I miss street fight radio. I don't really understand why Bryan and Brett split. I am under the impression that Brett wanted to do real world activism stuff and Bryan was more focused on making entertainment. Bryan made 'Guys' podcast. Then Brett made some paranormal-focused podcast. I can't find it now. It looks like Brett deleted his twitter account.

Reuters claims that an "anonymous" "senior Iranian source" says Iran will stop attacking US bases for as long as US stops attacking Iran. US has not announced attacks Iran for the past 2 days. NYT and CNN believe that the US attacks have been paused due to a shortage of munitions.

The senior Iranian source, ⁠speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters: "Iran’s position remains ‘attack for attack’: if the attacks stop, Iran will also halt its operations. That message has already been conveyed ​to the United States."

The source added: "However, Iran is prepared to mount a broad response should the U.S. launch another attack."

Asked about the pause, a senior official in Trump's ​administration said on Saturday that the president "has always been clear that his preference is diplomacy, but he has shown Iran what will happen if they fail to come to the table in a serious way."

The senior Iranian source said Tehran did not hold much hope that Trump's decision to pause strikes represented a major shift in the U.S. negotiating position.

"There is more scepticism ​than optimism about the halt in attacks. The prevailing view is that the pause is tactical rather than genuine. Iran has accumulated enough bitter experience with what ​it sees as U.S. deception," the source said.

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/iran-will-halt-attacks-long-us-maintains-pause-iranian-source-says-after-trump-2026-07-26/

I'm not sure why a "senior Iranian source" would need to say this under the condition of anonymity, but the statements are de facto true because the US has been the aggressor of the war. If the US stops escalating, then there is not escalation.

The equation for escalation has been: Iran closed Strait of Hormuz -> US tells commercial ship to go through Strait of Hormuz -> Iran attacks ships for violating closure of Strait of Hormuz -> US attacks Iran civilian infrastructure -> Iran attacks US military bases.

I wonder whether the US will stop telling the ships to go through Hormuz or if the US will just not attack Iran when a ship is attacked for violating the closure.

Waltz says that it's not true but then calls for the leaker to be punished. The word "leaking" implies that the information is true. Spreading fake information would not be a "leak".

/c/fakenews has been promoting media literacy since 2023.

If you want a real answer, it's either TrueAnon or Hasanabi. There are multiple Hexbear users who frequently repost images and memes from /r/trueanon. There are many Hexbear users who frequently watch Hasan, even the ones who claim to hate him.

Both TrueAnon and Hasanabi are spinoff shows of the Chapo Cinematic Universe. Brace appeared on Chapo under the alias "PissPigGranddad" before TrueAnon ever existed. Hasan made a guest appearance on Chapo for the first time in 2019. Shortly before Hasan's appearance on Chapo, he was a streamer for Facebook. It was Felix Biederman of Chapo who recommended Hasan to stream on twitch and Felix frequently streamed Fortnite with Hasan in 2019.

In an evening address on July 25, Zelensky compared Iran to North Korea and alleged that Iran was collaborating with Russia, in justification of the attack on the Iranian commercial ship.

https://nitter.net/ZelenskyyUa/status/2081073248016441685#m

https://nitter.net/ZelenskyyUa/status/2081074329115078813#m

Even if these accusations are correct, neither instance is an example of a direct attack. Ukraine conducted a direct attack on an Iranian ship. For Zelensky's justification to make sense, Iran should then be allowed to attack Ukraine directly or Russia be allowed to attack the US directly.

Also Russia only deployed DPRK soldiers to the Kursk region of Russia. The DPRK soldiers were used to defend from Ukrainian attacks on Russian territory.

Zelensky announces the Ukrainian attack on an Iranian ship over twitter.

https://nitter.net/ZelenskyyUa/status/2080955669407015342#m

Ukraine continues applying long‑range sanctions in response to Russian strikes. Last night, the warriors of our Defense Forces hit targets across different regions of Russia that are fueling this war.

Once again, a plant in Kirov was struck – the one supplying components for the weapons Russia uses to attack our people. That’s about 1,200 kilometers from Ukraine’s border. Also hit were an oil refinery in Tyumen, a logistics facility in Yekaterinburg, and a fuel and lubricants depot in Rostov‑on‑Don. We also achieved very strong results with long‑range strikes in the Caspian Sea – including vessels used in military cargo shipments involving Iran, as well as a warship.

EU Representative Kaja Kalas accuses Iran of "severe human rights violations".

https://nitter.net/kajakallas/status/2080631014817182039#m

While the world’s attention is on the war in the Middle East, we can’t lose sight of Iran’s repression against its own people.

