All Of Your "Rights" Come From The Barrel Of A Gun

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Peace In Our Time!

Chickenshit assholes. Won't fight man-to-man on the ground, because thay are pathetic sissies. Do they even attack places w/ air defense, or is the entire power of the Israel "Defense" Forces dedicated to gentrification/genocide? Kinda ironic, huh? Beware of becoming your enemy.

This Is Absurd! I'm About To "Go Postal"!!

Exactly how much lying fucking bullshit am I epected to take from you sub-human drones? My patience is at an end.

Effing package has been "processing" in Cheviot Hills for 26 damn hrs. Now can I kill someone? And if not now, when?

"Cost Of Doing Business"?

"Cost Of Doing Business"? Really? Welcome To The New Old United Snakes, Suckers! Now Die!!

Yes, it's 1923 again, just as they want it.

Can not wait until Morbillivirus hominis percolating through 300+ million sheep mutates a few times & becomes as debilitating as it is infectious, which is very. Why in hell do these people hate America so damn much?

Joseph Choi / The Hill:
US hits 1 year of measles spread, CDC's No. 2 calls outbreaks ‘cost of doing business’  —  The U.S. on Tuesday met one of the key conditions for losing its measles elimination status, more than 25 years after it achieved this distinction and one year into a second Trump administration …
Kerry Breen / CBS News:   Measles cases surge in South Carolina as U.S. risks losing elimination status
Devi Shastri / Associated Press:
The US is on the verge of losing its measles elimination status. Here's why that matters
Helen Branswell / STAT:   Senior CDC official: Loss of measles elimination status in U.S. would be ‘cost of doing business’

CBS News:   Parents on edge as massive measles outbreak grows

Deidre McPhillips / CNN:   The US had a record-breaking year for measles. It may be the start of a deadly comeback

Taylor Delandro / The Hill:   Measles case confirmed at Clemson amid South Carolina outbreak

New York Times:   Has the U.S. Lost Measles Elimination Status?

"Dark Ages" here we come! What'll suburban woo mom say when Junior & Sis are spared "vaccine-induced autism" or whatever because they died of supermeasles? "I didn't vote for this"?

What It Be Like, 2026

Via Attention to the Unseen, three items w/ good headlines that I didn't read beyond said headlines. I don't need to be convinced. Middle East Eye:

'Board of Peace': Trump is running Gaza, and the world, like a Mafia boss

To invite the same cast of characters who allowed Israel to expand to the point at which Gaza exploded, and expect them to end the conflict, is more than just insane. It's criminal.

Degenerate Art:

Into the abyss

The correct response to Dachau was not better training for the guards.

Medium:

MAYDAY from the airwaves: Belarus begins a death penalty purge of radio amateurs

Behind the absurdity of charging Baofeng users with ‘High Treason‘ lies a terrifying intellectual genocide and an urgent call for international solidarity

And some big talk, from a big-talkin' nobody.

Media Matters for America:
Nick Fuentes: “Please pull the trigger.  Please kill them, Mr. President. ...  I'm not actually wishing for violence, but please send in the military and restore order."  —  Fuentes on Trump saying he'll invoke the Insurrection Act in Minneapolis: “Bro, do it.  Do something.  Just stop chickening out.

He's not "actually wishing", he's calling for it. Violence, yes. S-E-X w/ wimmen? "Oooh, icky & gay!!" You tell 'em Nicky, you sick little sissy.

The Snake He's Old, & His Skin Is Cold ...

Chock full of energy, isn't he? Can't even handle a binder clip. His Big Beautiful Book of Shit is single-sided pages. Not double-spaced? Maybe he couldn't lift the double-spaced version. Takes it very seriously, too.

And like a three-yr. old proud of his doodie. "Look, ma! I did it in the toilet!"

Again w/ this "Hottest country in the world" stuff. Oh, it'll be hot this summer. On fire, even.

