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Few points on the announcement of a US-Iran deal: - Image of US power significantly diminished. Washington could not bring Iran to heel, could not open the Hormuz Strait, could not push Saudi into war, could not impose normalisation with Israel, could not protect its allies against cheaper Iranian missiles despite its more expensive technology, could not get NATO to join the war, could not get Europe to join the war, could not convince China to pull away from Iran, and could not stop Gulf states privately negotiating with Iran to exclude themselves from Iran's list of targets. - Israel overreached and failed. It successfully dragged US to war with Iran, but failed to achieve any strategic aim. No regime change, no Arab-Israeli coalition, no newly annexed territories, publicly slapped down by Trump after attacking Beirut, forced kicking and screaming into a deal it adamantly opposed, and now faces a US public opinion that squarely blames Tel Aviv for dragging America into a war there was no need to fight with potentially generational political consequences for the US-Israeli relationship (Israel cannot fight any war without US funds, troops, weapons, and diplomatic cover). - Saudi Arabia vindicated. Refused to be dragged into conflict, resisted UAE campaign to get Arab states to join Israel's attack, resisted pressure from Trump to normalise in exchange for security, deepened coordination with Pakistan and Turkiye over integrating supply chains and routes, and successfully negotiated its own de-escalation with Iran. - Turkiye's Erdogan staves off Israeli attempts to use the war with Iran to drive a wedge between him and Trump as the latter instead asserts their personal friendship, thanks him publicly for helping to bring the deal, and affirms his belief in Turkiye as a stabilising force by promoting Tom Barrack (who the Israelis deeply resent for his alleged partiality and positive view of Ankara).
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I did not realize how deranged and dystopian the Israeli surveillance regime in southern Lebanon was before the current war. Sending drones *inside* people's houses with loudspeakers...
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Jun 13
Sounds like we can postpone the funeral for consumer level mythos
I’ve had a number of conversations with folks inside and outside government about the current situation with Anthropic, and here is what I believe to be true: — As we know, Anthropic publicly released its Mythos class models earlier this week under the commercial name Fable. — Fable is Mythos with guardrails. But if those guardrails fail, then you’ve exposed Mythos and its advanced cyber capabilities to people who shouldn’t have them. (Keep in mind that Anthropic itself widely promoted the idea that Mythos was a cyberweapon and needed to be regulated as such. They asked for government regulation of Mythos and championed the guardrails on Fable. If there is a vulnerability — big or small — it is Anthropic’s responsibility to patch.) — A highly credible trusted partner of both Anthropic and the USG who was testing Fable came forward with a jailbreak of those guardrails. The Admin asked Dario to fix the jailbreak or de-deploy the model. Dario refused. — In their blog post, Anthropic defended its decision by saying the jailbreak isn’t serious. That is not what the trusted partner and the USG believe; nor is that kind of minimizing language consistent with Anthropic’s brand as the AI safety company. It’s difficult to fathom how they could claim a jailbreak allowing operability of a cyber weapon could be defined as not “serious.” — In the past, Anthropic has always said that safety must be top priority and taken super seriously. In this case, Anthropic prioritized the continued offering of the consumer model over safety. — In reaction, the Admin issued the export control. The Admin did this reluctantly. It’s been very surprised that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to cooperate with a reasonable safety request (ie fixing the jailbreak issue). Anthropic’s reaction is very much at odds with their branding and ethos as a safe AI research community. — The Admin’s hope now is that Anthropic remediates the safety issue, the export control is lifted, and Fable goes back into general release. The Admin wants all of this to happen as soon as possible. It is frankly bewildered that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to comply with safety requests that it previously said were its highest priority. — Those trying to misdirect and tie this action to the prior DoW/Anthropic issues are wrong. The Admin values Anthropic’s technical capabilities and feels that this issue, while serious, should be easily resolved. The ball is in Anthropic’s court.
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Jun 13
Some good points here, but after decades of aiding and abetting apartheid and a brutal occupation what, if any, principles did Israeli media have to betray?
There is no question that the Israeli media betrayed its principles and actively aided and abetted genocide in Gaza and war crimes in several other places. Nir Hasson of Haaretz, one of the few truly ethical journalists in Israel write a fascinating column explaining how this happened and why: 1) Hasson concedes the obvious. Israel has good journalists. The press was the one system that did not collapse on October 7. Reporters risked their lives covering the massacre and the hostages, and they named Netanyahu and his government. He adds that Israeli media is bad but not uniquely bad. Rallying around the flag is real. 2) Over time he says the excuse wears thing. That excuse maybe covers the first months. Gaza was filmed and broadcast live, every day, by reporters, doctors, aid workers, soldiers, and residents. 3) How does this happen? The mechanism is not a censor at the door. It is years of populist pressure, economic, legal, and social, that taught the press to shrink and pick its fights carefully. 4) The anti-journalists. Channel 14 broadcasters are the easy ones to spot. The dangerous ones pose as mainstream panelists and columnists. Their job is not to remove masks but to add them. They hunt other journalists and patrol the borders of legitimate speech. 5) A hierarchy of rights between the river and the sea. Palestinian journalists in Gaza are drone targets. In the West Bank and Israel they are arrested. Foreign journalists are expelled. Jewish-Israeli journalists get cursed online and attacked from the Knesset podium. No formal censorship is required. Ultimately, the censor is internal. It is not the government, though they silence journalists too, but Israeli society in its genocidal mania, that silences critics.
