Listened to an MEI podcast interview with Ken Pollack about "US' options in Iran" until I had to stop for fear of losing my sanity. Attacking oil infra was last in line because "that could impact the US".

The horsemen of the apocalypse are riding across the sky tonight and it fills me with dread. I fear that much in the next decade can ultimately be traced back to this.

DK FM: "we agree with the Americans that we need to talk about together to determine how much we disagree"

These people are terrifying and genocidal through and through

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I think of data centers as modern Moai heads that can actually talk and convince us to keep building more and more of them until our civilization collapses.

Lists of Jews?

LISTS OF JEWS???

🔴 Gaza Health Ministry Director-General: At least 24 people in Gaza have died from extreme cold and collapsing shelters, including 3 deaths yesterday & a child, bringing the number of children killed by exposure to seven (it has since risen to 8).

The humanitarian crisis is worsening fast. While...

This is what the IRGC and Basij crackdown looks like on the ground in Iran, chasing protesters through alleys, firing at them from behind. Footage reportedly from January 4 shows the brutality firsthand. Thousands are already reported killed, even more wounded, with the real toll likely higher.

“[B]ehind the scenes, Saudi Arabia, Oman and Qatar are telling the White House that an attempt to topple the Iranian regime would rattle oil markets and ultimately hurt the U.S. economy, according to Arab Gulf officials. Most of all, they fear the blowback at home.”

+3k dead (let alone +10k) is insane. In the darkest days of Houla, Bayda, Banyas and Aleppo i do not think the Baath reached these numbers in a 1 week timeframe

The new season of the Middle East Political Science Podcast launches today with Rana Khoury’s new boom on international aid and changing modes of activism in Syria’s long war. Listen here and dig into the liner notes!

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This CBS interview is an incredible a psychological profile of this man. He is incredibly open about his egotism, showing absolutely no remorse about encouraging people to risk their lives while he risks nothing

No EU-level entity has managed to organize one boycott or sanction against Israel for over 2 years of genocide, decades of colonization, apartheid, and occupation, against the Palestinians, but in only a matter of days they are able to do this

Interesting analysis on Oman's view of the latest Yemen developments by my friend Farea Al-Muslimi

www.chathamhouse.org/2026/01/oman...