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US bombs civilians celebrating Eid al-Fitr in Yemen.

https://xcancel.com/Ahmed_hassan_za/status/1908311960745127977

March for Palestine in DC today

I'm on the bus and ready to represent Hexbear

Golani reconnaissance battalion commander, David Cohen, to his soldiers:

Everyone you face is an enemy - recognize a figure, open fire, annihilate, and move on. Don't get confused in this regard

https://xcancel.com/Wollybon/status/1908049529674277085?t=mTp_GOKuX27IOlh14lL4qw&s=19

LOL. The stock market is taking an absolute nosedive. I guess I should "short" something, or whatever.

2008 all over again?

What Trump did with the tariffs is very similar to what Modi did in 2016, quote from an article on it below. I thought shutting down USAID was thoughtless but this is much more significant.

How can anybody be so indifferent to people’s suffering as the Modi government was in decreeing demonetisation? The answer lies in its desire for “shock and awe”, and the belief that the more people suffer, the more they would feel convinced that the government could not be inflicting so much suffering on them unless it was indeed serving some higher purpose. The combination of ignorance, arrogance and the desire for “shock and awe” on the part of a government can be quite lethal, as the Indian people have learned to their great cost.

https://www.newsclick.in/demonetisation-been-utter-failure-all-fronts

To remind all you newsheads to go out and touch some grass this weekend, here's young future chancellor of Germany, Friedrich Merz and current acting finance minister/vice-chancellor Robert Habeck in their 30s.

The passage of time - and bourgeois power struggles - really are terrible things.

maybe comrade trump can overachieve, huh

Defense for Children International has received the autopsy of 17-year-old Palestinian-Brazilian dual national Walid Ahmad, the first child to die in Israeli prisons. Ahmad reportedly likely died from starvation, dehydration, and infections due to prolonged malnutrition and medical neglect.

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in the irrelevant shenanigans news: bitcoin been rock steady (within 5 percent), i truly don't understand cryptobros.

to more news like about tariffs: https://www.techpowerup.com/335012/us-exempts-semiconductors-from-taiwan-tariffs-but-chip-making-equipment-remains-on-the-list

US airstrikes continue on Yemen for the 21st night in a row, with two airstrikes reported in Saada Governorate, around an area known to contain underground facilities, east of Saada city.

Two statements by the Yemeni Armed Forces earlier today:

No ballistic missiles at Israel, just a long range Sayyad one way attack drone, called 'Yaffa" for this operation. The Shark F360 drone is a mix of a quadcopter and winged drone, to allow for vertical takeoff and landing. It's a pretty small fully electric drone about 1.75m long, with a wingspan of 3.6m. Wonder how one got into Yemen in the first place. Mossad or CIA agents?

The B-2s are operating in Yemen now, and we have uncensored satellite imagery of weapons loading taking place on the B-2s. I've updated my post on it here, with the uncensored imagery.

Al Masirah TV twitter

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NYT: U.S. Strikes in Yemen Burning Through Munitions With Limited Success

President Trump said this week that Iranian-backed Houthi militants in Yemen have been “decimated by the relentless strikes” that he ordered beginning on March 15.

But that’s not what Pentagon and military officials are privately telling Congress and allied countries.

In closed briefings in recent days, Pentagon officials have acknowledged that there has been only limited success in destroying the Houthis’ vast, largely underground arsenal of missiles, drones and launchers, according to congressional aides and allies.

The officials briefed on confidential damage assessments say the bombing is consistently heavier than strikes conducted by the Biden administration, and much bigger than what the Defense Department has publicly described.

But Houthi fighters, known for their resiliency, have reinforced many of their bunkers and other targeted sites, frustrating the Americans’ ability to disrupt the militia’s missile attacks against commercial ships in the Red Sea, according to three congressional and allied officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss operational matters.

In just three weeks, the Pentagon has used $200 million worth of munitions, in addition to the immense operational and personnel costs to deploy two aircraft carriers, additional B-2 bombers and fighter jets, as well as Patriot and THAAD air defenses to the Middle East, the officials said.

The total cost could be well over $1 billion by next week, and the Pentagon might soon need to request supplemental funds from Congress, one U.S. official said.

So many precision munitions are being used, especially advanced long-range ones, that some Pentagon contingency planners are growing concerned about overall Navy stocks and implications for any situation in which the United States would have to ward off an attempted invasion of Taiwan by China.

The U.S. strikes, which Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth named Operation Rough Rider after the troops Theodore Roosevelt led in Cuba during the Spanish-American War, likely could continue for six months, officials said.

A senior Pentagon official late Thursday pushed back on the assessments described by the congressional and allied officials.

The senior official, also speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss operational matters, said the airstrikes had exceeded their goal in the campaign’s initial phase, disrupting senior Houthi leaders’ ability to communicate, limiting the group’s response to a handful of ineffective counter strikes, and setting the conditions for subsequent phases, which he declined to discuss. “We’re on track,” the official said.

Someone is lying here to the NYT about how this bombing campaign is actually going. Based on what @MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net has been reporting, specifically on the latest and greatest bunker busters being dropped from B-2s, I suspect it's Trump/Pentagon officials, but there's money and political implications to all of this. Depleting US munitions means more money for defense contractors. All I can say for sure is that Yemen continues to learn why Americans don't have healthcare.