"The American narrative of having supposedly learned lessons after endless years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan is finally being challenged by brutal reality." - @seamus-malekafzali.com

Can always count on @seamus-malekafzali.com to say what needs to be said newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/the-legacy...

Good reminder (if we needed it) that for all the talk of Dubai being a safe haven for business and tourists, the UAE is not a democracy 21 ppl have been charged under UAE cybercrime laws for sharing videos and social media posts relating to recent missile strikes www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

every time i'm on camera i notice i'm furrowing my brow to an insane degree. that is my default expression. don't think this is healthy

Crazy video of 20 Tomahawks flying through the Iraqi Kurdish mountains near Sulaymaniyah (filmed by someone standing *above* them), seemingly fired from Navy vessels in the Mediterranean

i think you people just actually want a regime change war

had a vivid dream last night about a benjamin netanyahu impersonator on seinfeld that kept showing up in jerry seinfeld's own dreams within the show to torture him as Q from star trek might

Marco Rubio’s claim that Israel dragged Washington into war have prompted familiar questions about the US-Israeli relationship. But the truth, @seamus-malekafzali.com writes, is that the two rogue states are now full partners in impunity: www.equator.org/articles/the...

It’s not disingenuous to point out that the NYT did not run a single front page story of the Minab bombing. You don’t dispute this claim because it’s true. And the story that you reference on your webpage does not attribute blame to US/Israel and frames it as an allegation by “Iranian state media”

If you come to me asking to vote for a Democrat after this, I'm stealing something out of your house

Our friend @seamus-malekafzali.com is here to talk about the war with Iran: www.patreon.com/posts/1015-m...

“direct your anger at trump not the democrats” buddy you are severely underestimating the amount of anger i have available to me

Britain and India were united by garments and spices until that Ghandi guy ruined it.

Oh fuck off

Hilarious editorial today by Amit Segal in Israel Hayom that posits that Khamenei is about to "pull a Hitler" and fire everything the Axis of Resistance has at once, including having a million-man Houthi army invade Israel through Jordan.

Awesome, I said with such pain in my voice it was unclear if it was illness or anguish

genius strategy by elizabeth warren and company to stand up and clap for trump saying people shouldn't make exorbitant money off of being in congress, setting herself up to be humiliated for being willing to stand up and clap for him, before he immediately went to start attacking somalis

Hockey is officially straight again [derogatory]

*****LOCAL NYC OBSERVATION, IF NON-NYC, PLEASE IGNORE***** Pedestrian crossings got completely cleared within hours over where I am in Upper Manhattan, when after the last big snowfall a couple weeks back, it took days. Nice to see actual, obvious improvement in a city service.

Why am I seeing Biden admin staffers talking about mid posters

So it's ok to start a war illegally against a nation of 92 million, for whom you have "no sympathy" as long as the purpose is clear? The Big Dem line that Trump is a demented fascist domestically while simultaneously agreeing his foreign policy decisions just isn't gonna cut it anymore.

i've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time

have been listening to ben folds for the first time since i was a teenager and man this is ass

real

End of January #Israel illegally sprayed herbicide across its borders into #Syria and #Lebanon. Affected communities are concerned over the impacts on agriculture and health. We used satellite imagery to track the 55km long affected area. A thread 🧵1/x paxforpeace.nl/news/israel-...

Saw the trailer for the newest Taylor Sheridan show and had to stop myself from bursting out laughing. Why is Will Arnett here as the brilliant therapist

A perfect and beautiful evocation of the childhood feeling of seeing your friends on the small screen suddenly make it to the big one, going on a grandiose adventure no other kind of screen could possibly hold. Run, don't walk!

IDK but there is a specific thing where people respond to any brief post you make as though it encompasses all of your thoughts on the matter that drives me a little nuts lol

awesome

Patrick Warburton said something so funny in my dream last night and now I can't fucking remember it

thank god

my friend tim has the handwriting of a novelist in 1910

constantly kicking myself that i didn't get to see him perform King Lear when i had the chance in london

update from my constantly fighting neighbors that i can hear through the walls: apparently the boyfriend has been calling his side piece with his GIRLFRIEND's phone

very weird “I am Spartacus” thing happening right now with the worst people on earth

the entire UK economy seems to run on some variety of comedy panel format and we need to impose sanctions immediately

THIS IS ALREADY ILLEGAL. FUCKING USELESS

getting it in the prenup that my future wife MUST care if i live or die

Very fortunate to be working with @seamus-malekafzali.com on this book!

I am writing a book.

spoke with my favorite couple @shaabiranks.bsky.social and @seamus-malekafzali.com about international law, the so-called "war on terror," and the long shadow of colonial warfare for Turbulence turbulencepod.substack.com/p/episode-11...

You know it's bad because The Free Press felt it needed to publish this.

has he not done this before and then months later gone back to being a nazi

YOU ARE THE POLICE. ARREST THEM. YOU ARE LITERALLY THE ONLY PEOPLE IN SOCIETY WHO CAN DO SOMETHING

Slow news week

Trying as hard as I can and I just cannot imagine any one of these people actually putting up a fight against ICE in any meaningful way. The country is just speeding into a wall at the moment.

looking up bars in the east village. go fuck yourself

I wrote for @theintercept.com about the plans for a "New Rafah" built behind IDF lines, the American reconstruction plan for the Strip where villages are turned into AI data centers, and how all of this may be a smokescreen to expel Gazans anyway. theintercept.com/2026/01/21/g...

Trying to find Lindsey Graham's memoir for an upcoming piece and I'm just shocked at how this thing just disappeared off the face of the Earth. No links on Amazon or eBay, no PDF on any pirate sites, not a damn person, even in passing, has thought about this book since 2015.