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Rule 5 Sunday: The Almost Perfect Picture

Posted on | June 16, 2025 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: The Almost Perfect Picture

— compiled by Wombat-socho

What keeps it from perfection is an exercise left to the reader.
h/t kbdabear on X.
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ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Don’t Mess With The Bull Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Friday the 13th, MAGA Karoline Leavitt & LA, Stockholm Bloodbath, Brian Wilson RIP, Stick, Sly Stone RIP, Last Breath, Secretariat – “O Happy Day”, and Bridget Fonda

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Oksana Butovskaya, There’s An App for That!, Fish Pic Friday – Sarita Fishes, Thursday Tanlines, The Wednesday Wetness, Pennsylvania Lad Tackles Major Bay Problem, The Devil Inside Me, Gone Fishin’, The Monday Morning Stimulus and Palm Sunday

BACON TIME: Rule Five – A Trip To Hooterville

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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FMJRA 2.0: September in Washington

Posted on | June 15, 2025 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: September in Washington

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Ah, September…the month when the rosters expand, the kids go back to school, the miserable sweaty heat lingers over the Anacostia, and the crowds at RFK dwindle as the Senators get beaten like a rented mule. We were hoping for a .500 week, but we got swept by the Hated Yankees and lost two of three to the Twins. The only game we won was Game Three against the Twins, where Carl Morton and Bob Johnson combined to blank the Twins for Carl’s 11th win and Bob’s 23rd save. So now we’re 65-76, five games in back of the second-place Twins and half a game ahead of the A’s. Next week we’ll face the Cardinals (2-1) on Tuesday and the Tribe (5-4) on Friday. Not real sanguine about making the playoffs.
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Time to compile the keepers list (it’ll be short)

The Mainstream Media’s Memory Hole Has Swallowed Deadly Attacks on Jews
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‘An Earth-Shattering Kaboom’: Israel Wipes Out Top Iranian Military Leaders UPDATE: ‘Decapitation Strike’ — List
First Street Journal
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American Free News Network
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FMJRA 2.0: Marginal Victory
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The Thing That Never Happens Has Somehow Happened Once Again
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Rule 5 Sunday: Some Jeep Drivers Are Okay
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A View From The Beach
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Sweden-Kampuchea Friendship Association 2.0: Illegal Immigrants Are the New Khmer Rouge or Something
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In The Mailbox: 06.09.25
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In The Mailbox: 06.10.25
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In The Mailbox: 06.12.25 (Afternoon Edition)
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In The Mailbox: 06.13.25 (Afternoon Edition)
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One Standard Deviation: How Israel Targeted Iran’s Top Air Force Leaders
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In The Mailbox: 06.13.25 (Evening Edition)
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‘Politically Motivated Assassination’ Targets Two Minnesota Democrats UPDATE: Suspect Identified, Had ‘Manifesto’ — ‘No Kings’ Motive? UPDATE: ‘False Flag’? It’s So Confusing!

Posted on | June 14, 2025 | 1 Comment

State Sen. John Hoffman (left); State Rep. Melissa Hortman (right)

“A manhunt is now underway for the gunman”:

A Minnesota state representative and her husband were shot and killed, and a state senator and his wife were shot and wounded in an “act of targeted political violence” at their homes early Saturday, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said.
A manhunt is now underway for the gunman who was impersonating a police officer, authorities said. The gunman attacked by knocking on the doors and asking the victims to come out, police said.
State Rep. Melissa Hortman, a Democrat, and her husband were shot and killed in what appears to be a “politically-motivated assassination,” Walz said at a news conference.
“She was a formidable public servant,” the governor said of his friend. “She is irreplaceable.”
State Sen. John Hoffman, a Democrat, and his wife were both shot multiple times and underwent surgery, the governor said. . . .
The two shooting locations are a few miles away from each other in Champlin and Brooklyn Park, just north of Minneapolis.
Hoffman and his wife were shot around 2 a.m. in Champlin, Superintendent of the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Drew Evans said.
After Hoffman was shot, officers were heading to pro-actively check on Hortman when they encountered the suspect at Hortman’s home around 3:35 a.m., Evans said.
The officers found a person who was dressed as a police officer — wearing a vest and a badge, and with a Taser and other equipment — at the door, coming out of Hortman’s house, police said.
The suspect fired at the officers; gunfire was exchanged and the suspect was able to escape and flee on foot, authorities said.
The suspect’s vehicle — which looked like a police vehicle, including police lights — was in Hortman’s driveway, authorities said.
A list of other possible targets was retrieved from the suspect’s vehicle, authorities said. Police said the list had “many lawmakers,” including the victims. . . .
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino said the agency is “fully engaged on the ground in Minnesota.”