Kind of an odd vibe at this presser as Trump marks 1 year in office https://t.co/QmWZmcQzws

— bryan metzger (@metzgov) January 20, 2026

Spotted at TNR.

Detour From Bremerton

Wondered why a much smaller easier-to-move package of three giant (25 ft. in HO scale!) ants that arrived at the L.A. Regional Distribution Center almost seven hrs. earlier wasn't on the truck & out for delivery w/ the 50+" tube.

Mystery solved: It's been detoured to 90064. Immediate guess is that something read 90004 as 90064, quite possibly because someone did the label by hand & needs a whack across the knuckles to improve their penmanship. We'll determine if humanoids or robots are to blame for this when the effing thing finally arrives. And if it was crummy writing, you can bet Collectible Wildlife Gifts of Bremerton will be getting a piece of my mind!

Departed Post Office

BREMERTON, WA 98337 

January 14, 2026, 5:23 pm

USPS in possession of item

BREMERTON, WA 98337 

January 14, 2026, 1:47 pm

Shipping Label Created, USPS Awaiting Item

BREMERTON, WA 98311 

January 13, 2026, 9:49 pm

Moving Through Network

Processing at USPS Facility

LOS ANGELES, CA 90064 

January 20, 2026, 10:47 am

 

Processing at USPS Facility

LOS ANGELES, CA 90064 

January 20, 2026, 7:59 am

In Transit to Next Facility

January 19, 2026

Cheviot Hills, my ass!! Maybe the 1047 processing is the correct Zone Improvement Plan Code being placed on it. S'pose it has to be returned to the Reg. Dist. Ctr. before it reaches Nat King Cole station in fabulous 90004.

Daily Affirmation

Whoever the hell called me from (213) 354-9850 at 1215 & then had nothing to say doesn't realize it yet but they are a walking dead person, it will be by & at my hands, & it will involve telephonic equipment being shoved somewhere, quite possibly paired w/ a massive dose of electricity. Not a threat but a promise.

Should seeing that make you want to call the police so they can diagnose me (totally qualified to do so, of course) & send me to psychiatric jail again, I dare you instead to call me & ask if you can help me. Which no one who isn't paid to do so has done in many yrs. Any wonder I'm bitter, hateful, & filled w/ a greater desire for revenge & retribution than even shitheel Donald Trump? Of course, unlike anything that fat pansy has ever whined about, my grievances are real & I have suffered. Well, it's your turn to pay now, you rotten, heartless, soulless bastards & bitches!!

Mediocre Music Monday

Spring cleaning (Late, or early?) moved some LPs. Found several I must have gotten from someone who didn't want them anymore, this sensational item being one of them. Pretty sure I never listened to it, & it doesn't look as if a needle's ever been dropped on it.

Hah, lookit this:

Musicians Involved: The recordings featured members of Sun Ra's Arkestra (Sun Ra, Marshall Allen, Pat Patrick, John Gilmore) and The Blues Project (Danny Kalb, Steve Katz, Al Kooper, Andy Kulberg, Roy Blumenfeld).

I was going to type that the organ was better than the guitars; guess so if it was Sun Ra. Mine may be a first edition, as it's on Diplomat. I'm sure that & inflation make it worth two, two-&-a-half dollars.

Excitement In The Bunker (Now W/ Photos!)

L.A.F.D. pounded on the door at 0145, & inquired if everything was "good in there". Didn't notice any smoke in the hall, but they're running a fan & there's plenty of commotion up & down the stairs.

Job done, they left at 0203.

State Of The Union

"War Across The U.S.A.!"

Extended existential musings one needn't necessarily read: Headlines are all you need!

Robert Kagan: “Americans are entering the most dangerous world they have known since World War II, one that will make the Cold War look like child’s play and the post–Cold War world like paradise. In fact, this new world will look a lot like the world prior to 1945, with multiple great powers and metastasizing competition and conflict.”

