Pantéa Javidan, JD, PhD

The guy who staged a failed coup last time is building a massive personal militia staffed with lawless thugs. At this point it’s just naïve not to see where this is going.

I just learned that Ayatollah Khamenei and Ayatollah Khomenei are not the same person. Here's my plan for regime change in Iran....(1/23)

Saudi Arabia and Israel—two countries for which there is bipartisan support in the U.S. despite the fact that in recent years, both have been accused of committing genocide by human rights organizations and experts.

This administration is committing true horrors—made possible by years of rot.

🚨 The final number of dead at the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school in Minab, southern Iran, is 108 school girls, a spokesperson for the Iranian Red Crescent Society said — more than half of the roughly 170 students who attend the school.

It remains unclear whether the strike was carried out by...

The conservative movement is a death cult.

Organized primarily to insulate wealth, entrenched power, and corporate America from the meddling reach of democracy, it has always been happy to embrace junk science when there’s a political advantage.

Say it with me: Neoconservatives are not our friends.

The point is to destroy the administrative state, centers of knowledge and all civic institutions that stand in the way of Russell Vought’s vision of an authoritarian theocracy. It sounds insane and something out of Atwood. But this is where we are. Under his eye.

Israel’s U.N. Ambassador told the Security Council that Israel and the United States had “no choice” but to launch a regime-change military campaign because Iran had “built nuclear weapons” — a false claim, rejected also by U.S. and Israeli intelligence. At the emergency meeting, Ambassador Danny Danon said Israel moved to stop “an existential threat before it became irreversible,” insisting the country did not act on impulse but “out of necessity.” Even as Oman’s foreign minister, who was mediating talks, said yesterday that Iran and the U.S. were perhaps a day away from finalizing a historic “peace deal,” Danon declared that “diplomacy was exhausted.” The Israeli envoy began his remarks by repeating in Persian, “Marg bar Amrika, Marg bar Israel” – the familiar Iranian slogans meaning “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” – presenting them as proof of the “existential threat” he said Israel faced. The chants date back to the 1979 Iranian Revolution.

Israel’s UN Amb. told the Sec. Council that Israel & the U.S. had “no choice” but to launch a regime-change military campaign because Iran had “built nuclear weapons” — a false claim, rejected also by US & Israeli intelligence.

At the emergency meeting, Amb. Danny Danon said Israel moved to stop...

Former St. Louis Congressmember Cori Bush Runs for Seat Again After AIPAC Targeted Her in 2024 Cori Bush is running for Congress again. Bush previously served two terms as a Democratic congressmember for Missouri, until she was unseated in 2024 following a multimillion-dollar attack campaign ru...

Pro-Israel groups spent millions to unseat Cori Bush in 2024. Now, she is running for Congress again.

“They didn't want someone speaking out for the people of Palestine, for human rights and civil rights. They didn't want that loud voice, but that's what they're about to get.”

"Israel has destroyed not only the rules-based order but also obliterated the most basic rules of war – you don’t attack children."

@fbhutto.bsky.social reports on US‑Israeli attacks in Iran, where children are paying the deadly price of western imperialism.

At least 70 people, including some 60 children, were killed when U.S. and Israeli strikes hit the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ elementary school in Minab, southern Iran, according to the Fars News. The attack reportedly struck during school hours, with about 170 girls inside. Videos show families screaming and digging through rubble as rescue crews searched for survivors. Tehran has vowed retaliation. Dr. Foad Izadi of the University of Tehran told Al Jazeera: “We are fighting the epstein class that either rapes little girls or bombs little girls.”

At least 70 people, including some 60 children, were killed when US & Israeli strikes hit the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ elementary school in Minab, southern Iran, according to the Fars News.

The attack reportedly struck during school hours, w/ about 170 girls inside. Vids show families screaming...

Special Report: U.S. & Israel Attack Iran, Risking Regional War The U.S. and Israel have launched an unprovoked attack on Iran striking sites across the country including the compound of Iran’s Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Iranian state media reports one...

Watch our special report on today's massive U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran: www.democracynow.org/2026/2/28/sp...

"I don't see what difference it's going to make," says Iranian American scholar Ervand Abrahamian in response to reports of Ali Khamenei's death. "Even if the top is decapitated, there are other people already there ready to replace them."

