Leila Mansouri

Fiction writer, essayist, Iranian American Early Americanist

[Abier @abierkhatib]

Macklemore didn't need a teleprompter...just saying

[KNEECAP @KNEECAPCEOL]

Some things that Israel offcially PROHIBITS/STOPS entering Gaza: 👇

- Toys
- Wedding Dresses
- Cancer medication
- Nappies
- Babies bottles
- Footballs
- Crutches
- Musical instruments

Why? To inflict a level of dehumanisation and pain that's hard to imagine.

[ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social @arablit]

If you liked: you should try:

[phillys black marxist ☭ @Forever_noir_]

With the knowledge I have as an adult I can 100% say that the way history is taught in American public schools is near complete fan fiction. I used to think it was just that they lied about black history but they lie about…. Everything…in very deliberate ways.

[Nora Barrows-Friedman @norabf]

The head of the health ministry in Gaza saw “Israeli” genocidal monsters kill his son in their displacement tent today

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

I recently spoke to Dr Hussam Abu Safiya's son, Elias. He told me Israel tried to target him 3 times & wounded him, they killed his brother Ibrahim, shot his brother Idrees in the heart, wounded his 2 sisters... all to terrorize his father into submission & bury genocide evidence

[L E F T, PhD ⚫️ @LeftSentThis]

Note:

Enslaved Black folks were legally banned from using drums and other loud instruments throughout American colonies following the Stono Rebellion of 1739.

The law was called the Negro Act of 1740.

[A Left-Wing Account ™️ @PushDemsLeft]

We do 9/11s you've never even heard of to brown people every single day.

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

Correct, the overarching liberal FP orthodoxy is the US slipped on a banana peel and destroyed Vietnam, Iraq and killed 20K+ Palestinian children in a bumbling good faith attempt to “defend democracy.” Does it make sense? No. Is it a necessary fiction to maintain empire? Clearly.

[the thicc husband & father @lukeisamazing]

this was entirely predictable, which is why 1000s of ppl on here and elsewhere said that rising gas prices would trigger intense backlash. people who live in the imperial core will not be moved until it affects them financially or existentially, that’s just historical materialism

[Bruno Maçães @MacaesBruno]

So if tomorrow Claude is used to paralyse a hospital and dozens die are we going to say AI went rogue or is Anthropic going to get a 100 billion class action? I am curious

[Jeet Heer @HeerJeet]

A lot of the market's behavior this year was based on a widespread assumption that of course Trump would wrap up the war before the economy falls off a cliff -- because it would be insane not to. It turns out that assumption was unfounded.

[barry with the NED @bonzerbarry]

WAPO: More U.S. troops have died amid Iran war than Pentagon has disclosed publicly. Officials who spoke with The Post expressed frustration that the additional loss of life in the Middle East is not reflected in the Defense Department’s casualty database.

[I Dissent @DissentFu]

Y'all do realize this is hilarious right?

They want us to revolt. They are doing the exact same thing to America that America tried to do to them.

[Starbucks Workers United @SBWorkersUnited]

ed sheeran 🤝 starbucks and their union-busters

[Robert Barnes @barnes_law]

A country afraid of its populace doesn't do this.

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

imagine if a country launched a tomahawk missile at a elementary school in South Carolina that killed 120 schoolchildren and then it took six and a half months for the international community to say there were “reasonable grounds” of it being a war crime

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: Exxon Mobil has shut down one of the largest diesel refineries in the Midwest, which produces ~11 million gallons of gasoline and diesel fuel per day, due to outage issues.

This comes as diesel prices have already surged nearly 90% this year and the US has entered peak diesel demand season.

We expect to see diesel prices push toward $7.00/gallon.

[Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @DrKarimWafa]

If you support Palestine you must support Sudan. If you support Congo you must support Haiti. And vice versa. Our struggles are connected. They always have been. We’ve always supported one another. It’s just outsiders who constantly try to pit us against each other.

[Barchart @Barchart]

U.S. Dollar share of global foreign currency reserves have fallen to its lowest level this century 🤯📉👀💸