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I recorded a new episode (#483) of my "Moving at the Speed of Creativity" podcast, which is 20 years old this year in 2025! I titled it, "Creativity, Code, and Compassion: AI Lessons from Middle School and Beyond."
https://www.spee…

U.S. Marshals-led Missing Child Operation in Middle Florida Results in Recovery of 60 Children (usmarshals.gov)
https://www.usmarshals.gov/news/press-release/us-marshals-led-missing-child-operation-middle-florida-results-recovery-of-60
http://www.memeorandum.com/250624/p167#a250624p167

While the world has been watching the Middle East, #Ukraine has been under intense bombardement.
There, but for the grace of geography...
Kyiv’s sleepless nights under fire - https://on.ft.com/4lcdgig via @FT

Sources: Anthropic is in talks to raise $3B to $5B, including from Middle Eastern investors, in a round that could more than double its valuation to $150B (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/3c8cf028-e49f-4ac3-8d95-6f6178cf2aac

Perfect painting to hang above mantelpiece 🖼️🧐

Forecasting Geopolitical Events with a Sparse Temporal Fusion Transformer and Gaussian Process Hybrid: A Case Study in Middle Eastern and U.S. Conflict Dynamics
Hsin-Hsiung Huang, Hayden Hampton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20935

Forecasting Geopolitical Events with a Sparse Temporal Fusion Transformer and Gaussian Process Hybrid: A Case Study in Middle Eastern and U.S. Conflict Dynamics
Forecasting geopolitical conflict from data sources like the Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT) is a critical challenge for national security. The inherent sparsity, burstiness, and overdispersion of such data cause standard deep learning models, including the Temporal Fusion Transformer (TFT), to produce unreliable long-horizon predictions. We introduce STFT-VNNGP, a hybrid architecture that won the 2023 Algorithms for Threat Detection (ATD) competition by overcoming these l…

Trump's budget bill — the one and only major legislative effort of Trump 2.0 — is the most regressive, least populist policy package in living memory.
With its distinctive mix of tax cuts laser-focused on the rich and spending cuts that most hurt middle- and low-income Americans,
it would shift more resources up the income ladder than any bill passed since scorekeepers started keeping track.
And when voters learn what it would do — even Republican voters — they recoil…

Opinion | The Four Ugliest Points About the Big Beautiful Bill
It is wildly regressive. And when voters learn what it does — even Republican voters — they recoil against it.

hey friends! One more photo from my recent hike into the #mountains .
My way went from this point to the right over the summit (not seen on the photo), down to the ridge (right into the photo), along the ridge, and down into the middle of the photo.
An amazing day and an impressive trail!

“Perilous turn”: UN chief warns U.S. against attacking Iranian nuclear sites, condemns any military escalation in Middle East
https://maktoobmedia.com/world/perilous-turn-un-chief-warns-u-s-against-attacking-iranian-nuclear-sites-condemns-any-military-escalation-in-middle-east/

😂 … 😂😂 … 😂😂😂
Authors Are Accidentally Leaving AI Prompts In their Novels https://www.404media.co/authors-are-accidentally-leaving-ai-prompts-in-their-novels/

You can't fix Monaco, not without adding more randomness into pitstops such as bringing back refuelling which they won't.
And even if they did that there would still be a train in the middle of the field.
It would have to be more drastic and they won't do that for one GP.
Though, personally, I think the cars should be narrower and tyres reduced in width and height. Make it a sport about racing again.

Paired Disjunctive Domination Number of Middle Graphs
Hande Tuncel Golpek, Zeliha Kartal Yildiz, Aysun Aytac
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19529 https://

Paired Disjunctive Domination Number of Middle Graphs
The concept of domination in graphs plays a central role in understanding structural properties and applications in network theory. In this study, we focus on the paired disjunctive domination number in the context of middle graphs, a transformation that captures both adjacency and incidence relations of the original graph. We begin by investigating this parameter for middle graphs of several special graph classes, including path graphs, cycle graphs, wheel graphs, complete graphs, complete bip…

#WordWeavers 5/25. Do you prefer writing wealthy, middle class, or indigent characters?
No preference really, there are fun characters to explore everywhere, and the WIP I'm working on has people from all levels of society.

