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Foodaism@Foodaism·
Foodaism explores the deep connections between food, faith, and tradition through stories, recipes, and reflections on how we nourish body and spirit. foodaism.substack.com
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Michael Powell@powellAtlantic·
Smotrich and Ben-Gvir have power beyond their numbers in his government, monsters who Netanyahu helped create. A chilling journey into the heart of Israel's vicious right by @gershmg: theatlantic.com/international/…
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Beautifully said.
Greg Scaduto@GregoryScaduto

No. Khamenei knelt. He knelt constantly. He just chose his subjects carefully. He knelt to the logic of theocratic survival, which meant hanging teenagers from cranes for the crime of homosexuality. He knelt to the Revolutionary Guard’s economic racket, allowing them to hollow out the Iranian economy until the rial became wallpaper. He knelt to the principle that a woman’s hair is a national security threat, and when Mahsa Amini died in custody for showing hers, he knelt again, this time to the impulse that says the way to answer grief is with birdshot and batons. During the 2022 uprising, his forces blinded protesters by firing metal pellets into crowds. During the 2025 protests, thousands died while he blamed “external enemies” from behind concrete walls. This is the man who “stood on his own two feet.” The irony Cenk misses, because it would require reading a book, is that this is the oldest trick in the authoritarian playbook. Every tyrant who brutalizes his own people claims the external enemy makes it necessary. Stalin had his capitalist encirclement. Mao had his imperialists. Saddam had Iran, then America, then whoever was convenient. The strongman always “stands tall” against the foreign threat. It’s the domestic population that gets forced to its knees. Khamenei didn’t refuse to bow to Israel out of courage. He needed Israel. The entire architecture of the Islamic Republic required an external Satan to justify internal repression. Every disappeared student, every tortured journalist, every woman beaten for insufficient veiling was, in the regime’s grammar, a soldier in the Zionist conspiracy. Remove Israel from Khamenei’s vocabulary and what remains is a frail cleric with no mandate, ruling a country where the median age is 32 and the majority of the population was born after the revolution and never consented to its terms. What Cenk is actually doing here, whether he knows it or not, is reproducing the regime’s own propaganda framework. The Islamic Republic spent forty-seven years telling its people that their suffering was noble because it served resistance. That poverty was dignity. That isolation was sovereignty. That the boot on your neck was actually holding you upright. Cenk has just restated this in English for an American audience, which is ventriloquism. Here is what courage actually looked like in Iran: it looked like Nika Shakarami, sixteen years old, burning her headscarf in the street before security forces killed her and tried to steal her body. It looked like the women who danced bareheaded on rooftops in Tehran while snipers were deployed below. It looked like the workers who went on strike knowing their families would pay for it. Those people stood on their own two feet. They stood against Khamenei. And tonight, while Cenk types out his eulogy, Iranians are in the streets of Tehran lighting fireworks. They are not mourning a man who stood tall. They are celebrating the fall of the man who made them crawl.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ @RobertMSterling

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@yudapearl Thank you for your calm, ever-factual self Judea.
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Judea Pearl
Judea Pearl@yudapearl·
There's lots of hateful noise out there. First, UCLA has NOT cancelled Bari Weiss. It was Bari's/CBS security team who asked for postponement due to insufficient safety measures. Second, UCLA is still considering inviting Bari to deliver the Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture, in person, at a later date. Let's hope it happens soon.
Stu Smith@thestustustudio

Shame on @UCLA for canceling the Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture featuring Bari Weiss. Code Pink and even Hasan Piker spent weeks pressuring UCLA to pull the plug, and Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evans, who lives in China, was celebrating the cancellation on Instagram this morning.

