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listen i know it may be difficult to understand but irans government is not some big brother boogeyman. TO be completely frank, this obsession over irans government is hypocritical because i think of Jordan where you cannot even criticize the king on facebook without the secret police arresting you (this is from family stories) or publish news articles about jordans complicity with the israeli regime without being thrown in jail, but damn i dont see the west trying to force regime change in Jordan and I dont see a ton of news articles on Jordans crazy repressive government and thats because Jordan receives US Aid and is aligned with US interests. I just feel like all this "nuanced" conversations surrounding irans government at a time where the US is actively threatening to destroy them is so unnecessary. Also many of you dont actually know anything about iran and all the information you receive from iran is filtered by the government to news outlets that have been spreading genocide propaganda for the Israelis for years and years. The US policy doesnt care for Iranians, the entire US policy in the global south is installing authoritarians they favor.

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Ocean Vuong, The Emperor of Gladness

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Foie Graphics

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every fucking day i pray for the downfall of the united states of america in the most ugly irrevocable manner possible and there is nothing my heart desires as much as this.

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June 20, 2025 - Palestine Action activists on electric scooters break into RAF Brize Norton and damage two military aircraft, before getting away without detection.

Flights depart daily from the base to RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus. From Cyprus, British planes collect intelligence, refuel fighter jets and transport weapons to commit genocide in Gaza. [video]

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Like it's funny, nobody is saying that the Islamic Republic of Iran is good. Nobody even likes Khamenei, but lest you forget the Iraq war, overthrowing that leadership and replacing it with a western puppet is gonna do more harm than good.

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Mostly living in cities, towns, and villages within Israel’s internationally recognised borders, many Palestinian citizens of Israel found themselves excluded from life-saving infrastructure during the worst nights of the Iran-Israel conflict to date. For Samar al-Rashed, a 29-year-old single mother living in a mostly Jewish apartment complex near Acre, the reality of that exclusion came on Friday night. Samar was at home with her five-year-old daughter, Jihan. As sirens pierced the air, warning of incoming missiles, she grabbed her daughter and rushed for the building’s shelter. “I didn’t have time to pack anything,” she recalled. “Just water, our phones, and my daughter’s hand in mine.” The panicking mother tried to ease her daughter’s fear, while hiding her own, gently encouraging her in soft-spoken Arabic to keep up with her rushed steps towards the shelter, as other neighbours climbed down the stairs, too. But at the shelter door, she said, an Israeli resident, having heard her speak Arabic, blocked their entry – and shut it in their faces. “I was stunned,” she said. “I speak Hebrew fluently. I tried to explain. But he looked at me with contempt and just said, ‘Not for you.’”

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Yara Srour, a 22-year-old nursing student at Hebrew University, lives in the neglected neighbourhood of al-Mahatta in Lydd. Her family’s three-storey building, which is around four decades old, lacks official permits and a shelter. Following the heavy Iranian bombardment they witnessed on Saturday evening, which shocked the world around them, the family tried early on Sunday to flee to a safer part of the city. “We went to the new part of Lydd where there are proper shelters,” Yara said, adding that her 48-year-old mother, who suffers from weak knees, was struggling to move. “Yet, they wouldn’t let us in. Jews from poorer areas were also turned away. It was only for the ‘new residents’ — those in the modern buildings, mostly middle-class Jewish families.” Yara recalls the horror vividly. “My mother has joint problems and couldn’t run like the rest of us,” she said. “We were begging, knocking on doors. But people just looked at us through peepholes and ignored us, while we saw the sky light up with fires of intercepted rockets

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Magical portals

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Mary Oliver, "From The Book of Time." Devotions

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I mean it comes at no surprise but Egypt really did deport hundreds of people coming from Morocco, Germany, France, Algeria, Netherlands, Tunisia by air just bc they were going to participate in the international march to break the siege of Gaza. and it is refusing to grant entry to the maghrebi convoy coming by land. the egyptian state is risking everything, its international image and its local citizens just to protect Israel from the embarrassment. we've always said that the liberation of Palestine comes with the toppling of Arab regimes but Egypt is really giving us a good reminder, showing everyone how they're an active participant in the genocide and famine of Gazans.

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when susan sontag wrote “I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it”

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if you are in your early 20s and you are afraid of aging into your late 20s do not fear. i promise. the more you progress through your 20s and into your 30s and beyond the more deadlines become nonexistent. the stress you feel about Getting Everything Done now converts into patience, acceptance and an overall understanding that you have time and you are on the right track and you always have been. if you are in your early 20s and are anxious about what you have yet to accomplish, in a few years you will look back and realize you had no reason to rush yourself. trust your process.

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Mexico, 1960s. From the book “Mexiko” by Fulvio Roiter, published in 1968 by Atlantis.

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no connection without willingness to be seen. no connection without curiosity and understanding, without compassion and forgiveness. no connection without tolerance and inconvenience. no connection without the courage to divulge feelings, thoughts and needs. no connection without putting the health of the bond before pride or the comfort of hiding. no connection without embarassing yourself a little. without hard conversations, or the space and will to learn and grow. without accepting and loving imperfection

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