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[Caleb Johnson @CalebJohnson50]

@AnthonyAdragna @JenGriffinFNC Why do you people always leave this out. It means NOTHING. ⬇️
Even if a war powers resolution is approved by both chambers, it faces an all-but-certain presidential veto. The measure currently lacks the two-thirds support in both chambers needed to override a veto.

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@Heminator @jbarro yes, those things were real firetraps

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@AmnestyIran . um, what they're calling wartime conditions are wartime conditions.

[Prof Zenkus @anthonyzenkus]

Graduating students at the City College of New York called out former Biden UN Ambassador Linda Greenfield for being complicit in the genocide of the Palestinian people and her response is "Thank you for reminding me of what was probably one of the most difficult periods of my career".

Linda, darling it's not about your career. And if you think it was difficult for you, you might want to compare notes with the Palestinian parents who had to carry the remaining parts of their children in plastic bags.

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@AKMcKeever doubt it costs much

[The Military Watch @MarcinRogowsk14]

On 30 May 2026, a retired Russian Naval Aviation Tu-142MR was destroyed in a Ukrainian OWA UAV attack on Taganrog-South Airfield, Rostov Oblast, Russia. It has been stored at Taganrog at least since early 2010s, probably even longer. In May 2026 it was moved to the current spot.

[Aron Lund @aronlund]

Israel’s arms industry is doing fine, despite or because of it all, reports @APNews’s @sammednick. https://t.co/AMFLHDKFPQ

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@pronounced_kyle @bl45kc4t when satellites play a major role in killing you or your opponents, it's gone there already. naïve to find this surprising.

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@WeirdMedieval @keewa "whom" :)

[Qalaat Al Mudiq @QalaatAlMudiq]

#Syria: Turki Bouhamad, founder of the "Tribal Forces", was also directly involved in besieging E. #Aleppo districts.

His men fought in Bani Zaid Youth Housing during the joint assault with YPG at the end of July 2016, de facto besieging the Rebel-held districts and leading months after to the displacement of 10,000s of residents.

Cutting the last lifeline of there areas was openly cheered (see pic 2).

https://t.co/yu4lThXPeA

[Intensional @intensionality]

Never forget the role of YPG/SDF/PKK in its military support for Assad

[Qalaat Al Mudiq @QalaatAlMudiq]

#Syria: Turki Bouhamad, founder of the "Tribal Forces", was also directly involved in besieging E. #Aleppo districts.

His men fought in Bani Zaid Youth Housing during the joint assault with YPG at the end of July 2016, de facto besieging the Rebel-held districts and leading months after to the displacement of 10,000s of residents.

Cutting the last lifeline of there areas was openly cheered (see pic 2).

https://t.co/yu4lThXPeA

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨 REPORT | Earlier this month, World Central Kitchen (WCK), Gaza’s largest provider of hot meals, cut its daily food distribution in half, from around one million meals to 500,000.

WCK said the decision was driven by mounting financial pressure, not a decline in need. Founder José Andrés cited soaring costs linked to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, including sharp increases in fuel, rice, meat, and transportation expenses.

The reduction comes as Israel moves to tighten restrictions on international aid groups operating in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. This week, Israel’s supreme court upheld new government registration rules requiring NGOs to submit detailed employee lists or face expulsion within 30 days.

Aid organizations warn the measures could cripple humanitarian operations. Some of the world’s largest groups, including Oxfam, Save the Children, Médecins Sans Frontières, and the International Rescue Committee, have already had their licenses revoked after refusing to comply.

WCK is not part of the ban, making its decision to scale back operations even more consequential. The organization has also employed thousands of Palestinians at community kitchens across Gaza, where unemployment has surged above 80%, according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics.

At a protest last week against the cuts, one Palestinian man held up an empty cooking pot and shouted:

“We truly have nothing. Where are we supposed to work? How are we supposed to feed our children? I have two daughters. I’m only asking for what people in any Arab or European country live with: dignity and peace of mind.”

🔗 Full story by @AbdSabbah91 and @sharifkouddous is linked below.

[Gershon Baskin🟣 غرشون باسكين גרשון בסקין @gershonbaskin]

Why doesn't anyone state the obvious that is completely absent from the news in Israel or from the public discourse: How is it reasonable to expect Israel to not be attacked from Hezbollah while Israel is occupying about 14% of Lebanon, more than 1.2 million Lebanese have been displaced, at least 10,000 structures have been heavily damaged or destroyed in south Lebanon, as Israel continues destroying many villages south of the Litani river?

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@bigseb31213 . you know nothing described comes within a mile of being a war crime. uh, you can kill soldiers in uniform, whether or not they pose even a potential threat.

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@predict_addict @Sam_Dumitriu @johnkroencke Oh please. In one location .

[Sam Heller | سام هيلر @AbuJamajem]

Qmati says Hizbullah has held tens of thousands of fighters in reserve because, right now, Hizb only wants small numbers of mobile units in the field; throwing in more men would only mean more "martyrs."

He's saying they're rationing manpower, not preparing for civil war.

[ابو احمد @Al7khalidi]

Many fail to understand that HTS wasn’t a “rebrand”, infact HTS was openly denounced by Zawahiri, openly fought with Hurras Al Deen (which became the AQ outfit in Syria) - dismantled them and arrrested their top leadership all before the liberation of Syria.

[Intensional @intensionality]

@mattyglesias comes a bit quick. no one says Gaza mattered nationally or on average. the dispute is about a few but possibly important local races.

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still the annoying S-P obsession. The boundaries in that particular area had been remade since at least 4000bc. S-P was already a dead letter by the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne. & the Ottomans had made administrative changes similar to S-P in the 19th Century.

[Ahram Online @ahramonline]

From Sykes-Picot to the remaking of the Middle East
https://t.co/ypF4Lpl4Nf

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@souljagoyteller The idea that you must moralise as incessantly and broadly as possible is relatively modern, 17th-19th century. You might go on about how the whole world is rotten, but there wasn't as much hysteria about an evil individual in the more or less distant past.