Roverchicken (bEtA-sChIzO)🐔

I’m deeply grateful for your words. I will always stand for humanity before politics. If I had any courage, it came from witnessing the strength of ordinary Iranians in Iran who continue to endure, love, hope, and survive despite everything around them - beyond the headlines. They are the real story.

What a great Saturday. Can’t wait for tomorrow !! The big Day 🏆

This. The infighting among Palestine supporters is insane. The division between left and right is harmful. Attempts to besmirch anyone with mainstream success or makes compromises is harmful. The Zionists are still destroying Palestine. Until we stop them, we must unite.

How is the world ok with this? How are liberals in the US and the UK who pretend Israel is a democratic ally?

Twitter still won't let me follow any more accounts which must be linked to me not tweeting for a long time but it's annoying because I've had a long phase of not tweeting but always still read the other tweets so I'm trying to get verified to see if that helps!

None of this is about antisemitism. It’s about Jews losing our treasured status as victims. For generations we convinced the world that we have suffered more than anyone else and that our pain should be respected. We took advantage of this and used it to excuse the worst crimes imaginable. Now no one wants to listen to our sob stories. That is our fault. It has nothing to do with antisemitism.

Allah made it so you can say 'La ilaha illallah' without moving your lips. It allows you to silently remember God anywhere, at work, while commuting, or in public - without anyone noticing. This is an immense mercy. When a person is nearing the end of their life and may lack the physical energy to move their jaw or lips, they can still declare, "There is no deity worthy of worship except Allah."

בגלל שהנאשם שרוצה להיות רודן חסם אותי, אגיב לסרטון המטורלל שלו כאן - ראש ממשלה שערב החג בוחר להוציא קמפיין נגד העם שלו הוא אדם לא כשיר ובטח לא של ישראל. ורק שאלה, גם ההסתה הזאת ממומנת על ידי קטאר?

Israeli strikes on Gaza City on May 15 killed at least seven Palestinians, including three children, and wounded more than 50 others, including 20 children, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. “Every day we die, and no one feels our pain. By God, all those who failed us will be held accountable on the Day of Judgment,” a witness screams.

My tribute to my dad, who passed away last month in the UK. He was a proud Indian immigrant *and* a proud British citizen. His life story is one long rebuttal to the nativists, bigots and xenophobes.

Twitter won't let me follow more people so I need to start being more active with my tweets again! Anyone want to talk to me? 🤔😜

Need to start tweeting again as Twitter is blocking me from following new accounts! 🤦‍♂️

למה יום ירושלים הפך להיות יום ״דתיים תוקפים ערבים בירושלים״? מזעזע ועצוב. ירושלים עיר מולדתי שינתה את פניה. תודה לפעילי עומדים ביחד ופעילים נוספים שהגיעו לנוכחות מגינה ולסולידריות מול האלימות הגזענית והלאומנית, ולעיתונאים הנהדרים (של הארץ ואחרים) שמתעדים ומדווחים, תוך סיכון אישי.

מאות אלפי אנשים מתמודדים נפשית, וזה לא הופך אותם לאנשים פחות טובים או פחות מוכשרים. רק מי שמלא בשנאה יכול להפוך את זה לקרדום פוליטי לחפור בו או לנושא ללעג. עצוב שזה מה שנשאר לסילמן ודומיה לדבר עליו, בהיעדר הישגים כלשהם. קרן, את מלכה ❤️

You will see a lot of talk about Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf is the new "strongman" in Iran. These stories are being planted by the Trump administration as an attempt to create a negotiating partner they think will be more forthcoming in the way they did with Delcy Rodriguez in Venezuela. But don't fall for it. He does not appear to have his own powerbase or his own distinct foreign policy. This is all very artificial. He remains strictly constrained by the IRGC, which is running the country in practice.