UPDATE: This is not yet officially confirmed:

While we await official confirmation, I must emphasize the need to beware of rumors and speculation about motive.

UPDATE II: Again, not officially confirmed:

If true, this would be the first clear evidence we have of the gunman’s motive. We await more developments.

UPDATE III: Still more unconfirmed reports:

UPDATE IV: The New York Post reports:

A former appointee of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is being sought in connection with the assassination of a state lawmaker and the shooting of another, police sources said.
Vance Luther Boelter allegedly posed as a police officer when he shot Sen. John Hoffman and his wife in their Champlin home early Saturday, leaving them seriously injured before moving on to former Democratic House Speaker Melissa Hortman’s house — where he is believed to have slaughtered her and her husband, sources told The Post.
Boelter, 57, was appointed by Walz in 2019 to serve a four year stint on the Governor’s Workforce Development Board, documents show.
He previously served on the Governor’s Workforce Development Council in 2016 under then -Gov. Mark Dayton.
The killer had fliers with the words “No Kings” in his car, a reference to Saturday’s planned protests against the Trump Administration, as well as a “manifesto” and a list of other politicians’ names, said police, who briefly cornered the shooter at Hortman’s home before the suspect fled.

Meanwhile, the manhunt for Boelter continues.

UPDATE V: It looks like maybe I jumped the gun a bit here, despite my desire to be cautious about such things. The shooter’s “manifesto” allegedly also listed abortion providers as targets, and some are suggesting that Boelter may be a right-wing extremist, so that the “No Kings” flyers were part of a “false flag” deception. At this point, however, we can’t be certain of his motive. It’s entirely possible he just slipped a cog and went nuts and, as you know, Crazy People Are Dangerous.



 

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In The Mailbox: 06.13.25 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | June 14, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.13.25 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

You know what today is.
Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
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Everything is a JoJo reference if you want it bad enough.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Lafayette: France’s forgotten hero, America’s beloved patriot, Israel Strikes Iran’s Nuclear Program, Friday the 13th, and The Mullahs Strike Back
Twitchy: Woman Causes Nuclear Meltdown With Child’s Name But Posters Have Even BetterWorse Ones, No Jessica, Mothers Helping Daughters Get Abortions Isn’t A Crime, But Guess What Is? and Gov. Hairgel Steps On Self-Awareness Rake Over “Weakness” Slam On Trump/Army Parade
Louder With Crowder: Sheriff will “notify your family where to collect your remains” if leftist protesters try their LA nonsense in Florida, Karoline Leavitt leaves journalismer in shock with her response to No Kings Day protests, Democrat Senator aggressively confronts Kristi Noem, gets dropped and put down by her security, Democrat official demands local police OBSTRUCT ICE operations, and Failed vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz REFUSES to let go of comparing ICE to the Gestapo
Vox Popoli: Israel’s Satanic Elite Revealed, Why Iran Won’t Strike Back, Owning the Alphas, and Introducing AI Central
According To Hoyt: By Firelight, Long Ago, It Must Be, Everything’s Gonna Tumble, and It’s Just A Step To The Left
Upstream Reviews: The Words of the Night
Stoic Observations: The Iranian Nuclear Annex, Things I’m Actually Doing With AI
Gab: Whose Flag Actually Flies Over America?

