Maybe I’ll write more about Cesar Chavez, but for now, read Dolores Huerta herself on it:

Part of the reasoning behind calls for solidarity is that everything is literally connected. It’s not some woo-woo bullshit that conservatives like to criticize as “intersectionality (derogatory).” Every one of our struggles is intimately and deeply dependent on, or contributing to, other struggles. Dolores Huerta, already under appreciated for her contributions because she’s not a man, keep her abuse and rape a secret because she believed that the toxic masculinity she was subjected to could not be safely excised from the movement she dedicated her life to. Not because she couldn’t do that, but because she didn’t trust that others could understand that distinction with enough nuance.

Billionaires can buy election outcomes. Even if they can’t buy them directly, they can cash in on the outcomes on “prediction market” aka gambling sites using insider information like which candidate AIPAC will ratfuck next or which country the US will illegally bomb tomorrow. All of that money, much of it stolen from workers, legally and illegally, flows not just into political campaigns, but into military contractors and tech companies. Any remaining distinction between the two shrinks with each passing day.

The workers who Huerta spent her life fighting for, sexually harassed by their male supervisors and employers, are snatched off the street by ICE/CBP agents who are masked to avoid any accountability or societal blow back. If they didn’t understand that their participation in a secret terror squad was connected to their social circles and what their children thought of them, why would they feel the need to hide their faces? And let’s be clear, when the smoke clears, we’ll realize that sexual assaults were rampant at ICE concentration camps.

As a country, we regularly start wars because of the economy. In fact the only mistake of the Iraq war according to Trump is that we didn’t take the oil. He’s big mad because Israel is bombing oil and natural gas infrastructure in Iran, the very things that were supposed to make it easy to steal from the Iranian people after our unjust war was “over.”

Ask yourself, what Palestine, Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Minnesota, Iraq, and Dolores Huerta have to do with each other. What do they have to do with you? Neither our democracy, nor many of us, can survive in a capitalist end state. Decisions made by the Epstein class can not be allowed to overrule the democratic will of the people. But right now, Democrats and Republicans continue to trip over one another to serve corporations and CEOs, not voters.

Reading

“History Is Repeating Itself” by CrimethInc

I would have to go back decades to give anything close to a full picture. Israel has been bombing Lebanon for a good part of the past four decades, even if we limit ourselves to starting in 1982. They militarily occupied south Lebanon until 2000, and then bombed Lebanon again in 2006. That was when they developed their notorious Dahieh military doctrine—so called after Beirut’s southern suburbs (Dahieh means “suburb” in Arabic)—which explicitly calls for disproportionate bombing of civilian areas to put pressure on Hezbollah. They bombed Lebanon again in 2023 and especially 2024. Then they signed a “ceasefire” with Hezbollah, which they have violated at least 10,000 times since, according to the UN.

And now they are bombing again.

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This is entirely missing from most of the coverage I’ve seen, which is limited to inhuman geopolitical abstracts. What is happening right now is not just about Hezbollah (which is already unpopular in Lebanon) dragging the country into foreign wars. If this was simply about Hezbollah, Israel wouldn’t be ethnically cleansing entire villages by dynamiting them. Israel wouldn’t be spraying herbicides over large swaths of Lebanon and Syria to kill crops and wildlife in order to make the land unusable for agriculture. Israeli politicians wouldn’t be routinely threatening to bomb Lebanon back to the dark ages, or threatening to turn Dahieh into Gaza, or designating all Lebanese Shias—roughly a third of the population—as a hostile population.

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If the Americans were smarter, they would have understood by now that their problem is Israel. Even if your goal were simply to preserve US supremacy, American support for Israel has been a disaster. They have destroyed the illusion of Gulf security in a matter of days, destabilized the world economy, and proven to every government, once and for all, that the US cannot be trusted. However this ends, we are going to see a realigned world with reduced US influence.

