The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled. A truly extraordinary moment. We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. Act like it.

O the gentle wilderness of the heart —Etel Adnan

The immiseration of the American people (except for the 1% / the ultra-rich) is a central part of the plan of Project 2025.

We are climbing an irrevocable escalation ladder that benefits no one except maybe the weapons manufacturers. It is harmful for all others. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Giuseppe Maria Crespi - The Centaur Chiron and Achilles - ca.1695/97

Sphinx mood 🐾🧿

Amen.

To abstract away a war that you cannot physically see is one thing—but to see it every day on our phones for years and years—and still think of it as some distant event with no bearing on our lives is utter foolishness. Contemptible even.

The poet Adrienne Rich: "If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up. You begin by stopping the torture and killing of the unprotected..."

To imagine a world where beauty is cherished and not destroyed.

The poet Adrienne Rich: "If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up. You begin by stopping the torture and killing of the unprotected..."

Another dystopian headline lost in the shuffle.

We live in a world of censorship and disinformation and now, the proliferation of AI slop. It is increasingly difficult to find the truth, let alone speak the truth now. And it will only become more difficult as the corporate media is sold off to the same billionaire owners... 👇

I'm tired and I promise that I will not be posting forever on these topics but I am very concerned about the well-being of all involved. This is not a time to just be completely silent and ignore the harsh realities around us. ❗️👇

Strike, O storm of fate! You cannot frighten me, For my ship sails the sea, driven by the waves of love. —Táhirih

Professor Jeffrey Sachs at Columbia University is warning that we may already be in the early stages of a world war. www.democracynow.org/2026/3/13/je...

The escalation spiral could lead to a world war. It could lead to nuclear catastrophe. It could lead to millions more killed. End this war now. American people should know that our leadership has betrayed America.

This war is another disaster and may engulf the world into another World War (3!). Several professors at top institutions are arguing that we may in fact be in the early stages of a world war already❗️❗️❗️

I reject the notion that the only form of liberation left for people in West Asia from oppresive governments is Western imperialist wars & conquest. It didn't work in Iraq and Afghanistan. It won't work elsewhere either. People are dying every day.

My mood after the last two weeks of cruelties.

Without tenderness, we are all in hell. —Adrienne Rich

To imagine a world where beauty is cherished and not destroyed.

1 million human beings displaced in Lebanon. And 3.2 million human beings displaced in Iran. The price of endless wars. Refugees, displaced people, dead people. Not to mention an America that no one around the world admires anymore.

The Guardian: "Tehran residents report relentless bombing with US and Israeli planes launching wave of attacks."

Freedom? This is bringing freedom? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

"The goal of translation or poetry is to upset the language of power." —Don Mee Choi

Last night the angels knocked at the tavern door, They kneaded Adam’s clay and poured the wine of destiny. —Hafez Shirazi 🇮🇷

Deliberate destruction of an ancient civilization and its history. Just like in Iraq.

Ana Luisa Amaral: The poet can never be in power, but rather in counter power: Is not poetic language always transgressing? If you are in power, you are a poet of the regime and there you might ask if you are [even] a poet, or if what you do is poetry. (My translation.)

The story that I am telling is not a story that western imperialists want to hear (and they certainly don't want you to hear it, either). But it is part of the larger human story which is not only a Western story. 👇

Note to self: I left out algebra, geometry, philosophy, architecture, music, and so much more that the Persians developed, elaborated, and concretized for later global artists, scientists, philosophers, and poets like Goethe to explore.

No money for healthcare, student debt relief, or building better schools & more libraries. But 11 billion for tyranny, carnage, & plunder.

The poems that I write are crimson sugar Given to me for my patience. —Hafez Shirazi 🇮🇷

Chess, like ice cream, was invented (shatranj) in Iran. Roses, pistachios, and saffron also essentially originate in Iran. The epic poem Shahnameh, written by Ferdowsi in classical Persian around the year 977 CE, can still be understood by modern Persian speakers to this very day.

Exclusive: The award-winning Indian novelist Arundhati Roy warns that the world is on the brink of nuclear calamity and economic collapse, and laments her own government's gutlessness Read her scathing speech: zeteo.com/p/iran-is-no...

Most serious journalists and political / international analysts agree that Rvmp is losing this war and that 🇮🇷 is not entirely losing it. A w4r of attrition is likely. University of Chicago Professor John Mearsheimer, who is an expert on international relations, says the war is already lost.

The war is on the entire Global South.

Time is a sword that drinks the blood of kings. It builds a throne in the morning And digs a grave before nightfall. —Farid ud-Din Attar 🇮🇷

Our freedom as a species is in our own hands. No matter what's written in the lines of destiny. We have to draw a new map of the world. 🧿

Time is a sword that drinks the blood of kings. It builds a throne in the morning And digs a grave before nightfall. —Farid ud-Din Attar 🇮🇷

Your shadow, your countenance imprinted upon my heart in every direction countless flutes rang out. —Raja Mehdi Ali Khan

Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds. —Arundhati Roy

Odilon Redon - The Eye (Vision) - 1881

"I do not want to indulge in magical thinking as an excuse for avoiding action [...] Each one of us has some power that can be used, somewhere, somehow, to help save our earth.” —Audre Lorde

From Andy Borowitz: Agree?

Billions of American dollars—the public wealth—are being spent daily on an illegal war that Congress never authorized.

It's like Vietnam, Iraq, Hiroshima + Nagasaki, the institution of slavery, and countless other world changing events had never happened for these people.

"Tyranical rule and tyrannical force stops here with my body." —June Jordan

Modigliani - A Woman in Black - 1917

Gabriele Münter