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Wenn das WSJ recht hat, bestätigt es meine geäußerten Annahmen: Die US-Fachleute wussten sehr wohl, dass ein paar Bomben auf den Iran keinen Sieg bringen werden. Trump wusste es allerdings besser. "Days before going to war with Iran in February, President Trump summoned his intelligence chief to the Oval Office to ask whether a full-on assault was a good idea. Iran was at its weakest point in decades, senior aides and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told him, providing Trump the rare opportunity to dismantle Iran’s nuclear program and bolster his legacy as a peacemaker. The question was whether a large-scale attack would work and possibly topple the regime. Then-Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard outlined assessments from America’s intelligence apparatus. According to people familiar with the meeting, she told Trump that killing Iran’s supreme leader would likely usher in a more hard-line regime open to acquiring nuclear weapons. Tehran would rush to close the Strait of Hormuz, destabilizing the global energy market. And it would strike U.S. forces and partners in the Middle East, prompting questions about American resolve and reliability with allies." #Iran #Trump #USForeignPolicy

Despite Ukraine celebrating its independence, President Putin vowed an even more devastating military response to Ukrainian attacks, resulting in powerful Russian assaults on major Ukrainian retail businesses, accompanied by significant civilian consequences and an increase in casualties in the war. (translated)

Last night, Russia carried out one of the most brutal assaults on Kyiv since the start of its full‑scale invasion. It was a coordinated barrage of ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and drones deliberately aimed at civilian infrastructure. 12 people have been killed, 40 #Kyiv #Russia #WarInUkraine #RU #UA

Contrary to the pessimistic outlook of psychological research on the 'bystander effect', the vast majority of victims of real-life assaults are helped by bystanders. However, during commercial robberies, most bystanders hold back. One of the classical hypotheses of #BystanderEffect #Psychology #PublicSafety #Thetweetdoesnotspecificallymentionanycountries #sotherearenocountrycodestoreturn.

In the UK, the Tate brothers are facing serious allegations. Andrew Tate is accused of seven counts of rape, three counts of assault, three counts of sexual exploitation, 15 counts of possession of child porn, and four counts of possessing extreme pornography. His brother https://t.co/ylJ2CpuK9Y #AndrewTate #TateBrothers #RapeAllegations #UK

GLOBAL COALITION TO DEFEAT THE HOUTHIS — NOW The Houthi assault on international shipping must end. On 11 August 2026, another deadly attack struck shipping in the Bab el-Mandeb, killing four crew members. The Houthis have also escalated attacks against Yemen and Saudi interests. #GlobalCoalition #StopTheHouthis #BabElMandeb #YE #SA

To repel China's invasion, Taiwan is building fleets of flying drones and unmanned attack boats, Ukraine-like: overwhelming an invading force with waves of drones, missiles, artillery, making an amphibious assault so risky that China is deterred trying https://t.co/V0oRBuhsZP #TaiwanDefense #Drones #ChinaInvasion #TW #CN #UA

With their assault on science, Trumpists aren’t just harming US, they’re harming themselves—Their subjugation of all science to political imperatives has no equivalent in a democracy; it is reminiscent of Stalin’s Soviet Union: an act of wanton self-injury https://t.co/mQgC8a9ctd #ScienceMatters #Trumpism #Democracy #US #RU

„[…] Putin could try to test NATO’s resolve with a limited assault on an allied country in the next few years, according to new U.S. intelligence reports that posit possible scenarios ranging from a cyberattack to a small-scale land incursion.“ https://t.co/X0bRcDt6cR #NATO #Putin #CyberAttack #US #RU #NATO

This is @squinteratn on the left. On the right is 'Katie' Dolatowski, who sexually assaulted two pre-teen girls on two separate occasions in two different women's toilets. https://t.co/mo2yRhqD9n #SexualAssault #JusticeForVictims #ProtectOurChildren #Thetweetdoesnotmentionanyspecificcountries.Therefore #theresponseis:

