Under pressure from Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Trump administration may be within days of launching a nuclear strike on Iran. The target would be Pickax Mountain in central Iran, where Israeli intelligence claims the Iranian government has restarted its nuclear enrichment program. No conventional weapon in the American arsenal can penetrate 300 feet of solid granite to destroy the tunnels where enrichment is supposedly taking place. The only military option is a nuclear strike. Netanyahu has been pushing hard for one. “Bibi calls Trump about it every day,” says an informed observer. Netanyahu is cornered and desperate. After last week’s election results, he can’t form a government unless Trump intervenes directly in Israeli politics and brokers a deal with other parties that gives Netanyahu 61 seats in the Knesset. Otherwise, he is out as prime minister and on his way to ignominy, investigations and possibly jail. Netanyahu must stay close to Trump. He needs this war. To that end, he’s applied maximum pressure to his closest allies in the administration, including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and CENTCOM commander Brad Cooper. Both oppose a negotiated settlement to the war they’ve so grievously mismanaged; both are pushing to restart major combat operations. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and CIA director John Ratcliffe are also following Netanyahu’s lead, as are leaders of the Democratic Party. In a recent meeting on the subject, former president Barack Obama said he opposes the current Iran peace deal being drafted in Doha. The rest of America’s longtime allies in the Middle East are terrified by the prospect of more war. On September 27th, Netanyahu flew secretly to Abu Dhabi to enlist the UAE in his lobbying effort for a final attack on Iran. The Emiratis refused. After eight months of conflict, Gulf economies are teetering. So are global energy and fertilizer markets. They won’t recover soon. Globally, there are a total of about 850 supertankers used to transport oil from producers to the rest of the world. In October alone, 11 of them were badly damaged in Hormuz. At this pace, a global depression is imminent. A nuclear strike would radically accelerate the destruction. Fallout from a ground explosion at Pickax Mountain would contaminate the Persian Gulf, poisoning the water supply for 100 million people. And those are just some of the immediate consequences for the region. The rest of the world is every bit as exposed. No country other than the United States has ever used a nuclear weapon in war. Some would like to. An American nuclear attack on Iran would set a new precedent. The Russians have already told at least two other governments that an American nuclear strike on Iran would free them to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine. Pakistan and India would be tempted to do the same against each other, as would North Korea against Seoul. After the first nuclear strike, World War Three is inevitable. That war would be short and final. We’ve been sleepwalking toward this moment for months. Since February, the administration has quietly rewritten America’s nuclear doctrine to make first use of so-called “battlefield nukes” easier and therefore more likely. No one in Washington in either party seems bothered by this. Now we’re on the brink of it. Close observers say Trump is likely to decide by next weekend whether or not to use nuclear weapons. That would be November 7, six days from now. To his credit, he’s hesitating. At the moment, Trump is listening to his vice president, JD Vance, and to his envoy and friend Steve Witkoff, both of whom argue a deal with Iran can be made. They’re right, though it won’t be simple. The Iranians are famously frustrating to negotiate with under any circumstances, and elements of that government have become more radical since Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his family were killed in February. After decades of isolation, even relatively moderate Iranian leaders seem confused by how decisions are made in the West. (There is a widespread belief in Tehran, for example, that the United States government controls Israel.) But overall, people who have spoken to decision-makers in Iran say there is consensus there that more war is bad for everyone and a deal is worth making. One group that hasn’t been consulted so far is the global population — the hundreds of millions of people who will be killed along with their children if Trump is pushed by Netanyahu into launching a nuclear strike next week. Now would be the time for them to speak up.

I'm also not a fan of child killing in those ancient texts either. In fact, I'm concerned about how many people just accept those texts from thousands of years ago as okay. Purposely killing children is bad, if anyone reading this tweet is unsure of that. 🤷‍♀️

GOP Sen. Thom Tillis: “To call Ken Paxton 'ethically challenged' is to call Jeffrey Dahmer suffering from an eating disorder.”

My only birthday wish is for you to go vote and then text 42 people you know to remind them to vote as well.

Imagine the bubble that one must be in to suppose that a crash out involves someone saying Luke was good and Anakin was bad. This whole Twitter-Anakin thing is a bad mini-arc that is rightfully made fun of. Touch grass, hang out with your friends in real life.

JUST IN: Apple Maps has put all the buildings back in Gaza, because the easiest solution to a genocide is to pretend it isn't happening. Image on the right is from Google, showing the current reality.

🚨 BREAKING: Mike Rogers’ campaign spokesperson was just EXPOSED for being a registered foreign agent to Israel.

Amid these pro-Anakin memes, there is this. Imagine a person who would directly kill children. Not accidentally, not in a blast radius, but deliberately with his own sword, one by one. That’s Anakin. Followers claim they are joking, but there’s no actual joke in their posts.

Translation: the asshole that runs this app is a fascist piece of garbage

NEERA TANDEN AND CHUCK SCHUMERS HAND SELECTED CANDIDATE BTW. FOR THE LAST 8 MONTHS THE PARTY BOSSES HAVE BEEN SCREAMING AT US FOR DARING TO VOTE FOR REAL FIGHTERS. THEY NEVER STOPPED COMING AFTER US FOR HELPING DEFEAT AIPAC IN THE PRIMARY. ALL BECAUSE WE DARED TO CALL OUT HALEY FOR WHAT SHE WAS, AN ISRAEL FIRST REPUBLICAN. VOTE FOR MICHIGAN, VOTE FOR M4A, VOTE FOR LABOR UNIONS, VOTE AGAINST HATRED OF ALL FORMS, VOTE FOR ABDUL EL SAYED. WE WILL DEFEAT FASCISM IN THIS COUNTRY! NO MORE FASCIST COLLABORATION!! NO MORE CAPITULATION TO TRUMP!!

Trump is gay af

NOW IN TEL AVIV: Tens of thousands of Israeli citizens, Jews and Palestinians, are marching to demand a Jewish-Arab government after winning against Netanyahu & his corrupt lackeys.

There is stupid...And then there is ICE Stupid

Fucking legend

RT @WUTangKids: 🤣💀

One thing people shy away from when talking about Christian Nationalists: they want wars, they want to bring back Jesus. They think they can do it by using Israel to usher in the Apocalypse. They’re cool with bombing kids. It’s the blood sacrifices they need.

A stand-up Christian, ladies and gentlemen. Fascist too, what a surprise.

Patrick Stewart was a socialist. Glenda Jackson was a socialist. George Orwell was a socialist. Albert Einstein was a socialist. Nelson Mandela was a socialist. Nazis were NOT socialist, Musk is a liar, and he spreads Nazi propaganda.

Wil Wheaton telling Hitler's anal polyp to fuck all the way off back to Adolf's shithole wins the internet for me today

Fuckin gross