Another completely bizarre social media post from my alma mater.

Friends, Native people are, indeed, Native to this land. But they were not Native to the United States. We all need to, somehow, collectively unpack the presumption that the U.S. is (and has ever been) the only instantiation of "this land." There were, and are, many other governments here.

um there are already a lot of “iranian nationals” who had children here and they already have in practicality answered this question for at least 2 generations

That the NYT is reporting it so plainly is telling: Israel is targeting one religious group, telling them their homes and lives are gone forever. It is offensive, repllent, abhorrent to me as an American that my political leaders continue to insist we share values with this country.

Totally right. Any nonsense about domicile is a weak attempt to backdoor old world grotesqueries here. It’s offensive.

⚠️ Ethnic cleansing by Israel in southern Lebanon confirmed:

BIG: Trump says when we feel Iran is 'for a long period of time, put in to the Stone Ages and they won't be able to come up with a nuclear weapon, we will leave'.

Narges Mohammadi has suffered a heart attack in prison. She’s an Iranian anti-death penalty & rights activist with some domestic legitimacy who is also a Nobel laureate and acceptable to the west. If this war was about democracy, freedom or an Iran more open to the west, her life would matter.

One of my teachers at school told me she felt sorry for me because I “couldn’t” eat bacon. It was absolutely tied to the War on Terror.

🗯️ Protest ⚔️ Rebellion 🚨 IRI security visuals 🔎 Analysis of visual evidence • NOPO police counter-terror force element manning checkpoint position in Tehran, including Russia-sourced Spartak armed vehicle displaying pro-IRI flag and wartime morale-boost markings 📷 Images ⬇️ 🧵 Thread 1/4 ⬇️

this is a concise description of the knesset death-penalty-for-palestinians bill adopted today, contrary to int'l human rights law on several levels. (source: haaretz)

I just have to think that the presence of the Pahlavist Persians at CPAC this year reinforced to the conservative attendees that this is truly not their war. These people are extremely off-putting in person. They are also, to their chagrin, extremely not white and extremely foreign-coded.

The Israeli official and convicted terrorist who just yesterday declared his support for a military unit that assaulted a CNN crew & killed a 78-year-old Palestinian-American is now today drinking champagne to celebrate a new law to execute Palestinians.

All of southern Lebanon ordered evacuated south of the Zahrani river on March 12. The order for south of the Litani is explicitly open-ended, like the 2025 orders in Gaza that preceded the IDF's demolition on the ground of almost all buildings in the evacuated areas. Includes the city of Tyre.

BREAKING: Israel's Knesset has passed a law to execute Palestinian detainees. Death by hanging. Mandatory sentencing. No pardon. 90 days to carry out. It applies through military courts with a 96% conviction rate. It does not apply to Israelis.

The Knesset just passed a law mandating "Death Penalty for Terrorists", that will effectively apply only to Palestinians.

The dancing diasporans will deny that this ever happened and their role in it for decades to come.

A group of Persian-speaking intellectuals is working to translate Iranian perspectives on the war into English: truethings.naghmehs.com

Also interesting that he can't even say the word Palestinian.

American Samoa has opposed U.S. birthright citizenship since 1900, and remains the only U.S. territory without citizenship by statute. Its non-voting delegate, Rep. Radewagen, supports “U.S. national” status. Citizenship could fortify equal protection challenges to A. Samoa’s traditional government.

جز هزینه‌های انسانی و اجتماعی ویرانگر این جنگ که خودش مرثیه‌ای پر آب چشم و چالشی بزرگ برای آینده ایرانه، فقط هزینه‌های اقتصادی‌اش چنان برای کمرشکنه که هیچ عقل سالمی هیچوقت نباید از هیچ جنگی دفاع کنه. شاید بگن این هزینه‌ها مال ج‌ا، متأسفانه خیر، تمومش از شکم مردم زده و از سهم و گرده مردم کشیده خواهد شد.

My partner just broke down crying because the latest “targeted” Israeli bombing has hit the middle of the street and a couple of buildings in the area where she grew up. Their old family house, right behind the one here, was designed by her grandfather and it was where she grew up with her cousins.

Everything happening now in Lebanon & Iran—the killing of schoolchildren, the targeting of hospitals & healthcare workers, the murder of journalists & its open justification, the bombing of universities—every single war crime that has been normalized was forced upon our consciousness first in Gaza

Every leader above O-3 in the 101st should be sent to be a gate guard at Kwajalein. Shameful shit. You need to get comfortable hating The Troops. A necessary step to reducing the rot.

