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Great May Day Rally yesterday! So glad to meet @CoriBush @hasanthehun & @carolinekwan people who care about fighting for workers everywhere and are part of the reason i joined the fight.

"On Polymarket, the Journal found, 67% of profits go to just 0.1% of accounts. That means less than 2,000 accounts netted a total of nearly half a billion dollars."

Oops... The end result of U.S. semiconductors export controls is: Nvidia down to 0% market share in the world's largest semiconductors market, and China's AI is on par with the U.S. "Backfired" is the understatement of the century. (tomshardware.com/tech-industry/…)

Last week, American/Israeli fighter jets targeted Iranian Pistachio Company warehouses. The Resnick family's Beverly Hills-based pistachio empire stands to gain. You won't believe the backstory ⤵️

“Left-wing satire is structurally impossible” do you hear yourself

Here's 73-year-old Senator Susan Collins vibrating like an electric toothbrush in her re-election campaign announcement 😬

Trump has ten more days until his scheduled visit to Beijing. He could either cancel the visit for a second time which would make it seem like he has completely lost control of the situation or arrive and be subject to a situation where he is pressured over the continued closure of the Strait which will wind up becoming the dominating issue in the talks alongside Taiwan.

U.S. intelligence says recent fighting has not significantly slowed Iran’s nuclear program. Officials still estimate Iran would need about 9–12 months to build a nuclear weapon if it chose to do so—roughly unchanged from last year. Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium remains largely intact and unaccounted for, which experts say is key to any weapons timeline. Source: Reuters

Of the GCC states, the UAE has been the most openly aggressive about rejecting the results of the Six Week War (ie, defeat), the most openly Israel-aligned, clashing with Saudi for not supporting UAE-Israel desire for more war. The UAE has learned nothing. x.com/bonzerbarry/st…

>South Korea should take some action South Korea was not consulted about the war or involved in it nor does it have the expeditionary capacity or network of military bases in the Persian Gulf necessary to secure shipping there.

Fars: A military informed source: The fire in the UAE was the result of the US Army's adventurism Following the explosion and widespread fire at the oil facilities of Fujairah port and the attribution of it to the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran, a military informed official said: The Islamic Republic had no pre-planned program to attack the mentioned oil facilities, and what happened was the result of the US Army's adventurism to create a passage for the illegal transit of ships through the forbidden routes of the Strait of Hormuz, and the US Army must be held accountable for it. US statesmen must end the ugly behavior of using force in diplomacy and cease military adventurism in this sensitive oil region that affects the economy of all countries worldwide.

💢 NEW: A senior Iranian official tells Drop Site another U.S. attack is likely 🔸 “Based on current assessments, another military attack seems likely,” the official tells Jeremy Scahill 🔸 Says Trump’s blockade has failed to achieve its goals 🔸Adds Trump “can’t keep the blockade going much longer” — increasing pressure to act 🔸 Warns the U.S. will likely escalate to try to force a result 🔹Expects escalation to focus on: ➤ Hormuz and Iran’s coastline ➤ Expanded military operations ➤ A new wave of assassinations of Iranian leaders, potentially with Israel 🔹Why Iran thinks this: ➤ Trump can’t sustain the blockade indefinitely ➤ He needs a visible outcome or ‘win’ ➤ Escalation becomes the fallback option 🔹Iran’s posture in response: ➤ Preparing for retaliation across the region ➤ Has rebuilt defenses during the ceasefire ➤ And developed new target lists Full new report from Jeremy Scahill is below ⬇️

My investigation with @DropSiteNews which exposed that U.S. forces had bombed, kidnapped and tortured 36 fishermen was referenced in a congressional hearing by Rep. Keating while questioning U.S. Secretary of War Hegseth. If you haven’t yet read the article, check it out below!

