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Historian of awful things at Trinity College Dublin Author of Famine Worlds WWI, Lebanon, Famine and Disaster History

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This is the truest thing ever written

08.03.2026 13:30 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

These people should be aware that if there is a god, it won't be Capitalist America Jesusℒ️, so by this point their wicked asses already have reservations in the deepest depths of hell

08.03.2026 12:27 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I was recently in a meeting where one aristocratic person made the earnest point that perhaps unspectacular poors should just be content with their places in lesser institutions (after I made the point that I wouldn't even be there without community college and scholarships)

08.03.2026 12:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Asked if the US attacked a desalination plant in Iran, Pres. Trump says Iranians are "among the most evil people ever on earth."
"They cut babies' heads offβ€”they chop women in half..."
"I know nothing about a desalinization plant, other than to say, if they're complaining about a desalinization plant, we complain about the fact they shouldn't be chopping babies' heads off."
Trump envoy Steve Witkoff and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth can be seen nodding in agreement.

Asked if the US attacked a desalination plant in Iran, Pres. Trump says Iranians are "among the most evil people ever on earth." "They cut babies' heads offβ€”they chop women in half..." "I know nothing about a desalinization plant, other than to say, if they're complaining about a desalinization plant, we complain about the fact they shouldn't be chopping babies' heads off." Trump envoy Steve Witkoff and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth can be seen nodding in agreement.

A pretty clear demonstration here of how the lies told to sell the destruction of the Gaza Strip to the public helped to create the structure of impunity required to destroy as much as possible of other countries too

08.03.2026 10:45 πŸ‘ 526 πŸ” 166 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 22

In their lawsuit against NEH, ACLS, AHA, MLA, etc., include as an exhibit the AI-produced DOGE spreadsheet that determined if a project was too DEI for Trump. Here is the spreadsheet www.historians.org/wp-content/u...

07.03.2026 21:28 πŸ‘ 40 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2

Three days ago, Israel ordered the south evacuated. Two days ago, they did the same to the southern suburbs. That’s more than one million people. Some, the most vulnerable, are sleeping rough by the sea or on sidewalks. Today, it is raining. War harms the poor the most.

07.03.2026 09:08 πŸ‘ 262 πŸ” 124 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

I often wonder how average Americans go about their day-to-day lives with absolutely no shame or sense of moral responsibility for what their regime has been doing to the world.

05.03.2026 22:34 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

an LLM chatbot cannot "implicate itself" in anything, it is a category error to imagine that it can. It does not "know" or "understand" anything (such as what words mean or whether its output is true or false) because it is not a being and does not have a mind.

05.03.2026 17:40 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

And this was a strategy used by Israel against Gazans first

www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-...

05.03.2026 15:10 πŸ‘ 156 πŸ” 55 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

This is true in a sense, but our papers of record have always been complicit in our imperialism. The best way to find out what is happening is to follow good local journalists who actually know what they are talking about and aren't compromised by US politics or racist editorial policies

05.03.2026 18:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm so sorry Lina.

05.03.2026 14:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Israel is eradicating entire sections of Lebanon's society, like it did in Gaza before. It is erasing the living memories of places that it has no right to touch and destroying countless lives in the process.

05.03.2026 14:27 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Israel, with America's blessing, just issued evacuation orders to the entire southern suburbs of Beirut, home to nearly a million people.

At this point, Israel & the US have forcibly displaced at least a million people in Lebanonβ€”i.e., ONE IN SIX. Imagine this in your town.

We cannot accept this.

05.03.2026 14:17 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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Garbage In, Carnage Out The harrowing lessons of the Pentagon’s recently dissolved partnership with Anthropic.

All the Trump administration’s complaints about β€œwoke AI” aside, the idea that Anthropic is a company run by a bunch of peaceniks that had somehow backed into the role of pulling down massive Pentagon contracts does considerable violence to the reality of the situation.
https://bit.ly/4cycevT

04.03.2026 22:46 πŸ‘ 38 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

This piece is disturbing because it reads like a press release that had to include a bit of journalism in it. There’s virtually no critical analysis of the danger of what’s happening. The only mention of the word β€œlaw” is a UN quote.

