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U.S. Servicemembers at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar watching tonight’s ballistic missile attack by Iran.

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Iran has now fired on U.S. military bases in Qatar, Iraq, Kuwait, and Bahrain

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The Iranian armed forces has released a statement:

That the IRGC launched ballistic missiles at the United States’ Al-Udeid Airbase in Qatar.

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Iran has now shot at the U.S. base in Qatar.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/06/23/iran-israel-us-strikes-latest-news-nuclear-sites-trump/

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Lisa Needham at Daily Kos:

It’s no secret that the Trump administration runs on vibes. The vibes are rancid, but they’re vibes nonetheless. There’s no real strategy at work; just a bunch of vile people spouting off. That’s terrible in the best of times, but as we hurtle toward another unnecessary and stupid war in the Middle East, the administration’s inability to get its story straight is ridiculous—and alarming. On Thursday, President Donald Trump said that he will decide within two weeks whether to attack Iran. Why two weeks? Vibes, baby! It’s his favorite arbitrary time period. He’s used it so often that late-night host Jimmy Kimmel was able to put together a 12-clip reel of Trump invoking that magical two-week span, but not delivering, including his 2020 promise to announce a health care plan. Then there were the two weeks he was going to take to decide how willing dictator Vladimir Putin was to end Russia’s war with Ukraine. Actually, the Ukraine-Russia conflict has spawned multiple two-week timelines that are proffered and discarded randomly. 

Everyone knows Trump is not going to spend two weeks thinking about this. He’s probably not even going to spend two hours. It’s just a reflexive statement he makes so that it looks like he’s doing his job. Generally, you can just ignore it as meaningless and not even bother to check back in 14 days, as he’ll long have forgotten.  But when it comes to Iran, Trump’s low-key, wait-and-see two-week timeline sounds very different than White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s two weeks.  “Iran has all that it needs to achieve a nuclear weapon,” Leavitt claimed during a press briefing. “All they need is a decision from the supreme leader to do that.” And then? “It would take a couple of weeks to complete the production of that weapon, which would, of course, pose an existential threat not just to Israel but to the United States and to the entire world.” Leavitt also offered a quote “directly from the president” and, to be fair, it does sound like him.

Donald Trump has long had a “two weeks” schtick in which he often postpones things to another two weeks, and so on.

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Shared to Twitter, footage of the attack

https://x.com/blackcobra00007/status/1936579452760117309

https://x.com/Blackcobra00007/status/1936579452760117309

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Updates from social media regarding the attack.

1. Twitter

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America has officially attacked Iran, on the anniversary of Operation Barbarossa.

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June 8, 2025 - Anti-ICE protesters in Los Angeles stop a column of police cars by bombarding them with rocks and objects from an overpass. [video]

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Germany is preparing for a Russian attack

Germany is planning to swiftly expand its network of bomb-proof bunkers and shelters, according to the government’s most senior civil protection officer, who warns that the country must be prepared for a Russian attack within the next four years.

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Okay so just to sum up recent events on the US Right:

• Trump starts a contract with Peter Thiel's Palantir company to create a database of ALL INFORMATION on EVERY LIVING AMERICAN

• Its revealed Stephen Miller and Elon Musk have had a very massive fight, supposedly because Elon Musk is sleeping with Miller's wife

• Trump ousts Elon from the administration, after over five months of being besties. Leaves with Stephen Miller's wife, who he just hired at one of his companies (!?)

• Elon starts saying the Big Beautiful Bill sucks

• A GOP Representative reveals that most of them didnt actually get to read the Big Beautiful Bill, GOP leadership basically made them rubber stamp it and they are pissed to find out it makes them all look horrible. A lot of them are now discussing a shakeup in GOP leadership.

• Trump says Elon has "Trump Derangement Syndrome" (🤮)

• Elon escalates massively, stating that Trump is in the Epstein files and THATS why they havent released them yet

• This comes right as Alex Jones loses a massive chunk of his audience because he's endorsing Trump's Palantir contract, and his fans are basically all very concerned about their privacy. They want a new conspiracy to follow and they just got one

• Trump starts threatening Elon's government contracts

• Ian Miles Cheong calls for Trump to be impeached immediately, and for JD Vance to become President. Elon Musk quote retweets this with "Yes"

• JD Vance was mentored by Peter Thiel

• Steve Bannon takes to Fox calling for the immediate deportation of Musk, and making SpaceX a public company

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Ukraine is withstanding the Russian invasion.

