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"A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by the occupation and oppression into a nightmare."
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At least we all agree Saudi Arabia is the only democracy on the planet
January 30, 2026 at 9:19 AM
At least we all agree Saudi Arabia is the only democracy on the planet
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Absolutely despise how many big urbanist accounts here are entirely comfortable using trash AI illustrations for things and will even put them in blogposts and reports.
January 30, 2026 at 8:08 AM
Absolutely despise how many big urbanist accounts here are entirely comfortable using trash AI illustrations for things and will even put them in blogposts and reports.
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[Looking at an agency whose agents shatter glass onto newborns as they abduct fathers] body cameras will fix this
January 30, 2026 at 6:09 AM
[Looking at an agency whose agents shatter glass onto newborns as they abduct fathers] body cameras will fix this
At least we all agree Saudi Arabia is the only democracy on the planet
January 30, 2026 at 9:19 AM
At least we all agree Saudi Arabia is the only democracy on the planet
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An actual possible scenario in this dumbass timeline is an even stupider Bay of Pigs in Alberta where Hegseth and Trump decide to send in armed MAGA volunteers who proceed to livestream themselves being turned into paste by the Canadian military
January 30, 2026 at 1:34 AM
An actual possible scenario in this dumbass timeline is an even stupider Bay of Pigs in Alberta where Hegseth and Trump decide to send in armed MAGA volunteers who proceed to livestream themselves being turned into paste by the Canadian military
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we need mark carney to give another speech that antagonizes Trump into breaking more systems
January 30, 2026 at 12:54 AM
we need mark carney to give another speech that antagonizes Trump into breaking more systems
Tucker Carlson: "Saudi Arabia [...] is kind of a weirdly free place.”
Hillary Clinton: "The example that the kingdom is setting for the right kind of development [...] that is a very strong model for other parts of the world"
Quotes from a real estate conference in Riyadh
Hillary Clinton: "The example that the kingdom is setting for the right kind of development [...] that is a very strong model for other parts of the world"
Quotes from a real estate conference in Riyadh
Hillary Clinton and Tucker Carlson Walk Into a Saudi Real Estate Forum
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 1:19 AM
Tucker Carlson: "Saudi Arabia [...] is kind of a weirdly free place.”
Hillary Clinton: "The example that the kingdom is setting for the right kind of development [...] that is a very strong model for other parts of the world"
Quotes from a real estate conference in Riyadh
Hillary Clinton: "The example that the kingdom is setting for the right kind of development [...] that is a very strong model for other parts of the world"
Quotes from a real estate conference in Riyadh
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ICYMI -- so despressingly despicalbe (from David Ignatius, unsurprisingly)
"[Dennis] Ross, who recently visited the Centcom command post, says he was “enormously impressed with it.” With drones and other surveillance, it can monitor every inch of Gaza. "
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"[Dennis] Ross, who recently visited the Centcom command post, says he was “enormously impressed with it.” With drones and other surveillance, it can monitor every inch of Gaza. "
wapo.st/4t7N4tz
Opinion | Trump’s hokey Board of Peace is hiding a surprisingly promising plan
Reconstruction efforts in the battered enclave are better planned and organized than many realize.
wapo.st
January 30, 2026 at 1:06 AM
ICYMI -- so despressingly despicalbe (from David Ignatius, unsurprisingly)
"[Dennis] Ross, who recently visited the Centcom command post, says he was “enormously impressed with it.” With drones and other surveillance, it can monitor every inch of Gaza. "
wapo.st/4t7N4tz
"[Dennis] Ross, who recently visited the Centcom command post, says he was “enormously impressed with it.” With drones and other surveillance, it can monitor every inch of Gaza. "
wapo.st/4t7N4tz
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mr president harden your heart against the woke airline executives telling you that nuking regional carriers is insane
January 30, 2026 at 12:48 AM
mr president harden your heart against the woke airline executives telling you that nuking regional carriers is insane
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suffering already from my commitment to give at least nominal amounts in response to anti-ICE fundraising appeals to incentivize candidates to run on this
January 30, 2026 at 12:18 AM
suffering already from my commitment to give at least nominal amounts in response to anti-ICE fundraising appeals to incentivize candidates to run on this
Going to play Fallout New Vegas all night tonight probably (never played it before)
January 30, 2026 at 12:17 AM
Going to play Fallout New Vegas all night tonight probably (never played it before)
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Yeah most so called pivoters clearly either didn't believe in it or were too obsessed with seeing through their race war fantasy in MENA
New State Department big strategic five year plan mentions Iran just one time... Meanwhile we gear up for war against Iran.
January 30, 2026 at 12:07 AM
Yeah most so called pivoters clearly either didn't believe in it or were too obsessed with seeing through their race war fantasy in MENA
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New State Department big strategic five year plan mentions Iran just one time... Meanwhile we gear up for war against Iran.
January 29, 2026 at 11:30 PM
New State Department big strategic five year plan mentions Iran just one time... Meanwhile we gear up for war against Iran.
