Nathan Hepner

I have no clue what's going on.

[S @Shirink_13]

Reminder.

[Ariana Jasmine @arianajasmine__]

So according to Tucker Carlson, who is extremely well sourced on the Trump administration, Trump is planning on dropping an atomic bomb on Iran in 7 days.

If Trump launches a nuclear attack, this will end the world as we know it.

This will be one of the biggest crimes against humanity and Trump will go down as the biggest mistake in American history.

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

Under pressure from Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Trump administration may be within days of launching a nuclear strike on Iran. The target would be Pickax Mountain in central Iran, where Israeli intelligence claims the Iranian government has restarted its nuclear enrichment program. No conventional weapon in the American arsenal can penetrate 300 feet of solid granite to destroy the tunnels where enrichment is supposedly taking place. The only military option is a nuclear strike. Netanyahu has been pushing hard for one. “Bibi calls Trump about it every day,” says an informed observer.

Netanyahu is cornered and desperate. After last week’s election results, he can’t form a government unless Trump intervenes directly in Israeli politics and brokers a deal with other parties that gives Netanyahu 61 seats in the Knesset. Otherwise, he is out as prime minister and on his way to ignominy, investigations and possibly jail. Netanyahu must stay close to Trump. He needs this war.

To that end, he’s applied maximum pressure to his closest allies in the administration, including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and CENTCOM commander Brad Cooper. Both oppose a negotiated settlement to the war they’ve so grievously mismanaged; both are pushing to restart major combat operations. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and CIA director John Ratcliffe are also following Netanyahu’s lead, as are leaders of the Democratic Party. In a recent meeting on the subject, former president Barack Obama said he opposes the current Iran peace deal being drafted in Doha.

The rest of America’s longtime allies in the Middle East are terrified by the prospect of more war. On September 27th, Netanyahu flew secretly to Abu Dhabi to enlist the UAE in his lobbying effort for a final attack on Iran. The Emiratis refused. After eight months of conflict, Gulf economies are teetering. So are global energy and fertilizer markets. They won’t recover soon. Globally, there are a total of about 850 supertankers used to transport oil from producers to the rest of the world. In October alone, 11 of them were badly damaged in Hormuz. At this pace, a global depression is imminent. A nuclear strike would radically accelerate the destruction. Fallout from a ground explosion at Pickax Mountain would contaminate the Persian Gulf, poisoning the water supply for 100 million people.

And those are just some of the immediate consequences for the region. The rest of the world is every bit as exposed. No country other than the United States has ever used a nuclear weapon in war. Some would like to. An American nuclear attack on Iran would set a new precedent. The Russians have already told at least two other governments that an American nuclear strike on Iran would free them to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine. Pakistan and India would be tempted to do the same against each other, as would North Korea against Seoul. After the first nuclear strike, World War Three is inevitable. That war would be short and final.

We’ve been sleepwalking toward this moment for months. Since February, the administration has quietly rewritten America’s nuclear doctrine to make first use of so-called “battlefield nukes” easier and therefore more likely. No one in Washington in either party seems bothered by this. Now we’re on the brink of it.

Close observers say Trump is likely to decide by next weekend whether or not to use nuclear weapons. That would be November 7, six days from now. To his credit, he’s hesitating. At the moment, Trump is listening to his vice president, JD Vance, and to his envoy and friend Steve Witkoff, both of whom argue a deal with Iran can be made.

They’re right, though it won’t be simple. The Iranians are famously frustrating to negotiate with under any circumstances, and elements of that government have become more radical since Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his family were killed in February. After decades of isolation, even relatively moderate Iranian leaders seem confused by how decisions are made in the West. (There is a widespread belief in Tehran, for example, that the United States government controls Israel.) But overall, people who have spoken to decision-makers in Iran say there is consensus there that more war is bad for everyone and a deal is worth making.

One group that hasn’t been consulted so far is the global population — the hundreds of millions of people who will be killed along with their children if Trump is pushed by Netanyahu into launching a nuclear strike next week. Now would be the time for them to speak up.

[Vance Murphy @vancemurphy]

If Trump launches a nuclear attack, this will end the world as we know it. Along with collapsing global markets. And putting the homeland at risk.

Trump will go down as the biggest mistake in American history.

[The Halfway Post @HalfwayPost]

BREAKING: A reporter asked Donald Trump, “Since you’re accusing Abdul El-Sayed of being in the Muslim Brotherhood because of his mom, does that mean you’re in the KKK because your dad got arrested at a Klan rally?” to which Trump stared for a few seconds, frowned, and said, “No."

[Machine Pun Kelly 🇺🇦 @KellyScaletta]

When they searched Ilhan Omar's house, they seized her passport.

That means she has a passport.

To receive a passport, she would have to show her Certificate of Naturalization.

If she has a certificate of naturalization, she was a naturalized citizen.

This ain't hard.

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

A U.S. congressman wants to change how we legally “own” video games.

Rep. Ritchie Torres has announced plans to introduce the Power To The Players Act, a bill that would direct the FTC to create rules protecting consumers who buy video games.

The proposal would give players three basic rights:

>The right to own the games they purchase, rather than simply receiving a revocable license
>The right to keep playing games after online servers are shut down, through an offline mode
>The right to transfer or resell games they own

Torres argues that if a company can take a game away simply by shutting down its servers, then the consumer didn’t really buy the game in the first place.

Torres also hopes the legislation could eventually establish a precedent for ownership rights across other parts of the digital economy:

“If you pay for it, you own it.”

[. @preposterousbbg]

Wait. So a woman in the military was raped by her commanding officer, because he used his key to sneak into her quarters, and a judge just decided that being raped was "one of her duties" and declared it a workplace accident??????????
Who the fuck is this judge? How does one even come to that conclusion??

[The Halfway Post @HalfwayPost]

BREAKING: Executives at Twitter and Facebook are reportedly struggling to explain how accepting millions of dollars from Russian operatives to flood their platforms with propaganda bots pitting Americans against each other to destabilize American society isn’t "textbook treason."

[Marcus d’Osint 🎒🕊️ @WarFrontIntel]

Not suspicious at all.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

As of today, one man, billionaire Trump ally David Ellison, controls:

CBS
CNN
HBO
Discovery Channel
BET
Fandango
MTV
Nickelodeon
Paramount+
PlutoTV
Showtime
TBS
The CW
TNT
Warner Bros.
& more

Call it what it is: oligarchy.

[🍄 @AngryAFMario]

I’m old enough to remember when we thought Isis was barbaric for filming execution videos.

Now the extremist terrorists are running the United States.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.

[jezz @JezziiB]

Remember it was Trump that called for the destruction of 2 American cities.
Not Mamdani. Not El-Sayed.
Not any Muslim.
Trump.
A white, billionaire, rapist, pedophile.

[gianmarco @GianmarcoSoresi]

Btw this is infinitely worse than saying “America deserved 9/11”

[Michael Young @SuiGeneris24601]

That's treason. Actual treason. Not "treasonous," but actual treason.

[Lynne @_ayandamay]

Of course…. Gal Gadot continues to prove that she’s a Zionist piece of shit.

[Israel Exposed @xIsraelExposedx]

'The Israelis are worse than the Nazis, at least the Nazis has the decency to try and hide what they are doing. The Israelis boast about it. It's demonically evil.'

- Jewish actor Wallace Shawn doesn't mince words.

ft @kthalps @KatieHalperShow