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7/ I'm not convinced the United States is the only country on earth capable of pulling off an assassination or kidnapping, and will remain so in perpetuity.

Vigilante justice can feel satisfying when we see it happening to those with impunity, but we do not want a world in which it is normalized.

4/ The reason we do not allow people who are good at fighting to simply teach lessons to the assholes of the world is that we do not trust the judgement of every street fighter on who is an asshole worth re-educating...

... and being good at violence does not make you a moral philosopher.

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1/ In thinking about the events of the last few days, vigilantism and international law, I can't get this scene from Mr Inbetween out of my head.

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h/t to a former colleague for bringing this to my attention

This reminds me of that Frankie Boyle joke about how Americans not only come to your country and kill your people, they also come back twenty years later to make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers sad.

Trump has a very short attention span, and *no plan*.

(Israel, OTOH, has a plan. Netanyahu says he has been dreaming about it for 40 years.)

Yes noticed that too.

If we still had Twitter we would understand what is going on in the world. Not even Emergency Podcasts from Alastair and Rory can fill the void completely.

Is he safe and well?

EU set to discuss repatriations from the Mideast amid travel chaos EU ambassadors and foreign ministers hold emergency talks on the Iran war, with the repatriation of European nationals on the agenda as thousands of flights are cancelled in the Middle East.

EU ambassadors and foreign ministers hold emergency talks on the Iran war, with the repatriation of European nationals on the agenda as thousands of flights are cancelled in the Middle East.

Just ordered some Kerosene, €1.11 v 85c-90c per litre over the last year or so (500l fill so not a best price). #speirgorm

209 fighter jets! I think that's probabaly an AI mistranslation, more likley 209 drones.

The Supreme Leader insisted on not taking special security measures even though he knew the attacks were about to start and was killed in his home. He wanted to die this way.

The concept of martyrdom is an extremely potent, galvanizing force in Shia and Iranian culture.

Cambridgeshire Live: The half-monkey demon with 'staring eyes' said to haunt Cambridgeshire village.

Cat.

The C.I.A. Helped Pinpoint a Gathering of Iranian Leaders. Then Israel Struck.

It's interesting how we keep seeing major publications getting reporting on successful high-stakes CIA operations and intelligence soon after they happen.

Sorry, but I’m to believe that there is a coherent “leftist” opposition in Tehran that are well known enough for Israeli spies to be killing them and this is happening noticeably enough *in the past 24 hours* for people currently dealing with everything else to tell Tariq Ali’s friend who tells his

It tells you something about the disorientating rate of change underway that nobody is particularly shocked that a head of state has been assassinated by other states, something which has *never happened* in the modern era. Which is illegal under US law. Shed no tears for Khamanei, but still.

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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has now achieved the impressive accolade of becoming the first ever presenter of Channel 4's Alternative Christmas Message to have been taken out by an Israeli airstrike.

With apologies to Homer Simpson: “The IRGC is the worst government in the history of Iran.” “It’s the worst government in the history of Iran SO FAR.”

Green crab surrounding green, pink and yellow seaweed

Colours of the ocean #Shetland

I suspect it's mostly the widespread English cognitive block about Ireland being a different country tbh.

The decisive questions:
1. Is Khamenei dead
2. Are Ghalibaf, Larijani, Shamkhani
3. When will Reza Pahlavi call for renewed protests, will people come out
4. Do US/ISR have plans to support them

Being able to exhaust Iran's military capabilities is a foregone conclusion and not all that interesting

Alex jokes but if they keep culling the leadership down then some army guy may realize that power is gonna lay with whoever has the guns, even if Pahlavi would to return, and it might as well be him

Regime of Iran Was Built to Survive the Death of Its Supreme Leader - Profolus Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was confirmed dead on 28 February 2026 after a massive attack from the United States and Israel.

While the supreme leader dominates both the Iranian political and religious domains, the entire Iranian regime, especially its government structure, was built to last beyond its head of state.

As an academic born and raised in Denmark who researches and writes about Danish politics, I can confidently say that Cowley has no idea what he’s talking about. The piece is full of factual errors and falsehoods

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The Third-Largest Coffee Chain in the U.S. Actually Sells Very Little Hot Coffee By focusing on customizable cold energy drinks, Dutch Bros thinks it has the formula to attract younger customers.

The marketing chief of Dutch Bros, which is on the heels of Starbucks, discusses the beverage wars.

Influencer's fleeing Dubai right now.