Breaking news: A federal judge took the final step in allowing the Trump administration to terminate temporary protected status for 350,000 Haitians, meaning many are likely to lose their jobs and be at risk of deportation.

TPS for Haitians officially ends, putting thousands out of work and in limbo

A federal judge allowed the Trump administration to terminate temporary protected status for 350,000 Haitians, meaning they are likely to lose their jobs and be at risk of deportation.

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“Probably since the creation of the CIFs there have been the haters that have been trying to shut them down,” said former acting defense secretary and retired Special Forces officer Chris Miller. thehighside.substack.com/p/revenge-of...

Revenge on the CIF - How “The Haters” Cut Special Forces’ Last Link To JSOC

The past, and maybe future, of the Special Forces' in-extremis response team

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Another reason to divest 🙄

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 5h ago

$SPCX - SPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS

strange we built an entire military establishment on half year rotations and significant dwell time and now that we aren't doing that things are falling apart

Patrick Chovanec@prchovanec.bsky.social · 2h ago

Keeping people constantly deployed has a mounting cost. www.ms.now/news/conditi...

The continued inability of US senior leaders to understand that constantly overextending military units for wars & ops of choice is destroying readiness for future contingencies (of potential necessity) remains baffling to me This is the exact opposite of deterrence 😑 www.ms.now/news/conditi...

Moldy showers and no soap: Military families are outraged by conditions on USS Lincoln

The aircraft carrier's long deployment in the Iran war is raising concerns that the sailors and Marines on board are facing poor conditions, low supplies and fatigue.

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Who knew ridiculously long deployments and demanding op tempos run a ship and crew into the ground!

Patrick Chovanec@prchovanec.bsky.social · 2h ago

Keeping people constantly deployed has a mounting cost. www.ms.now/news/conditi...

“They tend to read our sense of urgency as a form of leverage,” Mr. Ross said. “We always seem in a hurry to get things done. They operate under the premise that time serves their interests more than ours.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/u...

An Angry Trump Struggles to Understand Iran’s Defiant Leaders

Iran’s leaders have perplexed several American presidents, perhaps none more than President Trump.

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Another Fed official--this time KC Fed's Schmid--is ready to hike rates and he says so clearly: "⁠I believe that bringing inflation down to the Fed’s 2 percent objective will require tighter policy.”

Fed's Schmid calls for tighter monetary policy to tamp down on 'too high' inflation

Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City President ​Jeff Schmid said on Tuesday that some sort of monetary policy tightening is needed to ‌get “too high” inflation back to the 2% target.

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Something that occurred to me this morning: with all the strikes we’ve done on Iran, we couldn’t have also found and struck Saif al-Adel?

Man Says I Mean Meme

ALT: Man Says I Mean Meme

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Four years after being extradited to the U.S. on drug trafficking charges, former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández is home again after a pardon from Donald Trump—and is already rebuilding his old political machine, WPR columnist James Bosworth (@bloggingsbyboz.bsky.social) writes.

Hernández’s Return to Honduras Tees Up a Presidential Power Struggle

Honduras’ controversial former leader is expected to get involved in politics again, putting President Nasry Asfura in a tough spot.

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Special Operations Association of America Celebrates 5-Year Anniversary soaa.org/soaa-5-year-...

Why SOAA Exists: Looking Back Five Years - SOAA

Our founder, Green Beret Daniel Elkins, started the Special Operations Association of America (SOAA) in 2021 to ensure that the voices of special operations forces (SOF) personnel, whose work is so of...

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Intelligence Support to Over-the-Horizon Targeting in Contested Environments

Over-the-horizon intelligence support is increasingly vital in large-scale support operations, but sensor-to-shooter gaps still need fixing.

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The idea that a war only exists if there are casualties does not appear in the text of the Constitution. Nor does it appear in Madison’s notes on the Constitutional convention debates. Nor is there evidence it was discussed in ratification debates. It is made up.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Sen. Rand Paul: "I've had the debate with this administration ... they told me this isn't a war. I said, why isn't it a war? They said, 'Well, a constitutional war has to have significant casualties' ... initiation or declaration of war is *before* the casualties."

>makes threat >doesn’t follow through >signals weakness >makes threat >doesn’t follow through >signals weakness >makes threat >doesn’t follow through >signals weakness

If enacted, would overturn 250 years of American commitment to freedom of navigation.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Trump on Strait of Hormuz tolls: "If anybody is gonna charge, we'll charge. We have total control." (Trump moments ago said he's negotiating with Iran to reopen the strait ... )

If this very short story is new to you, read it. Just read it.

