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mike (he/him) public defender

[𝓙𝓲𝓶𝓶𝔂 𝓙 @JimmyJ4thewin]

🚨 JUST IN: Houston Texans star Azeez Al-Shaair fined earlier this week for wearing Hind Rajab’s name on his eye black, wrote Wafaa Akila’s name on it before the game today.

Wafaa Akila. 8 years old. First day of school. The IDF took her life in a targeted strike in Gaza.

[COMBATE |🇵🇷 @upholdreality]

Yemen leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi: "Saudi Arabia has no agenda or project of its own. Its project is Zionist, American, British and Israeli. It serves these powers, and NOTHING else."

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

The idea that Iran can “Sabotage a US peace deal” is nonsensical on its face. It’s a unilateral and unprovoked attack BY THE US. The US can simply stop bombing Iran whenever it chooses. I feel like I’m going insane

[Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi]

Fake news

Trump’s MOU violations:

· Refused to return stolen assets.
· Continued threatening Iran.
· Expanded sanctions.
· Didn’t force Zionists to end the Gaza Genocide or occupation of Lebanon.
· Reimposed oil sanctions.
· Set up a corridor in the Strait, violating Article 5.

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: New high-resolution satellite imagery shows the pumping station on Saudi Arabia's East-West oil pipeline burned out end to end, with the entire process area blackened and crude oil that escaped the site pooled across the desert beyond the perimeter, per Vantor imagery.

[there's always a nordstream 3 @sellmestuff]

@davidsirota The stupidest and cruelest people took over after 9/11 and they never let go. Bill Krystal and Max Boot are thought leading Democrats now. Ivy League for their kids paid by the blood of millions of Iraqi civilians.

[there's always a nordstream 3 @sellmestuff]

@naftalibennett Go fuck yourself you genocidaire scum. See you in the fucking Hague you disgusting monster.

[Evelyn :3 C0MM SALE 🏳️‍⚧️ 🍉 @strangetransgal]

"Cause Kirkmas feels like the very first Kirkmas to meeeeeeeee!"

[Jojo ❤️ @josiah_awkward]

I had this tweet stuck in my head all day, I had to. #KirkMas

[Katie Halper @kthalps]

Dr. Mark Perlmutter, a Jewish surgeon who works in Gaza, says Van Jones, and other media figures who whitewash Israel's crimes, are responsible for the death of Palestinian children. https://t.co/8kBrP1MQTK

[there's always a nordstream 3 @sellmestuff]

@jonathanchait Synecdoche!

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔Pflugerville, Texas just killed its Flock Safety contract unanimously after a resident filed a public records request and found 459 outside law enforcement agencies had run 1.6 million searches on the city's 28 cameras in six months. Local police ran 5,078. That's 315 outside searches for every one by Pflugerville PD. The city had told residents nationwide data sharing was turned off. The city manager ordered the lenses physically covered before the council even voted. Pflugerville joins 56 municipalities that have cut ties with Flock in 2026.

My Take
One resident with a public records form did what the city, the police department, and Flock either couldn't or didn't want to do. That's how thin the oversight was on a system searching 1.6 million plates. Nobody was auditing this. Nobody was checking whether the assurances they gave residents were true. It took a guy filing paperwork to find out.

56 cities have walked away from Flock this year and I think that number accelerates once other communities realize they can file the same request. Flock has $500 million in VC money and contracts in 4,000 cities, and civil liberties groups say under 1% of scanned plates ever connect to a crime. Pflugerville's police chief looked at his own data and wouldn't recommend keeping the contract. Every city still running these cameras is one records request away from finding out what their own ratio looks like, and most of them haven't asked yet.

Hedgie���

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

if i was david duke fox news would be defending me, and establishment dems would be talking about winning over my vote through capitulation.

[Benn Jordan @bennjordan]

Flock takes their privacy very seriously.

But the ethical gray area in surveillance technology works both ways.

Under no circumstances should elected officials or public servants enjoy an expectation of privacy when spending tax dollars to attend a surveillance lobbying event.

