“I’m not comfortable with Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu deciding who the good guys and bad guys are in the world.” — former Canadian ambassador Jon Allen (@utoronto.ca) on the attack on Iran, with @maralkay.bsky.social (@torontomet.bsky.social) & @jeyantvo.bsky.social | Producer: Preeti Bhuyan

was quoted in @LeDevoir on rising U.S.–Iran tensions: U.S. intervention would likely begin w limited targeted strikes on nuclear sites not #regimechange, warning Iranian lives risk being instrumentalized amid escalating rhetoric & internal repression #IranProtests media2.ledevoir.com/images_galer...

I sat down with Jayan Jeganathan @JeyanTVO of @TVO for an in depth conversation on #IranProtests, Trump's plans for Iran and the opposition. Watch full video tonight on TVO or later on YouTube (I shall post). Special thanks goes to @PreetiBhuyan for producing.

"Iran is going to be an extremely tough pill to swallow for [Trump]... he doesn't have an endgame in Iran," @maralkay.bsky.social (@torontomet.bsky.social) tells @jeyantvo.bsky.social, tonight on The Rundown at 8pm | Producer: Preeti Bhuyan

I’ll be speaking live on CBC Radio across multiple regional programs discussing #IranProtests Starting 2:30 pm local time, airing coast to coast to coast, including Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa, Halifax, Calgary… You can listen on CBC radio live, by tuning into regional station #DigitalBlackoutIran

‎In solidarity with protests across Iran, Kurdish regions have gone on strike. As the images show, shops are closed, no foot traffic, and even street vendors have complied. ‎⁧‫#بژی_کوردستان‬⁩ ‎⁦‪#IranProtests2026‬⁩

Elon is a fascist

My latest op-ed on #Iran-Israel war in the @thestar.com "Western coverage often casts Iranians as a single, uniform bloc, either villains or oppressed. On the ground, however, reality shows a far more intricate, textured landscape." www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Reporter: "How imminent is #Israeli strike on #Iran" #Trump: "I don't want to say imminent but it looks like something that could very well happen...#Iran can't have nuclear weapons"

Downtown #Toronto right now! #Palestine #Gaza

بیایید هر روز با خود تکرار کنیم: ⁧‫#تجاوز‬⁩ جنسی بیش از آنکه ناشی از نیاز جنسی باشد، تلاشی‌ست برای سلطه بر بدن «دیگری». دیگریی، بدنی، که در طی فرآیندی تاریخی از انسانیت تهی شده است. ‏تجاوز نتیجه مناسبات قدرت و سلطه‌است و نیاز جنسی نقش ثانوی داره.

Presenting my research @ the Canadian Communication Association @ 3:30PM today. Hope to see you there. Here is the title: "Reframing Narratives of Conflict: Media Representations of Bashar al-Assad’s Fall and the Moderation of #AbuMohamadal-Jolani" #Congress2025 @CCA_ACdC

جناب مستطاب فوتبالیست مملکت رسما اعلان کردن همه مردها می‌توانند متجاوز باشند (نهادینگی فرهنگ تجاوز) و برخلاف زمانی که زنها درباره آزارهای جنسی می‌نویسند، هجوم «البته نه همه مردها» را نمی‌بینیم (جنسیت‌زدگی و دفاع از ساختار مسلط مردسالار) ‏⁧‫#کره_جنوبی‬⁩

I'm glad the uneducated members of the Right have learned to hide behind the word 'activism'. A term that represents the very ideals they fear: equity, fairness and anything that just may level the playing field for the marginalized.

#نرگس_محمدی زن مقاومیست. متاسفانه تجربه مکرارا کارکرد فرسایشی جوایز و نشانهای بین‌المللی را نشان داده. برنده پس از مدتی تبدیل میشود به دستگاه صدور بیانه و مصاحبه‌های بی‌سر و ته. مثل این بیانیه زیر که فهرستی بلندبالاست از اصلاح‌طلبان حکومتی، تا آزارگر جنسی و مهره‌های امنیتی. x.com/nargesfnd/st...

My thoughts exactly!

Should we tell him that no political gift is ever free? #AirForceOne

"Everyday in #Palestine children are being slaughtered, maimed, and starved to death.... What is happening in #Gaza is not a matter of opinion. It is not complex in the way morality is made complex in order to excuse paralysis"

In light of #Trump's outright falsehoods, PM @mark-carney.bsky.social demonstrating insane amount of restraint not calling him out in his face!

According to #ElectionsCanada, a by election costs $1.7 million! Just calling out the price tag for #Poliviere's ambitions.

Just when you think #Trump can't get any dumber, he resurfaces with something like this: The movie industry in US is dying not because other Nations r taking advantage of USians (why is Nations capitalized?) it's because of the very nature of Capitalism, which goes where it can find cheap labour!

