Natalie Brender

We wish to inform you that you have surrendered

Like particles and waves, incredible

Some countries achieve unconditional surrender; others have unconditional surrender thrust upon them.

Wild to debate retrospectively a government's position of 'with regret'

Another scathing chapter, in effect, of Anne Applebaum's Autocrats Inc, written with bleak verve by O'Hagan.

Astonishing historical context I hadn't known re Israel identifying Iran as an existential threat only relatively, post-Gulf wars. PM Carney owes Canadians more clarity about why there should be any 'with regret' support at all by Canada for the catastrophic US/Israel attack on Iran.

www.thebureau.news/p/toronto-sy...

This piece is loose in logic (and accuracy?) but suggests all sorts of relevant angles.

Am wondering about transnational repression fears and how that does/n't affect Persian community members who speak up about this.

Yep.

@jessmarindavis.bsky.social Podcast fodder 🙏

This painting is about the dog and the cranes. 🥹

Pity the admissions departments faced with this finding.

Someone now rushing to reuse that opener in a paper on the ethics of BDSM.

Opinion: Today’s Western alliances require a potluck mentality. Canada can’t keep coming empty-handed If Canada isn’t at the table, Mark Carney has said, then we are on the menu. And finding a seat as a middle power means bringing something to share

This by @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social is excellent. Ottawa should be able to do minilateralism, set priorities & make timely decisions at the very least, asap.

Well looking for shining successes sets the bar too high. R2P was important in itself. We've done bits and pieces but always with domestic politics and expediency weighing in, inevitably. But with so much inflated rhetoric foremost.

For 50 years now we've been definitionally punching above our weight with every utterance and action, no matter which way the wind blows.

After every incident 'the community' always gives media quotes calling for more denunciations & police/govt 'action' without any reflection on this reality. So counterproductive. Exactly the 'community' who see countering antisemitism/Islamophobia as a zero-sum issue.

Yes Cda has real problems. Getting shit together is grasping at straws. More $ for shul security & banning Gaza protests won't stop this climate in Toronto/Ottawa/Montreal.

I never thought leopards would bomb my oil refineries

Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei
• More hardline than father
• He’s the IRGC candidate
• Relatively young: 56
• Avoids public
• Trusted by father, clerics
• Was in military during Iraq-Iran war
• His wife, Zahra, killed in Israeli airstrike w his father

🧵 Excellent points

The Sorrows of the Middle-Aged Nonprofit Board Member, yup

Essential to keep at the forefront every time we're tempted to give in to 'international law was always just a fantastical pretense' way of thinking. It's grounded in the most terrible of realities.

BREAKING: The US has bombed Tehran’s main refinery and burning oil is now flooding down the streets into the city’s sewers.

This is a vision from hell, unleashed by the US tonight.

(🎥 Vahid Online)

Never seen such a portent of monstrous destruction and needless suffering in my life. Insanity that this prospect is at the doorstep.

Omg. The system is trying and failing to get such intelligence or just doesn't try?

This is a terrifying thread. And I wouldn't be at all surprised if the idiots running this war never considered it.

Here is @tricialockwood.bsky.social writing like Emily Dickinson, so beautifully.

The choice of 'complained' rather than 'warned' is really something.