Alex Colston

The tide is turning. Keep going. We will keep going, too.

@oummeno Indeed

@enoughformethx aljazeera.com/amp/opinions/2…

Glad to see this initiative, let’s see how it develops and to what end.

@BigMeanInternet We can argue for fun even tho I agree with all of this

I'm always getting into it with randos on here hoping to get a decent argument. I'll argue with whoever. I am starving.

The quality of critical thinking and reasoning lately is not great. I know we talk about that all the time, but what a bummer. We could really use some good critical thinking and reasoning, with everything that's going on.

Hind Rajab deserved a film that knew her. I reviewed "The Voice of Hind Rajab", the thriller that made Palestinians the agents of their own death. thekeymagazine.com/p/the-voice-of…

people misunderstand the icarus story. the problem was not that he flew too high. it's that the wings were made of beeswax, which offered very little resistance to heating. with modern materials he would have had no problems. we can fly as close to the sun as we want now

“Look at the size of it / Inside and outside lives / Real and unimagined, / Running from the / Desert to the gates / Before the shore.” — Geoffrey G. O’Brien harpers.org/archive/2026/0…

Eid is nearly here, yet so many children in displacement camps across Gaza are struggling to find the joy that is usually associated with this celebratory time. Support: chuffed.org/project/166623… Imagine a combination of your child’s birthday, mixed with New Years celebrations, and a holiday like Christmas mixed in, and this is what Eid Al-Fitr is for Muslim children acrosss the globe. It’s a time for family gatherings, small gifts, new outfits, and welcoming in a new beginning, new hope. Help us bring the magic feeling back to Eid, the assurance of faith, the enjoyment of family, and the celebration of community and resilience. These children need to feel special, need new Eid outfits that will also last the whole year. Donate to our Ramadan & Eid Campaign: chuffed.org/project/166623… Other ways to donate include: paypal.me/mahertali (Paypal option, please make sure to add a message saying "Eid") account.venmo.com/u/Maher-Ali (Venmo option, please make sure to add a message saying "Eid")

The Paris Commune was established on this day 1871. Today, its legacy is carried forward in Venezuela, which officially adopted the goal of building “socialism based on the commune as its basic cell”. This is what the Peace Brigade learned about the communal process:

Today I$rael tried to kill me in a targeted airstrike in southern Lebanon as I was reporting on was the targeting of bridges and the forced displacement of 1 million people, an ethnic cleansing operation on a larger scale than the Nakba I have absolutely no doubt that this was deliberate. Despite claims there were no warnings ahead of the strike and no notifications sent to the Lebanese Army who allowed us to film As we have seen in Gaza they want to silence journalists who document and report their war crimes It is the western powers who provide political and military support for I$rael, arming it to the teeth to carry out genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing here in Lebanon. They are not simply complicit, but active participants and should be held accountable for their actions. But if I$rael thinks today’s strike will silence us and keep us out of the field they are very, very mistaken

@bucephalus424 Final Boss level stagflation

Histories of stagflation and the neoliberal turn are about to get a lot more interesting since there are very good odds we are about to enter the Final Stage of it all

1973, 1979, 2026

Can the U.S. undermine a half-century’s worth of geopolitical maneuvering and capital development to solve the question of global fossil fuel dominance in less than a few months, because of support for another war for Israel? Let’s find out.

History rhymes in quite sublime ways sometimes.

Somewhere someone is furiously drafting a manuscript titled Greased and Oiled: America’s Terminal Energy Crisis, 1973-2026

Generally speaking, we shouldn’t give air to a fascist press agitator with absolutely zero principles.

Just your regular reminder that this dude who keeps engineering apparent “moral scandals” on the left is the same guy who repeatedly said that Israel should have bombed a humanitarian flotilla and regularly calls for the most heinous state violence. Real stand up guy.

Funny enough, there is a real choice of priority here: either you accept the anti-colonial framework of resistance for liberating forms of internationalism, or you embrace a chauvinist reactionary form of imperial nationalism for the U.S. or Israel. Not that complicated.

Never pays to be right first on anything, I’ll say that.

You know, I’ve really loathed the opportunism of left-liberal media personalities who are critical of Israel but who also embrace right-wing narratives for a “strategic alliance.” Just terribly irresponsible and short-sighted and cynical in ways I cannot fathom.