Sooquler (sue-cu-ler)

admirer of buttery popcorn 🍿 & tight guitar riffs 🎸

[Current Report @Currentreport1]

BREAKING:

Iran reportedly struck a vessel near Sohar Port, Oman after it attempted to transit the Strait of Hormuz.

Local media report that the ship sustained significant damage and that there may be multiple casualties.

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

JUST IN: AFTERMATH OF THE US STRIKE ON IRANIAN DRINKING WATER STORAGE TANKS IN THE BAMANI DISTRICT OF SIRIK COUNTY

[*Walter Bloomberg @DeItaone]

TRUMP ON IRAN: THEY'VE TAKEN TOO LONG TO NEGOTIATE A DEAL THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN GREAT FOR THEM, NOW THEY WILL HAVE TO PAY PRICE

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Karl Marx saw work as a path to leisure, Adam Smith saw it as employer profit, and Keynes predicted that technological progress would reduce the workweek to 15 hours. Instead, capitalism delivered longer hours, harsher exploitation, and wealth funnelled to billionaires.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is extraordinarily rare.

In fact, according to a key figure in the German business community (who is a dear friend of mine), it's unprecedented.

An op-ed, two pages, centerpiece, in Germany’s most important economic newspaper (the Handelsblatt) that begs the German establishment to stop looking at China via the prism of propaganda. And it's by their Shanghai bureau chief - not some outside contributor.

The title is "The China debate cannot continue like this!" and the article makes the case that it's suicidal, from a German and European standpoint, to keep reducing China to false caricatures rather than facts.

In effect it's rubbish in, rubbish out: if you tell people lies about China - whichever direction they go (anti or pro) - then obviously the policies that come out will be rubbish, designed for a mirage of a country that exists only in people's imagination.

Needless to say, this is absolutely music to my ears because it's literally the main point I've been making in my advocacy around China for now almost 10 years. Some are finally seeing the light...

I also believe, as I argued in my article "Are Western media turning China-friendly?" last year (https://t.co/Xg1hoSRtNy) that this type of coverage was bound to happen, and there will be more and more of it.

Why? For a very simple structural reason: China is now too powerful to coerce. The West, and Europe in particular, just don't have the leverage anymore. Which means that if you tell China to do something and they don't want to, they just won't do it. Period.

In this situation, incapable of coercing, your only remaining choice is... convincing. And what do you need if you want to convince someone? Well, you need to understand them: understand how they think, how they behave, what drives them, what they actually want.

In other words: the moment coercion stops being an option, not only does propaganda stop being useful, it begins to be actively harmful as genuine understand becomes a strategic necessity. Reality is finally becoming profitable again.

Which means, if you're a journalist reading this and you're peddling some of your usual lies, describing China as some sort of cartoonish dictatorial dystopia that's simultaneously on the verge of collapse yet a "threat" to the whole world (in short, if you write on China for The Economist or the FT), be on notice: the real threat to your country isn't China. It's you.

[Antifa_Ultras @ultras_antifaa]

What has happened at the #2026WorldCup over the last 48 hours:

• Swiss footballer Embolo's visa was put under review and he was only able to join his team days later.

• Iraqi national team player Aymen Hussein was held for questioning for nearly 7 hours upon entering the United States.

• The Iranian national team spent days dealing with visa procedures at the U.S. Consulate in Türkiye. The U.S. only allowed them entry on match days. Fifteen members of the delegation were denied visas.

• Omar Abdulkadir Artan, named CAF's Best African Referee of 2025, was denied a visa. Despite travelling to the U.S. with a diplomatic passport, he was refused entry and sent back. FIFA announced that he will not be able to officiate at the tournament.

• The South African national team arrived in the United States much later than planned because part of the delegation was not granted visas.

• Members of the Senegal national team staff were forced to remove their shoes and subjected to lengthy searches, sparking accusations of racism.

• The Uzbekistan national team was searched with bomb-sniffing dogs and the footage went viral in international media.

• Some Scottish supporters, despite being eligible to enter the U.S. visa-free under the ESTA programme, had their travel authorisations revoked just days before departure.

• Many supporters who had already bought tickets and booked accommodation had their visa applications rejected, resulting in financial losses.

[Ian Carroll @IanCarrollShow]

It is often overlooked that the dancing Israelis didn’t just take celebratory photos (and video that was never recovered) of the burning towers on 9/11 with apparent foreknowledge of the attack.

They actually took photos from the same vantage point the day before holding up lit lighters to the tower (like burning it down)

It’s all documented in fbi reports- just a coincidence that a bunch of ex-Israeli intelligence officers were working at Israeli moving companies surveilling the attacks the day before and day of. Then they were caught with explosive residue found in their van and prepurchased plane tickets for each of them to different foreign countries scheduled for the day after (9/12).

When the fbi went to go raid the offices- they were abandoned, the Israeli owner had vanished and left everything (except some electronics) there.

All just normal coincidental Jewish behavior before being sent back to Israel and saying their purpose there was to “document the events”

The actually retarded 9/11 conspiracy theory is that osama bin Laden carried out the world’s most sophisticated terror attack from some mud cave in the mountains with no internet and a small handful of Arabs that couldn’t fly planes caused three controlled demolitions in NYC (including one building they didn’t hit), a physically impossible flight path at the pentagon, and a disappearing plane crash in shanksville. And we know it was them because they had indestructible passports and Mohamed atta decided to leave a briefcase with their detailed plans and personal information in the airport so the Americans could know all about them.

If you have not yet learned the truth about 9/11- or more accurately, the lies, you’re falling behind.

Catch up.

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

After the US hit Iran about 20 times, Iran retaliated with strikes on US military bases across the region.

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

Reports on multiple attacks on Bahrain, Jordan and Kuwait. The U.S. 5th Fleet in Bahrain was hit the hardest with about 15 explosions reported. The U.S. efforts to put the war on the slow burner under the guise of negotiating has seemingly failed.

[Phil @PhilPhiltourney]

Thank you @RepThomasMassie!! you gave the dead of the USS Liberty a voice. You stood up for us when nobody had the courage. You’re a beacon of hope for our movement and our country

[ADAM @adamemedia1]

🚨 Glenn Greenwald just broke it down…

A sitting US President, who ran on ending wars, is being openly defied by a foreign Prime Minister. Not behind closed doors. In public. Repeatedly.

Trump is a Zionist. His family is tied to Israel. He is owned. But he wants this war over. The midterms are coming. His base is fracturing. His promises, and legacy, are rotting in public.

Trump has repeatedly begged Netanyahu to stop.

Netanyahu didn’t just tell him to STFU.

He went straight to Congress, who AIPAC has bribed with $28M this election cycle alone, and passed Section 224, LEGALLY FUSING the US and Israeli military structures.

Democracy BYPASSED In broad daylight.

This is what @ggreenwald has spent years warning people about.

The most powerful man on earth can’t end a war his own voters want ended, because the lobby doesn’t just own the President.

It owns the building he works in.

[Ethan Levins 🇺🇸 @EthanLevins2]

🚨🇮🇱 Thomas Massie CONFIRMS Israel used NAPALM on the USS Liberty.

34 Americans were burned alive, skin boiling from their bodies, after the IDF dropped Napalm on the unarmed ship.

He confirmed this yesterday in the U.S. Congress.

[Matthew Chayes @chayesmatthew]

Morocco, in 1777, was the first county in the world to recognize the United States as a sovereign nation.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

They really gonna let them burn Bethlehem too?

[Prof Zenkus @anthonyzenkus]

Israel is spying on the US at levels considered "adversarial' by the Pentagon. One US official has called the level of spying "unhinged". If Israel is acting like an adversary why are there still politicians and media outlets portraying them as an ally?
https://t.co/KPwagtZa7d

[Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein]

The US has quietly deployed 82nd Airborne paratroopers to Israel, per deployment order leaked to me.

The deployment is tied to new US-Israel joint contingency plans for seizing Kharg Island and carving out coastal territory inside Iran.
https://t.co/HU5yWUCpCN

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 WTF?! Top congressman Thomas Massie confirms US fighter jets were launched to save the USS Liberty from the Israeli attack, but Washington inexplicably recalled them.

The Pentagon intentionally abandoned their own men for 17 hours to protect Zionist regime! Total betrayal.

[Stew Peters @realstewpeters]

MASSIE: “The Israelis napalmed the deck of the USS Liberty and then machine-gunned the lifeboats. They were intent on leaving no survivors.”

It took 59 years for the USS Liberty survivors to even be recognized by our occupied government. God bless Thomas Massie.

[Jason Smith - 上官杰文 @ShangguanJiewen]

The easiest way to tell if the USA is planning a color-revolution in another nation?

NYT starts publishing propaganda about that nation.
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