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Very grateful to @stephenharrigan for his review of Texas Blood in @nytimes nytimes.com/2018/01/05/boo…

Pakistan Plays Peacemaker While Bombing and Blockading Afghan Civilians, by @Emran_Feroz and Mohammad Zaman Nazari dropsitenews.com/p/pakistan-pea…

Premature Babies Evacuated After Israeli Attack on Al-Shifa Returned to Gaza After More Than Two Years dropsitenews.com/p/premature-ba…

🗞️ NYC Council speaker opposing wealth tax underreports family fortune, Lever reports New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin, a key obstacle to Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s proposed tax on the ultra-wealthy, is accused of obscuring her family’s wealth through disclosure loopholes. ➤ The Lever reports Menin listed under $500,000 in assets, while her family holdings may be worth tens of millions, including a $22M Hamptons home, luxury NYC properties, and access to private jets. ➤ The gap stems from rules allowing spouses’ assets to remain confidential, even though they are disclosed privately to the city’s Conflict of Interest Board. Her husband runs a major real estate firm, and much of the multimillion-dollar portfolio cited comes from his business holdings. ➤ ➤ Menin has pushed spending cuts over new taxes. Mamdani warned her plan would “slash billions” from agencies and “ensure this structural deficit will continue,” arguing closing the gap without taxing the wealthy is “unrealistic.”

⚡️New from @DropSiteNews: Israel is Conducting a Campaign to Ethnically Cleanse Southern Lebanon of Shia Residents Residents of border villages have been abandoned by the Lebanese army as Israeli troops invade. Report from @LyllaYounes dropsitenews.com/p/southern-leb…

The more civilian infrastructure we destroy in Iran and the more we set back their economy, the more determined Iran will be to extract the maximum possible toll from oil passing through what is now their strait. That toll will be paid by us and the rest of the world through a higher cost of living. So just be aware that every video of a bridge being blown up, a pharmaceutical plan destroyed, a medical clinic flattened, is a video of something *you* are going to pay to rebuild.

Jewish troops will be looking for Muslims hidden in the attics of Christians. Let that sink in.

@LivPetersen Yuck.

👀Overheard in our newsroom just now: I'm so over formers continuing to write our "obituary" (air quote) when I can turn on TV, check any news channel and see us and our reporting. Case in point. (points to nearby TV with MS NOW showing last night's drone scoop)

@LivPetersen So disheartened to see this tweeted out. I’ve heard no ‘former’ wish anything but the best to those still in The Post newsroom— and until now same in the other direction. Knowing how assiduously Posties’ tweets are policed, the snark in this one must be intentional.

Afghans Search for Missing Family Members After Strike on Rehab Center Kills At Least 400 by Fazelminallah Qazizai and @Emran_Feroz dropsitenews.com/p/kabul-afghan…

Trump is doing more to destroy the fossil fuel industry and smash the sources of wealth that fuel inequality than the wildest socialist eco-terrorist could ever dream of

Grieving Parents in Iran Spend Every Night at the Graves of Their Children, Killed by U.S. Strike, by Mahmoud Aslan dropsitenews.com/p/minab-iran-e…

💢 Jeremy Scahill says Iraq is once again “up for grabs” on the regional chessboard, as the country the U.S. invaded, occupied, and dismantled is pulled back into a widening war that will have “huge implications for the future of Iraq.” He describes a deeper clash underway, where societies with deep historical roots and the capacity to endure are confronting Washington’s approach. As he puts it, “the long view of history is clashing up against the short-term attention span of Donald Trump and his concoction of neocon plus MAGA foreign policy.” Watch the full discussion from our livestream this morning below, where Scahill and Ryan Grim break down how U.S. policy, regional escalation, and internal Iraqi power struggles are converging. @jeremyscahill | @ryangrim

It's hard to destroy a cathedral, one window at a time.

Pankaj Mishra on the “rupture in historical memory” that has led India to forsake Iran go.nybooks.com/3N19jS3

Iran Weighs Tactical Shift in Persian Gulf Strikes While Intensifying Attacks on Israel dropsitenews.com/p/iran-us-isra…

Israel Assaults Lebanon With Ground Incursions, Relentless Airstrikes, Mass Displacement Orders dropsitenews.com/p/lebanon-hezb…

Mass expulsion in Lebanon as Israel expands war. dropsitenews.com/p/lebanon-hezb…

Somehow Trump admin seems to be making every foreign policy mistake US has made over decades all at once.

Look at these numbers. AI summaries are fuelling a news holocaust.

Confidential database reveals which items NPS thinks may ‘disparage’ America wapo.st/3OKoDTr