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Consulting • Lectures • Analysis Dept. of Defense, al-Hurra TV, VOA Former Student of Imam at Darrus Salam, ATL MA in Islamic Studies - UGA Africa * Middle East * Türkiye * Islam Beşiktaş supporter. Kara Kartal! 🦅 Part-time film snob. 🎥🎬

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Cléo from 5 to 7 Directed by Agnès Varda • 1962 • France Starring Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller, Dominique Davray Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer ...

Tonight's viewing. 🎥🎬

Dir: Agnès Varda
DP: Jean Rabier
Alain Levent
Paul Bonis

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06.03.2026 02:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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KRG denies that they are cooperating with US on Iran.

Unlike the PJAK and other Iran-based opposition groups, they do not see this as "their one shot." And have plenty to lose.

h/t @stevenacook.bsky.social

05.03.2026 16:16 — 👍 5    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

"Let them eat cake!"

05.03.2026 22:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Iranian Kurdish Forces Say They May Enter Iran. Who Are the Kurds? Spread across Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey, the ethnic group of 40 million has long sought, and fought for, greater autonomy.

Iranian Kurdish forces, based in Iraq, are preparing armed units that could be sent into Iran, potentially with U.S. support, in an insurgency that would open a new front against the Iranian government. Here is what to know about the Kurds.

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The @nytimes.com will use every possible euphemism to avoid saying “Israeli invasion”

05.03.2026 19:51 — 👍 19    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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via Andy Borowitz

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Trump demands to choose next Iran supreme leader US president says Mojtaba Khamenei, son of leader killed in US-Israeli strike and frontrunner for office, is a 'lightweight'

"US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he must be directly involved in choosing the new ruler of Iran, pointing to Venezuela as a model for how he wants to control the country of 92 million people."

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05.03.2026 19:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Middle East crisis live: Israeli military tells hundreds of thousands to flee Beirut Evacuation order issued for all of the southern suburbs with up to 700,000 people thought to be affected

"It is believed to be the first time the Israeli military has ordered large swathes of the Lebanese capital to flee, when before they would force people out of specific buildings that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) would then strike."

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05.03.2026 19:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Who was the marketing genius who dropped the ball on releasing The Day After Tomorrow in Sensurround? 🌪️🌀❄️

05.03.2026 05:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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"The Israel U.S. war went from limited operation to regime change and now holy war. It is US that is making this into a regional with implications beyond the Middle East."
- @valinasr.bsky.social

05.03.2026 04:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Day After Tomorrow (2004) ⭐ 6.5 | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi 2h 4m | PG-13

Tonight's Viewing. 🎥🎬
Dir: Roland Emmerich
DP: Ueli Steiger
2004

Because sometimes you need a cheesy disaster film to get away from all the death and destruction.

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05.03.2026 03:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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NOVA | Ancient Earth: Birth of the Sky | Season 50 | Episode 11 See how Earth transformed from a barren hellscape to a planet capable of sustaining life.

Tonight's viewing.

Escaping our world tonight by going to the origins of our planet's formation.

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05.03.2026 02:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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a black and white photo of a man taking a picture with the words cine club mod cs is online play below him ALT: a black and white photo of a man taking a picture with the words cine club mod cs is online play below him

Not even close.

04.03.2026 23:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Needless to say, the US won’t have much of an argument if China decides to start torpedoing vessels of enemies they’ve unilaterally declared war on.

04.03.2026 20:05 — 👍 19    🔁 6    💬 3    📌 0

Good plan, there’s no way that the US would ever betray Kurds who fought on their behalf, or that Turkey would be upset by and seek to frustrate any US-backed Kurdish forces, or that an invasion from Iraq would trigger Iranian nationalist opposition. None of those things have ever happened.

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There are a WHOLE LOTTA folk who should, at the very least, check whether the meme or AI-generated image they are sharing is, in fact, factual.

Visiting the Snopes.com website, Bluesky page, and subscribing to their daily emails is a good place to start.

04.03.2026 20:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In recent days, I have had so many people reaching out to me directly about what is happening in Iran that I have determined it is time to start writing again.

**Goes to dust off his Substack account**

04.03.2026 01:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Iranian student: ‘Isn’t it ironic that we want war on our own country?’ For many opponents of Iran’s regime, news of the supreme leader’s death at the start of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran brought elation. But, says a Tehran student who risked his life in protests, there ...

“Without regime change, this will be an unfinished job, a horrifying nightmare,” says the student. And he predicts despair “if there’s a ceasefire and the regime stays, one way or another. ... I know many young people who believe this is the only and last chance.”

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04.03.2026 00:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Turkey’s Kurds reject US-Israeli 'designs' in Iran as Netanyahu bets on uprising Israeli PM reportedly wants a Kurdish insurgency in Iran, but the Dem party has called out the war's 'imperialism'

“It is clear that global and regional powers are, as in other historical examples, seeking to establish a new order in Iran that would no longer pose a threat to themselves, rather than prioritizing democracy and freedoms,”

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03.03.2026 22:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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US troops were told Iran war 'anointed by Jesus' to bring on Armageddon, watchdog says Military Religious Freedom Foundation said it received widespread complaints about Christian-nationalist US commanders

US commanders from every arm of the military have told their units that the war on Iran is “anointed by Jesus” and would bring about his return to Earth as part of the Armageddon, resulting in scores of complaints from serving members of the military.

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03.03.2026 22:54 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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What could possibly go wrong? 🤔

United States seeking an armed uprising inside Iran, with ground operation expected within days

www.itv.com/news/2026-03...

03.03.2026 22:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Somewhere in the Pentagon currently...

03.03.2026 22:11 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

Director: Stanley Kubrick

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"Bored of Peace"
There, I fixed it.

03.03.2026 07:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Too Big to Fail (film) - Wikipedia

Double-Feature night. 🎥🎬

Dir: Curtis Hanson
DP: Kramer Morgenthau
2011

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03.03.2026 06:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

War, no war, war, no war, war, no war!

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