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Its OK, its just anti-Israel protests. Not something far more sinister at all.

Fetterman just keeps racking up the Ws.

https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-797888 IAEA confirms no damage made to Iran's nuclear sites in Israel's attack Israel returned fire last night, and their choice of targets is very notable. They chose to lob pot shots at the cities that hold Iranian nuclear weapons facilities. Those pot shots appear to have made it all the way to the target city. Israel just let Iran know that if they were serious they could take out the Iranian nuclear program. That stands in stark contrast to the Iranian attack that was entire wiped out before it made it to their targets.

Thats a good day

Its really really awesome. Just finished it, cannot wait for season 2. They added sooooooo much stuff to the series.

Community Notes is such an amazing feature. If it doesnt come through when this embeds, the notes say that she is one of 14 Republicans who voted against a stand-alone Israel bill.

Thats exactly what this was. They cant afford a full blown war with Israel, let alone with Israel + some combination of the US and other Western nations. They still had to do something though. So they launched a bunch of slow moving missiles and drones, and Israel + others took them out. Iran gets to say they attacked Israel, and Israel gets to say their missile defense system is impenetrable.

Israel is saying that they intercepted 99% of the missiles and drones. Iran telegraphed this for a few days, so the slow motion attack likely was the point. They can use it for internal propaganda purposes, while the rest of the world looks at it like the impotent attack that it was. This was the "escalation without escalating" option.

Sure, to an extent. SA and Israel have been working to normalize ties, but this is a step beyond that.

Saudi Arabia has also been involved in shooting down Iranian drones and missiles. You read that right. Saudi Arabia has been helping defend Israel.

Its OK. they can appear similar through a screen. You dont have a hookup to my HR monitor lol. Its telling me to breathe Ide be lying if I said I wasnt super anxious over this. This could easily spiral into something really really bad.

Your mistaking excitement for anxiety.

Oh they absolutely will respond. That response is just going to be dictated by this attack. If the attack does little to no damage then Israel probably responds by putting a missile into a drone factory or two. Maybe hit a proxy ammo dump in Syria. But not a whole lot more than some superficial attacks. If the attack is more extensive than we currently think then things get interesting. Israel said earlier this week that they would explicitly target Iranian nuclear facilities if Irans attack was extensive. That likely caused Iran to delay their attack because the intelligence all said that the attack would happen earlier this week.

So this is pretty unusual. Previous attacks against Israel from Iraq and Iranian proxies have tried to avoid Jerusalem as much as possible. The risk of hitting the Al-Aqsa mosque was simply too great to shoot stuff over Jerusalem.

US Jets have apparently been intercepting Iranian drones over Syria and Jordan. Jordanian Air Force is also in their skies shooting stuff down. The RAF (UK) is also apparently in the skies shooting stuff down as well. The UK is denying this, but British press is reporting it.

I dont think it will be a world war. Iran already put out a statement essentially saying they were "done". So now we just have to wait and see what happens. The damage will dictate any Israeli response.

The drone attack could take up to 9 hours to actually get to its targets. Lots of questions if this is it, or if Iran will also launch missiles at Israel to hit at the same time as the drones.

Its awesome.

This is what I warned about when Democrats tried to remove Trump from the ballot. Once you start down that path nothing good happens. The Courts thankfully stopped that move, but its going to be a lot harder to stop these efforts if the GOP truly want to play hardball.

Hamas tells negotiators it doesn’t have 40 Israeli hostages needed for first round of ceasefire https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/10/middleeast/hamas-israel-hostages-ceasefire-talks-intl/index.html "Hamas has indicated it is currently unable to identify and track down 40 Israeli hostages needed for the first phase of a ceasefire deal, according to an Israeli official and a source familiar with the discussions, raising fears that more hostages may be dead than are publicly known. The framework that has been laid out by negotiators says that during a first six-week pause in the fighting, Hamas should release 40 of the remaining hostages, including all the women as well as sick and elderly men. In exchange, hundreds of Palestinian prisoners would be released from Israeli prisons. Hamas has told international mediators – which include Qatar and Egypt - it does not have 40 living hostages who match those criteria for release, both sources said. CNN’s record of the conditions of the hostages also suggests there are fewer than 40 living hostages who meet the proposed criteria." Hamas continues to refuse to accept any sort of ceasefire, and this is likely a major reason why. They simply don't have any hostilities left alive. The sad, and gruesome, reality is that Hamas tortured and/or raped every hostage they had and now there are likely none left alive. The thought of returning the hostages is the only thing that has kept Israel from simply bombing the last remaining locations where Hamas leadership is hiding.

Biden may have trouble getting on Ohio's general election ballot, state's top election official warns https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/biden-may-trouble-getting-ohios-general-election-ballot-rcna146706 "Ohio’s secretary of state on Friday signaled that the Democratic National Convention may take place too late for President Joe Biden to appear on the general election ballot in the state, according to a letter obtained by NBC News. “The Democratic National Convention is scheduled to convene on August 19, 2024, which occurs more than a week after the August 7 deadline to certify a presidential candidate to the office,” Secretary of State Frank LaRose wrote to Ohio Democratic Party Chairwoman Liz Walters." Dems basically have 2 options if they want Biden to be on the ballot in Ohio. They can either move up the convention, or they can hope that the GOP dominated Ohio Legislature changes the law.