Posts on Friday, July 10, 2026

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s funeral has been going on for nearly a week, but today is the final day. The final stage of the funeral procession for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the former supreme leader of Iran, set off through the holy city of Mashhad on Thursday afternoon, after days of public ceremonies that drew hundreds of thousands of mourners in Iran and Iraq. The procession in Ayatollah Khamenei’s hometown began hours later than scheduled and unfolded against the backdrop of renewed strikes between the United States and Iran. Iranian officials said that U.S. forces had struck railway bridges in the country’s northeast, disrupting passenger services on the route

If you were Zohran Mamdani's new Commissioner in the Office of International Affairs, charged with reaching out to government officials from countries that ideologically align with the mayor, who would you reach out to? The answer is obvious: Iran’s ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations. It's a natural fit, right? So that is what Commissioner Ana María Archila decided to do: she scheduled a meeting with Amir-Saeid Iravani, Iran’s permanent representative to the United Nations, to discuss how the City of New York and the regime in Tehran could work together for mutual benefit. Perhaps they could share a "Death to the United States"

Nobody in the 1850s ever wrote a novel about a man who changes society by figuring out how to mass-produce horseless carriages. Similarly, nobody a century later wrote the story of the man who turns the world upside down by building miniature electronic brains in his garage. So how did a popular American writer of the 1940s come up with a novel that accurately portrayed the activities and historical role of Elon Musk as a pioneer in the exploitation of space? That man was Robert A. Heinlein, and his book, published in 1950, was titled The Man Who Sold the Moon.

A twisted Queens firebug was busted for allegedly hurling Molotov cocktails at two Queens churches late Wednesday – part of what prosecutors believe was a disturbing seven-incident spree. Yogesh Sayrange, 36, – who ranted like a madman in federal court on Thursday – admitted to tossing fiery projectiles at the Iglesia Bautista El Mesias church in Ozone Park, and the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses on in Woodhaven, along with other locations, according to cops and the feds. “Yea, I * firebombed them,” Sayrange allegedly told investigators about a separate bombing of a deli, adding with out explaination: “They’re Muslims, scum and terrorists.”