New York rock band The Strokes used their set at the second weekend of Coachella (the major annual music festival held in the California desert) to make a pointed political statement against America's history of foreign intervention. While performing their 2016 song "Oblivius," the band played a montage on giant LED screens depicting world leaders whose deaths or removals from power the CIA has been linked to, including Congo's Patrice Lumumba, Chile's Salvador Allende, and Iran's Mohammad Mosaddegh. The set closed with footage referencing the destruction of universities in Iran by US-Israeli airstrikes and the demolition of Gaza's last standing university, with clips of the performance rapidly going viral before at least one was removed from X.