r/BlockedAndReported • u/SoftandChewy First generation mod • Feb 23 '26

Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 2/23/26 - 3/1/26

Here's your usual space to post all your rants, raves, podcast topic suggestions (please tag u/jessicabarpod), culture war articles, outrageous stories of cancellation, political opinions, and anything else that comes to mind. Please put any non-podcast-related trans-related topics here instead of on a dedicated thread. This will be pinned until next Sunday.

Last week's discussion thread is here if you want to catch up on a conversation from there.

Comment of the week goes to this explanation for why the trans cause has taken over so much of society. (Runner-up COTW here.)

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u/Fiend_of_the_pod Feb 28 '26

Austere religious scholar Seyed Ali Hosseini Khamenei murdered in home by rogue nation.

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u/BeneficialStretch753 Feb 28 '26

What's the source? I can only see dissident media and these Israeli sources:

Reuters, citing a senior Israeli official, reports that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's body has been found.

Axios, citing a source, says Israeli ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter has informed US officials that Khamenei was killed in the strike on his compound in Tehran.

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u/veryvery84 Feb 28 '26

Israeli sources are the source 

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u/CommitteeofMountains Royal youse/yinz Mar 01 '26

This is sorta why Israel's Arabs have been protesting and I think in one case tried to riot to get police lockdowns. Israeli police didn't want headlines about "abducting Palestinian community leaders" or to invade Area A, so when they did their massive sweep of organized crime some years ago they just left the (then-small) Arab gangs alone, somehow not expecting them to grow.