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In Fars, Iran, Iranians celebrate and tear down a regime sign at reports of Khamenei's death. “I’m dreaming, hello new world”, one man shouts.

via @Vahid on Twitter, translation from @GhonchehAzad

She's the best.

I mean... I hate Boris Johnson as much as the next Labour activist, but he never actually bombed Ukraine. Or been guilty of war crimes. He's probably less corrupt than Bibi even, weirdly.

I used to do a lot of voluntary work with refugees, and I have a couple of close Iranian friends. The falling-over-themselves adoration they are expressing towards Bibi - a man I have dedicated my life to hating! - right now is just one tiny part of how weird everything is.

Please remember you are likely to see even anti-war and anti-intervention Iranians celebrate Khamenei’s death (if confirmed) as he has been a source of death, tyranny, destruction, and has held Iran back.

Let me try & explain this in BlueSkySpeak.

Imagine Trump croaks tomorrow. Things will not get better. To call Vance a sociopath would be unfair to sociopaths.

I don’t think that would stop you from throwing a party.

Now think about the Iranian people celebrating tonight and shut the hell up.

You are literally spoiled for choice with things to attack Netanyahu for - he should be in multiple jails! Choosing him to use him being jewish instead is always telling on yourself

My radical take is that the people primarily to blame for the inevitable wave of anti-Semitism we are already starting to see are in fact the people being anti-Semitic

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Netanyahu: growing signs Iran’s supreme leader Khamanei is “gone”

Fucking hell.

Then again I've already seen someone post that the US launched this war "at Israel's behest" this morning, so

Personally I wouldn't listen to him because he sold the house out from under his ex wife while she was actively dying of cancer

I’ve just realised. LLMs are an automated Malcolm Gladwell.

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Oh I didn't think you said you're better! x

Or Aurora - she was a proper ditz.

Eight years of this:

"In one incident in 2019, Easom dragged Ms Burgess upstairs by the head, banging her against each step.

In 2021, Easom placed a sheet over her head and strangled her."

He could be out before retirement age.

It's because everybody - but especially experts - thinks their field of interest is uniquely complex & sophisticated, whereas everybody else's areas of expertise are easy.

I'm sorry but Dorothy is *clearly* Hera.

Interesting and balanced thread on the by-election result. I did think too little attention was being paid to the Gwynne effect. Lots of by-elections over recent years seem to show it's hard for parties to hold seats where the former MP was disgraced in some way.

Great.

Scotland is a bit sui generis, it's where all the anti-Westminster votes compete against each other.

As a woman and an immigrant, I feel this in my bones. It's never been scarier to me to be a local representative, and Angeliki's courage is a real inspiration.

Angeliki is a brilliant woman and I'm sorry she's not in Parliament. The absolute shit candidates (and MPs) get from all sides (and the whole political spectrum) is unbelievable.

It's the constant questioning of good faith that's the worst tbh - and the idea that you're fair game for nastiness.

I don't know that it particularly scares me. Electorally it may not do us any good, but it does show the vacuity of the Greens that their current platform is "we're just like Labour, so don't vote for them!" And in the long run relinquishing their raison d'etre isn't sustainable I think.

Must have been the same lad tbh - I'm older than I sound 🤣

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It's not so much that it matters whether Jewish "affinity" is justified or not, or whether it's mostly good or bad, as it is that if Epstein and Wexner were both WASPs, they would not be presumed to be collaborating out of affinity in the first place. Jews are clannish; everybody else just networks.