We live in the most evil country in the world.

The UAE, taking in billions in US weapons and then turning around and arming the genocidal RSF: We’d never get away with this if America still existed in the world!

(Miami Herald) - The Trump Administration has made the decision to attack military installations inside Venezuela and the strikes could come at any moment, sources with knowledge of the situation told the Miami Herald .. @miamiherald.com www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

The return to just straight up gutter racism and constant evoking of 9/11 should make clear the price we've paid for never really leaving 2003.

the adl is no longer, by its own definition, america’s preeminent jewish civil rights organization — because it’s no longer a civil rights organization at all

Smarter nefarious operators would have a ready-made list of far-right analysts to call on for any given situation. Bari Weiss being a total simpleton, even more so than I imagined, is very funny.

Bernie Sanders has not stopped purposefully stepping on rakes since October 2023, it feels like

My suspicion is that the 2028 Democratic primaries are going to focus on the Eric Swalwell-level bravado of "We're gonna take off the masks of ICE!" as if that solves everything

Americans need to reconcile that this is pretty much what the Obama-era drone strikes were. Any time a prior administration abused its power and it was greeted by a shrug because “we’re the good guys” - this is why you shouldn’t do that.

Breaking: The Department of Justice announced it will "monitor polling sites in six jurisdictions [in New Jersey and California] ahead of the upcoming November 4, 2025, general election to ensure transparency, ballot security, and compliance with federal law." www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...

I'm sorry but I really can't be bothered to give a shit about the east wing of the white house

sorry, i'm confused...did you get a nazi tattoo because you were drunk with some marine buddies in croatia without knowing what it meant, or because you "used to say and believe things that today [you] find abhorrent"?

It’s still weird that you have multiple parties running on making the country so shite no one will want to live here

Wrote for @theintercept.com about the lack of attempts by the US government to justify a looming war with Venezuela, something originated during the War on Terror and how designating anyone or any group as "terrorists" means no further justification is needed. theintercept.com/2025/10/22/t...

what Big Romance doesn't want to tell you is that reading in public as a man does work

An Ohio University professor was removed from teaching a MFA class a day after returning home from an Israeli prison where he was detained upon being illegally abducted from the flotilla. His students [solidarity!] walked out on the replacement prof in protest. www.dispatch.com/story/news/s...

Yeah Reagan had nothing to do with any of this. This all started squarely in 2024 when the heavens opened up and hate for immigrants came down

The Bari Weiss-led CBS News has had this up for 3 days and misspelled his name in the hed.

Introducing Turbulence, a new podcast from Séamus Malekafzali, Dylan Saba, and M Ceniza. Dropping October 28. Subscribe today: turbulencepod.substack.com Trailer by @seamus-malekafzali.com

Hello Bluesky community—I’m not very active here, but I wanted to share a new project that I’ve been working on with @seamus-malekafzali.com and M Ceniza. It’s a podcast, Turbulence, about the end of the liberal international order. Tap in: turbulencepod.substack.com

Imagine seeing this screenshot and your face being on it and then jumping on a plane

RIP Kaleb Horton kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/

Something to really underscore here: again, Qatar hosts the U.S. military’s CENTCOM. 1000s of U.S. troops are stationed there, Qatar is one of the richest countries in the world, Qatar hosts and works with every major western corporation and more—none of this protected Qatar from being bombed

Kirsten Gillibrand (who's in charge of electing more Senate Democrats) insists "9 out of 10 Democrats are pro-Israel." 8% of Democrats support Israel's war on Gaza. 75% oppose sending more military aid to Israel. 63% think the US supports Israel too much.

Dawg how can you not know what you look like

Good lord I hate hearing about the city of New York

Acting Yemeni Prime Minister Muhammad Miftah says that Israel's assassination of PM Ahmed al-Rahawi will only make Yemen "more willing to make sacrifices", saying to "the crown of our heads in Gaza" that "we are with you...with our blood...with our lives".

Yemeni President Mahdi al-Mashat, addressing the nation, promises revenge for Israel's assassination of Prime Minister Ahmed al-Rahawi, that Yemen will never stop supporting Gaza, and that they will "forge victory from the depths of our wounds."

It is definitely a symptom of my crippling youth but I am continually shocked by how much Dean Cain has milked being on "Lois and Clark" for a few years in the 1990s

Loved being lightly surprised that a 59-year-old man could climb that high of a wall and then laughing hysterically at the other feats of strength

I am concerned we’re about to do something very stupid

Andrew Cuomo is trying to create pretexts for Donald Trump to send in troops to occupy NYC.

I interviewed al-Mayadeen's military analyst Ali Jezzini about the Lebanese state's move to disarm Hezbollah, how the US is trying to cement a Lebanese Army that cannot confront Israeli aggression, and about the potential "West Bank-ization" of the Levant. www.seamus-malekafzali.com/p/the-questi...

That fucking WNBA thing, like with every dumb right-wing meme pretending to have no ideology, has now quickly become an unashamed placeholder for every murderous fascist fantasy on the books. Rinse and repeat.

Wrote about how much I hated Chantel Akerman's film about living in Tel Aviv and the phenomenon of the Western liberal gaze toward Israel and Palestine. letterboxd.com/seamus_malek...

Stay salty DC 🔥

I interviewed @malsaafin.bsky.social about the killing of Anas al-Sharif, how Western media treats Palestinian journos, if Israel's current plans for Gaza City are distinct from previous plans, and if a “day after” the war is something it even envisions. www.seamus-malekafzali.com/p/the-exterm...

I hate this prick's stupid beard so much. He still wants to be president so badly and it radiates off of him like a nuclear plant melting down.

Also a symptom of my youth that I first knew Robert Shapiro as the guy from the LegalZoom commercials

I want to scream

"The Clarifier," new art at @truthdig.bsky.social: www.truthdig.com/cartoons/the...

i need judith butler's letterboxd top 4

maybe it's because i'm just barely not a millennial but i can't fathom this being a relatable pet peeve

Oh a new Hong Sang-Soo film is out. I wonder what it's about. Surely it's not the same thing the last 20 Hong Sang-Soo films were about

Russian author describe a person normally challenge difficulty level IMPOSSIBLE

Haaretz reports that renewed talk of annexing parts of Gaza to "put pressure on Hamas" is focused on its northern strip, the sites of 3 former Israeli settlements (colored blue) which were disengaged from in 2005.