Links 6/28/2025

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1. Alf June 28, 2025 at 7:20 am

   Re: the mass arrests of Iranians by ICE – one was a 64-year-old woman who had been in the US since 1978. She was gardening when they nabbed her. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/27/ice-detains-woman-iran-new-orleans

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   1. The Rev Kev June 28, 2025 at 7:31 am

      Well obviously the fertilizers she was using for her garden could have been repurposed as explosives material. /sarc

      Hey, can’t we tell ICE that the Kardashians actually come from Iran and not Armenia?

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      1. ambrit June 28, 2025 at 9:49 am

         Sorry Rev., Kardashian has “kash” in it. Money is sacred in America. They are the “Low Priests” of Mammon for millions. Besides, everyone who watches much streaming content, (steaming content?,) knows that they are trans-dimensional beings. Just ask Caitlyn, a relative of said Kardashians. Then there is the family “reptilian” morphology.
         Too much to unpack.
         Stay safe.

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2. The Rev Kev June 28, 2025 at 7:26 am

   ‘Zionism Observer
   @receipts_lol
   Australian police beat an opposition politician so badly that she might lose an eye. For being at an anti-genocide protest.
   She was at the protest acting as a legal observer. The protest was permitted.’

   This is really bad. The NSW police have really screwed the pooch here and you can bet that the Greens will not let this go away. Somebody is going to be hung out to dry. Now she has had to undergo facial surgery. ‘But NSW Police has not classified the incident as a critical incident – that is, an incident involving a member of the police force that results in the death of, or serious injury to, a person, and which requires NSW Police to investigate.’ Yeah, that’s gunna change.

   Things are getting weird here in oz. Just found out today that 100 Australian soldiers have been sent into the Ukraine because, uhh, Poland asked us? What. The. Family-Blog. The Russians have long said that any foreign troops are fair game and now Albanese thinks it a good idea that some of them might come back in body bags? This is not the US or Poland or France where you can hide a coupla dozen dead soldiers. Was he trying to suck up to Trump here?

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   1. Carolinian June 28, 2025 at 8:03 am

      If Gallipoli comes up again this time say no.

      One could point out that Murdoch and Fox News seemingly control Trump so maybe you guys are running us at the moment. But to be sure the Ukraine war was mostly a Biden/Dem project. Blame it on Rachel Maddow.

      In his latest Mad King Don says he allowed Khamenei to live therefore Iran should do what Trump wants. Paging Robert Graves.

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      1. The Rev Kev June 28, 2025 at 8:11 am

         The question arises if he actually believes that Iran lost the war or whether he is just saying it to establish his own “narrative”. Even Steve Bannon says that Israel was getting crushed and Trump had to go in to save them before they lost the war. Personally I am convinced that a legend will arise in Israel how they were just about to destroy Iran when Trump stopped them which Trump hinted at in a Truth social post.

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         1. Bugs June 28, 2025 at 8:23 am

            Perhaps Trump preempted them from using an A Bomb. Or he was responding to Israeli blackmail including that threat. My thought was that this possibility was behind Tulsi Gabbard’s very serious video tweet wrt to nuclear war, a week or so before the attack.

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         2. Carolinian June 28, 2025 at 9:09 am

            Stabbed in the back?

            And Trump is a legend in his own mind. However sounds like there are enough “facts on the ground” in Israel to contradict the “we shoulda won” narrative there.

            Instead they’ll take their frustrations out on–who else?–the Palestinians. Blame it all on Amalek.

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            1. The Rev Kev June 28, 2025 at 9:23 am

               Yeah, ‘stabbed in the back’. Otherwise they would have to admit that they were losing this war and would have ended up looking like Gaza. Too much hubris to admit that.

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         3. Wukchumni June 28, 2025 at 9:12 am

            Who knows what goes on up there?

            A few months after the LA Infernos, Trump orders a shitlode of water to be released from Lake Kaweah and Lake Success, south of us.

            At the LA press conference after he became President, he said he’d get the military to get water to LA and this would have never happened, etc.’

            The US Army Corps of Engineers runs the dams, and a few months later is when they release valuable water meant for August, not really worth anything in March, none of it making its way to LA, anyhow.

            It wasn’t as if the press was clamoring for him to show just how he was going find this water, frankly nobody cared, it was just another bloviation uttered and soon forgotten, but not to him.

            Farmers depend on the water he had released, and they are very much his constituents here, and if that wasn’t a (family blog) you! to them, what else could it be construed as?

            Donald is a petty man, beware humanity.

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            1. ambrit June 28, 2025 at 9:53 am

               As the Oracle of Omaha was heard to predict; “A great Entertainment Empire will be destroyed.”

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3. Wukchumni June 28, 2025 at 8:07 am

   Gooooooood Moooooooooooorning Fiatnam!

   It was all about the kill-ratio back in the world away from the fetid jungle conditions here on the front 40, how many of the President’s cockamamie edicts get shot down by courts, Kangaroo or otherwise?

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4. Bugs June 28, 2025 at 8:07 am

   “Unborn dolphin calves have toxic metals in their blood, revealing horrific ocean pollution”

   It’s also sort of horrifying how even nominally scientific publications have adopted the newspeak of the antiabortion movement.

   These are dolphin fetuses, not “unborn” calves.

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5. William Beyer June 28, 2025 at 8:16 am

   OBLITERATION
   Lyrics by me; Music by Carly Simon

   We can never know about Israeli nukes,
   But we’re stuck with them anyway-ay-ay,
   And I wonder, why Don and Bibi pull these stunts,
   Bombing their way to end-of-days.

   Obliteration, Oblit-er-a-a-tion,
   Let’s Donnie castrate,
   Keep Bibi busy fellating him.

   And I tell you, how corrupt these a**holes are,
   And how strong, this Bibi-Trump crap stinks,
   Just dreamed about, a double-decap escapade,
   Thinking about how right that just might be.

   Obliteration, Oblit-er-a-a-tion,
   Let’s Donnie castrate,
   Keep Bibi busy fellating him.

   And tomorrow, it might be nuclear winter,
   Not prophetic, can’t predict war crim’nals’ play-ay-ays,
   While the Senate, craven to its sleazy core,
   Will bless this sh*t,
   ‘Cause these are the morons’ ways.

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6. The Rev Kev June 28, 2025 at 8:28 am

   Working link for “Did the Attacks on Iran Succeed?” article at-

   https://www.foreignaffairs.com/iran/did-attacks-iran-succeed

   Reality based answer says no but the author says kinda. His Wikipedia entry makes interesting reading-

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nephew

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7. Wukchumni June 28, 2025 at 8:35 am

   Meet the ‘doomsday preppers’ who say they’re ready for World War III Daily Mail
   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

   You can never be too safe these days, so I 3D printed old German Paris Guns and 88’s and have them mounted around the periphery of the all cats and no cattle ranch. Sourcing shells has been problematic, although i’m sure it’ll be alleviated by game time.

   Pixley could be in real peril with the reach of the Paris Gun, ‘jus saying~

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   1. The Rev Kev June 28, 2025 at 9:01 am

      Say, I could be the first person in my neighbourhood to get a 88. Then pretty soon I could be the only person in my neighbourhood.

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      1. Wukchumni June 28, 2025 at 9:54 am

         p.s.

         I’ve got a 3D printed M65 atomic cannon on backorder from Aberdeen~

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8. Martin Oline June 28, 2025 at 8:43 am

   Thanks for all the links and the antidotes. It is great and I’ll be back after my laptop recharges. A lot of them link seemlessly to each other. I especially liked the quote by German FM Wadephul “We didn’t choose this situation ourselves.” I guess that memory hole has become a black hole, sucking all thoughts and morality into it, collapsing and crushing them, and shooting them off somewhere far, far away. Too funny.