[there's always a nordstream 3 @sellmestuff]

@kaitlancollins They wouldn't need iron dome if they weren't doing apartheid

[there's always a nordstream 3 @sellmestuff]

@jpodhoretz Big fat fuck needs his treats

[Mark Ames @MarkAmesExiled]

We’re finding out we can’t have healthcare AND we can’t have a military that can fight against people who fight back. The purpose of Pentagon procurement is enriching the rich. The whole country is a series of expensive violent scams, led by the greatest con artist of them all

[DeFlock @therealDeFlock]

"a Flock vice president logged into the Dunwoody PD’s Flock system and looked at a camera in the children’s gymnastics room of a private community center here in Dunwoody.

He did not look at any other cameras in the entire 400-camera network that day."

https://t.co/CwhLqOMwvz

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

One of the dumbest popular narratives is that Zionists persuaded a reluctant Trump to start a war with Iran after he was re-elected, like they were following him around going "Would you like to bomb Iran?" like Green Eggs and Ham and he was going "Not in a box! Not with a fox!" until he eventually caved in.

It is now abundantly clear that this war was planned a long time ago. Not in 2026, not in 2025, not in 2024, and not even during the Biden administration. This was planned before Trump was ever elected president. He campaigned on tearing up the Iran nuclear deal, and that's exactly what he did once he got into office the first time around.

As soon as the JCPOA was torched in 2018 the Trump administration began dramatically ramping up aggressions against Iran, smashing them with starvation sanctions in its "maximum pressure" campaign with the explicit goal of regime change and then escalating to the direct assassination of Iran's top military official.

There was no reason to do that if your goal was peace. There was no reason to do that if your goal was to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. The Iran deal was working. Iran was fully compliant. The escalations were the goal.

Trump has openly admitted to giving the Adelsons everything they wanted in exchange for the massive campaign donations which put him in the White House. In 2013 Sheldon Adelson made headlines by saying the US should drop a nuclear weapon on the Iranian desert and then say "See? The next one is in the middle of Tehran" in order to scare the Iranians into groveling.

Everything we've been seeing throughout Trump's second term makes it glaringly obvious that the only reason he'd received the oligarchic and institutional support necessary to become an American president was because he had provided enough powerful people with enough reassurance that he would do what no other president had dared to try: start a war with Iran.

All that we have seen throughout 2026 has been the seeds of those early assurances coming to fruition. All those murdered schoolchildren. All the dead and injured US soldiers. The bombed-out civilian infrastructure. The blackened skies. The blockades. The fear. The economic strife. This was all planned years ago, with the full complicity of a psychopathic monster who wanted to become president.

He campaigned on ending the wars, and he was lying the whole time. He wasn't pressured and persuaded, he was an active and eager participant.

Anti-interventionists on the right often try to spin it as Trump getting suckered by the Israelis, because this allows them to retroactively justify their support for Trump with the belief that they voted for someone who was well-intentioned at the time.

But Trump was never well-intentioned. He had always intended to start a war with Iran in his second term, once he no longer had to worry about getting re-elected. He was always a deceitful war slut, as evil as any we've ever seen in the White House.

Evil people are the only ones who are ever allowed past the many gatekeeping mechanisms to the presidency. In order to help run a murderous empire that is fueled by human blood, you've got to be a psychopath. They don't let you in unless they've been adequately assured that you are sufficiently psychopathic to do the job.

Trump provided them with those assurances. That's the only reason he sits where he now sits.

[The Grayzone @TheGrayzoneNews]

Piers Morgan invited Max Blumenthal on to discuss his Iran reporting and the illegal seizure of his devices by the US govt, but spent much of his time questioning Blumenthal's "impartiality"

"I'm absolutely not impartial," Blumenthal explained. "I am not objective, and the concept of objectivity, as we understand it, is set out by the corporate media according to the parameters devised for them by their militant Zionist ruling class owners, who literally own the networks that you appear on."

Blumenthal then illustrated how Morgan manufactured consent for the US-Israeli war on Iran by promoting inflated death tolls and a false narrative of the Israeli and US-sponsored regime change riots that rocked Iran in January