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Afristotle retweeted
“The result of an American pullout at this stage in the conflict could be a profound shift in the balance of power in the Middle East. A war that was fought to topple the Islamic Republic of Iran may end up leaving Tehran as the de facto hegemon of the Gulf.” @gideonrachman: Trump’s defeat heralds a US retreat
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Afristotle retweeted
this hat is just about the clearest indication of a mental health crisis i could have imagined
NEW: We just spoke exclusively with Congresswoman Haley Stevens at a polling place in Birmingham Michigan as she came to cast her ballot for Republican Mike Rogers. She told us she’s here to vote with her mother and that she still believes Democrats will win the majority, “It's the people's day. And I told this to our next speaker of the house, Hakeem Jeffries: It's Majority Makers Day.”
I asked if given the backlash she’s receiving from her Rogers endorsement, whether she feels it was worth it and she told me “Absolutely. Voting is always worth it, right?”
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Afristotle retweeted
🚨🚨Apple basically told him that Israel has either just hacked his devices or is trying to.
He made the brilliant documentary on the Pager attack in Lebanon.
They literally destroyed his home last week.
Now this.
Yesterday, I received a security notification from Apple warning me that my iPhone had been targeted by a sophisticated mercenary spyware attack, involving technology of the kind developed by companies such as NSO Group, the Israeli firm behind the notorious Pegasus spyware.
Perhaps the most alarming aspect of Apple’s warning was its confirmation that such attacks target specific individuals “because of who you are or what you do.”
This is not the first time I have been targeted by spyware. I was previously targeted with Pegasus in both 2017 and 2021.
I do not yet know who is behind this latest attack, or whether it is connected to my investigative documentary, The Trap, which I directed and co-produced. The film, available on Al Jazeera 360, exposed the details of the September 2024 pager explosions in Lebanon.
What is certain, however, is that the targeting of journalists with sophisticated spyware poses a grave threat to press freedom, the confidentiality of journalistic sources, and the very foundations of independent investigative journalism.
Afristotle retweeted
⭕️ Pulitzer Prize winner Benjamin Moser:
“The more I studied Zionism, the more I spent time there, the more I realized that every inch of Israel is Palestine. It was always Palestine.
Jews were never not allowed to live there as equal citizens, as they are in Britain or any other Western country. But the establishment of this state really did mean this massive ethnic cleansing that was not just a one-off.”
Afristotle retweeted
Host: Why are you here this morning?
Trump rally attendee: In the '70s I was too young to get go to South America for the Jonestown massacre, so this is as close as I'll get. There's nothing like seeing a cult up close.
Host: Alright, maybe this is not a Trump supporter
Afristotle retweeted
Oh look the French government has been forced to concede to the protesting students.
Who woulda thought that revolting actually works
Afristotle retweeted
What these students in Serbia did will be studied for decades to come and be emulated around the world
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Here's what Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza wrote in 1670 about Jewish hate for the Goyim.
Today, Jews praise him and use him as an example of the so-called "Jewish genius". In real time though, like any Jew who dared to tell the truth, he was excommunicated by Jewish society.
Jewish xenophobia started long before the Talmud: An account by Greek historian Diodorus Siculus, written around 30-50 BCE, describes events that took place a century earlier, when Antiochus VII Sidetes, who was then the ruler of the Hellenistic Empire (not the allegedly "evil" Antiochus from the Book of Maccabees) was besieging Jerusalem, then under Jewish Hasmonean rule.
According to Diodorus, Antiochus VII's advisors urged him to "root out the whole Nation of the Jews; For that they only of all People, hated to Converse with any of another Nation, and treated them all as Enemies". They also said that the Jews had "made strange Laws, and quite different from other People: Never will Eat or Drink with any of another Nation, or wish them any prosperity" and spoke of the Jews' "sacred books, whereby they were taught to hate all other Nations".
Despite the advice he allegedly received, Antiochus VII allowed a seven-day truce during the siege for the Jews to celebrate a religious festival, eventually reached some settlement with the Hasmonean Kingdom, and was supportive of Jews, to the point that they titled him "the Benefactor".
Afristotle retweeted
You see, the greatest French writer in history, Victor Hugo wrote an entire novel about how looting to feed yourself and your family is not a crime or personal failing, but a fundamental flaw of a corrupt system that gives you no other choice
Afristotle retweeted
‘every child shall read jane eyre’ something that i too would personally impose if i were in power
Afristotle retweeted
I wrote a story about how basically every man I know in my station of life — millennial, in a long term relationship, in possession of a fake email job — does all the cooking in their relationship, which is something I have a lot of theories about.
Afristotle retweeted
🇫🇷 | El cineasta australiano James Fenwick capturó el sábado estas escenas de las masivas manifestaciones en París.
Afristotle retweeted
America wants a revolution but waiting for black people to make a first move , that’s the issue.
Afristotle retweeted
Her gün balık verdiği hamile kedinin ziyarete daha fazla geldiğini fark eden balıkçı, sonunda dayanamayarak kediyi takip ediyor ve kedinin balıkları kendisi için götürmediğini öğreniyor 🥹♥️
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she's genuinely the coolest and realest working actor like id defend her with my life
Amanda Seyfried says "I'm not f*cking apologizing" for calling Charlie Kirk "hateful" after his death.
"I mean, for f*ck's sake, I commented on one thing. I said something that was based on actual reality and actual footage and actual quotes. What I said was pretty damn factual, and I'm free to have an opinion, of course. Thank God for Instagram. I was able to give some clarity, and it was about getting my voice back because I felt like it had been stolen and recontextualized—which is what people do, of course," Seyfried told Who What Wear.
Amid backlash in September for her Kirk comment, Seyfried explained: “I can get angry about misogyny and racist rhetoric and ALSO very much agree that Charlie Kirk’s murder was absolutely disturbing and deplorable in every way imaginable."
Read more here: variety.com/2025/film/news/a…
Afristotle retweeted
Yes my cats hated me for the first six months of pandemic.
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In 1986, China realized it was missing the third industrial revolution, rather than doing freemarket giri or economists debate trading theory, four of China’s top weapons scientists (the men who built the nuclear bombs and satellites) wrote a private letter to Deng and identified
