Yeah, all that post-war propping up of the Shah as our ally and teaching his SAVAK ghouls to torture his people properly -- that was quite the conflict. I think the CIA issued battle ribbons for those hard decades.
It's as history is just a bump on the superhighway of lying to these assholes.
This repeats yet another pattern from the Iraq War. When the Iraqis did not behave as the Americans wanted โ without the deference and gratitude that a foreign military occupier felt it was due โ they became targets.
Highly recommended conversation between @peterbeinart.bsky.social and Yale Law professor Aslฤฑ ร. Bรขli for @jewishcurrents.bsky.social. Professor Bรขli is incredibly sharp, nuanced and insightful
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Anyone old enough to remember how it turned out for Democrats in a recent election when they refused to listen to the opposition of their base about US support and funding for Israelโs genocide?
Pedro Sanchez continues his run as the only world leader convincingly acting like he cares to defend a rules based world order
Precisely
Donโt worry everyone, American media is definitively on this shit.
On the liberal MSNOW youโve got a former Republican congressman talking about his conversation with Trump about the โterrorist regimeโ and over on CNN Wolf Blitzer is asking guests how they come up with the names of the operations.
The interesting part of this report isnโt that Bidenโs Gaza policy hurt Harris (obviously it did despite all the relentless spinning to the contrary), itโs the resistance to releasing it (which would require dealing with the implications).
www.axios.com/2026/02/22/d...
Congratulations, Marc. Well deserved.
easy slogan for the next democratic presidential candidate is โi will reform the corrupt supreme court and repeal citizens unitedโ
Bad Bunnyโs performance began in the plantation, featured broken electric poles, and ended by centering a hemispheric understanding of โAmรฉricaโโamong many other thingsโand some Anglo journalists are like โhis performance wasnโt political.โ
This is why we need to be telling our stories.
Mayor Mamdani and Ms. Rachel sitting together in an early childhood education center.
Mayor Mamdani and Ms. Rachel crossing their arms while singing with a group of children.
A little girl hugs an orange fuzzy stuffed animal.
Mayor Mamdani and Ms. Rachel stand with a group of kids.
This morning, Ms. Rachel and I visited District 2 Pre-K Center, where we sang and read with the wonderful students and educators. We also discussed universal childcare - and how we're making it happen for NYC!
The problem is almost nobody fucking asked for or wants AI, yet now it's in everything. No, I don't want an AI summary of my Google search. No, I don't want AI on my Zoom call while it's happening. Fuck off. Get out of my face. It's smothering me and thinks that's love. It makes me hate it more.
The World Cup and Olympics should absolutely be relocated from the US to a country that is safe for foreign travelers.
they were "controversial" for murdering palestinians at their food distribution sites.
Democrat Rep. Seth Moulton says "we're in this second shutdown of the year because of how ineffective [Chuck] Schumer was at handling the first shutdown, when all of us stood together in the House to block the Republicans from shoving their bill down our throats, and then the Senate just gave in"
ICJ: Israel must facilitate aid to Gaza and meet Palestinian needs - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/icj-israel-must-facilitate-aid-gaza-and-meet-palestinian-needs
Trump in 2011: "If there is a shutdown, I think it would be a tremendously negative mark on the president of the United States. He's the only who has to get people together!"
Herzl Halevi was IDF COS until March. He confirms that 10% of #Gaza's population have been killed or injured, more than 200 K people, just the same count as the #Palestinian Health Ministry's.
So cut the bullshit about Palestinians inflating the numbers.
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The mendacity is breathtaking - blaming universities, which bent over backwards to host Kirkโs hate-speech TPUSA events, spending thousands on extra security with minimal student interest, over the objection of the many targeted by his attacks & forced to watch him pocket their student feesโฆ 1/
For some, the further up one ascends, the less moored to reality, ethics, and justice they become.
Ezra- Your piece on the death of Charlie Kirk was reckless, insulting, condescending, and worst of all, a piece of hagiography. For someone who claims to honor history and context in your work, it reads as if it was written by someone who respects neither of those things.ย What does it mean to practice politics in the "right way"? For whom does a "taste for disagreement" benefit? Certainly not the vulnerable populationsโtrans people, Black women, and moreโwho Kirk routinely targeted with hate speech and calls for violence.ย When I was a college intern at NBC News Washington in 2008, I would watch your MSNBC appearances on the monitor in our office. At that point I could only dream of having a platform like yours, which has grown exponentially since then. Now that I have a platform (albeit it much, much smaller than yours) and I couldn't fathom using it to gaslight the country into believing a hateful man stood for a public good. Maybe it's time to consider how you're using yours.ย Marisa
i just sent this email to @ezraklein.bsky.social
Ezra Klein is trying in this column to argue that Kirk was doing politics correctly if you just ignore the content of what he was advocating. That he was contributing to American democracy by arguing civilly for the subjugation of women, gay people, trans people. It simply doesnโt work.
There is, as of right now, no coverage of this protest on the WaPo website or in their @washingtonpost.com feed.
So, if you (you reading this) want people to SEE this protest, you must share it.
The AAUP believes that unions provide the best way for higher education workers to fulfill our duty to the wider public to ensure higher education contributes to the common good.
Happy Labor Day!
#DefendHigherEd
Talk about not knowing how to read the momentโฆ
Devastating account of
-the irredeemability of Western govs' responses to ๐ฎ๐ฑ's starvation of #Gaza
-our collective moral failure
-applicable legal obligations right NOW
by the foremost experts on starvation Alex deWaal &
@tomdannenbaum.bsky.social
justsecurity.org/117962/mass-...
The @LemkinInstitute is calling on every leader in the world to step in immediately with measures that ensure food and water gets into Gaza right now. No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits. GET FOOD AND WATER INTO GAZA NOW. IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT.
Wowโthe Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named after Raphael Lemkin, a Holocaust survivor who coined the term genocide) says plainly:
"No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summitsโฆIF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT."
"HISTORY WILL DETERMINE THE RECTITUDE OF YOUR ACTIONS."