“The U.S. will have no reliable friends or allies and will have to depend entirely on its own strength to survive and prosper. This will require more military spending, not less, because the open access to overseas resources, markets, and strategic bases that Americans have enjoyed will no longer come as a benefit of the country’s alliances. Instead, they will have to be contested and defended against other great powers…”

“Americans are so accustomed to this basically peaceful, prosperous, and open world that they tend to think it is the normal state of international affairs, likely to continue indefinitely. They can’t imagine it unraveling, much less what that unraveling will mean for them.”

We'd be lucky only going back to '69; we appear to be on course for 1869, if not the still-under-the-thumb-of-a-king 1769.

The President of the United States is at war with his own country

The Trump administration is engaged in a comprehensive war, and its enemy is half of America.

Reality check: Lumpy's enemies are more than half the American people. Let's stop pretending there's a 50-50 split between fascists & decent humans in this nation of sheep.

What Happened to the "Don't Tread On Me" Conservatives?

Guess what, they never cared about individual rights or had a problem with state violence. It just depends on who's on the receiving end.

A kind of limbo:

ARE WE IN THE LAWLESS STATE OR THE NON-LAWLESS STATE?

[PW/MS Now/The Cross Section/No More Mister Nice Blog]

Rally 'Round The Flag, Boys

Eff most of these people too, & that "Make Iran Great Again" crap. Capitalist pigs whose ancestors overthrew the democratically elected gov't. & installed the shitheel Shah, leading to the religious nuts revolting again, then the hostage crisis &tc., & the Shahs of Sunset coming here to run slums because, like Trump, they are parasitic scum who can't survive w/o sucking the blood of their hosts. Where are your thousands of yrs. of culture now, murderers?

Football Wknd.!

"Gawd Bless Our Troops"

It's the Cretinous Retards vs. the Sub-Human Morons in the Brain-Dead Bowl. Who's your favorite team?

This reporter is rooting for injuries & a high-yield explosive device in every stadium. Death to America!!

Nazi Punks Fuck Off!

A faint glimmer of hope, as Minneapolis's legions of honkies wake up?How does CBS cover this now that they've gone Bari Weiss? W/o watching, I see "Rage" & images of counter-protestors rampaging atop a pile of dirty snow. How dare they? I'm disgusted & horrified! Filthy demonic libs!!We shall overwhelm!

Flag Update

Previously.

Two days later, the Bear Republic flag is restored.

Gum Tree

The image features a large Eucalyptus tree, commonly known as a gum tree.

I hadn't the slightest idea what it was, & had to ask a robot.

Eucalyptus trees are native to Australia and nearby islands, with over 660 species.

I understand most of the local palm species are from Oz as well.

Fox News Nazi Republican MAGA Jesus

Not sure how old this is, but it's been in the hard drive since 2012.

Plus ça change ...

More Pointless Aerial Activity

When the Insurrection Act is invoked these things will be shooting, or at least dumping shit all over cty dwellers.

Friday Freak Out

No Food For You!!

@tmz A delivery robot went up against a high-speed passenger train and got knocked the f*** out!!! 🤖💥🚗 FULL STORY AT THE LINK IN BIO. 🎥: Instagram/@trainwithgui ♬ original sound - TMZ

You fucking moron, turn your stupid 'phone on its side when shooting something like this. Is it any damn wonder I despise your cretinous species?

The Blood Of Jesus Christ

The minds of hundreds of millions. A pathetic waste, or cretinous sub-humans who'd be just as moronic w/o this bullshit?

Found on the street.

Jesus died for somebody's "SIN'S" but not mine.

Flags

Remodeled Mickey D's is missing the Californa flag. Shame!

Also missing: Humanoids. Kiosk-only ordering, & when I wandered through I saw no cash acceptors, just card readers. I keep telling you idiots the robots are taking over, but no one listens!

Turn 90° west & another American flag presents itself. It may have more square footage than my office/train room/living room/dining room.

In context, w/ a Korean church that used to be a synagogue. (Is that what baldhead Stephen Miller is so fucking angry about?)