I guess everyone has a price! Even progressives like #AdamVaughan #ThemeSpa #OntarioScienceCentte

This is too delicious👇 Dear Woke Gods, is it too much to ask PP loses this one too?

1- #DamineKurek: I was given a "mandate", which means he was ordered by #PierrePoilievre to resign. #Poilievre though says he accepted Kurek's "offer" to resign. 2-Why should the #Canadian tax payer pay for a career politician's failed ambitions?Canada just held an election and #Conservatives lost!

So #PeteHegseth’s next or is The Donald still pretending like that frat boy can be trusted with national defense?

Perhaps @schumer.senate.gov and his ilk of letter writing #Democrats wouldn't be so ineffective and inept, had they not been complicit in the dissent of #neoliberalism and their support of the 1%. They know the limits of their politics and the doom that they help descend on the country!

I study authoritarianism & have also lived under one of the most viscous ones: #Iran Cracking down on dissidents, anti-woke rhetoric, silencing of critical voices are all too familiar aspects of fascism & authoritarianism I hope USians know today it's #MohamadMahdawi & #Palestine tomorrow it's you

BREAKING: Pierre Poilievre asks US President Trump for political asylum

Donald, Canadians not only reject you and your hallucination authoritarian word vomit, they are also rejecting your opportunistic wanna be #PierrePoliviere #CanPoli

Get out and vote today 🇨🇦Canada! And vote #Liberal if you want inclusivity, dignity, prosperity and enduring democracy for the country.

Canada, don't trump yourselves. Vote Mark Carney!

I guess it’s settled, Im not going to be at #MESA conference this year. “Canadian university teachers warned against travelling to the United States” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I'm teaching W.E.B Du Bois's "The Souls of White Folk" tomorrow. That's it, that's all.

1-مسئله فقط بهاره هدایت نیست. ما با فضایی روبه‌روایم که نقد «خودی» را برنمی‌تابد، معتاد به کیش شخصیت است و به‌جای بحث بر سر محتوا، نقد را شخصی می‌کند. در چنین فضایی، گفت‌وگو خفه می‌شود و بازنگری غیرممکن می‌شود.

1-مسئله فقط بهاره هدایت نیست. ما با فضایی روبه‌روایم که نقد «خودی» را برنمی‌تابد، معتاد به کیش شخصیت است و به‌جای بحث بر سر محتوا، نقد را شخصی می‌کند. در چنین فضایی، گفت‌وگو خفه می‌شود و بازنگری غیرممکن می‌شود.

Canadians born in Iran, Afghanistan turned away at U.S. border after Trump executive order on terror threats

A good first step. Yet, I think this blunder by @MarkJCarney is as much about epistemic ignorance of sexism as it is about #Quebec. To mix up a most horrifying massacres of women at #ÉcolePolytechnique, is indicative of the speaker's gender blind spots www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

More evidence of @realDonaldTrump & co.’s commitment to #FreeSpeech www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

#MAGA Whining abt free speech yet their understanding of it: Witch hunts,unleashing #ICE on students such as #RanjaniSrinivasan 4 participating in pro-Palestinian protests,cutting grants 2 universities such as @COLUMBIAUNIVERS for allowing said protests www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/n...

Instead of using his platform meanningfully and asking #Trump & his 2 puppetts sitting to his left real questions, this dimwit asks wartime president #Zelensky why he "doesn't wear a suite", because many Americans take issue with that! Vein, superficial, and just plain inept.

Dumb & Dumber! USians must be proud!

Can you imagine #Trump and @JDVance do this to #Netanyahu? And he is far more defiant. Kudos to #Zelensky for keeping his cool and firing back. I guess Vance is manifesting the "hillbilly" in the #HillbillyElegy. bsky.app/profile/nikk...

Why don't you wear a suite? American people take issue with the way you dress

To my #Syrian sisters, 1 -My name is Maral, a scholar of social movements from Iran. Watching the fall of #Assad’s brutal regime fills me with hope and solidarity for your liberation. Iranians have followed your struggle with tearful eyes, cheering as #Sednaya’s prisoners were👇

The year started with the fall of “Butcher of Evin” and is ending with the fall of “Butcher of Syria” As we say in Persian: may we have more

#Al_Jolani, or now Ahmad Al-Sharaa, or whatever else he calls his new iteration sounds extremely dangerous. He is taking a book from Khomeini, Bin Laden, Al Baghdadi: “People who fear Islamic governance either have seen incorrect implementations of it or do not understand it properly”

Seems like #Suleimani's violent legacy is falling like a house of cards. After all, he had the blood of so many #Siryans on his hands. #Aleppo #Homa www.france24.com/en/middle-ea...

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I have soar shoulder for jabbing the bag wrong, cant write, have a headache, I’m brain dead and oh Trump is still going to be president, Middle East is further embroiling in war, and oh yeah, another massacre of civilians almost certain. Happy Wednesday ya’all!