CrimethInc. : "History Is Repeating Itself" : A Lebanese Perspective on the War on Palestine, Lebanon, and Iran

The war that the United States and Israel are waging in the Middle East is not solely directed at Iran. An interview with a Lebanese activist

Israel is ethnically cleansing Lebanon in real time. by Aalia Mauro

Every Israeli government statement in this piece describes Hezbollah using the word “terrorist.” Every IDF communiqué talks about destroying “terrorist infrastructure.” Western wire services reproduce that framing by default, sometimes with attribution, sometimes not.

The word “terrorist” in this context is doing political work, not descriptive work. Hezbollah is a Shi’a political and military organization born directly from Israel’s 1982 invasion and occupation of Lebanon. It holds seats in the Lebanese parliament. It provides social services across a significant portion of the country. It has been, for four decades, the primary armed force resisting Israeli military incursion into Lebanese territory. Whether you support its tactics or not, and there are serious arguments within the Lebanese left and among Palestinian solidarity movements about exactly that, calling it a “terrorist organization” is the West’s preferred method of pre-delegitimizing resistance before destroying it. The same word was applied to the ANC. To the PLO. To the Viet Cong. The word does not describe; it authorizes. So when you see it quoted from Israeli officials in this piece, that’s what it is: authorization language, not analysis.

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That is the sequence. Israel violated the ceasefire for fifteen months. Then the US and Israel killed Iran’s supreme leader. Hezbollah responded. Israel bombed Beirut at 3am and issued evacuation orders for fifty villages. Western coverage starts the clock at the rockets. Everything before it is treated as prehistory — context, if you’re lucky, background noise if you’re not.

Israel is ethnically cleansing Lebanon in real time.

And the Western press is calling it a "security operation."

We are Alive, Tehran is Dying by Nazanin Shahrokni

All of those hours now scatter like dust.

Now Tehran burns.

The city that some members of the diaspora had long called “a ruin already” (خراب‌شده) was never rubble. It was suffocating at times, chaotic, uneven, but stubbornly alive—restless, inventive, full of motion and possibility. War has a way of fulfilling fantasies of destruction that language alone never could. The bombs are doing what rhetoric once claimed. Turning neighborhoods into the ruins others had already imagined.

When you believe something is temporary, you leave. When war becomes a recurring feature of life, you stay. You continue as if everything is normal. You follow routines. It is the continuity of these routines that allows you to live in the middle of war. You want to preserve the semblance of a life untouched by war.

We are Alive, Tehran is Dying - Ajam Media Collective

“Our neighborhood was hit. But we are alive.” I woke up to this message from my friend in Iran. A message like that rearranges the meaning of language. Alive becomes a threshold, a daily confirmation, a fragile accounting. War has a way of fulfilling fantasies of destruction that language alone never could. The bombs are doing what rhetoric once claimed. Turning neighborhoods into the ruins others had already imagined.View Post

Israeli police kill two young Palestinian boys and their parents in West Bank by Emma Graham-Harrison, Sufian Taha

The Bani Odeh family were killed just hours after Israeli settlers shot and killed Amir Moatasem Odeh, 28, in Qusra south of Nablus. The attackers also stabbed his father, Moatasem Awda, who was taken to hospital in serious condition.

There has been a surge of Israeli violence against Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank since Israel and the US launched their war on Iran at the end of February.

Over two weeks Israeli settlers have shot six civilians dead during invasions of Palestinian olive groves, villages and grazing land, and one man died after inhaling military-grade teargas used by the Israeli army.

The attack on the Bani Odeh family brought the number of Palestinians killed to 11. Two brothers survived the shooting. Khaled, 11, the oldest of the siblings, said he had heard his mother crying and his father praying before they died.

After the gunfire stopped, Israeli border police dragged him out of the wreckage, taunted him about the murders of his family and attacked him. One of the Israelis said “we killed dogs”, he told Reuters.

The family had been in the nearby city of Nablus to buy clothes for the upcoming Eid, which marks the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Families often stay up late in a month when adults fast during daylight hours.

Whether or not the war in Iran is a distraction from the Epstein Files, it’s 100% distracting people from paying attention to Palestine. Just as the outright genocide in Gaza has been distracting from the slower, also fatal, ethnic cleansing in the West Bank.

