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๐˜ˆ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ง๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜จ๐˜ด ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฑ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฆ๐˜ด ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜จ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜ป๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ด, ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ฌ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜’๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ฅ๐˜ด, ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ต ๐˜’๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ ๐˜ˆ๐˜ด๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฃ๐˜ญ๐˜บ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ, ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜—๐˜ฆ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฑ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆโ€™๐˜ด ๐˜”๐˜ฐ๐˜ซ๐˜ข๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜–๐˜ณ๐˜จ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜ป๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ, ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ช๐˜ต ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ญ ๐˜จ๐˜ฆ๐˜ต๐˜ด ๐˜ฆ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฑ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ.

Whatever happened to the Popular Mojahedin Organization of Iran?

Zyxomma's avatar

Ta, Dom. Great photos, as always, and quite the story to go with.

Lemonhead's avatar

Too much social media, so many paragraphs I wanted to "like"

NH is for ๐Ÿฆก๐Ÿ„๐Ÿ's avatar

The tools of national power are DIME - Diplomatic, Informational, Military and Economic. To Grampa Assmouth they are MMMmmmmmmmmโ€ฆโ€ฆ

Stephen St John's avatar

"Earlier, over on Capitol Hill, there was a rally and march to support the fall of the Islamic Republic organized by the Organization of Iranian American Communities." The Islamic Republic has not fallen! I wish these people would live in the real world.

Trux Mint In Box's avatar

So Trump wanted to get a more compliant leader into power in Iran to avoid nuclear weapons being built.

So he kills the guy who was actually against nuclear armaments because they declared a fatwa on them. Kills his wife and other family members and now his son is in charge who is a hardliner that wants to build nuclear weapons AND now will want to avenge his family.

Strong work guys. No notes.

Nemo's avatar

Reza Pahlavi needs to get a real job. With a little job training, he could manage flipping burgers at some McDonalds.

Whale Chowder's avatar

Hey Dom, thanks for providing a nuanced report on the goings-on over the weekend. Appreciate you. Stay safe!

Nae Kings!'s avatar

Hey I was at one you missed Dom! A couple of dozen of us showed up at DC Superior Court to support Brian McGinnis the marine vet and NC Green Party candidate who had his arm snapped by Montanaโ€™s grossest Senator and a squad of Capitol Police. He needed surgery and was given a pre-trial release. Unusual to get a weekend hearing but as the DC jail wouldnโ€™t be dispensing pain meds saner and more humane heads prevailed and moved him up the court docket.

He is still facing three counts of assault on a police officer, because of course, he might have bled on them. The judge didnโ€™t seem overly concerned about letting this dangerous one-armed lunatic back on the streets. But he did tell Mr. McGinnis to stay away from the Capitol and provided him with a helpful map to show him which streets that entailed.

Presumably he had time to attend one or more of the events Dominic reported on.

goCatgo's avatar

PSA from Olde Farte.

Donut store gas. Not in any container. Ever.

Yes, I know Everybody and their Dog sells gas containers, but that is only for lawnmowers and

industrial equipment like generators that you do not have. Handled by trained professionals.

I only know this because I survived the last gas crisis in the '70s in spite of myself. Really.

cmd Human Scum's avatar

I had to read this several times to figure out which Donut shops sell gas.

Worriedman's avatar

All I could figure was

Donut store gas =the Convenience store gummies

G-7 in Space's avatar

Dunkin's has Chevron...I think...๐Ÿค”

Free beach's avatar

If youโ€™re waving a flag with turnip and bibi on it while fire burns buildings in the backround, youโ€™re probably on the wrong side.

Elviouslyqueer's avatar

>>the subsequent power vacuum that allowed far-right religious fundamentalists to seize power<<

If I didn't know this was in reference to Iran, I'd swear you were talking about what's going on right here at home, Dom.

The Wanderer's avatar

Okay.

The Homunculus says that he'll talk to Iran's leader if said leader wants to talk, while Israel says they'll target and kill anyone who gets set up as Iran's leader.

I think they're missing something here.

Rooster Cogburn's avatar

"Just text me your location and I'll call you"

Fifth Dentist's avatar

Good cop, bad cop.

Caepan's avatar

So TACO will tell Iran's new leader to "move along" while Bibi tells him "don't move!"

Just like how ICE brownshirts give conflicting orders right before they fire.

"M"'s avatar

๐ŸŽ†๐ŸŽ‡๐ŸŽ†๐ŸŽ‡๐ŸŽ†๐ŸŽ‡๐ŸŽ†๐ŸŽ‡

This isn't getting enough attention

cmd Human Scum's avatar

I don't think there will be Love Letters.

goCatgo's avatar

Hey if you can't trust your butt fukin' 'friend', who can you trust ?