Yes, the State of California & the County of Los Angeles have successfully removed all color from the western sky.
Why do you ask?

Later P.S.: Now that Bugger has decided it will work w/ Chrome again (And the heartiest of "Fuck yous!" to Google.) one more image, from which we can deduce that the gawdless Commie liberals of California removed the cross as well.

Untitled

Chickens Coming Home To Roost?

"Will Not Miss The Target"

Fake news hypocrites express outrage, as if Fat Boy Trump hasn't been threatening world leaders & anyone else who gets in his way for yrs. Trump is just too much of a sissy (or pansy) to be explicit.

Ronny Reyes / New York Post:

Iran issues sickening assassination threat against Trump: ‘This time it will not miss the target’  —  Iran issued a sickening threat against President Trump Wednesday, broadcasting a picture of the commander in chief during the 2024 Butler rally assassination attempt — with the words “This time it will not miss the target.”

Ed Morrissey / HotAir:   BREAKING: Trump Declares Killings, Executions Have Stopped In Iran

Dmitri Bolt / Townhall:   Iranian State Media Airs a Direct Assassination Threat Against President Trump

Andrew Powell / IJR:   Iranian State TV Airs Direct Threat Against Trump

Ward Clark / RedState:   Amid Protests, Iran Airs Ominous New Threat Aimed at President Trump

Newsmax Wires / NewsMax.com:   Iran Makes Assassination Threat Against Trump

Alex Griffing / Mediaite:   Ted Cruz Rages At Reports Iran Is ‘Explicitly Threatening to Murder Trump’

Bernard Hourcade / Informed Comment:   The Inevitable Transition in Iran

Nino DeNino / 77 WABC:   Iran Airs Assassination Threat Against Trump: “This Time It Will Not Miss”

And maybe lying idiot Ed Morrissey could check reality as far as killings & executions.

President Donald Trump says he’s been told “on good authority” that plans for executions in Iran have stopped, even as Tehran has signaled fast trials and executions ahead in its crackdown on protesters. The president’s claims came with few details.

The AP & your lying eyes may tell the truth; you know Big Gay Don is lying through his dentures.

Live updates: Trump claims killing of Iran protesters ‘has stopped’ as Tehran signals executions ahead

"Few details", "on good authority" my fucking ass.

None Dare Call It Fascism

Campaign of imperial expansion.

May be getting closer, but what does it matter what it's called?

Michelle Goldberg observes,

Second, Trump didn’t pursue campaigns of imperial expansion, which some scholars view as intrinsic to fascism. “For all of Trump’s hostility towards countries he perceives as enemies of the U.S., notably Iran, there is no indication that he sought a war with any foreign power, still less that he has been consumed by a desire for foreign conquest and the creation of an American empire,” wrote Richard J. Evans in his 2021 essay “Why Trump Isn’t a Fascist.”

It’s striking how much the arguments that Trump is not a fascist have suffered in just the first few days of this year, in which we’ve plunged to new depths of national madness.

And an American writes a letter reminding other Americans of things from 80+ yrs. ago: FASCISM! Eight pp. of grim truth from a gov't. & military that weren't yet completely evil.

Alright! A tab or two cleared, & the obligatory daily post done!

Enough!

Enough ugliness & stupidity, numb yourselves w/ more dull ol' clouds.

As taken:

Retouched, & closer to how it appeared to this human's peepers, 'though perhaps brighter.

"Stop the world, I want to get off!"

Not Even An Actual Lie, Just Yammering Demented Bullshit

Lumpy opens his yap.

Mike Snider / USA Today:

‘When did I do that?’  Trump says about $2,000 tariff dividend checks  —  Those $2,000 dividend checks President Donald Trump has been talking about for months seemed to have slipped his mind during a recent interview with The New York Times.  And the payment date appears to have shifted, too.

