Fly on the Ceiling

Netanyahu is very frustrated at the high chance the war will end soon. Leaks from a recent cabinet meeting show him saying the following: 1) Israel has prepared a target bank focused on Iran's power stations and national infrastructure, believing that striking them would cause the collapse of the Tehran regime and shorten the war. The decision now awaits Trump. 2) Iran has roughly 300–400 ballistic missiles remaining. Israel and the US have destroyed hundreds of launchers, but Iran still retains more than half of its original launcher capacity. Bad weather is also limiting Israel's ability to hunt missile launchers. 3) Israel believes the US must act decisively to open the straitsa, warning that allowing Iran to keep it closed would be a major political win for Tehran. Israeli sources estimate a US operation there would be "the final chord of the war" and take about a month. 4) He highlighted economic damage to Iran — 70% of steel production capacity hit, GDP reduced by 2–3%. He also discussed potential energy pipeline routes through Saudi Arabia to bypass Hormuz, and mentioned growing Arab state cooperation with Israel. 5) Netanyahu stated Israel will refuse any externally imposed ceasefire in Lebanon, insisting it must remain Israel's independent decision. 6) Netanyahu criticized what he called a "massive depression industry" working to suppress Israeli public morale during the war. Netanyahu knows the US and Israel are losing the war and that Israeli public opinion is turning against him. He hopes to trap the US into an extended land war to change the equation.

@marcyrw @RepDanGoldman You are saying that Palestinians are Jewish? "The wording of the bill makes it clear that it would primarily, if not exclusively, be applied to Palestinians." Israel: Discriminatory Death Penalty Bill Passes | Human Rights Watch share.google/AiQD68eR9JIMnD…

@CeilingFly @RepDanGoldman That is not true. It applies to Israeli citizens as well.

Absolutely abhorrent. This law unambiguously creates a two tiered system of justice based entirely on which form of extremism is deemed acceptable. I pray Israeli courts do the right thing and strike it down. Israel’s future must remain democratic. Its survival depends on it. nytimes.com/2026/03/30/wor…

@marcyrw @RepDanGoldman The death penalty does not apply to Jewish Israelis. That is the issue. Not death penalty or not

@RepDanGoldman Why is it wrong to have a death penalty for convicted terrorist murderers? Israel has had a death penalty for its citizens for 70 years. As a Congressperson, how would you treat terrorists who slaughtered Americans? Would the death penalty be available for them here? Ans: YES.

@moymiz @RepDanGoldman @grok Is the death penalty reserved for a particular group over others?

@RepDanGoldman The death penalty has nothing to do with how democratic is a government. @grok list all democratic states with capital punishment.

@RepDanGoldman Sure did take you a very long time to recognize the two tiered justice system. Is it Democratic? Many Israelis would say and prove it is not Please open your eyes.

@MarkGoldfeder With forced confession and something like a 96% conviction rate, the law is designed to kill a population faster.

False. The law establishes the death penalty for terrorists who carried out murderous attacks. It is triggered by conduct, not ethnicity The fact that you think it applies only to Palestinians speaks volumes. And stop quoting Specially Designated Global Terrorist organizations.

Did anyone ever see a shred of evidence for the supposed Iranian attack on Diego Garcia that was used to try and draw Europe into the war, or was it just quick hit stenography and now everyone has moved on

I’ve been writing this book for a long time, and I’m honored to finally be able to share the full story with you all. Communion is about my personal journey and how I found my way back to faith. It will be available in June, but you can pre-order today: a.co/d/0cTpceI7

This is Isfahan, Iran, tonight. Trump and Israel are massively bombing a city older than most of the modern world. Over 2,500 years of history. Nearly 2 million civilians. And they call it “liberation.”

This is the end of the petrodollar The deal was that the US would provide the GCC ruling families with military support. In exchange, the ruling families promised to sell their oil in USD and recycle their vast surpluses into US assets. This was crucial for the US, as it had just defaulted on the world by ending the convertibility of USD to gold. With the petrodollar in place, the USD was now backed by oil - the lifeblood of our economy. Now the first war has broken out, the GCC nations have quickly realized that this was a one-sided deal. Allowing US military bases on their soil and letting the US use their airspace and land to launch attacks against Iran has put a target on their backs. Instead of being defended, the US pulled air defense equipment out of the GCC to defend Israel, and now they are being threatened to join the war against Iran or face consequences. Iran is in full control of the Strait of Hormuz and is letting ships through if oil is paid in yuan, not in USD. A decoupling from the US with new defense alliances makes sense for the GCC. This would mean less demand for dollars, less demand for Treasuries, less demand for US equities at a time in which the US badly needs it.

Never forget, on October 7, Israel miIitary admitted to kiIIing many their own people with the Hannibal Directive and were the only ones with the ability to melt cars the way they did.

@MeyerLabin The establishment of a state based upon Judaism is an anathema to the core of Judaism. It never was about human/Jewish values-- which are universal and not tribal.

Jews have not abandoned Israel. Israel has abandoned Jewish morals and values. A long time ago.

NBC News exposes massive insider trading right before the Trump administration launched the Iran war. Elites pocketed millions with advance knowledge of military strikes while ordinary Americans suffer soaring gas prices and job losses. The corruption is staggering.

