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When I became a citizen of the United States in 2014, on the basis of political asylum from the Gaza Strip and escaping Jihadi Islamism, I sincerely and seriously never thought that pro-Jihad, pro-Hamas, pro-terror, fascist, pro-Iran, pro-Hezbollah, anti-civilizational dark forces would become a mainstream staple in American politics and discourse. Having a group of ignorant domestic terrorists with Hamas and Palestinian flags, hiding their faces and taking over public space outside the City Hall of Philadelphia, the birthplace of America, is not only a grotesque sight, but it also demonstrates so much that has gone wrong. It is a condemnation of our country's higher education institutes, which have normalized violence, anti-Western ideologies, and embarrassing “post-colonial” narratives. This is a condemnation of a failed revisionist, neo-liberal immigration approach in which assimilation is frowned upon and viewed as bad and negative, coddling people with truly horrendous beliefs, ideologies, cultures, and backgrounds, instead of seeking to uplift and elevate them and their status. This is a condemnation of failed parenting, nonexistent community infrastructure to educate young people, failed leftist discourses, and moral bankruptcy. Remember that this has nothing to do with Palestine, for these “activists” ruined the “pro-Palestine” cause and are now seeking to latch on to any and every remaining filth that can vector their anti-human, anti-America, anti-Western, and anti-decent discourse and value system that can produce anything of meaning. Burning the American flag, while exercising your right to free speech, is the ultimate irony that only the United States of America affords to literal domestic terrorists, who are engaged in a subversive act against the very country and patriotic values that they seek to “dismantle.” Still, freedom of choice does not equal freedom from consequences. This cannot be normalized, as it unfortunately has been over the past two and a half years since Hamas’s October 7th attack. This is a domestic battle for our country’s values and future – it’s time to choose the direction you want this country to head in.

@AlternatNews We will see. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

The strategic defeat the US are looking at is so big I don’t think they’ll be able to recover. Iran isn’t doing just asymmetrical warfare they’re battling a superpower head on with surgical precision. They’ve dissected US bases in the Gulf like knife through butter. Truly impressive. They are also doing it cleverly under the radar. They are not activating Hezbollah, Yemen and Iraq. They are not using shock&awe. The early warning radars first, then factories and military in Israel, warning shots destroying buildings near the Domona nuclear site, but no killer blow. A gas field or so, just to show that they can. It is like mosquitoes eating you at night. At no point are you reaching for your gun. However, you know, these bastards are winning. Humiliation after humiliation. NYT:

@grok @PopBase

The investigations for these Fair Workweek violations (enacted 2017) largely began under the prior Adams admin—e.g., Salz Management's 2-year DCWP probe and QSR's 2022 case. Mamdani's team (new DCWP commissioner) finalized/settled them and announced the $1.8M payout as part of $8.5M total restitution since Jan 1. He deserves credit for ongoing enforcement but not originating most of the work. Scale: 4/10.

Zohran Mamdani’s administration has secured $1.8 million in restitution for 800+ NYC fast food and retail workers whose labor rights were violated.

@souljagoyteller And what about the Muslim countries? Should they also be secular?

I agree that Jews should be treated like everyone else. Israel should become a secular state for all people who live in the Levant

@bossmuhadan Let's just say, for argument's sake, you're right. Would that be a good or bad result as far as you're concerned?

🇮🇷🇺🇸America has pushed Iran's status up high. After this war, Iran will become a real leader in the middle east, they have shown capacity already.

Why do you think he's doing such a great job? He's only a few months in so there is only so much he could have done, but in the same vein, how can you say he's doing such a good job when he's had very little time to accomplish anything? Yet, you're ready to vote for him for president (if he was eligible)? Please explain. I'm genuinely curious.

Every presidential hopeful is lucky he isn’t eligible

@clivedenset @shanaka86

@kanbar @shanaka86 LOL, that's a funny reference. But seriously, I was as shocked as you would have been to receive that call a week into a war, where people should have obviously thought shit through before hand.

