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ryan kaveh sheldon @oxidentalist.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

just gonna create a recursive spiral of quote—not tweets, I guess, posts? something else?—until you (YOU) send me the submissions I desperately seek 🤣

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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

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Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School

Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.

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ryan kaveh sheldon @oxidentalist.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Logging back in for approximately two minutes to invite submissions for "The (Anti-)Reparative Turn in Eighteenth-Century Studies?" Send me your heaters! (thru the ASECS platform: www.xcdsystem.com/asecs/member...) okay bye

Screenshot of my call for papers ("The Anti-Reparative Turn in Eighteenth-Century Studies?") for ASECS 2027: This panel invites meditations on the affordances and limitations of reparative and anti-reparative reading strategies for the study of eighteenth-century culture. If reparative reading was supposed to show us how, in Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's
memorable phrase, “selves and communities succeed in extracting sustenance from the objects of a culture—even of a culture
whose avowed desire has often been not to sustain them,” Patricia Stuelke asks us to consider, in The Ruse of Repair (2021), how
the reparative "emerged as a consoling mode for responding to state and racial capitalist violence, for accepting such violence as
known or intransigent to the power of critique, enabling the paring back of visions for social transformation." For Avgi
Saketopoulou, repair is the route towards quiescence: it "gives us a sedative politics that lulls us into choosing peace over dignity
and justice," enforcing "austerity logics that persistently caution us to guard what we have, to prioritize our well-being, and to look
out for ourselves." Contributions might seek to offer genealogies of reparative or anti-reparative approaches in eighteenth-century
studies, excavate prehistories of (anti-)reparative reading in the culture of the period, probe internal and external issues of
"method," or explore the uses and liabilities of (anti-)reparative reading in the context of the broad defunding and censorship of
humanistic inquiry in higher ed today. Presentations thinking about the study of eighteenth-century questions of race and empire,
gender, and sexuality in relationship to contemporary imperialism, capitalism, and fascism are especially welcome.

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JP Acosta @acosta32jp.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

The Brandon Beane defensive teambuilding manual:

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Negotiations take time. More than a weekend. You’d almost think they wanted them to fail.

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Andy Hoberek @thathoberekguy.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

If I understand this correctly, Donald Trump has announced that the United States will be blockading the Strait of Hormuz.

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ryan kaveh sheldon @oxidentalist.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Still essential one day and one perilously fragile “ceasefire” later

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 09/04/2026

The Pakistani PM, who was working closely with the U.S. behind the scenes, explicitly wrote that the ceasefire applied to Lebanon and all fronts.

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 09/04/2026

1/ Hours after Iran and the U.S. reached a ceasefire deal, Israel launched one of its most devastating attacks on Lebanon to date. Over a hundred strikes in ten minutes - carnage in Beirut, where hundreds of thousands of displaced people are sheltering. www.cbc.ca/news/world/i...

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Lebanon death toll surpasses 200 after Israel launches assault despite U.S.-Iran ceasefire | CBC News

A wave of Israeli airstrikes swept across Lebanon on Wednesday, leaving at least 112 dead and hundreds wounded, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry.

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Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Tomorrow is the pub day for Buffalo Free Rapid Transit which begins with a poem someone read and loved so hard it led them to buy my previous book, which made them mad b/c it was too politics so what I'm saying is why stand on ceremony? Buy now, money bags! www.blackocean.org/catalog1/buf...

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Buffalo Free Rapid Transit by Joe Hall — Black Ocean

Joe Hall's intense and unsparing Buffalo Free Rapid Transit combines a darkly observant stroll through a crisis-plagued Rust Belt city with a love letter to the people trying to get by within it.

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ryan kaveh sheldon @oxidentalist.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I am genuinely baffled at the historical illiteracy on display here

Screenshot of the following. A senior Republican on the House Armed Services Committee said American “boots on the ground” would be a necessary step in the war against Iran. “I just don’t see any other way,” Representative Pat Fallon, Republican of Texas, who chairs the Military Personnel subcommittee, said in an interview with Fox News. He added: “We can’t leave until the job is done.”

Once U.S. troops are deployed, he asserted, the Iranian “people are going to rise up and the I.R.G.C. is going to melt away,” referring to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, the military force behind the Iranian government. “Then we can see some kind of moderate faction coming out and eventually taking over,” Fallon said.

