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[thesoprano @doctaevil321]

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[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Scott, let me make something clear for you.

Because you mistake legalism for justice, and treaties for truth.

If Israel, a rogue apartheid state that’s never signed the NPT, sits on a pile of undeclared nuclear warheads with full U.S. backing, then Iran not only can seek nuclear weapons.

It should.

You speak of the NPT as if it’s sacred scripture.

But what good is a treaty that binds the weak and exempts the strong?

What good is "nonproliferation" when it’s enforced at gunpoint by the only nation that’s used nuclear weapons—twice?

America didn’t sign the NPT to keep peace.

It signed it to preserve monopoly.

It didn’t give Israel nukes for stability.

It did it to maintain strategic supremacy.

So don’t come here quoting edicts, agreements, or moral high ground.

There is none.

Not when the U.S. invades Iraq on lies.

Not when Israel flattens Gaza with impunity.

Not when Washington threatens nuclear annihilation while pretending to "defend the rules-based order."

What you’re really saying is simple:

Iran must obey.

Israel may do as it pleases.

That’s not law.

That’s empire.

And history teaches us one thing about empire:

It doesn’t negotiate out of generosity.

It negotiates when it’s forced to.

You say Iran could build a bomb in weeks.

Good.

Because what deters a nuclear strike isn’t a treaty.

It’s retaliation.

You say Trump may strike first with low-yield nukes?

Then Iran has every right to prepare to strike back.

With whatever it must.

You call that destabilizing?

No.

What’s destabilizing is a world where one side gets to bomb, sanction, and blackmail, while the other is told to die politely.

You say you’re not advocating war?

But your entire logic is war’s prelude.

It’s the same cold calculus that justified Hiroshima.

The same doctrine that made genocide "strategic."

I come from Vietnam, Scott.

We know what empire looks like up close.

We know the smell of napalm and the taste of defiance.

And we know this:

You do not get to kill millions, then lecture the survivors on restraint.

So if the U.S. and Israel insist on threatening Iran with nuclear fire?

Then Iran has every right to meet fire with fire.

That’s not escalation.

That’s balance.

That’s how power speaks when justice is denied.

And that’s the only language empire ever truly respects.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

💢NYT: Huckabee aide David Milstein suppressed and rewrote U.S. Embassy reports critical of Israel

➤ David Milstein, 36, a top aide to Ambassador Mike Huckabee, has repeatedly blocked or rewritten embassy actions critical of Israel since arriving in April 2025, according to a dozen people who work with him in Jerusalem and Washington, and 15 U.S. officials interviewed by the New York Times, which also reviewed dozens of cables and memos.

➤ The Times report highlights a late-March memo criticizing Israel’s approval of a record number of settlements in the occupied West Bank, which Milstein reportedly nixed. Milstein also reportedly stymied reporting that Israel was failing to curb settler violence, and authored a cable praising Israel’s “unprecedented new initiatives” under the title “Government Cracks Down on Escalating West Bank Violence.”

➤ Milstein also helped quash a report on the deaths of Palestinian Americans, following a push by lawmakers led by Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen. The report initially found little progress and no charges filed related to the deaths, yet Milstein instead pushed for a letter saying Israel was handling the cases properly, sources said.

➤ As dozens of Palestinians were being killed near aid distribution sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) in the summer of 2025, American diplomats in Israel drafted a cable warning against the GHF distribution system and said it risked more “mass casualty events.” According to the Times, Milstein rewrote the cable to declare GHF’s operation a success while overlooking the mass casualties.

[The Lucky Heron @LuckyHeronSay]

The perfect way to respond to 'What about October 7th?'

[Gaza Genocide Center @GazaGenocideCtr]

"Mama held on for seven days before she died."

Somaia lay beside her mother beneath the rubble of their home in Gaza City for three weeks, and lived to tell it.

Our first testimony from Gaza, now with English subtitles.

[Rabbi Jeff @RabbiJeffx]

Hey @Grok, concise, no spin.

Did an Israeli soldier testify that his unit was 𝗢𝗥𝗗𝗘𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗢 𝗖𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗘𝗟 Gaza-border patrols at 𝟱:𝟮𝟬 𝗔𝗠 on October 7, barely an hour before Hamas attacked?

Yes or no only.

[Kristen Breitweiser @kdbreitweiser]

I want ***ALL*** documents surrounding the FBI, DIA, Pakistani intelligence, CIA, Saudi, UAE, Qatar, and Israel as it relates to the murder of my husband and 3,000 other innocents on the day of 9/11 and let’s let the chips fall where they may.

If any shred points to the U.S. intel agencies on a level of criminal negligence, I want DOJ to extend the statute of limitations for the 3,000 estates of those killed on the day of 9/11 so we can file a federal tort claim under the Federal Tort Claims Act and rightfully recover our loved ones’ lost wages, and pain&suffering damages—we are owed that under the law.

If any scintilla of proof shows Saudi/Pak/UAE/Qatar complicity, I want JASTA to be appropriately amended so as to actually allow 9/11 estates to sue these sovereigns and access their sovereign assets in order to pay the full damages suffered by (and owed to) the 9/11 widows and children.

And if Israel had any hand whatsoever in the 9/11 attacks? If they failed to prevent it, had foreknowledge and failed to share it? Then Israel must be held fully accountable, as well, under the laws of this country—which will be terribly ironic given Israel’s strong hand in crafting so many American terrorism laws and policies so as to be used solely against Israel’s enemies like Hamas and Iran.

Terrorism, Genocide, and Human Rights Abuses brought against innocents must never stand.

