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Reporter at @DropSiteNews - Author of "We've Got People,” “The Squad,” and “This Is Your Country On Drugs.” Co-host of Breaking Points. Signal: cherrygarcia.01
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From an Israeli intel official in NAZA:
“I hack into the phone of a 12 year old girl. If a girl calls her mom, ‘Mummy,’ she says, ‘when are you returning home? Daddy just came back.’ That’s a message that would alert the system bc it contains the words ‘return’ and ‘daddy.’”
This builds on @yuval_abraham’s previous reporting on the (incomprehensibly evil) “Where’s Daddy” program the IDF built to learn when fathers were at home with their children so they could kill then all at once (along with anyone else killed in the building during the attack).
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Our demand for @hakeemjeffries is super clear.
If the Iran war is illegal and needs to be ended, block the funding to it.
Voting on war powers resolutions is not enough — no more money —be it supplamental or NDAA.
Chanting “Stop the war on Iran,” around 100 peace activists and veterans rallied outside Hakeem Jeffries’ Downtown Brooklyn office, demanding action to end the conflict. brooklynpaper.com/brooklyn-p…
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Israel has long claimed that Hamas went around slaughtering children on October 7th. Yet even the Israeli records and the camera footage it released show this is not true. 16 children under 14 were killed on October 7. I went through every one of them, case by case. There is not a single case of a child targeted and executed intentionally by Hamas. But that false narrative has been used to justify the slaughter over 20,000 Palestinian children in Gaza. Watch the full analysis.
The field is opening up so much that Democrats are spending in Mississippi and the NRCC Chair is fighting for his life in North Carolina and the head of CAP is still litigating the Michigan primary. With 12 days until the general election, this is a generational run of obsession.
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TEXAS POLITICS: TX-23 GOP candidate Brandon Herrera says unadopted kittens should be sent to Chinese restaurants.
The AK-Guy's latest controversy comes as a new poll shows him in a statistical tie w/ Democrat Katy Padilla Stout.
Yeah that’s what happened
Imagine flying into L.A. from xyz country, and then taking a bus up the interstate to one of the strawberry fields along the coast, and then picking strawberries to "show solidarity" with the Guatemalans picking strawberries, and then being told by the sheriff or cops you had to go back to your luxury hotel in Santa Monica because you don't have a work permit.
This is not a close case. @benshapiro and @JDVance should apologize and think deeply about the choice they made today.
What is the game plan here? You don't deny that this maggot was charged with the r ape of a 10 year old... you don't deny that he fled the state when he was out on bond... what is it you're hoping to learn from these court records? They aren't going to contain discovery files. What is it you're hoping to see?
Pro-tip: when the defendant is the kind of guy who abandons his 18 year old pregnant wife in a Mexican jail while she fights for her life... and he then goes on to marry 8 other women in less than 20 years... when he flees town a couple weeks after making bail on charges he r aped his stepdaughter and never looks back... it's a pretty safe bet that he's a total shitbag and the victim is telling the truth.
Civil Rights activists obviously were highly strategic about their use of the media. They knew that bigoted southern sheriffs and their violent militias wouldn’t be able to resist violently attacking them, and that decent people would then recoil at the images and demand changes.
You can’t be serious.
Whoa, Saudi-backed forces in Yemen say they will now consider any public gathering a legitimate target.
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🚨NEWS: After raking in a $3 million payday as a corporate lawyer, Obama's former Interior Secretary @KenSalazar is spearheading the campaign to block a ballot measure that would raise taxes on his fellow millionaires, cut taxes for 95% of voters & prevent huge health care cuts.
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The Israeli Foreign Ministry is lying.
No coordination was required, and we were never told that it was. We were not in a restricted security area. We did not pass any checkpoints.
Palestinian farmers do not — and should not — need permits to harvest their own olive fields. But they fear doing so, because the IDF doesn’t protect them from settler violence.
We’re trying to model solidarity & co-existence between Jews and Palestinians, and to call attention to the horrors of the occupation. The Israeli government is trying to foment violence between Jews and Palestinians, and to make it impossible for Palestinians to harvest their olive groves, drive on their roads, or live in their homes.
This was not about harvesting olives.
It was about harvesting headlines.
Brad Lander’s latest stunt is nothing more than a calculated political provocation.
Lander traveled to a foreign country, deliberately entered a restricted security area, and participated in an unauthorized activity without the required coordination.
What makes this stunt even more outrageous is that his own team contacted Israeli representatives in the United States ahead of his visit and was explicitly informed that proper coordination with the relevant authorities was required.
He chose to ignore those instructions.
At a time of heightened security tensions, Israeli security forces have a responsibility to protect lives, prevent dangerous incidents, and maintain public order.
Had anyone been injured as a result of his reckless political theater, Lander would undoubtedly have been among the first to demand that Israeli authorities intervene and provide protection.
Brad Lander came looking for a confrontation. Now he is pretending to be its victim.
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❗️A U.S. official tells Drop Site that while the likelihood of new U.S.-Israeli attacks was high, Trump has gone to the brink of military action and pulled back more times than is publicly known.