Margaret Hartmann / New York Magazine:   Trump Forgot All About Those $2,000 Tariff Checks He Promised

David James / We Got This Covered:   Donald Trump promised $2000 checks to Americans from his tariff revenues. Any guesses what his answer is now?

Lee Moran / HuffPost:   Donald Trump Interview Takes Very Awkward Turn: ‘When Did I Do That?’

You'd have to be a moron to have believed it, & you're an idiot if you think $2,000 would be much help to most people. I mean, what the fuck would $2,000 do, half-cover increased health insurance premiums? Let the cannibals buy hamburger instead of hot dogs for a few months? Put a down payment on a used bicycle? Once again it is shown that life is a joke & you are the punchline.

2145 Hrs.: 

Grocery prices see biggest spike since 2022 in December

THIS IS MY COUNTRY!!

Today's "Ilsa, She-Wolf Of The SS" Award Winner

Content warning: The following scene may include dehumanizing rhetoric, calls for discrimination or violence, misinformation, or other harmful language. Right Wing Watch condemns bigotry and other threats to democratic values.

What. Ever.The "Settler's Country"? "We stole this country fair 'n' square over the bodies of the Injuns; kikes get out now!!" is a helluva message. Looks to this reporter as if we could use a mass education program for the young, perhaps in isolated camps somewhere, far from distractions & the media, if you know what I mean.

Terminal Tuesday The Thirteenth

Victory Is Mine: Outlived Another Once-Funny Asshole!

Scott Adams dead at 68.

The collapse of the ‘Dilbert’ empire

It all collapsed quickly in 2023 when Adams, who was white, repeatedly referred to Black people as members of a “hate group” and said he would no longer “help Black Americans.” He later said he was being hyperbolic, yet continued to defend his stance.

Almost immediately, newspapers dropped “Dilbert” and his distributor, Andrews McMeel Universal, severed ties with the cartoonist. The Sun Chronicle in Attleboro, Massachusetts, decided to keep the “Dilbert” space blank for a while “as a reminder of the racism that pervades our society.” A planned book was scrapped.

“He’s not being canceled. He’s experiencing the consequences of expressing his views,” Bill Holbrook, the creator of the strip “On the Fastrack,” told The Associated Press at the time. “I am in full support with him saying anything he wants to, but then he has to own the consequences of saying them.”

Adams relaunched the same daily comic strip under the name Dilbert Reborn via the video platform Rumble, popular with conservatives and far-right groups. He also hosted a podcast, “Real Coffee,” where talked about various political and social issues.

Remember, anything this reporter types here is complete & absolute hyperbole. (Until it isn't!)

Big Fat Phony Of The Day

As if all that talk about Jesus & his pops was anything but gaslighting. Nonetheless, the Nat'l. Catholic Reporter takes two-faced tubby J.D. Vance to task. And (just like Marx) Ol' Hay-soos did spew some truths & made some excellent suggestions for how you primate scum should act.

As a Catholic, Vance knows better than to peddle this brand of gaslighting and agitation. Vance knows that, by virtue of her humanity, Good was endowed with inherent dignity, made in the image and likeness of God. Vance knows that only God can take life. Vance knows that protesting, fleeing or even interfering in an ICE investigation (which there is no evidence that Good did) does not carry a death sentence. Vance knows that lying and killing are sins. Vance knows. He doesn't care.

Vance’s twisted and wrongheaded view of Christianity has been repudiated by two popes. His Catholicism seems to be little more than a political prop, a tool only for his career ambitions and desire for power.

The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel. Our only recourse is to pray for his conversion of heart.

Pray in one hand & shit in the other, then see which piled up first, as they say.

"Synagogue Of Satan!"

After 60 Yrs., The Klan Is Back. Thanks, Trump!

And she means every word of it.

