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Claiming their mind was solely occupied by the hope of curling up in a ball and sleeping as long as they were allowed, the entire U.S. populace told reporters Thursday they lacked the strength to form an opinion on Donald Glover’s casting as the voice of Yoshi in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. “At some point, in ideal conditions, maybe I would be able to cobble together some feelings about Donald Glover playing a digital dinosaur, but right now I’m tired—very, very tired,” said Wisconsin resident Gina Logan, echoing the sentiment of 340 million Americans who felt themselves getting physically weaker at the mere thought of issuing a judgment on whether the Atlanta creator had the right experience and energy to faithfully represent the iconic video game character.

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Today's mass funeral for 168 children murdered by U.S.-Israeli bombing of a girls' school in Minab, Iran.

Gaza is under siege, and the price of staples has climbed tremendously. Community kitchens have been forced to close due to lack of supplies, and have been unable to afford to replenish their stocks.

Gaza Soup Kitchen is a grassroots organization that uses money from global donors to feed thousands of people every day. Their most recent campaign was to provide food parcels for Ramadan, and they are going to struggle to keep people fed in the midst of this new, horrifying war.

looking at khamenei as an individual "evil man in power" in isolation is a part of the broader liberal narrative that emphasizes trump the individual bad actor over america the project, netanyahu the individual bad actor over israel the project, and in this case, khamenei the individual bad actor over the islamic republic, the project

but while the previous two are settler colonial projects, the latter is the product of a century of external domination by great powers and incorporation into world capitalism, a century of power struggles between a wide array of social groups and classes (peasants, workers, bazaar merchants, clerics, nationalists, royalists, constitutionalists, islamists, socialists, communists, etc) culminating in a popular movement against a brutal monarchy (that you agree shouldn't come back!) while this does not unequivocally justify any and all violence of the ensuing bourgeois nationalist state, said violence warrants understanding in the broader context of colonial violence that shaped the constraints under which irans political evolution was allowed to unfold.

reducing the violence to "evil" perpetuated by one man in particular is a key piece of the regime change narrative that led to his assassination, itself an act of colonial violence! the claim is doing that political work whether or not its paired with a denunciation of said violence. we certainly shouldnt be repeating it while that violence is still escalating, and certainly not in the west. it is enough to just denounce the intervention