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April 8, 2026

Israel has carried out its largest attack on Lebanon since its war with Hezbollah began, killing at least 254 people and wounding 837, an assault that prompted Iranian officials to warn Tehran could withdraw from the ceasefire agreed with the US overnight.

Warplanes levelled several buildings in the centre of Beirut, filling the skies with smoke in what Israel’s defence minister said was “a surprise strike” on the pro-Iranian group Hezbollah.

The Lebanese capital was filled with cars crumpled by the blasts and the flaming wreckage of buildings that first responders struggled to extinguish, as Israel bombed more than 100 Hezbollah military sites around the country.

The office of Israel’s prime minister said the two-week Middle East ceasefire did not include Lebanon, contrary to a statement made by mediator Pakistan – while Trump, after initially remaining silent, said Lebanon was “a separate skirmish” and not part of the deal.

In “Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious,” the New York Times columnist tries to reverse the trend of a more secular society. But his reasoning just doesn’t add up.

US President Donald Trump said late Wednesday that the American military is already looking ahead to its "next conquest" as the Middle East remains embroiled in a deadly military conflict that Trump and his ally, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, unleashed six weeks ago.

In a late-night post on his Truth Social platform, Trump said US forces will remain "in place" and "around" Iran until a "real agreement" is reached to end the war, as the two-week ceasefire the president and Iranian leaders announced late Tuesday hangs by a thread due to Israel's massive bombardment of Lebanon.

After threatening a "bigger, and better, and stronger" assault on Iran if peace talks collapse, Trump said the US military is "Loading Up and Resting, looking forward, actually, to its next Conquest"—even as senior administration officials expressed concerns that the president's declarations of victory in Iran were premature.

Branislav Slantchev, an international relations expert who teaches political science at the University of California San Diego, wrote in response to Trump's post that "this depraved idiot is out of control."

"We cannot live this way," added journalist Marisa Kabas.

Trump, who has bombed more countries than any other president in modern US history despite campaigning on "no new wars," did not name any potential targets of the American military's "next conquest" in his Wednesday night post. But the president has lobbed threats against Cuba and Greenland repeatedly in recent months, threatening to seize both island nations by force. Last week, Trump asked Congress to approve a $1.5 trillion military budget for the coming fiscal year—a request that included tens of billions for new battleships and fighter jets.

During a speech at a Saudi-backed investment summit in Miami last month, Trump touted the US military's illegal attacks on Venezuela and Iran before declaring, "Cuba is next."

"Pretend I didn't say ⁠that," the president added.

In a separate Truth Social post Wednesday night, Trump hit out at NATO and characterized Greenland, in all-caps, as a "BIG, POORLY RUN, PIECE OF ICE."

Brian Finucane, senior adviser to the US Program at the International Crisis Group, argued that Trump is "lashing out because his war on a whim did not result in the hoped-for ‘Venezuela’ in Iran but a historic debacle instead."

The Intercept's Nick Turse reported last month that amid the Iran war, a top Pentagon official "revealed that US wars in the Western Hemisphere are also expanding, unveiling an effort dubbed 'Operation Total Extermination.'"

Joseph Humire, the Pentagon's acting assistant secretary for homeland defense and Americas security affairs, told lawmakers that the US military "supported 'bilateral kinetic actions against cartel targets along the Colombia-Ecuador border'" in early March, according to Turse.

"The US–Ecuadorian campaign has already strayed into Colombia after a farm was bombed or hit by 'ricochet effect' on March 3, leaving an unexploded 500-pound bomb lying in Colombia’s border region," Turse reported. "In addition to his wars in the Western hemisphere, Trump has also launched attacks on Iran, Iraq, Nigeria, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen during his second term—most of them sites of US conflicts during the war on terror."

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The arrest took place just moments after she had provided evidence intended to hold her alleged attacker accountable.

According to the advocate who accompanied her, the federal agents were not wearing uniforms. They forced the 'screaming' woman into an unmarked vehicle before driving away. When the advocate attempted to seek help, police officers reportedly told her: 'We can't do a thing. They're ICE.'

