorities say the U.S. and Israel killed more than 1,300 civilians, striking over 10,000 civilian sites during the first 12 days of the war. This comes as Israel escalates attacks on Lebanon, killing at least 570 since the war began and displacing nearly 800,000 people. As President Trump dodges questions on how long the war will continue, reporting by Akbar Shahid Ahmed, senior diplomatic correspondent for HuffPost, has revealed that “a lot of the experts on international law, the laws of war, international humanitarian law have quietly been leaving the Trump administration.”

Democracy Now!

“there is great care on the part of many mainstream liberals to focus on the destructive potential of #Trump as a singular entity, a freak storm somehow returned to shore, rather than a symptom of an entirely different climate [wherein millions of Americans want other people unlike them to suffer without end].

The chasm between the thing one pretends to be and the thing one really is — it’s not an exclusively Republican phenomenon.”
— Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (2025)
#books #reading #politics #uspol #uspolitics #gaza #palestine

🚨 HEARTBREAKING: A judge ordered the release of a 14-year-old girl detained by ICE after she was moved from Boston to New York and reportedly kept awake nearly 20 hours without food or contact with her lawyer.

"The judge said he had never seen a child treated this way."

#BlueCrew #ProudBlue #AbolishICE #JusticeForAll

Theo of Golden, Allen Levi

  Theo of Golden by Allen Levi Started: March 4, 2026 Completed: March 13, 2026 Recommendation: Highly recommended Recommended By: The olde...

I do not recommend The True, True story of Raja the Gullible (and his mother) by Rabih Alameddine #book #books #bookreview #bookstodon

https://reademall.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-true-true-story-of-raja-gullible.html

The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother), Rabih Alameddine

  The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) by Rabih Alameddine Started: January 26, 2026 Completed: March 4, 2026 Recommen...

Heart, Be at Peace, Donal Ryan

  Heart, Be At Peace by Donal Ryan  is a sequel to The Spinning Heart Started: January 24, 2025 Completed: January 26, 2025 Recommendation:...