Human chain in Iran!

Right now, today, thousands of Iranians are forming human chains around their nation's power plants, bridges and other infrastructure in a campaign called "Human Chain of Iranian Youth for a Bright Tomorrow," standing arm in arm against a threat they didn't start and didn't deserve. trump warned that "a whole civilization will die tonight" if Iran doesn't meet his deadline to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, while ordinary people, teachers, students, and athletes place their bodies between their country's lights and American bombs. There are no words adequate for the sorrow of watching this. None. These are human beings trying to protect their hospitals, their water treatment plants, their children's ability to turn on a light. And the man threatening all of it told reporters he's "not at all" concerned about committing war crimes. Amnesty International's secretary general said she was running out of language to denounce and condemn, warning that Iranian civilians will be the first to suffer from the destruction of power plants and bridges. And the sad truth is that even if 8pm comes and goes without a strike, the damage is already done. The world watched us threaten to extinguish a civilization's lights and do nothing to stop the man holding the switch. That stain doesn't wash out. It doesn't matter which party you voted for or didn't vote for, which outrage you retweeted or which hearing you half-watched. We all live here. The shame is collective, and history will not be generous in sorting out who did enough and who just watched. This didn't materialize from nowhere. It is the result of ten years of America failing to hold trump accountable, a decade of Republicans normalizing him, enabling him, or going silent when silence became its own form of permission. The media that both-sidesed his most dangerous impulses, the senators who voted to acquit him, the Democrats who hedged and triangulated when the moment demanded moral clarity. Every institution that chose access over accountability helped build the runway for this moment.