النازحين هني ناس مرتبين و معلمين و مهمين و أخلاقن عالية. و هني مواطنين اضطرّوا يتركوا بيوتن بسبب الحرب، و يستأجروا إذا قادرين أو يروحوا ع مراكز الإيواء إذا ما عندن قدرات مادية. علمًا إنه أغلبن اللي من الجنوب أو الضاحية أو بعلبك، إذا بتفوتوا ع بيته بتستحوا من كرمه، لا و بيصير يعزمك عالنومة حتى لو كان بيته أوضة وحدة. ولاد عالم هيدول بيستحقوا كل الاحترام و التقدير. الله يرجع كل إنسان ع بيته قريبًا.

Here's what a few hours in the life of Lebanon's National Lifeline for Suicide Prevention (1564) sound like during #war time: - A 23-year-old displaced mother from South Lebanon (Khyem) calling from inside a car in Saida (now known as the transit city) - where she is living with her 3 young children because shelters are full. - An 88-year-old man displaced from Southern #Beirut calling to ask for basic assistance - A young man calling from Southern Beirut, currently under attack, calling because he and his mother had nowhere safe to go. - Another caller described feeling “مخنوق” — suffocated by the density, the noise, the uncertainty created by war. And in the middle of all of this: - A 16-year-old girl who attempted suicide - A 23-year-old struggling with addiction after a suicide attempt yesterday - A mother with cancer caring for a child with epilepsy while seeking help for her suicidal daughter - A man who was about to end his life with shattered glass before picking up the phone This is the daily reality of answering Lebanon’s National Lifeline (1564), where every call reflects the collision of our crises: war, displacement, poverty, chronic illness, addiction, and the silent toll on mental health. In contexts like #Lebanon, a crisis hotline is much more than an emotional support line. It becomes a first point of access to the entire health and social protection system. In a single shift today, our team provided: - suicide intervention and safety planning - emotional support during acute distress - referrals for psychiatric care and medication - shelter and humanitarian assistance referrals - support for displaced families - guidance for parents responding to suicide attempts - connection to emergency services and NGOs Behind each call is a trained responder, a volunteer, holding space for someone who may have nowhere else to turn, while silently living many of the same struggles themselves. In times of war, mental health emergencies do not pause. They multiply, and set the stage for the long term psychological consequences that follow conflict. Lebanon’s National Lifeline continues to operate 24/7, responding to hundreds of calls each month from people facing the most difficult moments of their lives. Every call our volunteers answer, is a proof of why this Lifeline is essential to our national infrastructure, and must be protected and sustained.

Iran today is not merely defending its “regime” or nuclear program. It is fighting for its survival as a state. It now faces a full-throttled, US- Israeli assault targeting its military, political, and civilian infrastructure. This war is the culmination of a decades-long strategy of state destruction already seen in Iraq, Libya, and Syria, preceded by years of economic warfare, sabotage, assassinations, and internal destabilization. If Iran survives this without capitulating to US demands designed to dismantle its strategic autonomy and sovereignty (such as halting all nuclear enrichment and retreating from its regional role) it will mark a decisive departure from that model. It will reassert sovereign statehood in the Global South and offer a strategic template for resisting externally engineered state collapse.

If you want to understand Iran: Imagine if Trump were permanently the president of Iran and held a coalition of traditional Catholics, nationalists, white supremacists, etc. Basically, various strands of conservatives that don't always get along. Trump has the hard job of keeping them together. Now imagine if Canada and Mexico were actually very strong and rich, and America was poor and isolated, and the UK was hell-bent on removing America's government. Now imagine if the incel trad catholics of America were given free rein to patrol women by Trump, and they did so with impunity for decades. Then, eventually, one of the cases of brutality was so bad that it led to a national uproar, which basically wiped away whatever confidence was left in the Trump administration. That's kind of where we're at.

Secular Iranian identity is a spent force, no matter how much they try to shoehorn it. They've had five decades in the freest, most open societies, and they are wealthy and educated. In this time, they have not created an alternative vision for Iran or even a real institution.