A perfect visualization of the enshittification of Google search. linkedin.com/feed/update/urn…

I have come to despise the word ceasefire. How can we act like anything has changed? Only because Beirut has stopped being carpet bombed? In what dictionary does it say that a ceasefire includes the constant killing of our medics, journos, and people? The destruction of homes?

There was a marathon in Gaza today with almost 2000 people participating. Look at the smile on the face of the runner in his wheelchair 🥹

Sure plutocrats are killing our biosphere, but hey, at least they’re creating technology that lets you avoid the cognitive discomfort of writing your own words and thinking your own thoughts. Sure the empire is butchering human beings at horrifying scale around the world, but on the bright side it’s creating refugees who will move to your country and bring you treats that you can order from an app on your phone. Sure imperialist extraction is robbing the resources and exploiting the workers of the global south at extortionate fees, but on the other hand you get to wear a new outfit every day because the clothes you ordered online are dirt cheap thanks to transcontinental slave labor. Sure our rulers are rapidly caging us in a digital surveillance network of ever-increasing intrusiveness and control, but golly gosh they just keep gifting us all these nifty free social media platforms that we simply cannot stop ourselves from scrolling through for some reason. Sure capitalism is driving us toward collapse on multiple fronts while everyone gets sicker, poorer, dumber, crazier, and more miserable, but hey look, McDonald’s is bringing back the McRib. Sure it’s only a matter of time until we find ourselves policed by armed robots and facial recognition murder drones and praying the government AI doesn’t shut off our digital money because our eyes lingered a bit too long on an anti-Israel meme, but at least we can have fun placing Polymarket bets on the next country the United States is going to bomb. They take so very, very much, and we trade it away for so very, very little. They steal our wealth, strangle our ecosystem and incinerate our future, and in return they give us bread and circuses that are just affordable enough to stop us from chopping off heads. They exhaust us, abuse us, indoctrinate us, distract us, desensitize us, confuse us, overload us, misinform us and gaslight us, and in exchange we get a hundred overpriced streaming services to choose from and a thousand types of toothpaste. They’re making our world worse and worse, and they’re making us worse as individuals, too. They’re poisoning our minds and darkening our hearts. Killing our conscience and amputating our empathy. It sucks to live in the shadow of the empire. There’s nothing natural or healthy about this dystopia. And they’re getting it practically for free. A little propaganda, a sprinkling of mindless entertainment and a few treats, and we give them a whole planet to rape. They’re getting all the most vital parts of our world and all the most sacred parts of ourselves for a song. We can’t keep letting them do this to us. We’ve got to wake up. Sometimes saying this feels as futile as imploring a loved one to leave their cult or break up with their abusive partner for the ten thousandth time. But that is what needs to happen. And people do leave cults. People do exit abusive relationships. It only happens when they’re ready, and it’s got to come from them — but it does happen. Here’s hoping we find some way to leave our abusive relationship with the empire before it’s too late.

Just to be clear to friends asking: There is NO cease-fire, not in Lebanon, not in Gaza. Israel is imposing its usual “you cease-we fire”, and the outcome is daily raids, bulldozed villages, burned fields, and continued savage occupation.

Mapped the IDF's newly declared "Forward Defense Zone" in south Lebanon. Its maritime boundary fully absorbs Lebanon's Qana gas field, whose exploration rights were explicitly guaranteed under the 2022 US-brokered maritime border agreement. More maps in this thread 🧵

Lebanon is asked to surrender, drop all weapons, and have a weak army with no aerial defense, in return for “peace” with a Zionist expansionist regime that made it clear it wants to occupy and settle in all of the Levant. This is not negotiation, this is subjugation.

I don’t know if anyone will even care about what I’m saying now but the truth is harsher than any person can imagine. A large number of children in Gaza are being born with shocking deformities: open spine defects, severe heart abnormalities, missing limbs, deformed heads, and faces that look as if they were burned inside the womb. They come into the world already marked by the war before they even take their first breath. Mothers have been inhaling rocket gases and toxic smoke for months, drinking water contaminated with explosives residue, and living on soil saturated with toxins. I saw photos and videos myself of children in extremely difficult conditions unbearable to look at. Babies screaming in pain during their first hours of life, their tiny bodies horribly deformed. Doctors say they have never seen such cases in their entire lives, and they warn: “These deformities are unprecedented and will increase because of the pollution.” Here, we don’t just suffer from hunger and epidemics we are giving birth to an entire broken generation from the moment they are born. We live inside a giant prison, deprived of medicine, clean food, electricity, and even the basic right to have healthy children.

“i start with the recognition that we are at war…” - Toni Cade Bambara (interviewed by Claudia Tate)

In disbelief, again, about the brutality of Israel’s attacks in Lebanon today- but what is not to believe after Gaza’s genocide and continued impunity. This new/old world order on steroids will not benefit anyone.

Massacre in Beirut! مجزرة في بيروت.

RT @GhassanAbuSitt1: The situation in Lebanon is at its most dangerous. The Israeli public see massacres as a military victory. Netanyahu n…

Apocalyptic scenes in Lebanon’s capital right now. Israel has launched 100 airstrikes on Lebanon in 10 minutes. Striking South Lebanon, Beirut and the Bekaa Valley simultaneously. This isn’t a ceasefire. It’s mass bombardment of civilian areas.

RT @roqchams: There is a collective local awareness shaped by fifteen months of uninterrupted violence, during which more than 300 Lebanese…

Friends asking why we’ve stopped tweeting from Beirut. We are still here, watching with horror- but what’s left to say when power belongs to thugs, propped up by an AI-fueled war machine with zero ethics?

Only deeply sick societies spend obscene amounts on chains, cages, walls, and all-seeing cameras as opposed to stuff that fosters beauty, joy, health, people who can think, and a natural world capable of sustaining it all.

As the negotiations over DHS budget continue, please remember: the ICE detention budget alone was exploded in 2025 so it is now 62% greater than the entire Bureau of Prisons. People are not clocking what this infusion of cash to build concentration camps will do to our society.

With all the documents from the Epstein files— it really becomes much clearer why current policy-makers have a tendency to force themselves on other nations. It’s rape culture. We’re literally witnessing a world run by pedophiles and rapists and it’s reflected in global policy. They just keep forcing themselves on people and finding ways to distort it, justify it, get away with it by sheer force and war mongering.

How beautiful the night is without bombing, gunfire, or shells. How beautiful Gaza is without war. We deserve a life like the rest of the world. Alhamdulillah.