The amount of military forces gathering near Iran dwarfs even the monthslong build-up before the U.S. coup in Venezuela.
19.02.2026 22:59 β π 56 π 32 π¬ 4 π 5@simulatedchollas.bsky.social
An epileptic forever-bumpkin turned counter-forensic geographer Abolish borders Ruthlessly criticize what exists Chinga la migra Internationalism or bust
The amount of military forces gathering near Iran dwarfs even the monthslong build-up before the U.S. coup in Venezuela.
19.02.2026 22:59 β π 56 π 32 π¬ 4 π 5United in genocide.
20.02.2026 07:20 β π 4 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0"22 miles of beautiful beach front property. Big hotels, wonderful tourist opportunities. Its aspirational. It could happen. But it will never happen as long as Hamas has anything to do with it. They have to go"
Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israel, spelling it out
ποΈI scheduled a call with a policy specialist to help me make sense of it, who in turn connected me to @myles-traphagen.bsky.social, who was documenting damage along the borderlands. He canceled our first call to film blasting at Coronado National Memorial in Arizona, which became the story's opener.
18.02.2026 14:58 β π 2 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0Tony Blair at the so called Board of Peace summit blaming conditions in Gaza on the Palestinians.
No mention of Israels decades long occupation, 20 year siege & regular attacks (mowing the lawn) that turned Gaza into an open air prison.
βFor years, there has been an influx of surveillance technology in and around the communities on the Tohono Oβodham Nation, including 10 integrated fixed towers, the backbone of CBPβs virtual wall.
And now there is a new layer of enforcement.β
uhhhh.... seems very bad!!!
20.02.2026 06:32 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it.
Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:
This show is really running out of ideas
20.02.2026 05:44 β π 55 π 7 π¬ 6 π 0Screenshot of an X post by Eric Lee which reads I can confirm that ICE/Core Civic fed my client Habiba Soliman a DIRTY NAIL in her breakfast this morning at Dilley. The nail was about the length of a fingernail, covered in black material. Detaining children at Dilley is a threat to their lives. 10:01 PM β’ 2026-02-19 β’ 19K Views
A 13 year old girl tried to kill herself to escape the Dilley Camp.
Theyβre feeding children dirty nails.
Theyβre allowing measles to spread.
Theyβre detaining babies as young as two months old.
These kids are writing letters & drawing pictures begging to be released
#SFUAB #thisisfine
20.02.2026 05:25 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0One of the things that personally drives me crazy in the U.S. is how youth sports/athletic activities went from a part of the public good (municipal leagues and fields! rec centers! public parks!) to a privatized, expensive, highly competitive, highly structured pursuit for wealthy kidsβ rΓ©sumΓ©s
19.02.2026 17:20 β π 8157 π 1880 π¬ 206 π 171oh we got both kinds! we got country *and* western!
19.02.2026 17:44 β π 84 π 5 π¬ 5 π 0This Epstein story harms their oligarch benefactors so of course they're going to minimize it. Afflict the afflicted and comfort the comfortable.
19.02.2026 14:07 β π 447 π 77 π¬ 17 π 2I absolutely guarantee you he didnβt say any of this
20.02.2026 00:09 β π 966 π 135 π¬ 74 π 12NEW: Jeffrey Epstein cultivated relationships with CBP officers at the airports he frequented.
Epstein emailed and texted with six CBP officers, invited them to his island, visited with them at the airport, and frequently sought to determine who was going to be on duty when he was traveling
Nothing surprises anymore but I had to read this a couple of times anyway.
20.02.2026 01:57 β π 5 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0They have to flatten white supremacy and liberation politics in order to maintain the illusion of normalcy and consensus.
19.02.2026 22:02 β π 32 π 16 π¬ 2 π 0Why educate students when you can lie to them instead?
19.02.2026 22:02 β π 5 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0I need to just go ahead and make of thread of everytime he invokes this.
The fact that the pattern is all but ignored bothers me
US military flights have dominated our most tracked flights list this week. See a time lapse of flights since Monday and how you can access the most tracked flights panel in the Flightradar24 app.
19.02.2026 19:18 β π 112 π 54 π¬ 7 π 8"There will be fewer maps in any future ads, he said."
Yes, the answer to people being upset by the truth is to obfuscate the truth in the future.
Part of the myth of Ring is that this is MY camera on MY door--but when you see a map and realize that there are a hundred in your neighborhood and they're all connected by a corporation that serves the police, the illusion dissolves.
19.02.2026 19:36 β π 306 π 107 π¬ 10 π 4Extremely grim portent when a university denies tenure to a person who literally wrote the research methods handbook on decoloniality
19.02.2026 21:48 β π 39 π 18 π¬ 1 π 0New Mexico AG orders criminal investigation surrounding Zorro Ranch be reopened
19.02.2026 21:18 β π 98 π 26 π¬ 0 π 8Iran: Yankee Go Home (graffiti)
No War On Iran (2025-1953 and beyond)
historyiswhat.noblogs.org/post/2025/06...
Donald Trump announced Thursday that he wants the United States to contribute $10 billion to his so-called Board of Peaceβessentially forming a slush fund of taxpayer money the president can use however he likes.
newrepublic.com/post/206790/...
NEW: A Georgia railroad owned by a descendant of an enslaver is using eminent domain to take land owned by descendants of the enslaved. If you want to understand how slavery still shapes power today, start here: capitalbnews.org/georgia-rail...
19.02.2026 18:54 β π 552 π 367 π¬ 7 π 19Trump signed an EO invoking DPA to prioritize domestic production of elemental phosphorus and glyphosate-based herbicides, citing military readiness and food security β formally linking agriculture + defense.
US currently relies on imports for more than 6M kg of elemental phosphorus annually.