Barry Freed

Remember when everyone was so angry about the Taliban destroying ancient monuments?

I would like to point out that Golestan, and many of these other sites that are being destroyed, are UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Part of the beautiful history of ALL HUMANITY. We are literally destroying our own human cultural heritage.

What’s next? Persepolis? The gorgeous mosques and shrines of Isfahan?

מח״ט הבקעה לתושבים: ״הפלסטינים צפויים להתפנות משטחי C״ אל"ם גלעד שריקי סייר בקהילות פלסטיניות והזהיר מפני הריסות בתים ופינוי משטחי C. צה"ל: הסיור נועד "לתת תחושת ביטחון לתושבים״

A Israeli brigade commander told Palestinians in the Jordan valley that the IDF plans to remove all Palestinians currently living in "Area C" - that's 60% of the West Bank - within a year.

IDF spokesperson was asked for comment and did not deny this.

www.ha-makom.co.il/area-c-evacu...

The IDF damages Tehran's Golestan Palace: 'It's like striking the Taj Mahal' The Severe Damage to the Golestan Palace in Tehran During the Israeli Strikes Is Raising Once Again the Question of Whether World Heritage Sites Can Be Protected During Wartime

Bastards. Barbaric vandals. www.haaretz.com/middle-east-...

I’m still a bit stunned by the operational tempo of today’s attacks and fully expecting one more before the night is through. Meanwhile, tonight’s topical movie rewatch is the Coen brothers Burn After Reading

Jim Cramer suggests on CNBC that Trump could “bomb Tehran into the Stone Age” until Iran reopens the strait, citing U.S. bombings of North Vietnam in the 1970s. Carl Quintanilla points out to him that Hanoi won that war.

a man with a beard is smiling while sitting at a desk ALT: a man with a beard is smiling while sitting at a desk

Everything is bad, but at least I can focus on my dissertation chapter about how the British in 1915 didn’t have the navy to force a strait when it needed to because it spent the previous decades funding their army’s misadventures in unimportant areas that turned into expensive quagmires.

It was missiles according to MOD. They must have been intercepted far away because I didn’t hear anything booms nor did my friends here

And the all clear. I didn’t hear anything so it must have been drones. They’re using Apache attack helicopters to take them out

And again. 3 times today

Update 😢 bsky.app/profile/barr...

I fucked up the alt text there sorry but it’s a good article and you should read it

Welp Qumra is cancelled for me 😭

Further to that point: this morning’s attack seemed like it was only a few missiles (just a few booms) whereas the one shortly after noon sounded like it was a lot more (very many boom boom booms)

When my three year old son is sat on the loo doing a poo, he pulls a face that looks just like Michael Gove and it haunts me.

Two missile attacks within about four hours of each other is an alarming uptick in tempo, even though there’s been an apparent decrease in the number of missiles per attack.

The war on Iran is already upending the Middle East. Look to the Gulf states to see how | Nesrine Malik Countries such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE are finding their carefully projected image of stability has been blown away, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

Fails to mention that slumping or collapsing Gulf states economies could fuel another global financial crisis, as asset values and economic viability plunge with the war. Any heavily Gulf-invested western banks or funds could fall over, with big domino effects. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

All clear

Very many big booms

Wow! So soon?

Qumra is going online. I’m glad they didn’t cancel it but this really feels so much like Covid all over again

I recommend @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social's much more thoughtful exploration of this idea:

bsky.app/profile/grav...

the tankers yearn for the mines

CENTCOM, 2026:

You can ask Americans to make sacrifices but you have to convince them why it's necessary, and crucially, you have to do it before the sacrifices are required.

The Trump administration's instinct is to promise everything will be pure upside until it's not and only then scold Americans to be stoic.

I’ve been expecting them to do that. It really does feel like Covid all over again

Tbh the entire race to the bottom between the US, China, and Russia

How are they so bad at doing politics?