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Shava Nerad

@shava23.bsky.social

Career activist, writer in retirement. Founding execdir, The Tor Project Digital divide, civil rights/liberties, political activist. https://www.onlineprivacytips.co/interview/shava-nerad-interview/ https://patreon.com/shava23 / https://paypal.me/shava

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Review | McDonald’s new Big Arch burger is an ode to American excess The newcomer goes big with two quarter-pound patties, three slices of cheese and more than 1,000 calories.

Making America HUUUUUGE Again?

You can bet Trump will be ordering delivery for a midnight snack in the situation room.

1000+ kC.

www.washingtonpost.com/food/2026/03...

03.03.2026 22:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump says Starmer is 'no Winston Churchill' over Iran strikes Sir Keir Starmer had refused to grant the US permission to use the Diego Garcia military base.

How to make friends and influence allies.

nz.news.yahoo.com/trump-says-s...

03.03.2026 17:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Chill out, read a good book, touch grass, get therapy, Shaggy.

Your lack of self reflection and your projection are pretty blatant to anyone outside your bubble.

Byeeee!

03.03.2026 16:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

But the parallels are clear. You are judging a class of people -- the vast majority of people/cultures -- by mapping your bad parenting on the whole world.

You've implied that your mom is crazy. Yet you're defending her.

Therapy could help.

03.03.2026 16:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Melania Trump presides at UN Security Council meeting as U.S. attacks Iran U.S. first lady Melania Trump presided over a U.N. Security Council meeting on Monday focusing on children in conflict, as the United States has joined Israel in attacking Iran.

Not The Onion

www.npr.org/2026/03/03/g...

03.03.2026 16:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How Trump assassination attempts played into his decision to attack Iran President Donald Trump acknowledged for the first time a personal rationale for attacking Iran: β€œI got him before he got me.”

Ok, we now have a president more actively vindictively paranoid than Nixon. And his idea of dirty tricks has no restraints.

gift article

wapo.st/4cYVhL3

03.03.2026 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Well, we both see the other as deluded.

I wouldn't fight against you running for office, other than campaigning against you. ;)

03.03.2026 16:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

All Blacks are stupid.

No women can do math.

All poor people are unable to act in their own self interest.

All Hispanic folks have no work ethic.

Let's ban them all from voting or running for office?

I suggest therapy for this hostile paranoid streak of yours.

03.03.2026 16:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

But I totally support your rights to start a new religion and stay the hell away from elected office.

You obviously have too many delusions about society from attachments to your childhood trauma to be a realistic policy maker.

03.03.2026 16:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Congress: Support All Means to End Military Escalation in the Middle East Text SIGN PQTFYH to 50409 to send this to your officials.

All three, we must stop this madness.
Call Congress, support the joint resolution. 202-224-3121

Use @resist.bot for further amplification of your NO WAR message.

Text β€˜sign PQTFYH’ to 50409

resist.bot/petitions/PQ...

03.03.2026 16:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Pirate Party shouldn't exist, then. You are so literalist.

03.03.2026 16:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It's like deciding all love is bad because narcissistic abuse exists.

03.03.2026 16:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

You are confusing religion with tribalism, with Othering. We will always have Othering -- it's part of human nature.

Transcending Othering is part of the foundation of Christianity. But like any philosophy, it can be and therefore is exploited as control.

03.03.2026 16:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

All? All religion? No exceptions to this tar brush?

UUs? Friends (Quakers)? Neopagans? Zen Buddhists? Religious humanists?

Religion is just another cassus belli, just like WMD or nuclear programs. You're actually giving it more weight than it deserves. It controls you thru your rejection.

03.03.2026 16:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Why Evolution Made Your Teeth Hurt
YouTube video by PBS Eons Why Evolution Made Your Teeth Hurt

How ancient boneless fish gave us toothaches

youtu.be/miPIUijJHdo?...

03.03.2026 16:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ok, my zone is flooded and I'm in migraine soon. Ttyl, if I can stop doomscrolling.

03.03.2026 15:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Saudi Aramco | Company History, Facts, & Outlook | Britannica Money Saudi Arabian Oil Company, or Saudi Aramco, is a state-owned energy giant based in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia....

Also, Aramco originally stood for the Arab American Oil Company, founded as a branch of what is now Chevron.

It's still part of the major ties between US/Saudi. So even without the contention between the Saudis and Iran, it's a strong symbol.

www.britannica.com/money/Saudi-...

03.03.2026 15:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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US warns of Iranian attack on Saudi oil city as Trump tells Tehran it's 'too late' to talk The US consulate in Dhahran - where Saudi oil giant Aramco is based - urges people to shelter. Elsewhere, the UK deploys

One month. Right.

www.bbc.com/news/live/cy...

03.03.2026 15:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Why is Iran not an Arab country? Persian vs Arab identity explained Iran is often grouped with Arab nations, but it is not an Arab country. Its people are largely Persian, its language is Farsi, and its history stretches back to ancient empires long before Islam. Here...

For those unaware, Iran is NOT an Arab country.

www.indiatoday.in/education-to...

03.03.2026 15:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Donald Trump reveals "biggest surprise" of Iran war Trump calls Iran’s strikes on Arab states the biggest surprise, saying the attacks pulled Gulf allies into a widening conflict.

Iran has contentious relationships with the region. Has since Ali. It doesn't surprise anyone who knows a sliver of the history of the region that they are willing to strike out at US allies/friendlies.

Lying or stupid or bad advisors?

Could be all three.

www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...

03.03.2026 15:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Um.

China identifies as part of the global south, these days, as a way to worm their way into neocolonialist relationships with global south countries -- but sure.

It's just a new cold war/BRICS+ thing.

But yes, decapitation is bad(TM). Look how it worked out with Iraq, another "one month" war?

03.03.2026 15:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's on the banner for his profile -- Separation of Church and Hate. I haven't read it but I leafed through it at one point and figured I had been steeped in the ideas for well over a half century, but it's on my infinite backlog, lol...

03.03.2026 15:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

And there are a lot of incredibly bigoted people who have never met a liberal secularist Christian and run on religious prejudice.

Lawdy, Shaggy, we's all just yo bad n*****s.

Try a little nuance. Why are you following me if I'm insane?

03.03.2026 14:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Requires registration

03.03.2026 14:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I have been beating this drum, I say again, FOR DECADES as a secularist American Christian.

And getting about as much attention as a Muslim protesting that "We are not all terrorists."

No, Jesus would not approve.

03.03.2026 14:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Moronic fascist pedophile protector nazi says what?

03.03.2026 13:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Not all religious folks are Christians, fewer of those are Dominionist/Nationalists.

But they are engaged and activist, unlike the majority of Christians (or anyone else) in the US.

I have been beating this drum for decades.

(Also, OMG, what a bad suit!)

www.christiancentury.org/article/feat...

03.03.2026 14:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Major fail on our part.

www.prindleinstitute.org/books/dont-l....

03.03.2026 14:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is not just cursed, its monstrous. The digital resurrection of a historian who died in January of this year, all so Grammarly can get some more clicks and engagement from students and/or scholars and/or others.

It feels so wrong on so many levels, these ghosts enslaved to AI forever

03.03.2026 13:15 β€” πŸ‘ 925    πŸ” 428    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 59

To be fair the estimate of American and dual American citizens in Israel come to anywhere from 200k to 700k.

That would be quite the airlift and a huge security issue.

03.03.2026 14:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0