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Map showing which countries are the hairiest

MORE: MBS has also pushed for strikes on Iran’s energy infrastructure. Source: NYT

MORE: MBS has also pushed for strikes on Iran’s energy infrastructure. Source: NYT

From Politico. The US says its plan is to keep assassinating Iranian leaders until a Delcy Rodriguez-style figure emerges who will do what they want. Article says the main thing is a future leader gives the US first dibs on oil rights

Lot of interesting nuggets here, but it's mildly amusing that trans people are not the group with the most positive views on trans people.

The number of people I encounter who can’t explain their (generally “good”) jobs and/or what their spouses do is staggering. I’d love to see people try to describe what they actually do for a living in a single 280 character tweet in a way that the average person can understand.

U.S. and Israeli officials increasingly view securing the Strait of Hormuz as the most realistic endgame of the conflict, shifting away from earlier ambitions like regime change and fully stopping Iran’s nuclear program, which they now consider unlikely to succeed. Source: WaPo

Trump: "They call it a war, we call it a military operation."

You negotiate with terrorists. We do not. In the UAE, we don’t negotiate with terrorists we ban them, we eliminate them. To Washington, to the EU, to NATO, to Israel do whatever you need to do. The Islamic regime in Iran and its terrorist network must go. BTW..The Muslim Brotherhood and the IRGC are designated as terrorist threats in the UAE. Yet in the UK, the Muslim Brotherhood is not banned, and the IRGC has long faced hesitation in being fully proscribed. That is the difference. We act. Others debate.