Zelensky is showing the world what values and integrity and honor look like. 🇺🇦

America was an ally until Trump, Vance, and MAGA came in and took sides with Putin.

It's pretty sad that after 70 years of Cold War and decades of Russian spying/hacking, Republicans are now financed by Russia and work/message for the Kremlin.

When Russia does bad things to destabilize the world, they have the full support of US conservatives. Look how Syria and North Korea get what they want from Trump.

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Look, major airlines wouldn’t be paying the costs of extra insurance if they didn’t think it was necessary.

Airlines prepare for nuclear war

“Jets could continue to fly following an atomic blast under special insurance policies being drawn up to address the possibility of conflicts escalating in Ukraine and Kashmir.

Current policies that date back to the 1950s would force the grounding of all civil aircraft worldwide in the event of a single nuclear detonation, based on the assumption that this would lead to the outbreak of a third world war.

However, with the deployment of nuclear weapons now regarded as more likely to involve so-called tactical warheads used in a limited role on the battlefield, the insurance industry has developed plans to allow flights to continue in regions removed from conflict zones.

Gallagher, the world’s largest aviation insurance broker, began working on the scheme when Vladimir Putin threatened to deploy Russia’s atomic weapons against Ukraine in 2022.

Its plans have been given fresh impetus by the clash between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, where hostilities reached a level not seen for decades over the past week.

Nigel Weyman, senior partner at Gallagher, said the Ukraine conflict had revived interest in nuclear-related insurance policies.

He said: “Back when the wording was drawn up, it was assumed that any hostile detonation meant that it would all be over, Armageddon. But what they didn’t have in those days was tactical nuclear weapons that vary in size and impact and which are, ultimately, very usable.”

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Mr Weyman said: “Why should Air New Zealand, for example, be grounded in the event of a nuclear detonation in Europe that was quite minor, albeit not for the people near it?

“Airlines find workarounds for whatever challenges they face, safe corridors, minimum heights so that ground-to-air missiles can’t reach them.

“Volcanic ash clouds affect big areas, but the world keeps flying. Yet a few words on an insurance policy can ground every jet there is.”

The broker has come up with a plan that would see a select number of insurers evaluate where airlines should be permitted to fly after a nuclear detonation, aided by analysis from security experts at risk-management specialists Osprey Flight Solutions.

The 15-strong group, which includes Allianz, the world’s largest insurer, would meet within four hours of a detonation and evaluate the threat to airlines on a country-by-country basis.

The plan would provide each carrier with $1bn (£750m) per plane of war cover for passengers and third parties, compared with $2bn or more under existing policies.

Mr Weyman said the cost of the scheme will amount to less than the price of a cup of coffee per passenger, if ever triggered, something “easily passed on in ticket prices”.

Airlines spent about $1.3bn on insurance premiums last year to cover slightly over 4bn passenger journeys, indicating a current cost of around 33 cents per customer.

Around 100 airlines have so far signed up to the plan, out of the 500 or so worldwide. About 60 in Europe have joined, though low-cost operators are proving reluctant, Mr Weyman said.

Airlines could yet be grounded by other insurance stipulations, including a “five powers war clause” that terminates cover in the event of a military clash between any of the UK, US, France, Russia and China.

That could be invoked in the event of any British or French troops sent to Ukraine being fired on, according to some industry experts.”

Nuclear war has never been more likely. Here’s what it would look like now

“This is the climate in which the United Nations General Assembly has voted to establish an international panel of scientists to assess, communicate and advance our current knowledge of the effects of nuclear war.

The investigation, set up in autumn last year and due to report in 2027, will look at “the physical effects and societal consequences of a nuclear war on a local, regional and planetary scale, including, inter alia, the climatic, environmental and radiological effects, and their impacts on public health, global socioeconomic systems, agriculture and ecosystems, in the days, weeks and decades following a nuclear war”.

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The case for going to war to stop Iran or other countries from getting a nuclear weapon, one Western official speaking on condition of anonymity tells The Telegraph, is much stronger when you realise the world only survived the 1950s and 1960s through “dumb luck”.

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“But I completely agree with the broader point,” Bollfras adds. “In my academic life, I spent a lot of time looking at nuclear dynamics during the Cold War, and I came out of that experience just not understanding how it is that we’re all still alive. We’ve been incredibly fortunate so far.

