@madiha
Antifascist. Asst Prof @ Yale. Personal acct. Writing book on digital war, drones, & empire w/ view from the Global South. Former journo & filmmaker. Interests: tech, militarism, anticolonial, anti-imperial praxis, transnatl solidarities.Free Palestine! 🇵🇸
"Senior Shi'ite clerics in Pakistan have announced days of mourning and warned that more protests would follow, which could lead to bursts of instability in its main cities" www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
Flames and black smoke were seen rising from the US Consulate in Dubai after a suspected attack amid Iranian retaliation for US-Israeli strikes.
"“They are promised a 200-mile-long river that is four-and-a-half feet deep filled with nothing but the blood that their weaponized version of Jesus will spill at the Battle of Armageddon,” Weinstein said. “That’s a lot of blood.”"
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US marines did open fire. Took long enough for this to come out.
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EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints.
One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…
Really hating this current moment in history
Iranians came together to bid a final farewell to 168 young girls, aged 7 to 12, who were killed in a U.S.-Israeli strike targeting their elementary school.
The graves dug for 153 Iranian female school children who were killed by an Israeli-American strike.
Photo: IRNA
The elites broke their own slave-built playground.
Qatar has shut down its LNG production after Iranian targeting. Saudi Arabia has shut down its largest oil production facility after Iranian drones were intercepted. Already, gas prices in Europe has spiked by 50%. No way this doesn’t send further shock waves through global markets.
Americans need to bring the US back to being a normal country. NO MORE EMPIRE.
The stink of your empire is in every corner of the globe. Your marines kill people in Pakistan!
There is only the superpower and its agents, no sovereign govts - those remaining, like Iran and Cuba, are under attack.
The Pentagon is putting the responsibility on Trump.
And bc it's Pakistan, the documentary record will be written askew and move on. As Fanon wrote, "For the native, objectivity is directed against him."
I've now heard it was US marines, Karachi police, embassy security guards. I checked with reporter friends in the country. Ultimately, the "reliable sources" are faithfully reporting what they are being told, but that's not reliable for a host of reasons and mainly muddying the waters.
Update: people are dead but now the reporting is saying "clashes with police."
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UPDATE: People are dead, but now the reporting is saying "clashes with police." Multiple protests in Pakistani cities happening now.
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“The victims were between seven and 12 years old, according to Iran's Tasnim and Fars news agencies.”
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...
I do think we’ve got a responsibility to really sit with the truth that some Trump administration things we’re horrified by were Obama administration things too, and we just didn’t listen.
This is a type of ICE "ruse," and is a tactic the agency has deployed for decades.
In 2015, ICE went to my former client's house posing as cops and convinced his 16-year-old US citizen niece to call him home from work with a fake story (the "identity theft ruse" explained below), then arrested him.
I remember that time I was simultaneously directing two pgms across three schools. One st faculty member was embroiled in an, um, “conflict of interest” and decided it would be best if they cut off communication with the dept. I had to plan their classes + advise their students w/o their input 🥳
Claudine Gay was punished and lost her job for incomplete citations in her PhD dissertation.
Isreal Gutierrez booking photo. Sometimes misspelled as "Israel Gutierrez"
Isreal Gutierrez sex offender registry photo
Isreal Gutierrez Jr., 28, a Border Patrol Agent from Brownsville, TX, was arrested on July 13, 2013 on three counts of sexual assault of a child and accused by prosecutors of sexually assaulting a second child. He was convicted on July 27, 2015 on four counts. [his legal name is spelled "Isreal"]
‘Violent bully’ who broke partner’s neck and left her paralysed jailed for 16 years
It's high time for a movement to demand reparations and institutional changes. We need to deal with this collectively.
The haunting thing about the past few years is how little of this we're seeing from our (alleged) opposition party. Overwhelming majority of Democrats can't even manage enough spine for a symbolic gesture like this one. Everyone sitting there with a blank face is just as complicit as any Republican.
If you’re in the Princeton area, do NOT miss this conversation with Chandra Mohanty and @durba.bsky.social about her new book.
To the extent that Z had some leverage he didn't utilize, I think it was not engaging in a public fight with NYPD—i.e., by retaining Tisch.
By brokering this fragile truce with NYPD and the billionaire-owned, corporate-conglomerate lobby, Z functionally gave NYPD license to maintain its status quo.
We're on our way to 5000. Let's keep going.
