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The Weizmann Institute, Israel's most prominent scientific center affiliated with the IDF, was completely destroyed in yesterday's Iranian missile attack on Rehovot

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From the Iranian Seismological Center:

Is this a regular ass earthquake with the worst possible timing, or could this be something else? I imagine an earthquake signature would be different from a nuclear test or a malfunction at the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant (~30km northeast), right?

Israeli Foreign Minister: France had offered to participate in our attacks on Iran.

https://t.me/farsna/377265

More Tel Aviv impacts

I'll admit I'm pleasantly surprised at the people around me's reactions to Isn'treal being blasted. Even my pacifist lib mom just shrugged and said "well you reap what you sow, they can't be surprised someone hit them back".

Israel is still getting to high Iran officials

The intelligence chief of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Mohammad Kazemi, and his deputy were killed in Israel's attacks on Tehran on Sunday, Iran's semi-official Tasnim news agency said.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/live/israel-targets-iran-nuclear-sites-and-military-commanders-major-attack

All flights from Tel Aviv to NYC fully booked for the next week and now reports are that Ben Gurion airport just got stuck by an Iranian missile

Hasan was saying on stream there was a 2.4 mag earthquake in Fordow nuclear plant

I hope I'm not making you think of yet another thing to worry about. I hope I don't have conspiracy theory brain but it's weird to me how there's been no news about bird flu in the US for - I dunno - ~2 weeks? It's hard (if not impossible) for me to think everything is hunky-dory.

Yesterday was the largest single day protest in American history. Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels.

Based on hundreds of crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6m people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. Even when you correct for population, No Kings was still the biggest. Nearly 2% of the adult US population turned out to protest.

Assassinations, Violence and Increasing Turmoil: America in Unrest

Over the last several days, global attention has understandably been focused on the Israeli aggression in the Middle East but events domestically in America have continued to unravel. Among the notable events that many may have missed: Two days ago, U.S. Senator for California Alex Padilla stormed a speaking event by DHS Secretary Noem and was arrested by Federal agents.

This provoked Governor Newsom to call the Trump Administration tyrannical and this came on the heels of the Governor sharing the “California Republic” State flag, move many took as possibly a warning to Washington.

In a bizarre series of late night legal actions, a Federal judge first ruled the President Trump had unlawfully federalized the California National Guard and ordered its return back to Governor Newsom’s control just for said ruling to be vacated temporarily by another Federal Judge in defense of Trump’s actions.

On the basis of the injunction, President Trump then signaled a willingness to expand the use of Federalization orders to other National Guards as well as the possible deployment of U.S. Marines to other cities. This was met by fury by multiple Democratic Governors.

Yesterday, U.S. Marines were deployed for the first time to Los Angeles where they conducted their first arrest of a protester. Governor Newsom has continued to rail against the use of active duty U.S. Military forces being used in a policing role.

Finally, today in Minnesota the majority leader of the State House (The chief legislative body of Minnesota) was asssassinated along with her Husband by a former appointee of the Governor. In the suspect’s car was found many materials pertaining to the “No Kings” Protests currently sweeping the nation, suggesting a political linkage between the event and the movement. Of note, the assassinated legislator had recently been the deciding vote in abolishing State funding for healthcare for illegal immigrants; this is notable given the Anti-ICE element of the current protests.

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Trump vetoed Israeli plan to kill Iran's supreme leader, US officials say

They said the Israelis reported that they had an opportunity to kill the top Iranian leader, but Trump waved them off of the plan.

Bullshit?

Explosions in Tel Aviv

IRGC source says they have not used any of their advanced technologies so far. These are coming.

I was looking into how Iran has organized its nuclear enrichment out of curiosity. From a Simplicius article from a couple days ago:

One analyst states:

Grossi said: “I’ve been there multiple times. To reach it, one must go deep, then deeper, and deeper still. Iran’s nuclear program cannot be destroyed by an attack.”

He’s right. The world’s most powerful bunker-buster, the GBU-57, can only penetrate 66 meters, while even the latest nuclear bomb can only impact up to 500 meters underground.

Iran has placed its IR-9 centrifuges on shock-absorber systems, capable of withstanding 6.0 Richter scale earthquakes. These sites lie deep within mountains.

Israel does not have the GBU-57; only the US does, and only B-2 bombers can carry them — 2 bombs per jet. To destroy just one Iranian site at 800m depth, the US would need to drop at least 12 bombs precisely at one spot — requiring 6 bombers per site.

Iran is believed to have at least 5 such deep nuclear sites. To destroy them all, the US would need to deploy 30 B-2 bombers, but it only has 18 total. Meaning, at least 2 Iranian sites will survive.

Moreover, Iran has not built straight shafts. After every 50 meters, tunnels twist hundreds of meters sideways before going down again — making pinpoint strikes nearly impossible. Even if the first bomb hits, the remaining 11 could hit empty ground.

In short, Iran’s underground nuclear infrastructure is now too deep, too complex, and too protected to be taken out militarily.