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Doing creative geographies. Making an anti-genocide university. Can't stop with the musicking (Lecturer in Cultural Geography at UCL) https://undercartographies.city/

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A 'patriotic renewal' tells you everything you need to know - the scoundrels are scrabbling

09.03.2026 09:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Walid Khalidi, an exceptional Palestinian scholar and one of the most important memory-holders of Palestine has passed away.

08.03.2026 16:18 πŸ‘ 69 πŸ” 27 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

Point in case, we have literally blocked our the sun in a city roughly the same size as NYC but with more people. This is only the first month of this war, which has no real signs of being settled.

This is not a military operation. We are murdering thousands of civilians.

08.03.2026 14:43 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

War crime upon war crime upon war crime

08.03.2026 14:18 πŸ‘ 1019 πŸ” 396 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1

All of this is just profoundly evil.

08.03.2026 14:26 πŸ‘ 754 πŸ” 161 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

They really saw what was done in Gaza and thought "what if this was the whole world"

08.03.2026 13:28 πŸ‘ 219 πŸ” 46 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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CPAC Head Says Iranian Schoolgirls Are Better Dead Than β€œin a Burqa” Leading Republicans don’t seem to care about the bombing of a girls’ school in Iran.

Disabled people tried to warn you.

We said the β€œbetter off dead” narrative being weaponized against us would be used for other groups of people.

The fascists won’t ever stop. They see everyone else as less than. Expendable. Not worthy of life.

Its eugenics on a massive scale

08.03.2026 09:39 πŸ‘ 582 πŸ” 304 πŸ’¬ 27 πŸ“Œ 16

Three days ago, Israel ordered the south evacuated. Two days ago, they did the same to the southern suburbs. That’s more than one million people. Some, the most vulnerable, are sleeping rough by the sea or on sidewalks. Today, it is raining. War harms the poor the most.

07.03.2026 09:08 πŸ‘ 262 πŸ” 124 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

Protest today against another illegal war by the United States and Israel, assembling at noon at Millbank and marching to the US Embassy in Nine Elms

07.03.2026 09:09 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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"You recognise.. if a school was targeted that would constitute a breach of intl law?"

David Lammy: "This is a febrile war zone"

"That doesn't excuse hitting schools.."

"... its for the Americans to comment on what's happened there"

So you've never commented on Russian war crimes, right?

06.03.2026 07:42 πŸ‘ 184 πŸ” 85 πŸ’¬ 30 πŸ“Œ 21
Israeli map showing all of southern Lebanon in red with yellow arrows pointing to north of the Litani river

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.

04.03.2026 10:19 πŸ‘ 2327 πŸ” 1485 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 205
Photo of the book They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib

Photo of the book They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib

05.03.2026 22:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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.

05.03.2026 04:43 πŸ‘ 7341 πŸ” 2312 πŸ’¬ 182 πŸ“Œ 50

I knew I had seen a similar thing somewhere before

Labour is a far right party

05.03.2026 08:37 πŸ‘ 660 πŸ” 362 πŸ’¬ 27 πŸ“Œ 19

30,000 people displaced in lebanon in basically a day. That’a almost half the population of the city i currently live in…

03.03.2026 12:30 πŸ‘ 28 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

What if there was a mindful way to steal people’s art, pollute Black neighborhoods, and raise everyone’s electric bill?

02.03.2026 16:51 πŸ‘ 1715 πŸ” 506 πŸ’¬ 20 πŸ“Œ 7
Screenshot of Power to the People on x: BREAKING: The attacks launched by the United States against Iran that included bombing a school and massacring 85 schoolgirls were carried out using AI.

This is yet another reason to oppose AI and data centers: They are now war machines.

Screenshot of Power to the People on x: BREAKING: The attacks launched by the United States against Iran that included bombing a school and massacring 85 schoolgirls were carried out using AI. This is yet another reason to oppose AI and data centers: They are now war machines.

AI has always been war machinery. Not β€œnow.” And universities are developing and promoting it as if it can be used otherwise. Don’t fall for it.