Thekla Reuten

I don’t suppose there are any good and complete iOS apps for fedi right?
I know there’s the #Feditext

Hug a middle-aged cis white guy tomorrow.

Shocking ⚡️

Recent grads and PhDs are being recruited by AI companies like Handshake to provide specialized training data in fields like music and law for $30-$160 per hour (Emma Haidar/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-24/col…

College Grads Are Finding Jobs Training AI Models
Ever since he picked up a trombone in middle school, Jackson Spellman has wanted to pursue a career in music.“It's 100% going to be a part of my life for the rest of my life,” said the 22-year-old from Wellington, Florida, who graduated in June from Northwestern University with a double major in music and cognitive science.Along with his degree, Spellman finished school with a new gig to add to his resume: artificial intelligence trainer. In the weeks leading up to graduation, Spellman said…

Ortiz dots Manriquez over the middle for a big gain https://www.nfl.com/videos/ortiz-dots-manriquez-over-the-middle-for-a-big-gain

Just as I was working to get out today's Metacurity issue, reports surfaced that Predatory Sparrow leaked the source code of Iran's Nobitex exchange.
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-858276

@… Leave out some treats and see if one shows up in the middle of the night.

After the Trump regime jumped back into the Middle East wars by bombing Iran, the New York Times 'analyses' that the US is 'pulled back' into those.

US military bases in Middle East brace as Iran promises retaliation (Xavier Walton/NewsNation)
https://www.newsnationnow.com/world/war-in-israel/us-military-bases-middle-east-retaliation/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p97#a250623p97

Warplanes to the Middle East: Britain sides with the aggressor, again | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/warplanes-middle-east-britain-sides-aggressor-again

Even when living in the middle of a ten million people metropole Saigon can still look and feel like that small town.
#photography #30daysofIRL

Estimating Technical Loss without Power Flows: A Practical, Data-Driven Approach for Loss Estimation in Distribution Grids
Mohini Bariya, Genevieve Flaspohler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21311

Estimating Technical Loss without Power Flows: A Practical, Data-Driven Approach for Loss Estimation in Distribution Grids
Electric grids in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) across the world face an acute challenge. To support global decarbonisation efforts and raise millions from energy poverty, these grids must shoulder substantial load growth while integrating distributed renewable generation. However, decades of rapid and poorly funded infrastructure expansions have led to national grids in many LMICs that are strained and weak, composed of aging, faulty, and undersized infrastructure. A cause and sympt…

#WordWeavers 5/25. Do you prefer writing wealthy, middle class, or indigent characters?
No preference really, there are fun characters to explore everywhere, and the WIP I'm working on has people from all levels of society.

Forgot to post that I got this from the very talented @briannaduggan.bsky.social a few days ago!❤️❤️
Now I just have to figure out where I’m putting it 😂
(And get an actual frame)

So if I could just concentrate on my goddamn gaming right now, I'm in the middle of conquering Mindustry here in early Mid-Game...
#Mindustry #vent #venting

I caught this just down the street from that garden, that's the facade of the Vet Research Tower in the background
#photo #photography #cornell

Call for Papers: Theology, Religion, and Middle Earth
https://ift.tt/hbqoxUS
Theology, Religion, and Middle Earth Edited by Scott Donahue-Martens, Ph.D., and Brandon Simonson,…
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Call for Papers: Theology, Religion, and Middle Earth
Theology, Religion, and Middle Earth Edited by Scott Donahue-Martens, Ph.D., and Brandon Simonson, Ph.D. Few works have made such a lasting impact on the fantasy genre or captured the imagination a…

A senior Iranian official has told Reuters that Tehran’s retaliatory strikes will continue.
The official added that Iran has the “necessary rationality” to begin efforts at diplomacy after it had punished “the aggressor”.
https://www.