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Washington as Seen From Georgetown Salons
American Greatness: U.S. Senator from California Forcibly Removed from DHS Immigration Press Conference, Anti-Trump Communist Group ‘Refuse Fascism’ to Stage Protest in D.C. Saturday Ahead of Grand Military Parade, Rep. Jim Jordan Launches Investigation Into Illegal Immigrant Suspected in Boulder Terror Attack, We Need a ‘Kill Switch’ on Foreign Powers Tampering With Our Electric Grid, and Israel Wipes Out Iran’s Top Military Chain of Command
American Thinker: Trump Won in that Trade Pact with China — In More Ways Than One, also, Ashli Babbitt Didn’t Have to Die—For Multiple Reasons
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Don’t Mess With the Bull Friday
Baldilocks:
BattleSwarm: LA Riot News Roundup, Abbott Calls Out National Guard Before Leftists Can Loot, Israel Hits Iran’s Nuclear Sites, and LinkSwarm for June 13
Behind The Black: The mad mountains of Mars, SpaceX launches 23 more Starlink satellites, French startup The Exploration Company launches its own recovery ship, and Kazakhstan moves west
Cafe Hayek: Full Text of Gramm’s and Boudreaux’s “Yes, the U.S. GDP Decline Is an Ominous Sign”, also, The Profit Motive Will Ensure Adequate Supplies of Rare Earths
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: The Smile on the Face of the Tiger, also, “What’s Next?”
Da Tech Guy: Dear Iran: We Believe You Signed: Israel
Don Surber: Sucks to be Iran this morning
First Street Journal: Today’s left truly hate #FreedomOfSpeech…for people other than themselves, World War III Watch: Israel tries to destroy Iran’s nuclear capabilities, and Will the “No Kings” protests be peaceful?
Gates Of Vienna: Trump Administration Not Vetting Appointments Properly — Jihadis Slipping Through, also, Pas d’Islam Pour Moi!
The Geller Report: NEWSOM OVERTURNED: Appeals Court Rules in Trump’s Favor , Breathtaking Ingenuity – Israel’s Surgical Precision, One For the Ages, President Trump ENDS Insane EV mandate , Trump Unapologetic as He Works to Restore Law and Order and The Large Majority of American Public is With Him, and FBI Is Investigating Funding Behind Violent Riots in LA
Hollywood In Toto: DHS Hammers Kim Kardashian Over Anti-ICE Screed, Is George Clooney a Deep State Asset? Katy Perry’s Woke Land Acknowledgement, Explained, Materialists Gets to Ugly Heart of Romance, and Late-Night Hacks on L.A. Riots – Riots? What Riots?
The Lid: Dr. Phil Blasts Leftists and Media Lapdogs for Lying about Why L.A. Riots Started
Legal Insurrection: “I think it’s been excellent” – Trump Reacts To Israel Attack On Iran’s Nuclear Program, Dem Senator Compares Padilla Takedown to John Lewis Fighting for Civil Rights in the 60s, NY Times Lovingly Defends Rioters Flying Mexican Flags, Netanyahu calls on Iranian People to stand “up for your freedom from an evil and oppressive regime, it has never been weaker”, and Florida Sheriff Offers Grave Warning to Would-be Rioters: ‘We Will Kill You’
Outkick: What Happens When College Athletes Don’t Disclose NIL Deals In House Settlement Era? Angel Reese Turns In Another Terrible Game As Brittney Griner, Dream, Dominate Chicago Sky, Do The Florida Panthers Have A Miami Dolphins Problem? Thunder Will Bounce Back At Pacers In Game 4 Of 2025 NBA Finals Like They Always Do, Right?, and MAGA Bikini Congresswoman Humiliates Tim Walz, CBS’s Jenny Dell Goes Cowgirl & Maggie Sajak Takes A Bath
Power Line: Tim Walz, Chinese Agent? No Daylight, Rising Lion, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: Concerned About FEMA Disappearing, FL Senate Spends Millions On State Guard 
Shot In The Dark: Just Like Every Flag Day, also, Picture If You Will
STUMP: Men’s Health Week 2025 – RIP Brian Wilson
The Political Hat: Quick Takes – Mandatory & Prohibited In Academia: Equity Lens For Football; Illegal Race-Based Admissions; Cultural Items Forbidden From View
This Ain’t Hell: Renamed military bases will have their former Confederate names restored, Soldier criticizing Marine deployment goes viral – The fact that she has been out for five years is left out, Ships to be renamed, too, Valor Friday, and The Department of Homeland Security receives Medicaid data that could help them locate illegal aliens
Transterrestrial Musings: Brian Wilson, Los Angeles, Of Monasteries And Universities, and The Real War Has Finally Begun
Victory Girls: Gavin Newsom’s Primetime Speech Was A Political Failure, also, Democrats Rediscover The American Flag
Watts Up With That: The Great Climate Murder, Making the Power Grid Great Again, CNN’s Climate Photo Op Exposed, and Oh where, oh where is the Energy Transition?
The Federalist: How The L.A. Riots Demonstrate Democrat-Media Complex’s Loss Of Narrative Control, Dems Find Second Judge To Block More Of Trump’s Order Enforcing Election Law, It’s Friday The 13th. Here Are 13 Signs That You May Be Unlucky, Or Just A Schmuck, Here’s How The Media Are Lying Right Now: Alex Padilla Just ‘Asking A Question’ Edition, and Report Says L.A. Riots Force ‘Rescheduling’ Of 600 Veteran Health Care Appointments
Mark Steyn: Demography All the Way Down, Live Around the Planet – Decline & Fall, Surrendering to the Left’s Framing, Carney Games, and Mannsplaining

