there's a longer essay I want to write here about U.S. imperialism's assault on social reproduction. destruction of that as strategy & how that is in dialogue with imperialist feminism. but, for now, this handful of characters.
ADL mad people calling it operation "Epstein Fury" /
popularizing the term "Epstein Fury" /
reminding ppl that the country that
bombed 150 school girls is dominated by an oligarchy very comfortable visiting child-rape island
which is also busy peeling back womens' rights
ESPN isn't covering the bombing of one the most famous stadiums on earth so.... my latest piece @thenation.com "The Razing of Iranβs Azadi Stadium Is Straight Out of Israelβs Gaza Script" www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Each of the 150 little girls slaughtered by a U.S. double-tap strike on a school could have been a writer. But we shouldn't expect anything from PEN other than pro-imperial framings.
@penamerica.bsky.social when are you going to take up the cases of journalists like Hiba Abu Taha who are reporting the truth of conditions on the ground in states like Jordan? Or migrant workers in Bahrain arrested because they posted damage to U.S. installations? thecradle.co/articles/jou...
tho many settlers can leave, get medical care, will not be kidnapped and tortured, etc. but, yes, much damage to infrastructure.
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Most ppl have no clue how hard U.S.-Israel facilities have been hit, how hard Western media is managing perceptions of war to appear as if U.S. is doing the lion's share of damage. If orange-pudding is saying war is done, it's b/c he's looking for way out w/o achieving most strategic objectives.
Please help Othman. He has lost so much. chuffed.org/project/othman
Israel killed a Catholic priest with a tank.
www.ncronline.org/news/lebanes...
"32 medical and treatment centers, and 65 schools and educational institutions were also damaged.
The attacks also damaged 13 Red Crescent centers, 15 operational vehicles and 13 ambulances belonging to the organization and emergency response teams, it added."
www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-ea...
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just saw someone say this war isn't going to impact USians. i live in one of the poorest cities in the country & commute to a poor, rural county. if gas & energy prices keep going up, people will feel it. the question is how to connect that pain to its source in this war of aggression.
thinking more and more about what modern instantiations of revolutionary defeatism might look like as empire staggers and we can transform anti-imperialism into something that is that and a positive project. what you got?
reports coming in of strikes on bomb-grade settler colony production facilities
We heard from my brother today. Heβs still alive, thankfully, for now. But this is his reality and that of the civilian population of Tehran. This is not a righteous war; the US is not fighting for anything but the ego, greed & hubris of Dumb Donny Dickless and Bibi the genocidal bastard. Sickening.
most memorable 'political' conversation was w/a cleaner at the hotel who wanted to talk to me about my pins. very good analysis of what U.S. was up to in Venezuela. people know what's up.
The genocidal fascists in the west attack the infrastructure of life itself and unleash hell on earth for the crime of sovereignty
most technical conversation about poetry at the conf was w/the guy driving me to the metro. he also proposed griot as a relative of documentary poetry. of course lots of other good conversations too.
students at University at Buffalo are working to smash the links between the college that teaches students & the war-profiteers that slaughter them--Moog, a company that makes absolutely critical components for F-35s, which drop 2,000 bombs. 30 seconds to help em out: www.change.org/p/mask-off-m...
the mechanisms for slaying little girls are made just down the road from you. the war profiteers' names, which should be curses in our mouths, emblazon our cultural institutions, those benefiting from the wars of the rape-island class sit on the boards of our schools. one (tiny) action item below.
my friend Nate is doing really vital work through his Notes From a Transgender Marxist.
notesfromatransmarxist.substack.com/p/on-safe-co...
also hope to be at atomic books, just geeking out.
I SHOULD PROBABLY NAME MY NEW BOOK:
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HERE: PIXEL FORM. SORRY YESTERDAY'S INJECTION IS FRIGGIN MY GOURD.
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here's me in Baltimore on Fri. w/ a whole mess of writers I love including @jiminseo.bsky.social & @johannesg.bsky.social
new book will be there. signing it at table 636 Saturday at 1-2 P.M.
save some currency (30%) w/this code at the Black Ocean store: AWP2026
hey, shit, i'm gonna be at awp to do my book right. to be real honest, i feel more and more like a stranger in that space. if you want to hang out or plot, hmu.
following Ali Kadri, every IOF-U.S. bomb as a waste of human life, a furtherance of structural genocide against Arab peoples, and, in the long term, an attempt at enclosure, producing wasted land to be eventually put in service via settler-colonialism to western capital.
As with the British empire, the U.S. empire is delighted to fight to the last proxy.
We were sitting here around 8pm and suddenly there was the noise and explosion. We got up and a few people ran away. We turned around to get our belongings and we saw that blood was spraying everywhere. Someones hand had fallen on the floor, a head had fallen on the floor. There were scalps torn off, hands severed, a few people were laying here all cut up and two people were martyred."
They're double-tap bombing in Tehran now, a tactic used in Gaza to kill as many people as possible.
A first small bomb draws civilians and rescue crew before a second much larger one is dropped.
Mapped the evacuation orders issued by the Israeli army in south Lebanon over the past two days. The March 03 order marks a significant expansion beyond the immediate border towns and well beyond the Litani River. I counted 105 villages so far.
