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[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.

[Kiren @SandhuKiren]

@midnite @threadreaderapp unroll

[Kiren @SandhuKiren]

Plague outbreak in Siberia. Great.

[Annie Jacobsen @AnnieJacobsen]

🚨Breaking. There's been a pneumonic plague outbreak at a BSL-3 lab in Siberia, Russia.🚨

"Nearly 200 People Under Observation After Irkutsk Lab Worker Dies From Plague" - Moscow Times

This is fact, and also the inciting incident in my book BIOLOGICAL WAR: A SCENARIO, which is unnerving.

Will post more as I learn more, including from Russian speaking sources🧵
https://t.co/zd4u0iVhHK

[Gart @Gart_io]

🚨 UK warning: fake police calls are hitting people 3–4 times a week. Caller ID shows a genuine police number because it's spoofed.

They know your full name and home address. They're calm, confident, well spoken and sound exactly like officers.

The script: "We're investigating, we've found your financial information, we need to verify some details." Ask for a badge number and they'll give one. But it's fake.

Red flags:

"Don't tell friends or family, it could compromise the operation"
"This call is being recorded" when you push back
Questions about crypto accounts and bank details.

Refuse and it turns sinister. One person was threatened with armed police sent to their home on a hoax report. They had to call 999. Being scam-aware doesn't make you immune. The pressure is real.

What to do? >>>

[Kiren @SandhuKiren]

RIP. Not followed the story much but seemed this man was hounded beyond what he could take. Awful.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 BREAKING: Jason Arday has been found dead at an address in Battersea

[Kiren @SandhuKiren]

@MindHacked01 @AmericanALCHMY

[Kiren @SandhuKiren]

@BROKENBRITAIN0 It’s bad if you live in London basically.

[Rt Hon. Will || Portfolio for Sarcasm (parody) @colder_sarcasm]

Nigel Farage: "I'm going to ignore the wishes of Henry Nowak's family and extract every ounce of political capital from their son's death".

Nigel Farage: "Leave my family alone"

[Kiren @SandhuKiren]

Clacton….you could do something…really bloody brilliant here…

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 BREAKING: Labour says it won't stand against Nigel Farage in the Clacton by-election

As it stands, only Count Binface will run against Farage

[Tory Fibs @ToryFibs]

Nigel Farage knows Parliamentary Standards Watchdog are going to find against him.

• He’s trying to subvert investigation with this sideshow.

• Parties should refuse to field candidates and let investigation take its course.

That, or field a unity anti-sleaze candidate.

[Ben 🇬🇧 @BenInRushcliffe]

All this in two years. @Keir_Starmer.

Feel free to share.

[Kiren @SandhuKiren]

@Hayles_101 Enjoy, first couple episodes are a bit slow but it gets going and may end up being the best thing you’ve ever watched.

[Kiren @SandhuKiren]

@Graham__Hancock Be well!

[Sai Ishaya @Sai_Ishaya_]

It's absolutely baffling to see the backlash against this announcement.

Imagine complaining that the UK is securing a multi-billion-pound private investment.

Let's look at the actual numbers: taxpayers are funding £1.3bn for local roads & a new rail station. In return, Universal is spending £5 billion to build the park and another £1 billion operating it.

Bedford(& the UK) gets 28,000 total jobs, a massive revitalization of a former industrial site, & a projected £50 billion economic boost.

The sheer cynicism around projects like this is exactly what holds the UK back. If we treat massive, job-creating investments as something to be outraged about, we only guarantee our own economic stagnation.

[Kiren @SandhuKiren]

Farage is a sickening excuse of a human being, who has shown with this question in PMQ’s today that he will take any and every opportunity to sow division in our country and create hatred between us all in order to gain power. This should (but probably won’t) be the end of him.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 WATCH: Nigel Farage is repeatedly heckled by MPs as he calls on Keir Starmer to end "two-tier policing"

Starmer: "His response has been to appeal for rage. That’s his response to a father who lost his son & asked for this not to happen... it shows exactly who he is"

#PMQs

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A farmer dies in April 2026.

His son inherits the farm. The farm has been in the family since 1847.

The farm consists of: 300 acres of grazing pasture, a farmhouse built in 1892, a barn, a milking parlour, two tractors of varying ages, a Land Rover that runs about 70% of the time, and a herd of 180 Hereford-cross cattle.

On paper, the farm is worth approximately £3.2 million. This is because land near him has been bought recently by a London hedge fund looking for carbon credits, which has dragged the comparable value of every field within forty miles upward to a number nobody local can justify.

In cash, the farm produces a profit of about £28,000 a year in a good year. In a bad year it loses money. The son also works as a fencing contractor three days a week to keep the operation viable.

The inheritance tax bill on a £3.2 million estate, even at the reduced 20% rate, comes to approximately £140,000 after the increased threshold is applied. The son does not have £140,000. The son has never had £140,000. The son has £4,200 in his current account and an overdraft.

The son sells 60 acres to a developer to pay the tax. The developer puts solar panels on the 60 acres. The remaining herd cannot be sustained on the reduced land. The herd is sold. The barn becomes a holiday let.

A different family eats Brazilian beef this Christmas without knowing why the price went up.

The Treasury collects £140,000.

The land never produces British food again.

[Kiren @SandhuKiren]

This is so fucking sad

[Raising Healthy Families @thriving__kids]

Lazy parenting is resulting in kids being addicted to junk food & screens

[Sky Sports Premier League @SkySportsPL]

"That was one of the worst I've seen" 😬

Michael Carrick says the decision to send Lisandro Martínez off was 'shocking' 😡

[Kiren @SandhuKiren]

@planert41 Yeah, completely normal bud.

[Kiren @SandhuKiren]

Fucking mental

[Jamie Kay @TheRealJamieKay]

£300 a year just for driving 10,000 miles.
Pay-per-mile tax from 2028.

Drive to work? Pay.
Visit family? Pay.
Live outside a big city? Pay more.

Another “targeted” policy that hits ordinary people hardest.