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ryan kaveh sheldon @oxidentalist.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I will be presenting a completed paper at ASECS in a few days. Many people are saying this, in fact.

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ryan kaveh sheldon @oxidentalist.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

I wonder if anyone has written about this recently…

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

“They said something about never again and then they made close to one million human beings homeless in less than three weeks and they killed or maimed 40,000 of your men and your women and your children”

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

This is a well trued tactic to prepare for the next stage, to say Iranians did not heed our word and failed to remove the government, so they must be happy with the IRI and are guilty by association and so, killing them and pummeling their lives is allowed.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

BREAKING: The US has bombed Tehran’s main refinery and burning oil is now flooding down the streets into the city’s sewers. This is a vision from hell, unleashed by the US tonight. (🎥 Vahid Online)

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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

March 8, 2026 - Tehran at sunrise today. But the sun is hidden behind a sky filled with smoke. After a night of intensive strikes on oil facilities, thick black clouds now hang over the city, turning morning into something that feels like night.

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ryan kaveh sheldon @oxidentalist.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

exceptionally chilling to watch (your) people get poisoned at such scale by the resource that empire has bled them to extract for more than a century

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Oh my god: this is *daytime* in Tehran.

Though it is day, the sun cannot be seen in Tehran today because of all the smoke following the US and Israel bombing Tehran's oil refineries. People on the ground describe it as armageddon.

History will not forgive Reza Pahlavi, Masih Alinejad, Nazanin Boniadi, and all other "leaders" who tricked Iranians into thinking this war would set them free.

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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

People in Tehran are breathing toxic air. Villagers have lost their potable water supply. A school full of girls are dead and buried. All while the Secretary of Defense continually boasts of eliminating restrictive rules of engagement. Hard to ignore the connection.

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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Your tax dollars at work in Iran. Israeli and US military attacked oil facilites in Tehran. Per CNN's Frederik Pleitgen this AM "It is raining oil in Tehran this morning after major airstrikes on oil facilities."

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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

In this article, Salar Mohandesi argues that for leftists in North America and Europe, the most consequential response to Iran’s crisis is not choosing between “campist” and “anti-campist” abstractions, but organizing concretely against US- and Israeli-led imperial intervention and war.

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Organizing in the Heart of Empire

The situation in Iran poses a political challenge for anyone who cares about emancipation. Everyone knows that the single greatest threat to that goal on a global level is the United States and its im...

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Reza H. Akbari @rezahakbari.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

A harrowing image from tonight’s bombing of Tehran’s Mehrabad Airport. This devastating and inhuman assault seeks to violate a nation’s sovereignty, shatter its infrastructure, and pummel its dignity. #Iran

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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

The point of all this is to say that the situation in Iran, as far as “public opinion” goes, does not map easily onto the cultural and social categories immediately available to people in the United States, Iranian or otherwise.

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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Zia‑Ebrahimi’s “dislocative nationalism” helps us make sense of the diaspora/homeland divide. But what about difference within Iran? This is also complex: Iran is not homogenous. There are ethnic and religious minorities. There are profound regional divides. There are class stratifications.

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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

What is conceptually or culturally “available” to an Iranian-American, *especially* for those who came to the U.S. *because* of the revolution, is simply not fungible with the lived political/spiritual/cultural realities of most Iranians currently living in Iran.

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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

This does not change the fact that the Iranian regime, since 1979, has committed heinous crimes against its own population, as I discuss in this article. What is often forgotten is that the previous regime, under the Shah, tortured and disappeared both leftist and Islamist activists and students.

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Casualty and Legitimacy: A Post-1979 Perspective on Iran’s 2026 Mass Violence

Iran’s late 2025 protests, triggered by economic collapse, were met with mass killing and an internet blackout that made casualty verification a central political struggle. This “politics of counti…

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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

When contemporary monarchist or secular‑nationalist diaspora currents idealize the Pahlavi era, affirm Aryan exceptionalism, or depict Islam as an external stain on an otherwise Western‑adjacent nation, they are reactivating this dislocative repertoire refracted through exile & white racial orders.

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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

The Pahlavi state then institutionalized this ideology through schooling + official historiography, making a particular pre‑Islamic nostalgia and racial imaginary central to hegemonic national identity.