Associated Press:

FBI: Suspect in Mississippi synagogue fire targeted house of worship because of its ‘Jewish ties’  —  A suspect in an arson fire at a historic Mississippi synagogue admitted to targeting the house of worship because of its “Jewish ties” and was turned in to authorities by his father …

Lauren Fichten / CBS News:   Mississippi synagogue arson suspect said “he finally got them” after starting blaze, FBI complaint says

Mississippi Free Press:   Suspect in Beth Israel Burning Called It a ‘Synagogue of Satan’

Associated Press:   FBI says arson suspect targeted Mississippi synagogue because it's a Jewish house of worship

Joseph Curl / New York Sun:   Mississippi Teen Charged Following Arson Attack on Historic Jackson Synagogue

Yonat Shimron / RNS:   Suspect in Jackson synagogue fire confesses; congregation determined to rebuild

Grace Gilson / Jewish Telegraphic Agency:   Man charged with setting fire to Mississippi synagogue targeted it due to its ‘Jewish ties,’ FBI says

Caitlin Keith / Deseret News:   Suspect arrested after fire damages historic Mississippi synagogue

Louis Keene / The Forward:   Mississippi fire suspect called the temple a ‘synagogue of Satan’

Jewish Insider:   Suspect in Mississippi arson confesses to targeting synagogue because of ‘Jewish ties’

Chris Boyette / CNN:   Suspect arrested after a fire destroys the only synagogue in Jackson, Mississippi, 6 decades after a KKK bombing

Chris Boyette / ABC17NEWS:   FBI: Arson suspect admitted to starting fire at Mississippi's largest synagogue 'due to building's Jewish ties'

Bangor Daily News:   Hub of Jewish life in Mississippi's capital city damaged by arson attack

Russ Latino / Magnolia Tribune:   Arson at Beth Israel synagogue prompts fear of anti-semitism in Mississippi

Praveena Somasundaram / Washington Post:   Suspect arrested after fire damages Mississippi's largest synagogue

Sonia A. Rao / New York Times:   Once Again, Oldest Mississippi Synagogue Is Attacked With Fire

Scott Lemieux / Lawyers, Guns & Money:   Suspect arrested in Mississippi synagogue arson

Sabinna Pierre / KGW-TV:   Portland Jewish leaders condemn arson at historic Mississippi synagogue: ‘We are heartbroken’

Kristin Wright / NPR:   Arson engulfs Mississippi synagogue, a congregation once bombed by Ku Klux Klan

Fox News:   Mississippi synagogue burned in arson attack, suspect in custody

Stephen Feller / UPI:   Suspect arrested for arson in fire at Mississippi's largest synagogue

Lynden Blake / The Daily Wire:   Mississippi's Largest Synagogue Set Ablaze In Arson Attack, Suspect In Custody

Whence I Stole "The Dreadful Grate"

Credit where due.

A Stab From The Past, In The Back

Your Genial Host, Spotted Almost 59 Yrs. Ago!

Always the topper, I noted my first time at a Dreadful Grate gig on a Bob Weir obituary thread. (Outside of a couple of people claiming to have seen them in Palo Alto as The Warlocks, I was the earliest.) And as a stickler for accuracy I wanted to see if it had been in 1967 or '68. Here's the P-I item on the free performance. All interesting enough, but when I looked at a Dead post on Facebook w/ pictures I spotted myself! Hint: I'm not on the flatbed truck stage (I s'pose I was on the truck, as I was leaning on it.) nor on the bus in the background. That shirt was white w/ red & gold paisleys, & I was sporting a string of beads which broke while I was boogie-ing. Hey, it was 1967, I was three months short of 14 & trying too hard. (Possibly the last time I tried hard at anything. Why arse myself?)

Guys on stage are both dead; how many on the bus are still kicking?

Above less-cropped no-logo image was found at Seattle Now & Then, replacing the Skype-logoed one from JerryGarcia.com. Speaking of whom, & paisleys, Jerry was sporting a pair of green corduroy jeans w/ red & yellow paisleys. He stood next to me for a while in front of the flatbed; short person.

Home movies. I doubt that's the actual audio. May be the back of my towhead obscuring the late Bob at (0:35). I was probably to the right of the guy in the brown shirt at (0:13).All the hot poop on Google.