My Name Is on a File On a case I was never summoned to, and a price I do not pay alone By Adham Hasanin Egyptian journalist and political writer, based in the Netherlands | July 2026 In 2024, I learned that my name had been entered into a case. Case number 1282. Listed as a "defendant." I was never summoned, and no one called to tell me the exact charge. I found out the way anyone in my position finds out — from a colleague, from a quick search of my own name, from another journalist who called to ask: "Did you know your name is on file?" I do not want to overdramatise the story. No cinematic manhunt, no car tailing me down a European street. What happened is simpler and crueller than that: a state thousands of kilometres away opened a file bearing my name, without my knowledge, without any way for me to defend myself within it, without even anyone standing before me to answer. The charge is not based on any act I committed. The charge is that I wrote. An article, an opinion, a tweet — it makes no difference. What matters is that the words were read, and someone decided they were dangerous enough to become a case number. I. How Do You Know You Are Accused? This question seems like a technicality, but it is in fact the heart of the whole matter. I received no official letter. No lawyer knocked on my door carrying documents. No one from an embassy or consulate called to inform me. The knowledge itself arrived by accident — a passing search, or a message from a friend asking: "Where did you see your name?" This small detail reveals something far larger than a mere administrative oversight. When you are not formally notified that you are accused, you do not even have a clear starting point from which to act. You do not know exactly when the file was opened. You do not know who decided to include your name. You do not know whether a hearing was held, a decision was made, or even whether an investigation took place at all. You simply discover, one day, that you have become "accused" within a legal system that never gave you the chance to know its rules. This ambiguity is not a flaw in the procedure; it is the procedure itself. A case opened without a clear announcement, with no trial date set, performs its full function even while suspended indefinitely. It does not need a conviction to frighten; it is enough that it simply exists. II. The Charge That Needs No Crime In conventional legal systems, a case begins with an act: theft, assault, fraud — something material that can be proven or disproven. But my case, like many others, began with a word. I stole nothing. I assaulted no one. I incited no violence, called for no chaos. I wrote an opinion. I analysed a policy. I criticised a decision. That is the entirety of it. And yet this simple act — writing — became the basis for a legal file bearing a number and classified under a security heading. The paradox is that this kind of charge requires no fixed standard. What counts as "dangerous" today may not be tomorrow, and vice versa. There is no published list of forbidden words, no clear criterion distinguishing incitement from opinion. This deliberate ambiguity — or perhaps unintentional, but effective regardless — leaves every writer living in a state of permanent unease: will this sentence be the one that opens a file bearing my name? III. The Real Danger Is Not to Me Many ask me: "Can they reach you in the Netherlands?" The honest answer: no, not directly. I am here, in a country governed by the rule of law, physically protected by Dutch police, and no one can arrest me on the basis of a case in another country absent a valid extradition treaty and supporting facts. This is not my first concern. My real concern is that this case does not target me alone. It targets those around me. My family in Egypt. People walking down the street, opening their front door, with no connection to politics whatsoever — and suddenly someone is asking about them because I wrote a word from here. This is not a threat spoken aloud. No one calls to say: "If you continue, we will do such-and-such." The message arrives without anyone saying it — through the kind of questions asked of my family, through their timing, through the silence that meets me when I try to learn the details. Sometimes it is a "routine" phone call from some office, asking about my place of residence, my activities, or people I am in contact with. None of it is an explicit threat, but the timing alone is enough to deliver the message. This is precisely the mechanism by which this kind of pursuit operates: it does not need to touch me physically to affect me. It is enough to make me know that the people I love are exposed to harm because of what I write. IV. I Am Not an Exception It would be easy for an article like this to turn into a personal complaint, and I am careful that it should not. Case 1282 is not an isolated incident, and if I stay silent about it I become complicit — unintentionally — in concealing a pattern that genuinely exists. There are others like me — far more than me — whose names sit in similar files, some of whom have no platform to speak from as I do. Journalists, activists, even ordinary people who never practised journalism but shared a post or left a comment. Case 1282 is not an exception; it is a method of operation. Someone writes from abroad, someone else decides they are "dangerous," and the matter shifts from opinion to legal file, without a real trial, without even a clear official announcement that a charge exists at all. More dangerously, this pattern is not confined to Egyptians alone, nor to any single country. It is a recurring tactic used by several regimes seeking to pursue voices beyond their borders without bearing the burden of actual proof or a transparent legal process. The open, unannounced file serves the same purpose everywhere: it frightens without convicting, and keeps the writer in a permanent state of tension without ever offering him the chance to defend himself. V. What Has Actually Changed in Me I will not say this made me stronger. The phrase is worn out, usually deployed to prettify a painful experience, and I refuse to do that. What actually happened is simpler and more honest: I began writing more slowly. Not less candidly — I still say what I believe, still criticise what deserves criticism. But I have become more aware that every sentence I write from here may carry a price I am not the only one paying. This awareness slows the writing, not because I am censoring myself out of fear for my own safety, but because I am thinking about who might pay the price on my behalf. And this is precisely the point of such a case, whether intended or a by-product of a broader mechanism. Actual arrest is not required for censorship to function. No summons is required, no trial, not even a clear charge. It is enough to know your name is written on a piece of paper somewhere, to make you think twice before writing the next time. VI. Why I Continue Regardless A reader might ask: if the price is this clear, why keep writing? Would silence not be safer, for you and for your family? The answer is not as heroic as it might sound, but it is honest: because silence does not solve the problem, it postpones and expands it. If I stopped, and others like me stopped, the mechanism that produced Case 1282 would keep operating with no voice to expose it. Files would keep opening, names would keep being entered, families would keep being questioned, with no one outside the circle of direct victims ever knowing this was happening at all. Writing about this experience, for all its risks, is the only way I have to make this pattern visible. When an article like this is published, the file no longer remains a secret between a government body and an isolated writer; it becomes part of a public record that other journalists, human rights organisations, and even international institutions can follow and document. Conclusion: A Price Not Paid Once I am still writing. More slowly than before, but still writing. And Case 1282 remains open, suspended, with no set date for a hearing or a verdict, exactly as it began. This very ambiguity is the message. An authority that opens a file and never closes it, never tries its subject, never even clearly states what the charge is — is not pursuing justice. It is pursuing something else entirely: that everyone who thinks of writing knows the price is possible, even if not certain. And that everyone who has already written carries that price with them wherever they go, however far they travel from the source of the case. This is the true price of a single word: not one arrest at one moment, but a continuous state of uncertainty that lives with you every time you open a blank page to write. Adham Hasanin is an Egyptian journalist and political writer based in the Netherlands.

Sánchez and his government were informed by the Spanish secret services days before the invasion took place about preparations for a massive assault on the Ceuta border. They did nothing and didn´t alert the own Spanish security forces on the spot nor the units of the Spanish #Ceuta #Invasion #Sánchez #ES

Andrew forgot to mention why he and Tristan are in the SHU: alleged pedophiles and sex offenders are often targeted, assaulted, and sometimes even killed in prison. For that reason, they are frequently separated from the general prison population. https://t.co/6H4ScC6ux4 #PrisonReform #JusticeSystem #InmateSafety #Nospecificcountrycodesarementionedinthetweet.

BREAKING! Armed Israelis are escalating DEADLY assaults against defenseless Palestinians in the West Bank! They have reportedly just shot in cold blood five men in Tal village and Far'ata/Qalqilya. Their leaders openly talk of #Gazification THESE CRIMINALS MUST BE STOPPED! #WestBank #Palestine #HumanRights #IL #PS