Dawn Lasky

🇮🇷 47 years ago, I stood at a window in Tehran as a 3-year-old boy, smelling burning tires and hearing the chants that would steal my country. I didn’t have words for what was happening. Today, I am watching smoke rise over the same city — but this time the smoke is not the end of Iran. It is, God willing, the beginning of her resurrection. Several weeks ago I wrote in that the fever of 1979 was finally breaking. I never imagined I would wake up to see that fever confronted so directly. Israel — with the clear support of the United States — has launched a preemptive strike deep into Tehran and against the regime’s military machinery. Explosions in the capital. Military targets hit. The IRGC’s aura of invincibility, already cracked, is shattering in real time. I do not celebrate war. No decent person does. What I celebrate — what millions of Iranians inside the country and in the diaspora have prayed for in secret for decades — is the possibility that a regime which has no right to exist may finally be forced to go. This is the same regime that: - Armed and cheered the October 7 massacre against Israel for no reason other than pure genocidal hatred. - Murdered tens of thousands of its own sons and daughters who dared to walk peacefully in the streets demanding the most basic freedoms. - Gouges out the eyes of young women for the “crime” of wearing makeup. - Hangs teenagers from cranes for posting a tweet. - Exports terror, poverty, and darkness to every corner it can reach including the U.S. No nation, no people, should have to live under that. Not Israelis. Not Americans. Not Lebanese. Not Syrians. And certainly not Iranians. I am a physician who has spent his life trying to heal bodies and a son of Iran who has spent his life mourning a stolen homeland. What we are witnessing is not aggression — it is surgery. Painful, necessary surgery to remove a tumor that has metastasized for 47 years. The tumor is the Islamic Republic that has hijacked Iran. To the brave pilots and special operators of the Israeli Air Force and the men and women of the United States military now carrying out this mission: I pray for you with everything I have. May God shield you from harm. May every missile find its target and every soldier return home safely to the families who love them. You are not invaders. You are the answer to the prayers of millions who have whispered “enough” in the dark since 1979. You are giving our friends the chance to breathe free air again. The entire region will owe you a peace we have not known in my lifetime. To my fellow Iranians watching from inside the country right now, heart pounding, maybe hiding in basements or on rooftops: Hold on. The end is clearer than it has ever been. The regime’s fear is real. Their eyes — those same eyes that once stared down at us with absolute power — now show something they haven’t shown in decades: panic. The math has changed. The window of 1979 is finally closing. To the little three-year-old boy I once was — and to every little boy and girl in Tehran, Isfahan, Shiraz, and Tabriz today who hears explosions instead of lullabies: This time the sounds are not the closing of a door. They are the opening of one. The road ahead will not be easy. Transitions never are. But the direction is unmistakable. A secular, prosperous, free Iran is no longer a dream — it is becoming an inevitability. I have lived the stolen life so that others might not have to. Today, for the first time in 47 years, I allow myself to believe that the stealing is almost over. Thank you, Israel. Thank you, America. The Iranian people — the real Iran — will never forget. The fever is breaking. The dawn of 2026 is here. And this time, the light wins. 🇮🇷❤️🇮🇱🇺🇸

@jarpad @Favor Sorry to hear your new year started out about as great as mine. I got rear ended in my truck on the 2nd so we’re both starting out the new year with a lot of aches and pains. 💜💜 feel better and I hope you get your sushi

Hey world. Happy new year. I have a cautionary tale about the @Favor app to hopefully save you from what I experienced over the last couple hours. Short version - I have a broken leg. So I can’t drive. But, I can still eat. SO, I ordered some sushi using the @favor app, and it arrived…. But, only half of it arrived… So, my favor delivery driver went BACK to the restaurant (the other half of my order was still there), and tried to grab it to deliver it to me… He called his @favor bosses (he was on speakerphone, and the hostess at the restaurant heard every word of the conversation and recounted it to me) and they told him to NOT deliver the remainder of my order to me, even though I had already paid and tipped in full… he protested, but the “customer service” at @favor told him to leave it alone (even though the food was there… and paid for… and I was still anxiously and hungrily waiting for it…). Long story short (and I hate that this is my first post of the year) - FUCK @favor!!!! You’ve revealed what you really care about. And, my attempts and calling and texting and messaging you privately only prove that you really don’t give a shit about your customers. That is all. Delete @favor Happy new year. ❤️

@lady_valor_07 Supernatural. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve re-watched it.

Name one

@Matt_Pinner Maude

I am totally drawing a blank. 🤔🤔

"actors who were best friends until they got shipped together so hard and now they never speak to each other" Luckily my bestfriendnism soulmateism duo CANNOT RELATE J2 be like people shipping us? well here have a feast.

@BradDeal151 @atensnut at least then we’d know where the hundred million dollar fire aid went and the $43 billion fast train money went. Election campaign.

