Séamus Malekafzali
@seamus-malekafzali.com
Journalist and writer. Writing about the Middle East at http://seamus-malekafzali.com and about film at http://burntnitrate.com. Email: s.malekafzali@protonmail.com
"The American narrative of having supposedly learned lessons after endless years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan is finally being challenged by brutal reality." - @seamus-malekafzali.com
Thousands of Iranians Who Live on Kharg Island Face Possibility of US Invasion
US media talk about the island’s civilians as if they are a military problem, if they talk about them at all.
truthout.org
Good reminder (if we needed it) that for all the talk of Dubai being a safe haven for business and tourists, the UAE is not a democracy 21 ppl have been charged under UAE cybercrime laws for sharing videos and social media posts relating to recent missile strikes www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
British man charged in Dubai for alleged filming of Iranian missiles
Foreign Office officials are understood to be supporting his family.
bbc.co.uk
every time i'm on camera i notice i'm furrowing my brow to an insane degree. that is my default expression. don't think this is healthy
Crazy video of 20 Tomahawks flying through the Iraqi Kurdish mountains near Sulaymaniyah (filmed by someone standing *above* them), seemingly fired from Navy vessels in the Mediterranean
Carlos Gonzales@mabl2k.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe US Department of Defense said they “had nothing to provide” when asked if they had reached any agreement with Iraq to utilize their airspace for cruise missiles targeting a third country. www.bellingcat.com/news/middle-...
i think you people just actually want a regime change war
had a vivid dream last night about a benjamin netanyahu impersonator on seinfeld that kept showing up in jerry seinfeld's own dreams within the show to torture him as Q from star trek might
Marco Rubio’s claim that Israel dragged Washington into war have prompted familiar questions about the US-Israeli relationship. But the truth, @seamus-malekafzali.com writes, is that the two rogue states are now full partners in impunity: www.equator.org/articles/the...
The Invaders • EQUATOR
The war on Iran reveals that America and Israel have never been so close
equator.org
It’s not disingenuous to point out that the NYT did not run a single front page story of the Minab bombing. You don’t dispute this claim because it’s true. And the story that you reference on your webpage does not attribute blame to US/Israel and frames it as an allegation by “Iranian state media”
NYTimes Communications@nytimespr.bsky.social · 5mo agoThis is a disingenuous attack. In the wake of the strike, we began working to verify videos and images, publishing a detailed report hours later that showed the scale of destruction and children killed in Minab. This story spent 12 hours on our homepage on Sunday. 1/3 www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/w...
If you come to me asking to vote for a Democrat after this, I'm stealing something out of your house
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1015 - Monitoring the Situation feat. Séamus Malekafzali (3/2/26) | Chapo Trap House
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“direct your anger at trump not the democrats” buddy you are severely underestimating the amount of anger i have available to me
Britain and India were united by garments and spices until that Ghandi guy ruined it.
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 5mo agoU.S. and Iran were united by weapons and oil until the 1979 Islamic revolution tore their friendship apart on.wsj.com/46SBHfV
Hilarious editorial today by Amit Segal in Israel Hayom that posits that Khamenei is about to "pull a Hitler" and fire everything the Axis of Resistance has at once, including having a million-man Houthi army invade Israel through Jordan.
Awesome, I said with such pain in my voice it was unclear if it was illness or anguish
Polling USA@usapolling.bsky.social · 5mo agoDemocratic Presidential Polling: Newsom: 20% Buttigieg: 16% Harris: 13% AOC: 9% Shapiro: 7% Beshear: 5% Pritzker: 3% Whitmer: 2% Emerson / Feb 22, 2026
genius strategy by elizabeth warren and company to stand up and clap for trump saying people shouldn't make exorbitant money off of being in congress, setting herself up to be humiliated for being willing to stand up and clap for him, before he immediately went to start attacking somalis
*****LOCAL NYC OBSERVATION, IF NON-NYC, PLEASE IGNORE***** Pedestrian crossings got completely cleared within hours over where I am in Upper Manhattan, when after the last big snowfall a couple weeks back, it took days. Nice to see actual, obvious improvement in a city service.
Why am I seeing Biden admin staffers talking about mid posters
So it's ok to start a war illegally against a nation of 92 million, for whom you have "no sympathy" as long as the purpose is clear? The Big Dem line that Trump is a demented fascist domestically while simultaneously agreeing his foreign policy decisions just isn't gonna cut it anymore.
i've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time
Drew Harwell@drewharwell.com · 6mo agoNew: A comedian set up a fake ICE tip line as a joke. Then 100 calls flooded in: neighbors ratting on neighbors, a teacher reporting a kindergartener. Fans say the viral TikToks revealed deportation's "banality of evil." Conservatives say he should be in prison wapo.st/4kM4qbF
have been listening to ben folds for the first time since i was a teenager and man this is ass
End of January #Israel illegally sprayed herbicide across its borders into #Syria and #Lebanon. Affected communities are concerned over the impacts on agriculture and health. We used satellite imagery to track the 55km long affected area. A thread 🧵1/x paxforpeace.nl/news/israel-...
Saw the trailer for the newest Taylor Sheridan show and had to stop myself from bursting out laughing. Why is Will Arnett here as the brilliant therapist
A perfect and beautiful evocation of the childhood feeling of seeing your friends on the small screen suddenly make it to the big one, going on a grandiose adventure no other kind of screen could possibly hold. Run, don't walk!
IDK but there is a specific thing where people respond to any brief post you make as though it encompasses all of your thoughts on the matter that drives me a little nuts lol
May@xjmay.bsky.social · 6mo agoHas social media had an increase in people who obnoxiously choose the worst possible interpretation of everything people say in recent years or am I just noticing it more as I get older
