Well, that & the rabid dog that is Israel has been finally allowed total free reign alongside total immunity from any consequence. The rule of law was deliberately left for dead along with tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza. This is the legacy of all US empire, not the doing of one president

The Lebanese government has just issued a directive “banning” Hezbollah and criminalizing its members, granting authority to the army to go after them. And just like that, from Israeli war to potential civil war in the span of less than 12 hours

Remarkable to see claims of Lebanese violations of a ceasefire which has been a one-sided affair since mid 2024. Israel has bombed Lebanon thousands of times since then and in fact did so the very day prior to this last.

This man knows his shit inside out 👇🏽

A million million times this

Israeli drone hovering low overhead in Beirut. Very loud and unnerving. Am certain this is the real point of these drones; not reconnaissance but intimidation and demoralization

Blow after blow to the power of Iran and its allies and proxies in the region set the stage for US-Israel attacks apnews.com/article/iran...

This isn’t a “blunder”. The chaos IS the point

Translation of card from AlJadeed News: Israeli Channel 12 announces that attacks on Lebanon will go on for several days at the very least. We’re in for many sleepless nights like this one

Motherfuckers bombing Beirut now. Just woke up to the sound of very loud explosions.

Lol, no actually, lmao, at anyone who thinks there’s any daylight between the US and Israel

Bibi doing his Grima Wormtongue schtick for going on 4 decades

I’ve spent very little of my not-inconsiderable time on this planet not raging at or aching for or helplessly watching my people, or people I consider my own, being slaughtered en masse in the most senseless and brutal ways

I'm already sick of "It's all a distraction from Epstein" replies. This regime is killing innocent people because our leaders are all power-hungry tyrants and war profiteers. When you say it's "just a distraction" you minimize the gravity of what's happening and the lives lost.

Underrated just how much the US and Israel have been desecrating the very idea of diplomatic engagement by doing these obvious bait and switches. This is the third time now that negotiations were used as cover to prepare for a war already decided. The lesson is to never speak to the US.

Seldom has a vassal state been so loyal to ANOTHER vassal of the actual superpower...

This is likely true. Israel does NOT want democracy in Iran. It certainly doesn’t want anyone who care about Iranian sovereignty and territorial integrity behind the wheel. x.com/tariqali_new...

The bombing is happening after we learned of progress in the nuclear talks. The lesson continues to be that you can never trust Americans. Any state threatened by the Americans will have concluded by now that their only safety is to develop nukes asap, surely?

BS. This is why Oman’s FM went on CBS News to explicitly revel that negotiations had achieved *unprecedented agreement* from the Iranians not to stockpile nuclear material — ensuring they’d never have a bomb. CNN is blatantly lying (what’s new)

At least 40 students killed so far at a school in Minab according to AlJazeera

Of course the first major casualties of the Israeli attack are children at a school in Iran. Of course

As former Israeli PM Naftali Bennett describe Turkey “as the new Iran” I’m wondering when it will be obvious that Israeli political culture cannot sustain itself without constantly creating new enemies.

cohosted a podcast with the great Leila Shami. We spoke to Razan Rashidi from The Syria Campaign about a lot but particularly about how acts of justice build trust in the state and how without it a culture of impunity takes over that can spiral off into retaliatory violence and acts of vengeance.

International law governing conflict isn’t just “at a breaking point.” It was intentionally destroyed to protect Israel’s war on Gaza.

“We all knew that a bloodbath had taken place, though as yet we didn’t know its true magnitude and perhaps never will.” Salar Abdoh on what happened in Iran www.equator.org/articles/the...

People killed protesting aren't numbers - they have names and stories. They had lives. Here are some of those killed in recent days in Iran www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/20...

I’m absolutely sick to read this. And I’m not interested in it as a statement of US hypocrisy — that’s old fucking news to us in this part of the world. Be its tongue red or blue, the US has only ever spoken the language of murder. It’s not help that’s on the way for Iran. It’s hell, pure & simple

“This was Trump unfiltered and unleashed – as he has been since the start of his second term, with no domestic or international restraint on his power and no need for even the mildest diplomatic niceties” — my latest for @theguardian.com on Trump's unhinged UN speech

Very proud of the new issue that’s up today. If you’ve been struggling with genocide-worklife balance, this one’s for you

Got any questions for me? Please write in 👇🏽 This months’ q is from a man who wants to know why he’s still bothered that he can’t get through to his liberal Zionist friend

“The US is deeply complicit in the starvation and unspeakable suffering that Israel is inflicting on the people of Gaza. Thanks to an unlimited supply of US weapons and diplomatic cover, Netanyahu has been able to continue Israel’s genocide with impunity” — my comments to @dawnmenaorg.bsky.social

I keep forgetting BlueSky exists 🙄

Very proud to have been editor on this piece. Please read:

Tell me this isn’t the earth fighting back

In three days of bombing, Israel has murdered nearly 1,000 Iranians. That is over 300 people per day. While continuing to carry out massacres in Gaza, dropping bombs & also directly gunning starving people down. Get this malignant cancer out of our region for the love of humanity

For this month’s Dear Souseh column, I answer a question from a Lebanese mother in France concerned about how and how much to tell her kids about the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Do you have a question for Souseh? Pls write to [email protected] themarkaz.org/afraid-for-o...

Badar’s fellowship is partially subsidized by the Scholars at Risk program, which works with U.S. universities to host international scholars facing threats in their countries. He never imagined that a country with a Scholars at Risk program would one day pose a risk to scholars. A powerful essay ⤵️

"In our special brotherhood of that summer of ’72 in London, the absence of words – in Arabic, in Persian, in distant English – did not require our names." Salar Abdoh for @codastory.bsky.social and @strangersguide.bsky.social:

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I’m still building up my following on this app and don’t have nearly enough reach as I did on the other to amplify but 🚨 🚨 please please if you see this, repost to help Anas and Ahmad circulate their story