Open-ended ceasefire extension

I think a resumption of all out war across the Gulf is going to break a lot of things that can't readily put back together. It'd strengthen Iran's hand over the US, but at a real cost. They'd rather this happen deeper into the energy crisis than rn if it's going to happen

I was in a college Middle East studies class while the Syrian Civil War was taking place and I would say that everything I read about the likely future of the region was tied for 0% accuracy.

I think we enter an undeclared ceasefire with Israel being the loose end

The US has unilaterally extended the ceasefire, and that's not the understanding in Iran. To them it ends tonight

I think Johnston is probably right here, especially considering that Iran and the US don't agree on when the ceasefire ends, so there's a bit of a zero grade pool

Mood

JD Vance has officially cancelled his planned trip to Pakistan.-AP

Another factor is that he's got an enormous following outside the US, especially in MENA

Iran will not be showing up for the talks. Iran’s decision not to attend the meeting in Pakistan on Wednesday is final, according to Tasnim News Agency (IRGC-affiliated media).

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Really great, short, succinct assessment of a question that gets asked all the time without its core phrase ever really being truly defined.

this is a very dark accidental joke about foreign news priorities about Africa

Fractures Emerge Between GOP’s Pro-Pedophilia, Extremely Pro-Pedophilia Wings

US–Iran diplomatic process is paused with no Iranian response - NYT

Election twitter is saying the early turnout signals are not stellar but are sufficient. Markets seem to agree (somewhere around 80-85% chance of yes). Expect the vote to look like a no initially and shift to a yes

I don't love the weighted district system because it makes a few people from the far districts way more powerful than any one delegate should be, but this is not something that benefits progressives!

Un exemple concret?

Incredible video. This was performed alongside the Lebanon/Syria basketball friendly he attended the other day in Damascus

It’s Evola derived Nazism (frequencies and esoterics are an immediate give away) but we still pretend this starts and stops at trad wife stuff

Doing this video with a painting of Washington in the background is a level of irony that even he’d probably cross the Delaware again just to get away from

AI does make a fan-made Minions: Sons Of The Century pretty doable

Offhanded scene where it's revealed that the minions came up with "Eja! Eja! Alalà"

Releasing the minions into the 40k verse and watching them be paralysed by choice.

In about 50 years it'll be acceptable to set a minions movie in Fiume. Mussolini will take a lot longer

I think the rule is that they serve the evilest person at any given time, not the most powerful evil person? I feel like they'd be following around some White Army exile well after the war ended (cough, cough)

Minions Russian Civil war

We've got a jungle primary with a non-negligible risk of a lockout and one YIMBY candidate with a vastly larger share of the vote than anyone else credible. What possible reason do you have to ratfuck this when the left is being a team player?

CNL is more hostile to left-YIMBYs than it is to NIMBYs