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@KristinMReid11 @havivrettiggur How does any school — any institution — in 2026 host a talk about israel & not fully prepare for the utter predictability of these disruptions? More paid and trained security or don’t host at all.
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Kristin Reid
Kristin Reid@KristinMReid11·
Antizionist protesters disrupting @havivrettiggur during his talk at Haverford College Sunday. The protester shouting over Haviv then declared to the audience- “You will all burn too.” This hallmark tactic of the antizionist movement of shouting over targeted individuals, especially Jews or Arab voices that don’t fit their narrative, is so very counterintuitive to the goals of any movement trying to grow itself. The affinity for not only shouting over people, but dedicating enormous effort to making it difficult for others to listen either, is extremely telling. As a lifelong activist I know that dialogue is the primary way to grow a movement, unless your movement relies on distortions, lies, and rewritten history, then it serves your interests to intimidate those who speak up and those who are willing to listen. Watch the second part below to see how hard they work to ensure attendees can’t listen. Follow @havivrettiggur if you haven’t, he’s one of the best resources out there. To his credit, his compelling nature intrigued some of these protesters to stay and even ask questions. 👏👏👏
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@ntabrizy Writing as an avid consumer of your work… please keep going.
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Nilo Tabrizy
Nilo Tabrizy@ntabrizy·
I got laid off today with my other talented Posties. It was an amazing ride to do more open source work and keep reporting on Iran. Thank you to my amazing colleagues and editors for making space for some of my favorite work. Please DM if you'd like to work together. Grateful to have reconstructed the Rasht Bazaar incident most recently. wapo.st/4thMtpi
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S Sebag Montefiore
S Sebag Montefiore@simonmontefiore·
The images emerging now from Iran of young people, older people, boys and girls, who were murdered in the last few weeks by the Iranian Islamic dictator, the Islamic Corps of Revolutionary Guards, Basij militia and imported killers from Iraq, are heartbreaking but also enraging. Some depict beautiful people at play, at the gym, dancing, on motorbikes; some makeshift morgues full of bodies; some streetscenes where killers shoot down unarmed protesters; and many show families opening bodybags to find their dead children shot in the head; others discover bodies of protesters wounded then executed in hospital beds and particularly women with uteruses removed or other horrors to conceal brutal rapes... Many are not young but it looks like the slaughter of the best and brightest of Iran Gen Z. Ive tried to repost these here. I dont want us to tire of theses or look away. So many are these images that it is hard to open the images or repost them. I have been contacted by people in Iran (who weirdly read my books in pirated Farsi editions) who manage to come online in various ways and they beg me to keep posting these images and faces and keep talking about them. Embarrassingly they thank me just for doing this! That is why i am writing this now. We must keep going and keep doing so. The numbers killed are astonishing: based on sources within the murderous dictatorship, it may be as many as 36000 were murdered just in the first days of the terror 8/9 January and more later - making it likely that 40,000 is a horribly plausible estimate. This makes this event the most greatest massacre in modern Iranian history by far, the greatest single event slaughter in modern MIddle Eastern history since 1900 - along with the Assad's liquidation of an entire town, site of Islamist insurgents, Hama, in 1982 when around 30,000 were killed. Both of them not taking place in wars but in cold blood - and this Iranian atrocity being far more terrible since none of the protesters were armed. We live in a time of egregious comparisons to the Holocaust when the Holocaust is repellently abused and minimized by cynical cretins - radiohosts, podders, politicians- to criticize anything from vaccination to ICE raids. But here is a comparison that stands in its scale and horror: in size and horror this does resemble the two days of Babi Yar near Kiev in Sept 1941 where 33,000 Jews were killed. It is also worth pointing out that an entire progressive movement arose against the autocracy of the Shah. And his was an autocracy. But in his forty year one reign, only around 3000 people were killed, mainly in the last year before his downfall. This week alone would have murdered in the streets, torturechambers, hospitals of Iran. It is very striking that the UN has barely commented on this; its sec-general has been shamed publically by dissident @AlinejadMasih; many countries have refused to vote against Iran; many of those formerly known as 'progressives' are silent or supporting the regime - incredibly; some famous so-called 'humanitarian' NGOs - many of them organizations i revered since my childhood; hello Amnesty where is your other ball now - are silent. In doing so, they have discredited any claim to humanitarian credentials and exposed themselves. Many Iranians dissidents have asked where are all the 'humanitarian' protesters who filled our streets, where are the righteous actors and other boobies now? It says alot that a comedian @omid9 is still doing more than BBC or Sky to cover this story. There are a plethora of great Iranian writers historians activists on X covering this. The killing is still going on. The tyranny is fatally damaged, it may fall on its own ultimately, it is now even more tainted, more likely metamorphose into an ICRG dictatorship. But history shows declining damaged regiimes can survive for years. Britain - as usual desperately doing a lamely virtuous catchup following more determinated players in foreign policy, sometimes sensible things, othertimes foolish - is i think banning ICRG but when the lumbering EU is ahead of you, we should worry; it should also seize the properties owned by Khamenei family and dynasties; and do more. For now all depends on the US President; depending on the details, a US strike might make its downfall more likely or it might not. What can we do? Not enough but keep posting the pictures for a start....
Leyla@outofken

Sahar Fallah, 25 year old, an English language instructor and the only daughter of her family, was killed in Tehran by the Islamic regime of Iran during a peaceful protest. They will not be forgotten. #IranMassacre #IranRevolution2026

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Foodaism@Foodaism·
And the lack of harborside cafes and restaurants even in the new section is bizarre— could be one of the nicest places to hang in LA. Also Burton chance park is criminally under-used. Really MdR development focused on cars, condos & yachts & everything else is an afterthought. The decades they’ve let Fishermen village languish says it all…
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L.A. Dork@la_dorkout·
Marina del Rey is an odd duck... right by the water but hard to know where to walk. For you Fitbitters, my book tracks an easy 10,000-step circuit that takes in Mothers Beach, Chace Park, a dog park, Fisherman's Village, and food options, all while enjoying the picturesque docks.
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@la_dorkout Had the appetizers and tiki drink. They had a mirrored ball over the dance floor & played big band music.
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L.A. Dork@la_dorkout·
Kelbo's on Pico was a once-popular tiki restaurant whose signage entranced me whenever I passed it on the bus as a young dork. The dude in shorts, guffawing with a top hat, the promise of a Kelbo's Island inside, the trashy chaos. It closed in the '90s. Did anyone ever eat here?
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