Deir Yassin Massacre (1948)

Fri Apr 09, 1948

Image: Orphaned children whose parents had been killed at Deir Yassin. Credit: IDF archive / Still from the film "Born in Deir Yassin" [haartetz.com]

On this day in 1948, far-right Zionist paramilitaries indiscriminately slaughtered 107-254 villagers of Deir Yassin, orphaning at least 55 children (2 shown). Israel has kept documentation of the massacre sealed, citing security concerns.

The massacre took place during the 1947-1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine. In the months leading up to the attack, forces led by the Palestinian Arab nationalist Mohammad Amin al-Husayni laid siege to Jerusalem, cutting off the city from military aid.

Although war had broken out, the fighting was relatively contained. According to an Arab League general - "Despite the fact that skirmishes and battles have begun, the Jews at this stage are still trying to contain the fighting to as narrow a sphere as possible...the Jews have not so far attacked Arab villages unless the inhabitants of those villages attacked them or provoked them first."

Deir Yassin was a Palestinian Arab village near Jerusalem, with several hundred residents (all Muslim), living in 144 houses. Multiple accounts suggest villagers lived in peace with their Jewish neighbors, particularly those in Givat Shaul, some of whom reportedly tried to help the villagers during the massacre.

On April 9th, 1948, more than one hundred members of the underground, far-right Zionist paramilitary groups Irgun and Lehi attacked Deir Yassin. The operation took place despite knowledge that villagers had signed a non-aggression pact.

Zionist soldiers expected residents to flee rather than fight back. When they encountered armed resistance, soldiers resorted to blowing up houses with explosives and indiscriminately slaughtering all inside. According to eye-witness accounts, the attackers systemically murdered the village population, executing children and reportedly raping women.

Zionists paraded captured adult men in the streets of West Jerusalem before returning to the village and executing them. Money, silver, and gold were taken from the victims. In total, estimates of those killed range from 107 to 254, and at least 55 children were orphaned.

The massacre was internationally condemned, including by Jewish intellectuals such as Albert Einstein. The attack inspired a revenge attack four days after the Deir Yassin massacre - on April 13th, Arabs attacked the Hadassah medical convoy in Jerusalem, killing seventy-eight, most of whom were medical staff.

In 1969, the Israeli Foreign Ministry published an English pamphlet "Background Notes on Current Themes: Deir Yassin", falsely denying that there had been a massacre at Deir Yassin, claiming that the village was the home of an Iraqi garrison, and calling the massacre story "part of a package of fairy tales, for export and home consumption".

The attack caused many Palestinians in the area to flee, and escalated tensions in the civil war. In 1951, an Israeli psychiatric hospital was built on the village itself, using some of the village's abandoned buildings.

"They are angry with me that I said these things. Let them first be angry at themselves...I was there, I saw the massacre with my own eyes. Why didn't [Israeli military historian Uri Milstein] ever question me about the things I experienced there?"

- Meir Pa'il, an intelligence officer who provided an eyewitness account to the Deir Yassin Massacre

• Date: 1948-04-09
• Learn More: www.haaretz.com, en.wikipedia.org.
• Tags: #Massacre.
• Source: www.apeoplescalendar.org

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MILWAUKEE – When 10-year-old Jordan Busse steps into the powwow arena in her jingle dress, the Ho-Chunk girl sets out to honor the dresses tradition by healing herself and those who listen and watch. She’s dedicated to dancing, practicing hours a week and often running three miles daily to stay powwow ready.

In late March, one of Jordan’s powwow warmup videos went viral, with just shy of 1 million views on TikTok and nearly 74,000 reactions on Facebook as of April 7.

In the video, Jordan steps into frame in an eye-catching blue and silver jingle dress, side stepping to pop-hit “Just the Way You Are” by Milky.

Jordan’s confidence and skills caught the attention of many online, and she wants to use that attention to help encourage other kids to dance, she said.

“I think kids should dance because I feel it would be good for their elders, their people and their tribe and just for everyone that needs healing,” Jordan said. “People back then [in the past] couldn’t dance so [kids] can dance for them now because they didn’t get to do it.”

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One TikTok comment said the video made them emotional because of “how confident and free feeling little indigenous children should be always.”

In 2026, thousands of Indigenous children and people are preparing to participate in powwow season in North America, but this wasn’t always the case.

