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PARTNERS WITH FLYTREX, AN ISRAELI DRONE COPMANY, ALL WHILE ISRAEL USES DRONES TO KILL CHILDREN

Soon you can have your sushi delivered by the same drones that shot toddlers in the head while they were scraping spilled flour off the ground

I refuse to give em dashes to the AI

I'm really asking everyone to please stop using Alligator Alcatraz. This is not a descriptor that makes sense. These are concentration camps.

Last thing I’m saying about this: way more annoying that U.S. commentariat still don’t know the differences between race, ethnicity, and nationality or how to talk about them w/ nuance, than that any mixed culture immigrant kids fumbles to check one of this country’s imprecise made up boxes.

The idea that the hundreds of thousands of Muslim, Southeast Asian, Indian, Arab, Iranian, etc New Yorkers deserve influence in their city government has either ignored or treated with active disdain throughout this entire discourse.

imagine if this worked. IMAGINE IF THIS WORKED. imagine if the Epstein Caucus is defeated in an absolute tidal wave of voters who want their electeds to CARE and DO THINGS. imagine primarying all the nation’s Schumers and Pelosis with people who understand they work for us and take that seriously

How Western feminism liberates Iranian women, one bomb at a time From miniskirts to missiles, white feminism’s colonial fantasy of liberating Iranian women by force returns with US-Israeli strikes, writes Nadeine Asbali.

We're back, caught between so-called feminists dreaming of miniskirts in Tehran and politicians promising to bomb Iranian women into freedom, writes Nadeine Asbali 👇

Like I said, it's GOOD that a large number of people say that don't want to go to war with Iran. I wish people wouldn't psych themselves out. I was alive when USians were RABID in support of going to war as Vicky points out below. It was DREADFUL.

you’ll never lose betting against the ability of a pro-war pundit to remember past yesterday

Everything was not, in fact, fine

Anti-ICE organizing in New York City:

People who showed up to the federal immigration building, referred to as just ‘26 Federal Plaza’ or ‘FP’ to protest & stop ICE from transferring people they arrested, were blocked by NYPD at numerous intervals for low level infractions.

Just come out of surgery where they removed a 40mm less lethal round from
My leg. One like this.

That’s fair. “This definitely won’t happen” as a response doesn’t seem adequate though.

I don’t think it’s unreasonable for people to fear the worst.

see also: the belief in this thing called a “peaceful protestor” that, if facing arrest or violence from police, anyone can prove they are

the last few days has been a reminder that people really want to believe that not only is there this real thing called a “criminal,” and that if they need to, anyone can just prove they aren’t one

The Group Behind Project 2025 Has a Plan to Crush the Pro-Palestinian Movement

This is a must-read: The Trump administration's use of anti-semitism to attack immigrants and higher education mirrors plans by a group of Christian nationalists in the Heritage Foundation (which produced Project 2025). 🧵
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...

Palestinians welcome the cancellation of Jonny Greenwood and Dudu Tassa's concert, which was due to take place in Bristol, UK on the 23rd June and would have whitewashed Israel's genocide against 2.3m Palestinians in Gaza and underlying settler-colonial apartheid regime.

Jonny Greenwood, guitarist with Radiohead and The Smile, had performed in apartheid Tel Aviv along with Dudu Tassa in May 2024, on a night that genocidal Israeli forces massacred displaced Palestinians in their tents in Rafah, burning them alive, just a short drive away.

Dudu Tassa has repeatedly entertained genocidal Israeli forces in between these massacres of Palestinians in Gaza, willingly acting as a cultural ambassador for apartheid Israel.

And shortly after @bdsmovement.bsky.social welcomed the news that Bristol said genocide-boosters Jonny Greenwood and Dudu Tassa are not welcome to perform in their city, their London show was cancelled as well. ✊✊✊

Full statement from PACBI: www.instagram.com/p/DJHPR5oCgpg

I still say, “THAT is a disgusting act” in my everyday life

Rev. Barber, surrounded by police, praying in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda.

Rev. Barber, surrounded by police, praying in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda.

BREAKING: Police just surrounded Rev. William Barber, prominent activist and pastor, as he and others prayed in the U.S. Capitol Rontunda.

Police then expelled everyone (including press!) from the Rotunda to (presumably) arrest them.

I've covered protests here a lot. Never seen anything like it.

Liberal carrying a sign saying "if kamala was president we would all be at brunch"

We know you would, that's the entire problem

Economic Crises and the Breakdown of Authoritarian Regimes Cambridge Core - Asian Studies - Economic Crises and the Breakdown of Authoritarian Regimes

So. I wrote a dissertation on how economic crises can lead to the breakdown of authoritarian regimes.

Here are three key point to keep in mind as you watch the news this week 🧵

It is true that I believe only one Dem (Shaheen of ME) voted for the nominee (Trump’s new rep to NATO in fact). But that doesn’t matter. The unanimous consent request is where you’d obstruct. No one did. Not even Booker.