From Palestinian-American author Hala Alyan, re-posted from her Substack wall.

in gaza or el fasher or tehran or minneapolis, power repeats the same tools everywhere: surveillance, censorship, raids, checkpoints, dehumanization, executions. it reads the world as inventory: people/land/language are line items to be secured, taxed, weaponized. because it cannot imagine a way to sustain itself without force, it will always remain handcuffed to its own violence. it knows no other vernacular and heeds no other god.