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[Malcolm Nance @MalcolmNance]

The Iran Deal:

Trump has officialy lost the US-Iran War.

Trump authorized up to $400 Billion to end a war he started.

He signed the instrument of surrender at Versailles palace just like the Germans did in 1919 ... at Versailles palace.

At Hegseth's insistence, America wasted thousands of stealth missiles and advanced air defense weapons only to make the IRGC stronger and give them uncontested control of the Strait of Hormuz and by extension the entire Persian Gulf region.

Obama didn't do any of that.

[Emily Schrader - אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر @emilykschrader]

Who cares that the United States of Qatar capitulated to the Islamic Republic of Iran?

Gas prices are lower.

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

It’s the most destructive and weak American foreign policy in history:

- Surrendering to Taliban
- Surrendering to Iran
- Bending knee to Russia
- Bending knee to China
- Attacking NATO & weakening alliances
- Pretending to end 8 wars & world thinking you lost the 1 you started

[Tomi 🇺🇦🇫🇮🇪🇺 @TallbarFIN]

Germany, US and few others opposed Ukraine having long-range weapons because they feared attacks on Moscow.

Ukraine developed these capabilities itself and is now striking Moscow daily with devastating success.

Did World War III begin?

No.

Its time to force Putin to retreat.

[Bloomberg @business]

NATO will modernize its nuclear capabilities and improve planning, the alliance’s defense ministers said on Thursday https://t.co/ZIArn4SLLd

[Steve Schmidt @SteveSchmidtSES]

Donald Trump is beyond unwell.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

Marco Rubio in 2015 on signing a deal with the Islamic Republic.

[Gazelle غزاله شارمهد @GazelleSharmahd]

Since @SecRubio seams to have taken the vow of silence on the disgraceful MoU, Let’s record his clear stance on a Deal with tha ayatollahs one more time for history.

2015
2026
Same catastrophic consequences

[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

YOU WANTED A WALL, TRUMP? YOU’LL HAVE ONE.
Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, responded to Trump’s threats:
“So you voted to build a wall.
Well then, dear Americans — even if geography isn’t your strong suit, and you see America as a country rather than a continent — you should know that on the other side of that wall stand 7 billion people.
And if the word ‘people’ doesn’t resonate with you, let’s call them ‘consumers.’
Those 7 billion consumers can switch from iPhone to Samsung or Huawei in less than two days.
They can trade Levi’s for Zara or Massimo Dutti, and within six months replace Ford and Chevrolet with Toyota, KIA, Mazda, Honda, Hyundai, Volvo, Subaru, Renault, or BMW — brands that are already more popular in many places.
They can cancel DirecTV.
And even if they choose not to, they can stop watching Hollywood films and turn instead to higher-quality productions from Latin America or Europe — with richer storytelling and better filmmaking.
Believe it or not, people can skip Disney and visit the Xcaret resort in Cancún instead — or explore destinations across Mexico, Canada, or South America.
Even in Mexico, you can find better burgers than McDonald’s — with higher nutritional value.
Have you ever seen pyramids in the United States?
Egypt, Mexico, Peru, Guatemala, and Sudan have ancient wonders — none of them in the U.S.
If they were, Trump would probably have bought and resold them by now.
We know Nike isn’t the only sneaker brand. There’s Adidas — and even Mexican brands like Panama.
We understand economics better than you think.
And we also know that when those 7 billion consumers stop buying American products, unemployment will rise, and your economy — trapped behind its own self-imposed wall — will begin to collapse to the point where you’ll be begging for help.
We didn’t want to do this.
But you wanted a wall?
Well.
You’ve got one.”
Her approval rating has reached a historic level — according to a recent poll, it stands at 85%.

[Tim Preston @TimPreston93673]

Jonathan met King George VI and the future Queen Elizabeth II when they visited St Helena in 1947.

[Handre @Handre]

In 1968, while teenage Red Guards beat their professors to death with clubs in Beijing courtyards, Jean-Paul Sartre sat in Paris calling Mao's Cultural Revolution a model of revolutionary democracy. The most celebrated intellectual in France looked at a country burning its own libraries and saw liberation. He sold the Maoist newspaper La Cause du Peuple on French street corners himself, holding it aloft like a sacrament.

