négroni

[AJ+ @ajplus]

Watch these two siblings, Mera and Ahed, sing about tea in Gaza.

[Iran Screenshot @iranscreenshot]

Renowned Iranian composer, Ali Ghamsari and tar virtuoso, announced he will stay at the Damavand Combined Cycle Power Plant.

His plan: Create music there as a symbolic effort to shield Iran's infrastructure from attack.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

What did ancient Persia sound like around 1400 BC?

Sarah Parsaei performs on the Arjan harp — a historic instrument with roots going back nearly 3,400 years — in Tehran, Iran.

[Maria Dubovikova @politblogme]

One of the most heartbreaking examples of nonverbal communication to emerge from Iran.
I cannot call this a mere propaganda piece. It is the unbearable truth, laid bare through the profound art of cinematography and animation.

[Andrew Feinstein @andrewfeinstein]

Holocaust Survivor Stephen Kapos

[Borzou Daragahi 🖊🗒 @borzou]

Dear pro-war Iranians,

Look, I don’t like the regime. My entire extended family is Baha’i. I lived in Iran as an adult and saw the rot and repression first hand.

But as a journalist, I also covered Iraq and saw what Americans did to the place. I was in Lebanon when the Israelis were shelling apartment blocks. I witnessed Libya being torn apart after a violent upheaval without any plan. I saw firsthand what happened to Syria when it became a playground for regional and world powers.

These countries won’t recover for 30 years.

You now have a senile gameshow host and an indicted war criminal launching a war against Iran. They killed a school full of children on day one and sent a toxic cloud over Tehran on week one. They are hitting Unesco sites and apartment buildings filled with bewildered civilians and destroying the country’s economy.

They have no plan, or strategy, or internatonal support. Even Americans don’t support the war. Trump and Bibi are gonna smash up a lot of stuff and leave the place a mess, with Khamenei still in charge. Then China will move in and buy up the country cheap, and maybe Russia will get a Persian Gulf base.

None of this will lead to democracy. Trump and Bibi don’t even believe in democracy for their own countries. But it also won’t lead to constitutional monarchy or anything decent or normal.

It will only lead to ruin, blackouts, water outages, poverty, hunger, lawlessness, and despair.

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[Adnan A. Husain @adnanahusain]

AI, last gasp of the patriarchy.

[Ryan Rozbiani @RyanRozbiani]

🇮🇷🇺🇸: Watch as this brave mother in Iran comforts her son as they brace for airstrikes.

These are civilians!

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

WHAT THE HELL ARE WE DOING ‼️???

[Turkish Archives @TurkishArc]

“I want my mom.”

A little Palestinian girl cries, searching for her mother who was killed. Today is International Women’s Day. Some women never made it to see it.🕊️

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

UNICEF’s @1james_elder: “168 girls killed in a school in Iran…When the killing of children doesn’t dominate the news politics, something fundamental has shifted…if a child can be killed and it doesn’t feel like a loss for all of us, then I think we’ve lost more than we realize”

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 Switzerland just declared US-Israeli attacks on Iran a violation of international law.
Switzerland.

The country that hasn’t taken a side in a conflict since 1815.

An elementary school bombed. A boys’ school. Freshwater desalination plants. Oil refineries blanketed in acid rain. A civilian airport destroyed. Scores of children dead.

When your war crimes are so egregious that Switzerland stops being neutral — You have lost the moral authority of the entire world.

Spain said no. The UAE demanded answers. London marched. NYC marched. Switzerland broke 200 years of neutrality.

And Trump is at a golf resort.

🔴 Live updates: https://t.co/YisiMI3CtD

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

US-Israel have hit 20 schools and 10 hospitals and killed 400 children in less than a week, but US media continues to take for granted they only bomb civilians in “error.” As with Gaza, how many civilians do they have to snuff out before we can entertain the idea this is policy?

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨THIS IS INSAAANNEEE: Iranian warship was invited to India’s MILAN 2026 naval exercises. Its sailors marched in a parade. They stood beside American sailors.

Then the US withdrew from the exercise.

Then they torpedoed the ship on its way home.

Then they left the sailors to drown.

Sri Lanka recovered the bodies.

This is not warfare. There is a word for luring a guest into your home and killing them on the way out.

We have video of the IRIS Dena contingent marching in Vishakhapatnam on February 19th. We have the US withdrawal on record. We have 80+ sailors dead and a Sri Lankan navy doing the recovery work America refused to do.

And the American media response has been indifference.

Girls’ schools bombed. Carpet-bombing Tehran floated like a policy option. A Marine’s hand broken for saying no in public.

When cruelty becomes strategy and atrocity becomes routine — the people who stay silent become part of it.

Say their names.

[négroni @negarmusic]

@DoorDash_Help This has happened to me SO many times. Going to cancel my membership. It's actually on past orders and it was getting tiring to explain over chat each time. There should be an email option for help during Covid. No childcare equals no time to be waiting on a chat or phone.

[Letters of Note @LettersOfNote]

@realDonaldTrump Harassed? They thanked him for attending, told the crowd not to boo, and asked for protection. You're a child.

[Rolling Stone @RollingStone]

So long, Leonard Cohen: Rob Sheffield pays tribute to the late legend and charts his many reinventions https://t.co/DTYbBCtXzp

[CBS News @CBSNews]

Muslim teen behind #IStandWithAhmed encourages others to follow their dreams: "Go for it!" http://t.co/hpE5x89pty http://t.co/uV9EymdRFT

[négroni @negarmusic]

@Bar_Ape where are you today?