Lots of incoming analysis for the next several hours, but there’s really just one thing to know: none of this was inevitable nor did it start with Iran.

This is US-Israeli belligerence; this is Joe Biden’s foreign policy & Israel’s war expansionism as it conducts a genocide.

100%

This will be another situation where Biden & Co will pretend to not have escalated the situation,

hoping Americans aren’t following events closely enough

so they willingly send more young people to die for a dying colonial empire

⚡ #BREAKING Syria puts on high alert its Russian-made pantsir ground-to-air defence systems around capital and major bases, army sources say — Reuters

We obviously know Iran will be painted as the aggressor in every article. It's our job to inform people that Israel initiated this violence, this sequence of events, and to push for the U.S. to disentangle itself now instead of being embroiled in another war.

Maybe it wasn’t good to spend the last 24 years laying waste to all post-Civil War American constitutional norms 🥴

I’m not sure how I’m going to read this without crying.

I’m at the scholasticide vigil, and I was assigned this poster to commemorate Refaat Al-Areer (Refaat in Gaza 🇵🇸).

there is no war in ba sing se

The historical revisionism by western media is already in full force now that Iran has convoked their right to defending themselves after their consulate was attacked by Israel.

Rather start a world war than recognize Palestinians as humans

Professor Ruha Benjamin used her honorary degree address at Spelman to denounce the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza and the repression of student activists for Palestine on campuses.

PEN America Through collective cultural organizing, we’ve raised over 13k for Nadine. At 15k, she will have enough to evacuate an additional family member from Gaza. gofundme.com/f/mrv2dj-compl…

We are awed by writers like Robin Myers, who have not only withdrawn their work from the 2024 PEN Awards, but are using that platform to fundraise for Palestinian writers like Nadine Murtaja, a 21-year old Gazan poet.

Sudanese, Congolese and other students are organising an action on Sudan and Congo (DRC) protesting Canadian complicity in both in Toronto, on Monday, the one year anniversary of this war in Sudan. They will share location and time on the day of. Stay tuned. #KeepEyesOnSudan

5 years ago NYPD officers broke into Kawaski Trawick's apartment while he was cooking dinner and within 112 seconds fatally shot him. When asked if anyone was hurt the cops said: 'Nobody, just a perp.' NYPD just announced the cops will face no discipline. hellgatenyc.com/shame-upon-new…

I need more raps about displeasure about infrastructure. Gimme diss songs to the transit director because the bus route don't go by your granny senior building. Beef with the school superintendent because they the same math books you had. Gimme MORE

German police banned any substitute events of the Palestine Congress in Berlin. Lawyer Nadia Samour said that the police’s behaviour is unequivocally unlawful.

It doesn't quite beat the high of the Slavic X-Men, but it is real damn close lol