⚡️ Trita Parsi to Drop Site: Trump “Snatched Defeat from the Jaws of Success” 🔹1. Dr. Trita Parsi, Iran expert at the Quincy Institute, told Drop Site that Trump squandered a ceasefire that disproportionately favored the United States: “Trump really snatched defeat from the jaws of success because the ceasefire actually disproportionately favored the United States,” Parsi said. Without resuming the war, Trump could have alleviated pressure on global energy markets, eroded Iranian leverage, and drawn out a negotiating process without immediately lifting sanctions — one of Tehran’s core demands. Instead, he escalated. 🔹2. “The more aggressive [Trump’s] rhetoric tends to become, the more he says that the Iranians are in disarray, the more it tends to be a reflection of the fact that his own negotiating position has become tremendously vulnerable and weakened,” Parsi said. 🔹3. Parsi said that Trump also appears to have embraced faulty FDD projections Projections, including those produced by the neoconservative think tank the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies convinced him that his naval blockade would bring a weakened and more pliable Iran to the negotiating table. Trump began claiming that Iranian oil infrastructure was on the verge of catastrophic failure. 🔹4. On what Trump is actually seeking: Parsi said, “I think Trump is looking for some sort of a spectacular military action that is not necessarily successful on a strategic level, but on a tactical level, gives the impression that he has dominance — escalation dominance and control — and then go to the negotiating table and strike a deal. The Iranians are not going to allow him to get that.” 🔹5. “It may actually prove to be a blessing for the Iranians” if Trump resumes military attacks, Parsi said: “Iran still has escalation dominance in this scenario. On the contrary, I think the Iranians have now further honed their strategy. They are more confident about exactly what they can achieve.” Parsi said Iran would likely expand attacks in the Gulf, particularly targeting the UAE, Israel’s closest Arab ally. (The report was published just before U.S. attacks on Fujairah, UAE, were confirmed later in the day on Monday) 🔹6. On Trump’s China visit, scheduled for May 14: Parsi said economic pressure is the only news that seems to impact the White House. “The only thing that reaches him is how bad the economy is going — and how much of a problem it’s going to be for him if he has to show up in Beijing and face the Chinese from this utter position of embarrassment and weakness.” “He still has this false illusion that the blockade, one way or another, is going to deliver him the type of a victory that will rewrite the entire history of these last seven, eight weeks. If he goes after Iran’s exports to China, he will not only escalate this regional conflict into a global conflict, but he will further push up oil prices, which will backfire faster on him than it will backfire on the Iranians.” 🔹7. On Iran’s emerging toll system: Parsi said that while some countries may balk at the idea of paying tolls to Iran, eventually they would accept it as a new norm. “At the end of the day, they need their oil and they will pay the fees. And the Iranians are going to use the fee collections, not necessarily as something that replaces all income, but something that forces countries to reestablish financial connections with Iran, countries that otherwise had left the Iranian market as a result of US sanctions,” he said. “Now the Iranians have leverage to push them back in. And that is of tremendous value to them to be able to make sure that they have these connections.” Jeremy Scahill’s full new report for Drop Site News is below ⬇️

"Hasan Piker is far less covered than he should be" This website tallies all dedicated mentions of Hasan in the media. Since my last visit 8 days ago, he's been mentioned 8 times a day.

AIPAC is actively trying to minimize the threat of Nick Fuentes, a literal neo-Nazi. The idea that these fascists give literally a single fuck about the safety of American Jews is beyond laughable.

Israel must immediately release the activists it has kidnapped in int'l waters. Persecuting those who oppose Apartheid is part of the crime of Apartheid. Israel won't stop bullying killing and torturing people until it is forced to: Boycott, Divest, Protest, Activate courts now.

Here’s video of President Kotlikoff driving into the students & the questions that got him so upset, courtesy of @CornellSun

Trying to imagine a universe in which a pro-Israel guest invokes personal Jewish identity as important to the conversation and is met with "don't try that on me!" by Trevor Phillips, or indeed literally any other figure in British media or politics.

There was a literal school shooting in the West Bank two weeks ago and not a peep from @shannonrwatts, @fred_guttenberg, etc.

So @brhodes who has posed as a critic of the genocide is helping launder the reputation of one of its key defenders and architects rather than join efforts to remove those who backed genocide from positions of influence and power. It’s all just water on the bridge, no big deal!