It’s all hands on deck! Newsom is the great white hope for the Democratic Party. He must be elected President!! No lie is too ludicrous, no dirty trick too dirty. Remember, Orange Man Bad! Oppose anything Trump. More men in woman’s sports, more castrated little boys and mutilated little girls! We want DEI everywhere! It’s going to be a giant blue wave washing away the country!! It will be beautiful

Oh My Gawd! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@atensnut OMG my aunt had this huge machine in her house she used to do these punchcards for a living like eight hours a day she’ll be in her office doing this

What is this?

@ProRightMemes Awesome.

Describe this Florida Sheriff with ONE word.

@SunWestMortgag1 STAY AWAY! I was placed into an ineligible @FHAgov loan due to a mistake and Sunwest has taken four months so far to figure this out. Can’t streamline due to this mistake. Mortgage $500 higher than agreed.

RARE DOCUMENTARY: THE CENTRAL BANK OF THE UNITED STATES Exposes the corrupt and evil practices of the Federal Reserve bank.

Today, we say HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA, and more importantly, THANK YOU HOMELANDER. This country is stronger, happier and more fiscally sound than ever thanks to you. Send this post to a Starlighter to wish them a HAPPY 4TH!!!

@DeeMacNY @micah_erfan 💯💯💯💯💯

@DawnLasky @micah_erfan We can definitely agree he was crazy and represented the worst of whatever group he identified with.

@DeeMacNY @micah_erfan possible. I tjink the timing on the immigrant bill was too coincidental. but we’re talking. Not arguing. I hear your points. I think you hear mine. Instead of just blocking and running away pissed. That’s a good thing. Kelios and I'd been friends for 15 years to end over this 😢

@DawnLasky @micah_erfan We had a doctor shot in his own kitchen by a right-to-lifer with long range rifle. So it’s not a stretch to think anti-abortion was the motive of this latest murderer.

@DeeMacNY @micah_erfan they’ve been killing abortion doctors for years. I’ll never forget the amazing Kansas City Doctor that was gunned down in his own church.

@DawnLasky @micah_erfan Conservatives want a nationwide ban. Democrats want women to have the right to choose. Obviously there are many conservatives who see democrats as the impediment to getting the ban they want. So much so that apparently some are willing to kill democrats

@DeeMacNY @micah_erfan It’s gonna be decades till all the conservative Supreme Court judges, drop dead, and we have another shot of getting the Supreme Court to overturn the last decision That’s if we don’t have more pointed.

@DawnLasky @micah_erfan The abortion debate is certainly not over. There are red states that want to imprison their citizens who cross state lines to get an abortion. Abortion is still legal in blue states like Minnesota. Maybe that’s why Tim Walz was also on his kill list

@DeeMacNY @micah_erfan The timing still confuses me. There hasn’t been any abortion debates up there in years and the Supreme Court just completely stripped women of their rights. I really thought it was over the illegal on Medicaid vote.

@DawnLasky @micah_erfan He wasn’t hiding his bible thumping. There’s videos of him preaching. But obviously not every anti-abortion right winger is a murderer. But it seems to be true that every murderer killing in the name of stopping abortion is a right winger.

@DeeMacNY @micah_erfan I don’t disagree with you on that. But they’re usually Bible thumping nut jobs on the right. Hard to hide that kind of crazy and he hid it for years. I’m talking his opinions not the killing crazy. Easy for somebody to hide killing crazy serial killers were always the quiet guy.

@DawnLasky @micah_erfan He was a conservative evangelical anti-abortionist. Maybe with the never ending hateful rhetoric coming from Trump he became more radicalized over time. But it’s certainly not the first time so called republican right-to-lifer has resorted to lethal violence.

@DeeMacNY @micah_erfan waltz talked about him years ago. 4-5 years maybe. Dems hate MAGA. They hate people that disagree. Don’t even have to be MAGA. His Dem wife would’ve kicked him out. how did none of them know if he was MAGA. That’s my question.

@DawnLasky @micah_erfan There is zero evidence he was “good friends” with Walz. That’s another Fox News created lie. He was on an advisory board with 60 other people.

@DeeMacNY @kelios @micah_erfan yes, I get that. But he was supposedly friends with the woman who killed. He worked with her. How did none of them know he was MAGA?

@DawnLasky @kelios @micah_erfan There were 60 on that board. I’d bet each person appointed got a similar letter stating the governor & Secretary of State had “trust in their integrity” etc. Since he was already on the board & wasn’t a criminal at the time, there probably wasn’t a reason to believe otherwise

@DeeMacNY @micah_erfan I don’t believe any of them. But it’s just hard to believe that for years, he was such good friends with Tim Walz and his honor and integrity was what Tim admired. Was he a fucking spy?

@DawnLasky @kelios @micah_erfan You sure sound like you care. And there’s more than just one account of his political views. And, also, I’m sure if the “papa John guy” was saying that his lifelong friend was a democrat, you’d be taking his word as gospel.