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Deep dive by Haaretz on the accelerated, more methodical demolitions of whole towns that are at the core of the IDF’s current Operation Gideon’s Chariots in Gaza.

“After we're done, they won't be able to come back here for years,” the commander of the 7th Armored Brigade says of Khan Younis.
Rafah is gone. Razed to the ground. It's not the only city decimated by the Israeli army
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www.haaretz.com
July 15, 2025 at 5:29 PM
blabla they're not mutually exclusive but maybe we need less cool new psychoanalysis summer camps and more cool new maoist summer camps NO SHADE I PROMISE
March 31, 2025 at 3:23 PM
gruesome and vulgar but actually try to imagine seeing dead children anywhere else in the world killed en masse while celebrating Christmas or Hanukkah or whatever the fuck
March 31, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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In a targeted attack on his car, Israel has killed Al-Jazeera's
Hossam Shabat, who was only 23 years old and was one of the last remaining journalists in Gaza.

There are no words.
March 24, 2025 at 1:24 PM
the doll's breakup music being Abbasid-era Sufi poetry
set to a Nahawand maqam
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBhd...
فريدة مقام نهاوند و الله ما طلعت شمس
YouTube video by Abdallh Ahmed
www.youtube.com
March 5, 2025 at 12:08 AM
The amount of sorrow, pain, and rage currently being felt by Shi'a and Palestinian communities in Lebanon—truly no one can begin to understand this if they have not spoken to a person who has experienced real loss in the war 🧵
February 18, 2025 at 12:10 PM
There is always a surplus of psychic terror in Zionist violence that goes far beyond its tactical utility. This abhorrent reality is the "ceasefire" in the south
February 17, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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The Israeli military’s invasion of Tulkarm Refugee Camp in the northern West Bank has entered its 18th day, displacing 10,500 Palestinians and creating a severe humanitarian crisis.

The Media Committee in Tulkarm Refugee Camp shares the following:
February 13, 2025 at 2:45 PM
chaser trade in Beirut can be sloppy (they will come up to you and say they "like ladyboys" if you're flat-chested) but at least they TAKE INITIATIVE
February 13, 2025 at 10:21 AM
this review by Mary Turfah of No Other Land perfectly lays out the film's fanciful clinging on to a would-be liberal Zionism and its refusal to acknowledge Palestinian resistance beyond non-violent activism
t.co/NLwZIKMIHM
https://mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/no-other-land-for-whom
t.co
February 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
i enjoy post-punk a lot but i also feel like, as a genre, it's so internally homogeneous? a lot of post-punk songs sound insanely similar to me
February 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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"What has transpired in Gaza is of such epochal monumentality and obliterating significance that it troubles every distinction, every category..."

Tobi Haslett 'On a Painting by Hamishi Farah'

canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/on-...
On a Painting by Hamishi Farah | Triple Canopy
Laughter, seriousness, and a portrait of Joe Chialo, the smiling face of German censorship....
canopycanopycanopy.com
February 4, 2025 at 10:26 PM
i'm so entertained by the men who stare at me and SCOWL HARD for actual stretches of time? bitch you're gonna get a cramp
February 5, 2025 at 4:01 AM
if you're in Berlin, actually don't miss this, it's going to be REAL
I've curated a program at @transmediale.bsky.social, which features a new painting by @hamishi.bsky.social, on view from 31.01 to 02.02.25. Tobi Haslett will give a lecture on this piece at HKW this coming Saturday 1 February at 1PM. It's free. Please come by! transmediale.de/en/2025/even...
transmedialetransmediale 2025 | On a Painting by Hamishi Farah
transmediale.de
January 29, 2025 at 2:27 PM
WARNING group chat still queening out about the bluesky exodus
January 24, 2025 at 1:18 PM
my question is how do we guarantee this app won't eventually sell to another gazillionaire overlord? Pinky promise? OUR EGGS IN WHICH BASKET DIVAS?
January 24, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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who knew that in 2025 neurodivergent oligarchs would force us into a mass exodus to a soulless purgatory with a late-90s-Mariah-coded logo
January 23, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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As an arab who has lived with palestinians my entire life in many different places, it is impossible to describe how difficult, discombobulating and deeply shocking it is to see palestinians beg. It is just not something i ever thought to see…
January 13, 2025 at 10:55 PM