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[Aseem @ShinobiKnuckles]

The only way to stay in touch with what’s happening around your topic of interest on Twitter dot com is to block and mute the overzealous “fans” freehandedly.

There’s no question about free speech when you block them from your timeline.

They will continue to spew their garbage.

[Zack Snyder @ZackSnyder]

Excited to announce THE LAST PHOTOGRAPH World Premiere at #TIFF26! Sunday, September 13th at 6:30pm at John Bassett Theatre.

[Dr. Brahma Chellaney @Chellaney]

Revenge in Middle Eastern cultures (both Sunni and Shiite) is deeply embedded. By assassinating Iran’s supreme leader, Trump and Netanyahu have made their regime-change military mission more complicated and challenging.

Ayatollah Khamenei’s killing has created a volatile moment that taps directly into Shiite concepts of martyrdom and resistance. In Shiite political culture, the killing of a supreme leader by foreign forces is immediately filtered through the Ashura narrative — the martyrdom of Imam Hussein at Karbala. What might otherwise have been a leadership decapitation is thus recast as sacred sacrifice.

By declaring 40 days of national mourning and framing Khamenei’s death as shahadat (martyrdom), the regime invokes the principle of mazloumiat — the virtue of being the oppressed party. Mourning becomes mobilization. The blood of the martyr demands justice. Tehran is seeking to transform public grief into a binding “blood debt.” Dissent can now be branded complicity with the killers of the supreme leader.

This dynamic complicates any hope of rapid regime collapse. Rather than weakening the system, decapitation risks militarizing it. After Khamenei’s death, Iran could drift toward a more explicit military theocracy.

Regime change depends on delegitimizing the ruling order in the eyes of its own people. But by unleashing the revenge factor, Trump and Netanyahu have shortsightedly handed Tehran a unifying grievance powerful enough to override internal fractures. Instead of accelerating collapse, the strike risks consolidating the regime.

The outcome in Iran, however, will ultimately hinge on which force proves stronger: the regime’s weaponization of martyrdom or the public’s exhaustion of ideological rule.

[Cyrus Janssen @thecyrusjanssen]

An Iranian man left this comment on my YouTube channel. This is without a doubt the single best explanation of the reality facing Iranian people today👇

"As an Iranian, I can tell you the situation is no longer just political—it's existential. We are trapped between two collapsing structures: one internal, one external. On one hand, we face a deeply dysfunctional government, led by the Supreme Leader and the Islamic Republic’s unelected institutions.

Decades of economic mismanagement, suppression of dissent, and brutal ideological control have alienated multiple generations. No one believes in reform anymore—because every attempt has either been co-opted or crushed. But here's the paradox: We are also terrified of regime collapse—because we've watched the aftermath of Western intervention in countries like Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Afghanistan. Each was promised freedom; each descended into chaos, civil war, or foreign occupation.

So no, we don't trust the U.S. or Israel. Not because we support our regime—but because we know how imperial powers treat ‘liberated’ nations in the Middle East.

Freedom, in their language, often means vacuum, fire, and permanent instability. Right now, many Iranians live with three truths at once: The Islamic Republic is morally and politically bankrupt. The alternatives offered by foreign actors are not liberation—they’re collapse.

A bad government is survivable. No government is not. We are not silent because we agree. We are cautious because we’ve learned—too well—what happens when superpowers decide to "help." In a sentence: Iran is a nation held hostage by its own regime, but haunted by the fate of its neighbors. We are stuck in a house we hate, surrounded by fires we fear more."

[Curiosity @MAstronomers]

If the Milky Way was the size of North America, the Sun would be:

[Netflix @netflix]

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[Sanjeev Sanyal @sanjeevsanyal]

2.9 tonnes of explosives!!! what exactly were they planning?

Of course, we will now be subjected to media reports about how they were all Alfred Nobels in the making and had to become doctors because of discrimination.

[liminal @Liminal1988]

Anxiety doesn't come from thinking about the future.

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

Wait for it.. 😂

[Syed Aleem @aleem_1690]

India targetted the terror camps in which few civilians got killed, and the entire narrative was that Ind are attacking civilians & starting a war.

Pak has been targetting civilian areas 3 days in a row, yet somehow they are the victims.
Nauseating stuff.

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

Pakistan has enjoyed decades of global indulgence, especially from the West, and particularly from the Anglo-Saxon world thanks to historical and geopolitical quirks.

The West therefore bears some culpability for building up Pakistan’s terror industry. The Islamic world is way ahead of the West in recognizing the dangers posed by Pakistan to themselves. China too, despite its master-client relationship has shown signs of uneasiness with the trajectory of the Pakistani state (Chinese workers and engineers have been attacked by terror groups there).

The United States has provided Pakistan with substantial financial aid - nearly $78.3 billion between 1948 and 2016 - making it one of the largest recipients of U.S. assistance.

This insane largesse was meant to promote regional stability and counterterrorism efforts.

The results are plain for all to see. Not only is the region a hotbed of instability. The fact that we found Osama Bin Laden hiding out in Abbottobad, just a stone’s throw away from Pakistani military and government agency HQs, is something out of an absurd comedy sketch.

