I'm writing a postcard to a teddy bear lololol 😭😂

I love the X Files but Isfahan as a "terrorist group" is like triple cringe.

Inside Iran In 1979, the Iranian Revolution brought a Shia theocracy to the 80 million inhabitants of the Middle East's second largest country. In the decades since, bitter relations have persisted between the U....

Free ebook! On Iran!

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I don't even think they are cowards.
They. Do. Not. Want. To. Do. It.

Lexi Alexander is the sort of person Bluesky would never have dared to ban ... if she weren't Palestinian, a nationality which the world treats as free license to subject its members to anything whatsoever

The Lexi Alexander suspension raises a point to me which maybe has been discussed to health but I missed - isn’t the whole thing that if BlueSky admin have the power to ban people on a whim that makes any claim to any degree of decentralisation via ATProto absolutely void and meaningless?

A week or two ago I made a post outlining all the ways in which Bluesky was failing - or actively harming - its marginalized users. Two days ago, Bluesky banned Lexi Alexander, a Palestinian-American leftist filmmaker who had tens of thousands of followers on Bluesky. She was permanently banned without so much as being given a warning - as is common on Bluesky. Despite mass backlash, Bluesky staff have refused to reinstate her account or even to so much as explain their reasoning for banning her. This is unforgivable. Bluesky staff have had every chance to listen to the grievances of their marginalized & leftist users. Instead they've chosen - repeatedly - to cozy up to the right and suppress us in the name of white comfort. This is a site that bans Palestinians and leftists without explanation while going out of its way to platform violent bigots like Jesse Singal and JD Vance - in the former case, even going so far as to ban his critics and revise the rules to accommodate him. The myth of a progressive Bluesky is dead. I'm not going to say that nobody should be using Bluesky, because unfortunately, niche platforms like Mastodon simply do not allow us to reach as many people as we can elsewhere. But it's well past time that we stopped pretending that Bluesky is morally superior to Twitter instead of just being a different flavor of white supremacist tech bro hell.

A troubling post from Mastodon...

This interview with Lexi Alexander is from two days ago, about the same time that Bluesky's mods decided to ban her for some reason known only to the racist mods at @safety.bsky.app.

"Movie Mindset Bonus - Interview With Director Lexi Alexander"

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Rep. Rashida Tlaib: Speaking Truth in a Hostile Congress | Sumud Podcast w/ Dr. Ed Hasan YouTube video by Sumud Podcast: Inspired by Palestine

Great interview. Tlaib said- with hardship comes ease (from the Quran). That should be my mantra. My inner voice tends to say - what are you DOING/why did you say that/*full body cringe*. I should probably change that up, lol.

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The ‘R-Word’ Returns, Dismaying Those Who Fought to Oust It

If I see you use this word, I'll block you. If you use it "satirically" I'll block you. Using it at all today is a really fine test of character.

I've had some of my books edited because I used it twenty years ago and I'm ashamed today of having used it.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u...

What It Feels Like Getting Stopped by ICE My work for Texas Monthly demands hundreds of hours on the road each year. Being pulled over by immigration enforcement officers has felt like an inevitability for months.

The Texas Monthly's food editor was stopped by ICE agents.

He wrote about it: www.texasmonthly.com/food/taco-ed...

Masked Israeli settler militias wielding clubs are attacking Palestinian farmers as they work their land near Kafr Qaddum and Beit Lid in the northern occupied West Bank.

Israeli occupation forces demolished 40 Palestinian structures in Kafr Aqab, north of Jerusalem, over the past 24 hours.

I would argue there is a throughline here with every Palestinian in Gaza being called a terrorist

I'm happy the spotlight is on ICE, but when we fund THIS, wtf did you expect?

I'm in my mid-50s. I started organizing against the violence of policing when I was a teenager. I've heard ALL of the so-called "reform" proposals. They are the SAME ONES that liberals are offering in 2026. Cops have never killed more people in my lifetime.

Gotta do something different.

Prison guards are flocking to ICE jobs and frankly this makes sense. Those of us who have been anti-prison organizers for decades have been saying that fascism already existed within prisons/jails. Our best teachers for how to survive fascism are incarcerated people.

Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculati… Thyme Travellers collects fourteen of the Palestinian d…

Are you curious about Palestinians, but you don’t know any, and have never engaged with them before?

I have a recommendation. Read this book. Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction brings together fantasy and science fiction stories. www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...

