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[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

Imagine your girl being this frightened. Go on. Imagine it.

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This guy should have stayed a character in Catch 22 or 1984, the simulation must be slipping to have such cartoons leak out into the real world

[amit @amitisinvesting]

PETE HEGSETH:

"We will be hitting Iran hard tonight, they have had their time to negotiate and these attacks are not a restart to the war but to set the terms for the deal."

[Wyatt Reed @wyattreed13]

“We did nothing to provoke this attack by Iran.”

Even in a country where lying is encouraged and those who don’t cheat or mislead others are considered “frayerim” (suckers), this is an absurd fabrication. Let’s recap:

- Iran spent the past week telling Israel it would strike the northern settlements if Dahiyeh was attacked.

- Israel attacked Dahiyeh.

- Iran responded exactly how it said it would.

This obviously wasn’t the first time Iran warned Israel against attacking Lebanon. On April 8th, Tehran said Tel Aviv would “regret” its continued attacks on Lebanon.

Wind the clock back even further, and you’ll recall:

- In April 2024, Israel carried out an unprovoked attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus, killing 16 people, including a Quds Force commander and his deputy.

- In June 2025, Israel sabotaged US-Iran negotiations and started the 12-Day War when in launched sneak attacks on Iran killing dozens of generals and nuclear scientists.

- In February 2026, Israel and the US once again treacherously attacked Iran, interrupting diplomatic talks with decapitation strikes, assassinating the head of state and murdering 120 elementary schoolers.

To any rational observer, all of these are obvious provocations. But for Israelis, who claim they are God’s chosen people and biblically exempt from treating the rest of us as humans, it’s just business as usual.

[Adam Houda @LawyerAdamHouda]

Israel murdered Australian Humanitarian aid worker Zomi Frankcom in cold blood - no action from our government.

Israeli soldiers sexually assaulted and abused Australian activists on board a flotilla - no action from our government.

israelis have been comitting genocide for the last 3 years, slaughtering 10's of 1000's of children in the process - no action from our government.

Someone please tell me: WTF is going on here??? https://t.co/jAUFZE5YCT #IsraelIsATerroristState #FreePalestine #auspol

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It's possible one of the USS Liberty crew members might have gazed upon a Hamas founder's forefather in 1967, which obviously turned this entire ship into Hamas as per modern IDF logic.

If it wasn't for this pre-emptive strike Hamas might have had a navy today!

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

On June 8, 2026, I’ll speak on the floor of the House to honor and memorialize the brave crew of the 🇺🇸 USS Liberty who died and were wounded in an unprovoked attack by 🇮🇱 Israel on June 8, 1967. Catch my speech on @cspan.

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

I'm sorry, I didn't realize Israel had now escalated to the "quadruple tap" where they just keep killing and killing as people try desperately to help the wounded

[💧Mary Kostakidis @MaryKostakidis]

Here is the truth of it and why I cannot understand how anyone can support this.
Gideon Levy, Haaretz, key excerpts:
‘Israel is advancing confidently toward the next phase of the plan: making the entire population of Gaza permanently disabled, injured, sick, hungry, homeless and unemployed.

Once Gaza's population is reduced to a disparate mass without an organized society, without basic services, essential institutions and, of course, without leadership, the complete disintegration of the social fabric will make it easier for Israel to move to the next phase, which it has never relinquished, the phase of expulsion…

Defense Minister Israel Katz wrote on X, "… The voluntary migration plan will also be implemented, all at the proper time and in the proper manner." In other words, the Gazans will be turned into a "herd" that will be easy to transport far away "at the proper time and in the proper manner."..

The "eradication of the Hamas regime" in Gaza isn't aimed at this objective alone. Since Israel has categorically opposed Gaza's governance by any Palestinian body – not the Palestinian Authority, not an international organization, not anything, and is also not willing to govern the Strip itself – the cat is out of the bag: Israel doesn't want any organization to govern in Gaza. It wants 2 million people in tents. It will make their expulsion easier….

The only alternative to Hamas' civilian rule at the moment is anarchy. That chaos is good for Israel and the realization of its plan.

Israeli propaganda can continue to scream that Gaza equals Hamas and that Hamas equals terrorists. That's a lie, of course. Not only is everyone in Gaza not Hamas, but not everyone defined as Hamas is a terrorist. Israel knows full well that tens of thousands of teachers, doctors, police officers and government officials whose salaries come from the Hamas government aren't terrorists. Defining them as such allowed Israel to kill thousands of them, under the label of "terrorists." Traffic cops, accountants and teachers aren't terrorists and cannot be marked for death. Their killing was, and is, a war crime. So, too, journalists carrying Hamas-issued press cards are not terrorists. They might be propagandists, as are many Israeli journalists, but they are not terrorists.

Israel killed two birds with one stone: legitimacy, albeit false, for indiscriminate killing, alongside an additional stage in the realization of its grand plan. No society can function without teachers, doctors, social workers, engineers and clerks, and without a functioning society, it's easy to expel Gaza's residents to the four corners of the earth.

