The Taliban, the Houthis and Iran all only got 10%. 41% for HTS though… Go woke, go broke 😬

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SCOOP: We obtained video footage showing Israel attacked the convoy of aid workers in Gaza with a barrage of bullets, a paramedic frantically says his prayers of death. The ambulances had lights on & were marked refuting Israel's claim. w/ Christoph Koettl nytimes.com/2025/04/04/wor…

I don’t understand how Trump has sold so many Americans on the idea that high taxes are a necessary pain for his tariff plan but the Democrats could never sell them on such sacrifices for the sake of universal health care.

The tariffs are an essential step towards restoring the primacy of manufacturing in America and *sees the news* were a brilliant example of political gamesmanship. Pausing them has shown tremendous flexibility and

Canada doesn't look real – a thread 🧵 1. Mount Robson, king of the Canadian Rockies

UAE Fighter jets going to escort Air Force One into Abu Dhabi

There are a million threads you can draw through Donald J. Trump’s trip to the Gulf this week. But an important one is this. Yesterday President Donald J. Trump stood in a synagogue in Abu Dhabi. Today he acknowledged that Gazans are starving and that the US must help. This was a powerful visit.

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“Kabul could become the first modern city to completely run out of water” #Afghanistan Mariam Amini theguardian.com/world/2025/jun…

I can’t speak for others, but when I was in Kabul a few months ago I was stopped at a checkpoint and chastised for my beard being too short and neat. I was given a 2 minute lecture and it was annoying, to be sure, but that’s as far as it went. But the thing about the Taliban is

"End is near." Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, could soon run out of water amid climate change, sanctions and governance failures, say experts ⤵️ aje.io/f1707v

I just returned from Islam Qala, where I witnessed chaotic scenes as thousands of Afghans -many exhausted, hungry, & without belongings - were arriving from #Iran. The scale of returns is alarming, and the humanitarian response is nowhere near enough. #Afghanistan Save the Children - Afghanistan

FWIW France was only the second country (after an Arab one, Morocco) to just “declare” the existence of the United States of America, in 1778.