Iran and Oman have reportedly agreed that all ships transiting Hormuz have to go through an Iran-controlled corridor, and are finalizing tolls of 3, 5, or 7%. This would close off the path outside Iranian waters the US encouraged ships to use during the MOU, then started bombing again to keep open.

Proposed Hormuz deal would give Iran control of inbound traffic, sources say

A proposed deal between Iran and Oman would give Tehran control over ships entering the Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz, a senior Iranian source and two regional officials told Reuters, in one of th...

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Immigrant Held at Delaney Detention Center Has Died, Officials Say The mayor of Newark identified the dead man as Edwin Lopez-Cornejo. The federal New Jersey center has been the focus of intense scrutiny for its treatment of detainees. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/n...

Immigrant Held at Delaney Detention Center Has Died, Officials Say

The mayor of Newark identified the dead man as Edwin Lopez-Cornejo. The New Jersey center has been the focus of intense scrutiny for its treatment of detainees.

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Tillis said Blanche had to meet with Epstein survivors. The survivors said he was condescending, rude & constantly interrupted them. They said he was just checking a box. Tillis wants slush fund order modified & IRS settlement gone. Blanche creates a sham order. Tillis wants performative nonsense.

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Congrats again to the White House Correspondents Association!

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Trump says Jeanine Pirro "choked" and then snaps at a reporter who asks if her job is safe: "Don't ever talk again"

Somehow simultaneously outrageous Christian nationalism, quasi-crusader warmongering, and I assume blasphemy as well?

2016: Russia, if you can hear me... 2025: DOGE axes federal cyber security agency CISA 2026: POTUS starts war with Iran, which has active industrial cyber-attack capabilities Iran cyber-attacks US industrial targets POTUS tries to deflect by blaming D govs. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Walz blasts unfounded Trump claim on cyberattacks

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz on Friday responded sharply to unfounded allegations from President Donald Trump that Minnesota was behind recent cyberattacks on municipal water systems.

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I have yet to hear anyone on SBS News refer to Israel as 'US-backed' or a US ‘proxy’'. The US supplies arms and financial support to Israel, without which Israel could not wage war. Either call Israel a US proxy in West Asia, or drop ‘Iran-backed proxies’. open.substack.com/pub/weaverbe...

60 years ago today, BATMAN was released in theaters, and not only is one of the great underrated comedies of the '60s, but when it comes to delivering the message "some days you just can't get rid of a bomb," it's second to nun.

Doublethink: the state insists you believe the president is brilliant and commandingly in charge AND had no control of, nor responsibility for, the top public health official in his administration, who operated right under the president’s nose at the president’s discretion, victimizing him and you.

King President Orange Snowflake@ex-prezsnowflake.bsky.social · 6d ago

I just keep leaning into if Fauci made such poor decisions and is so evil, surely the greatest, most smartest President ever would have seen right through it or stopped it.

There are only three possible futures: a) everyone in the Trump admin goes to jail, rule of law partially restored; b) Dems retaliate in full, and maybe that's a deterrent; c) neither (a) nor (b), so lawless authoritarianism wins again, and when Republicans regain power they ramp it up even more.

Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · 7d ago

“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

The thing you can do to counter this is to play a Disney or Taylor Swift song very loudly so that when the “evangelist” posts the video they be hit with a takedown order

Hemant Mehta@friendlyatheist.com · last wk.

Evangelist Whitney Lynn says she preaches on planes because she loves “a captive audience.” She's not alone. It's becoming a trend. If spreading your message requires listeners who can't escape, maybe it's not as compelling as you think. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/christian-...

Trump in 2011: “Our president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate. He’s weak and he’s ineffective.”

The idea that black people and women should have the same rights and privileges as white men is still highly offensive to the right, and any telling of history that implies that slavery was not OK makes them furious. It's infuriating to me that in the 21st Century we are still doing this.

Philip Bump@pbump.com · last wk.

The Trump attacks on the Smithsonian are generally about Trump stoking culture wars and trying to be the sole authority in the U.S. — but it is also about race.

