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🇮🇷 War law bends further under bombardment. Israel and the United States are hitting Iran while legal justifications remain heavily disputed. Reports state the war is putting the international legal order under fresh strain. Iranian officials and international relief observers stated that a joint Israeli-American targeted strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ elementary school in Minab killed 175+ civilians. American Central Command said it was aware of the reports and was looking into them. That alone would raise grave questions under the laws of war. The danger does not stop there. Trump has openly threatened to destroy Iran’s bridges and power plants. Separately reported experts saying such attacks on civilian infrastructure could constitute war crimes. When states start treating schools, bridges, and power grids like bargaining chips, legality stops looking like a guardrail and starts looking like an afterthought.

🇱🇧 Lebanon’s hospitals look at Gaza and recognize the script. Doctors in Lebanon say Israel is targeting the country’s health care system much as it did Gaza’s. The linked report describes shelling hospitals, striking ambulances, and forcing evacuations in Gaza as the template now feared in Lebanon. Israel is pushing deeper into southern Lebanon, and its leaders have declared intentions for a long-term occupation there. The broader record already carries harsher labels. Lebanese medical workers say the warning is not theoretical anymore. Editor’s Note: The polycrisis afflicting Gaza since 2023 was officially considered a genocide by the United Nations (UN) and International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS), with famine declared formally by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), confirmed by UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), UNICEF, World Food Program (WFP), and World Health Organization (WHO), along with Global Sumud Flotilla eyewitnesses.

🏛️ Tax cuts cleared, foster kids did not. West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey vetoed bills aimed at neglected children and youths aging out of foster care. He did so only days after signing a 5% cut to the personal income tax. The foster transition bill had passed with near-unanimous support. It would have expanded a statewide pilot program. That program helps former foster youths live independently, find work, and enroll in college. Another vetoed bill was meant to reduce the odds that children enter foster care at all. Reporting says both measures likely would have saved the state money over time. Instead, Morrisey chose tax relief first and child welfare second. In budget politics, priorities are rarely hidden; they are enacted.

🎓 DeSantis just gave speech policing a sharper edge. Ron DeSantis signed a Florida law letting top state officials label groups as domestic or foreign terrorists. The law also allows state universities to expel students who support those groups. Supporters call it a public-safety measure. Free speech advocates call it a civil-rights problem waiting to happen. PEN America said the wording is vague enough to chill education at every level. The group also warned it could target student protesters who criticize Florida officials. That is the trouble with laws built on elastic labels. They start by promising security and end by inviting selective enforcement. In Florida, support can now be interpreted through a political lens with expulsion attached.

🏀 Michigan finally finished the climb. The Michigan Wolverines beat the UConn Huskies 69-63 for the NCAA national title. It is the popular collegiate sport program’s second championship; its first came in 1989. The Wolverines finished the season 37-3. Elliot Cadeau led Michigan with 19 points. Trey McKenney hit a late 3 that felt like the dagger. Michigan also went 25 for 28 from the line. Dusty May’s transfer-heavy roster looked rugged rather than ornate. UConn kept crashing the offensive glass and refusing to disappear. The horn sounded and dust settled, but stubborn became insufficient.

🪡 The tailoring trade is running out of hands. Demand for alterations is rising just as the people who do them are aging out. Shoppers want custom fit, longer-lasting clothes, and revived secondhand pieces. Tailor Kil Bae is one face of that older craft economy in New York, while Marco Lema represents a thinner younger bench. Fashion experts say cheap, disposable wardrobes are losing some of their appeal. Bae also said weight-loss drugs are driving more resizing requests for slimmer waists and busier worktables. But demand does not automatically create successors. Trade can be fashionable again and still run short of workers who know how to save the seam.

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