Israel-Iran war live: Tehran launches missiles at US bases in Qatar and Iraq
Iran attacks US bases in Qatar and Iraq —the latest Iran-Israel war news

An AI video worth watching, sorry if it is a twitter hosted video, don’t know the original source:
https://x.com/me_observer_/status/1947080477589831790

Middle East Observer (@ME_Observer_) on X
⚡️ ⭕️ Boycott campaign shared on resistance social media: "Boycott Israeli products.... Don't be a pig"

The Ruling Class hates the Working Class.
https://shepherdexpress.com/news/features/heres-the-real-reason-republicans-hate-the-middle-class/
"In other words, the wealthier the middle class becomes, the more it will dema…

Here's the Real Reason Republicans Hate the Middle Class
While it’s true that Republicans have been toadies for rich big corporations for a century, there’s a larger reason why Trump and the GOP are working so hard to impoverish working class Americans.

LOTRO stream is LIVE from Linux! Back to Middle-earth tonight. Join me on Twitch! #LOTRO #Linux

Mock draft: Five QBs go in first round of 10-team superflex https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/45797225/2025-fantasy-football-mock-draft-superflex-ppr

“Are we the baddies?” is not a question anyone in the West has to ask themselves. There’s no question about it. You were. You are. Will you continue to be? That’s the only question that matters and the answer is entirely up to you.
Silence is complicity.
Inaction is complicity.
Apologism is complicity.
Do something!
#israel

End Israeli Apartheid (@EndIsraeliApartheid@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image More RAF jets are being sent to the Middle East, Keir Starmer has said after Iran threatened to target UK, French and US bases if the countries help stop strikes on Israel. Additional refuelling aircraft have been deployed from UK bases and more fast jets will be sent over, it is understood. The UK already has RAF jets in the Middle East as part of Operation Shader. https://www.thenational.scot/news/25239897.uk-jets-sent-middle-east-despite-calls-de-escalation/ 🕎 �…

Yes, Google, I definitely need to make an "engaging video with AI” for my document of paid ad performance metrics and projections.
This is totally, definitely, indubitably a legitimate use case for a product that you're pushing on your users. *heavy sacrasm*

Iran Launches Final Missile Barrages at Israel; 3 Civilians Killed (Joel B. Pollak/Breitbart)
https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2025/06/23/iran-launches-final-missile-barrages-at-israel-3-civilians-killed/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250624/p15#a250624p15

Because the US starting wars in the Middle East always works out so well for all sides.
Feeling nauseated.

»Telegram, the FSB, and the Man in the Middle;
The technical infrastructure that underpins Telegram is controlled by a man whose companies have collaborated with Russian intelligence services.«
This is not surprising and it has been known for a long time that Telegram is anything but not secure. Now it is, so to speak, "unofficially" a Russia defence sector spyware.
🫤

Telegram, the FSB, and the Man in the Middle
The technical infrastructure that underpins Telegram is controlled by a man whose companies have collaborated with Russian intelligence services.

Even with CeeDee Lamb and George Pickens, Cowboys' WR room lands outside Top 10 https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/23/cowboys-wr-room-just-middle-of-the-pack-in-p…

When your Middle East policy is basically a horoscope with nukes.
“We don’t really know, but trust us.” https://open.substack.com/pub/charlotteclymer/p/we-dont-really-know-but-trust-us?utm_source=…

We Don't Really Know But Trust Us
Nothing to see here.

