Iyaz Talib

[Murray Rothbard @MurraySuggests]

The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began.

The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start.

Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have.

If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.

[MO @Abu_Salah9]

يُعتبر هذا المشهد واحد من أكثر الجرائم رُعباً في كل تاريخ الحروب

لحظة قيام جندي إسرائيلي بقنص سيدة مُسنة في غزة وهي تُمسك بيد حفيدها رافعين الراية البيضاء وبعد أن قام جيش الاحتلال بإعطائهم الأمان للمرور

النسيان جريمة.

[Lowkey @Lowkey0nline]

Is the BBC manufacturing consent for the use of nuclear weapons against Iran?

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

#C4News "The strait of Hormuz is actually open if you're not part of the war"

"The Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, have got ships through"

"The idea that the strait of Hormuz is not open is not true"

"It is closed if you are supporting the illegal war"

"They have hit 30 universities"

"They have hit 600 schools"

"These are war crimes"

"66% of the Iranian diaspora in the USA are against this war"

"Iran a couple of 93 million people now has people suffering from toxins because petrochemical plants have been bombed, it is egregious to suggest that people want to be bombed"

Well said @sanambna

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

There's a physicist at Stanford named Safi Bahcall who modeled this exact principle and the math is wild.

He calls it "phase transitions in human networks." When you're stationary, your probability of a lucky event is limited to your existing surface area: the people you already know, the places you already go, the ideas you've already been exposed to. Your opportunity window is fixed.

When you move, your collision rate with new nodes in a network increases nonlinearly. Double your movement (new conversations, new cities, new projects) and your probability of a serendipitous encounter doesn't double. It roughly quadruples. Because each new node connects you to their entire network, not just to them.

Richard Wiseman ran a 10-year study at the University of Hertfordshire tracking self-described "lucky" and "unlucky" people. The single biggest differentiator wasn't IQ, education, or family money. Lucky people scored significantly higher on one trait: openness to experience. They talked to strangers more, varied their routines more, and said yes to invitations at nearly twice the rate.

The "unlucky" group followed the same routes, ate at the same restaurants, and talked to the same 5 people. Their networks were closed loops. No new inputs, no new collisions.

Luck isn't random. Luck is surface area. And surface area is a function of movement.

The lobster emoji is doing more work than most people realize. Lobsters grow by shedding their shell when it gets too tight. The growth requires a period of total vulnerability. No protection, no armor, soft body exposed to the ocean.

That's the cost of movement nobody posts about. You have to be uncomfortable first. The new shell only hardens after you've already moved.

[Rania Khalek @RaniaKhalek]

I have not seen a single mainstream media outlet give this the attention it deserves.

Israel blew up an entire Lebanese town, an ancient place. It should be headline news. There’s footage of it happening.

Imagine this was your town, and you saw every building blown up by a terrorist army to prevent you from ever returning. You would at the very least expect wall to wall coverage. Instead it passes without a word.

It’s not the only town Israel has blown up. And sadly it probably won’t be the last.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Reporter: Deliberate attacks on civilian infrastructure violate the Geneva conventions and international law. 

Trump: Who are you with? 

Reporter: I'm with the New York Times

Trump: Failing New York Times. Circulation is way down.

Reporter: Are you concerned that your threat to bomb power plants and bridges amount to war crimes?

Trump: No, not at all. These are disturbed people. Quiet. You no longer have credibility. You’re fake.

[Hend Amry @LibyaLiberty]

Jewish troops will be looking for Muslims hidden in the attics of Christians. Let that sink in.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Israel has passed the death penalty solely for Palestinians, enforced through military courts with a 96% conviction rate.

Israeli Minister Ben Gvir popped champagne.

The Israeli government is raising a toast to genocidal apartheid. The UK government is arming and funding it.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

OMG this is insane! A former CIA operative just admitted on camera that the US intentionally armed and relied on Al-Qaeda and ISIS in Syria just to serve Israel's geopolitical interests against Iran. They literally created the ISIS caliphate!

[Circe @vocalcry]

Everything is perfectly clear. Iran could not be allowed to get a nuclear weapon, which they have been months away from developing for well over a decade.

Also, Trump is the only president who could have kept us out of war with Iran, as he himself repeatedly told us. So we destroyed their nuclear capabilities, which Tulsi said they didn't have, in 2025. Then we attacked them last month because Israel was going to attack them because they were months away from developing a nuclear weapon since we destroyed their nuclear capabilities, and that would lead Iran to attack American bases.

Iran has never posed a threat to the United States, but we had to attack them first, not because of Israel, but because they posed an imminent threat to the United States.

Fortunately, we have won the war, which was not a war but a special operation, in Iran now several times in the last two weeks. It is basically over but might not be over for some time because we already won. We also don't need anyone to help open the Strait of Hormuz, which we knew they would close, which is why we didn't prepare, and we now need allies to help open.

What are you guys not understanding?

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

It is strange how the world can cooperate to get oil through the Iranian blockade at the Strait of Hormuz but still aren't able to get food through the Israeli blockade at the borders of Gaza.

[Daniel Lambert @dlLambo]

From Haaretz in Israel.

A description of an IDF commander murdering a 4 year old. For fun.

It's beyond demonic.

https://t.co/MNVE5487j5

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today.

I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.

It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC.

May God bless America.

[Amir @AmirAminiMD]

I had a feeling my neighbor is going to steal my car.
So I stole his car first. And kidnapped his children. Then burned down his house. Everything is normal.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Two children have been killed every day in Gaza since the so-called ceasefire began.

Why has this disappeared from the headlines?

The genocide never ended — and our government is still complicit.

End all arms sales to Israel, now.

[Hala Jaber @HalaJaber]

The real scandal isn’t that Miss Palestine is related to Marwan Barghouti. It’s that some of you think Palestinians need to apologize for resisting military occupation. If Barghouti were South African in the 1980s, half of you would be quoting him like a Mandela epigraph. Crown her.

[Ahmed Al-Najjar @Ahmed_A1Najjar]

Suffering has never ceased in Gaza.
It's only worsening.

[Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la]

You don’t don’t do this for security purposes. You do this out of pure sadism and hatred. Imagine making a little girl sob like this.