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What Kind of Reconstruction Do We Want? What does reconstruction mean when life itself has been the target?

Can reconstruction occur as war itself continues?

Read more from Public Works Studio, translated by Basyma Saad (@basyma.bsky.social): thepublicsource.org/reconstructi...

Rafah is gone. Razed to the ground. It's not the only city decimated by the Israeli army ***

Deep dive by Haaretz on the accelerated, more methodical demolitions of whole towns that are at the core of the IDF’s current Operation Gideon’s Chariots in Gaza.

“After we're done, they won't be able to come back here for years,” the commander of the 7th Armored Brigade says of Khan Younis.

blabla they're not mutually exclusive but maybe we need less cool new psychoanalysis summer camps and more cool new maoist summer camps NO SHADE I PROMISE

gruesome and vulgar but actually try to imagine seeing dead children anywhere else in the world killed en masse while celebrating Christmas or Hanukkah or whatever the fuck

In a targeted attack on his car, Israel has killed Al-Jazeera's
Hossam Shabat, who was only 23 years old and was one of the last remaining journalists in Gaza.

There are no words.

YouTube video by Abdallh Ahmed فريدة مقام نهاوند و الله ما طلعت شمس

the doll's breakup music being Abbasid-era Sufi poetry
set to a Nahawand maqam
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBhd...

This schizoid reality cannot hold. The cradle of the resistance is justified in its forms of rage and protest. Everyone else should decide where they stand.

Practically everyone else in the country has been fully swept up by the fever dream of US-approved "reform," return of Harirism, implicit normalization of Israel.

actually reaching dehumanization of any Shi'a person who dares to protest or express anger on the street. They are deemed irrational barbarians.

And this mass sorrow is not only being faced with negligence and disregard from other sects and the government: it is being pre-empted and firewalled with complete demonization and ruthless condemnation,

The amount of sorrow, pain, and rage currently being felt by Shi'a and Palestinian communities in Lebanon—truly no one can begin to understand this if they have not spoken to a person who has experienced real loss in the war 🧵

original post by @eyesonsouth.bsky.social on X

There is always a surplus of psychic terror in Zionist violence that goes far beyond its tactical utility. This abhorrent reality is the "ceasefire" in the south

The Israeli military’s invasion of Tulkarm Refugee Camp in the northern West Bank has entered its 18th day, displacing 10,500 Palestinians and creating a severe humanitarian crisis.

The Media Committee in Tulkarm Refugee Camp shares the following:

fuck yes i'm here now and LIVING

chaser trade in Beirut can be sloppy (they will come up to you and say they "like ladyboys" if you're flat-chested) but at least they TAKE INITIATIVE

+ its inability to accept that the genocide is a logical endpoint of Zionism. These essential points must be accounted for, especially in light of the film's mounting accolades in Europe + the US

this review by Mary Turfah of No Other Land perfectly lays out the film's fanciful clinging on to a would-be liberal Zionism and its refusal to acknowledge Palestinian resistance beyond non-violent activism
t.co/NLwZIKMIHM

i enjoy post-punk a lot but i also feel like, as a genre, it's so internally homogeneous? a lot of post-punk songs sound insanely similar to me

On a Painting by Hamishi Farah | Triple Canopy Laughter, seriousness, and a portrait of Joe Chialo, the smiling face of German censorship....

"What has transpired in Gaza is of such epochal monumentality and obliterating significance that it troubles every distinction, every category..."

Tobi Haslett 'On a Painting by Hamishi Farah'

canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/on-...

i'm so entertained by the men who stare at me and SCOWL HARD for actual stretches of time? bitch you're gonna get a cramp

if you're in Berlin, actually don't miss this, it's going to be REAL

been obsessed

@sebastjanbr.bsky.social @aldokem.bsky.social

WARNING group chat still queening out about the bluesky exodus

SLURP SLURP

my question is how do we guarantee this app won't eventually sell to another gazillionaire overlord? Pinky promise? OUR EGGS IN WHICH BASKET DIVAS?

who knew that in 2025 neurodivergent oligarchs would force us into a mass exodus to a soulless purgatory with a late-90s-Mariah-coded logo

As an arab who has lived with palestinians my entire life in many different places, it is impossible to describe how difficult, discombobulating and deeply shocking it is to see palestinians beg. It is just not something i ever thought to see…