The Sheep Look Up

Renee Good pregnant with her now-6-year-old child (L)
and the scene of her shooting by an ICE agent on Jan. 7, 2026.

Credit: 

Knot & Anchor Photography;Alex Kormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune via Getty

NOW: Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino hounded by activists and shoppers protesting his presence as he and a federal agent caravan leave a Target in St Paul, Minnesota for a restroom break.

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— 🌽 Tales from the Cornfield 🌽 (@childrenofthecorn.bsky.social) January 11, 2026 at 3:50 PM

Stole from Anne Laurie at B.J., who's compiled a mess o' reactions to I.C.E. from reg'lar honky Minnesotans (And reactions from I.C.E. goons, who are pathetic jerks as well as murderers.) & these "wine moms", whose ox was apparently gored good & hard. When members of your tribe are killed in cold blood people notice.

Big-Talking Pin-Dicks Rattle Sabers

Big talk indeed, but these aged fascist assholes never do anything but chickenshit low-intensity bullshit like air strikes or terrorist attacks. (As if air strikes aren't terrorist attacks, American cowards.) This reporter wants to see a city of millions burned to the ground & the ashes salted, but these wretched bastards are compensating, posing pantywaists w/o the intestinal fortitude, otherwise they'd do what they threaten insted of the constant hooting & honking like howler monkeys.

BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH!!

 Jon Gambrell / Associated Press:

Iran warns it will target US troops and Israel if America strikes over protests  —  Nationwide protests challenging Iran's theocracy saw protesters flood the streets in the country's capital and its second-largest city into Sunday, crossing the two-week mark as violence surrounding …

Discussion:

GV Wire:   Death Toll in Iran Protests Rises to More Than 500, Rights Group Says

Arsalan Shahla / Bloomberg:   Iran Threatens US and Israel as Protests Enter Third Week

Sharon Kehnemui / New York Sun:   Iran Warns of Retaliation Against Military Forces if U.S., Israel Intervene to Aid Protesters

MPR News:   Activists say Iran protest death toll reaches 203

Reuters:   Confronting protests, Iran vows to strike back if U.S. attacks

Arron Reza Merat / Jacobin:   As Protests Engulf Iran, Israel Sees an Opportunity

France 24:   Fresh protests hit Iran amid intensifying crackdown

Omrif / israelhayom.com:   Is the US prepared for an operation in Iran?

David Zimmermann / Washington Examiner:   Iran says US and Israel ‘legitimate targets’ if Trump orders strikes over protests

CBS News:   Iran rachets up warnings against protesters, threatens U.S. troops in region as unrest continues

Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:   Iran warns US it will target military bases as Trump threatens intervention amid nationwide protests

Martina Sapio / Politico:   Iran threatens preemptive strikes against Israel and US bases

Jon Gambrell / NewsNation:   Death toll in violence surrounding protests challenging Iran's theocracy reaches 116, activists say

Jon Gambrell / NewsMax.com:   As Protests Rage, Iran Pulls the Plug on Contact with the World

Nils Adler / Al Jazeera:   Iran protests live: Tehran says it will hit back at US, Israel if attacked

RELATED:

 Politico:

Trump to be briefed on range of options in Iran … “We could step up the pressure campaign in a number of ways,” the official said.  “The window [for the President to take action] is small but the people are angry.”  —  Trump is not expected to send American forces to the country …

Discussion:

ABC17NEWS:   Trump weighs potential military intervention in Iran

John T. Seward / Washington Times:   Trump reportedly given options for Iran military strike as more than 500 Iranian protesters killed

Israpundit:   Netanyahu and Rubio conduct call as Iran warns that intervention would make US, Israel ‘legitimate targets’

GV Wire:   Trump Admin to Carry Out Preliminary Attack Plans on Iran: Report

Sandy Fitzgerald / NewsMax.com:   Trump: Iran ‘Looking at Freedom’; US ‘Ready to Help’