Examination of Eye-Tracking, Head-Gaze, and Controller-Based Ray-casting in TMT-VR: Performance and Usability Across Adulthood
Panagiotis Kourtesis, Evgenia Giatzoglou, Panagiotis Vorias, Katerina Alkisti Gounari, Eleni Orfanidou, Chrysanthi Nega
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19519

Examination of Eye-Tracking, Head-Gaze, and Controller-Based Ray-casting in TMT-VR: Performance and Usability Across Adulthood
Virtual reality (VR) can enrich neuropsychological testing, yet the ergonomic trade-offs of its input modes remain under-examined. Seventy-seven healthy volunteers-young (19-29 y) and middle-aged (27-56 y)-completed a VR Trail-Making Test with three pointing methods: eye-tracking, head-gaze, and a six-degree-of-freedom hand controller. Completion time, spatial accuracy, and error counts for the simple (Trail A) and alternating (Trail B) sequences were analysed in 3 x 2 x 2 mixed-model ANOVAs; p…

What can I use to make this? Hopefully easily (as in, the lines all move in a group if I need to reposition), but honestly I don't care if not — I just want it to know about curves and gaps, positioning nicely by default.
#maps #diagram

Excellent, informative post by #SenatorChrisMurphy addressing why bombing Iran was perhaps not the best idea:
https://op…

8 Things You Should Know About Trump's Strikes on Iran
America’s addiction to military intervention in the Middle East is a stubborn habit to break for our nation, and it’s heartbreaking.

Excellent, informative post by #SenatorChrisMurphy addressing why bombing Iran was perhaps not the best idea:
https://op…

8 Things You Should Know About Trump's Strikes on Iran
America’s addiction to military intervention in the Middle East is a stubborn habit to break for our nation, and it’s heartbreaking.

While the kids play sportsball, the coaches compare the various aches and minor ailments to which our middle-aged bodies have decided to subject us.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Georgia Maq:
🎵 Slightly Below the Middle
#GeorgiaMaq
https://open.spotify.com/track/4iCHY1fIDHb1tJmJXr6iCE

Iran said it launched a military attack on an American base in Qatar -- the largest U.S. military installation in the Middle East, according to a statement by the country’s armed forces.
The base, which serves as the forward headquarters for the U.S. Central Command, was considered a prime potential target should Iran retaliate over American strikes on its nuclear installations over the weekend.

Iran Fires Missiles at U.S. Base in Qatar: Live Updates
The target was Al Udeid Air Base, the largest American military installation in the Middle East. Qatar said its air defenses intercepted the attack.

https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-858131
This is the same group that hacked Sepah Bank.
“The hacker group known as "Gonjeshke Darande," or "predatory sparrow," announced on Wednesday that it stole $48 million in cryptocurrency…

I heard they were working on a middle ground between flat earthers and scientists. What's that supposed to be? Cubic earth??
#humor #flatearth #science

nice talk by Alessandro #Barbero on the use of #Latin in the middle ages and the early modern period:
Il podcast di Alessandro Barbero: Lezioni e Conferenze di Storia: #214 Ma nel medioevo ci si dichiarava in latino? – ExtraBarbero (Vercelli, 2025)
Episode webpage:

Done for the day! Got so much done thanks to the much more mild temperatures (22°C with a breeze!)
Pebble and drain rock are complete in the Bay. Brought the pebble to just below the middle holes around the bin. (There is another row of them a few inches below)
The drain rock up to the larger holes so that larger debris can be drawn into the bin.
I was really hoping to get my big shipment of various sizes of rock/pebble this week but the rock place was too busy for little me. They promised Monday!
All the rock has to be clean to act as a good organic filter (dirt on rock means no space for good water cleaning bacteria to attach!) so I am washing as I go.
I try to wash most of it in the hole itself since then I can direct where it gets pumped out. Today the blueberry 🫐 and flower 🌹 garden was the benificiary. Tomorrow maybe the hazelnut tree 🌳
Still very happy with the progress though. Feel like I'm getting into the meat of the project now!
#pondpool #backyardpond #diy #portalberni

