The No World Order Meir Kahane, Netanyahu, Trump, and the war beyond Iran.

"Trump is not the architect of the Iran war, only its vehicle."

On who's really in charge:
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-no-wor...

By Chris Quinn, Editor, cleveland.com/The Plain Dealer A college student withdrew from consideration for a reporting role in our newsroom this week because of how we use artificial intelligence. It reminded me again how college journalism programs are failing to prepare students for the workforce. I mentioned this in a column before, and readers asked me to explain

A conscientious journalism grad withdraw from a job when she learned the Cleveland Plain Dealer uses AI to write its stories.

Now the editor is castigating her and journalism professors for not being “prepared for the workforce.”

You can’t make this shit up.

www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02...

If you're going into Zohran's term thinking he's going to "give you what you want" and not thinking of this time as one in which it'll be easier to organize for what you want. . .

I'm afraid you will find yourself very disappointed

I refuse to give em dashes to the AI

Last thing I’m saying about this: way more annoying that U.S. commentariat still don’t know the differences between race, ethnicity, and nationality or how to talk about them w/ nuance, than that any mixed culture immigrant kids fumbles to check one of this country’s imprecise made up boxes.

The idea that the hundreds of thousands of Muslim, Southeast Asian, Indian, Arab, Iranian, etc New Yorkers deserve influence in their city government has either ignored or treated with active disdain throughout this entire discourse.

imagine if this worked. IMAGINE IF THIS WORKED. imagine if the Epstein Caucus is defeated in an absolute tidal wave of voters who want their electeds to CARE and DO THINGS. imagine primarying all the nation’s Schumers and Pelosis with people who understand they work for us and take that seriously

How Western feminism liberates Iranian women, one bomb at a time From miniskirts to missiles, white feminism’s colonial fantasy of liberating Iranian women by force returns with US-Israeli strikes, writes Nadeine Asbali.

We're back, caught between so-called feminists dreaming of miniskirts in Tehran and politicians promising to bomb Iranian women into freedom, writes Nadeine Asbali 👇

you’ll never lose betting against the ability of a pro-war pundit to remember past yesterday

Everything was not, in fact, fine

Anti-ICE organizing in New York City:

People who showed up to the federal immigration building, referred to as just ‘26 Federal Plaza’ or ‘FP’ to protest & stop ICE from transferring people they arrested, were blocked by NYPD at numerous intervals for low level infractions.

That’s fair. “This definitely won’t happen” as a response doesn’t seem adequate though.

I don’t think it’s unreasonable for people to fear the worst.

see also: the belief in this thing called a “peaceful protestor” that, if facing arrest or violence from police, anyone can prove they are

the last few days has been a reminder that people really want to believe that not only is there this real thing called a “criminal,” and that if they need to, anyone can just prove they aren’t one

The Group Behind Project 2025 Has a Plan to Crush the Pro-Palestinian Movement

This is a must-read: The Trump administration's use of anti-semitism to attack immigrants and higher education mirrors plans by a group of Christian nationalists in the Heritage Foundation (which produced Project 2025). 🧵
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...

Palestinians welcome the cancellation of Jonny Greenwood and Dudu Tassa's concert, which was due to take place in Bristol, UK on the 23rd June and would have whitewashed Israel's genocide against 2.3m Palestinians in Gaza and underlying settler-colonial apartheid regime.

Jonny Greenwood, guitarist with Radiohead and The Smile, had performed in apartheid Tel Aviv along with Dudu Tassa in May 2024, on a night that genocidal Israeli forces massacred displaced Palestinians in their tents in Rafah, burning them alive, just a short drive away.

Dudu Tassa has repeatedly entertained genocidal Israeli forces in between these massacres of Palestinians in Gaza, willingly acting as a cultural ambassador for apartheid Israel.

And shortly after @bdsmovement.bsky.social welcomed the news that Bristol said genocide-boosters Jonny Greenwood and Dudu Tassa are not welcome to perform in their city, their London show was cancelled as well. ✊✊✊

Full statement from PACBI: www.instagram.com/p/DJHPR5oCgpg

I still say, “THAT is a disgusting act” in my everyday life

Rev. Barber, surrounded by police, praying in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda.

Rev. Barber, surrounded by police, praying in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda.

BREAKING: Police just surrounded Rev. William Barber, prominent activist and pastor, as he and others prayed in the U.S. Capitol Rontunda.

Police then expelled everyone (including press!) from the Rotunda to (presumably) arrest them.

I've covered protests here a lot. Never seen anything like it.