Katherine Donlevy / New York Post:   Trump admin to carry out preliminary attack plans on Iran — as officials consider what sites to target: report

 Wall Street Journal:

U.S. Steps Up Planning for Possible Action in Iran  —  Trump aides are set to brief the president Tuesday on measures, including military, cyber and economic, to follow through on his threats  —  WASHINGTON—President Trump is scheduled to be briefed Tuesday on specific options to respond …

Discussion:

Jennifer Elias / CNBC:   Trump is weighing options against Iran: Reports

Fortune:   Iran's $7 monthly payments fail to ease spiraling economic unrest as Trump weighs military options against Tehran a week after Venezuela raid

Isabel Keane / The Independent:   Trump will hear Iran options from senior aides including Rubio and Hegseth this week: Report

Newsmax Wires / NewsMax.com:   Trump to Be Briefed on Possible Iran Action

Joshua Klein / Breitbart:   Trump Steps Up Support for Iranian Protesters in Flurry of Posts — ‘USA Stands Ready to Help’

 Yeganeh Torbati / Washington Post:
‘Massacre’ feared as Iran tries to crush protests; U.S. weighs military options

Discussion:

NBC News:   Trump weighs options on Iran as protest crackdown reportedly kills more than 500

New York Times:   Death Toll Grows as Nationwide Protests Rock Iran for a Third Night

Stephen Feller / UPI:   Trump considers military options as more Iranian protesters arrested, killed

Barak Ravid / Axios:   Trump considers options as Iran cracks down on protests

Lucia I Suarez Sang / CBS News:   Trump briefed on new options for military strikes in Iran, source says

Omrif / israelhayom.com:   Trump weighs military, cyber and economic clampdown on Iran

 Politico:   Death toll in crackdown on protests in Iran spikes to at least 538, activists say

 Benoit Faucon / Wall Street Journal:
Iran Warns It Could Hit U.S. Bases as Trump Weighs Military Options

Discussion:

Al Jazeera:   How volatile is the situation in Iran?

Kanishka Singh / NewsMax.com:   Rubio and Netanyahu Discuss Iran, Syria and Gaza

Mike Heuer / UPI:   Hundreds allegedly killed amid Iranian government protests

Cullen Linebarger / The Gateway Pundit:   Trump Administration Considering Major Attack on Iran as Wicked Islamist Regime Slaughters Brave Protesters: Report

 New York Times:
Trump Is Briefed on Options for Striking Iran as Protests Continue

Discussion:

Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:   Rand Paul worries bombing Iran could backfire

Reuters:   Israel on high alert for possibility of US intervention in Iran, sources say

Washington Post:   Trump officials consider military options as Iranian protests spread

Hannah Brandt / NewsNation:   More than 10K detained amid growing government protests

GV Wire:   Trump Is Briefed on Options for Striking Iran as Protests Continue

Vijeta Uniyal / Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion:   Iranian Regime Declares Israel, U.S. Military “Legitimate Targets” if Trump Orders Strike

Stephanie Kaloi / The Wrap:   Pete Hegseth Shares Trump's Iran Message as President Claims U.S. Is the ‘Hottest’ Country in the World

Jim Thomas / NewsMax.com:   Sen. Graham Signals Iran: ‘Help Is on the Way’

Katherine Donlevy / New York Post:   Iran's AG deems protesters ‘enemy of god’ — a crime that carries the death penalty

Nathan Morley / vaticannews.va:   Protests continue across Iran

Barak Ravid / Axios:   Trump says U.S. is ready to help Iranians get freedom

Extra-stupid crap highlighted. Is there a chart that anyone takes seriously like the Billboard 100 where countries are ranked by "hotness", whatever the fuck that is? Is Big Gay Don channeling Paris Hilton?

Dynamite inventor/mass murder enabler Nobel should have endowed an award for "Blowing Things Up Real Good".
Big Fat Donny's already earned that one.