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Law & Disorder:  WTF Is Happening at Elite Law Reviews?  Secret Scoring Rubrics, Racial Gatekeeping, and the Death of Blind Review at Elite Law Schools By Staff Correspondent | June 2025 👁️‍🗨️ This Blog uses WTF strictly in the context of: Weird, True & Freaky. Not as profanity. Unless the Ayatollahs start tweeting it. 1. Welcome to the Harvard Law Woke Review... Err... Harvard Law Review: The Law According to Beyoncé, Now With 70% Less Logic, 100% More Identity Politics! Harvard DEI Law Review: Where Footnotes Need Diversity Quotas and Citing ‘Too Many Old White Men’ Is Grounds for Rejection

 👁️‍🗨️ This Blog uses WTF strictly in the context of: Weird, True & Freaky. Not as profanity. Unless the Ayatollahs start tweeting it. By The Ministry of WTF Affairs Where the Weird, True & Freaky meet the Mullahs’ meltdown WTF? In a region where 4 a.m. airstrikes are more common than breakfast buffets and proxy groups pop up faster than cryptocurrency scams, the recent 12-day war between Israel and Iran wasn’t just unexpected—it was biblical. And not the boring “Numbers” part. This was full “Revelation meets Netflix docuseries.” Let’s be clear: This war didn’t end. It evaporated . One day Tehran’s regime was tweeting death to Israel. Twelve days later, the Ayatollah was hiding in a bunker with a Qassam-1 comfort blanket, while the IRGC was busy holding emergency firing squads for its own IT department. So… what the actual Farsi happened?  Buckle up, because this is WTF: Operation Regime Reduction in Twelve Episodes —the final season of Islamic Resistance, an...

WTF Blog Presents: The Shah Who Would Tweet: Can Reza Pahlavi Retweet a Revolution into Existence? Breaking: Iranian Revolution Scheduled for 2045, Depending on Wi-Fi Signal Strength in Los Angeles Los Angeles, Paris, Geneva — in the global capital cities of brunch and nostalgia, Reza Pahlavi , the man who was once the crown prince of Iran, remains what he has been for the last 46 years: the heir apparent to a revolution that hasn’t happened yet. At 65, with a velvet voice, a modern suit, and a flawless track record of exile, Pahlavi has become Iran’s most internationally recognized post-monarchy monarch-in-waiting — a democratic symbol, a liberal vision, and possibly the only "Shah" who prefers CNN interviews to coups. But let’s address the million-toman question: Can Reza Pahlavi actually lead regime change in Iran? Short answer: Only if Instagram Stories count as artillery. A Brief History of the Almost-Return of the King Let’s go back to 1979: Star Wars was two ...

Welcome to the Islamic Republic of Oops—where hereditary dictatorship was always a conspiracy theory... until it wasn’t. Move over North Korea, there’s a new dynastic theocracy in town. And his name is Sayyid Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei —the “Not-So-Secret Supreme Leader 2.0,” a man who allegedly prays five times a day, hates Israel twice that, and has a more dangerous habit than his father: ambition. Let’s just say if Ali Khamenei is the original Ayatollah, Mojtaba is the Apple Vision Pro: sleeker, darker, and with fewer ethical boundaries. Who is Mojtaba Khamenei? No, he's not a perfume. He’s the second son of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. And if Tehran whispers are to be believed, he’s the designated successor — unelected, unaccountable, and as ideological as a vintage Marxist-Leninist-Islamist crossover album. But unlike his father, who at least wore his religious credentials with bureaucratic flair, Mojtaba's style is more "invisible hand meets iron fist in...

Mossad.exe Detected: Iran Blames India, Elon Musk, and Possibly Also Microsoft Word How Indian Software Became Iran’s Digital Trojan Horse—WTF Style! 👁️‍🗨️ This Blog uses WTF strictly in the context of: Weird, True & Freaky . Not as profanity. Unless the Ayatollahs start tweeting it. Act I – Infiltrating the Holy of Holies (aka The “Popcorn Code” Scandal) When Modi Met Mossad: Iran’s Worst Cyber Nightmare Is Apparently a Startup from Pune! First they came for the office spreadsheets, then for the passport printers. The latest political thriller out of Tehran isn’t Bollywood-inspired—it’s straight from Kayhan , the Supreme Leader’s eloquently paranoid mouthpiece. The plot? India-made software, embedded across Iran’s civilian and military sectors, allegedly acting as a digital Trojan horse for Mossad—smuggling classified info through Elon Musk’s cozy Starlink network. Imagine plugging in your proud new airport passport scanner, only to find out it immediately starts uploading ...

Archaeology Meets Algorithm, and Everyone Becomes an Expert in Craniometrics By our special correspondent in WTFland: Where every skull has a backstory and every comment section a civil war  👁️‍🗨️  This Blog uses WTF strictly in the context of: Weird, True & Freaky. Not as profanity. Unless the Ayatollahs start tweeting it. WTF? Two ancient Tamil skulls got a makeover. And the internet lost its collective mind. That’s right. A 2,500-year-old civilization near Madurai — the Keeladi site — just got two digital faces thanks to Liverpool’s Face Lab and Madurai Kamaraj University’s archaeology nerds. The reconstructed men? South Indian features, with hints of West Eurasian and Austro-Asiatic ancestry. No sooner were the images released than comments exploded across every platform faster than an angry WhatsApp forward group discovering the word "Dravidian." Half the internet thinks these skulls are proof of Tamil supremacy. The other half thinks it’s all a North-vs-Sou...

👁️‍🗨️ WTF: Weird, True & Freaky — Not Profanity. Unless the Ayatollahs Start Tweeting It. Presented by WTF Intelligence: Where Faith Meets Firepower, and Drones Quote the Torah. How Israel's War With Iran Became a Bible Sequel, an Airstrike Ballet, and a Diplomatic WTF There are wars. Then there are WTF Wars . And then there's Israel vs. Iran 2025 — the geopolitical remix of Book of Numbers featuring F-35s, cyber ops, biblical foreshadowing, and a cast of 12 spies... except this time, they didn’t just scout the land — they flattened it . If you thought Moses splitting the Red Sea was nuts, wait till you see what Iron Dome did to the Ayatollah’s secret uranium enrichment bunker in Qom. This isn’t just warfare — this is spiritual theatre wrapped in AI targeting software. So, what’s going on here? Let’s start with the Torah. No, seriously. Don’t close the tab. This matters. A Short Guide to the Biblical Parallel That’s Not So Metaphorical Anymore The Book of Numb...