This is like spending billions in education only to see US students’ reading and math scores plummet. Or increasing healthcare spending only to see chronic disease rates steadily climb while lifespans shrink.

Defence trade between US and Pakistan has been furnished since 9/11 to the tune of $20 billion. We’re talking fighter jets (F-16s), missile frigates and attack helicopters.

Why is our foreign policy like the titanic, unable to change course from its Cold War trajectory?

The calls for equivalency between India and Pakistan once again just glosses over this fact: Pakistani-origin terrorism is a problem not just for India but globally as well, and it is financed and abetted by the state which is financed and abetted by the West.

[Zack Snyder @ZackSnyder]

Happy Birthday to my friend, amazing actor, and greatest Superman of all time. #MoS, #BvS #ZSJL

[Vineet Kaul Watt 🏕🏔⛷ @vineetkaul]

Our house help Sangeeta Didi has taken a chutti for 10 days. I was delighted. You wanna know why ?

She is getting a proper house from Government of India under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY). It is just incredible! 😊😊😊

Now let me come to the cruel part. We also had a home and a proper house. In April 1990, we had to run to save our lives, run at around 4:30-5:00 am in a matador to Lal Chowk and then a KMD Bus to Jammu. My fathers name was on the hit list pasted on a butters shop and then a local mosque.

Our house, our home that we left behind was used as a torture and execution centre by terrorists in Kashmir, within like a year or so.

Since Kashmiris are today blaming Pakistan, I just want to remind myself , them and everyone, that Pakistan did/does what it did/does because Kashmiris allowed and facilitated it. That truth and reality cannot be washed down the Vyeth (Jhelum).

Later on it was occupied by RR and BSF for brief periods and eventually @JmuKmrPolice gave that to @crpfindia to set up a local presence.

Our three houses (two belonging to my uncle who have already passed away) have been occupied since with little of no rent paid. Umpteen requests to every authority to vacate and give back our houses, having been ignored repeatedly, why, because we don't count.

Basically we have been from a HOME to a TENT and then RENT for last 35 years. Sigh!

While I am excited for Sangeeta Didi and made sure she goes and paid her extra to make the trip, I know the REASON why we don't have a pucka house of our own.

First pic - Is when the house was getting made (that is me and my beautiful late mother who passed away in a rented house)
Second pic - When it was used by terrorists
Third pic - When it is destroyed and made into a barrack

#Kashmir #PahalgamTerroristAttack

[🇮🇳 Narayani KamLa 🇮🇳 @kadalcippi]

There are Tamil people living in Pakistan, and their condition is like that of third-class citizens. After a Sri Lankan Tamil vlogger visited Pakistan, met these Tamil Hindus, and made videos about them, guess what the Pakistani government did? They destroyed their only Mariamman temple.

Some naive people from Tamil Nadu will talk about humanity and all sorts of idealistic nonsense for Pakistanis illegally living in India, while Tamils living in Pakistan suffer the worst forms of religious persecution.

And you — the voters — remain unbelievably naïve. Your politicians, especially from Tamil Nadu, will never speak a word about this. To them, you are not people. You are just votes — nothing more.

[David Cohen @DavidBCohen1]

It was the Muslims who demanded the partition to create the Muslim state of Pakistan. Tens of millions of Muslims stayed in India after the partition and their percentage of India’s population has climbed steadily ever since. The percentage of minorities in Pakistan, meanwhile, has plunged to near zero. That reflects the difference in tolerance between the two societies.

[Press Trust of India @PTI_News]

VIDEO | Thane, Maharashtra: Rajshree Akul, sister-in-law of one the Pahalgam terror attack victims Atul Mohahne, says, "I talked to my sister today morning... she told us that the terrorists shot people after asking who all were Hindus? They targeted Hindu tourists. I just appeal the government to give strictest possible punishment to the terrorists infront of everyone, so that no one ever dares to destroy the life of any innocent person."

#PahalgamTerrorAttack

(Full video available on PTI Videos - https://t.co/bIyFWTfmBd)

[IndiaToday @IndiaToday]

“La Ilaha Illallah”: How This Professor Survived the Pahalgam Attack

Debasish Bhattacharyya was caught in the deadly Pahalgam terror attack. He believes he was spared because he recited the Kalima.

#PahalgamAttack #KashmirTerrorAttack #Kalima #Terrorism #ViralStory #MO

[Anshul Saxena @AskAnshul]

1. Terrorists did not kill Debashish Bhattacharya, a professor at Assam University, because he recited the Kalma, so the terrorists thought that he was a Muslim.

2. Terrorists asked Shubham Dwivedi from UP's Kanpur to recite the Kalma. After identifying his religious identity as Hindu, the terrorists shot him dead in front of his wife. He recently got married.

Terrorists in Pahalgam not only asked the names of tourists but also asked them to recite the Kalma, an Islamic declaration of faith, to check their religious identities.

[𝗞𝗮𝗿𝗮 💫 @SnyderVerseFR]

Zack Snyder Breaks Down His Most Iconic Films

00:21 - 300
04:27 - Watchmen
09:49 - Man of Steel
15:32 - Batman v Superman
21:34 - Zack Snyder’s Justice League
29:14 - Dawn of the Dead
30:58 - Rebel Moon 1 & 2