I am having a stroke.

so many of the very first photos my parents took of me are taken in Iran. I was born in India, but lived in Iran, before during and after the Revolution. My father worked in a remote rural hospital for 8 years. These are real people, not the bogeymen of silly Hollywood films. Its always real people.

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

Kamala Harris promised "the most lethal military" in the world and said Iran was our greatest threat. After Israel struck Iran, Tim Walz said that we need "expand Israel and its proxies" in the VP debate. Schumer and Jeffries just worked to delay a war resolutions vote until after these strikes.

MY BROTHER IN CHRIST FUCK THE AYATOLLAH BUT BOMBING ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS IS WRONG TOO.

From The Archives:

Nine months ago, the United States "completely and totally obliterated" Iran's nuclear program. Tonight, we're attacking Iran to disrupt their nuclear program. A sizable percentage of this country thinks that's normal.

OFFS. When Iran tried to interefere in 2020, researchers caught them and called them out. Then the Benz-Weiss-Taibbi-Musk-Jordan-Trump axis labeled those researchers "censors" ... and set about defunding them and dismantling their organizations.

I support regime change in the United States.

Imagine 8 (9, 10) urban centers in the US having sudden massive explosions.

I think if I'd gotten away with attempting a coup, suffered no consequences for it, then won an election four years later, got away with executing citizens in the streets and foreigners in boats, and successfully abducted a head of state, I too might think I could just bomb my way to regime change

“The victims were between seven and 12 years old, according to Iran's Tasnim and Fars news agencies.”

every single democrat who doesn’t start their statement with “this is illegal under domestic and international law and therefore i oppose it” needs to go

I don't have anything I can say on here except that I want everyone, especially the kids, to be safe and well, and that my heart hurts for so many people I care about who are terrified for their loved ones tonight

"La Palestine était un test pour voir jusqu'où ils pouvaient aller. Refuser notre solidarité aux Palestiniens constitue non seulement une faillite morale absolue, mais aussi une erreur stratégique dont tout le monde paiera le prix."

The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it

These are criminal acts, and there is no way to find the other side of this without meaningful accountability for this—like “in the dock at The Hague” accountability.

if any democrats in congress want to support a regime change i think they should set their sights much closer to home

I find it a very strange compulsion to respond to horrific news by aiming vitriol at folks who opposed genocide. We are not here because some people had the moral decency to draw a line at genocide. We are here because not enough did. Kill the idea that fascism begins when its victims look like you

a progressive income tax? sorry kiddo, that betrays a "utopian" desire that can only ever end in tragedy. but a relentless program of constant wars, occupations, and genocides fast and slow, for oil, land, and fulfilling the commands of a blood-hungry god? thats just Adults in the Room doing Policy

Again, other countries need to start declaring an attention to boycott the World Cup in the US since the US is behaving like a rogue state.

Just want to note that 3am in Washington is like 11:30am in Tehran. The American people are the ones he snuck up on in the dead of night to conduct this illegal attack, not the purported enemy.

When I say this today what I mean is that a necessary but not sufficient step toward the US having any kind of future credibility in my nephews' lives, the GOP has to be run out of power and public life and treated like the Nazis after WWII. We will not have credibility in my own lifetime.

This is obscene. Iran agreed to constrain its nuclear program in 2015. All this blood is on Trump’s hands.

Who knew we would one day look back with nostalgia to a time when American Presidents thought international law mattered enough to take the trouble to fabricate a legal case for their wars of choice?

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

I want a fairy tale but make it French.

I love all my wicked ideologies

Kelly is a genius!

After sexual violence, it's victims who get punished the most. Victims who lose their jobs and have to leave their industries. Victims who lose their friends and support systems. Victims who lose their health and sanity. Perpetrators might lie low, sometimes, before being handed it all back.

The big problem with this is *gestures at Bill Clinton's lengthy history of abuse and harassment allegations*

I know nothing about British politics, but can anyone tell me if taking the recent British election as a bit of evidence against popularism is too reductive and/or non-analogous to US politics?

This is amazing. www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

thought you probably needed to see this

For what it’s worth, I don’t have any tattoos.

The entire Democratic strategy debate — "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? — is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close! New: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

I'm sorry but people who are making decisions like that are no different than the people dropping bombs on the kids.

Cover of The Lancet: @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

If the left had split in such a way that Reform had got in it's nigh inevitable the media (and various Labour politicians!) would've reacted by saying this shows Labour need to tack right. Even though arguably it would have been the exact opposite! If nothing else a Green victory saved us from that.

Newsom is the Starmer in waiting; let's not do that.

The U.S. is a country that is unable to handle death but is awash in it. A country with people who often can't process grief. These are terrible things.

“Labour’s vote share fell by 25%—Greens’ jumped by 28%”. Um, no they didn’t. Those are the *percentage point* changes. Labour’s vote was less than half of their previous showing (–51%) while Greens got *over three times* as many votes as they did at the last election (+215%)! (Source: BBC News)

We genuinely need a revival of virtue in the United States. In my view, that’s almost as critical a project as any other structural reform project necessary in the wake of trumpism. We should become a society that actually values human life such that we would feel shame about this.

you know I would say her matching pink phone case really makes this, gives Goodwin a huge "sad loser man at the end of Legally Blonde" vibe

💯. In my direct experience labour cannot *stand* it when greens stray away from wind turbines & start talking about poor people, because as far as they are concerned, poor people are *theirs*. Theirs to ignore, often, but still theirs.

The danger that the present course of civilisation will destroy the beauty of life--these are hard words, and I wish I could mend them, but I cannot, while I speak what I believe to be the truth. -William Morris, Hopes and Fears for Art

Remember, kids. If you target some of your campaign at Muslims it's sectarianism. But if you target all of your campaign at bigots, that's just listening to people's valid concerns. Get fucked, Matt.

TERF loses, now with Alt-text

Before calling the cops about anything, ask yourself, "Will a scared bully with a gun and more creatine than brains make this situation better or worse?"

Why has climate action has fallen off the political agenda? Not because people don’t care! According to @yaleclimatecomm.bsky.social Americans are as concerned now as they were in 2019. No. Decisionmakers are retreating because the right wing is going after them full bore & they are folding. 1/2