Fascinating work here tracing how the IDF recycled 3D assets from a cyberpunk sci-fi art project, the Scottish Maritime Museum and elsewhere to populate its widely-seen models of supposed enemy locations in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. One of the most infamous, the alleged underground Hamas command center at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, used to justify an unprecedented assault on the biggest medical center in Gaza, was actually an animation the IDF had used the previous year, saying at the time it was a tunnel beneath a UN school.
There’s been so many instances exactly like this: slumlord wants to offload a property, so they call ICE and say they suspect migrant gangs/traffickers/whatever. ICE comes in, humiliates, detains, intimidates, and robs every tenant until the building clears out
@BlockClubCHI "agents forcibly removed all residents from their homes regardless of their legal status."
At 3AM. Zip tied everyone, including naked children thrown into vans.
Not enough people are talking about this. My village and a few others were officially annexed this Saturday, now a part of “Israel,” Palestinians living there no longer have a Palestinian ID number and need a permit to live and travel on their land, and it can be revoked anytime.
don’t think this is the writer’s fault, tbh it smells like a bad press release with a bunch of quotes and details that don’t really add up to much. i doubt wednesday wants people to associate the record with a natural disaster. in music criticism land tho it’s kind of essential
if the best band in america put out a record almost exactly a year after a hurricane destroyed their hometown i might consider writing about that instead of perceived fleetwood mac romantic drama