Mahmoud " Mo" Shawki

Iran has opened its first all-women military training camp amid fears of renewed US attacks. Dozens of female ‘Janfadayan’, volunteers willing to sacrifice their lives for Iran, took part in military exercises at Tehran’s Azadi Square.

Insane exchange. Newly elected Democrat Adam Hamawy refuses to call Iran an adversary. BROWN: Do you see Iran as the adversary? HAMAWY: "We pushed them into a fight" BROWN: But are they the adversary? HAMAWY: "We should be making friends" BROWN: They've been saying "death to America" for decades HAMAWY: "We've been saying 'death to Iran'" BROWN: They've killed a lot of Americans HAMAWY: "And we've killed a lot of them" BROWN: So you don't see Iran as an adversary? HAMAWY: "I see that we are pushing Iran into a fight"

Here in Chicago, with a progressive mayor, we had the safest summer since the 1960s.

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.

Statement by the Board of Peace on Recent Flooding and Urgent Winterization Needs in Gaza

GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert will lose reelection to Democrat Eileen Laubacher, CNN projects, ending the conservative firebrand's tenure in Congress and flipping Colorado's 4th District. cnn.it/4erCDeP

Since yesterday, I have been following statements from Gaza’s Government Media Office, municipalities, Hamas officials, and their supporters, calling on the international community, Arab countries, and the Palestinian Authority to take responsibility for the catastrophe unfolding in Gaza, after heavy rainfall flooded the tents of tens of thousands of displaced people. I do not deny Israel’s responsibility for destroying Gaza and displacing its people, nor do I overlook the international community’s failure to protect them. But what makes me angry is this relentless insistence on holding everyone accountable except Hamas itself! Hamas made the decision to launch the October 7 attack without any clear plan to protect the people of Gaza from its catastrophic consequences. Israel’s brutality does not absolve Hamas of responsibility for that decision. But there is another issue that deserves just as much scrutiny: the money. During the first year of the war, Khaled Mashal appeared smiling as he recounted a message from Ismail Haniyeh (Hamas’s leader at the time), describing the donations Hamas was receiving as unprecedented. He reportedly referred to them as a “financial flood,” a description echoed by other officials. And we are talking about a movement with international funding networks and financial backing from Iran, as well as reported sources of support connected to Qatar, Turkey, and Islamist organizations operating in Europe and the United States. The sums involved are potentially enormous, amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars, if not more. I am from Gaza, and I challenge anyone to show me a clear, publicly documented aid program through which Hamas has distributed tents or food parcels to displaced families since the war began. I would also like to hear directly from families inside Gaza who have received such assistance from Hamas. Where has all this money gone? And how is it acceptable for Hamas leaders and activists to suddenly present themselves as humanitarian advocates whenever disaster strikes, expressing outrage over flooded tents and demanding that the entire world take responsibility? You are not outsiders watching this tragedy unfold. You governed Gaza, made decisions on behalf of its people, and received enormous sums of money in their name. You cannot continue demanding more money and holding the entire world accountable while refusing to answer for your own decisions or disclose what happened to the funds you collected in the name of the Palestinian people! And I have not even begun to address the charities allegedly linked to Hamas, some of which present themselves as independent humanitarian organizations while raising millions of dollars from donors abroad. Whenever disaster strikes, some of these organizations send photographers into the streets, produce English-language content showing the suffering, and publish it alongside donation links. One fundraising campaign I have been following on Chuffed has, according to the figures displayed on the platform, raised more than $15 million, including approximately $400,000 since yesterday alone! And yet, families whose suffering is featured in these fundraising appeals are still sleeping on the ground inside flooded tents, with little or no information about how the money raised in their name is being spent. I am not calling on the world to stop helping Gaza. Quite the opposite. But the people of Gaza, and the donors who are trying to help them, have every right to know where this money is going, who controls it, how it is being distributed, and why so many families remain without the most basic necessities despite the enormous sums being raised. Yesterday, children in Gaza were shivering from the cold inside flooded tents, while their parents struggled to salvage what little they had left. They know very well who destroyed their homes and displaced them. But they also have every right to question those who made the decisions that helped bring them to this point, and those who continue to raise millions of dollars in their name. It is no longer acceptable for Hamas to evade responsibility for the catastrophe it helped bring upon Gaza. Nor should any organization raising money in the name of Gaza’s suffering be allowed to operate without transparency, accountability, and clear evidence of how those funds are being used. You cannot collect millions in the name of people who have lost everything, leave them without answers about where that money has gone, and then demand that the rest of the world take responsibility. This level of disregard for accountability and for the dignity of the people whose suffering is used to raise money is morally indefensible. #Gaza #Hamas

