Eli Meyerhoff

Two weeks until Trump claims the Iran war would never have happened if he’d been president.

Congratulations to new Harvard Kennedy School senior fellow Kristi Noem

If Noem loses her job too it’d be great for the country but I’ll be praying for the safety of her pets.

Now that they are fumbling for plans and popular support, i bet its occurred to somebody over there why the name was switched to Department of Defense

Vaguely recall that a paroled inmate committing a terrible crime was enough of a scandal to undercut the Dukakis campaign. This is objectively worse in term of Trump's responsibility, but will get a fraction of the attention.

The reason the category of settler colonialism is so vital to the Palestine/Israel discussion is that you simply cannot understand contemporary Israeli policies without it, e.g. in West Bank. Otherwise people resort to talking about the problem as one of "fanatics" - and that's just unconvincing.
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MARYLAND: the period to file public comments on ICE's massive warehouse detention camp in Hagerstown is today

Link/info @projectsaltbox.bsky.social:
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Tweet from Tucker Carlson: "Could this be a religious war designed to rebuild the Third Temple on the ashes of Al Aqsa? Hope not."

This form of anti-Zionism - not all anti-Zionism, but this form - is the anti-imperialism of fools. By absurdly framing this war with Iran as a Jewish religious war, Tucker Carlson gets to offload all responsibility to Israel, and thereby maintain his belief in the moral goodness of the US.

'We don't see any reason to negotiate: Araghchi We have more comments from Iran's top diplomat. In a live interview with NBC, Abbas Aragchi said Iran is "not asking for a ceasefire". "We don't see any reason why we should negotiate with the US", he said. "When we negotiated with them twice, every time, they attacked us in the middle of negotiations." Araghchi also emphasised that Iran has not closed the Strait of Hormuz, saying "it is the ships and tankers" that have refused to cross the waterway.

Iranian Foreign Minister:

“We don’t see any reason to negotiate”

(aje.news/0avpno?updat...)

Trump is launching us into what could be another costly and deadly forever war.Meanwhile, he and Republicans are making How We Actually Pay for War and Billionaire Tax Cuts

At more than $5 billion and counting, the cost of Operation Epic Fury so far could cover SNAP benefits for more than 2 million Americans.

But instead of feeding hungry people at home, we're cutting food stamps in order to lower taxes for the rich and boost military spending to record levels.

Massive explosions in Bahrain, where I am. Media reporting that the oil refinery has been hit

The future of the GOP is Nazi. People still aren't paying attention.

U.S. Bombing of Iran Shows Little Evidence of Endgame Strategy Destruction is not the same as political success.

"There is no American theory of political endgame in Iran — only a theory of destruction."

"Bombing can degrade military capacity and destroy infrastructure, but it does not produce governments more cooperative with the attacker."
#USA #Iran #Israel #Iraq #Protest #Military

If anyone has a platform, and wants to have a Lebanese speaker to talk about the current situation, reach out. Im availble, but also connected to a lot of different ppl on the ground. We need to get the word out. This is ethnic cleansing!

Wherever you are, raise the alarm about whats happening in Lebanon. The Israelis are engaging in ethnic cleansing in the south and in southern Beirut. All your governments are complicit. You are not safe. This fire will consume you too if it is not stopped. Please for the love of humanity.

A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.

Everyone in this country has gone insane | Opinion Not a Single Voice of Reason to Be Found Among the Pundits, Politicians and General Public, Who All Run to the Shelters on an Hourly Basis but Smile When They Emerge, Praising the Iran War and the Ble...

Bleakly funny that Gideon Levy wouldn't be allowed to write for an American newspaper due to how critical he is of Israel in his column at an Israeli newspapepr

"you need to learn how to use gAI or you'll get left behind!"

counterpoint!

the absolute fastest way to render yourself unemployable is to build your skillset around a tool that does your thinking for you, that everyone has access to, and that one company can change or take away at any time

It is so damning of US news media that so many outlets refuse to just straight up say that Senator Tim Sheehy assaulted an activist.

He did not "help" Capitol police. They did not need his help. He wanted to assault the guy and did. He should resign.

A Senator foaming at the mouth and talking about crusades seems bad, actually

Palestinian refugee camps of Burj Barajneh and Sabra and Shatila are being evacuated

These are the people who fled the Nakba and their descendants

The same state, Israel, is the cause of both

www.instagram.com/reel/DVgaM3u...

T-minus three weeks until “why don’t women want to date them?”

Canada’s Visa Requirements Are Forcing Students in Gaza to Put Dreams on Hold Students accepted by Canadian universities struggle to figure out how to leave Gaza and comply with strict visa rules.

It is horrific that Palestinian students from Gaza, admitted to Canadian universities, are not being granted student visas to Canada.

Amidst an ongoing genocide and occupation, denying Palestinian students is continuation of same violence and anti-Palestinian racism.

truthout.org/articles/can...

A lot of dunking on Klein (in ways that I think go way too far) for this post and I agree that Platner’s Nazi stuff has to be acknowledged. I also see why he’s confusing in a way because he’s been vocal about supporting Maine’s POC. He thinks he can maintain a tent that big. He can’t.

The video of a United States Senator joining the violent removal of U.S. marine from a hearing and hideously breaking his arm in a door is an example of what has been unleashed in this country. They’re tapping in to get in on the violence.
And then he bragged about it on X later.

We went from making up reasons like "weapons of mass destruction" to you know what, fuck it we don't need to even lie, the president "had a feeling" that they pose a threat so we just bomb them so we can. A country doing this can't expect peace inside.

Blue Owl Sets Off New Private Credit Fears

The biggest private capital firm behind most of the AI hyperscale deals such as Meta's Hyperion and xAI's Colossus, is seemingly in financial distress as it shops its debt holdings at a discount. It's not looking good.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/b...

I think that every mention of this war should begin with the fact that we intentionally targeted 160 little girls to die at school. Like I am simply never going to get over this. It’s how we started this war. That’s never gonna fade away.

Margot and Anne Frank died in Bergen-Belsen as a typhus epidemic killed 17,000 people