Just got a small space heater and damn it’s so much more comfortable here now
As a @… fan I’d prefer if my AC/heat pump supported heating mode, but welp it was already installed when I moved here so an electric heater will do it for the 2 days a year it’s actually cold enough for that to be useful here. Getting all that heat from the bedroom to the living room would be a problem anyway.
And I didn’t even need to make a fire hazard in order to use it since a 20A outlet was already around due to the coffee thingy, yay!
It’s been on for just around 40mins and it’s already sooo much better in here (the temp sensor is not on the side the heater is pointing to (the sofa) so it’ll take a while for it to reflect the change specially since this is a big room (kitchen dinner living), but just pointing the heater to where I’m at is enough to make it a comfortable temperature (and probably even way too hot in a bit)).
I’ve been wanting this for a while, but it never felt worth it bc we don’t really have many cold days here. Tho this year we got some more I think and today was specially cold (9~11°C) so I decided to just do it. Extra points bc it was available on fucking iFood of all places so it arrived less than an hour after I ordered it lmao.

A New Middle Eastern War Ignites, Markets Swing On Early Bets That Trump Will Chicken Out Again - Dealbreaker
https://dealbreaker.com/2025/06/a-new-middle-eastern-war-ignites-markets-swing-on-early-bets-that-trump-will-chicken-out-again

Trump reportedly in situation room amid Iran retaliatory attack on US military base in Qatar – US politics live
General Dan Caine and defense secretary Pete Hegseth are in the situation room with Trump right now monitoring Iran’s attack on US bases in Middle East, CNBC reports

10th Enemy Encounters Webinar “Rumours and 19th-20th Century Religious Resistance, State Repression and Maoist Campaigns in China”
https://ift.tt/t2fIjp5
TOC: Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies, vol. 46, no. 3 (March 2022) Dutch…
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Exclusive: Iranian retaliation against U.S. forces could come soon, U.S. officials say (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iranian-retaliation-against-us-forces-could-come-soon-us-officials-say-2025-06-23/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p50#a250623p50

EU president throws her full weight behind the Netanyahu & Trump attacks on Iran, while negotiations were ongoing.
Reminders:
1) Iran restarted uranium enrichment after Trump withdrew from the agreement in 2018.
2) US intelligence recently stated that Iran did not pursue nuclear weapon development.

US Vice President Vance says Iran is now incapable of building a nuclear weapon -Fox (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-vice-president-vance-says-iran-is-now-incapable-building-nuclear-weapon-fox-2025-06-23/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p142#a250623p142

The Food and Agriculture Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Food and Ag-ISAC) and the Information Technology-ISAC (IT-ISAC) issued an updated statement saying they had not seen any confirmed cyberattacks from Iran on their members.

French president Emmanuel Macron published a letter sent to the Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, 🔥confirming France’s intention to become the first major western power to recognise a Palestinian state.
France will recognise a Palestinian state at the UN general assembly, in September

Children starving to death in Gaza, as medics themselves faint from hunger, doctors warn | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/gaza-israel-malnutrition-palestine-famine-b2793933.html

EXCLUSIVE: Trump says he expects ceasefire to last 'forever' (Yamiche Alcindor/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/middle-east/live-blog/live-updates-iran-top-diplomat-meets-putin-us-braces-retaliation-rcna214428/rcrd83424?canonicalCard=true
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p147#a250623p147

A Qantas Airlines flight that left from Perth, Australia, on Monday night
returned to the same city the next morning after more than 15 consecutive hours in the air
— thanks to turmoil in the Middle East.
The flight, QF33, which was supposed to land in Paris,
was among a number of airplane journeys that were disrupted
after attacks in the region involving the United States, Israel and Iran prompted officials to temporarily close air space in the region.

15-Hour Qantas Flight Takes Passengers From Perth to Perth Amid Mideast Closures
Flights on Monday and Tuesday were delayed and diverted because of temporary air space closures in the region.

