bruceymonkey

[bruceymonkey @bruceymonkey]

You can have vengeance or peace but you can't have both. Hoover to Truman, 1946.

[Nick Sotoudeh @NickSotoudeh]

من امروز و هر روز صدای #زینب_جلالیان هستم تا روز آزادی اش #زینب_جلالیان_را_آزاد_کنید #زن_زندگی_آزادی
#مهسا_امينی‌
#آرمیتا_گراوند
#نیکا_شاکرمی

[Rabbi Poupko @RabbiPoupko]

Gaza hospitals are the only hospitals in the world carrying these unique medical supplies.

Can the free Palestine crowd please explain to me what this was doing in the Shifa hospital 🏥?

What use is it for?

[ℍ@𝕤𝕥𝕚 @Sssccpp]

هر چه بی‌صداتر = شکنجه‌ها بیشتر
جودوکار و عضو تیم ملی، از بهمن‌ماه در بازداشت است. صدای این ورزشکار شریف باشیم.
#امیرمحمد_پیروزی

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Betrayal

Despair

Frustration

Abandoned

The words dominating the messages I'm getting from Iranians in Iran

We have failed them

[Maryam (Bamdad Pirouzi) @BamdadPirouzi]

🆘 🆘 🆘
Two young men are on the verge of execution; please do not remain silent.

#MehdiRanjbar, 20 years old, and #MortezaZamani, 27 years old, were sentenced to death by Islamic Republic terrorists after their arrest on January 8th!
#IranMassacre‌

[Amit Segal @AmitSegal]

I’m no professional, but I think I can spot the signs of a toxic relationship. Threats of violence. Desperately defending the partner’s behavior. Cutting you off from your friends. Draining your resources. Gaslighting. By most of these measures, Vice President JD Vance is in a toxic relationship with the Islamic Republic.

Coming out of the talks in Switzerland yesterday, Vance hailed a “good foundation” for ending the regional war. He claimed Iran had agreed to let the International Atomic Energy Agency back into the country—only for Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei to state flatly that Tehran had not negotiated on its nuclear program and had accepted no new commitments.

Then there's the intimidation. Even as it talked peace, Iran kept a hand on the region’s throat, threatening to shut the Strait of Hormuz in response to Israel’s actions. Trump answered threat with threat, warning Tehran it “won’t even make it back” to its own country if it closed the strait. And when Iran turned the same pressure on the talks themselves—threatening to storm out of the summit over insults from Trump—Vance ran interference, waving it off as mere “social media threats” and insisting all was fine because, after all, they’d kept talking late into the night.

Next comes the lopsided exchange. Yesterday, the US Treasury issued a general license letting Iran freely sell crude oil and petrochemicals through the 60-day negotiation period, while talks continued on releasing frozen assets—a potential economic windfall worth billions. And what did Washington get in return on the nuclear file? According to the Iranians, nothing. Vance even tried to pass off appeasement as boundary-setting, reportedly insisting the freed-up money could only go toward American wheat and soybeans. Iran didn’t bother to counter. Its officials simply made clear they’ll spend their money however they please.

Then there’s the isolation. Iran has maneuvered the US into a Lebanon “deconfliction” mechanism built around Washington, Qatar, Pakistan and Tehran—but not Israel, the country actually being shot at. On its face, that’s a loss for Israel. But Tehran may have overplayed its hand. Unlike Hezbollah, and contrary to Iran’s assumptions, Israel is not a U.S. puppet—and a seat at this table would have been more trap than prize. Inside the mechanism, Israel would face constant, hard-to-refuse pressure to stand down; outside it, those calls are far easier to ignore. An invitation would have forced Israel into an awkward bind: either sign on to a framework stacked against it, or openly reject Trump’s solution. By shutting Israel out, Iran inadvertently spared it that choice.

And throughout, Iran works to pin the blame on Israel, casting the closest U.S. ally as the saboteur out to wreck the deal. Vance seems to be falling for it, explaining away ceasefire violations as the work of rogue commanders: Hezbollah supposedly didn’t mean it.

