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the war is unpopular but it's also illegal but it also doesn't serve any purpose but it also undermines diplomacy but it also is set to produce the opposite outcome as intended but it also already has hundreds dead and threatens more but it also will not make anything better for anyone but it also

so much cultural and political effort gone towards making a project of pacifism and an end to war seem like a soft, prosaic concern of comfortable people rather than an essential part of the project of justice and human flourishing

Looking back at the recent Murder of the Century scandal, particularly that some actors were unaware the Lin family massacre is still technically unsolved, one finds it horrifying what extent there is a lack of knowledge of the White Terror in society

Not to stan too hard for my friends, but this remains a top-of-all-time anarchist banner:

I was born into the Iraq war. She'll have a fun time learning about all the stuff that happened when she was a baby when she's older.

Our baby has been alive for two deadly, illegal campaigns by the U.S. to remove a foreign leader. She’s 7 weeks old.

Here is a drawing I did some years ago, it is a drawing of a raccoon holding a wrench and saying “Anything you can do to undermine the US war machine is justified and morally right”. Pen and ink on paper.

Here is a drawing I did some years ago. I might as well share it here now. Anything you can do to undermine the US war machine is justified and morally right. pen and ink on paper.

I'm disgusted enough that it makes me upset to see people speculate as to the impact this all will have on the 2026 midterms and 2028. But it is nonetheless important *as a pure practical matter* to observe who is saying what and what they're aiming for. Ossoff and Gallego are instructive.

I have a very nasty feeling that this is going to turn into a forever war now that Khamenei is dead.

What the Donald Trump of 2016 would think of the Donald Trump of 2026 will never be known. But they are starkly different figures when it comes to overseas intervention. A

It’s the same guy you dumb shit

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”

James Baldwin

It’s wrong to vaporize school children even if Congress votes to approve it.

It feels like the United States has the most solipsistic culture imaginable, with a populace unable to parse global events through any lens other than how they are personally affected.

Sharing this interview again, as protesters in Iran make clear that continued US led massacres will do nothing to improve the lives of ordinary people fighting on the ground.

*when

The judges in WV have seen enough.

They say that if the ICE continues detaining people in ways they have unanimously deemed illegal they will start issuing civil fines and contempt findings — including against state officials who help them carry it out.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

For the nerds

The US and Israel are bombing Iran. Anyone reporting it as “preventive” is engaging in propaganda, by definition. There is no interpretation of what’s happening as anything else than a crime.

You don’t have to like the Iranian regime to understand why this is bad.

Same from my contacts in Qatar.

2 min ago Timing of US-Israel attack on Iran bears symbolic meaning in Judaism Tal Shalev By Tal Shalev The timing of the US and Israeli attack on Iran bears symbolic meaning in Judaism. Ahead of the upcoming Jewish holiday of Purim, worshippers read the specific portion from the Old Testament, known as Zachor. The passage from the book of Deuteronomy commands the ancient Israelites to remember an unprovoked attack by the nation of Amalek and to eradicate the memory of Amalek once the Israelites are settled in their land. The passage is read publicly before Purim to fulfil the mitzvah of remembering Amalek as Israel’s achetypical enemy.

This is what CNN is publishing even before the Ellisons come in

Fuck the US war machine

Wtf

Bloop

(Sharing with alt)

Fascism is here and yet we insist on continuing to make things. Keep creating. It's so important. Do not let the fascists colonize your imagination or curtail your creativity.

What the fuck we have a rapist pedophile president.

How is my sleep less fucked up than yours, I never thought this would be possible, lol

I was surprised to see that the Green Lane at customs was back when I re-entered Taiwan 2 weeks ago. I thought they had eliminated it.

If you are surprised by what SCOTUS just did, you need to revisit your premises about the Court and the political economy of constitutional litigation, which is very sensitive to the preferences of people who do not like market chaos even if the administration does not care.

Oh hell yeah.

look at that math

let's hear it for Black women in STEM