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Imagine your girl being this frightened. Go on. Imagine it.
A Palestine Red Crescent staff member attempts to comfort a terrified young girl, fearful of crossing an evacuation corridor near the Israeli army.
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Jun 11
This guy should have stayed a character in Catch 22 or 1984, the simulation must be slipping to have such cartoons leak out into the real world
PETE HEGSETH: "We will be hitting Iran hard tonight, they have had their time to negotiate and these attacks are not a restart to the war but to set the terms for the deal."
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“We did nothing to provoke this attack by Iran.” Even in a country where lying is encouraged and those who don’t cheat or mislead others are considered “frayerim” (suckers), this is an absurd fabrication. Let’s recap: - Iran spent the past week telling Israel it would strike the northern settlements if Dahiyeh was attacked. - Israel attacked Dahiyeh. - Iran responded exactly how it said it would. This obviously wasn’t the first time Iran warned Israel against attacking Lebanon. On April 8th, Tehran said Tel Aviv would “regret” its continued attacks on Lebanon. Wind the clock back even further, and you’ll recall: - In April 2024, Israel carried out an unprovoked attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus, killing 16 people, including a Quds Force commander and his deputy. - In June 2025, Israel sabotaged US-Iran negotiations and started the 12-Day War when in launched sneak attacks on Iran killing dozens of generals and nuclear scientists. - In February 2026, Israel and the US once again treacherously attacked Iran, interrupting diplomatic talks with decapitation strikes, assassinating the head of state and murdering 120 elementary schoolers. To any rational observer, all of these are obvious provocations. But for Israelis, who claim they are God’s chosen people and biblically exempt from treating the rest of us as humans, it’s just business as usual.
Former Israeli PM Naftali Bennett: I think Trump certainly respects the fact that we're an independent country. We were attacked last night by dozens of Iranian ballistic missiles and any independent sovereign country has to defend itself. We did nothing to provoke this attack by Iran. We didn't attack them. They attacked us. x.com/naftalibennett/status/…
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Israel murdered Australian Humanitarian aid worker Zomi Frankcom in cold blood - no action from our government. Israeli soldiers sexually assaulted and abused Australian activists on board a flotilla - no action from our government. israelis have been comitting genocide for the last 3 years, slaughtering 10's of 1000's of children in the process - no action from our government. Someone please tell me: WTF is going on here??? smh.com.au/politics/federal/… #IsraelIsATerroristState #FreePalestine #auspol
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Jun 4
It's possible one of the USS Liberty crew members might have gazed upon a Hamas founder's forefather in 1967, which obviously turned this entire ship into Hamas as per modern IDF logic. If it wasn't for this pre-emptive strike Hamas might have had a navy today!
On June 8, 2026, I’ll speak on the floor of the House to honor and memorialize the brave crew of the 🇺🇸 USS Liberty who died and were wounded in an unprovoked attack by 🇮🇱 Israel on June 8, 1967. Catch my speech on @cspan.
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I'm sorry, I didn't realize Israel had now escalated to the "quadruple tap" where they just keep killing and killing as people try desperately to help the wounded
I still cannot get over the evil of the Israeli "double tap" strike
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Here is the truth of it and why I cannot understand how anyone can support this. Gideon Levy, Haaretz, key excerpts: ‘Israel is advancing confidently toward the next phase of the plan: making the entire population of Gaza permanently disabled, injured, sick, hungry, homeless and unemployed. Once Gaza's population is reduced to a disparate mass without an organized society, without basic services, essential institutions and, of course, without leadership, the complete disintegration of the social fabric will make it easier for Israel to move to the next phase, which it has never relinquished, the phase of expulsion… Defense Minister Israel Katz wrote on X, "… The voluntary migration plan will also be implemented, all at the proper time and in the proper manner." In other words, the Gazans will be turned into a "herd" that will be easy to transport far away "at the proper time and in the proper manner.".. The "eradication of the Hamas regime" in Gaza isn't aimed at this objective alone. Since Israel has categorically opposed Gaza's governance by any Palestinian body – not the Palestinian Authority, not an international organization, not anything, and is also not willing to govern the Strip itself – the cat is out of the bag: Israel doesn't want any organization to govern in Gaza. It wants 2 million people in tents. It will make their expulsion easier…. The only alternative to Hamas' civilian rule at the moment is anarchy. That chaos is good for Israel and the realization of its plan. Israeli propaganda can continue to scream that Gaza equals Hamas and that Hamas equals terrorists. That's a lie, of course. Not only is everyone in Gaza not Hamas, but not everyone defined as Hamas is a terrorist. Israel knows full well that tens of thousands of teachers, doctors, police officers and government officials whose salaries come from the Hamas government aren't terrorists. Defining them as such allowed Israel to kill thousands of them, under the label of "terrorists." Traffic cops, accountants and teachers aren't terrorists and cannot be marked for death. Their killing was, and is, a war crime. So, too, journalists carrying Hamas-issued press cards are not