Aaron Meyers@aaronmeyers.bsky.social · yesterday

"Today is August 4, 2026" There Will Come Soft Rains By: Ray Bradbury

Technological Advancements Allow Data Centers To Run On Even More Electricity https://theonion.com/technological-advancements-allow-data-centers-to-run-on-even-more-electricity/

The US military’s strikes on alleged drug boats have likely illegally killed “individuals who are not involved in narcotrafficking,” Sen. Tim Kaine told the White House, following “a careful review” of classified information he has seen so far.

‘They are murder victims’: Senator suggests US strikes have killed people who weren’t involved in drug trafficking | CNN Politics

The US military’s strikes on alleged drug boats have likely illegally killed “individuals who are not involved in narcotrafficking,” Sen. Tim Kaine told the White House on Monday, following “a careful...

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Iran has now gobbled up nearly all U.S. ATACMS and PrSM ballistic missiles, plus half of Tomahawk cruise missiles and a very considerable share of the THAAD and Patriot interceptors, sources tell @reuters.com’s Erin Banco, Jonathan Landay, and Michael Stone. www.reuters.com/world/us-has...

EXCLUSIVE: US has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war, sources say

The U.S. Army has used up much of its stockpile of highly accurate long-range missiles during its five-month war with Iran, according to three people familiar with the data, raising concerns about the...

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What the Crackup of the Heritage Foundation Says About the Post-Trump Right www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/m...

What the Crackup of the Heritage Foundation Says About the Post-Trump Right

The bastion of American conservatism best known for Project 2025 has been consumed by an ideological — and generational — civil war.

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Yes. They're apparently not seeking blue sky ideas to "win the war." Instead it's to "pressure and punish Iran."

Dr. Jonathan Schroden@jjschroden.bsky.social · 2d ago

The fact that the stated goal of the solicited ideas is to "pressure and punish Iran" further goes to show what I've been saying all along: this admin sees the path to victory purely in attritional and punitive terms. 1/2

The fact that the stated goal of the solicited ideas is to "pressure and punish Iran" further goes to show what I've been saying all along: this admin sees the path to victory purely in attritional and punitive terms. 1/2

Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 2d ago

A senior officer in US Central Command’s (CENTCOM) intelligence branch emailed a broad group of military analysts seeking “new creative and unconventional ways to pressure and punish Iran.” A second source indicated a similar request went out the prior week.

🚨BREAKING: Iran’s state-run IRNA has published a photo claiming to show a tanker engulfed in flames near Khasab, Oman. The reported location closely matches an earlier UKMTO advisory after a tanker reported hearing an explosion nearby.

Have you tried turning the war off and then back on? Oh, you have? Well then I got nothin’

Ian TB@iantb.bsky.social · 2d ago

Well, crowdsourcing a war plan is certainly a first: www.cnn.com/2026/08/03/p...

I assume they’ve already exhausted the options generated by GenAI.mil, which means they’re scraping the barrel for ideas at this point 😑

Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 2d ago

A senior officer in US Central Command’s (CENTCOM) intelligence branch emailed a broad group of military analysts seeking “new creative and unconventional ways to pressure and punish Iran.” A second source indicated a similar request went out the prior week.

It seems relevant that the thing Isaiah is being sent to do in that passage is to deliver a prophecy of doom to his own people for having fallen away from the path of righteousness. So if these guys were like, Isaiah, that would be robustly bad news for...the United States.

Matt Thiessen@mattthiessen.bsky.social · 3d ago

American Christianity in one social media post.

Still can’t over the fact that the president of the United States just told an entire state to pound sand after getting cyberattacked by a foreign adversary because they didn’t vote for him and it was treated like a Tuesday lol

The New York Times reports the U.S. dropped a 2,000-pound bomb on a family home in Iran, killing a husband, wife, and their 2-year-old son. The paper found no indication of a nearby military target.

Evidence Indicates U.S. Dropped Bomb on Residential Area in Iran, Killing 3 Civilians (Gift Article)

The weapon, one of the largest in the U.S.’s arsenal, struck a house in a heavily populated area, according to a Times analysis.

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ANTHROPIC: Our son loves humanity and for the low price of trillions and trillions of dollars will usher in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity! OPENAI: Our horrible oafish son is hacking web sites without our permission. ANTHROPIC: (eyes narrowing) Our son is also evil

That Scouting is allowing its policies to be dictated by the Pentagon should be an embarrassment to its leaders apnews.com/article/scou...

Scouting America drops diversity initiatives from event after pressure from the Pentagon

One of Scouting America’s biggest gatherings has eliminated dedicated spaces for gay youth, women and scouts of color as the organization faces pressure from the Pentagon to pull back diversity effort...

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