The enthusiasm of most billionaire media outlets in the US and UK for Trump’s illegal assault on Iran is another reminder of how deranged, perverse and frankly psychopathic these organisations are.
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.
Has anyone encountered this book? If not, you should peruse it over the weekend. It has a lot of delightful things in it.
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This is great, thanks for sharing it (number 13 currently my favourite).
Some of these are reminding me of Yoko Ono's brilliant instructional poetry pieces/Happenings like Laundry Piece
Seeing this again having just watched Hegseth's presser with the gleefully introduced video of torpedoed ship, I don't think I'm miles off in saying the answer to the question 'why did the US to to war with Iran?' is probably: for the content.
With eyes on Iran, Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza by shutting down border crossings to block the entry of food-aid.
“No one in Gaza has forgotten the taste of hunger. Nor have they yet recovered from the famine.”
Repost from Good Shepherd Collective
This is the playbook
from Good Shepherd Collective on x:
“This is a photo of Ghandi Hospital in Tehran, Iran after being damaged by nearby airstrikes on March 1, 2026. Photo by Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA.”
The coffins of the Minab students are solemnly carried by the people.
As Israel and the US launched their attack on Iran, Israel closed all military crossings in the West Bank and Gaza, stranding hundreds of Palestinians.
Israeli soldiers have no right to be on Palestinian land—let alone to control where Palestinians can and can’t go at all times of day.
The graves dug for 153 Iranian female school children who were killed by an Israeli-American strike.
Photo: IRNA
The options that the US and Israel have engineered for Iranians are increased repression from the Iranian state or full state collapse. Anyone who thinks liberation is on the other side of these bombs, I don’t know what to tell you.
I'm really proud of this piece that we collectively wrote for C-Mag on refusing colonial possession. It is featured in their most recent issue.
All Floods Lead to Rome -- the violences we are facing today have a common origin in the muddy waters of Roman rule.
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I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone. That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after. Sahar Delijani, Iranian author
I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds.
I support neither imperialism or dictatorship.
Sahar Delijani said it best:
I’m proud to announce the fourth CFP for Succession IV: Queering the Environment, which I’ve edited biennially since 2020.
This year we are inviting topics related to “queer joy.”
Toni Morrison said, “Art does not cleanse you and make you morally superior to anything or anybody, even when it has a very strong political content. The artist himself is not made any better. I still have to try to be the best person I can be. It's not therapy.” Art, scholarship, activism.
This is one of the videos the NYT has verified and links to in their reporting.
NYT: "Video verified by [NYT] showed ... rescuers digging through the rubble with building cranes and shovels, and piles of bloodied, dusty backpacks."
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The first deaths announced from the US-Israeli strikes on Iran: dozens of school girls. They hit an elementary school in Hormozgan.
You that never done nothing but build to destroy
You play with my world like it's your little toy
So, any other news yesterday?
Anything important?
Anyway
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It really reminds me of this image by Romain Mader, which is, funnily enough, about narcissistic masculinity, loneliness and personal fantasy otherwise disconnected from reality.
So: very Matt Goodwin
This photo of them that's being widely shared this morning is exactly why it's hard to fight against the politics of narcissism that Reform embody + espouse. They suck out all the oxygen from the room, so even when the story is a Green win, it becomes that Reform lose.
This is, among many things, also a desperate attempt to keep the conversation today on him, on Reform, and not on Hannah Spencer, the eloquent, exciting and compassionate local candidate who actually won.
The horseshoe theory but it's anthropocentrism on one end and anthropodenial on the other
You can list Keir Starmer's modest achievements all you like. But as he has actively alienated his own voters - on Gaza, protest rights, benefits, green policies, cruelty to immigrants etc - it makes no difference. It's not a mystery. When you tell people you hate them, they will hate you back.
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This trial was mostly concerned with colonial India and abuses of human and plant labour but boy are there ecocidic, genocidic, and hegemonic parallels to today
I also speak to the (incredibly thoughtful) Rachel Pimm about their work as the plant’s steward - as well as about being embroiled in the CICC’s performance of justice while simultaneously awaiting trial for alleged collaboration with Palestine Action.
In this, I ask how we can take indigo as seriously as the scholars speaking on the stage. If indigo is here as a participant, here with its own histories and here to witness along with the rest of us, then how can we witness the ways in which indigo, itself, is participating in this gathering?
