Welcome to Colonial Outcasts. Here we are returning after a brief week-long hiatus after I got COVID and everyone was burned out from the Washington, D.C. protest.

You know, we're going to do an episode on that, political violence and the upcoming Democratic National Convention on August 19th,

which the cops in Chicago have been reversing Roman Legion-style shield wall tactics for,

because we are showing up in force for that.

So we covered the Wednesday, July 24th, Netanyahu congressional speech,

and we're going to cover the DNC with Kamala,

Mamala, cop, Mamala Harris when, you know, she gets anointed as the queen of the Democratic Party.

So, it's myself today, Mark Wayne and Alina Zanophantos, talking about the insane news cycle

over the past few days.

We are recording and releasing this episode at 12 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on Wednesday, July 31st.

This is a developing story, and there is a lot of information that nobody has.

All I can say is that our analysis and reporting will be better than NPRs.

Let's go.

We're talking about targeted assassinations, escalations, and what really happened with Ismail

Hania.

So we're also on Patreon.

I'll be doing a live Q&A on there right after this, a little after 12 p.m. E.S.T.

Anyways, that's the plug for that. So why are we here,

Y'all? Ismail Hinea, the political chief of Hamas, was assassinated in Tehran,

Hamas, and Iran's foreign ministry announced Wednesday morning. This marks a significant

escalation in the Middle East conflict, potentially,

though I'm personally not convinced, even though Iran has vowed a, quote, harsh and painful

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