W.E.D.em Boyz

Somebody was saying that watching establishment Democrats learn that saying obviously true things about foreign policy is popular is like watching a toddler take its first steps

The poll found that 75% of voters described themselves as “right-wing,” compared with 68% among older voters. The remaining 25% identify as “center-left,” and the self-identified “left” accounts for only 5%. It is important to note, here, the relativity of concepts of right and left in Israeli politics. Opposition leader Yair Lapid, who is head of the centrist Yesh Atid party, recently affirmed that he agrees with U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee’s affirmation of Israel’s Biblical right to conquer Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and parts of Egypt and Saudi Arabia. This is called the “Greater Israel” vision for Israel’s future borders, stretching from the Nile to the Euphrates On that same note, the leader of the only “leftist” party in the Zionist spectrum, Yair Golan, advocated in December 2023 for starving Gaza’s population. “We’d all like to wake up one spring morning and find that 7 million Palestinians who live between the sea and the river have simply disappeared,” Golan said in 2025. But let’s get back to those young Zionist voters. The new voting group is said to be a major numerical addition of half a million voters to the electoral picture, the largest in Israel’s history. It is the equivalent of 17 seats in the 120-seat Knesset. Netanyahu’s Likud party is by far the most preferred among them, polling at 20%. After that, coming in at 11%, is United Torah Judaism, an ultra-orthodox Ashkenazi (European heritage) Jewish party, which has become ultra-Zionist. Then there’s Naftali Bennett’s party, coming in at 10%, and he’s an even more religious-Zionist fanatic than Netanyahu. Finally, there is Itamar Ben-Gvir’s Jewish Power party, leading by 7%. The rest of the parties receive smaller percentages of 5% or less.

A new poll of the next generation of Jewish Israeli voters aged 18-21 finds that they are even more right-wing than older generations. Only 5% of them identify themselves as left-wing.

The Lebanese Health Ministry reports that Israel has killed 397 people and injured 1102 since yesterday's bombing of Lebanon began

Glenn Greenwald If -- as Trump again said last night -- MAGA means nothing more than featly to whatever Trump believes when he wakes up (even if it's the exact opposite of what he said he believed the day before), then it is, by definition, a cult, not a political movement.

HEARTWARMING: baby gains object permanence

The true goal here is state collapse. In fact, just an hour ago Iranian leaders met at the Assembly of Experts to vote on Khamenei's successor, and Israel bombed the meeting (no casualties reported)

With the caveat that they are obviously lying, the U.S. says they want Iranians to rise up and overthrow their government, but they have been absolutely carpet bombing the shit out of Tehran. Reuters reports that the streets of Tehran are totally empty, because of course they are.

Iraq Starts Shutting Oil Output at Rumaila as Storage Fills Up Iraq started shutting oil production at the giant Rumaila field operated by BP Plc, according to a person familiar with the operation.

We are rapidly approaching The Cool Zone™️. Iraq is shutting down oil production at Rumaila, the world's second largest oil field.

The real regime change in this war might be the Sunni monarchy in Bahrain. The Shiite majority has been in full blown riots against the government for the last two days as Iranian missiles continue to land.

May as well be

Obviously not as severe in the United States but we might get there pretty quickly if this lasts more than another week

100% rise in UK wholesale gas in two days

Like what are we doing here?

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz is about more than oil. It's also a key shipping lane for agricultural fertilizer including 44% of sulfur, 31% of urea, 18% of ammonia, and 15% of phosphates.

One of the many reasons that the US empire "strategy" is incoherent: Politico reports that the EU is in a full panic about energy imports and are about to quickly ramp up purchases of Russian oil, strengthening Russia as we continue to fund Ukraine.

As far as I can tell, The Atlantic give its writers a list of topics to write about and just instructs them to be as wrong as they can possibly imagine about all of them

Just so everyone knows, a ground war in Iran would be the most insane thing we have seen in our lifetime. It's 4X the size of Afghanistan.

brave to publish this on the very day netanyahu himself said he’s been wanting to do this for 40 years

I don't know much about Canadian oil, but Venezuelan oil is an unacceptable replacement for gulf oil. The refinement process is astronomically more intensive and the infrastructure isn't set up to ramp up supply.

Another one.

Absolutely insane to send this out 3 days into the war when almost all airports in the region are closed

An aerial photo shows three diggers excavating the ground for graves. More than 65 graves are already dug. Those not yet dug are marked out by chalk.

Not a single US newspaper will publish this photo. No news channel will broadcast it.

The graves are being prepared for more than 80 young children killed in the US/Israeli strike on the school in Minab, Iran on Saturday.

(📸 Middle East Observer)

First image of an Iron Ground interception in Tel Aviv

We still don't know how things will end up, but it really does seem like that Colbert thing was perfect timing for Talarico and may push him over the edge

Epstein’s New Mexico Ranch Gets Scrutiny at Last. It May Be Too Late.

In 2019, New Mexico opened up an investigation into Epstein's Zorro Ranch. The Trump DOJ demanded that they stop and turn materials over to the feds. Then they killed the investigation.

Rubio's argument is that we HAD to strike Iran because Israel was going to? This has been planned for weeks and that is your sales pitch to the American people?

It's astonishing how nobody in this administration even felt like they needed to spend 5 minutes coming up with a justification for this war

He's just a racist midwit. I have no idea why anyone cares about anything he says.

Rubio is essentially saying the same