⚡ Sky over Ramallah at the moment.

People keep sharing old videos from Tel Aviv where no reports of Iranian strikes have happened. Don't fall for them!

If you want to force Israel to be on the backfoot to defend the legality of its annexation of Syrian land, and to make the argument as Iran that you are not technically attacking core Israeli territory, that would be the place you would strike if you were the IRGC strategist.

Meanwhile in Gaza: For the first time since the war on Gaza, there are no Israeli planes over the Strip due to Iranian strikes

Godspeed everyone

may all empires fall

Whatever follows this, let it be known that Gaza showed the world its true face, good and bad.

We are where we are because it never occurred to Biden to say 'don't' to Israel

I tend to be rather simple-minded when it comes to this stuff: none of this would have happened if the Biden administration was not so committed to supporting the Gaza genocide.

in the rules based international order there are two separate yet equally important groups: good states that can bomb embassies with impunity and bad states we'll never forgive seizing our embassy 44 years ago merely because we overthrew their democratically elected government

benjamin wrote while being genocided, wrote as a spell against the forces of genocide, this is what gives his work its ongoing power. even/especially the childhood memories—the vivid gaze of someone protecting the past from annihilation

Btw

meeeee 🙈

Former Deputy Head of the Israeli National Security Council going into extreme detail about how 'Israel is being led from disaster to catastrophe' amidst the escalation it itself is initiating with Iran against the backdrop of IDF military exhaustion and economic fragility.

A Jia Zhangke directed movie about Xi Jinping's stay in Iowa would be so sick

Where are the well-resourced literary orgs who can step in with funds to support transferring these books?? Why is Ingram making this rushed choice to destroy so much?? Is there really no other option?? This terrible situation rests on a lot more than SPD’s terrible rot & mess.

Small Press Distribution was the primary way to access the remaining inventory of books published by legendary now-defunct presses like Burning Deck, Eidolon, Lost Roads, O Books, Post-Apollo, Tuumba United Artists. What becomes of these books now?

I wonder how old I'll have to be before I stop thinking about the time I mispronounced Borges in front of a girl I had a crush on as a teenager

'third-story walkup in south slope, 3br 1b' you are a member of the urban poor and you live in a tenement in gowanus