terrorists. They might be propagandists, as are many Israeli journalists, but they are not terrorists. Israel killed two birds with one stone: legitimacy, albeit false, for indiscriminate killing, alongside an additional stage in the realization of its grand plan. No society can function without teachers, doctors, social workers, engineers and clerks, and without a functioning society, it's easy to expel Gaza's residents to the four corners of the earth. On Thursday the latest episode of "The Tucker Carlson Show" aired, featuring a two-hour interview with Dr. Nick Maynard, an Oxford-educated British surgeon who has volunteered in Gaza for around 17 years, on and off. The atrocities that he described having witnessed were jaw-dropping: corpses in handcuffs, teenage boys who were brought in for surgery after having been shot in the testicles, babies who died of starvation and preemies left in incubators, on IDF orders, when a hospital was evacuated, and found dead a few weeks later…’ Links below
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They are not linking the US and Israeli militaries, they are putting the American military-industrial complex and every defense-related research in the US under the command and supervision of Israel. The US will have no more secrets; everything will be formally in Israel's hands
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This will ruin your day, perhaps your summer, or even the rest of your life. But you need to listen to it. You need to know the crimes that are done in your name and with your tax money. A British surgeon in Gaza testifies that Israeli soldiers used Palestinian children as target practice. One day, they would shoot the children in the testicles, and on other days, in their necks. They were practicing their shooting on children.
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We are a nation under siege.
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Why the fuck is the blame only confined to Itamar Ben-Gvir"? He is just saying things out loud, explicitly. The problem is systemic, inherent to an exclusionary system that MUST regard Palestinians (& others) as nonhumans. It is a necessary part of the system.
Abuse has become commonplace in Israel’s prison system on Itamar Ben-Gvir’s watch. Register for free to learn why he is likely to continue unhindered economist.com/middle-east-an…
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the alternative is that Israel 1) continues forever to oppress and deny indigenous Palestinians basic rights and liberties afforded to Jews; 2) expand their genocide into the West Bank and get rid of indigenous Palestinians completely, or significantly, or; 3) implement another large scale ethnic cleansing campaign to expel them, like they did in 1948 and 1967. this is Bernie Sanders, a Jewish supremacist, dressed in the rhetoric of progressiveness.
“[equal rights for Palestinians and Israelis] would be the end of the state of Israel and I support Israel” - Bernie Sanders
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Perhaps the worst pedophilia, rape and sexual abuse scandal in Israeli history is ricking the West Bank settlement movement. 1) A Kan 11 investigation exposed a horrifying network of organized, pedophilic, and sadistic child abuse within the Gush Etzion settler bloc. Five women who did not know each other provided identical testimonies, naming the same perpetrators and locations. 2) Perpetrators carried out organized, multi-perpetrator assaults on young children in synagogues, forests, and cemeteries 3) A local religious leader described the systemic crimes as "Sodom and Gomorrah" and "hell incarnate.” Lead journalist Roni Singer categorized the ring as raw "pedophilic and sadistic abuse." 4) Victim recalled a local rabbi raping her and brainwashing her that "her body does not belong only to her." 5) Rabbis hold absolute power in these tight-knit communities. Perpetrators used this spiritual status to command obedience and silence victims. 6) Community reputation took precedence over safety. Public outcry noted the core failure "is not a lack of complaints... the problem is the silencing, the lack of handling complaints, and zero punishment." 7) The West Bank police district routinely closed files without basic investigation. Because local law enforcement is heavily consumed by geopolitical conflict, severe domestic criminal networks operated unchecked in a lawless blind spot. The system of rape, abuse and unaccountability Israel has created against Palestinians is also eating the country from within. This is what a truly sick genocidal culture does to itself.
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78 years ago, 800,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes. Britain made it possible. Today, Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Britain made it possible. 78 years of the Nakba - and 78 years of British complicity in crimes against the Palestinian people.
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Hi, Josh Paul here from A New Policy. I've had a lot of very emotional conversations over the last couple of years, but one that has stuck with me was with an elderly Palestinian gentleman who reached out to me after this interview aired. He said "Thank you for telling that story about the boy who was raped in IDF custody. That happened to me, too, decades ago, and I have been too ashamed to speak to anyone about it until now." @NickKristof's article in the @NYTimes was a watershed moment in shedding light on this horrific practice, and there must be accountability for all the harm done, including to an old man who was, decades ago, a little boy in IDF custody.
🚨ISRAEL RAPED A 13-YEAR OLD PALESTINIAN CHILD When the US State Department complained to Israel's gov, the IDF raided the NGO that documented the case of rape, "removed their computers & declared them a TERRORIST ENTITY" per Josh Paul today, (former) Senior State Dep official
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