Ryan

[stranger @strangerous10]

David Pocock pauses, overcome with emotion, while detailing UN’s horrific findings against Israel
“IDF has now killed 20,000 Palestinian children”
“…deliberately shot at children’s limbs…as a twisted game of target practice”😔
Barbaric & sickening. This is our ally?

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

Imagine your girl being this frightened. Go on. Imagine it.

[Sky News @SkyNews]

New footage has emerged in the killing of seven-month-old Palestinian Sam Abu Haikal in the occupied West Bank.

The video appears to show the family's car slowing to a stop before an Israeli soldier opens fire.

Sky's @AdamParsons reports ⬇️

Latest: https://t.co/cjyZPzIyeA

[Julian Andreone @JulianAndreone]

@DropSiteNews @maysamustafa Another 3% (2,000 votes) rolls in taking it to 56% tabulated. Hamawy widens lead even further to roughly 6%.

Fascinating dynamic: Sue Altman, expected to be Dr. Hamawy’s most formidable challenger, hasn’t scraped the top 3 in total votes earned.

[ميمونة الحجازية 🇸🇦 @Maimonah_313]

"نفسي أكون مثل باقي البنات"

الطفلة دعاء عسلية تبكي يدها المبتورة وطفولتها المسلوبة جراء قصف إسرائيلي خلال الحرب

[Matthew Keys @MatthewKeysLive]

Just one day after ending "The Late Show" on CBS, Stephen Colbert returned to TV — to host a public access show with rocker Jack White in Monroe, Michigan.

Appearances by Jeff Daniels, Eminem and Steve Buscemi.

[Iran Embassy SA @IraninSA]

And today’s popular music: “blockade” by Trump.

[Iran News 24 @IRanMediaco]

Dear Americans,

Iran does not have the missile range to strike your country;

if an attack occurs, it would most likely be carried out by your own GOVERNMENT or ISRAEL.

[Patricia Marins @pati_marins64]

Now full. Added part II

[Patricia Marins @pati_marins64]

Australian Special Forces are not the only ones

The Australian press is reporting that around 90 members of the Special Air Service Regiment (SAS), Australia’s main special forces unit, were quietly sent to the Middle East about two weeks ago.

It is believed the contingent is operating out of Al Minhad Air Base in the United Arab Emirates, on standby in case the war between the US/Israel and Iran escalates further.

The government of Anthony Albanese insists that the mission is purely defensive, focused on protecting the approximately 115,000 Australians still in the region. Nobody buys that 90 elite operators were sent just to protect 115,000 civilians.

And the story doesn’t stop there. In addition to the special forces, Australia also sent an E-7A Wedgetail surveillance aircraft and AIM-120 AMRAAM air-to-air missiles to the Emirates. When you start sending air-to-air missiles and an early-warning aircraft that shares data via Link 16 with American forces in the region, it becomes very hard to swallow the “purely defensive” narrative. This is an unofficial entry into the war, no matter how much they deny it.

But the Australians are not alone in this. The United Kingdom, despite denying any plans for a ground invasion of Iran, has increased its total contingent in the region to around 1,000 troops. Reports indicate that Royal Marines commandos are being used in several Gulf countries. It’s the same old pattern: official denial followed by discreet action.

This is nothing new. A 2023 report already showed that British special forces (SAS and SBS) have secretly operated in at least 19 countries over the past 12 years, including Syria (supporting rebels since 2012), Yemen, Libya, and even Ukraine.

Join my Substack to read the Full article:
https://t.co/yz8QrP8B0t

[Adnene Nasri @TheOther_9]

Trump in 2008: Anyone who invades the Middle East under false pretenses should be impeached.

Let’s make sure it goes viral here.

[Aleksey The Great 🇷🇺🎖 @aleksthgrt]

🚨BREAKING

🇨🇳 Professor Jiang :

Iran sends a drone at a US base. It costs $50k. America fires a $1m missile. It misses, so two more follow. $3m spent to kill one $50k drone. Iran makes 500 a day and has 80,000 stocked. Cheap drones. Costly missiles. Math ain't mathing.

[Cameron Ponsonby @cameronponsonby]

A post Ashes Under the Southern Cross. Sung on the Thank You Uzzie sign, led by Carey and Khawja arm in arm. How good

[Perth Glory FC @PerthGloryFC]

Do you know what Griff, yeah. 🐐🦁

@aleaguemen

#ONEGlory #Football

[SeanTHFC @sufferingspurs]

I’m exhausted with this false characterisation of the 17th place finish. Now being used by our current manager to ease pressure on himself. That same side finished 5th the previous season. We played with Archie Gray and Ben Davies at centre back for 3 months. We then clearly rested our better players for the last 3 months of the league season in order to focus on the Europa League, which turned out to be absolutely the right decision by the way.

Anyone with a good enough memory will know we were playing some fantastic football leading up to the injury crisis, with a few dodgy results thrown in there, and a couple of games we absolutely deserved to win that we didn’t.

This isn’t to defend Ange. He’s gone, that’s over. But Thomas Frank has had a fully fit defence nearly all season. He also has plenty of attacking options, even if we are missing some important players. But going forward we are absolutely void of any ideas. And we have been for some time. That’s on him.

To go to the Emirates and employ tactics that you would expect from a national league team playing in the FA cup against Arsenal is not only unacceptable, it’s a disgrace.

This is even more important because we’ve already seen the same performance served up at home to Chelsea only a few weeks ago. Incredibly, we managed to be even worse today.

The game plan was to sit back, hope for free kicks and then allow our goalkeeper, who’s weakest attribute is his kicking, to hoof aimless balls in to the box in the hope that a player might get his head on it.

I have seen absolutely nothing so far from Frank to suggest he’s going to change his approach, and that’s why he needs to go now.

[Georgie Parker @georgieparker]

Travis Head should never have to buy a beer in this country ever again.