The gunmen were an undercover unit who were not in uniform and were driving a car with Palestinian licence plates, Abu Islam said.

Palestinians in the West Bank have to deal with “Jump Out Boys” just like in Black, occupied neighborhoods in the US. Solidarity with Palestine isn’t antisemitic. It’s an acknowledgment that there is a shared struggle against occupation, against apartheid. Efforts to paint empathy for Palestinians as antisemitism are about the accuser not the accused.

It’s also not a new experience for our state’s Black residents to have unidentified, heavily armed, masked individuals jump out and run at them on the street. Ask any Black resident of Paterson, Newark, Trenton, or Camden about “Jump Out Boys” and they’ll tell you countless stories. Some, like Carl Dorsey in Newark, fatal. Others, like Jajuan Henderson in Trenton, inflicting life changing physical and mental costs. I’m willing to bet you’ve never had to stare down the barrel of guns in the hands of unidentified people screaming contradictory commands at you, because that kind of policing doesn’t occur in your neighborhoods, nor in mine. But state violence, and the chilling effect on those under the threat of it, is not new. But its use against those who have only committed speech or thought crimes is something we believed we’d left behind in earlier dark eras of our history.

Open Letter on Immigrant Trust Act and IHRA by me - 06/2026

Israeli police kill two young Palestinian boys and their parents in West Bank | West Bank | The Guardian

Mother, father and brothers aged five and seven shot in the head as they returned from Ramadan shopping trip

How Israel Used the War in Gaza to Accelerate Settlements in the West Bank by Isaac Chotiner

I wanted to quote basically this entire piece because it makes it so clear that there is no complex or nuanced situation in the West Bank. It’s ethnic cleansing in action, subversion of the Palestinian right to self determination, happening in plain sight. There’s no longer any attempt to spin or explain or hide behind complex statements. They’re saying, and doing, the quiet part out loud. Without the overwhelming violence visited upon Gaza, it’s been rendered less important, less visible by the media and thereby less visible to the world.

I think a lot of what we see now is a continuation and an evolution of what we’ve seen for decades. But there are also parts of what we see now that are more revolutionary than evolutionary. The bottom line is that what we’ve been seeing is an acceleration of annexation at a significant pace, in a context where it is openly stated that the purpose is to bury the possibility of a future Palestinian state beside Israel.

We see the massive acceleration of the policy of ethnic cleansing in the West Bank that goes beyond the forcible transfer of Palestinian communities to Israeli settlers. The goal in the West Bank is to create a homogenous ethnicity in a space that is being cleansed of Palestinians, and to expand the Israeli footprint there. That’s why I call it ethnic cleansing, and I don’t use this term lightly.

We see an attempt at confining the Palestinian population to smaller and smaller patches of land. About fifteen years ago, Israelis launched this campaign called the Battle for Area C. They’re trying to take over the roughly sixty per cent of the West Bank that is designated Area C under the Oslo Accords, and squeeze Palestinians into a hundred and sixty-five enclaves of Area A and B. I think, at this point, we have gone way beyond that. And it’s not just about cleansing Area C; it’s about taking over the entire open space and squeezing Palestinians not just to A and B but to the built-up areas of A and B, to the urban centers. So we’re kind of undoing Oslo.

How Israel Used the War in Gaza to Accelerate Settlements in the West Bank | The New Yorker

The Netanyahu government is pushing expansionist policies, while America looks the other way.

Israel Killed Over a Dozen Lebanese Paramedics in Three Days, Now Claiming That Ambulances Are “Hezbollah” Targets by Lylla Younes

In early October 2025, Lebanese paramedic Haj Qassem Sultan stood outside Marjayoun Government Hospital in southern Lebanon and addressed Lebanese TV.

“Our message is clear. Even if we are killed one by one, we will not abandon our duty,” he said. “We will continue to serve Khiam and Marjayoun and Al-Taybeh and Debbine and all of our sacred land.”