If you want to talk about real reform, the most powerful single thing we could do is to end Citizens United. 16 years. That’s how long this has been poisoning the system. The campaign money dumped into both parties has completely skewed the legislative agenda. Big business. Big food. Big pharma. Tax cuts for the rich. Corporate welfare on an industrial scale. And the little guy gets nothing. Because we have built a separate but equal democracy. It has been 16 years since that decision. Now Trump has decided, I’ve got the ball, I’ve got the immunity, let’s go crazy with it. This is what unchecked money in politics produces at its logical endpoint. Get Citizens United off the books. Everything else follows from that.

New: Under AG Pam Bondi, the DOJ has dropped 23,000 criminal cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — while prosecuting 32,000 new immigration cases in just the first six months of Trump’s second term. propub.li/4m4Vzmf

Thomas Massie is sounding the alarm. Congress is on the brink of passing a liability shield for pesticide companies, like Bayer, who give Americans cancer. Bayer is a foreign company, but Congress wants to give them total immunity to mass poison Americans with glyphosate. “This is not to grant farmers’ immunity.” “This is to grant the corporations immunity.” “If farmers contract a form of cancer or non-Hodgson’s lymphoma from this chemical, if this makes it into the Farm Bill, you won’t be able to sue for that.” This liability shield would be a complete betrayal of the MAHA movement. But House Republicans are on the brink of passing it anyway, and President Trump is urging them to do it. There is still time to fight back. We need all hands on deck to stop this. Here’s how you can take action: Use the link below for a step-by-step guide to urge Congress to remove Sections 10205, 10206, 10207 and portions of 10201 from the Farm Bill in order to preserve Americans’ right to sue pesticide companies when their products poison us:🧵 @RepThomasMassie

In what world is it okay for the Defense Secretary to make multi-million dollar investments in defense companies: a) Ever; b) Just before launching a war. FT has the scoop: ft.com/content/744ea8… In a functional democracy, he would offer his resignation tonight.

@EricZ310622 @shanaka86 Airspace from the origin is shut down

@shanaka86 Just fly it over if it’s that hyper critical No big deal

JUST IN: Two hundred helium containers are stranded in the Persian Gulf right now. Each one holds 41,000 litres of liquid helium cooled to minus 269 degrees Celsius. They have 35 to 48 days before the cryogenic systems fail, the helium boils off, and the gas vents into the atmosphere and is lost forever. Those containers were heading to semiconductor fabrication plants in Taiwan and South Korea that manufacture 90 percent of the world’s advanced chips. The helium inside them cools the extreme ultraviolet lithography machines that print transistors at two nanometres. Without it, the machines cannot operate. Without the machines, the chips do not exist. Without the chips, the AI models that are currently selecting targets in this war stop running. This is the connection that nobody has made. The same Strait of Hormuz that carries 20 percent of the world’s oil also carries the helium that cools the machines that make the chips that power the artificial intelligence that the Pentagon is using to prosecute Operation Epic Fury. Maven, the AI targeting system that compressed 2,000 analysts to 20 and selected over 1,000 targets in the first 24 hours, runs on processors manufactured by TSMC using helium sourced from Qatar. Qatar’s Ras Laffan facility, which produced 33 percent of the world’s helium as a byproduct of LNG processing, was struck by Iranian missiles on March 18 and 19 and declared force majeure. The supply is offline. The containers are stranded. The clock is ticking at minus 269 degrees. TSMC says it has 6.2 weeks of inventory and 68 to 95 percent on-site recycling. Samsung holds roughly six months but depends on Qatar for 65 percent of its supply. Both are rationing toward AI and high-bandwidth memory production, starving consumer chips to keep the advanced nodes alive. The calculus is explicit: the war gets priority over your next phone. But here is the paradox that should terrify every strategist in Washington. The AI that selects the targets requires chips that require helium that transits the chokepoint that the war has closed. The cognitive infrastructure of the air campaign depends on a supply chain that the air campaign is destroying. Every strike on Iranian naval assets that keeps Hormuz closed for another day is another day of helium inventory burned at TSMC. Every week the strait stays shut brings the fab closer to rationing. Every month of war brings the AI targeting system closer to the moment when the chips it runs on cannot be replaced because the gas that made them evaporated in a container floating off Fujairah. The Pentagon is fighting a war with artificial intelligence manufactured in Taiwan using helium from Qatar transported through the strait the war has closed. The war is eating its own brain. Taiwan imports 95 percent of its energy. Seventy percent of its oil came through Hormuz. TSMC alone consumes 10 percent of Taiwan’s electricity. The island that makes 90 percent of the world’s advanced semiconductors is powered by fuel from the chokepoint that is shut, cooled by gas from the facility that is offline, and defended by interceptors depleting faster than they can be replaced. And the country that controls the rare earth magnets, the BeiDou navigation, the helium alternative sources, and the peace talks is the same country: China. The war will end when the helium runs out, when the interceptors run out, or when Beijing decides it should. All three clocks are ticking. All three lead to the same room. Read the full analysis - open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

@LpezMartne1 @shanaka86 Airspace around Qatar is shut down.

@shanaka86 They may airfreigh the containers if needed. Easily done. There are not too many, and the weight and volume are not difficult to handle.