I checked Truth Social, and this is another one of the Trump account automated posting storms, the purpose of which is to do exactly what you see here and center Trump in the minds of his Truth Social followers on Christmas by inundating them with notifications.

Merrick Garland hid this from us for 4 YEARS,

and allowed this disgusting monster to be reelected

It's very funny how liberals keep on making all these excuses for Conservatives when they're pretty open how their ideology is literally just "life was perfect when I was 12, and if we are racist enough we can retvrn"

Mark Cuban may well have once been a well meaning person, I have no idea, but the simple fact is that being a billionaire makes you stupid and evil. There is no avoiding this. That amount of money empties out your head and soul. The only cure is to not be a billionaire anymore.

Good list of 2025 books about prisons, policing, abolition-related things from Inside/Out (books for those affected by incarceration). drive.google.com/file/d/1kbeg...

The unholy alliance: Radical ideologies threaten US and Israel - opinion America is under attack from within by the red-green alliance.

What does Charlie Kirk’s assassination have to do with the red-green alliance to destroy Israel and America from within? Everything. In Israel, we are on the front line against the growing Islamic jihad that has been emboldened by the progressive governments, policies, and politicians of Western countries.

Fast forward to today, and it’s clear: The cultural Marxism seeded in our institutions decades ago has borne poisonous fruit. US universities, once bastions of learning, have become factories of socialist indoctrination. While America slept, the red-green alliance, the union of radical leftists (the “reds”) and Islamists (the “greens”), has gained a foothold not only in our streets but in our politics.

British retired Col. Richard Kemp exposed how Romanian KGB defector Ion Mihai Pacepa revealed that the creation of the Palestinian identity was a Soviet psy-op. Yasser Arafat was trained in Moscow. Palestine was not a national movement; it was a tool to destabilize the West by weaponizing the Jew-hatred in the Arab Muslim world against Israel to an international level, and thereby undermining America, via destabilizing her strongest ally in the Middle East. Now the Soviet playbook is in high gear, not by Moscow alone but by Iran, Qatar, and their proxies embedded deep in the American system.

Palestine is a Soviet plot to destroy the United States, says the Jerusalem Post, and Zionism turns your brain into soup

Investigators probe group that arranged ‘trafficking’ flights out of Gaza Concerns have been raised about a ‘humanitarian organisation’ that flew people from Gaza to South Africa.

#gaza #palestine #israel #trafficking

Concerns have been raised about a ‘humanitarian organisation’ that flew people from Gaza to South Africa.

Inquiries into Al-Majd Europe revealed a website based in Iceland, crypto payments and AI images. The company didn’t respond when asked to comment.

See new posts Conversation Translating Falasteen (Palestine) @translatingpal 🚨 The Israeli occupation is using drones and food aid to smuggle drugs into Gaza. On December 2, the Palestinian Tribal and Clan Council warned that the Israeli occupation was facilitating the smuggling of large quantities of narcotics into Gaza, a systematic attempt to target Palestinian youth while food, medicine, and essential aid remain blocked. The council said Israeli-backed militias were operating drug distribution networks from Rafah northward to fracture Gaza’s social fabric, calling the practice a national betrayal. Since then, these attempts have intensified, with increasing reports of drugs being smuggled by drones day and night and through aid trucks, as later investigations revealed narcotic pills, including Oxycodone, hidden inside flour bags from U.S.-dispatched aid earlier this year, reinforcing fears of a coordinated effort to destabilize Palestinian society under siege. This investigation will be aired on Al Jazeera Mubasher Tuesday evening. aljazeeramubasher (IG)

A quote from MLK, Jr. that says - We need leaders not in love with money but in love with justice. Not in love with publicity but in love with humanity."

A billionaire saying "affordability is a hoax" is exactly what I'd expect a billionaire to say.

It's perhaps the best example of how out of touch the super wealthy are. They can afford anything & everything.

We need to tax them at 95% & lift the cap off Social Security. #PoorPeoplesCampaign

Iceland to join boycott of Eurovision in protest at Israel's involvement Iceland joins four other nations in a boycott, after the organiser declined to hold a vote over Israel's involvement.

Iceland joins four other nations in a boycott, after the organiser declined to hold a vote over Israel's involvement.

On Israel & N Korea being pariah states who might not use nukes bc they're small-Israel has the Samson Option (see book by Seymour Hersh&bible reference) which says it has no problem destroying itself if they get to use their nukes that everyone pretends (or used to pretend) don't exist.