Israel is bombarding, literally bombarding, two Middle East capitals, Beirut and Tehran, killing 100s of civilians, and yet the US and UK media continue to portray Iran as the threat to the region.
Israel has nukes, but Iran is the nuclear threat.
We live in Orwellian times.
Israeli map showing all of southern Lebanon in red with yellow arrows pointing to north of the Litani river
The IDF just ordered the *entirety of south Lebanon* to be forcibly displaced.
They are emptying the land of its population, creating a massive crisis, and will now proceed to further annihilate large parts of Lebanon.
The very nation state of Lebanon is being destroyed.
A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.
I've launched a publication with @palfest.bsky.social called "The Key." I am so excited to share this first issue with you: www.thekeymagazine.com
World Central Kitchen head José Andrés confirms Israel has closed Gaza’s borders indefinitely and warns the NGO will run out of food this week. The group is currently cooking about 1 million hot meals a day.
World Central Kitchen head José Andrés confirms Israel has closed Gaza’s borders indefinitely and warns the NGO will run out of food this week. The group is currently cooking about 1 million hot meals a day.
“If you’d like to witness human evil at its worst, come with me any day to the West Bank.” —David Shulman
Friday night at Watermelon 🍉 Books in Los Angeles with Randa Jarrar
You almost have to admire the hubris of trying to frame this as a “preemptive attack” when the ENTIRE PURPOSE IS TO PROVOKE A RESPONSE FROM IRAN in order to justify ongoing and more extensive strikes.
What the genocide in Gaza reinforced is that there are no "civilians" when it comes to Israel and the United States. The rest of the world learned the same lesson and the consequences are going to be felt across the world.
Cover of The Lancet:
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Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started
Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started
After a US-Israeli strike on a girls’ elementary school in Minab, Iran, rescuers dug through the rubble for survivors. The death toll is still rising, with more than 80 confirmed dead so far.
"Trump’s grotesque inflation of language, his bemonstering of opposition politicians, is now fully integrated into the organized street violence of his regime."
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Snowman on the Columbia campus
The blizzard in NYC today
This is a great explainer on the dystopian world being brought to us by Palantir: Epstein, ICE, Gaza, biometric tracking, etc. novaramedia.com/2026/02/19/w...
#OtD 23 Feb 1864 300 female collar laundry workers at 14 firms went on strike in Troy, NY demanding pay increases of 20-25%, and better health and safety. After less than a week, they won stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9555...
Blizzard in NYC
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Join IALA advisory board member @nancykric.bsky.social
and novelist Randa Jarrar on February 27, at the launch of Watermelon Books in Los Angeles, a branch of the iconic Palestinian-led bookstore in Jordan! 🍉🇦🇲
RSVP here: bit.ly/4rpSQW9
Since the start of Trump’s second term, the number of children in ICE detention has increased sixfold.
In their letters, kids held at the Dilley center told us about missing their friends, being unable to go to school and feeling trapped.
What do we do with a story whose real-life details are so fitted to antisemitic conspiracy? @arielleangel.bsky.social and @naomiaklein.bsky.social on the Epstein files:
Cuba is facing a growing humanitarian crisis due to a U.S.-imposed oil blockade. Cuba’s government announced it’s running out of fuel for commercial aviation, prompting Air Canada to cancel flights. Trump has threatened new tariffs against any nation that sends fuel to Cuba.
I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now.
"Let me say this clearly: what has happened in Gaza, what continues to happen, is a genocide of the Palestinian people by the State of Israel."
~ Arundhati Roy
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reminder that this photo we all swoon over was taken by aline manoukian, an armenian lebanese woman who began her career as a photojournalist during the lebanese civil war when she was twenty years old.
cc: @hyperallergic.com & @nancykric.bsky.social
Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”
I knit this baby sweater and have a few things to say about life in this dumpster fire time
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