25 years later, it’s enough with the cover-ups, use, abuse, and manipulation when it comes to all things 9/11.

No person, entity(ie 3rd party investor/Cayman Island hedge fund), or nation should ever be allowed to profit from murder and terrorism. Period. Full stop.

Release the files, un-redact the key documents/evidence and let’s get on with it.

[Jeremy Loffredo @loffredojeremy]

For those who believe we don’t have organized and coordinated censorship of the press in the United States: a billionaire family that has publicly declared Israel to be its single political issue, and is the single largest donor to Friends of the IDF, is buying up the entirety of the American media so any journalist critical of Israel doesn’t get a job, and any story critical of Israel doesn’t get broadcast.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

I showed @FBIDirectorKash the search warrant they served on @JamesOKeefeIII, dozens of pages fully redacted. James was never charged. DOJ/FBI still hasn’t unredacted it.

The Trump administration won’t prosecute those who weaponized the system, but can’t we at least expose them?

[Andrey X @the_andrey_x]

UPDATE: a second Palestinian has been murdered in the West Bank today during the olive harvest

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Look at the date.

[jasper nathaniel @infinite_jaz]

I’m back in the West Bank to document the olive harvest, which is already shaping up to be even bloodier than last year’s. On my first night, settlers invaded the village where I was staying and torched the car I’d arrived in hours earlier. Link to dispatch in next tweet.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

They came back from Vietnam and made movies about it.

Apocalypse Now. Full Metal Jacket. Platoon. The Deer Hunter. Born on the Fourth of July.

Beautiful films. Serious films.

Films about the trauma of American soldiers, the moral complexity of American soldiers, the broken psyches of American soldiers.

How many major American films center the experience of the Vietnamese?

How many Hollywood productions have you seen where the Vietnamese are the protagonists, the full human beings with names and families and inner lives, and the Americans are the faceless army descending from the sky?

Think about that structure.

Think about what it means when a country kills three million of your people, loses the war, goes home, and then spends the next fifty years producing prestige cinema about how hard the killing was for the killers.

Vietnamese suffering as backdrop. American suffering as subject.

Vietnamese bodies as set dressing. American guilt as narrative arc.

They could not conquer Vietnam militarily.

But they tried to conquer the story.

They tried to make the war, in global cultural memory, fundamentally about them.

Their boys. Their trauma. Their national reckoning.

We are not your reckoning.

We are not your backdrop.

We won.

We exist.

We have our own story, and in our story, we are the ones who were here before you came and here after you left.

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

Iran's social media game is still outstanding

[Deep Leaks @DeepLeaksHQ]

This is insane...

Whitney Webb exposes the history of Palantir.

Palantir started as a DARPA project. It was going to completely destroy our constitutional protections so it was quietly taken out of government and rebranded as a private company to do the EXACT same thing.

[Censored Humans @CensoredHumans]

ISRAELI SOLDIERS TESTIFY: PATROLS ALONG GAZA BORDER WERE ORDERED TO STOP HOURS BEFORE OCT. 7

“We received orders on Oct. 7 to cancel all patrols along the Gaza border from 5:20 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.”

[Mustafa Barghouti @Mustafa_Barghouti @MustafaBarghou1]

Gaza before and after the Genocide

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇵🇸 Israel Exposed, the anonymous collective behind one of the largest online archives of Gaza genocide documentation, has released a map placing more than 35,200 videos and photos at the locations in Gaza where they were filmed.

Every geolocated clip links to its original post and source. Users can filter by area, date and type of attack, and overlay UN satellite damage assessments (UNOSAT). The full dataset is downloadable.

The group launched its archive in July with more than 64,500 videos and 17,900 photos and says more footage will be added.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

⭕️🇺🇸 Nine U.S. service members wounded in the March 1 Iranian drone strike at Port Shuaiba, Kuwait, which killed six troops on the second day of the Iran war, spoke on the record to the Associated Press about what they describe as a medical system that left them fighting for treatment on their own.

Lt. Col. Arturo Lincón, who suffered shrapnel wounds to his jaw, neck, and spine, including a severed vertebral artery, was sent to barracks and told to seek outpatient appointments after Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany did not admit him. Chief Warrant Officer 4 Rodney Bearman said he and others injured in the attacks were not properly registered as “wounded in combat” due to a coding error. Maj. Stephen Ramsbottom said he waited over four months for MRI results and has “had to build my own case for everything.”

Lincón, who still has shrapnel near his spinal cord and struggles with dizziness, told the AP that, following the attacks, in which his passport was destroyed, he was issued a temporary substitute and asked to prove his citizenship in the process (he was born in Texas to Mexican parents and graduated from West Point). He was also denied a Servicemembers’ Group Life Insurance injury claim.

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

Israeli soldiers bound 2 Palestinian children & buried them alive at Nasser Hospital. -Dr. Mark Perlmutter, an eye-witness to the crime.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Simon Andriesz, the whistleblower who exposed links between Epstein & Howard Lutnick, died by suicide.

He was a former senior employee of BGC Partners - a firm founded & run by Lutnick before his appointment by Trump.

British MPs want an investigation.
https://t.co/j3wGdswo31

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

From an Israeli intel official in NAZA:

“I hack into the phone of a 12 year old girl. If a girl calls her mom, ‘Mummy,’ she says, ‘when are you returning home? Daddy just came back.’ That’s a message that would alert the system bc it contains the words ‘return’ and ‘daddy.’”

This builds on @yuval_abraham’s previous reporting on the (incomprehensibly evil) “Where’s Daddy” program the IDF built to learn when fathers were at home with their children so they could kill then all at once (along with anyone else killed in the building during the attack).