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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

He labels this “dislocative nationalism” because it symbolically lifts Iran out of its regional and Islamic embeddedness and ties it instead to an imagined Aryan, quasi‑European civilizational space.

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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Reza Zia‑Ebrahimi’s key claim is that certain Qajar‑era intellectuals (Akhundzadeh, Kermani) articulated a modern, racialized nationalism that casts pre‑Islamic Iran as a golden age, redefines Islam as an alien imposition, & figures Arabs as permanent others.

Cover of Zia-Ebrahimi’s book, “The Emergence of Iranian Nationalism.”

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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

U.S. state structures then amplify those fractions whose narratives dovetail with broader projects of containment/sanctions/regime change, turning certain exile imaginaries into durable lobbying and media forces that can constrain policy at home and politics in the country of origin.

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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Class selection shapes what “home” they remember + which forms of state power appear normal or desirable. This (very often) filters down into the children of Iranian immigrants.

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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

In both cases, the most politically visible diasporic actors are disproportionately drawn from strata that lost property, status, or political position in a revolutionary rupture and that entered the United States through relatively privileged migration channels.

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

This shit has to be outlawed. There's just no way to justify its existence. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Murphy said in an interview he is drafting legislation that would broadly ban prediction-market trades related to government actions, saying they could corrupt public decision-making by allowing military or government officials to profit off secret information.

Polymarket said in August that the president’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., had joined its advisory board, and a handful of recent bets on the administration’s moves have sparked public accusations of insider trading.

The analytics firm Bubblemaps said it found six “suspected insiders” on Polymarket that had made $1.2 million by betting that the U.S. would hit Iran by Feb. 28, the date that Operation Epic Fury began. All of the accounts were made last month and bet exclusively on Iran-strike timing; some of the bets were made within hours of the first explosions in Tehran. One account bet $60,000 and won $560,000.

Murphy said in an online post that the trades indicated “people around Trump are profiting off war and death.” Davis Ingle, a White House spokesman, said on Monday that “the only special interest guiding the Trump administration’s decision-making is the best interest of the American people.”

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Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Tehran today, under Israeli bombardment. According to Iranian monarchists in exile, only regime supporters are killed in these indiscriminate bombings...

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Reza H. Akbari @rezahakbari.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

The brutal, despicable, and grim side of war. The burial of the 150 elementary school girls killed in American-Israeli strikes on #Iran was today.

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ryan kaveh sheldon @oxidentalist.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

“The certainties of the United States’ hegemonic stewardship of the ‘international rules-based order’ have been deformed beyond recognition by the Gaza genocide . . . there is a politics of gangster imperialism that has neither international nor domestic consent.”

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ryan kaveh sheldon @oxidentalist.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

No war on Iran! The US & Israel are pursuing a campaign intended to nullify Iran’s vertical sovereignty and de-develop its economy & infrastructure; they do not care about anything else. The IR is a sclerotic & repressive state; but Iranians alone must choose their form of govt. Bombs free no one.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 09/07/2025

Israel’s military launched its first ground incursions in months into parts of southern Lebanon. Since agreeing to a cease-fire in November, Israel has been conducting near-daily strikes against what it says are Hezbollah targets. Hezbollah has not responded militarily since the truce.

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Israel Launches New Ground Operations in Lebanon Despite Truce

For months, Israel has conducted near-daily strikes against what it says are Hezbollah targets. Hezbollah has not responded militarily since a November truce.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

"Israeli soldiers in Gaza told Haaretz that the army has deliberately fired at Palestinians near aid distribution sites..." www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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IDF soldiers ordered to shoot deliberately at unarmed Gazans waiting for humanitarian aid

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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

if i were a plant i think i’d like to have my leaves spritzed on hot days

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ryan kaveh sheldon @oxidentalist.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Membership in knowledge communities is also restricted according to a racial/civilizational logic: if you’re part of that great exclusion zone known as the global south, your murder can always be retroactively justified as strategically necessary

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 25/06/2025

This would've been a daily stormer thread a decade ago. Neo-nazi conspiracy theories are mainstream now.

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Nvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

ngl I think the idea that feelings don't need to be justified in order to be respected is one of the sicknesses of modern culture

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Bill Clinton please endorse my enemies

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