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For the uninitiated on Rojava (Western Kurdistan) - zwan.substack.com/p/rojava-and-w… The Libertarian Socialist experiment must be defended by force of arms, ideally and preferably via transnational Kurdish unity.

@SOARPodcast @JesusChryslerII He was soft on Trump and didn’t challenge him.

@JesusChryslerII Oh no he offered both candidates a slot on his podcast and one took it and the other didn’t 😭 to bad he was right throughput the whole covid debate and jack white was wrong on 90% of it 🤣 glad I didn’t listen to icky thump or whatever one hit wonder Jack came up with

@larrymarklevine @BernieSanders You bellend Larry.

@BernieSanders Fuck uou, just fuck off. Millions of Israelis are living in shelters while illegal cluster bombs are destroying homes and business. Where is your righteous indignation about that?

While the world focuses on the destruction in Iran, we must not ignore what Israel is doing in Lebanon. 1,461 have been killed. 4,430 have been injured. 1.2 million have been displaced. Israel now occupies 14% of Lebanon. Enough is enough. No more US military aid to Israel.

@shortmagsmle You’re painfully dumb Lee. Stay away from geopolitics.

I’m noticing a lot of foreigners who seem to not understand why we’d risk hundreds of lives, spend millions of dollars, and sacrifice several aircraft to rescue one guy. And the reason they don’t understand is also the reason people can’t be made American by a piece of paper.

This is Communism masked as Democratic Socialism. I will run this low life con man into the ground in debates during my run for Mayor of NYC in 2029

@ComicDaveSmith Is this in reference to this video? youtu.be/ykBp1WhdfLE?si…

I can’t believe how hard Tucker just went at Trump and he is legitimately a modern American hero for doing it.

@HMBohemond Morgan is right wing by every stretch of the imagination. Don’t be silly.

You can tell this is bullshit because it lists a notable British leftist and an unironic communist as "right wing."

@J3ffMiller @NateSilver538 @Bassaces1 Extraordinary. How can you be this ignorant?

@NateSilver538 @Bassaces1 How do you clock Elon Musk as right leaning?

These are the Twitter/X accounts with the most engagement so far in 2026. I suppose I had some intuition for how bad it was, but jeez, this is what you get when the ecosystem is broken.

@mehdirhasan Why would you expect Shapiro to do that? He’s an establishment candidate wedded to no change in the foreign policy sphere.

Bill Maher pushes Trump talking points and falsely claims that the Iranians were a "couple of weeks from having 11 [nuclear] bombs" prior to this war - and Josh Shapiro just lets him get away with it. Zero pushback from a wannabe Dem president. Sheesh.

@zarahsultana At least tag him. @Keir_Starmer

Keir Starmer dressed up for Easter - the least he could do for his master, Donald.

This excuse for cutting off all power and bridges to 96 million Iranians (the population we're pretending to save) -- "they're animals" -- is verbatim the excuse given by Israel as to why they were cutting off all food, water and fuel from entering Gaza ("they're animals").

@DJKitty13063031 @IranArmyMedia Your president is still a pedophile Kathy.

Dear Americans, Your President is a Pedophile

@quantum_shadow_ Objectively true.

He finally killed a terrorist

@BretWeinstein But he can’t be held accountable and isn’t being held accountable is he?

Trump, who I advocated for in 2024, has gone full "mad king." In considering my responsibility, I'd ask you to remember: The case I made rested on the fact that Biden/Harris were figureheads, shielding a cabal that couldn't be held to account, whereas Trump could. And we must.

@AllegedlyDrew @ComicDaveSmith @sostalksmoney Bot account.

@ComicDaveSmith @sostalksmoney Adam would smoke your ass. Come on the PBD panel and let’s go for real. Bet you’d back out of that.

Wise choice @sostalksmoney

@RnaudBertrand @realSteveDeals @JimDMiller My goodness, ‘educated’ people like Miller are some of the most stupid and callous people.

@realSteveDeals @JimDMiller Yes 😅

Make no mistake: destroying world-class universities, like the US just did with Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, isn't just an attack on Iran but it's literally an attack on all of us, on all of humanity. It's not Iran that "won" when Maryam Mirzakhani made her discoveries that won her a Fields Medal: it's all of mathematics, and everything mathematics is used for. Human progress won, technology won, we all won. It's the same type of stuff the Mongols did during the sack of Baghdad and their destruction of the House of Wisdom: we ALL lost something irreplaceable back then, entire fields of human knowledge set back. That's what bombing a university does. It doesn't just destroy buildings. It destroys us, all of us.

@JimDMiller The abject callousness you have to be imbued with and the level of propaganda you must have swallowed to make this argument is extraordinary. The US were and are the aggressors, objectively speaking.

The U.S. might use nuclear weapons if Iran destroys Gulf desalination plants and keeps targeting repaired plants and incoming water tankers. Hundreds of thousands could die of thirst if Iran does that. The U.S. may decide only a nuclear strike will stop Iran.

@DanielGoldersUK @DavidGauke @mikegalsworthy @Nigel_Farage @BorisJohnson @trussliz @RobertJenrick @Jacob_Rees_Mogg Daniel, I’ll say this slowly because I think you’re limited, Kamala Harris was by no stretch of the imagination a communist. She was an awful corporate democratic nominee, perfectly aligned with Joe Biden.

