Marwan Bishara on Al Jazeera is in rare form at least. Just called Netanyahu a nudnik.

Continuing the pattern of: Amid Apocalyptic Federal News, Some Very Good News in New York City: Diya Vij is our new cultural affairs commissioner. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/a...

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Israel is also bombing Lebanon

In 2026 Iranian civilians have been bombed by the US, bombed by Israel and massacred by their own government.

Indeed www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Signs of life The technocrats, centrists and fascists all got trounced by an *actual* white working class candidate Left school at 16, became a plumber. Now a Green MP at 34 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Meanwhile in crimes against ecosystems and Indigenous communities “Absurdly, to make up for felling an estimated 1 million trees on the island, the government has approved compensatory afforestation faraway on the mainland, in Haryana.”

bhindi dharosh quiabo #okrapolitan

Disagree with @jamellebouie.net in this instance. The comparison with Hungary or Turkey might not be good but the much better comparison is India -- diverse, decentralised, with strong local and regional press traditions in many languages, and still being suffocated by state+billionaire fascists.

The new French culture minister is fresh from 12 years running the Versailles Palace, with a quick loop through the French agency working on Al-Ula in Saudi Arabia. So... culture in that sense. Elle "a su, grâce à sa discrétion et à son entregent, se rendre indispensable," notes Roxana Azimi.

Modi too

Before In the Wake, there was Monstrous Intimacies. A major work.

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This is good: the "Fight Unlawful Conduct and Keep Individuals and Communities Empowered" Act, with a bunch of measures. I'm absolutely among those who believe that blunt, direct and vulgar messaging has long been needed. Really since 2016, when HRC should have straight-up called DJT an asshole.

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Concerned about ICE's $45 billion plan to convert warehouses into immigration detention centers? This is what they'll look like inside. From ICE's plan for the Social Circle, GA facility. Each little dot: a person. www.socialcirclega.gov/home/showpub...

Elle fut depuis des décennies l’inlassable voix de la Palestine en France et en Europe. Leïla Shahid n’est plus. Avec son suicide, le glas sonne sur la terre pour toute l’humanité. Adieu mon amie, si belle personne, si joyeuse combattante.

"I was detained for writing a op-ed about Gaza as a student at Tufts," writes Rümeysa Öztürk. "My experience has only made me feel more connected to others facing oppression."

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Leïla Shahid, ancienne représentante de la Palestine en France, est morte Elle était invitée il y a 5 mois dans À l’air libre pour parler du génocide à Gaza. www.mediapart.fr/journal/inte...

“Jackson is arrested in 1993 after blocking 5th Avenue as part of a group protesting against the Clinton administration’s policy of maintaining a detention camp for Haitian political refugees who were HIV positive” Remember this history as we remember this man.

Jesse Jackson. First presidential candidate I, like many in my generation, voted for. Keep hope alive.

In the words of the great Too Short. RIP

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Wiseman. Legend.

Frederick Wiseman, a director whose rigorously objective explorations of social and cultural institutions constitute one of the more revered bodies of work in American documentary filmmaking, died on Monday. He was 96. nyti.ms/4qGpq55

RIP Frederick Wiseman and thank you for your films. Great filmmaker and a giant of an example of what it means to maintain full control over your creative work. Bought these from his distribution company Zipporah Films that he created to distribute his own documentaries. Love and respect.

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"The Epstein household may have reached extremes of sadism, but its political economy is becoming less exceptional by the day." Important analysis by Prof. Melinda Cooper in @equatormag.bsky.social www.equator.org/articles/eps...

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World Service has lost much of its quality and most of its independence in the last decade or two, so this has been coming. But it's still a tragedy.

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"simpleton" is exactly it

Enough with the fucking AI ! Take your AI companions, AI assistants, AI lovers, AI summaries, AI social events, AI therapists, AI spiritual advisers and shove them up your AI asses!

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"After she leaves Goldman, her options in the company’s stock are due to vest over the next two years and she is expected to collect about $80 million."

"My responsibility is to put Goldman Sachs’s interests first"

yes please

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Terminus tout le monde descend www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

Hmm. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...