01.03.2026 16:43 πŸ‘ 34 πŸ” 23 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 3
I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves.
Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone.
That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins.
If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after.
Sahar Delijani, Iranian author

I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone. That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after. Sahar Delijani, Iranian author

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds.

I support neither imperialism or dictatorship.

Sahar Delijani said it best:

01.03.2026 13:10 πŸ‘ 10173 πŸ” 3612 πŸ’¬ 43 πŸ“Œ 58
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Death toll from Iran school bombing reportedly rises to almost 150 Strike on girls’ elementary school in south of Iran has killed 148 people and injured 95 others, according to Iran state media

β€œDeath toll from Iran school bombing reportedly rises to almost 150” .. this is USA β€˜liberating Iranian women’ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

01.03.2026 13:56 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 26 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

Same on all counts πŸ₯²

01.03.2026 13:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Photo of the book The World We Make by N.K. Jemisin, the second part of her Great Cities duology

Photo of the book The World We Make by N.K. Jemisin, the second part of her Great Cities duology

So good (and so necessary)

01.03.2026 13:38 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Geese Win First Award, Say β€œFree Palestine, Fuck ICE, Go Geese!” It was bound to happen. With all the momentum and universal praise, Geese were destined to win their first award. Who would’ve thought it would be a BRIT Award? The Brooklyn indie rockers won Internat...

β€œFree Palestine, fuck ICE, go Geese!”

28.02.2026 21:49 πŸ‘ 202 πŸ” 32 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 11

I keep thinking about how the propaganda leading to this war was all about how you needed to rescue women and the first thing they did was kill dozens of little girls.

01.03.2026 09:12 πŸ‘ 622 πŸ” 215 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 3
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US-Israeli strike on girls' school kills at least 85 students, Iran's judiciary says At least 85 students have been killed in US-Israeli strikes that hit an Iranian girls' school in Hormozgan province, Iran's judiciary said on Saturday. Washington has not commented on the reported str...

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

28.02.2026 16:00 πŸ‘ 17024 πŸ” 6535 πŸ’¬ 469 πŸ“Œ 550

At least 40 students killed so far at a school in Minab according to AlJazeera

28.02.2026 11:51 πŸ‘ 257 πŸ” 99 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1
IDF: Israel has the right to defend itself.

IDF: Israel has the right to defend itself.

Number of students killed in Israeli attack on school in southern Iran rises to 24
We have reported earlier that an Israeli strike hit an elementary girl’s school in Minab, a city in the Hormozgan province of southern Iran, killing five people.

Now, Iran’s Fars news agency is reporting that the number of students killed rose to 24.

Number of students killed in Israeli attack on school in southern Iran rises to 24 We have reported earlier that an Israeli strike hit an elementary girl’s school in Minab, a city in the Hormozgan province of southern Iran, killing five people. Now, Iran’s Fars news agency is reporting that the number of students killed rose to 24.

Unimaginably depraved.

28.02.2026 11:40 πŸ‘ 282 πŸ” 91 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 18

All this bs about freedom and democracy. Let's not forget that last time they bombed the trans wing of a prison.

28.02.2026 11:09 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

British politics being joyful is a feeling I don't remember feeling before πŸ˜…

27.02.2026 22:50 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Claiming Gaza is a 'sectarian' issue is both blatantly racist & blind to why we all care about Gaza. As new Green MP Hannah Spencer said last night 'Whether its on our doorsteps or across the world, if somebody is being oppressed or suffering an injustice, I will always speak up'

27.02.2026 08:14 πŸ‘ 92 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
INTRODUCING! 

Hannah Spencer 

The new Green MP for GORTON & DENTON 

Green Party 

Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

INTRODUCING! Hannah Spencer The new Green MP for GORTON & DENTON Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

Introducing Hannah Spencer MP πŸ’š

27.02.2026 04:31 πŸ‘ 4461 πŸ” 1036 πŸ’¬ 183 πŸ“Œ 340