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One Standard Deviation: How Israel Targeted Iran’s Top Air Force Leaders

Posted on | June 13, 2025 | 2 Comments

Say hello to Brig. Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh and, while you’re at it, go ahead and say good-bye because, as Clemenza said of Paulie, you won’t see him no more:

The commander of the IRGC [Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps] air force, Brig. Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Iran overnight, the IDF announces.
According to the military, the top brass of the IRGC Aerospace Force was killed alongside him as they met in an underground command center to prepare to attack Israel.
The command center was struck by fighter jets, the IDF says. . . .
Among the senior officials killed were the commanders of the IRGC’s drone unit and air defense unit, the military says. . . .
“Hajizadeh publicly pledged allegiance to the idea of destroying Israel on multiple occasions in recent years and played a central role in formulating the plan to destroy Israel,” the army adds.

Did you know Jews are smart? I mean, on average, despite such utter dummies as Joy Behar. “Jews — specifically, Ashkenazi Jews of European origins — test higher than any other ethnic group. . . . [T]heir mean IQ was .97 standard deviation above the rest of the [U.S.] population” (The Bell Curve, p. 275). A “standard deviation” is about 15 IQ points, the difference between “bright normal” and genius.

Israel is a nation born in war, and which has been under attack regularly since its modern founding in 1948. Since the 1980s, Israel has had an influx of Ashkenazi migrants from the former Soviet Union, including many ultra-Orthodox Jews with large families. Thus you have a nation of approximately 7 million Jews, the entire population of whom are, on average, one standard deviation smarter than their Arab neighbors, and devoted to military activity as their only hope of survival.

The Israelis fight smart, you see:

As it became clear Israel was about to attack, the commanders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ air force convened in a bunker to coordinate the response.
But Israel knew that emergency protocol, and the location of the bunker. They destroyed it, killing the overall commander and the heads of the drone and air defense forces. “The fact that there was nobody to give the order neutralized an immediate Iranian response,” an Israeli official said.
They were among the more than two dozen Iranian commanders targeted in a sprawling attack on Iran’s military command-and-control. The heads of the IRGC, the Iranian military and Iran’s emergency military headquarters were all eliminated in the opening salvo.
Another key target was Iran’s air defense systems and radars. Israeli intelligence mapped their locations, and most were hit by the Israeli Air Force in the opening strike. That gave the IDF virtually unchallenged freedom of operation in Iran’s skies.
Meanwhile on the ground, Israel’s Mossad spy agency was conducting a series of covert sabotage operations deep inside Iran to take out air defenses and ballistic missile launchers. . . .
n central Iran, Mossad commando units had positioned guided weapons systems in open areas near Iranian surface-to-air missile launchers.
In another area inside Iran, Mossad covertly deployed weapon systems and sophisticated technologies hidden in vehicles. When the Israeli attack began, these weapons were launched and destroyed Iranian air defense targets.

You see why I started out with a Godfather allusion. Like Michael Corleone eliminating the heads of rival Mafia gangs, Israel is settling all the family business in Iran. And they’re just so much smarter than the Iranians, it almost seems unfair. Can you imagine the kind of long-term surveillance and planning that went into this operation? Like, figuring out where the Iranian air force leaders would meet in an emergency, mapping out the location of that bunker, giving them some kind of signal of an impending attack, then watching them scurry to their bunker and — WHAM! — you took out the leadership at the outset of the campaign, so “that there was nobody to give the order” for the Iranian counter-attack. Meanwhile, you’ve got Mossad spies sneaking around all over Iran, ready to play their part in wrecking the enemy’s air defenses, so that the Israeli Air Force can fly in without danger of getting shot down.

One standard deviation — it’s a lethal advantage.

