Jazzy Jan

Totally agree. I will never understand how black people, immigrants, women, working class people or gay people could support Donald Trump. He and this disgusting MAGA movement have shown time and time again that they have NO respect for black people, immigrants who are not white, gay people, trans people or women. Yet 77 million Americans voted for him in the last election knowing that and so many still support him against their own interests

Well done to the people of Minnesota who have never backed away from protesting and trying to protect their citizens in defiance of fascism.

I hope so too @jonski43 I feel the world has let the people of Iran down for years re not publicising the protests and atrocities this regime has put people through. Fundamentalists should never have power anywhere in the world.

Bumping this - what is happening in Iran at the moment is beyond barbaric and a shocking abuse of human rights. Has been for decades though. One of the worst regimes ever. Sickening.

How can Americans put up with their country now becoming a fascist country. Anyone with eyes can see from that video that Alex Pretti was not waving a gun around and was holding a camera and was helping a woman who had being pepper sprayed. He was jumped on by multiple ice agents, pepper sprayed and then shot in the back several times. Clearly an execution. The way Trump, Vance and his whole lying pathetic government are twisting the narrative and telling people to not believe their own eyes is straight from the playbook of fascism. Trump supporters need to read the book 1984 and to study actual history - Nazi Germany would be a good start. If they don't start standing against Trump now, it might be too late. Cue him calling the National guard on all blue states and cancelling mid term elections. Nothing would surprise me with him and his lawless government who only thrive on threats, corruption and continual lies.

Trump is crazy. This powertrip is beyond stupid and incredibly dangerous. It also makes no sense. America already has bases in Greenland and is allies with Denmark and part of NATO so this security excuse is utter bulldust. Americans should feel so angry that their president is threatening their long term allies for his pathetic aim to grab their minerals and assets. It won't wash with the rest of the world. He is destroying the USA's relationship with Europe now.

It is beyond sickening. The USA should be deeply ashamed and horrified of what Trump is doing. He is no worse than Putin now. Just the same as Putin, the entire world just sits backs and watches instead of doing anything. It is infuriating how cowardly world leaders are in dealing with Trump and Putin.

Hoping that the world stands up to what Trump and his entire grovelling administration ( who crawl to him but he would turn on them like a cut snake when they are no use to him ) in regard in the obvious murder ( not a war crime but straight out murder ) re the bombing of a boat SUSPECTED of carrying drugs. Even if it is proved they were carrying drugs, it is still illegal to bomb boats and then bomb and kill survivors clinging to the boat. The entire world knows that and a lot of Republicans know that too now and are becoming more bold in speaking out. It is not the fog of war but completely illegal and everyone knows that no matter how much they try to spin it.

It is so dreadful. Why don't people learn from history.

Agree totally

He is obscene. His absolute disrespect for women is always evident in droves too.

What a great reporter she is. Wish more and more reporters will speak up like this. What he is doing and saying is beyond disgusting

This whole MTG stuff is fascinating. I don't trust her at all BUT she is speaking a hell of a lot of sense lately. Something that it quite unbelievable in itself. Trump's vicious bullying of her through social media is the complete behaviour of a bully, narcissist and sociopath. Which he is of course, as well as a pathological liar. He is like a cut snake and will never hesitate to wreck the life of someone even when that person has been foolishly and stupidly loyal to him. I am truly wondering if THIS is the start of MAGA Americans FINALLY seeing the light about Trump. He has been building ballrooms while not caring about people having no food and health care. He is bailing out Argentina while letting America farmers go bankrupt. Health care is going to triple in cost and people are finally saying out loud in droves that grocery prices etc are much higher than ever. Are the Americans that worship him going to swallow their pride and admit they were wrong or will they go down with him. Will they be horrified about the whole Epstein cover up or are they too brainwashed by FOX news etc to wake up. Billionaires and very wealthy people will always follow him because he is working for them but will the MAGA faithful who are not wealthy, finally realises he has conned them from the very start ? He has given them nothing.

Is Marjorie finally seeing the light or is she just trying to save her skin for upcoming elections knowing that so many are abandoning MAGA ? Either way, the way Trump has verbally abused, attacked and spoke about her is disgusting and the true behaviour of a sociopath and bully. I have no sympathy for her as she should of known exactly what he is about but it is kind of comical that she is finally speaking some sense ( which is unbelievable in itself ) and he is ranting and raving like the unhinged pathological liar he is.