The fetishistic way these people talk about Black Democrats really reminds me of a lot of Zionist philosemetism, where your identity is praised and uplifted, but only as long as you play the geopolitical role assigned to you.

neuse river hag@neuseriverhag.bsky.social · last wk.

paying a nazi for the premium version of his site so i can ramble my weird racist conspiracy theories in a single post instead of a thread

Call me crazy, but maybe two men who fathered 19 children with 7 different women shouldn’t be lecturing us about family values.

Saw The Odyssey last night and realized there’s another reason the right’s rage furbys are foaming at their mouths over the film. It is deeply antiwar, making an argument that builds incident by incident. Nolan’s sin: making explicit the vicious destructiveness of “heroic” ambition and violence.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei: "We will not allow the United States to determine when there is peace and war. The Americans are stuck in a self-made quagmire after 5 months."

Elon Musk, owner of X, has called the editor of the Economist "a traitor to the West, plain and simple" after her recent interview with him. He now argues that "anyone who opposes remigration is a traitor" Musk has been socialising violence since Aug25: "fight or die, that's what it comes down to"

If you were "stunned" by Trump's hateful rambling performance, then you haven't been paying attention for the last decade. If you sat in "silence" while Trump attacked democracy and elections, then you have learned nothing. We need an independent, pro-democracy media. demdock.com/4w6emld

Trump Unveils Sweeping New Tariffs Expected to Cost Americans $100 Billion a Year www.commondreams.org/news/trump-s...

Trump Unveils Sweeping New Tariffs Expected to Cost Americans $100 Billion a Year | Common Dreams

"These new tariffs are more of the same: a nationwide sales tax that will make life even harder for families already struggling under the costs of Trump’s reckless war in Iran."

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Hegseth has removed 4 American service members from the official list of casualties in his illegal war in Iran, claiming the deaths during a ceasefire in April. They claim that the ceasefire made it 2 separate wars, so they don't need authorization from Congress to continue it. #ProudBlue

The four service members that were just killed in missile attacks by Iran, won't be counted as war-related deaths by our Fearless Leader and his lackey, Hogsbreath, because (get this), they were killed during a "cease fire"!! When did I move to North Korea? Who else is really pissed about this?

The US wasn’t dragged into attacking #Iran, the United States began attacking everyone like Venezuela, Caribbean fishing boats, threatening Canada, Mexico and Greenland, arming Israel, and I am forgetting the rest.

15 out of 19 terrorists who attacked us on 9/11 were from Saudi Arabia. But hey, let’s make it easy for them to develop nukes.

Greg Burke@gregoryburke.bsky.social · 2w ago

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Some day we’ll know how much Trump collaborated with Mohammed bin Salman in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

U.S. Signs Deal That Could Let Saudis Enrich Nuclear Fuel

The accord is intended to further bind the United States with the Saudi government as the war with Iran strains the relationship.

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Imagine working this hard to prevent Iran from going nuclear and building nuclear capacity in Saudi Arabia, famously the homeland of the architect behind the largest and to date only mass casualty intl terrorist attack on US soil, whose current leaders ordered the dismemberment of a US journalist.

Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started@gothamgirlblue.com · 2w ago

Did I miss the Senate vote on this, or did we just arrange a treaty on nuclear power without Senate review?

Just for giggles DJT is up 0.82% to $9.82. Check it out on Yahoo Finance finance.yahoo.com/quote/DJT?p=...

Taylor Farms, the lettuce supplier at the center of our explosive diarrhea outbreak, has spent millions to oppose food regulation and elect Donald Trump and other MAGA Republicans:

Taylor Farms Spent Big on MAGA and Anti-Regulatory Lobbying Before Diarrhea Outbreak

The company donated more than $3.6 million to conservative groups between 2020 and 2025, including $1 million to the MAGA Inc. super PAC.

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Tehran warns Bulgaria against allowing US to use its territory for military operations against Iran – report – The Sofia Globe https://www.europesays.com/iran/217258/ Tehran warns Bulgaria against allowing US to use its territory for military operations against Iran…

Tehran warns Bulgaria against allowing US to use its territory for military operations against Iran – report – The Sofia Globe - Iran

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