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In The Mailbox: 06.13.25 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | June 13, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.13.25 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Bumped due to last night’s decapitation strike, or rather, Stacy’s post on same.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Car-ma in Ohio
EBL: Brian Wilson RIP, Stockholm Bloodbath, MAGA Karoline Leavitt and the Los Angeles riots, Democrats Dump Hogg, and So How Is The Harvey Weinstein Trial Going?
Twitchy: Judge Rules Trump Can’t Use National Guard In LA, Eric Swalwell Promises Death of Democracy If Americans Skip “No Kings” Riots, and “That’s Not What We All Just Watched”
Louder With Crowder: Democrats just fired David Hogg over a silly “diversity” quota, and you almost feel bad for him, “No amount of words is going to clean up your failed record”, Democrats think this woman’s sob story about food stamps will make you feel bad, Drag queens show up to “defy” Donald Trump at Kennedy Center performance, and Fifty-nine Percent Of Americans Approve Of Deployment of National Guard in LA
Vox Popoli: A Clue to the Next Phase, Dialectic > Rhetoric, NATO is Dead, Israel Attacks Iran, and Is Israel Rolling the Dice Again?
Cedar Sanderson: This Week In Reading
Stoic Observations: Theory Behind XR – viz. Groupthink, also, Minimal Group Paradigm
Toni Airaksinen: Where Are All The Pro-Israel Professors?

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Ukraine’s ‘Spider’s Web’ Could Ensnare Kiev and the West
American Greatness: NJ Rep. LaMonica McIver Hit With Federal Charges, Faces 17 Years in Prison, Rep. Stefanik Blasts ‘Heartless’ Gov. Hochul For Not Knowing Names of ‘Illegals Who Burned Alive, Raped, Molested New Yorkers’, Trump Warns ‘Any’ Protesters at Military Parade Will Be ‘Met With Heavy Force’, House Oversight Committee Launches Investigation into Neville Singham, and Senator Chris Murphy Is Doing What?
American Thinker: Learn From The Romans – You Cannot Welcome Armed, Unassimilated Enemies, No One’s Illegal on Stolen Land—And Other Nonsense Shouted Between Acts of Arson, Our Fiery but Mostly Peaceful Foreign Invasion, and White Lives Don’t Matter
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News, also, Animal’s Red Thursday News
Behind The Black: SpaceX launches 26 more Starlink satellites, Voyager Technologies raises nearly $400 million in first public stock offering, Europe’s Solar Orbiter takes first images of the Sun’s south pole, Axiom manned mission delayed further because of new Zvezda leaks on ISS, and Why Kennedy’s decision to fire everyone at the CDC advisory panel was only a start
CDR Salamander: Send Our Best & Brightest To Grad School?
Dana Loesch: Israel Strikes Iran
Don Surber: NYT complains Florida’s taxes are too low
Gates Of Vienna: The New, Improved Greta Thunberg, All Hell is Breaking Loose, and The Balloon Goes Up
Matt Taibbi: In Defense of Terry Moran
Shark Tank: Uthmeier Announces Initiative To Protect ICE Agents From Doxxing
Shot In The Dark: The Numbers

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‘An Earth-Shattering Kaboom’: Israel Wipes Out Top Iranian Military Leaders UPDATE: ‘Decapitation Strike’ — List

Posted on | June 13, 2025 | 5 Comments

Wednesday I spoke to a colleague who said to me in a very matter-of-fact way that Iran was going to get hit soon. He isn’t some kind of security-clearance type, but he does have a few “sources close to the Trump administration,” as an Objective Journalist would say, and I don’t know how he knew it, but he was certainly correct. It has been pointed out that, on April 12, Trump said Iran had 60 days to reach an agreement on ending its nuclear weapons program, and today? Yeah — Day 61.

Anyway, this is YUGE:

Iran’s state-run Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) confirmed in the early hours of Friday morning local time that Israeli airstrikes on targets in the country eliminated Major General Hossein Salami, the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
Other arms of Iran’s state news apparatus confirmed several other high-profile regime members, including two nuclear scientists, were killed in the strikes. While unverified reports suggested that Salami may be far from the only high-ranking Iranian regime official to have been targeted successfully in the operation, he is the only one whose death the Iranian government has confirmed at press time.
Salami has sustained a place as one of the most prominent and belligerent senior leaders in the Iranian Islamist regime, regularly threatening attacks on America and Israel. In what was perhaps his final public appearance on Thursday, Salami declared that his forces were “war-tested and experienced,” prepared for war against its enemies.
The IRGC is both a U.S.-designated terrorist organization and a formal wing of the Iranian Armed Forces. Among its chief operations is to sustain relations between the Iranian terror state and its jihadist proxies, such as the Houthis in Yemen and Lebanese Hezbollah, and with fellow rogue states such as Venezuela and Cuba.
IRNA confirmed Salami’s death in a brief message that offered no details on the occurrence. It confirmed that Salami died in Tehran and claimed him a victim of “assassination.” In a separate report, the state news outlet confirmed a barrage of airstrikes over the capital city by the Israeli Air Force.
Another Iranian state media outlet, PressTV, reported early Friday that the strikes had “martyred … several other senior IRGC commanders and nuclear scientists.
“Veteran nuclear scientists Mohammad-Mehdi Tehranchi and Fereydoon Abbasi have also been martyred in the attack,” PressTV reported . . .