From 1883 to 1933, it was illegal for Native people to dance in public following the passage of the Code of Indian Offenses. The government’s ban on Native ceremonies and cultural dances was part of a larger effort to assimilate Native people into mainstream culture.

Ten-year-old Jordan Busse dances during the annual Bear Moon Powwow at the Indian Community School in Franklin, Wisconsin. (Amelia Schafer/ICT)

While the law was mostly focused on preventing cultural and spiritual dances, it included broad sweeping measures to prevent any dancing. Dances went underground during that time, sometimes breaking free to be showcased as “patriotic” celebrations on holidays like the Fourth of July or Veteran homecomings.

During this time the jingle dress was born. The dress was created in 1920 by an Anishinaabe man in the Great Lakes area, according to community oral tradition. The dress was revealed to the man in a dream, which depicted hundreds of tiny metal cones connected to a dress. The man believed the dress was a way to heal the people amidst the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic. Over 100 years later, the dress is still danced, especially in the Great Lakes region but also across North America.

Jordan is honoring that tradition in 2026 by dancing to heal herself, others, and inspire other youth to come out and join her in the circle.

“There’s a lot of people out there that can’t dance, and there’s a bunch of people out there who need healing,” Jordan said. “I like to dance for them.”

Jordan served as head female youth dancer at the Indian Community School’s powwow on April 4. It was her first time holding the position, she said.

To give back, Jordan’s family held a special in her honor at the one-day powwow just south of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

“She just wants to encourage us as much as she can,” said Kateri Busse, Jordan’s mother. “Whatever tribe you come from, she wants to encourage you 100 percent.”

Jordan Busse dances during the first pushup of a straight song during the jingle dress special held in her honor on April 4 at Indian Community Schools in Franklin, Wisconsin. (Amelia Schafer/ICT)

Jordan’s dancing routine started off humble. She used to just dance in her family’s living room practicing to powwow songs on the television. She was encouraged to start dancing by her parents, and said she’s glad she took their advice.

“I feel better, I feel stronger and sometimes it heals me too,” Jordan said. “My parents have really helped me become the dancer I am today.”

Jordan said champion powwow dancer Prairie Rose Jack is her biggest inspiration.

“She started when she was little, just like me,” Jordan Busse said. “Everytime she dances in the arena she gets better, there’s not one thing that she can’t get better at. I want to be just like her.”

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In 1958, Mao [Zedong, then the Chinese Communist Party's leader] ordered every village in China to produce steel. Farmers melted down their cooking pots in backyard furnaces and reported spectacular numbers. The steel was useless. The crops rotted. Thirty million people starved.

In 2026, every other company is having top down mandate on AI transformation.

Same energy.

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Entire departments are stitching together n8n workflows and calling it AI — dozens of automated chains firing prompts into models, zero evaluation on any of them. These tools are merchants of complexity: they sell visual simplicity while generating spaghetti underneath. A drag-and-drop canvas makes it trivially easy to chain ten LLM calls together and impossibly hard to debug why the eighth one hallucinates on Tuesdays. The people building these workflows have never designed an evaluation pipeline, never measured model drift, never A/B tested a prompt. They don’t need to — the canvas looks clean, the arrows point forward, the green checkmarks fire. The complexity isn’t avoided. It’s hidden behind a GUI where nobody with ML expertise will ever look.

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The “everyone builds with AI” mandate has turned into a hunger game of scope creep. Engineers use AI to generate designs and ship prototypes without waiting for the design team. PMs use AI to write code and spin up dashboards without filing engineering tickets. Designers use AI to build product specs and run user research without looping in product. Everyone is expanding into everyone else’s territory — not because they’re better at it, but because AI makes it possible and the mandate makes it rewarded. The org chart says collaboration; the incentive structure says land grab. What looks like productivity gains is actually a war of all against all, where every function is simultaneously trying to prove it can absorb the others before the others absorb it.

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The Great Leap Forward’s famine didn’t arrive immediately. For a while, the numbers looked spectacular. Every province reported record harvests. Leadership was pleased. The requisitions increased.

The famine came when the real grain ran out but the reported grain kept flowing upward.

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The question nobody’s asking: what did any of this actually produce?

The answer, when it arrives, will be awkward.