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[Neet @neet_sol]

submitting job applications in 2026 is a lot like when you were younger and you’d write letters to Santa

[kev joon @never_oppressed]

I genuinely feel sick. This is just beyond anything the mind can fathom. And I keep thinking of what Ta-Nehisi Coates said. If you can’t draw the line at the genocide in Gaza, you can’t draw it anywhere else. Moral failure, on a mass and collective scale, brought us here.

[Nimer Sultany @NimerSultany]

"Gaza Strip is now experiencing one of the largest collective psychological disasters in modern history.... the effects of the war are no longer limited to the dead and wounded but have extended to the psychological structure of society as a whole, especially children."

[Nerdeen Kiswani @NerdeenKiswani]

Late last night the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force informed me that a plot against my life that was "about to" take place, and that agents had conducted an operation in Hoboken related to this plot. For months, Zionist organizations like Betar and politicians like Randy Fine have encouraged violence against my family and me. I will have more to say as additional details come to light. I will not stop speaking up for the people of Palestine. Thank you for your support.

https://t.co/liwze3cZSZ

[AIPAC Tracker @TrackAIPAC]

@sewella @AP Why are you so terrified of reporting basic facts?

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨 REPORT | An Israeli citizen was arrested in Las Vegas after police found a cache of weapons, lab equipment, and more than 1,000 samples of unknown liquids at a home tied to a widening biosecurity investigation, the Los Angeles Times reports.

Ori Solomon, 55, is accused of illegally possessing firearms and improperly disposing of hazardous waste. Authorities said officers in protective gear removed materials from the home, which were consistent with those found in a separate case in California.

That investigation began when a foul smell led officials to a warehouse in Reedley, where they discovered a hidden lab containing thousands of biological samples, 1,000 lab mice, and evidence of at least 20 infectious agents including SARS, hepatitis, and dengue.

Prosecutors say Chinese national Jia Bei Zhu ran a scheme from there, importing COVID tests from China and selling them as American-made, and a congressional report flagged over $1.3 million in unexplained payments from Chinese banks tied to the operation.

Investigators found Zhu had listed a Las Vegas house as bail collateral and called it hundreds of times over the past year, making it a key lead that led police to raid the Sugar Springs Drive property, where Ori Solomon was identified as the manager.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

I am seeing a lot of commentary from pro-war commentators claiming that Iran's effective retaliation against Israel, as well as its 4,000 km range missiles, "proves" that Iran was an "imminent threat."

This is, of course, nonsense since Iran didn't strike until it was first attacked.

But it shows the extent to which these pro-war commentators have adopted Israel's military logic to construct these arguments.

A threat is normally defined as "capacity + intent." Just having the capacity to strike at you is not sufficient to qualify as a threat; there must also be hostile intent. Otherwise, the US would have to go around the world and destroy all military capabilities in other countries since those capabilities would constitute a threat in and of themselves.

It's an absurd and unsustainable approach to security.

But that is exactly how Israel defines threats. As legendary Israeli air force general David Ivry explained to me, Israel takes intent out of the equation since it presumes that all regional states ultimately will seek its destruction if they ever have the capacity to do so.

Thus, Israel has to ensure that no country - or combination of countries - has the military and political capability to challenge Israel. When they do, those capabilities have to be eliminated. (This is Israel's goal in its war with Iran.)

As a result, Israel achieves security not by balancing or managing threats, but by dominating all its neighbors.

Achieving Israel's dominion is incidentally enshrined in US law, in which the US has to ensure Israel's "strategic military edge."

It is this logic that these pro-war commentators are now using when they claim that Iran's surprising military performance "proves" that it was an imminent threat.

Not only have many of these commentators adopted Israel's goals and justifications for this war, but also its profoundly flawed security logic.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Liberating the Iranian people by bombing their oil refineries, poisoning their air, destroying their fresh water supplies, exploding their elementary schools, and now "obliterating" their power plants. Who wouldn't be grateful for this?

[James S. Coates @brjimc]

@cnni Its not a new weapon, CNN.

You just have been ignoring it all this time.

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

The American people deserve to know why this Administration dragged us into war in Iran. @joekent16jan19 should come before Congress.

If even officials like Joe Kent do not believe Iran posed an imminent threat, why are we sending more Americans to die in this war?

[Clint Russell @LibertyLockPod]

Mike Johnson says "I don't know where Joe Kent was getting his information" in his resignation over the Iran war

I can help, Mike. He was the Director of Counterterrorism. He had access to all the same info you did. He just wasn't willing to lie about it.

[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.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

It’s not just Iran.

It’s Lebanon.

In less than 2 weeks, Israel has killed 570 people and displaced 750,000 — over 10% of the entire country. Residential buildings are being bombed with no warning.

The U.S. cannot continue to be complicit in Netanyahu’s wars.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.

[Andrew Day @AKDay89]

That's cool. Israel's most dangerous weapon is hundreds of nuclear weapons that they lie about.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Chance that AI picked the girls school in Minab as a target is extremely high

[RT @RT_com]

Crowd stands strong through mid-rally BLAST in Iran’s Shiraz

[Aaron Fritschner @Fritschner]

Solid community note

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

To strike 1,000 targets in 24 hours in Iran, the U.S. military leveraged the most advanced AI it’s ever used in warfare.

Anthropic’s Claude partnered with the military’s Maven Smart System, suggesting targets and issuing precise location coordinates. https://t.co/dDQ8KoWdVT

[Rob Smith @robsmithonline]

In which the sitting Secretary of State of the United States of America admits that at 6 American soldiers have been killed and 18 seriously wounded because Israel decided to strike Iran and forced our hand.

This is an absolutely jaw-dropping admission.