BREAKING: The Strait of Hormuz is no longer closed. It is no longer open. It is something the world has never seen before: a permissioned corridor run by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, priced at $2 million per vessel, payable in yuan. Three ships transited in the last 24 hours. Three. Out of a pre-war average of 60 per day. Total throughput: 310,000 deadweight tonnes. Three percent of normal. Four hundred vessels are waiting outside the strait right now. One hundred and fifty tankers. One hundred and twenty bulk carriers. One hundred and thirty others. Waiting for permission from the IRGC Navy to enter a 5-nautical-mile channel between Larak and Qeshm islands inside Iranian territorial waters. This is how the gate works. A vessel operator contacts approved intermediaries with IRGC connections, submitting full documentation: IMO number, ownership chain, cargo manifest, destination, crew list. The intermediaries forward the package to the IRGC Navy’s Hormozgan Provincial Command for sanctions screening, cargo alignment checks that prioritise oil over all other commodities, and geopolitical vetting. The toll is approximately $2 million per tanker. For a VLCC carrying 2 million barrels, that is $1 per barrel. Preferred currency: yuan. If the vessel passes, the IRGC issues a clearance code and route instructions. Upon approach, VHF radio hail, AIS verification, patrol boat escort. One ship at a time. Through the narrowest channel of the most important waterway on Earth. Iranian crude is still flowing. Approximately 1.1 to 1.5 million barrels per day, mostly to China, at near pre-war levels. Iran’s own oil transits the strait it controls. The blockade applies to everyone else. Iran is simultaneously the gatekeeper and the primary beneficiary. The toll funds the IRGC. The IRGC maintains the gate. The gate generates the toll. The circle is self-sustaining. Now look at what is NOT transiting. Fertiliser. Gulf nations supply 49 percent of the world’s exported urea. Ammonia requires the natural gas that Qatar declared Force Majeure on and that Iranian strikes disrupted at South Pars. Effectively zero fertiliser vessels have received approval through the permissioned corridor. The IRGC is prioritising oil because oil generates revenue. Fertiliser does not. The molecules that feed four billion people are trapped behind a gate that only opens for molecules that fund the gatekeeper. The yuan preference is the structural shift that outlasts the war. Every tanker that pays in yuan instead of dollars establishes a precedent. Every precedent weakens the petrodollar architecture that has governed energy trade since 1974. The IRGC is not just blocking a strait. It is building an alternative payment rail under live fire. The $2 million toll in yuan is not a fee. It is a proof of concept for a post-dollar energy settlement system, stress-tested in the most extreme conditions imaginable: a three-front war with the world’s largest military. The world’s central banks are trapped by the same strait: the Fed cannot cut, the ECB is hiking, the BOJ is tightening. Six countries are rationing fuel. Japan’s 10-year yield hit a 27-year high. Slovenia has QR codes at the pump. South Korea is barring government vehicles one day per week. And behind all of it, 400 ships wait outside a 5-nautical-mile channel for a clearance code from the IRGC Navy, payable in a currency that is not the dollar. Twenty percent of the world’s oil supply. Controlled by a VHF radio call and a yuan transfer. The strait did not close. It changed ownership. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

@UnionStrong_77 @mindyisser The term limits law was passed in 1993 and Bloomberg became mayor in 2002.

@mindyisser New York City mayors are limited to two terms thanks to that asshole Bloomberg.

no one is doing it like him. he’s gonna be elected to 10 terms they’re gonna call him king zohran

@AmirAminiMD You may be right not you could just as easily be wrong. One thing I'm confident of is that you have no ideas what you're talking about, but even a broken clock is right twice a day.

Sending troops to Iran because Iran’s “navy and air forces are defeated” is like sending a 3 year old into the ring to fight Mike Tyson because Tyson’s left little toe is broken. Iran never had a strong navy or air force to begin with. What Iran does have is one of the largest and best organized militia forces in the world. Millions of reservists who are ready and waiting to fight for their homeland, their faith and their lives. This is a suicide mission.

@RmSalih @grok No offense taken at all, for what it's worth.

@RmSalih @grok how many Christians have been slaughtered by Jews and how many by Muslims?

I don't get this Christian hate for Muslims but love for Jews. Islam honours Jesus and gives Chrstians a special status in the Quran. Judaism considers Jesus a false prophet and its leaders plotted against him, arrested him, interrogated him and handed him over to the Romans to be killed. If I were a Christian I know which religion I would regard more warmly.

@clivedenset @shanaka86

@kanbar @shanaka86 LOL, I got a call on a Sunday, a week into this, asking me to help fix the shipping issues in the strait - that no one had thought about. I bet Bibi Dinh Diem has been having wet dreams of getting the US into a war that wipes out his enemies and weakens the US for decades though

@PempheroMphande If you think the USA would nuke a country over such an attack, you're either intellectually dishonest or just a complete fool.

If Iran dropped a bomb on US soil and killed 168 girls, WE all know what America’s response would be. Nuke Iran. America is the only country to have ever nuked another country. Yet so many fools have been brainwashed that it’s Iran who cannot have a nuclear weapon because they would bomb everyone. But we all know, it is America that has no restraint to bombing anyone at will and using a nuke. Knowledge is free, just as stupidity is free!

@shanaka86 Boy, there are some angry terrorist supporters on the thread! Keep doubting the will of innovators. Let me know how that goes. You probably said Israel had no chance against Iran in the 12 say war.

1/3 of the oil that would normally do through Hormuz can already bypass it through the Saudi Petroline. How long do you think it will take Saudi and the Gulf states to build additional pipelines that will render Hormuz irrelevant? I give it 24 months tops. The free market tends to work beautifully.

@WiseRavan @shanaka86 Demand always drops when the price of oil goes up meaningfully. That's why oil producers don't like oil to be so expensive.

@kanbar @shanaka86 Free market concept always worked on demand and availability. Oil demand is increasing day by day ...now availability is reduced. No idea how availability will increase by 24 month or demand will stop increasing by 24 month.

@clivedenset @shanaka86 You have no idea how long this has been planned

@kanbar @shanaka86 Building a 1,000 km oil pipeline typically takes three to four years for construction, though the entire process from planning to operation often spans seven to ten years. Major projects of this scale are generally completed within this 3-4 year timeframe.

@PaddyMcTrader @shanaka86 If that were the case, oil would cost much more than $100 / bbl

@kanbar @shanaka86 In between 4 to 12 weeks, many western nations will start to run out of oil and gas. If that continues for 4+ weeks, major public outcry will spill over into political instability the likes of which we've never seen. All of this will be (rightly) blamed on Israel, so buckle up.

@Walfernz @jacobkornbluh First of all, he's not Semetic even by the literal definition of the word since he is from Uganda and India. Now look up the history of the word "antisemitism." Perhaps it is you who might be the dumb ass?

@kanbar @jacobkornbluh Tfuck you mean anti semitic? He is semitic, dumbass

NYC Mayor Mamdani helped load cars with food for Jewish families ahead of Passover at the annual Chasdei Lev distribution event at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn. 📸 Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office