03.03.2026 07:15 πŸ‘ 277 πŸ” 110 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 2
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Gaza fuel running short after Israel closes borders amid Iran war CAIRO/JERUSALEM, March 2 - Gaza is rapidly running out of its limited fuel supply and stocks of food staples may become tight, officials say, after Israel blocked the entry of fuel and goods into the ...

Gaza fuel running short after Israel closes borders amid Iran war flip.it/PE7.YK

02.03.2026 16:23 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

In Lebanon people are sleeping in cars or sitting in front of schools, which have opened their doors to displaced, because there is nowhere else to go.

I witnessed one woman begin screaming outside one school who said they had no more place. People sat along the walls or on motorised scooters.

02.03.2026 16:11 πŸ‘ 93 πŸ” 60 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

What hell. And implicit in all of that is the sense that some unhinged 18 year old is sitting there next to a button that could just snuff out anyone they wanted for the sheer hell of it

02.03.2026 09:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Tweet on X by Amir Kiyae reads: 

Strikes on Iran appear to have hit the home where opposition leaders Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Zahra Rahnavard have been held under house arrest - both are reported safe, but their residence was damaged. Former President Ahmadineiad's home was also targeted. Israel has stated it is targeting Iranian leaders "past, present, and future." This follows previous Israeli strikes on Evin Prison. Draw your own conclusions,

Tweet on X by Amir Kiyae reads: Strikes on Iran appear to have hit the home where opposition leaders Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Zahra Rahnavard have been held under house arrest - both are reported safe, but their residence was damaged. Former President Ahmadineiad's home was also targeted. Israel has stated it is targeting Iranian leaders "past, present, and future." This follows previous Israeli strikes on Evin Prison. Draw your own conclusions,

Home of reformist opposition leaders from 2009 Green Movement, Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Zahra Rahnavard was also hit by Israeli/US strikes. They have been under house arrest by the regime for over a decade.

28.02.2026 21:53 πŸ‘ 1390 πŸ” 563 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 111
Israel closes Gaza’s Rafah crossing amid attacks on Iran

Israel closes Gaza’s Rafah crossing amid attacks on Iran

Israel closes Gaza’s Rafah crossing amid attacks on Iran https://aje.news/oe589h

01.03.2026 10:30 πŸ‘ 96 πŸ” 122 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 8
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Footage from Minab, Iran, shows the aftermath of an Israeli-US strike on a girls' elementary school that reportedly killed more than 50 people.

28.02.2026 14:14 πŸ‘ 1315 πŸ” 908 πŸ’¬ 114 πŸ“Œ 261

what a crazy night for sam altman to be like "yeah we got that dept of war deal, and there's no moral concerns here"

28.02.2026 07:46 πŸ‘ 7777 πŸ” 1231 πŸ’¬ 71 πŸ“Œ 41

100% I would die of shock if any major Democratic leader offered any criticism of this bloodthirsty action that went beyond "you didn't seek our approval first"

28.02.2026 13:30 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Two flavors of the same shit, sadly

28.02.2026 13:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This war could end tomorrow and the US and the region will be living with the consequences for many years.

You cannot put what Trump unleashed back in the box.

28.02.2026 12:21 πŸ‘ 253 πŸ” 58 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

BS. This is why Oman’s FM went on CBS News to explicitly revel that negotiations had achieved *unprecedented agreement* from the Iranians not to stockpile nuclear material β€” ensuring they’d never have a bomb. CNN is blatantly lying (what’s new)

28.02.2026 12:29 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Those racist thugs won't pander to themselves!

Actually they probably would, but still, he's got to be thorough if he wants to squander the last remaining bits of Labour's unearned goodwill

27.02.2026 13:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

They tried, but unfortunately his schedule is full, what with all the pandering to racist thugs

27.02.2026 09:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

A singularly wretched man - and you know a few of his World Bank colleagues nodded gravely when he said that

26.02.2026 07:17 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0