Today, the EU imposed new restrictive measures on Iranian judges responsible for serious human rights violations, including the persecution of political dissidents and religious minorities. We also sanctioned a leading figure of a cyber group who enabled the regime’s repression of information.

As Tehran intensifies its domestic crackdown, the EU will continue to hold those responsible to account.

Iran spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei tells EU Representative Kaja Kallas that the US/Israel attacks against civilian infrastructure are violations of Human Rights.

https://nitter.net/IRIMFA_SPOX/status/2080879284898701606#m

.@Kajakallas speaks of the European Union’s “human rights concerns” regarding Iran. How can a professed commitment to human rights be so easily reconciled with providing logistical and technical support for lethal aggressions against the Iranian people — aggressions that deliberately target civilians and critical national infrastructure? All while refusing to condemn even the most blatant war crimes, and offering not a single word of sympathy for Iranian children slaughtered by American-Israeli bombs and missiles enabled by the EU’s own “logistical and technical support.”

This is not merely a loss of credibility. It is the banality of evil — and the purest form of hypocrisy.

In the OP articles, Iran Foreign Minister Araghchi spoke with Kaja Kalas over the phone about Ukraine's attack on Iranian commercial ship.

We can still see your comment in the mod log. The main post is from Esmaeil Baqaei, the spokesperson of Iran. He works for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Iran.

Your post said "this is the pot calling the kettle black". Esmaeil Baqaei urged US troops to not commit war crimes. The idiom you used is an accusation of hypocrisy. I think people interpreted your comment to say that Iran commits war crimes as often as the United States.

https://hexbear.net/modlog?userId=2701573

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/modlog?userId=2701573

I did not report your comment. Somebody else must have. The mod log says your comment was removed for rule 4. Hexbear global rule 4 says that comments must not support bigotry or right wing ideology. I think the mod removed your comment because placing blame on Iran for the war gives justification to US aggression against Iran.

hexbear rules https://hexbear.net/tos

I'm trying to be not hostile. I don't know what you actually meant by the comment was deleted. I hope that you don't believe that Iran commits war crimes as frequently as the US. My previous comment was written to explain that over the past 10 years, US has been aggressive to Iran and Iran has shown restraint in response.

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I'm guessing people don't know that Mitch (in the AI image) is wearing the same clothing that Andrew Tate was arrested in on July 18.

arrest video https://nitter.net/TMZ/status/2078625904478351848#m

What is even the point of having a picture of text without a link? The screenshot is supposed to be a preview of the content that you linked. Here's the text from the image of text. Okay where did that image come from? If you see an image of a text without credits to an official source, you should instinctively disbelieve the text.

https://nitter.net/DD_Geopolitics/status/1720618902416171413#m

The tweet is from 2023. The text of the tweet is in reference to Biden deploying USS Eisenhower and USS Ford in October 2023 to enable Israel to do genocide in Gaza.

I'm skeptical of the DD_geopolitics account. Sometimes they post correct info and sometimes they exaggerate. DD stands for "Donbass Devushka" an alias of Sarah Bils. There are some suspicions that Sarah Bils is working for the Russian government. I don't know the full details, good for her.

The other person who operates the account is Christopher Helali. Christopher Helali is another really eccentric individual. He's a member of the ACP, ie patsoc/nazbol. He was the 3rd in the party leadership, he might have stepped down. He also claims to own one of Epstein's address books and said he bought it on ebay. I also have the suspicion that Chris Helali is a fed because of the ACP stuff and a lot of other weird things.

I'm not complaining about them being pro-Russia. I am under the impression that they are both patsoc/nazbol types. Some of their tweets promote patsoc/ACP type things.

I can't find the text posted by a different source.

There is no definitive set of rules for "privacy".

You have to know what you are trying to hide and who you are trying to hide it from.

You cannot hide that you are a communist/socialist/leftist/whatever. Hiding your affiliation to these is antithetical to the goals. You have to get together (in real life, not on the internet) with other like-minded people to accomplish the goals of these causes.

Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is the best source of privacy information that I've known. The organization has lawyers that sometimes provide pro-bono legal representation in cases related to internet stuff. They have lots of educational material and guides on the website.

Go to the link at the bottom, scroll to the bottom of the page. There are buttons that says like "I am a (abortion patient | protestor | academic | journalist | lgbt youth)". Click whichever button is most relevant to you and it will give you a list of privacy suggestions.

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

https://ssd.eff.org/