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thank you to @cobaltgreen1138.bsky.social for doing the historical work on twitter to identify this

greef karga as the eponymous glup shitto is actually v sweet and moving to me bc at the end of the day he represents the power of a community leader and what it can look like to earn and work toward “redemption” in the sw universe… played by an iconic Black grandpa too like,, :’)

policing, law enforcement and the criminal legal system will not save us !

Exclusive: Iranian girls killed by ‘double-tap’ strikes on Minab school Eyewitnesses describe second blast which killed survivors as they sheltered in prayer hall

The girls’ school in Iran, where 165 people were killed by an apparent US-Israeli attack, was hit with two strikes, with the second missile killing sheltering survivors, two first responders and the parent of a slain child have told Middle East Eye.

relatedly… to me, the conflict between the jedi and rayencourt enacts a similar struggle between christianity—we know this is how leslye thinks of them too—and secularism, which religious studies fans know is just a variant of white christian nationalism in a liberal democracy-shaped trenchcoat

which is to say, if you are to take seriously star wars as a political text situated in relation to the united states, religion can and must be part of this discussion, it is inexorably linked to colonialism and white supremacist violence as well as fugitive, resistance and repair

primarily Black and Latiné ppl. this is a diagnosis with a specific history that is explicated by scholar aisha beliso-de jesús, it’s a history that’s linked to the violent and deliberate targeting and policing of afro-caribbean religions and spiritual practice such as santeria and vodou.

thinking about the acolyte and how aniseya is killed by Sol. i do think this encounter can be read as racialized, and ive seen several ppl make comparison to police violence. further to this resonance, im thinking abt “excited delirium”, a fictitious diagnosis invented to justify police murders of

feminist ethnographers to be clear…

every day we push closer to in-universe ethnographic research 🙏🏼🕯️

working thru some reading on existentialism and christianity atm which probably lensed my reading of this chapter subconsciously… oh to have more star wars that contends seriously with the religious aspects of the force . rip the acolyte 💔

rereading dark disciple. Ventress and her moment of clarity at the end—is that just a love/self sacrifice moment? it’s written almost like a religious conversion. probably it depends on ur personal theology of the force/what it means to be “redeemed” (the Council likes to use “returned” in the book)

it’s actually so bad how my after work plans for the day collapsed upon finding out ao3 is going to be down for hours 💀💀💀💀💀

I’m gonna mute the word “distraction” for the next 72 hours. None of this is a distraction from anything else, the US Government is, and has been, a death cult run by rapists. Every atrocity they commit is its own reward.

Rather than regime change, Iran becoming a failed state & potentially breaking into a civil war & multiple weaker states is a common discussion among Iranians of all political leanings in Iran & leftist Iranians in diaspora. Yet it doesn't get much air elsewhere, esp on English MSM, I find.

⭕️ Read in full Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s unequivocal condemnation of the U.S.–Israeli attack on Iran: “The American people do not want a war with Iran. Trump is acting on the violent fantasies of the American political elite and the Israeli apartheid government, ignoring the vast majority of Americans who say loud and clear: No More Wars. The Trump Administration and Israeli regime’s illegal war of aggression on Iran has already killed dozens of children, and more horrific death and destruction will come. These acts of war threaten to ignite a catastrophic regional war that will make no one safer while unleashing unconscionable suffering. President Trump will pretend this is about democracy and the rights of the Iranian people. Don’t be fooled, Trump does not care about the Iranian people. The Iranian people are not pawns for the interests of foreign powers. Our government has imposed brutal sanctions that have destroyed the Iranian economy and the lives and livelihoods of millions of people. You cannot ‘free’ people by killing them and destroying their country. Congress must stop the bloodshed by immediately reconvening to exert its war powers and stop this deranged president. But let’s be clear: warmongering politicians from both parties support this illegal war, and it will take a mass anti-war movement to stop it.”

Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib @RepRashida The American people do not want a war with Iran. Trump is acting on the violent fantasies of the American political elite and the Israeli apartheid government, ignoring the vast majority of Americans who say loud and clear: No More Wars.

⭕️ Read in full Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s unequivocal condemnation of the US–Israeli attack on Iran:

“The American people do not want a war with Iran. Trump is acting on the violent fantasies of the American political elite and the Israeli apartheid government, ignoring the vast majority of Americans...

Wow, shocker, who could have guessed

I promise you that the government that murdered Alex Pretti and Renee Good does not give a flying fuck about the protests in Iran.

It’s been terrifying to have almost every year in the past 20 years be a lesson in how many people with power make decisions about who lives and dies with little thought or care or even a clear idea as to why they’re doing anything, and it’s terrifying that it seems to be getting worse

prison for everyone involved in this illegal war of aggression

This is very bad. Handing CNN to Bari Weiss/David Ellison is very, very bad.

with how rapidly parts of the US and canada are moving to criminalize transition now is a better time than ever to get linked into the diy networks and also please do not post about them in public too much

my bigger swing: every star wars story since a new hope is a response to that tension or trying to run away from or negotiate it in some way

the dialectic that governs star wars’ in universe cosmological grammar is summed up by whether you as a fan agree with luke or leia about vader

i will be buying the embo and rotta black series figures. i don’t love that about myself but it is what it is

kallus isn’t in the mandalorian and grogu because of the new republic’s “don’t ask don’t tell” policy

just watched the mando and grogu trailer..,the aftermath books are truly fighting for their life 😭😭😭😭💀💀💀

i do think shooting on the volume has probably narrowed (literally, spatially, physically) the terrain in which directors can play which is a bit of a shame

i love how stylized the last jedi is. we need more directors with personality in star wars PLEASE… give me more timelapses… give me uneven frame rates unconventional povs and whip pans 🥺🥺🥺

questions like “who is that guy” and “who is that other guy” followed up by “are you being fr right now”