Axolotl Pines 🥛

Peace in the Middle East, and justice for all.

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

A Republican who helped break an anti-war US veteran's arm calls Adam Hamawy — a US Army combat surgeon veteran who saved Sen. Duckworth's life during the Iraq War, was a 9/11 responder, and volunteered to serve patients in Gaza — a "terrorist."

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

When Amazon pays poverty wages, it forces their workers to rely on social safety nets, putting more of a financial burden on taxpayers — all while Amazon profits.

We don't talk enough about how much taxpayers are forced to subsidize corporate profits.

[Axolotl Pines 🥛 @AxolotlPines]

@KyleKulinski @hasanthehun They’re friends of RFK

[Lake @_endlesslake]

Children are naturally enamored by trains. It is an evil society which does not build trains

[Malika Bilal @mmbilal]

"I am free — but many remain behind bars in Kuwait and across the region for speaking the truth. Today, my sisters and I have become part of the more than 50,000 Kuwaitis who have had their citizenship revoked.” - Ahmed Shihab-Eldin https://t.co/mCHBSQM9Ek via @pressfreedom

[Mark Ames @MarkAmesExiled]

Hard to see how the violent spike in inflation + shortages in East & South Asia brought on by Trump's war on Iran doesn't eventually spike inflation & economic pain in the US and Europe

[Danny (Dennis) Citrinowicz ,داني سيترينوفيتش @citrinowicz]

It’s a mistake to live under illusions.
(Agree with @SinaToossi):

A. Iran is more likely to escalate than accept a “good deal” that forces concessions on missiles, enrichment, Hormuz, or its regional proxies.

B. The argument that a weakened Iran can be pushed into a favorable deal is flawed. Even if weakened, Iran is more likely to escalate than surrender.

C. After weeks of sustained aerial pressure, it is already clear: any large-scale military campaign will dramatically worsen regional and global economic consequences, without forcing Iran to concede.

D. At its core, forcing Iran to give up its missile program or enrichment would amount in Tehran eyes to regime change. That is precisely why the Iranian leadership will resist it at all costs.

E. There are no easy solutions: either a deal broadly resembling the previous nuclear agreement, or escalation that leads not to resolution—but to a far more dangerous confrontation. Attempts to imagine " a good deal" ignore both the structural constraints and the realities we’ve seen unfold since 28t of February.

F. In hindsight, it is clear that a policy which completely ignored the nature of Iran’s current leadership, and relied primarily on wishful thinking, has led us into a deeply problematic strategic reality.

G. By ignoring the regime’s ideological rigidity and decision-making patterns, this approach replaced strategy with illusion, and the results are now evident.

It is time to fundamentally rethink our assumptions and strategy toward Iran-before the situation deteriorates even further.

Instead of weakening the regime and reshaping the Middle East for the better, the opposite has occurred: it has been significantly strengthened, especially among its core supporters.

As a result, the region now risks moving in a more dangerous direction, with a more radical and more assertive Iran at its center.

#IranWar‌

[Saikat Chakrabarti @saikatc]

Way more Dems than Golden want to continue this war. But they know it's politically toxic to vote for this war.

So Dem leadership gets Golden to be the one vote to make sure this fails. He's not running for re-election, so he has nothing to lose. That's how this works.

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

Destroying the @InternetArchive's @WayBackMachine would be the equivalent of the burning of the Library of Alexandria - one of the worst losses of knowledge in history.

Media giants are now threatening to do this.

We can't let this happen.

Pass it on.

[Stephen Semler @stephensemler]

Trump's budget manages to be $361 billion larger than last year's despite cutting $300 billion in social programs and other public investments.

Reason: Trump wants record funding for war and policing.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

The crackdown at universities included expulsions, criminal charges, the actual jailing of students for as little as an oped, new campus rules that made criticizing Israel a punishable offense, the banning even of megaphones at demonstrations…and then Neera “wonders” where the protests went. Such a mystery!

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

I've updated the title to better reflect the history: Israel has long attempted to dominate Lebanon, attempts that have mostly ended in failure:

1950s & 1960s: Israel imagined taking over south Lebanon and installing a subservient Maronite regime in the north. That failed.

1970s: Israel repeatedly tried to occupy Lebanese territory in the 1970s to uproot Palestinian armed resistence, failing every time.

1982: Israel succeeded in uprooting Palestinian armed resistence, but in the process created Lebanese armed resistence -- Hezbollah.

1990s: Israel tried and failed multiple times (1993 & 1996) to uproot Hezbollah from the area south of the Litani River.

2006: Israel tried and failed to occupy Lebanon's south. The Pentagon described the war as "a disaster" for the Israeli military.

2024: Israeli forces invaded Lebanon, but failed to occupy & hold much territory due to heavy resistance by Hezbollah forces.

2026: Israeli forces are invading Lebanon, but failing to occupy & hold much territory due to heavy resistance by Hezbollah forces.

[الأخ الكبير @BIG__Brother7]

🔴 PFLP:

🔻We are stronger than death.. and higher than the gallows.

[Chris Menahan 🇺🇸 @infolibnews]

TLDR: Fmr Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, in an article for Bari Weiss' Free Press, says the US should seize Kharg Island.

"Yes, there are risks," Gallant acknowledges. "Any operation to seize Kharg would require thousands of troops, sustained air and naval support, and detailed intelligence, and it would carry a real and expected cost in human life."

Nonetheless, it's a risk he's willing to take (with American soldiers' lives).

[Åsa-Nietzsche @existentiellt]

Markets are finally catching up, this little drop bounced right back

[Greg @GregGrandin]

Listening to Mearsheimer talking about the Lancet’s report that since the early 1970s, US sanctions caused millions of deaths and led to ruin equivalent to the worst war. I suppose I could just google this, but was Cuba the model for this new regime of economic terrorism?

[Daniel Haqiqatjou @Haqiqatjou]

People are worried about Gulf countries "joining the war" against Iran and this turning into a regional conflict.

If the US bases in the Gulf were rendered inoperable by Iran in a matter of days, what do you think will happen to the native forces, which have even less air defense protecting them?

Furthermore, these Gulf countries do not have any weapons that the US hasn't already used against Iran.

In other words, Gulf states joining will not make much of a difference in damaging Iran.

So why is Washington pushing these countries to join? Because that is what Israel wants.

They know that by Gulf countries breaking neutrality, this will only result in a widening of potential targets for Iranian missiles in these Gulf states. Which will only further damage and cripple these countries, benefitting no one other than Israel.

If the Gulf countries were smart, they would have recognized this eventuality decades ago, before the US bases were built on their territory.

The smart move now would be to stop allowing the US and Israel to use their territory against Iran so they can join Iran and collectively turn on the US-Israel parasite in their moment of weakness.

But sadly these slave states never turn on their masters.

[Victims of Capitalism Memorial Foundation @karaokecomputer]

This is why we must get everyone to understand that sanctions are not an “alternative” to war; they are an act of war. Sanctions have killed over 38 million people since 1971. Half of those were children under the age of five.

End the Siege on Cuba!

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Why is the strait closed? Once we figure that out, should be fairly easy to re-open it

[Axolotl Pines 🥛 @AxolotlPines]

@joshipgiirl @hasanthehun How can we trust anything you say when you’re no longer purple but a yellow marine animal now