On the ground, the story is far from Vance’s excuses. Iran is reportedly funneling IRGC officers into southern Lebanese towns to rebuild Hezbollah’s command structure, all while Israel is left blindfolded—forced to pass its messages secondhand through the United States.

As Netanyahu surely understands, when a friend is trapped in a toxic relationship, lecturing them about how awful their partner is rarely works; it only breeds resentment. The best you can do is hope they see it for themselves. And given how brazenly Iran is behaving, I’m growing optimistic that they will.

So all that’s left to say is: JD Vance, I hope you get help.

[Eylon Levy @EylonALevy]

We live in a world where the activists who have hijacked the United Nations can fuel headlines without a shred of evidence, and Israel can publish a 61-point rebuttal that won't change people's minds. It's disinformation warfare.

[ARTEMIS @ARTEMIS546438]

تصاویر جدید روز ۱۸دی از بیمارستان الغدیر جنایت واقعی رو نشون میده

[Jake Wallis Simons @JakeWSimons]

It’s about as independent as Mohammed Deif was from Yahya Sinwar

[Narges 👑👑👑💙🆘 🇮🇷 @shabgahi]

Mohammad Zeighami, an 18-year-old teenager living in #Tehran, was arrested in the winter of 2026 and is now in a very critical condition. His family has recently been informed that he has been charged with the serious crime of Moharebe or war against God and faces a serious and immediate risk of being sentenced to death. Mohammad's family is under the most severe security pressure. Our silence could mean the end of this teenager's life; let's be Mohammad Zeighami's voice.
#IranMassacre‌
@VP
@POTUS

[bruceymonkey @bruceymonkey]

@BjornSjoberg_ Gas prices are not down and interest rates are almost certainly going to go up. So.. why are we surrendering to Iran again?

[Hananya Naftali @HananyaNaftali]

TRAGIC! Michael Moshe Mizrahi was killed during a shooting near a Chabad house in Montreal after police responded to an armed attack in the heart of the Jewish community.

May his memory be a blessing.

[Kamel Amin Thaabet @K_AminThaabet]

Yeah these politicians who declaim so much love for Jews and Judaism and whose central project just happens to be to demonizing AIPAC and working to cut off Israel so it can be destroyed, it’s so refreshing and authentic

[Ahmed Khalifa @_A_khalifa]

The very same regime JD Vance is desperately begging for a deal with 😂

[Department of State @StateDept]

SECRETARY RUBIO: "You can't have the end of hostilities and conflicts in the region as long as Iranian proxies are launching missiles and drones from Iraq, and are participating in terrorism like Hamas did and Hezbollah did."

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

Please meet Darializa Avila Chevalier, the Mamdani-endorsed DSA candidate for Congress:

A self-proclaimed communist born in Florida to Dominican (or Haitian, it’s not clear) immigrant parents, she converted to Islam claiming that Palestine is the most important issue in her life.

Said she uses the American flag as a napkin.

Attended a rally one day after October 7 celebrating the slaughter of Israeli civilians.

Calls white women ‘ugly colonizers.’

Called for the defunding the police and abolishing prisons.

Said not a single deportation, including of criminals, is justified.

Hates the police calling them ‘pigs’, calls U.S. service members war criminals and says the U.S. is a disgrace of a country.

She’s only running in NY because she knows she wouldn’t stand a chance in Florida.

Do you really think someone like this has the best interests of Americans in mind?

[Kamel Amin Thaabet @K_AminThaabet]

Like this

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Iranian officials said they have no plans to allow international inspections of their country’s damaged nuclear facilities, just a day after Vice President JD Vance said Iran had agreed to allow such inspections. https://t.co/ceq7Hga5R3

[Kamel Amin Thaabet @K_AminThaabet]

"You put your right foot in, you take your right foot out, you put your right foot in and you shake it all about.  You do the hokey pokey and you turn yourself around.  That’s what it’s all about." 2/2

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

Watch closely new video showing the U.N. reaction: as courageous former hostage Ilana Gritzewsky confronts October 7th denier Reem al-Salem—by recounting the horrific abuse she suffered from Hamas—the U.N. rapporteur on violence against women sits there stone-faced. No empathy.