Mr. Bilal Muhammad

just a geek - teacher, books: magazine:

[Mr. Bilal Muhammad @BilalsBoulder]

More brutalist/hellscape architecture a la the Barack Obama Presidential Center. I swear you can jump off of this in Unreal Tournament.

[Joshua Kaye @JoshuaDKaye_]

https://t.co/HMA6e5ZNaT

[Mr. Bilal Muhammad @BilalsBoulder]

@Daniyal64587263 Judging from this drawing of Allamah Al-Majlisi, I don’t think FDR’s look would’ve been considered distinctly Shii in his time

[Mysk 🇨🇦🇩🇪 @mysk_co]

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[شرق‌زده sharghzadeh @sharghzadeh]

Does this explain why the most famous fascist is a gay mexican?

[Mr. Bilal Muhammad @BilalsBoulder]

I have no new passwords left in me

[erika @yeeeerika]

the human spirit was not designed for this many passwords

[Dena (aka Cookie Monster 🍪) @Deanna558517784]

@Acyn

[chonkshonk @chonkshonk1]

Interesting new hadith/Talmud parallel!

An unexpected discovery of a dinar-filled log in the sea.

[Whitney Webb @_whitneywebb]

The idea that this guy is being treated as an authority on Christianity is just absurd. He is re-framing what it means to be Christian for his own ends, and it should be obvious.

This guy worked directly with the CIA and an Iran-Contra criminal to privatize the most Orwellian Bush-era surveillance proposal, creating Palantir in the process, wants to tear down representative government and replace it with a private company run by a CEO/dictator, promotes borgifying humanity and frames it as necessary, and funds and helped create numerous companies that help commit genocide and blow children to smithereens. He embodies the opposite of what are ostensibly Christian values. Let him redefine what it means to be "Christian" at your own risk.

Also, no one would even consider calling this guy "Christian," let alone an authority on it, a few decades ago. But now the PayPal mafia bros largely control the digital realms that now dominate public discourse and have successful bought up a legion of podcasters/influencers, so they can make a large segment of the public believe whatever they want I guess.

In today's world, Emperor Palpatine could also probably successfully frame himself as a well-meaning authority on who and who isn't a baddie.

[Mr. Bilal Muhammad @BilalsBoulder]

@sharghzadeh Europe is right. Car culture is so pedestrian.

[شرق‌زده sharghzadeh @sharghzadeh]

Nothing about car culture is appealing.

Even the supposed joy of driving is a farce.

Cities are stressful, rural areas monotonous.

[Owen Benjamin 🐻 @OwenBenjamin]

Calling nickels Fuentes a Mexican is a compliment. At least Mexicans work. If little nickels saw a rake or a shovel he would assume it was for “butt play.” Then, if an actual man use it for lawn care he would screech “ew grossy gross! You’re all boomer cringe!”
Dirty Nick is more of a boomer than most boomers. Him and Ben Shapiru are the only people under 60 who unironically use the term “conspiracy theorist” as an insult.

[Mysk 🇨🇦🇩🇪 @mysk_co]

We will no longer submit bugs we discover in Apple systems through Apple Bounty Program.

[HatsOff @HatsOffff]

Musk's ex says nearly every MAGA influencer is on a foreign payroll

The online 'Patriots' are just renters with flags

[B.M. @ireallyhateyou]

"Blood and limbs and corpses were strewn everywhere, mixed with the flour and spilled oil. Even for the Red Cross team on the site, fresh from the agonies of the Second World War, this was too much. The team described it as "unbelievable horror.""

No, this is not a description from one of the recent atrocities in Gaza, but rather from the original "flour massacre", 75 years ago:
In January 1949 Israel's so-called "War of Independence" was almost over. The artificially-made "Gaza Strip" was already full of refugees expelled from the territory that became known as "Israel".
In the first days of the year, just before the armistice talks between Israel and Egypt began, the newly-founded Israeli air force launched a series of aerial strikes in the towns of Deir al-Balah, Khan Younis and Rafah. Some of those strikes resulted in the first aerial massacres perpetrated by Zionist forces. The worst one was at the main square in Deir al-Balah, where the Israelis bombed a food distribution center, during peak time, killing more than 100 and up to 250 Palestinian refugees who were queuing for their food rations. These people who were just recently expelled from their homes, were now being murdered by the same people who uprooted them.
The excerpt attached here was taken from a book by Palestinian historian Salman Abu-Sitta, back then an infant refugee, who lost his uncle in the massacre.

For some reason, even though this is one of the largest massacres in the 1947-49 war, it is never talked about, and it's not easy to find info about it. If anyone has good sources of information regarding the incident(s), please share. Also, if you have access to the book about the massacre that came out a few years ago, "نزيف دير البلح - صيف ١٩٤٨", please let me know!