I know I’m a broken record on this but: A handful of law profs are engaging in an effort to convince the Supreme Court to accept a reactionary administration’s effort to redefine American citizenship and render countless children stateless.

On March 12, Israeli drone attacks killed Dr. Hussein Bazzi Dean of the Faculty of Sciences at the Lebanese University’s Rafik Hariri Campus in Hadath, and Dr. Mortada Srour, Professor of Chemistry and Physics at the same institution. See MESA letter: mesana.org/advocacy/com...

Al-Mayadeen correspondent: Power outages in areas east and west of the Iranian capital and the city of Karaj following an American-Israeli attack #WarOfAggression #RegimeChange #WarOnIran #EpsteinWar #WestAsia #Iran #tRump #WarForOil #Israel

Likely means another escalation…. Iran’s Energy Ministry says power outages have hit parts of Tehran and Alborz after attacks on electricity infrastructure.

Prohibiting Christians in Palestine from practicing their faith is a fairly regular event. We just don’t hear about it because the victims are usually Palestinian. I didn’t know about the siege of the Church of the Nativity until I visited. Israel shot and killed the bellringer.

fwiw I don't think Israeli treatment of Christians will make the US or EU do anything differently.

US/Israel now bombing university campuses — the same places that were the sites of anti-regime protests a few weeks ago. And I wonder what provosts and deans of US universities on Qatar and the UAE are thinking this morning

HRANA reports one of the heaviest days of bombing in Tehran since the war. We, US-Israel, are dropping bombs on universities, streets, houses where my parents grew up and played as kids. Where my mom was imprisoned. We have killed more than 200 children and 1000 other civilians already.

Ervand Abrahamian’s interview before the start of the war was quite prescient (if you attended out panel at NYU, you heard the same analysis by him on Feb 26)

Man with his dog flees from bombs in Tehran. (Photo by Pooria Hatami)

Today, Tehran…

Wonder if there’s anything else that’s prominent in the photo (it’s not mentioned in the article either).

اصلا از تصور خیلی‌ها خارجه که چقدر کار و هزینه و درد و فشار داره ساختن زیرساخت‌های مملکت، اینا ده‌ها سال براشون عرق ریخته شده و خون جگر خورده شده. اصلا این کلمات من مصائب بازسازی رو توضیح نمی‌ده. من قلبم درد میاد وقتی حساب کتاب بازسازی یکی از اینا از قسمت مدیر پروژه مغزم می‌گذره.

Israel/US are trying to deindustrialize Iran. It has nothing to do with the nuclear program. Or this government. It is rooted in Western treatment of Iran going back 200 years. It is about making Iran weak and dependent on the West 👇🏽 x.com/malikadivar/...

In the U.S., what individual or group with any real bit of political power is actually energetically seeking to end this war? Theoretically, if I’m an American interested in stopping 2000 lb bombs being dropped on my family, who should I turn to?

Turkey’s FM - one of the parties mediating ceasefire talks between Iran and the US - on Israel’s goal of sowing discord between Muslims states x.com/patrickwinto...

You know what's fun to think about, is how Bluesky moderation nukes every account started by an actual human Palestinian in about four seconds, but lets shit like this proliferate

For those who missed it Roughly 18-24 hours ago the US/Israel bombed two major steel plants in Iran A few hours later, Iran issued evacuation orders for steel plants across the Gulf and Israel, plus tech companies in Israel Preliminary report is they may have hit a few Every action gets mirrored

An entire nation of 90 million that has for half a century built a modern country under the most extreme economic pressures is now waiting for a bunch of yahoos led by a demented pedophile to destroy their lives for decades to come.

Videos of destroyed Iranian buildings & civilians killed slowly coming out. It seems the internet is somehow coming back. The results are horrifying. USraelis now bombing the Polytechnic University of Tehran (one of the centres of anti-gov’t student protests) in the heart of Tehran. aje.news/304xib

موشک خورده خونه‌ی دخترعموی دوستم و‌ از ترس سکته کرده و مرده، شوهرش تو کماست. یه بچه‌ی ۱۲ ساله هم دارن که اون طفلک چیزیش نشده.

Some new exhibits just dropped in Musk v Altman trial including these texts with Mark Zuckerberg and Musk

The Iran War will cost each of us thousands of dollars and permanently reduce our standard of living and personal security; this is now baked in, the only question is how bad it will get; it is bad

studies of rick steves and his camera crew in iran

FDD thinks this is a bad idea…

تمام تنم داره می‌لرزه. خدا به داد همه عزیزانمون و ایران برسه: