How Bombing A People Is Framed As Liberating Them
Jamal Abdi, president of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC), discusses the propaganda infrastructure that has been built over decades to manufacture public consent for the U.S. bombing of Iran. He outlines a coordinated network of Israeli and Saudi-backed media outlets, Washington think tanks (like the Washington Institute for Near East Peace and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies), and AIPAC-aligned lobbying groups that have systematically worked to present war as “liberation”—including running influence operations targeting the Iranian diaspora to create the false impression of broad Iranian support for regime change via military force.
Abdi details how Israeli intelligence was caught running bot farms and troll networks to boost the profile of Reza Pahlavi (the deposed Shah’s son) as a puppet figurehead, and how Iranian-Americans who oppose the war have faced coordinated intimidation, threats, and silencing campaigns.
He also addresses the political dynamics inside the U.S., noting that only around 25% of the American public supports the war, that the Senate’s War Powers vote fell largely along party lines, and that the conflict is already showing signs of destabilization just days in — with CIA-backed ethnic separatists reportedly being armed and reports of covert operations designed to foment civil war rather than achieve any clean military objective. He draws parallels to the Iraq War propaganda playbook while warning that this conflict may unravel faster, and calls on ordinary people and advocacy organizations to pressure lawmakers before the situation becomes irreversible.
Read Abdi’s piece “Inside the Iran War Industry” for The Nation here.
Mikaeil Mirdoraghi, 3rd Grade
📸 The last photo of Mikaeil Mirdoraghi, a third-grade student killed in the reported U.S./Israeli strike on a primary school in Minab, Iran.
He is waving goodbye to his mother. pic.twitter.com/gbEiZSceeq
— Clash Report (@clashreport) March 5, 2026
The Four Dem Pigs Who Voted For Slaughter In Iran
Four Democrats split from the rest of their party to vote down the War Powers Resolution which would have halted President Donald Trump from continuing strikes against Iran without first gaining Congressional approval.
Much like it was in the Senate the day before, the measure was defeated in the Republican-led House of Representatives Thursday evening with a 212-219 vote.
With voting largely representing party lines, all but two GOP lawmakers moved against the measure—Representatives Thomas Massie of Kentucky, a lead sponsor of the resolution, and Warren Davidson of Ohio.
— Sutherland, Callum. “The Four House Democrats Who Voted against the War Powers Resolution to Rein in Trump on Iran.” TIME, Time, 6 Mar. 2026.
Meta’s Smart Glasses Capture Videos Without Owner Knowledge
The things you record with your AI-powered Meta Ray-Ban glasses — yes, even those intimate moments where you think you’re alone — are probably being seen by strangers.
An investigation by Swedish outlets Svenska Dagbladet and Göteborgs-Posten found that offshore Meta workers in Kenya were asked to analyze intimate and even “disturbing” videos taken by glasses wearers, including videos taken in bathrooms, footage featuring nudity and sexual content, and images showing personal information like bank accounts. It’s part of a process known as data labeling, used to train AI models with footage first reviewed and annotated by humans so that the AI can understand what it’s “looking” at.
Workers told the publication that many of the videos appear to be moments captured when users weren’t aware they were being recorded. The group works under Sama, the same Meta contractor facing a class action lawsuit on behalf of content moderators who allege they have been exploited and forced to review traumatic content without proper working conditions.
— DiBenedetto, Chase. “Meta Workers Forced to Review Intimate Videos Taken by Ray-Ban Smart Glasses.” Mashable, 4 Mar. 2026.
At this point it would probably be safest for people to avoid anything produced by Meta or any audio/video product from Silicon Valley. They have proven time and time again to be untrustworthy, greedy, exploitive, unconcerned with individual privacy, unconcerned with worker protection, contemptuous of user non-consent, servile to power, and lacking any accountability. This behavior demands a boycott or regulation.
Bliss by Tori Amos
Gaza Sunbirds Organize Movie Night For Children In Gaza
A cinema night in a tent, organized by the Gaza Sunbirds, so children in Gaza can feel like kids again. ♥️🍉
Video: @gazasunbirds pic.twitter.com/brdkzH0Zhj
— WearThePeace (@WearThePeaceCo) March 3, 2026
Pearl Forrester & Her Henchmen Have A Chat
You Cannot Hide On The Internet
Burner accounts on social media sites can increasingly be analyzed to identify the pseudonymous users who post to them using AI in research that has far-reaching consequences for privacy on the Internet, researchers said.
The finding, from a recently published research paper, is based on results of experiments correlating specific individuals with accounts or posts across more than one social media platform. The success rate was far greater than existing classical deanonymization work that relied on humans assembling structured data sets suitable for algorithmic matching or manual work by skilled investigators. Recall—that is, how many users were successfully deanonymized—was as high as 68 percent. Precision—meaning the rate of guesses that correctly identify the user—was up to 90 percent.
— Goodin, Dan. “LLMs Can Unmask Pseudonymous Users at Scale with Surprising Accuracy.” Ars Technica, 3 Mar. 2026.
Your weekly remind to always practice Operational Security and keep critical communication offline.
Armageddon Is A U.S. Military Objective
Per journalist Jonathan Larsen a widely shared evangelical ideological framework infects the command level of the United States military and it now drives the Israel/US attack of Iran:
A combat-unit commander told non-commissioned officers at a briefing Monday that the Iran war is part of God’s plan and that Pres. Donald Trump was “anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth,” according to a complaint by a non-commissioned officer.
From Saturday morning through Monday night, more than 110 similar complaints about commanders in every branch of the military had been logged by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF).
The complaints came from more than 40 different units spread across at least 30 military installations, the MRFF told me Monday night.
The MRFF is keeping the complainants anonymous to prevent retribution by the Defense Department. The Pentagon did not immediately respond to my request for comment.
One complainant identified themselves as a non-commissioned officer (NCO) in a unit currently outside the Iran combat zone but in Ready-Support status, deployable at any time. The NCO said they were Christian and emailed the MRFF on behalf of 15 troops, including at least 11 Christians, one Muslim, and one Jew. (Full email printed below.)
The NCO wrote to the MRFF that their commander “urged us to tell our troops that this was ‘all part of God’s divine plan’ and he specifically referenced numerous citations out of the Book of Revelation referring to Armageddon and the imminent return of Jesus Christ.”
Thanks to Trump/Hegseth, the normalization of Christian nationalism within the armed forces also drives command to express their religious enthusiasm about how “bloody” the conflict must become in order to fulfill apocalyptic prophecy. This is not only a violation of the Constitution, but the expression of a theology in which maximum destruction is a desired outcome.
Harrison Ford Receives SAG Life Achievement Award
Reddit, Meta, and Google Voluntarily Gave DHS Info of Anti-ICE Users
Reddit, Meta, and Google voluntarily “complied with some of the requests” for identifying details of users critical of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sent as part of a recent wave of administrative subpoenas the Department of Homeland Security has been distributing to Big Tech the past few months, according to an anonymously sourced New York Times report.
Those three companies, plus Discord, have received “hundreds” of such requests that have come from DHS recently. Meta, it should be noted, is the parent company of Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp.
Administrative subpoenas used for this purpose represent an escalation. This tool, which comes not from a judge but from DHS itself, was formerly reserved for situations like child abductions, according to the Times.
— Pearl, Mike. “Reddit, Meta, and Google Voluntarily Gave DHS Info of Anti-ICE Users, Report Says.” Gizmodo, 15 Feb. 2026.
Your weekly remind to always practice Operational Security and keep critical communication offline.
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Meditations
We are at a moment right now where people are asking themselves why can’t the Democratic Party defend this assault on democracy…and I would submit to you that if you can’t draw the line at genocide, you probably can’t draw the line at democracy.
The U.S. has established itself as the mortal enemy of all people’s government, all scientific-socialist mobilization of consciousness everywhere on the globe, all anti-imperialist activity on earth. The history of this country in the last fifty years and more, the very nature of all its fundamental elements, and its economic, social, political and military mobilization distinguish it as the prototype of the international fascist counterrevolution. The U.S. is the Korean problem, the Vietnamese problem, the problem in the Congo, Angola, Mozambique, the Middle East. It’s the grease in the British and Latin Amerikan guns that operate against the masses of common people.
During the Vietnam War, which lasted longer than any war we’ve ever been in — and which we lost — every respectable artist in this country was against the war. It was like a laser beam. We were all aimed in the same direction. The power of this weapon turns out to be that of a custard pie dropped from a stepladder six feet high.
A civilization that proves incapable of solving the problems it creates is a decadent civilization.
A civilization that chooses to close its eyes to its most crucial problems is a stricken civilization.
A civilization that uses its principles for trickery and deceit is a dying civilization.
