A long time ago, I used to know a lot about foreign-imposed regime change (FIRC) and study them.
I guess that makes me qualified to write a thread about them, especially in wake of Trump bombing Iran.
So here goes nothing. 🧵
A long time ago, I used to know a lot about foreign-imposed regime change (FIRC) and study them.
I guess that makes me qualified to write a thread about them, especially in wake of Trump bombing Iran.
So here goes nothing. 🧵
Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist
Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.
28.02.2026 17:18 — 👍 16769 🔁 7204 💬 39 📌 106Each one of those three missiles costs 33% more than the annual budget of the national park where I work.
28.02.2026 21:19 — 👍 5058 🔁 1593 💬 47 📌 25bluesky clippy: hey there! you seem to be mad at something but not the person you’re yelling at. would you like some help self-regulating?
28.02.2026 23:24 — 👍 2212 🔁 313 💬 23 📌 7
It’s incredible watching even like, normies realize what the Democratic Party has become.
This isn’t the party of LBJ or FDR. It’s become the party of Larry Summers.
Folks like AOC, Tlaib, Omar, Mamdani, etc. aim to change it. But they’re fighting decades of institutional suck.
Obscene wealth needs to be disqualifying in higher office.
28.02.2026 00:56 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yes, and this is why we should be kinder and even send fewer such emails and write them with recipients in mind who are actually caring scrupulous conscientious and not for the lowest common denominator, who also exists, the shirker privileged masculinist, and so who will ignore the email anyway
28.02.2026 00:51 — 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Star Trek fans: buy physical media of everything
27.02.2026 13:13 — 👍 513 🔁 103 💬 20 📌 21respectfully tapping the "support billionaire-free, worker-owned, independent media" sign again
26.02.2026 23:53 — 👍 1609 🔁 430 💬 17 📌 11
With this salvo, Kansas has escalated what will be a federal effort to establish a Jim Crow system of lawfully enforced second-class citizenship aimed at trans American
It was already the case but now it's inarguable; anyone who doesn't fully support trans people is an enemy of all civil rights.
If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out.
tcpipeline.org
Still time to write to your Senators (and get your friends to do the same). Casey Means is a charlatan with dangerous views on contraception, raw milk, vaccines and has a whole lot of conflict of interest--she's making money off it all. Just say no to the quack. actionnetwork.org/letters/oppo...
25.02.2026 10:44 — 👍 351 🔁 220 💬 8 📌 26
Avoid brain damage; wear an N95.
In both infections, we observed lasting lung injury,” Qin said. “But long-term effects in the brain were unique to SARS-CoV-2. That distinction is critical to understanding long COVID.”
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
It's been infuriating to watch drivers pitch a fit on social media about roads that are not cleared perfectly down to bare pavement, when cyclists and pedestrians often get a "Fuck you and good luck" after a snowstorm
25.02.2026 13:28 — 👍 180 🔁 24 💬 3 📌 7All from Minnesota. Love to see it.
24.02.2026 22:54 — 👍 4100 🔁 724 💬 87 📌 26
The US Justice Department withheld testimony that Donald Trump sexually abused a girl when she was 13 or 14 - according to a source who viewed unredacted Epstein files.
This is the worst scandal in US history and should be the biggest news story on the planet right now.
www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...
Share this with your normie relatives: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
24.02.2026 17:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Maybe science organizations don’t want to play outside game. FINE. 1. Apologize to your people for not responding well & 2. Support some activists who are doing the dirty work you can’t be bothered to do.
Not a SINGLE science org or society has donated to @standupforscience.bsky.social
So, while we are in the street standing up for science and the scientists who can’t risk standing up for theirselves…you’re what? In your lab? Keeping your head down in “resistance”?*
*ppl at risk are not included in this!!!
Do better. Grow a spine.
Is kidnapping & killing people in the streets. It’s a privilege to study something that isn’t targeted by this admin. It’s a privilege to be a white male citizen with tenure in this country.
Scientists everywhere are struggling to do their work because someone they love could get picked up by ICE.
1. Until Sunday, it wasn’t clear to me why Savannah Guthrie’s mom was still missing nearly a month after her disappearance. Then came images of the FBI director, Kash Patel, partying with members of the US Olympic hockey team after they won the gold medal.
Then it all started to make sense.
The NYT is bad.
23.02.2026 23:45 — 👍 91 🔁 15 💬 3 📌 1this is an example of what Julia Serano refers to as marking. it's a common form of bigoted targeting. when a person is seen as bad, anything they do is bad. so you get double binds. if Mamdani is not visible in a snow situation, he's derelict; if he is visible he's putting himself forward.1
23.02.2026 23:43 — 👍 174 🔁 41 💬 8 📌 0any democratic politician saying other democrats are talking about “pronouns” too much is laundering republican bigotry and lying to you to try and appear more moderate than democrats at large
23.02.2026 23:00 — 👍 2336 🔁 468 💬 53 📌 21Visibly impoverished people, begging for basics like food, are a tangible reminder that this government is failing its people.
23.02.2026 19:25 — 👍 81 🔁 25 💬 4 📌 2Is the president mocking the U.S. women’s hockey team on a celebratory call with the men’s team going to attract even an iota of the sustained handwringing that the idea of trans athletes disadvantaging women’s sports has gotten
23.02.2026 16:23 — 👍 7250 🔁 1763 💬 75 📌 57The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people local newspaper reporters are rarified elites instead of ink-stained wretches driving their Honda Civic to a crime scene so you know don’t have to rely on Nextdoor and the police press release.
22.02.2026 19:50 — 👍 3815 🔁 883 💬 38 📌 29The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...
22.02.2026 23:01 — 👍 18503 🔁 6558 💬 432 📌 174
A virus that causes vascular damage is not mild and children need protection. We all do. @ashleydaltonmp.bsky.social
www.bmj.com/content/392/...
I feel this so strongly. Covid was a test of our moral integrity & decency -- *not just elites, but all of us* -- and we failed.
I genuinely think one reason Covid has been memory-holed so hard, & so crusted w/ myths & conspiracy theories, is that on some level we know this & are ashamed.