Iran pledges further retaliation against US after targeting military base in Qatar, senior official says - latest updates (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/jun/23/israel-iran-war-live-updates-us-trump-regime-change-middle-east-gaza-latest-news
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p105#a250623p105

Investigation: Russian network engineer Viktor Vedeneev controls thousands of Telegram IP addresses and maintains its servers; his companies have FSB links (Roman Anin/OCCRP)
https://www.occrp.org/en/investigation/telegram-the-fsb-and-the-man-in-t…

Telegram, the FSB, and the Man in the Middle
The technical infrastructure that underpins Telegram is controlled by a man whose companies have collaborated with Russian intelligence services.

Going through my feeds this morning, I see a bunch of suspicious, poorly written English reports in Middle Eastern publications that have never shown up on my radar screen before that tell of cyberattacks by variously named Iranian-related "hacktivist" groups.

U.S. Military Is Pulled Back Into Middle East Wars (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/us/politics/military-middle-east-wars.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250621/p75#a250621p75

Iran vowed swift retaliation Saturday following the U.S. military’s strikes on the Iranian nuclear program.
“Every American citizen or military personnel in the region is now a target,” a commentator on Iranian state media said.
Al-Asad Air Base, an Iraqi installation 150 miles west of Baghdad that is operated jointly by the Iraqi and U.S. air forces, houses thousands of American troops,
the largest U.S. deployment in the country.
Iran and its proxies have in recent…

U.S. bases that could attack Iran — and become targets
A number of U.S. military sites in the Middle East could face reprisals if Trump strikes Iran.

B-2 bombers moving to Guam amid Middle East tensions, US officials say (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/b-2-bombers-moving-guam-amid-middle-east-tensions-us-officials-say-2025-06-21/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250621/p38#a250621p38

Uber and Baidu announce a multi-year partnership to launch robotaxis in markets outside the US and mainland China, starting in Asia and the Middle East in 2025 (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-0…

Trump Makes Dramatic About-Face With Plunge Into Middle East War (Catherine Lucey/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-22/trump-makes-dramatic-about-face-with-plunge-into-middle-east-war
http://www.memeorandum.com/250622/p5#a250622p5

The United States is moving B-2 bombers to the Pacific island of Guam,
as Donald Trump weighs whether the United States should take part in Israel’s strikes against Iran.
It was unclear whether the bomber deployment is tied to Middle East tensions.
The B-2 can be equipped to carry America’s 30,000lb GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator,
designed to destroy targets deep underground.
That is the weapon that experts say could be used to strike Iran’s nuclear program, i…

Suspected Israeli hackers claim to destroy data at Iran's Bank Sepah
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/suspected-israeli-hackers-claim-destroy-data-irans-bank-sepah-2025-06-17/

For hundreds of years, the Spanish banned the Incan Festival of the Sun—the Andean New Year.
But since the middle of the 20th century, Inti Raymi has been back. 
Today, communities, cities, towns and even universities hold Inti Raymi celebrations.
They make offerings, light fires and incense. They say prayers to Pachamama and Inti, the sun. They sing and dance. 
And it’s not just a celebration. It is an act of resistance

Inti Raymi returns as an act of resistance
Inti Raymi is the most important Indigenous celebration of the Andean countries of South America. And it is a revival of the people’s cultural history. This is episode 50 of Stories of Resistance.

Despite clashes with US presidents, Israel's Netanyahu usually gets his way (Crispian Balmer/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/despite-clashes-with-us-presidents-israels-netanyahu-usually-gets-his-way-2025-06-22/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250622/p18#a250622p18

U.S. Investigates How Much of Iran's Nuclear Program Was Destroyed--And How Much Remains (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/damage-extent-from-u-s-strikes-on-irans-fordow-nuclear-site-unclear-b86b9a58?st=muqUhF
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p5#a250623p5

A New Middle East Is Unfolding Before Our Eyes (Karl Vick/Time)
https://time.com/7295798/new-middle-east-time-cover/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250619/p130#a250619p130

REALLY???? 😂🤣
https://bsky.app/profile/acyn.bsky.social/post/3ls7bmorvth2e

Leaders of House, Senate briefed on attacks (Dennis Romero/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/middle-east/live-blog/israel-iran-conflict-rcna214241/rcrd82924?canonicalCard=true
http://www.memeorandum.com/250621/p73#a250621p73