A nearly blind Rohingya refugee was found dead after being detained from a Buffalo jail and dropped alone at a coffee shop 5 miles from his home by U.S. Border Patrol, Investigative Post reports. Nurul Amin Shah Alam, 56, had been held in the Erie County Holding Center on local charges and was freed on bail February 19. Because of an immigration detainer, Border Patrol picked him up — but instead of transferring him or notifying his family, agents left him at a Tim Hortons five miles from home. He disappeared that night. Police say the medical examiner ruled the death health-related, not homicide or exposure, but detectives are investigating the circumstances following his release.

Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof US immigration officials picked up a blind Rohingya refugee last week in Buffalo, NY. Then, realizing they had no basis to deport him, they released him five miles from his home. He needed a walking stick and died trying to make his way back to his house: https://www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/blind-refugee-abandoned-by-border-patrol-is-dead/

A nearly blind Rohingya refugee was found dead after being detained from a Buffalo jail and dropped alone at a coffee shop 5 miles from his home by US Border Patrrol, Investigative Post reports.

Nurul Amin Shah Alam, 56, had been held in the Erie County Holding Center on local charges & was free...

Labeling virtually any opposition or protest as “terrorism” blurs the line between legitimate national security concerns and normal political activism, which reduces the effectiveness of both, while destroying constitutional freedoms and democratic norms.

Since this article, this program of mislabeling and criminalization has also spread to other countries to suppress legitimate speech, peaceful protests, civil liberties.

It’s a weapon for gov leaders to wield against domestic political opposition, pushing liberal democracies toward autocratic rule.

Resisting Carceral Sanism w/ Liat Ben-Moshe & Leah Harris (Re-Air) This episode was originally released in fall 2023 and is being re-aired today in light of discourse surrounding carceral approaches to public space and recent attacks on the term

In today’s episode, why it is so critical for the left to work against involuntary commitment and the criminalization of madness and disability, and how to understand the politics of “carceral sanism.”

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Post updated as the leading cause list combines flu & pneumonia

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Casey Means’ confirmation hearing is over.

My impressions:

Means has zero understanding of or concern for the most vulnerable Americans.

Means will absolutely not promote vaccination or in any way push back on RFK Jr.

Means doesn’t understand public health at all.

It is 100% implausible that Casey Means was not familiar with flu vaccine effectiveness data. Her non-answer should terrify you.

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By covering up the Epstein files, Donald Trump and his DOJ are breaking the law every day, and Congress isn’t doing anything to stop it, legal expert @katiephang.bsky.social tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social

“They're getting their freak on, but, like, in illegal ways.”

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Experts Warn U.S. in Early Stages of Genocide Against Trans Americans Genocide scholars say policies targeting transgender Americans match early warning signs of mass atrocity.

In light of Kansas’ attempt to strip transgender people of their driver’s licenses, it’s important to understand something:

The legal attacks we are seeing on transgender people are genocidal.

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Mahmood Mamdani · The Logic of Nuremberg: Nuremberg’s Logic

How do we deal with what happens afterwards? www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...

The life's work of anyone who gives a damn about humanity is to resist the economic elite, demand the taxes that reduce their power and defend the space in which the rest of us can thrive. If your "elected representatives" aren't helping with that, they are not your representatives, but theirs.

At the root of all our problems stands one travesty: politicians’ surrender to the super-rich | George Monbiot There are many excuses for failing to tax the ultra-wealthy. The truth is that governments don’t tackle the problem because they don’t want to, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Don't imagine for one moment that it ended with Epstein. Treating human beings as counters in a board game is what the super-rich do. Every. Day. It is fundamental to the model. The politicians they support and fund are those who implement their cruel desires.
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It's all part of the same story: these political manipulations sit alongside the industrial-scale abuse and rape of women and children by the Epstein network. Ordinary humans are simply objects to them, to be conned, exploited, extracted, destroyed and discarded as convenience dictates.

It's a reminder that Brexit had nothing to do with our interests. It was an elite project backed by extreme rightwing billionaires and their concierges, many of whom had no vote or standing in this country. Yet it was packaged as patriotism by the very people collaborating with foreign interests.

Those who most loudly assert their patriotism are always the first to sell us down the river. Both Johnson and Nigel Farage were in active discussions with Bannon, for whom Brexit was a major prize. Bannon was feeding intelligence back to Epstein, who also wanted the UK out of the European Union.