My name is Ahmed Moor and I’m running for US Senate here in PA (election 2028). I’m running to end the war in Iran and to promote the dignity agenda: free healthcare, free childcare, and affordable housing. I’m calling for accountability for genocide, for ICE and for corruption. And finally, for the protection of our civil liberties in America. Join the fight at moorforsenate.com

Will the Real the Senator Stand Up trivia: When Scott Colom becomes the next Senator for Mississippi (and he will) there will be FOUR identical twins in the Senate Democratic Caucus — Patty Murray, Brian Schatz, Mark Kelly and yes, Scott Colom!

Trump admits: The voters didn't like the war. They didn't like the fact that gasoline went up. And there's a great dislike, incredibly, for Israel.

Trump admits: The voters didn't like the war. They didn't like the fact that gasoline went up. And there's a great dislike, incredibly, for Israel.

בכנסת הבאה יהיו 11 בעלי תואר דוקטור. שישה מהם יהיו חברי הרשימה המשותפת. אני גאה לעמוד בראש רשימה כל כך משכילה, מגוונת, מוכשרת ובעיקר אנושית. ואני גאה לא פחות בעובדה שברשימה שלנו אין אף שחקן כדורגל לשעבר, שמאז שהתחיל להופיע בטלוויזיה לא מפסיק להתגזען על האזרחים הערבים. כולנו ברשימה נחושים להיאבק נגד הגזענות והעליונות, ולפעול למען עתיד של כבוד, שוויון ושלום, לכל האזרחים, ערבים ויהודים כאחד.

With heavy rain and destroyed infrastructures where hundreds of thousands of people living in tents , Gazans have been flooded , may God help the poor people. Nothing on the horizon how long this situation will stay in t absence of political will from all sides. But don't worry guys this sacrifices were worth it so Americans changed their views and elected first Muslim Anti AIPAC senator

So here's what happened in today's Stupid Olympics. There are two people named Dana White. One is President and CEO of the UFC The other is Dana W. White, who served as the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs and Chief Pentagon Spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Defense under Secretary James Mattis Their pictures are below. He's the white guy. She's the Black woman. I'll call them UFC Dana and DOD Dana to make it easier for you. Suzie Wiles, shortly before being replaced by Count Stephen Miller, advised Trump that his new Press Secretary should be Dana White. And Trump in all his finite wisdom, immediately assumed the UFC Dana, who has never done anything to prepare him for press secretary, and not DOD Dana, whose entire career has been in preparation for that. Now you might be saying, "Kelly, not everyone knows about DOD Dana. It's an honest mistake." But he's NOT just "everyone." He's the President of the United States. And this is a man whose administration has been firing Black people, women, trans people, and so on, insisting that none of them got their job based on merit. And then he's going to name someone completely unqualified to be Press Secretary because the President is a fan of the UFC. And he didn't even think to ask anyone. It never even occurred to him to ponder whether UFC Dana is the person he should pick as Press Secretary. Stupid and incurious are a dangerous combination, and this man is both of those things. And that got me to thinking about the two Dan Sullivan in Alaska. And I get it now. The man who is too stupid to know the difference between two Dana Whites thinks Alaskans are too stupid to know the difference between two Dan Sullivans.