Huge own-goal.
12.03.2026 11:48
👍 1
🔁 0
💬 0
📌 0
Huge own-goal.
One of the earlier examples dates back to 1522, where in Santo Domingo, Spanish authorities blamed "Muslim-influenced gelofes" (likely hispanicized rendering of Wolof) for instigating a slave revolt, and the authorities responded with a Muslim ban in 1530 in the colony.
This triangulation predates Farrakhan (we see evidence of Islamophobic narratives among plantation owners' fears about slave revolts), but he certainly played into it. His failure to see how the right wing uses antisemitism to support their anti-Black worldview stands out to me.
This triangulation has been a constant in US politics for quite some time; it is unsettling how much progressive discourses proceed to talk about allyship with the assumption that Islamophobia, anti-Blackness, antisemitism, and the Red Scare were all independent, separate things.
This narrative is a remix of "race-mixing is communism" and the "Jewish cabal is puppeting MLK" type stuff Black people had to deal with in the era of the Civil Rights Movement.
Activated by (((leftist intellectuals))). The French reactionaries even invented a word for these paranoias. "Islamo-gauchisme" (Islamoleftism)
We'll see what happens, but my prediction is that Greenblatt will continue to have more bad things to say about Mamdani AND Jewish Voice for Peace than Graham Plattner.
If anything describes the donor class at the moment is that they seem more driven by libidinal urges than anything ideological, so any talk of "left-wing antisemitism" is only useful if it acts as a permission slip to indulge in racism and antisemitism (of the "Soros is behind Gaza protests" kind)
A good sign that the strategy here is less about exaggerating left-wing antisemitism/downplaying right-wing antisemitism, and more about winning favor with Trump by bonding over their shared hate of Muslims.
That's exactly right, it is less "let's suck up to trump by beating up on ((the left))" and more "see, we hate the same people"
I think you basically have to see it specifically as sectarian anti-Islamic campaigning, as much as anything particularly ideological.
(Reuters) - U.S. intelligence indicates that Iran's leadership is still largely intact and is not at risk of collapse any time soon after nearly two weeks of relentless U.S. and Israeli bombardment, according to three sources familiar with the matter.
uk.news.yahoo.com/exclusive-us...
The myth of genetic isolation is washing away. 🌊 Neandertal ancestry isn't just for Eurasia—the "Returning Tide" shows it flowed back into Africa far more than we realized.
Check out the latest from WOPA on Substack:
deephistory.substack.com/p/the-return...
#HumanOrigins #Neandertal #DeepHistory
Ilhan's haters will be waiters at her table of success.
“La transición energética es muy cara”
🙃 pues cuesta lo mismo que una sola crisis fósil.
La transición completa a la neutralidad climática a 2050 se paga con lo que nos costó una sola crisis como la de 2022.
www.theccc.org.uk/2026/03/11/c...
2.5 million views
I feel this strongly: I don't care. I am DISGUSTED that 175 little girls are dead and that thousands are dead across the region and that 1 million people are displaced in Lebanon alone. THIS IS EVIL.
“So he's saying, hey, guys. Even though we get the oil, the market's flush. This is fear. I'm still going to insure your ships, so go through the strait. … Show some guts and go through that strait and do it.” - Brian Kilmeade, 3/9/26
Anyway… here’s a new video from Al Jazeera!
All that diplomatic capacity the Trump regime denigrated, degraded, and dismantled would’ve been awfully useful when launching a war involving a dozen countries and impacting the global economy, argues @profsaunders.bsky.social.
Air power alone isn't causing regime change?
Iranians didn't react to foreign attack by rising up and suddenly discovering the capabilities to overthrow their government?
A plan to arm foreign Kurdish fighters opened such a big can of worms that the US scrapped it?
Huh. Who could've known.
And then what?
Good for you, Senator, saying words that make you feel big on TV. But even if the US killed every Iranian leader, there’ll still be a large country with 90 million people in a strategically important location.
Someone will lead it, or there’ll be failed state / civil war. Then what?
Good visual reminder that war not only has large human and economic costs, it can have environmental impacts as well.
A documentary about the Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 falls under DEI because it's about race. Anything that acknowledges race or racial discrimination/violence is therefore problematic.
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he will tap the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to help lower energy costs during the Iran war.
www.cnbc.com/2026/03/11/i...
Again, this just underlines how little these countries are capable of doing to Iran that they weren't already doing. I'm sure this is the least of any of these people's worries at this point. It would be better to do nothing at all, frankly...
datacenters are fragile sites with lots of surveillance data that anyone would want to destroy; compute facilities rapidly produce the scaffolding & rationales for targeting. disrupting AI facilities means disrupting the military's operational awareness and control of people and other infrastructure
gift article alludes to it, but i'm seeing various reports of iran bombing datacenters (mostly amazon, but possibly others? not sure), and i think it's interesting that iran is accurately operating on the premise that privately owned (american) AI/datacenter facilities represent critical targets;
How much more sympathetic is the pro-Palestinian position to the general public now after Khalil was taken away from his wife and didn't get to see his baby be born? Or after a bunch of old ladies were arrested in London due to the Palestine Action proscription?
To be blunt a lot of these groups should've thought about the consequences of supporting attempts to suppress pro-Palestinian freedom of speech and even in some cases supporting the kidnapping of Arab students for their speech. *You* helped make him a cause celebre among liberals and left-liberals.