Consider what he was endorsing. Between 1966 and 1976, the Cultural Revolution killed somewhere between 500,000 and two million people. Schools shut down across the entire country. Students dragged teachers onto stages, hung placards around their necks, forced them to kneel on broken glass, then murdered them. The historian Bian Zhongyun, vice-principal of a girls' school in Beijing, died on August 5, 1966, beaten by her own students with nail-studded clubs. Sartre called this the people governing themselves.

You should understand why a man this intelligent got it this wrong. Sartre believed knowledge served power, that truth was whatever the revolution required, that the individual existed to be dissolved into the collective will. So when Mao abolished the distinction between teacher and student, between expert and mob, Sartre cheered. He had spent decades arguing that bourgeois reason was a class weapon. Here was a regime taking him at his word and clubbing the reasoners to death.

This is what economic illiteracy buys you. A university, a price, a contract, and a peasant's grain stockpile all carry knowledge that no central planner can seize or replicate. Mises explained the calculation problem in 1920. Hayek explained dispersed knowledge in 1945. Sartre had access to both and chose the dunce cap of the collective instead, then handed out its propaganda on the Rue de Rennes.

He died in 1980, mourned by 50,000 followers, never having retracted a word about Mao. The professors of Beijing got no such funeral. They got a ditch, and a philosopher in Paris explaining that their murder was freedom.

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Moments before the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami struck Thailand

One of the clearest warning signs of a tsunami is the sea suddenly retreating from the shore. Anyone who sees this should immediately move to higher ground

[rsgie @rsgie1607494]

@oidonhagouda Reminder

[🇯🇵SAIGOU🇯🇵郷田剛士🇯🇵 @oidonhagouda]

A Muslim woman from Indonesia came to Japan on a Specified Skilled Worker visa to work at a farm in Kagoshima.

The farm told her not to wear a hijab while working. Their reason was simple:

“It narrows your field of vision, and with agricultural machinery running, sometimes you can’t hear instructions clearly. While you’re in Japan, it would be better to take it off.”

She refused and later quit. After quitting, she claimed she was treated badly — saying even during a company trip she was told not to wear the hijab, and that the founder’s daughters yelled at her to “stop dawdling” and made her run to the fields.

The farm’s response was straightforward:

“She didn’t even join that company trip. And we never told anyone to run to the fields.”

This is the kind of friction that’s already happening when people who refuse to adapt to basic workplace safety rules are brought in.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Activist: "We're the only animals that drink another species' milk. It's disgusting."

Farmer: "Ever seen a cat with a saucer of cream?"

Activist: "That's because we give it to them."

Farmer: "And an orphan kitten gets raised on goat's milk, a lamb on cow's milk, and a dog will happily nurse a litter of piglets. Cross-species milk drinking happens all over the place. We're just the ones who built a fridge for it."

Activist: "But we do it as adults."

Farmer: "We do everything as adults. We're the only animals that drink wine as adults, drive cars as adults, and pay council tax as adults. None of it is an argument against the next thing."

Activist: "It's still unnatural."

Farmer: "So is the phone you typed that on, the trousers you're in, and the roof over your head. 'No other animal does it' tells you about other animals. It says nothing about us."

Activist: "..."

Farmer: "We're the only animal that does the whole supermarket. Singling out the milk aisle is a strange spot to suddenly go feral."

[Saturn AI 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @Saturn1776]

@DakdaR22 "de" (Lat.) = "via da" means "away from"

[EUvsDisinfo @EUvsDisinfo]

Olga Adolfovna Kiriy, the Russia Today documentary producer behind a multitude of propaganda films portraying Ukraine as a ‘fascist’ state and legitimising Russia’s brutal invasion, has now been added to the EU sanctions list. Propaganda is not journalism, and disinformation has a price.

[WDI.Afghanistan @WDIAfghanistan1]

🔊Instead of inviting the Taliban to international meetings , Taliban leaders should be questioned and held accountable.
By what right have they deprived millions of Afghan women and girls of education, employment, and their most basic human rights?
Please don't forget afghans women 🙏

[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

One day after the U.S. signed a deal with the Islamic Republic، the regime in Iran, handed Parastoo Ahmadi 74 lashes for singing on YouTube.

They call America the Great Satan. And then they flew to the table and signed a deal with the «Devil«. But a woman’s voice scared them more than any superpower ever could.

A regime that whips women for showing their hair and singing, there’s not a normal government.
This is called apartheid against women.