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Shaya
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In LA 🌴writer/editor 🧿 شقایق 🖤 fueled by breakfast burritos 🌯 potter #shayclay 🏺tahdig enthusiast and culinary dabbler 🥘 opinions here are mine and usually mine alone
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Shaya @shayainla.bsky.social · Jun 13
"There is no one to admire or trust in this too long and too sordid spectacle of idiotic violence and limitless corruption," Edward Said wrote in 1986.
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Shaya @shayainla.bsky.social · Jul 21
crossed @lalehkhalili.bsky.social's MERIP review of Iranian cookbooks by luck recently and have been enjoying it.

Does anyone know where to find Roza Montazami's book? I have looked for ages. We used to have a photocopied version of it growing up merip.org/2021/02/the-...
The Savor of Memory - MERIP
Laleh Khalili draws on memories from childhood, her experience of leaving Iran and her ongoing interest in cooking to review a series of classic and contemporary Iranian cookbooks. Through them she re...
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · Jul 12
“I, of course, deal with the dust and smoke & the burning...this all goes into your lungs & makes you cough all night. It’s exhausting. It wears you out completely. The work is tough—not easy. It’s fire & we all got burned here. We’ve all been burned by this fire.”

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Gazans Make Diesel From Plastic Amid Genocide - UNICORN RIOT
With no diesel allowed into Gaza, citizens are successfully converting plastic into diesel and gasoline to be used for transportation.
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · Jul 11
NEW: Gazans Make Diesel From Plastic Amid Genocide

With the US-backed genocide of Palestinians in Gaza continuing unabated & the border crossings closed by Israel, the ingenuity & resolve of Gazans continues to shine amid the ethnic cleansing being waged on them.

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Gazans Make Diesel From Plastic Amid Genocide - UNICORN RIOT
With no diesel allowed into Gaza, citizens are successfully converting plastic into diesel and gasoline to be used for transportation.
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Shaya @shayainla.bsky.social · Jul 6
Diddy’s ny prosecutor is James Comey’s daughter
a rainbow and a star with the words be who you know
ALT: a rainbow and a star with the words be who you know
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Laura Rozen @lkrozen.bsky.social · Jun 25
New from me: Trump turns intel on US strikes on Iran into loyalty test

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Trump turns Iran strike intel into loyalty test
‘Severely damaged.’ The CIA assesses that “Iran’s nuclear program has been severely damaged by the recent, targeted strikes,” CIA Director John Ratcliffe said.
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Shervin Malekzadeh @swarthy-bastard.bsky.social · Jun 25
“Maybe you would feel better about your city if you relaxed a bit and smiled more” 🏆
milesperhoward.bsky.social Miles Howard @milesperhoward.bsky.social · Jun 25
This is a Hall of Fame reader comment on a very reactionary op-ed about Zohran Mamdani's victory that was published in my local paper today.
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Shaya @shayainla.bsky.social · Jun 23
Iran’s estimated casualties during the Iran-Iraq war, an eight-year land war, was believed to be a million or more lives lost

This is one yardstick of likelihood of surrender
jongambrell.bsky.social Jon Gambrell @jongambrell.bsky.social · Jun 23
APNewsAlert: DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Israeli strikes on #Iran have killed at least 950 people and wounded 3,450 others, a human rights group says.
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Shaya @shayainla.bsky.social · Jun 22
front row, as ever
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Shaya @shayainla.bsky.social · Jun 22
tfw your only hope is the angry old men clinging to power have gotten this out of their systems.
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Shaya @shayainla.bsky.social · Jun 22
interesting to see the aircraft still in the skies over the middle east -- if you filter for military planes you'll see a lear jet from Riyadh heading toward Europe, a Hungarian airbus over Turkey now, a UK airbus from Cyprus heading toward Oman... globe.airplanes.live?icao=71021d
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Shaya @shayainla.bsky.social · Jun 22
Israeli accents on CNN, Arab accents on BBC
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Shaya @shayainla.bsky.social · Jun 22
Bibi's congratulations-on-bombing-Iran speech is such a good insight into what convinced Trump to do this. The endless flattery. The appeal to vanity of being the biggest and greatest.
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Shaya @shayainla.bsky.social · Jun 22
"What a remarkable turn this is" the chaos-dazzled newscaster's say, again and again
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Shaya @shayainla.bsky.social · Jun 22
An early failure to fully acknowledge devastation in Iran, what casualty or damage may have happened; Trump calls the offensive spectacular. What can he report? When or if will there be reporters on the ground there, would it even be safe to send them?
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Shaya @shayainla.bsky.social · Jun 22
Interesting to see the spin even in the earliest understandings of what has happened.

Trump is gaining early praise for "offering an offramp" in his speech after bombing three Iranian sites, including one near(? in?) the major city of Isfahan and its many UNESCO heritage sites.
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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · Jun 21
"Once you enter there, you see a different reality, just a different reality about this country."
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/n...
‘Justice Will Prevail,’ Mahmoud Khalil Says as He Goes Free on Bail
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Shaya @shayainla.bsky.social · Jun 21
This is not normal. What is normal is the sweet grandma who walks past every day, singing to a baby in a stroller. Teenagers laughing and skating by. The helado woman who rides a cart past with a tune playing. Life. Normal, wonderful life in LA.
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Shaya @shayainla.bsky.social · Jun 21
i heard someone calling out on a megaphone from a passing car “la migra! la migra! Ice is coming! Ice is coming” and then, several times over the course of the day saw American-made cars, black Chargers drive past with men in black clothes leaning forward to, apparently, spot people on my street
cmonstah.bsky.social Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · Jun 21
"ICE in just a few weeks has transformed itself into the closest thing that the US has ever had to a 'secret police,' with more seemingly culturally in common with the Klan nightriders of Reconstruction than their federal agency brethren like the FBI or ATF."
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ICE believes it will never face accountability again
The Trump administration is letting an unaccountable secret police form at the heart of our democracy.
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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · Jun 21
"ICE in just a few weeks has transformed itself into the closest thing that the US has ever had to a 'secret police,' with more seemingly culturally in common with the Klan nightriders of Reconstruction than their federal agency brethren like the FBI or ATF."
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ICE believes it will never face accountability again
The Trump administration is letting an unaccountable secret police form at the heart of our democracy.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · Jun 19
To be really clear: The reason members of Congress can't just walk right in is because of the guns. Armed DHS personnel won't allow entry. In other words, DHS is using armed force to *break* laws.

Democrats need to wrap their minds around that. Accept that the frog is boiled.
New York Times: ICE Imposes New Rules on Congressional Visits The policy specifies that ICE field offices are not subject to an existing federal law that allows members of Congress to make unannounced oversight visits to immigration facilities that “detain or otherwise house aliens.”
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Shaya @shayainla.bsky.social · Jun 20
Jkjk i started in high school so… decades!
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Shaya @shayainla.bsky.social · Jun 20
an older woman is crying and says it 's been 84 years
ALT: an older woman is crying and says it 's been 84 years
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Shaya @shayainla.bsky.social · Jun 19
I got obsessed with closed forms recently too—such a satisfying process!! And the handles are definitely a crapshoot sometimes but i love how expressive they can be
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Shaya @shayainla.bsky.social · Jun 19
The aughts are back and we need to be ready for this rerun.

Expect stunts. Remember Powell taking yellowcake to the UN??

Expect massive “errors” and shortcomings of critical reporting. ie Judith Miller dragging the country to war on the front page of the NYT.
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Shaya @shayainla.bsky.social · Jun 19
They’re just saying the same thing they ever did, but with bombs. And apparently maybe bamboozling or buying their lone, indefatigable ally.