   They are victims of fate with large off-shore accounts. What was that Flip Wilson used to say? “The Devil made me do it!”

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   1. The Rev Kev June 28, 2025 at 8:57 am

      Yeah, not so much German FM Wadephul as German FM What-A-Fool. It’s OK for German grannies to freeze to death because they had their pensions cut and German infrastructure to crumble but at least Zelensky will be able to add some more homes to his real estate portfolio.

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9. Nikkikat June 28, 2025 at 9:03 am

   Found the OCD article very interesting reading. I born with an anxiety disorder, I can’t remember when I didn’t have this anxiety. OCD goes with it. Always had that too, from constantly checking my pocket for my lunch money to checking that I turned off the coffee pot 5 times, even though I knew I turned it off. These issues can be time consuming and debilitating. The debate about brain chemicals, all interesting aspects of a common mental disfunction and the issue of people now displaying these same problems by constantly phone scrolling. I’m not so alone now.

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   1. Mass Driver June 28, 2025 at 9:28 am

      Being someone with OCD, I found that article to be, featured earlier.
      https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/06/links-6-19-2025.html

      If the issues are not time consuming and debilitating, then it’s not a disorder, and hence not an OCD.

      I do not remember having anxiety/OCD as a kid, so it might have been triggered by puberty in my case. The mild/functional autism (or whatever the proper term is) was always there, though.

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10. Carolinian June 28, 2025 at 9:16 am

    Looks like most of the Simplicius is paywalled but here’s some info from Tehran.

    https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/515003/Iran-downed-17-advanced-Israeli-drones-in-its-western-skies

    And Larry Johnson goes so far as to suggest the Intel fab in Israel was destroyed. During Trump’s next press avail perhaps someone should ask if he did in fact greenlight the Israeli war–as the Israelis claim–and whether one is entitled to get a peace prize for ending one’s own war.

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11. The Rev Kev June 28, 2025 at 9:19 am

    “Trump will look at giving Ukraine more Patriot missiles as he calls on Putin to end war”

    More Trump bluster. It seems that they make roughly 600 plus Patriot missiles a year. Now Israel is going to need thousands of them before they go Round 2 with Iran but for argument’s sake, let’s say that Trump sends a full year’s production of them to Zelensky. Since you fire a minimum of two missiles per target, then those 600 missiles mean that they can only deal with maybe 300 targets. So how long would they last in the Ukraine? Maybe a week or so? Providing that they don’t shoot those missiles off like crazy as has been sen in videos and providing that the Russians don’t take the Patriot Battery out with a ballistic missiles.

    That article also mentions the following from Trump-

    ‘He recounted to reporters how he’d rebuked Putin during a recent phone call after the Russian leader offered to mediate an end to hostilities between Israel and Iran, stressing he would rather he brought an end to the conflict in Ukraine.’

    So Putin tried to offer him an off-ramp to the Israel-Iran war and Trump decides to just insult the guy? Seriously? I have heard of him talking about Putin the past few days as if he was the Big Daddy and Putin was just a naughty little boy that needed disciplining. Trump is his own worse enemy and has no idea of the nations that he deals with. He should have stayed in Manhattan.

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    1. Erstwhile June 28, 2025 at 9:49 am

       Would a cure for ‘Trump bluster’ be a couple of big beautiful bluster-busters dropped, oh, just about anywhere, and everywhere, over the usa ?

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12. Munchausen June 28, 2025 at 9:47 am

    “Must be credible in every millimeter to keep war away” Aftonbladet via machine translation (Micael T)

    Aftonbladet has followed the commander-in-chief during one of the most challenging six months the Swedish military has had since World War II.

    True. Their submarine ran out of coffee.
    https://www.forcesnews.com/services/navy/royal-navy-comes-rescue-swedish-submarine-during-ex-baltops

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