Prof Sunny Singh

US President Donald Trump says he doesn’t care if Iran participates in the World Cup or not. “I think Iran is a very badly defeated country. They’re running on fumes,” Trump told the American news site Politico on Tuesday. The US and Israel launched attacks on Iran on Saturday that have killed at least 1,045 people, including its Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, and sparked a regional conflict that has spread to 12 countries. Tehran responded by launching waves of missiles and drones at Israel and towards several military bases in the Middle East where US forces operate. Following the escalations, Iran’s spot at the World Cup has come under question, and officials from the Iranian football federation and FIFA have been noncommittal on the world’s 20th-ranked football nation’s participation. “After this attack, we cannot be expected to look forward to the World Cup with hope,” Mehdi Taj, president of the Football Federation of the Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI), told local sports portal Varzesh3 on Sunday.

So Trump says he doesn't care if Iran participates in the World Cup and the head of the Iranian FA said, "After this attack, we cannot be expected to look forward to the World Cup with hope."

Everything about this absolutely stinks. The *aggressor* should be banned, not the victim.

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Weirdly that would be a relief, if so. Quite possible it is but sending from US seems a poor scam. Also it’s not from any retailer or online platform. And it seems quite nicely packaged etc. All very odd

IKR?!

I have just received a pretty amethyst bead ‘wish’ bracelet from the US. No card or identifying information about the sender.

Please identify yourself because this is freaky AF!!!

Maybe sit this one out, Nige

This is a truly shocking thread by Jody McIntyre. Am still trying to get my head around it
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Very much so

‘The smart, the rich, the powerful’: Epstein associated with Silicon Valley elite years after his release from prison Billionaires and intellectuals attended events with the disgraced financier years after he served time for sex offense, files reveal

Remember folks though, if you criticise the elite, that makes you a mean "populist" and in today's understanding, that makes the equivalent of Trump, Farage etc

Seriously though, as much as I want to move on, I keep being brought back to populist hype as a key factor in the resurgence of fascism

A useful reminder that Mandelson resigned rather than being summarily bundled out. What does that say about Labour?

Make of it what you will

Streeting says the PM is going for max transparency & will publish everything on Mandelsons appointment as ambassador, but then adds they will not release any info that [they say] compromises national security or undermine relations with other countries

So not transparent at all

Also note the silence of Imperial/White Feminists who spend their lives harassing trans women, women of colour, and clamouring for bombing countries ‘over there’ to save ‘those’ women. NOT a word!
#epstein #connectthedots

Crockett: "Now my colleagues want to be the protectors of girls & women. I didn't hear them screaming this when Renee Good was killed in the middle of the street by the same people the vast majority of you just voted to give more money to. It was a lot of crickets, including about the Esptein files"

Indeed

Quote from Frame of War by Judith Butler: "Without grievability, there is no life, or, rather, there is something living that is other than life. Instead, "there is a life that will never have been lived," sustained by no regard, no testimony, and ungrieved when lost. The apprehension of grievability precedes and makes possible the apprehension of precarious life. Grievability precedes and makes possible the apprehension of the living being as living, exposed to non-life from the start"

Yes! Connecting everything is the dehumanisation running through the core of it all.

As Judith Butler wrote in Frames of War, "nly under conditions in which the loss would matter does the value of the life appear. Thus, grievability is a presupposition for the life that matters."

Tear Gas Is Way More Dangerous Than Police Let On In the middle of a respiratory pandemic, law enforcement agencies have used tear gas in especially dangerous ways. The chemical agent also seeps into homes, contaminates food, furniture, skin and surf...

Tear gas is banned in international warfare, yet classified as a “riot control agent” that law enforcement can use for crowd control.

“It just doesn’t work well, and it hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said.

Reading A Perfect Harmony and there's a ref to the Natya Shastra. "Oh, I've heard about that!" @gregjenner.bsky.social @profsunnysingh.bsky.social

Of course the elite who harm women and children for fun also plan and execute heinous war crimes and crimes against humanity including genocides at unimaginable scales for their day jobs!

We must connect the dots on how personal and political are inextricable.
#Epstein

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Review of Refuge: Stories of War (and Love) by Sunny Singh Explore Sunny Singh's "Refuge: Stories of War (and Love)," an anthology revealing resilience and tenderness amid the devastation of war.

Review of the powerful book REFUGE Stories of War (and Love) by @profsunnysingh.bsky.social www.thehindu.com/books/book-r... @wearefootnote.bsky.social

Review of Refuge: Stories of War (and Love) by Sunny Singh Explore Sunny Singh's "Refuge: Stories of War (and Love)," an anthology revealing resilience and tenderness amid the devastation of war.

“Emanating from areas tethered to violence, these are narratives of the past century that thrum with prophetic urgency.”
Thank you to The Hindu for this wonderful review of my collection #Refuge: Stories of War (and Love): www.thehindu.com/books/book-r...

Grandkid: what did you do in 2026?
This person: I fought to not call the concentration camps “concentration camps”

All liberation work is risky work. The Empire will not only not reward us but punish us for it. Especially if we refuse to be coopted. We work to pull it down any way!

Crude calculation, based on these figures - presumably Gross Value Added, which doesn't deduct wages. In the creative industries, then, the rate of output to people to pay is 50,000. In AI, it's around 130,000. That's a lot more profit per job. That's what this is about.

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I highly recommend this. There is so much in here I’m not sure what to draw your attention to in particular. Writing. Teaching. Activism.

“the Empire will not reward you for pulling it down. Let’s not pretend that we’re going to get pats on our backs and tea and cakes…”

Thanks Words of Colour for this very candid interview about writing, Jhalak Prize and more wordsofcolour.co.uk/spotlight-in...

Image of children pouring out of doors into a courtyard in green, red, and blue jackets. TPR Protest breaks out at Dilley immigration detention facility holding 5-year-old Liam Ramos By David Martin Davies | TPR

Kids are protesting and begging for freedom in Dilley, TX at an ICE detention center. Kids. Liam Ramos was sent here.

These are children screaming for freedom.