This article and the academics quoted are a stunning illustration of how both media and academia have fundamentally failed to recognise how a random number generator is being used to widen the already-fucking-wide permission space for mass murder Both now helping that project archive.ph/wip/RlMO5

Iranian attack just hit Fujairah oil field in UAE.

Israel invaded Lebanon again

Doing this WHILE writing TWO books at the same time…🫠

This piece is disturbing because it reads like a press release that had to include a bit of journalism in it. There’s virtually no critical analysis of the danger of what’s happening. The only mention of the word “law” is a UN quote.

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Massive displacement in Lebanon as Israel starts land operations in addition to aerial attacks. More than 11000 people entered to Syria from Lebanon, mainly Syrian refugees who had fled to Lebanon during Syrian war... - AlJazeera

This is the death toll in Iran that some are calling "low." It's only been 3 days & over 700 ppl at least have been killed. Nearly 700 more deaths are being reviewed. That's 1400 deaths in 3 days. Israeli carnage in Palestine has fully shifted the Overton window for folks x.com/AdHaque110/s...

There are at least 10,000 Amcits in Qatar alone, and the US government is saying we are on our own

So glad to share this interview about Coolie Migrants, Indian Diplomacy, coinciding with the US publication of the book with @academic.oup.com Many thanks to @rohanvenkat.bsky.social for this thoughtful conversation and for his close and generous reading of my book.

Not to make it about economics, but that plane right there constitutes the budget of my city for the next 27 years

GW‘s student newspaper appears to have broken the story that the institution has sold a satellite campus to Amazon to be turned into a data center, which is just about chef’s kiss for the state of American higher education rn

It seems like most of Arab twitter is convinced the Saudis have indeed sent soldiers into Bahrain

"We may choose to foreground specific voices, but that choice should be explicit: these are the voices *we* amplify, not *the* voice of the Iranian people." Nazanin Shahrokni for Spectre spectrejournal.com/who-speaks-f...

been saying this for close to a decade now and it keeps getting horrifically more true bsky.app/profile/tee-...

Is it because all the correspondents are now J6ers?

At a dinner party in Cairo, when a newly arrived expat asked “So what does Bahrain do?” one of my funniest Arab friends responded immediately, “Torture.” Solidarity with the Bahrainis rioting against their vicious US-supported regime, which practices torture against its Shia majority.

Bahrain is legitimately a tinderbox

I really did think the Riyadh Comedy Festival would help bring peace to the Middle East

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints. One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

Interviewed on the Patrick Bet-David podcast, popular in the right-wing sphere, Pahlavi admitted that he could only imagine returning to Iran on a part-time basis, as his social life and personal commitments were rooted in the US, where he’s lived most of his life | jacobin.com/2025/06/reza...

As an Indian diplobrat, who still remembers the disproportionate soft power India wielded culturally and diplomatically, the way this moron chaddipanthi squandered over 60years of work of the Indian Foreign Service will never ever stop pissing me of. Just to side with imperialists and colonizers.

How many desis spent last couple of days checking in on the network in that part of the world?

“Draft an email” “Write a memo” Terrifying to think military intelligence may not possess this simple skills.

Netanyahu to the U.S. Congress, 2002: "If you take out Saddam, Saddam's regime, I guarantee you that it will have enormous positive reverberations on the region."

Honestly this is just embarrassing now.

From 2017 www.thenation.com/article/arch...

You rubes. You born-yesterdays.

Lmfao this woman taught me how to write and boy am I glad about that fact everyday. What a turn of phrase!

The key to getting mainstream media on board with an illegal war is making them feel like an important part of it.

I haven't written about Jolla in probably ... 9 years?Anyway, here's more info about the upcoming Jolla Phone, running Sailfish OS. www.wired.com/story/jolla-...

“The Epstein class are the warped elites they pretend to hate. For years, MAGA has attacked minority groups in the name of ‘protecting women and children.’ It turns out the real abusers are the wealthy and powerful.” inthesetimes.com/article/jeff...

> @reuters.com

Rubio on Iran: They are producing, by some estimates, over 100 of these missiles a month. Compare that to the six or seven interceptors that can be built a month.

State prosecutors absolutely can and absolutely should bring charges against federal officers who commit crimes within their jurisdiction.

Trump Wins $60 On Kalshi Betting He’ll Bomb Iran https://theonion.com/trump-wins-60-on-kalshi-betting-hell-bomb-iran/

Lmfao this is so fucking sad 😂😂😂

A consortium led by BlackRock and a Swedish private-equity firm is buying US power company AES for $33.4 billion. AES is one of the world's biggest utility companies, generating electricity in 15 countries. In the US alone the company has over 1 million customers.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez doing what UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has chosen not to do, criticise the US and Israel for their attack on Iran which breached international law

The latest #FOIA release from #FBI re: the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES). This is from the FBI's internal investigation of the Bureau's spying targeting CISPES & those supporting it. A long history of US-backed El Salvadoran regimes engaged in torture & murder.

My husband made me watch this and genuinely my brain is mush. He pivots from (barely) acknowledging dead servicemen to his views on interior decor. Unfathomable.

Someone in Stanford's finance hierarchy keeps querying what the "business purpose" of going to an archive is. Maybe if I lied and said I went there to train an AI we'd have less of a language barrier?

This is what the destruction of the mass consumer society looks like. By the end of WWII, federal policies enabled the impossible: a market economy that most Americans could enjoy. Wages rose, abundance was born. 50 years of destructive policies have undone it.

lol. Moreover, lmfao.

It is extremely difficult to write about South Asia, including Afghanistan, from 1948-2001 while all of this is going on.

The graves dug for 153 Iranian female school children who were killed by an Israeli-American strike. Photo: IRNA

pretty confident that if our own government bombed, say, Philadelphia, we'd just kind forget about it after a couple more Rocky movies

this is a fascinating (but not unique) bit of performativity, since anchoring has very little to do with reporting and he could do this just as well from anywhere else.

So. You want to convince your city, town, and county to proactively REJECT working with ICE/CBP? Send them this link about the staggering financial cost to the Twin Cities. Make your conservative mayor start to sweat about her budget. minnesotareformer.com/2026/03/02/m...