Teen Laqueefa's avatar

I've been told one should never enter into business adventures with a partner and discovered it's true.

SkeptiKC's avatar

A clear and shared objective, of course...

Lance Thrustwell's avatar

"Well, maybe he'll die, maybe not, I guess we'll see. What I do know is that we need a deal. We'll be taking their oil, and we'll be doing that very strongly."

TootsStansbury ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ's avatar

Jesus, be careful! Your brain might stick like that!

PrimerGray's avatar

Bit of a Catch-22 there.

Worriedman's avatar

That some catch, that Catch 22

Worriedman's avatar

I've been waiting for that!

Teen Laqueefa's avatar

Brain cells and common sense

Runfastandwin's avatar

there's one thing that's black and white, if you vote gop you are a na&i and a KKK, whether you like it or not. no ambiguity there.

helenasgarden's avatar

Agreed. There is no such thing as being "Nazi adjacent".

PrimerGray's avatar

Like it's been said, if you sit down to eat at table with 9 Nazis, you are now at a table with 10 Nazis.

Oy!'s avatar

NYT: "U.S. Gasoline Prices, Rising Again, Are Now Up 17% Since Conflict Started"

Boston Globe: "Home heating oil prices have spiked by one-third. It could get worse."

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So much winning . . . and we aren't even talking about the TACO TARIFFS

[Epstein files - still millions of documents which have not been released, in violation of law]

Michael Bowen's avatar

I'm glad our heating oil people came by and did an end-of-season topoff about 10 days ago.

Oy!'s avatar

I canceled our topoff

PrimerGray's avatar

Holy fuck. Last week I checked my oil dealer's price, $4.29/gal, up from $3.69 last month. I just checked it now, $4.99/gal.

Stephen St John's avatar

The gas at my local Costco went up 44 cents a gallon in one week.

Sojourner Truth's avatar

OT Florida Woman in Tesla story:

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A 35-year-old Florida woman armed with an AR-15 style weapon fired several shots into the Beverly Hills-area home of pop star Rihanna on Sunday, and a round penetrated a wall of the mansion, a law enforcement source told The Times.

Police identified the suspect as Ivanna Ortiz. She is being held on $10.2 million bail. Officials have not cited a motive for the attack.

Los Angeles police responded to the report of the shooting at 1:21 p.m. Sunday in the Beverly Hills Post Office neighborhood.

The pop star was home, the source said.

According to police, the suspect fired multiple rounds from inside her vehicle toward the celebrityโ€™s home. No injuries were reported in the incident, according to Police Sgt. Jonathan de Vera, a spokesperson for the Los Angeles Police Department.

The LAPD radio dispatch for the incident said that at least 10 shots had been fired at the residence from a vehicle across the street from the propertyโ€™s gate. The vehicle, a white Tesla, then fled south on Coldwater Canyon Drive, per the dispatch audio.

As police searched for the Tesla, they relayed details over the radio: The suspectโ€™s hair was in braids; she wore a cream-colored blouse; her car was dirty on the bottom. Officers in a helicopter soon caught sight of her vehicle and followed it to a shopping center parking lot in Sherman Oaks, where they arrested her around 30 minutes after the 911 call came in, according to radio correspondence reviewed by The Times.

โ€œWhen they pulled the suspect over and took her into custody, they searched the vehicle and located an assault rifle and seven casings,โ€ said Armen Arias, an LAPD spokesperson.

Police found bullet holes in a gate at Rihannaโ€™s home and in an RV parked in the driveway, he said.

Pexas Teat's avatar

Motive doesn't matter. Access to big guns matters. No assault rifles, less danger to us all, regardless of the motivations of violent and stupid people.

Snarfyguy's avatar

Does Beyoncรฉ have an alibi?

"M"'s avatar

That's ... so unfunny - especially given who the perp is - that I'm too tired to explain it

The casual racism on the mommyblog sometimes

Snarfyguy's avatar

No racism - they had a musical rivalry.

"M"'s avatar

Youโ€™re talking to someone who worked in the industry and is still industry-adjacent.

And you donโ€™t get to gaslight someone whoโ€™s a regular target of racism that they donโ€™t see what theyโ€™re seeing.

Stop deflecting.

Lance Thrustwell's avatar

These celebrity beefs are getting out of hand.

Teen Laqueefa's avatar

I remember back in the day when someone blew up my mailbox with pipe bombs (twice) the cops basically said, "Kids! What you gonna do?" I think it's because I'm common folk like everyone else.

TootsStansbury ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ's avatar

โ€œOfficials have not cited a motive for the attack.โ€ Florida woman

G-7 in Space's avatar

WTAF?????๐Ÿ˜ฑ