The list of targets eliminated already is very long — nuclear sites and missile sites among them — and Israel’s attacks are continuing.

UPDATE: Known kills so far:

  • IRGC Chief-of-Staff Hossein Salami
  • IRGC General Gholamali Rashid
  • Chief of Staff Mohammad Bagheri
  • Ali Shamkhani, Senior Advisor to Khamenei

And these nuclear scientists:

  • Dr. Fereydoun Abbasi
  • Dr. Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi
  • Dr. Abdolhamid Minouchehr
  • Dr. Ahmad Reza Zolfajari

Various sites associated with Iran’s nuclear and missile programs were also hit and, as I say, the Israeli strikes are continuing — it’s almost 10 a.m. in Iran now — so we can expect this list to grow.

UPDATE II: Associated Press (1:44 a.m. ET):

Israel attacked Iran’s capital early Friday in strikes that targeted the country’s nuclear program and killed at least two top military officers, raising the potential for an all-out war between the two bitter Middle East adversaries. It appeared to be the most significant attack Iran has faced since its 1980s war with Iraq.
The strikes came amid simmering tensions over Iran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program and appeared certain to trigger a reprisal, with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warning that “severe punishment” would be directed at Israel. Israel said Iran had launched drones in an initial response.
Multiple sites around the country were hit, including Iran’s main nuclear enrichment facility, where black smoke could be seen rising into the air.
The leader of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, Gen. Hossein Salami, was confirmed dead, Iranian state television reported, a development that is a significant blow to Tehran’s governing theocracy and an immediate escalation of its long-simmering conflict with Israel.
The chief of staff of Iranian armed forces, Gen. Mohammad Bagheri, was also confirmed dead by Iranian state television. Other top military officials and scientists were believed to have been killed. . . .
Some 200 Israeli aircraft took part in the opertion, hitting about 100 targets, Israeli army chief spokesman Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin said, adding that the attacks were ongoing.
In the aftermath, Defrin said Iran had launched more than 100 drones toward Israel and that “all the defense systems are acting to intercept the threats.”



 

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In The Mailbox: 06.12.25 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | June 12, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.12.25 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Reminder that pre-registration for Son of Silvercon closes Saturday, so if you want your military/N3F/veteran discount, get to the website and either hit the PayPal button or send us a check.
I guess Sabrina Carpenter has a new album out and it’s reminding a lot of people of a Spinal Tap album. I thought it owed more to the Scorpions, myself.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: “Long Live the V8”, also Good Guy With a Gun Stops a Bad Guy with a Knife
EBL: Stick
Twitchy: Mollie Hemingway Wrecks Jake Tapper For Refusing To Testify About Biden Senility Claims, TikToker Exposes “No Kings Day” For Paying Influencers $200/Day To Support Riots, and Rep. Elise Stefanik Makes NY Gov. Hochul Face Tragic Effects Of Sanctuary Policies
Louder With Crowder: Mexican official calls for Mexico to take to TAKE BACK all the land America has conquered, Gavin Newsom fake cries through a “national address” blaming Trump for the riots, Criminal Alien Charged with Attempted Murder After Allegedly Throwing Molotov Cocktail at Police During LA Riots, Typical white liberal protesters mock a black woman as they block her from going to work, and “La manifestante muy grande” calls on LA rioters to bring leaf blowers, tells Trump to suck her left… wait, what?
Vox Popoli: The Next Domino Falls, The Expansion of Human History, Vampires Hardest Hit, AI is Killing College, and Marching Orders
Cedar Sanderson: For The Fathers
Jim McCoy: Message For The Devil
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Popular Misconceptions

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: The Israeli Navy Strikes Yemen From The Sea
Don Surber: X Is Winning On The LA Story
Matt Taibbi: Activism, Uncensored – The LA Riots
Shark Tank: Poll Shows Byron Daniels With Comfortable Lead Over David Jolly In FL Governor Race
Shot In The Dark: Like Dunkirk Only With Robots
STUMP: Public Pensions April Update – Assets Edition

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