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The result of the Abraham Accords, envisioned as part of a pivot to Asia, has been the further entrenchment of the US in the Middle East to protect its supposed intermediaries
January 29, 2026 at 11:02 PM
The result of the Abraham Accords, envisioned as part of a pivot to Asia, has been the further entrenchment of the US in the Middle East to protect its supposed intermediaries
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interesting how *elite* in the american context means not only politicians and rich people, but also the coterie of court wizards they assemble to keep entertained. so you get like noam chomsky, laurence krauss, david brooks, etc all defending and/or participating in billionaire rape privledges
i dont think a sizable portion of our elites are pedophiles but i think many, if not most, believe that being an elite means you should get away with being a pedophile (and virtually anything else) and are willing to defend that class privledge even in the face of widespread public condemnation
>named in Epstein files
>>gets hired at the Atlantic and Yale
>>gets hired at the Atlantic and Yale
January 29, 2026 at 10:20 PM
interesting how *elite* in the american context means not only politicians and rich people, but also the coterie of court wizards they assemble to keep entertained. so you get like noam chomsky, laurence krauss, david brooks, etc all defending and/or participating in billionaire rape privledges
Lindsey Graham has apparently backed down from his threats to Saudi Arabia lol
January 29, 2026 at 11:41 PM
Lindsey Graham has apparently backed down from his threats to Saudi Arabia lol
Put another way one of the main reasons Israel gets so much attention relative to other countries, even other MENA autocracies the US backs, is because both the political elite that defends it and its dissidents in the US treat it like it is an exceptional case, or even appendage of the US.
100%, I think it's indisputable that the American political class has had a Europeanness-centered affinity for Israel to the point that it exempts it from rules otherwise applied and that in reverse much of the nascent rebuke against it has been sourced merely from inversion: Europeanness is bad.
January 29, 2026 at 11:34 PM
Put another way one of the main reasons Israel gets so much attention relative to other countries, even other MENA autocracies the US backs, is because both the political elite that defends it and its dissidents in the US treat it like it is an exceptional case, or even appendage of the US.
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A lot of people have figured out that you can say some pretty heinous things about a collective racial subgroup if you couch it in terms of how a subsection of that subgroup voted.
January 29, 2026 at 8:56 PM
A lot of people have figured out that you can say some pretty heinous things about a collective racial subgroup if you couch it in terms of how a subsection of that subgroup voted.
Soon the so-called responsible foreign policy thinkers in the Democratic Party need to contemplate why it is that Biden expended so much political capital in pursuit of a trilateral treaty between two authoritarian states which are not at war with each other in the Middle East to no obvious benefit.
The result of the Abraham Accords, envisioned as part of a pivot to Asia, has been the further entrenchment of the US in the Middle East to protect its supposed intermediaries
January 29, 2026 at 11:04 PM
Soon the so-called responsible foreign policy thinkers in the Democratic Party need to contemplate why it is that Biden expended so much political capital in pursuit of a trilateral treaty between two authoritarian states which are not at war with each other in the Middle East to no obvious benefit.
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I wonder if IDF is accepting this number to get out ahead of what is going to be found when journalists start getting into Gaza soon (hopefully). Because that number is definitely an undercount, no matter how much effort people put into challenging it to their eternal shame.
For anyone who ever claimed that the Gaza Health Ministry death toll in Gaza could not be trusted - today the IDF acknowledged it agrees with their numbers. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry death toll of over 71,000 Palestinians killed in the war
Although Many International Experts Have Accepted the Health Ministry's Data as Reliable, and Even Conservative Relative to the True Death Toll, Israel Had Refused to Accept the Health Ministry's Coun...
www.haaretz.com
January 29, 2026 at 11:00 PM
I wonder if IDF is accepting this number to get out ahead of what is going to be found when journalists start getting into Gaza soon (hopefully). Because that number is definitely an undercount, no matter how much effort people put into challenging it to their eternal shame.
There are two main reasons why the Abraham Accords can't really succeed at their self-stated goals. The first is that the thesis that Palestine can be permanently sidelined continues to be disproven by the events of history,
January 29, 2026 at 10:56 PM
There are two main reasons why the Abraham Accords can't really succeed at their self-stated goals. The first is that the thesis that Palestine can be permanently sidelined continues to be disproven by the events of history,
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It is insane that I know what Will Stancil is dealing with. I actually hate it.
I have begged over and over for other rapid responders to talk to press; I often end up doing it anyway because my risk tolerance is high and I’m already targeted. I always, always make the terms of press engagement clear: no other observer can be identified in any way.
@whstancil.bsky.social engage with media thoughtfully and keep comrades safe or let someone else do it. the movement will be just fine without your clout chasing
January 29, 2026 at 10:23 PM
It is insane that I know what Will Stancil is dealing with. I actually hate it.
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> get told someone is crashing out
> account has me blocked
> peek through
> they're demanding retribution on writers from The Onion for being too mean to the democratic party
> ????????????????????
> account has me blocked
> peek through
> they're demanding retribution on writers from The Onion for being too mean to the democratic party
> ????????????????????
January 29, 2026 at 9:47 PM
> get told someone is crashing out
> account has me blocked
> peek through
> they're demanding retribution on writers from The Onion for being too mean to the democratic party
> ????????????????????
> account has me blocked
> peek through
> they're demanding retribution on writers from The Onion for being too mean to the democratic party
> ????????????????????
"I hate my home country, please bomb it" is the lowest form of diaspora politics imaginable.
January 29, 2026 at 10:15 PM
"I hate my home country, please bomb it" is the lowest form of diaspora politics imaginable.