“Trump has backed off major combat operations against Iran or the Houthis seven times since July,” the U.S. official said, referring to Ansarallah, who launched a major offensive against Saudi-backed groups in Yemen. “At the last minute, he calls it off.”
🔗 Full report from Jeremy Scahill, Peiman Salehi, and Ryan Grim below ⬇️
⚡️NEW from @DropSiteNews: The War Tehran Believes Is Coming
Iran believes the U.S. and Israel may strike before the midterms. Top security official Gen. Mohsen Rezaei tells Drop Site Iran has new targets in its sights.
By @jeremyscahill, @peimansalehi_, and @ryangrim
dropsitenews.com/p/iran-war-…
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⭕️ Why would the U.S. and Israel restart the war on Iran now? Two leading Iran experts told Drop Site that Trump and Netanyahu's political interests are converging, as Netanyahu faces elections Tuesday and Trump's approval sinks ahead of the midterms.
🔸 Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute
➤ "This is Netanyahu's last chance to do so... knowing that either his career is going to end or the United States is going to go in a direction in which this no longer will be an option."
➤ "Trump, I suspect, has already made a decision that he's going to go to war... But it is a massive miscalculation that will make the situation 100 times worse."
🔸 Robert Malley, former senior U.S. Iran negotiator who helped broker the 2015 nuclear deal
➤ "Netanyahu may want a longer campaign with broader objectives. Trump may want something shorter that he could quickly get out of. The overlap between the two might well be an intensive campaign that doesn't last too long."
➤ "President Trump may want a victory lap and an exit ramp. But as has been proven time and time again, the exit is not decided by him alone."
🔗 Full details below ⬇️
⚡️NEW from @DropSiteNews: The War Tehran Believes Is Coming
Iran believes the U.S. and Israel may strike before the midterms. Top security official Gen. Mohsen Rezaei tells Drop Site Iran has new targets in its sights.
By @jeremyscahill, @peimansalehi_, and @ryangrim
dropsitenews.com/p/iran-war-…
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🚨 NEW: The U.S. and Israel are preparing to resume attacks on Iran, possibly before Tuesday’s Israeli elections, according to senior Iranian officials and a U.S. official who spoke to Drop Site. The White House denies plans for U.S. strikes before the midterms.
What each told Drop Site:
🔸 Gen. Mohsen Rezaei, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, in an exclusive written interview with Drop Site
➤ Iran retains the capacity to launch missiles and drones at U.S. assets and would expand its targets: “Cables, data centers and artificial intelligence facilities could also come within range. If the conflict begins again, we will have a broader plan.”
➤ On previously unused capabilities: “We did not deploy all our capabilities in the previous stages… and we are also prepared for the next stage.”
➤ On Gulf states whose energy infrastructure could help sustain the U.S. blockade: “Those governments should not assume they can participate in economic warfare against Iran without putting themselves at risk.”
➤ On diplomacy: Iran has presented seven new conditions through intermediaries. “Until those conditions are fulfilled, Iran will neither reopen the strait nor return to negotiations.”
🔸 A senior Iranian official
➤ Tehran’s intelligence assessment sees a high likelihood that large-scale bombing begins before the Israeli vote on October 27. “Trump has sat on Iran’s proposed package for ending the war, and negotiations have stalled.”
➤ Tehran believes Israel would strike first, “destroying Iran’s newly deployed air defense systems, in order to open the path for American bombers,” while the U.S. would target defenses along the Strait of Hormuz and potentially attempt to seize an Iranian island.
➤ Trump may launch a “token” attack on an underground nuclear site such as Pickaxe Mountain to claim victory.
➤ “Should another war against Iran begin… their casualty figures will be ten times higher.”
🔸 A U.S. official
➤ Military assets are moving rapidly into place ahead of an expected green light from Trump, with CENTCOM chief Gen. Bradley Cooper among those pushing for renewed attacks.
➤ “CENTCOM is putting all the pieces into place to renew major combat operations.”
➤ The official doubted strikes would come before the Israeli vote, but said: “We did start Epic Fury without all our assets in place.”
➤ “Trump has backed off major combat operations against Iran or the Houthis [Ansarallah] seven times since July… At the last minute, he calls it off.”
🔸 White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly
➤ “The United States will not be attacking Iran at any time prior to the midterm elections.”
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The USS Theodore Roosevelt and the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit are heading to the region, bringing approximately 10,000 additional sailors and Marines. Two other U.S. aircraft carriers are already in the Arabian Sea.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, trailing in the polls, claimed Wednesday without evidence that Iran is developing a nuclear weapon and said his directive to the Israeli military, Mossad and security agencies is “to topple the regime in Iran.”
🔗 Full details in the new report from Jeremy Scahill, Peiman Salehi and Ryan Grim, linked below.
⚡️NEW from @DropSiteNews: The War Tehran Believes Is Coming
Iran believes the U.S. and Israel may strike before the midterms. Top security official Gen. Mohsen Rezaei tells Drop Site Iran has new targets in its sights.
By @jeremyscahill, @peimansalehi_, and @ryangrim
dropsitenews.com/p/iran-war-…
Do US officials believe the stuff Netanyahu gives them or just pretend to?
Aligns with @DropSiteNews recent reporting
