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Just when you think the empire couldn’t get more overextended.

This Is Not a Regime Change War. Iran Is Being Pushed Toward State Collapse. The US and Israel have killed Ayatollah Khamenei, but they seem to have no plan for what comes next.

"War doesn't operate with surgical precision. It doesn't remove one figure & install another. It shifts power to those most capable of wielding force. It weakens civil society faster than it builds alternatives. It deepens grievances that last generations"
-Mahbod Seraji
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Cities join Amazon in ending their partnership with license-plate reader Flock following Super Bowl Ad. ‘Your privacy is totally fine,’ says Ring CEO | Fortune "It was a shame" that people reacted that way to Ring's Super Bowl ad, says Ring CEO Jamie Siminoff. The company won't use Flock, but the reaction means people want safer neighborhoods.

“Since the beginning of 2025, at least 30 cities have canceled their contracts with Flock…”

CIA working to arm Kurdish forces to spark uprising in Iran, sources say | CNN Politics The CIA is working to arm Kurdish forces with the aim of fomenting a popular uprising in Iran and the Trump administration has been in active discussions with Iranian opposition groups and Kurdish lea...

The CIA track record on stuff like this is … not great. www.cnn.com/2026/03/03/p...

He hasn't found Iran's Delcy Rodriguez, but he's found their Maria Corina Machado

The Iran war is about preserving U.S. hegemony in the Middle East We must chip away at the war-making systems inflicting this horror, which are so thoroughly embedded in the heart of the United States

This war is not about Iran’s nuclear program or freeing Iranians, writes @neginowl.bsky.social. It’s about preserving U.S. hegemony in the Middle East.

“We in the U.S. need to reckon with the fact that so much of our state wealth, capacity & technology goes toward burying children in rubble.”

Preparing the graves for more than 150 elementary school girls who were killed by an Israeli-American strike. Photo: IRNA #Iran

Text reads: CPAC Confirmed Speaker Reza Pahlavi, Iranian Crown Prince. March 25-28, 2026, Grapevine, Texas. Graphic includes picture of Reza Pahlavi.

Of course Reza Pahlavi is going to CPAC.

"Hey, here is a book about the importance of love and intimacy".

"Great, let's use that to train bombs to hit primary schools."

Imagine someone bombing Minnesota because of anti-ICE protests in order to “liberate” them. That’s basically what he’s saying here.

Nice world we live in

a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people

The same way you don't want people bombing you and your loved ones is the same exact thing that other people feel where they live.

Spain Denies Use of Bases for US Forces Involved in War on Iran “Spanish bases are not being used for this operation,” Spain’s foreign minister said.

Spain has denied the use of its military bases to U.S. forces involved in the joint U.S.-Israel war on Iran, including for refueling, objecting to unprovoked attacks that Spanish officials say are a violation of international law.

White House talking points for congressional Republicans say we're not at war, we're just in "major combat operations against Iran" lol

Netanyahu on Iran war: "We read in this week's Torah portion, 'Remember what Amalek did to you.'' "We remember—and we act." 1 Samuel 15:3 Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass. GPO 0:44

Speaking in Hebrew to an Israeli audience, Netanyahu invokes Amalek again like he did before engaging in genocide in Gaza—but this time with regard to Iran.

Invoking Amalek is a call to annihilate the enemy.

(I've edited out the X poster for reasons, but you can find the post on X easily enough.)

Screenshot of a 3hr old post from the GW Hatchet: “BREAKING: GW sold its Virginia campus to Amazon Data Services, an Amazon subsidiary that manages the company's data centers, for $427 million on Friday. The deed, obtained by The Hatchet, authorizes ADS to develop the campus into a data or information technology center. STORY TK”

GW‘s student newspaper appears to have broken the story that the institution has sold a satellite campus to Amazon to be turned into a data center, which is just about chef’s kiss for the state of American higher education rn

A Saudi official saying this on Al Jazeera, a Qatari media outlet, is far more telling than any nugget of information carefully leaked to an American media outlet.

This war will permanently alter the relationship of the Gulf states, the US, and Israel.

we are reliving a nightmare from Sept to Nov 2024. I can't tell you how much relief there was when it ended, even though thousands were still suffering and unable to return home and Israel kept attacking. But now we're back where we were nearly 18 months ago.

In Lebanon people are sleeping in cars or sitting in front of schools, which have opened their doors to displaced, because there is nowhere else to go.

I witnessed one woman begin screaming outside one school who said they had no more place. People sat along the walls or on motorised scooters.

“Be relentlessly lethal” what the absolute F is that supposed to mean.

What better conflict avoidance than murdering all the people with whom you are in conflict?

It's very easy for me to relate to that last repost, as I likewise hate the regime I live under, and would like to see it fall, but also don't want to be bombed. Seems straightforward as hell to me.

Interviewed on the Patrick Bet-David podcast, popular in the right-wing sphere, Pahlavi admitted that he could only imagine returning to Iran on a part-time basis, as his social life and personal commitments were rooted in the US, where he’s lived most of his life | jacobin.com/2025/06/reza...

Those three downed jets run around $90 million each.

It cost $20 million a year to operate the food kitchens serving 816,000 people in Sudan.

UNESCO listed Golestan Palace (which predates the princeling and his grandfather's pretense to the throne) before and after US/Israeli liberation efforts

168 killed at girls' elementary school in Iran

Were the bombs sent by the U.S. or Israel? If it was your little girl, you wouldn’t know. And would it matter?

The same bombs are now over my family’s heads in Tehran. I know better now than to try to claim there is a difference.

I was in Tehran in 2006 when Israel invaded Lebanon. My cousins kept telling me the U.S. attacked Lebanon. I was confused—why would the U.S. do that? They didn’t see a difference; I tried to explain there was one.

Today, no Iranian can tell if the bombs on their heads are American or Israeli.

During the 12 day war, the death toll in Iran was around 1000. In only 48 hours, over 500 Iranians have been killed. At least 165 of those were school children and others at a school murdered in one strike x.com/lcmporter/st...