How the death of a Kurdish woman galvanised women all over Iran At first, the killing of Mahsa Amini by the morality police triggered protests only among a minority – but anger with the regime soon spread When a young Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, died in regime custody 10 days ago, Kurdish corners of Iran were the first to erupt; their anger at leaders they say have long oppressed them had an incendiary effect in their towns and cities. The death of the 22-year-old, who refused to wear a hijab on a visit to Tehran, quickly became a potent symbol of defiance for a minority group that had long harboured nationalistic ambitions, which rarely stayed hidden, and often eschewed the values of the country’s hardline leaders. But something happened along the way to what could have been a Kurdish nationalist uprising; Iranians from across the country fast shared in the outrage of the death of Amini and the collective indignity it represented to a greater population. Soon protesters on the streets of most of the country’s provinces were testing the limits of state forces. “It is not an Iranian revolution, or even a Kurdish revolution,” said Rozhin, 25, from the Kurdish city of Kermanshah. “It is a women’s revolution.” Demonstrations against the theocratic state’s stance towards women show little sign of slowing down in many parts of Iran. Women, who bear the brunt of state constraints, have been particularly vocal, tearing down pictures of Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the assassinated general Qassem Suleimani. Both acts were unthinkable even months ago, but so too was the spectacle of large numbers of women – Kurdish, Persian and minorities – taking to the streets without hijabs. “It’s now not about Kurdish movement, neither about Persians,” said Karim, 27, from the town of Bokan. “It’s about 85 million humans who are fighting back for their rights, socially, economically and in every aspect of life. One week ago a Kurdish girl was a stranger in the capital of Iran and now her face is known everywhere around the globe. This is not about national movement – this is beyond that; it’s about women, and it’s about our basic human rights. “At this moment, every individual is thinking about fundamental aims and problems to be solved. But I do not guarantee that after one year the Kurds have another way of thinking about Persians.” Kurds in Iran account for roughly 10% of the country’s population, and make up roughly a quarter of the greater Kurdish presence in the Middle East, scattered between west and eastern Iran, northern Iraq, northern Syria and southeastern Turkey. A century after the breakdown of post-first world war Ottoman boundaries, there is no Kurdish state, and numerous groups vie among populations to claim leadership roles among what remains a fractured population whose search for a homeland has remained elusive. Five years ago this week, Iraq’s Kurds held a referendum on statehood, which was passed overwhelmingly. However, within days, Iraq’s army, led by powerful militias and directed by Suleimani, pushed north to seize the oil city of Kirkuk and retake much of the land seized by Kurds after the ousting of Saddam Hussein in 2003. Ever since, there have been few moments to galvanise Kurds in either Iraq, or Iran –until Amini’s death in the custody of Iran’s morality police. The feared enforcers have become central targets of the demonstration and held up as examples of where Kurds diverge from the central government. “There is no doubting the Kurdish revolutionary fervour that Mahsa Amini’s death has sparked among Iran’s long-oppressed Kurdish population,” said Ranj Aladdin, senior fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs. “But her brutal death has come to symbolise something much bigger than the Kurdish cause in Iran that strikes at the very heart of the political and ideological system that underpins the Islamic Republic. “While her name will be exploited by other opponents of the regime, for the first time since 1979 the Kurdish cause in Iran has become intertwined with that of other oppressed communities. What that means for Kurdish human rights in the immediate future remains to be seen, but – if and when the regime survives this uprising – it is the Kurds who will most likely be in the cross-hairs of its violent response.” Rozhin says the aftermath of the demonstrations is not being considered, for now. “Women are struggling so much with so many problems. It’s obvious that people do not only have an issue with the hijab, but the system of government. They have changed the definition of Islam. They are killing many people. They are denying every single right of women. They don’t allow us to choose. It’s not only about the hijab issue – it’s about our right to make choices.” Another woman, a resident of Tehran who refused to be named, said the protests had electrified women across the country. “It’s happening in ways that have never been known before. Even if we don’t win, we’ve already won in many ways. The state cannot ignore us now. Our stance has made them weaker.”