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It looks like the White House did not have the foresight to refill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Add that to its list of calamities

‘There’s no safe place any more’: inside Tehran under attack – photo essay Photojournalist Stefanie Glinski speaks to Iranian photographer Mohammad Mohsenifar, who has been documenting the attacks on the Iranian capital over the past week

This is very moving. Unfortunately, it looks like Gaza on October 9 2023

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There's no reason for Iran to attack NATO nation Turkey—but a drone did. Iran denies sending it.

There's no reason for Iran to attack a UK base in Cyprus—but a drone did. Iran denies sending it.

Now Azerbaijan has been attacked. Iran denies involvement.

I think this is Israel.

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protestor A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

New from 404 Media: Proton Mail, the privacy-focused email service, gave authorities data that let the FBI unmask an anonymous 'Stop Cop City' protester. It was payment data linked to the anonymous email account. From that, FBI ID'd them, then tracked their movements www.404media.co/proton-mail-...

And look at how the UK reacted. That strike was against British property in Cyprus and should have been treated as an act of war. Same with the attack on Turkey. In fact, Article 5 should have been invoked. But what happened? Nothing. Because no one believes the strikes are real.

Trump has a big property in Azerbaijan, in Baku. You will notice that the attack on Azerbaijan *wasn't* on his property—which you might think Iran would have been interested in—but simply on the country itself. Why? Because that's *enough* to light an additional fire under Trump.

La guerre en Iran dévoile une diplomatie française alignée sur Washington

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BREAKING — The UK is joining in with the US/Israeli/French campaign against independent UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese.

In response to a question from arch Israel lobbyist Luke Akehurst, it says it wants her comments on Israel to be “urgently investigated”.

"It is also possible that the drop-off is a conscious strategy by Iran to conserve weapons for a longer war"

Noem looks like an absolute monster here.

Many Americans hold contradictory opinions on the same policies Our new poll finds question wording can swing opinion by 20+ points on immigration, the budget, and transgender rights. That's a problem for people who use polls to tell politicians what voters want.

Great blog post by @gelliottmorris.com which is backed by decades of academic research. How you ask a question impacts how people answer the question!

This has important consequences for how to think about puic opinion and how to treat opinion polls. Short 🧵

CIA working to arm Kurdish forces to spark uprising in Iran, sources say | CNN Politics The CIA is working to arm Kurdish forces with the aim of fomenting a popular uprising in Iran and the Trump administration has been in active discussions with Iranian opposition groups and Kurdish lea...

The next Forever War is here.

"The CIA is working to arm Kurdish forces with the aim of fomenting a popular uprising in Iran, multiple people familiar with the plan told CNN."

U.S. ambassador to Canada requests apology for Globe and Mail column In a letter to The Globe and Mail, Pete Hoekstra said he was ‘disappointed and outraged’ over Cathal Kelly’s column on U.S. men’s hockey team

The US ambassador to Canada reads the sports pages, I guess. www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/artic...

Glad to see someone else saw what @jeetheer.bsky.social and I were talking about.

The authoritarian capitalist tradition is obsessed w sci-fi and fantasy--in part because they've not read much of any real philosophy. But they love imagining that Heinlein, Rand, Pournelle... were doing philosophy.

Ah yes, said by the extremely famous Star Trek heros, the Borg

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Or The Night Manager.

Insight: "Hamas’s (dead) leader Yahya Sinwar “wanted a regional war on 7 October, but his allies resisted it because they didn’t want it”, said Emile Hokayem ... “Now we have America and Israel triggering that regional war.”

Again, Sinwar won

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz after meeting Trump: “It is indeed the case that at least the American government, according to my level of knowledge and insight today, has no really formulated strategy about the future civil leadership of this country (Iran).

Trump and Netanyahu have been funnelling weapons to Kurdish volunteers in Western Iran for months. They’re expected to begin an armed uprising in days, ITV reports.

“The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating v...

Some questions that no one has asked: Why Kristi Noem put an inexperienced 20-something in charge of terrorist prevention.

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Trump admin evacuation plan: Take a tourist shuttle bus to Egypt and try to get out from there if you can.

The Paraquat Poisoning Problem A former Syngenta scientist calls the failure to heed his warnings about the deadly pesticide paraquat “a conspiracy within the company to keep this quiet.”

And now some good news - Syngenta is stopping making paraquat. www.syngenta.com/media/syngen... @stephanehorel.bsky.social
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