Trump says Iran deal ‘could still happen’ and claims Tehran was ‘a few weeks away’ from nuclear weapon – Israel-Iran conflict live
Trump undecided on joining war on Iran as Khamenei warns him not to attack
Trump says that he will attend a meeting in an hour on the evacuation of US citizens from Israel, Reuters reports

Exclusive: Israel seeks swift action on Iran, sources say, with a split U.S. administration (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-seeks-swift-action-iran-sources-say-with-split-us-administration-2025-06-21/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250621/p47#a250621p47

Trump gambles his presidency on war
If Iran does not agree to peace on Trump’s terms,
the president’s vow that
“there are many targets left”
opened the door to a much deeper and potentially longer conflict.
Already, that prospect is angering some members of his political base.
…

With fateful decision, Trump gambles his presidency on war
Trump rose to power criticizing Middle East wars. Now he may have his own.

Why is Trump all Stick and no Carrot?

Trump must offer Iran more than bombs, rage and humiliation
https://www.economist…

Trump must offer Iran more than bombs, rage and humiliation
How to prevent an inferno in the Middle East

Trump says he will help Afghans stuck in the UAE (Doina Chiacu/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/trump-says-he-will-help-afghans-stuck-uae-2025-07-20/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250720/p25#a250720p25

Israel-Iran air war enters second week as Europe pushes diplomacy (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-iran-air-war-enters-second-week-europe-pushes-diplomacy-2025-06-20/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250620/p54#a250620p54

The head of Iran’s atomic energy organization said a third site is ready to operate
as the UN watchdog finds Iran is not complying with obligations for first time in 20 years
https://www.

“Between enabling Israel in Gaza and all of its operations across the Middle East,
and now these strikes in Iran,
we are setting the foundation for the next generation’s ‘War on Terror,’”
said Wes Bryant, who served until earlier this year as the senior analyst and adviser on precision warfare, targeting, and civilian harm mitigation at the Pentagon’s Civilian Protection Center of Excellence.
He questioned the Trump administration’s abrupt shift from negotiating with I…

Self-Proclaimed “Peacemaker” Drags U.S. Into Another War
Heeding the request of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Donald Trump dispatched U.S. warplanes to bomb Iran.

Why Iran's 'Axis of Resistance' Is Missing in Action (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/axis-of-resistance-iran-israel-strategy-103e6226?st=t5EDrV
http://www.memeorandum.com/250619/p19#a250619p19

Investors brace for oil price spike, rush to havens after US bombs Iran nuclear sites (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/middle-east-tensions-put-investors-alert-weighing-worst-case-scenarios-2025-06-21/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250622/p44#a250622p44

Iran Is Moving to Rearm Its Militia Allies (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/iran-militia-allies-houthis-hezbollah-a36d7de7?st=8HMw6R&reflink=article_copyURL_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250718/p40#a250718p40

Exclusive: inside the spy dossier that led Israel to war (The Economist)
https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2025/06/18/exclusive-inside-the-spy-dossier-that-led-israel-to-war
http://www.memeorandum.com/250619/p6#a250619p6

Accused Minnesota assassin Vance Boelter has ties to Middle East and Africa, runs security company (Georgia Worrell/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/06/14/us-news/accused-minnesota-assassin-vance-boelter-is-tied-to-middle-east-and-africa-runs-security-company/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250615/p6#a250615p6

Israel Is Running Low on Defensive Interceptors, Official Says (Shelby Holliday/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/israel-is-running-low-on-defensive-interceptors-official-says-fd64163d
http://www.memeorandum.com/250618/p28#a250618p28

Troops in Mideast Would Be Vulnerable to Iran Strikes on U.S. Targets (Lara Jakes/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/world/middleeast/us-troops-middle-east-iran.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250618/p148#a250618p148