@DavidGauke @mikegalsworthy @Nigel_Farage @BorisJohnson @trussliz @RobertJenrick @Jacob_Rees_Mogg What - You'd rather have seen vile rancid Communist nutjob Kamala "Word Salad" Harris as President??

Any regrets yet from @Nigel_Farage @BorisJohnson @trussliz @RobertJenrick @Jacob_Rees_Mogg for backing this man to be President?

@TzillaSaid @mohammedIhysse Are you dumb? West Asia is the Middle East. You could have remained silent and hidden your ignorance yet you decided to advertise it.

@mohammedIhysse You’re a liar. You’re not in Gaza. This is some creative writing prompt.

While we were trapped in northern Gaza and the bombardment intensified, I decided to move to the south to escape death. There was an Israeli army checkpoint. When my wife, my children, and I crossed, an Israeli soldier shouted at me, telling me to lower my head to the ground. He ordered me loudly to say that Palestine does not exist and to say that I am a rat. Sadly, I said it — I even said I was a rat. Not because I was afraid for myself, but because I was afraid they might kill my children in front of me, or kill me and leave my children alone after me. I remembered this moment now, and today I say it openly: Palestine is our land, and you occupied it. One day it will be free. I am not a rat — and you know that. You were standing with your weapon in front of my children, while I had nothing but the clothes I was wearing. I am not a rat, and Palestine is my homeland...

@BritishPsycho__ Yes but he doesn’t believe this, slight bit of pressure and he returns to his usual nastiness and close mindedness.

Obviously I’m team Green but this is smart

So, if I got that right, here's the narrative: - A US F-15E fighter jet got shot down over Iran, despite Trump saying 2 days beforehand in his nationwide address that Iran has "no anti-aircraft equipment. Their radar is 100% annihilated." (apnews.com/article/donald…) - The plane's weapons systems officer - a "highly respected Colonel," according to Trump - ejected from the plane and got "seriously wounded" (still according to Trump: @realDonaldTrump/116351956955900185" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTru…) - He still managed to "hike up a 7,000-foot [2.1km] mountain ridgeline and hide in a crevice" in the Zagros Mountains, despite his wounds (time.com/article/2026/0…) - U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drones started killing all "Iranian military-aged males believed to be a threat who got within three kilometers of [the American's location]" (x.com/ByChrisGordon/…) - To retrieve him the U.S. managed to seize an "abandoned airport," 200 miles deep inside Iran, near Isfahan (bbc.com/news/articles/…), which happens to be where Iran's largest atomic scientific center is located (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isfahan_N…) - They landed two MC-130 military transport planes in that airport (theaviationist.com/2026/04/05/u-s…) in an operation involving "hundreds of special forces troops and military personnel" (time.com/article/2026/0…) - Both MC-130 planes got "stuck in the sand" and the U.S. destroyed them themselves "to prevent them from falling into Iranian hands" (theaviationist.com/2026/04/05/u-s…) - They deployed "three new aircraft to extract all the U.S. personnel" on the ground (theaviationist.com/2026/04/05/u-s…) - There are videos circulating online of "heavy clashes" with presumably Iranian missiles raining down in Kohgiluyeh County, in the Zagros Mountains during that night (x.com/Afshin_Ismaeli…) - Iran sent pictures of the aftermath at the "abandoned airport" and it's a sight of utter destruction, with US plane and MH-6 helicopter parts scattered all over the ground, still smoking (turkiyetoday.com/region/wreckag…). Iran claims they are the ones who in fact destroyed all the aircraft. - Meanwhile a second U.S. plane, an A-10 Warthog, also crashed on Friday near the Strait of Hormuz according to two U.S. officials speaking to the NYT (#47863db0-d61e-51bf-b7e1-6c4a9dc988e7" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">nytimes.com/live/2026/04/0…). In that instance too the lone pilot was apparently "safely rescued." - In all this, after the multiple planes and helicopters destroyed or shot down, the documented heavy clashes, the "hundreds of special forces troops and military personnel" operating deep inside Iran, not a single US soldier was reported killed "or even wounded" (according to Trump: @realDonaldTrump/116350133044957842" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTru…). - And the 'highly respected Colonel' this was all for? No name. No photo. No interview. Nobody has spoken to him nor knows who he is. So to sum up: anti-aircraft equipment that supposedly didn't exist shot down an F-15 (and, apparently, an A-10 Warthog the same day). A seriously wounded man climbed a 2.1km mountain. The US seized an airfield 200 miles inside a country it's at war with, next to one of its most strategic nuclear sites, and deployed hundreds of troops all apparently unimpeded. Lost two planes to "sand" and destroyed their own helicopters. Videos show heavy clashes, missiles raining down - but not a single person got "even wounded". And the man at the center of it all? Nobody knows who he is, completely anonymous, zero pictures, but Trump says he is "SAFE and SOUND." And so is the rescued A-10 Warthog pilot, who also remains anonymous. Trump concludes this all proves the US has "achieved overwhelming Air Dominance and Superiority over the Iranian skies" (@realDonaldTrump/116350133044957842" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTru…), despite the whole episode only happening because Iran shot his planes out of the sky. Basically, the only thing that's "overwhelming" here is the audacity of the storytelling...