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@andrealaflamme.bsky.social please try to get this pushed into ME media

Let’s talk about Graham Platner’s Big Lie, finally. In 2009, at the height of the Gulf War, the Marines barred him from active duty. Platner claims it was his forearm tattoos. But his one forbidden tattoo was the Nazi symbol on his chest. He knew - and he left the Marines rather than give it up. 1/

Mamdani Opposition vs. Platner Opposition says a lot to me about whether someone can tell the difference between Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism or cares about the difference. Because Mamdani's supposed "red flags" are all related to Israel criticism while Platner's are fucking nazism.

So let me get this straight ...

1. US bombs Iran
2. Oil price goes up a bit, benefitting Russia's petrostate
3. Russia gives Iran targeting info
4. Oil price shoots WAY up
5. US unsanctions Russian oil

I can’t do this anymore

Interview with Marjane Satrapi: Some conservatives here think that secular young Iranians would be happy if America would come and liberate them. What would you say to them? Democracy, contrary to what they try to tell us, it’s not a paper that you hang on the wall and then you have a democracy. Democracy is a social evolution. It is something cultural. Iranians, they have become much more secular, and they are ready for democracy, but they have to fight themselves for democracy, and the only thing that other countries can do is to understand their fight and help them in their fight. They [America] talk about the human rights in Iran … how is it that the United States makes the biggest deals with China, and China is far from respecting human rights? What about Saudi Arabia? If you want to talk about an inquisition, the Iranian regime is far from being an inquisition. We have almost a free press, people leave, women have the right to study, they drive, they work. Saudi Arabia, they don’t have anything like that! Talk about human rights in Saudi Arabia! Why doesn’t anyone go and put a bomb in Saudi Arabia and kill the king?

Do you think it’s ironic that, in the face of American threats, you almost find yourself defending the Iranian regime? Absolutely, but if we want a democracy, the Iranian people have to do it themselves. The Americans say they want a democracy in Iran, and at the same time, when the Iranians wanted to become democratic in 1953 with [Mohammad] Mosaddeq and to nationalize our oil, the CIA came and made a coup d’état in my country. Why do you want me to believe that they want to come and make a democracy? We have to make our democracy! There are many things that I wish for in my country — I want my country to be free, I want my country to be democratic, I don’t want any journalists to go to jail because of an article they wrote in my country. But if the United States of America attacked my country, no matter what, I would be against the United States.

People are trying to instrumentalise Satrapi to justify this war of aggression, and it's a good time to remind people that genuine political dissidents, such as her, take more considered views about the supposed humanitarian contribution of murdering civilians at scale.

Point/Counterpoint This War Will Shut Off 20% of the Global Petroleum Supply for A Month and Send the Economy into a Stagflationary Tailspin vs. No It Won’t Published: March 26, 2003

Chicory: A Musical Tale, by Resonant Union 33 track album

today's the (bandcamp fri) day!

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if you pre-order today, all proceeds go to the wonderfully talented folks who contributed to this album! and then it releases ...tomorrow!!

I’m not even ‘pro-Iran’ (ian govt) in any fucking meaningful sense. If protestors overthrew them I’d probably cheer. I don’t want *my country* to set the world on fire by bombing them, because it isn’t in the national interest, the world’s interest, or my personal interest.

If being socially conservative was a good reason to kill people we’d be dropping JDAMs on megachurches

Virginia moves to forbid schools from teaching that Jan. 6 was peaceful In what appears to be a first in the country, legislation headed to the desk of Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) would prohibit public schools from teaching that the Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capit...

Good:

“The first step toward authoritarianism is to rewrite the history we teach our children. We [won’t] allow a new mythology to grow up around Donald Trump.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

One of the instances in which it is actually emphatically true that by stifling left-liberal criticism of Israel on a liberal basis you just leave open room for nutjobs to do it and fill the space instead

We’re one bad hurricane away with poor response from 2006 and sub 30% approval

Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid Footage obtained by The Handbasket’s lawsuit shows a hostile takeover on March 17, 2025.

SCOOP — Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors.

My report:

Graham Platner really is a beltway guy’s idea of the kind of working class person the Democrats have lost, that is part of why they are backing him so hard.

He’s probably going to win despite it all, because this is going to be a wave year for outsider Dems. He will be the main one they cite.

Israel's System of Segregated Roads in the Occupied Palestinian Territories

How dare you call this segregation btw

there's a thing I like to call "load-bearing assumptions", that you don't notice until they're suddenly gone (e.g the air you breath has oxygen in it).

the post-ww2 order is a load-bearing assumption for basically the entirety of american life. trump took a sledgehammer to it in the last 90 days.

like i said this when the US attacked venezuela. we are hurdling back into an extremely violent world, one which hasn't really existed since the 1700s and which nobody since hitler has really tried to enact. and it's entirely on trump's hands

This has nothing to do with the specific content here, but Polymarket adopting the language of news, here with BREAKING, and with Texas election results earlier this week, is BAD. Polymarket is not and will never be a news org or break news. It's a betting app. It's Draft Kings for sociopaths.

Good luck, hope you can consolidate enough support in time for the primaries

Photo of Andrea LaFlamme wearing a shirt with the Desmond Tutu quote, "If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor."

Hi everyone! My name is Andrea LaFlamme and I'm running to unseat Susan Collins in the US Senate. I'm a feminist public health professor and the ONLY candidate in this race who has worked in education, municipal health, and as an elected union leader. (1/2)

that is *not* a good starting point for Hick, even if Gonzales can't make up the distance in time

support one of the few serious (if badly underfunded) primary challenges to our lackluster senate democrats www.julieforcolorado.com

NO THEY DIDNT AHAHHHHAHAGAHAHAHAHAGAHGSHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAGAGGAHAHAGAHGAGAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHGAHAHAGHAHAHAHAHGAHAGHAHAGA

I've been thinking about how we (those who steep in this debilitating infoshit) connect with people who just try to live.

When we approach someone telling them about all the bastards and their crimes, their hubris, it won't click. They're stuck on their irl needs and whatnot.

utopia it's march

why did you say this

Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

Reuters Exclusive

"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."

"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

I'm also ok with maralago

Which cabinet member will be fired next?