Trump is sending a group of Iranian asylum seekers to the Central African Republic. The article says the women are in “disbelief.”

Strikes on water tanks in the summer in a long term and extreme drought exacerbated by climate change. Horrible.

To the majority of Americans it's just a "dumb war", a stupid nuisance, a distracting inconvenience, an unnecessary elevation in gas prices. To us in this region it's our physical & mental & emotional & spiritual integrity on the line. Even if we survive physically we'll still be scarred for life.

Let that sink in: IDF officials brag to the Israeli cabinet that "1.2 million residents of southern Lebanon had been evacuated from their homes, and that Israel controls about one-fifth of Lebanese territory." www.ynetnews.com/article/rjlr...

This is a truly remarkable event in that Iran is initiating attack on Israel in response to an Israeli attack on Lebanon. Unprecedented development.

Sorry to quote post but unfortunately that’s not what comes to mind first when you’re from “that part of the world”

The Israel I made up in my head doesn't have Netanyahu or Smotrich or Ben-Gvir or Bennett or Eisenkot and it's actually bigoted for you to care more about the actually existing Israel that does than my version

Based on specialist assessments, 220 doors, windows, & stained glass windows, 250m2 of tiling, 110m2 of mirror works & stucco, 100m2 of main hall frescoes, 100m2 of ceiling decorations, 30 chandeliers, & 250 m2 of roof tiles were destroyed, smashed, or cracked at #GolestanPalace.

This was a parade of The Theoretical Idea Of Israel and had nothing to do with the country that exists!!

The leader of the Democratic Party in the Senate marched with these men.

Edit, directly from Mohamed: "My friend clarified that UNICEF has suspended its services in some areas of Gaza."

Another sale/delivery that shouldn't happen. There is no world where these can be called "defensive" so I sure hope our Dem politicians will not allow more of these to be delivered if/when they take power.

Gah! And of course I notice RIGHT after posting a 7-post thread that I accidentally used the Amazon link instead of the publisher's link ☠️💀☠️: cup.columbia.edu/book/the-boo...

So this is a big deal. If you are interested in global early modernity, global middle ages, the Renaissance and the origins of modern states, circulation of civic lore and the rule of law, Chinese-Persian/Ottoman/Islamic encounters... it's all here, for the first time in English. 1/- #skystorians

this is where i finally tell bluesky that i used to work for tom and the worst thing i can say about him is i think it’s a failure of imagination that he still has so much money

I get that from most American and European perspectives the Islamic Republic seems to have definitively won the war but I don’t think it feels that way from an Iranian perspective. US-Israeli psychological operations in the diaspora and in the country have led to disillusionment, but not

of course I was never taught this in school. of course. but today is the day I learned this most essential bit of history: time.com/5836444/blac...

This is the talk of a man with a rape mentality

The way the Israelis are talking about Lebanon is exactly how Russia talks about Ukraine but there are still US liberals who think that Israel is anything qualitatively different in scale or scope. The Israelis talk like they own everyone around them and have the right to bomb them as they please.

Good luck to my friends and comrades fighting this battle for many years!

Hi, it's Mohamed's friend. He writes, "Hello friends, greetings from Gaza. Honestly, I need your support these days. There are only 7 days left until Eid al-Adha, and I have 7 children here who need anything to bring them some relief. I will attach a description of my first Eid al-Adha here...

Bilgi University, one of Turkey's first private universities, which opened in the late 1990s, was shut down today by a presidential decree with no explanation. It was always a pleasure to visit there, fantastic students and faculty. This really hits hard for many.

Big update on the Stanford student prosecutions

And the anger in Israeli society is primarily about Ben Gvir embarrassing the country, not even that what he is doing is wrong in a moral sense.

Take note of how almost nobody in Europe or Israeli society said a word about how Ben Gvir treats Palestinians who are illegally detained in his fascist prisons. As soon as he records himself doing a tenth of this kind of torture to Europeans, everyone is uproar. Good, but maybe expand the outrage.

This is the guy Biden personally did not want to sanction because he is a "democratically elected official of an ally".

Surreal moment on the train. Right after I posted this, a panhandler started singing “Imagine” and I was momentarily amused thinking of the Bluesky scoffing reaction to “imagine there’s no countries.”

Got a message from a friend in Palestine today, he lives near Bethlehem in a town that pre-2023, was relatively safe from deranged settlers. Not anymore. He says the situation is extremely bad. I’m truly at a loss as to how to help and what to do. What can we do?

Catriona has worked for more than a decade now in many ways to advance migrant/refugee rights, women's rights, children's rights etc. (in Brussels and in Ireland) She has long been a passionate advocate for those in need. She is also a talented musician (we were in orchestra together).

Methinks that right now, this “leak” is an attempt to create havoc within the IRI ranks (AN had extensive contacts within IRGC as far as I recall) that seems to have become, against all expectations, quite united.

I’d a suspicion that someone from within IRi us aiding the Israelis & providing sensitive info, possibly hoping to reap the benefits as a the leader of a US-Israeli backed transition. My original hunch was Ali Larijani, but it didn’t quite make sense. Then I realised: it was Ahmadinejad! That

A lot of Iranians suspected this was the case at the time he was injured.

Haven’t lived in LA in nearly 10 years but so excited and happy to see the D line extension, and to see others’ enthusiasm!

Last week Hamidreza Ahmadi wowed Iran watchers with a brave piece in @jacobinmag.bsky.social detailing how Iran’s hardliners, moderates, and monarchists offer nothing more than versions of same neoliberal economics that impoverished Iranians. This week he joins me in an interview from Tehran.

Please consider donating to support the family of Amin, the security guard at the Islamic Center who alerted teachers quickly of a shooter and died putting himself between the shooters and others. launchgood.com/Amin

America's relationship to the Arab world is somehow even more perverse today than it was twenty years ago.

The federal government just set up a reparations fund for this guy.

Nearly every day, a major American newspaper encourages Trump to not only bomb Iran again, but explicitly cripple its civilian infrastructure: power plants, communications, transportation. The basic things that have made basic life possible—not good—but possible for most Iranians.

Every single week, if not every day, this goes on, we are expected to tolerate, ignore, or justify it

Happy anti fa Friday and Victory in Europe Day We thank the victorious antifascist fighters and remember the victims of fascism. May their memory be a blessing.

This has gone on for several generations now. It’s only somewhat new to the class of person who has NYT opinion column.

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.   Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.

Anyone observing Yom Yerushalayim in the US might need to hear the observation of a Palestinian colleague in Jerusalem I just met with on Zoom: "I haven't left the house all day." For fear she might be attacked, of course. יום אידם.

Israeli bombardments is threatening Lebanon’s rock hyrax

A beautiful celebration of 81 years since the liberation of Zagreb by the victorious antifascist fighters, marked by the traditional lighting of bonfires We honor their legacy but we also commit to fighting for a just and free world for all.

Who is pushing whom into the sea?

"Hello friends/ Today marks the second anniversary of my displacement/ Here's a passage from my book, describing my state on that day/ The pictures show my village before and after the war/ I have a picture of my plants as a memento of my story/ Please share and donate." /mbu bit.ly/help-mohamed

Friends! Give now! The next 24 hours are literally the best time to give to MERIP all year!

“Amawi characterized the crisis as a ‘calculated ecological disaster’ that risks killing more people through disease and starvation than through bombardment” • give to people in gaza • demand lawmakers answerable to you stop enabling genocide • speak on this everywhere source in alt text for space