On Thursday the latest episode of "The Tucker Carlson Show" aired, featuring a two-hour interview with Dr. Nick Maynard, an Oxford-educated British surgeon who has volunteered in Gaza for around 17 years, on and off. The atrocities that he described having witnessed were jaw-dropping: corpses in handcuffs, teenage boys who were brought in for surgery after having been shot in the testicles, babies who died of starvation and preemies left in incubators, on IDF orders, when a hospital was evacuated, and found dead a few weeks later…’
Links below

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[Alon Mizrahi @alon_mizrahi]

They are not linking the US and Israeli militaries, they are putting the American military-industrial complex and every defense-related research in the US under the command and supervision of Israel. The US will have no more secrets; everything will be formally in Israel's hands

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

This will ruin your day, perhaps your summer, or even the rest of your life.

But you need to listen to it. You need to know the crimes that are done in your name and with your tax money.

A British surgeon in Gaza testifies that Israeli soldiers used Palestinian children as target practice. One day, they would shoot the children in the testicles, and on other days, in their necks.

They were practicing their shooting on children.

[ThePatrioticBlonde™🇺🇸 @ImBreckWorsham]

We are a nation under siege.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Why the fuck is the blame only confined to Itamar Ben-Gvir"? He is just saying things out loud, explicitly.
The problem is systemic, inherent to an exclusionary system that MUST regard Palestinians (& others) as nonhumans. It is a necessary part of the system.

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

the alternative is that Israel 1) continues forever to oppress and deny indigenous Palestinians basic rights and liberties afforded to Jews; 2) expand their genocide into the West Bank and get rid of indigenous Palestinians completely, or significantly, or; 3) implement another large scale ethnic cleansing campaign to expel them, like they did in 1948 and 1967.

this is Bernie Sanders, a Jewish supremacist, dressed in the rhetoric of progressiveness.

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@ruima What are you using Deepseek v4 through? Anthropic has claude code which despite its costs works really well.

Whats a good app/harness to use deepseek through? @opencode w/Deepseek?

[Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la]

Perhaps the worst pedophilia, rape and sexual abuse scandal in Israeli history is ricking the West Bank settlement movement.

1) A Kan 11 investigation exposed a horrifying network of organized, pedophilic, and sadistic child abuse within the Gush Etzion settler bloc. Five women who did not know each other provided identical testimonies, naming the same perpetrators and locations.

2) Perpetrators carried out organized, multi-perpetrator assaults on young children in synagogues, forests, and cemeteries

3) A local religious leader described the systemic crimes as "Sodom and Gomorrah" and "hell incarnate.” Lead journalist Roni Singer categorized the ring as raw "pedophilic and sadistic abuse."

4) Victim recalled a local rabbi raping her and brainwashing her that "her body does not belong only to her."

5) Rabbis hold absolute power in these tight-knit communities. Perpetrators used this spiritual status to command obedience and silence victims.

6) Community reputation took precedence over safety. Public outcry noted the core failure "is not a lack of complaints... the problem is the silencing, the lack of handling complaints, and zero punishment."

7) The West Bank police district routinely closed files without basic investigation. Because local law enforcement is heavily consumed by geopolitical conflict, severe domestic criminal networks operated unchecked in a lawless blind spot.

The system of rape, abuse and unaccountability Israel has created against Palestinians is also eating the country from within. This is what a truly sick genocidal culture does to itself.

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Tokenomics

[Peter Steinberger 🦞 @steipete]

The latest CodexBar update renders API costs wayyyy nicer. https://t.co/lJ4dxNHwzG

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@_sholtodouglas Speed. Some workloads need speed.

Haiku - too slow and less able than other models in this price range.

Sonnet - same issue plus at this price it really needs to pull its socks up.

So no specifics - just some speedup without a massive price jump.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

78 years ago, 800,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes. Britain made it possible.

Today, Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Britain made it possible.

78 years of the Nakba - and 78 years of British complicity in crimes against the Palestinian people.

[A New Policy @anewpolicyorg]

Hi, Josh Paul here from A New Policy. I've had a lot of very emotional conversations over the last couple of years, but one that has stuck with me was with an elderly Palestinian gentleman who reached out to me after this interview aired.

He said "Thank you for telling that story about the boy who was raped in IDF custody. That happened to me, too, decades ago, and I have been too ashamed to speak to anyone about it until now."

@NickKristof's article in the @NYTimes was a watershed moment in shedding light on this horrific practice, and there must be accountability for all the harm done, including to an old man who was, decades ago, a little boy in IDF custody.

[Alon Mizrahi @alon_mizrahi]

I see that virtually everybody is still mostly wrong about why Israel is bringing up the made up allegations of mass rape on October 7, and, after 2.5 years, it's a little frustrating.

So listen carefully:

This is not historical revisionism.
This is not about the Gaza Holocaust.
This is not general obsessive victimhood.
This is not about malagining Palestinians/Arabs.
This is prefabricated justification for planned mass atrocities.
Israel is preparing mass murder on a huge new scale.

That's why Israel is talking about October 7 again

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

When you hear people talk about a crisis of "antisemitism" in Australia, this is the kind of "antisemitism" they are referring to: