Squeaky Clean

[Squeaky Clean @youngskwi]

@jack Twitter does really weird things with the layout of tweets and replies in a thread. It's like an out-of-contexter jumble-a-tronic confusion machine. Almost like we're not meant to have logical conversations on here... Just confused, disjointed arguments. Weird wild stuff...

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

The predicament Trump is in, and has been since he started the Iran War with Netanyahu, illustrates why it was so stupid and destructive to start this war in the first place. From the start, there were only two real options:

1) Take seriously all the stated war aims and try to fulfill them, which would require a protracted, self-destructive, devastating, years-long war of the kind Trump spent a decade vowing to avoid, or,

2) End the war quickly and prematurely, and then have to scurry around to find some way to claim that the US "won", which would -- at a minimum -- force Trump to credibly claim he got more than Obama's JCPOA gave, thus justifying all the massive bloodshed, instability and cost from the war.

If reports are correct (and it's a big "if"), Trump is choosing option (2). But his case that he actually won anything consequential beyond what the Obama Deal provided is close to laughable, while the losses to the US (and wins for Iran) are self-evident.

[DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics]

🇺🇸🇮🇱 "Trump stabbed us in the back." Israel is furious over the emerging US-Iran deal — and doesn't think it will last.

According to Israeli outlet Ynet, senior Israeli officials believe the deal damages Israel's interests and fails to address the core threats posed by Iran's nuclear and missile programs.
"Our voice is not being heard. This is a bad deal. No one is happy about it. Everyone understands it's bad for us and harms Israeli interests," one source told the outlet.

Another went further: "Trump stabbed us in the back."

A third official told Ynet that the region perceives the deal as the result of Iranian pressure and US concessions — and that in the short term, it will be seen as a failure.
Israeli sources also doubt the deal's longevity, saying the real test will be whether Iran's enriched uranium stockpiles are actually removed and destroyed. If that doesn't happen, concerns will only deepen....

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

The Qiyi City Forest Garden in Chengdu, China, is an experimental “vertical forest” residential complex.

The buildings were designed with balconies for dense plant growth to create a greener, more natural living environment in an urban setting

[Stew Peters @realstewpeters]

I'm not buying the official narrative about the 71 Jewish schoolgirls that “happened to get lost” and started popping out of sewer grates and manholes in downtown Nyack, NY.

This is sketchy AF.

[MAZE @mazemoore]

CNN "fact checkers" told us many times that there were no U.S. operated labs in Ukraine. 👌🤣

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

With Tulsi Gabbard's new revelations about US bio labs in many countries around the world including Ukraine, it's fascinating recall the bizarre series of events that gave rise to this controversy in the first place:

In May of 2022, some of us began asking whether the US had bio labs in Ukraine, what they were for, and why the US had them there. For asking those questions, we were instantly branded as "pro-Russian conspiracy theorists" in official Ukrainian intel reports, on our Wikipedia pages, by countless media outlets, etc. This was and remains one of the most bizarre episodes I've ever seen.

Before May 2022, when we asked those questions, barely anyone had ever thought about let alone asked about "bio weapons in Ukraine"! I certainly hadn't. Like most people, I had never mentioned a word about it because it had never occurred to me we had them there.

But then, Marco Rubio summoned Victoria Nuland to the Senate and asked her in a televised hearing under oath about these "rumors," clearly expecting her to immediately debunk them as obvious Kremlin lies and to proclaim the US had no such bio labs in Ukraine.

Instead, Nuland did the opposite! She *confirmed* key aspects of these "rumors," and she explicitly warned that the US has several "bio research labs" in Ukraine that are so dangerous that they must not be allowed to fall into Russia's hands.

When some of us heard Nuland's rather shocking admission -- the first-ever disclosure about these labs -- we of course asked: wait! what? Why does the US have bio labs in Ukraine, and what are the US and Ukraine doing in those labs that make them (in Nuland's eyes) so dangerous?? (Note: nobody ever suggested that the presence of these bio labs in Ukraine justified the Russian invasion; we just wanted answers about these US bio labs that Nuland had casually divulged).

We never got real answers. We got smear campaigns. To this day, our names are formally attached to claims that we spread "conspiracy theories" for asking about these labs even though it was Victoria Nuland herself who was the one who accidentally revealed them for the first time in a Senate hearing in response to a shocked Marco Rubio. They then quickly tried shutting down any questioning by pretending that Nuland never said this, and it was just a bunch of paid Kremlin mouthpieces who were spreading lies.

You see the same tactics now being against Tulsi for releasing this new intelligence report. Watch the Nuland testimony in question:

[The Cradle @TheCradleMedia]

US military begins construction of 'huge base' outside Gaza to oversee Trump's colonization plan
https://t.co/IbA0WIzJtb

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel is committing a genocide in Lebanon.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Rainbow eucalyptus sheds its bark in strips at different times. New bark looks green because chlorophyll shows, As the bark ages, tannins build up, shifting the colour through blues, purples, oranges, and reds

creating the rainbow effect.

📹 Tesoro Grand Villa

[DNI Tulsi Gabbard @DNIGabbard]

Today, I’m releasing never before seen intelligence revealing new evidence of past US government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, including Ukraine.

In support of President Trump‘s Executive Order to end federal funding of dangerous gain of function research around the world, and increase transparency and accountability, ODNI will continue working with partners across the Administration to identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain, and what “research” is being conducted.

https://t.co/pLMD0krc69

[Squeaky Clean @youngskwi]

@JustineBateman @bushido49ers …but not a piece of the trillion.

[Clint Russell @LibertyLockPod]

Elon...OUT
MTG...OUT
Tulsi...OUT
Massie...OUT
RFK Jr...soon to be OUT

The entire coalition was a lie. An elaborate mirage to skinsuit neocons as MAGA. If you haven't figured out that you got played by now you simply never will.

[The Cradle @TheCradleMedia]

Trump now: Claims the terms leaked by Iran "have nothing to do" with the agreement reached in writing, accuses Tehran of negotiating in bad faith, and dismisses Iranian statements as untrue.

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

How can rational actors in Iran be expected to negotiate with these eschatological ayatollahs in America?

[Denis Rancourt @denisrancourt]

Brian Berletic's analysis of USA global domination strategy is essential. It cannot be ignored. We need logic and facts, not emotions that are so easily manipulated: https://t.co/upZmwdNYqk

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel is deliberately poisoning water wells that Palestinian farmers depend on to survive in the occupied West Bank.

This is an act of genocide.

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

Former Palestine Liberation Organisation member Hanan Ashrawi calls for accountability for the perpetrators of the israeli genocide on #Gaza

[Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi]

None of their "demands" will be met.

[Jimmy Dore @jimmy_dore]

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