He was attending a memorial for seven of his colleagues who were killed exactly one year earlier in an Israeli airstrike on ambulances parked outside the hospital. Five other paramedics, including Sultan, were wounded in the attack, in what human rights groups said was an apparent war crime.

On Friday, Sultan was killed in another Israeli strike on an Islamic Health Authority (IHA) medical center in Burj Qalaouiyah in southern Lebanon’s Bint Jbeil District. The bombing destroyed the facility, killing 12 people, including on-duty doctors, paramedics, nurses, and three patients.

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A strike on Monday on a house in Kfar Sir, just north of the Litani River killed one person. When an ambulance from the IHA arrived, a second strike killed two paramedics and wounded another, according to the state-run National News Agency. Two more IHA ambulances were targeted on Monday in separate strikes, killing four more paramedics.

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/lebanon-medical-workers-paramedics-israel-targeted-ambulances-hezbollah-islamic-health-authority

Not so diplomatic: Witkoff, Kushner, and Trump’s march to war in Iran by Branko Marcetic

As a result, Iranian officials have reportedly come to view Witkoff and Kushner as not merely incompetent, but as having deliberately misled the president. And it’s not just the Iranians. Even non-Iranian parties involved in the talks reportedly didn’t view Witkoff as an honest broker, and a Gulf diplomat previously complained about Witkoff’s “bogus misrepresentation of himself as a ‘man of peace’” during last year’s talks, which similarly saw the Trump administration attack Iran as negotiations were ongoing.

This perception isn’t helped by the pair’s strong ties to Israel, which has long advocated for war with Iran. Witkoff is known as a staunch supporter of Israel. He counts pro-Israel megadonor Miriam Adelson as a “dear friend” and carries a custom pager gifted to him by Netanyahu and senior Mossad officials, in a reference to an operation in which Israel remotely detonated thousands of pagers that allegedly belonged to Hezbollah officials. During the 2024 presidential campaign, Witkoff fundraised massive amounts of money from pro-Israel donors for Trump after President Joe Biden briefly paused bomb shipments to the country.

Kushner, meanwhile, has been steeped in the pro-Israel community his entire life. He counted Netanyahu as a family friend growing up, with the future Israeli prime minister occasionally borrowing the teenager’s bedroom during visits. Kushner reportedly consulted with Netanyahu officials to pen Trump’s 2016 speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, and he is both friends with hardline pro-Israel figures and has donated money to illegal West Bank settlement-building.

Steve Witkoff, is traveling the world extorting countries and leaving death and destruction in his wake, all while carrying the most cursed Tamagotchi ever in his pocket. It’s probably just a useless hunk of plastic, but it could also be recording/broadcasting everything he’s saying to world leaders as he is effectively the entire State Department under Trump.

Not so diplomatic: Witkoff, Kushner, and Trump’s march to war in Iran | Responsible Statecraft

Reports indicate that two of the president’s key advisers offered misleading advice that helped push the US toward conflict

Jared Kushner Solicits Funds for His Firm While Working as Mideast Envoy by Rob Copeland, Maureen Farrell

In January, Mr. Kushner traveled to Davos, Switzerland, as part of the official U.S. delegation at the World Economic Forum, where he unveiled the Trump administration’s plan for a “New Gaza.”

While at Davos, Kushner also discussed his plans to raise billions in new investments for Affinity in private meetings with international business leaders, two people with knowledge of the conversations said.

“We don’t have to raise capital for the next four years,” Mr. Kushner added.

Jared Kushner represents the end state of capitalism’s death cult with fascism. He supports and lends whatever credibility a nepobaby fail son has to lend to an antisemitic US President (who happens to be his father-in-law) who wants to be king, and an Israeli Prime Minister and war criminal, who has undercut Jewish safety worldwide more than any publicly professed antisemite could dream to accomplish. He’s endangering himself and his family in pursuit of real estate deals and personal enrichment, making him a perfectly devout worshiper at the alter of capitalism.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/business/jared-kushner-affinity-mideast-funds.html