“There are quite a few studies in the nuclear weapons field about the nature of the nuclear taboo, because it is really quite remarkable that nuclear weapons have only been used in anger by one country, a very long time ago. And there’s a lot of competing explanations out there, a lot of competing beliefs, about why that is.”

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American or Russian early warning systems will know in an instant that an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) has been launched. But they may not be able to tell where it is flying for several minutes.

By the time someone wakes up the president or prime minister, he or she will have less than 10 minutes to make a decision about firing a response.

And at that point, “no one has an idea of what will happen,” says Victor Gilinsky, a physicist who acts as programme advisor to the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center and was a commissioner of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission during the Ford, Carter and Reagan administrations.

“None of the hundreds of books on deterrence, et cetera, are of any use. It will come down to two politicians who haven’t read them, haven’t taken the Harvard course on deterrence, probably haven’t slept in a crisis, and may be on drugs to stay alert. It will be like a contest between two bullies in a schoolyard. They might walk away from a fight, and they might kill each other.

“Their advisers will also want to look tough. I don’t think anyone wants a nuclear war, but the shadow-boxing could easily get out of hand. One side may feel risking nuclear war is preferable to being humiliated, the most awful thing for a typical leader.

“As to what happens if it comes to nuclear weapons, that depends totally on how they are used.”

The Arms Control Association, a US-based nonpartisan organisation, counts more than 12,100 nuclear weapons in the world today, 90 per cent of them held by the US and Russia. China, France, Britain, India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea hold the remainder.

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“The military knows a lot about blast and about radioactivity, but they don’t reliably model fires, and especially the indirect effects, the effects of the smoke and effects on climate,” says Prof Alan Robock of Rutgers University in New Jersey.

“We’ve calculated that 10 times as many people would die around the world from these indirect effects than would die from the horrific direct effects that we already know about. And they’re trying to ignore this because they want to continue business as usual.”

Prof Robock is not a physicist. He is a meteorologist, and 40 years ago he was among a small number of American and Soviet researchers who began to consider the impact of mass nuclear explosions on the weather.

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A nuclear war between the US and Russia “could produce enough smoke to make temperatures go below freezing in the middle of continents, even in the summertime”, Prof Robock says.

“Clearly that would completely shut down agriculture. The world has about a 60-day food supply. So once people ate up all the food that’s been stored, they’d have to start growing it again. So we calculated, at the end of the second year, how much food could each country produce?

“We looked at every country: what do they eat? How much do they export? How much do they import? And we calculated a war between India and Pakistan could kill one to two billion people from starvation. A war between the US and Russia and Nato could kill six billion people, most of the people on the earth. That’s what nuclear winter is.”

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Some years ago, Bollfrass was leafing through the archives of the Stasi, Communist East Germany’s secret police service, when he came across a study of nuclear war.

“The interesting thing,” he says, “was that they acknowledged to their own intelligence officers that they were in no way prepared for it, and that in the event of nuclear war, there’d be a few bunkers available to the leadership, but everyone else will be on their own. Which at least was refreshingly honest on their part.

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One of the noticeable things about the Iran-Israel simulation, he says, was that the players – 35 Republican and Democratic Capitol Hill staff, American government officials and analysts, academics, military personnel, and national security and Middle East think-tankers – found it difficult to develop appropriate policy responses to Israeli or Iranian nuclear use. They simply hadn’t ever planned or been trained for such a scenario.

In other words, the players had spent so much time hoping deterrence would work that they hadn’t thought about what to do if it failed.

More exercises forcing officials to grapple with the profound dangers ought to help them plan ways through such crises if they encounter them. Above all, it would act as a vaccine against complacency.”

How Many People Would Die in an All-Out Nuclear War?

“Data visualizer Neil Halloran attempts to answer that with a gorgeous and devastating video demonstrating the potential impact of a nuclear conflict. Like his last video, which was a disturbing and sobering exploration of who died in World War II, this video, the first of a series, uses inventive visualizations to bring home otherwise incomprehensible numbers. His estimate is half a billion deaths, which is more than ten times the casualties of World War II. But as Halloran points out, that number doesn't even take into account the nuclear winter that could devastate crops around the world and lead to a massive famine after such a war.”

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has someone made a post introducing all the cardinals yet or do i have to google them myself

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https://www.reuters.com/world/us/judges-stymie-trump-with-nationwide-orders-pressure-builds-us-supreme-court-2025-04-06/

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If he gets away with this? American citizens are next.

trump admin really acting in christ’s spirit this Good Friday, huh.