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Pentagon holds crisis meeting on weapons shortfall after angry Trump call, sources say The president asked Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth about a shortfall in munitions at a recent Camp David meeting, and sources say Hegseth pointed to Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg.
Isn’t the US Navy currently the reason Cubans and Iranians are going hungry? Or did I miss something.
Proposed Hormuz deal would give Iran control of inbound traffic, sources say www.reuters.com/world/middle...
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...
reuters.com
🤔 According to a Treasury spokesperson Fly Baghdad Airlines is being removed from the SDN List after going through OFAC’s comprehensive administrative reconsideration process and has demonstrated major changes to their operations such that their listing is no longer warranted.
Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 12h agoThe United States has removed counterterrorism sanctions from two aircraft and three airlines with links to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, according to details posted to the U.S. Treasury Department's website on Wednesday. ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actio...
Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis said on Wednesday they had launched a missile attack on a Saudi oil tanker off the coast of the kingdom's Red Sea port city of Yanbu and another missile attack on a Saudi oil tanker in the Gulf of Aden.
C.I.A. Sets Up Secret Cuba Task Force as Trump Pressures Havana The task force will allow the spy agency to quickly direct more financial, human and technical resources at the island, with the goal of creating fissures among the Cuban political elite. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/u...
C.I.A. Sets Up Secret Cuba Task Force as Trump Pressures Havana (Gift Article)
The task force will allow the spy agency to quickly direct more financial, human and technical resources at the island, with the goal of creating fissures among the Cuban political elite.
nytimes.com
X announced it is complying with a Turkish court order to domestically block the presidential candidacy account of imprisoned Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, citing national security, while simultaneously challenging the order in court.
After heavy activity over the past two weeks, the airbridge supporting US Central Command appears to have slowed to a sustainment-level baseline. CENTCOM is assessed to have what it needs, leaving the administration to decide next steps, according to Faytuks intel analysts.
Nearly three-quarters of Cuba’s hotels have been closed and the island’s tourism sector has been brought to almost total paralysis by U.S. sanctions and fuel shortages, according to the government. www.scmp.com/news/world/a...
Cuba says nearly three-quarters of hotels have shut as travel plunges
Havana details scale of industry collapse for the first time amid severe economic crisis and energy blockade.
scmp.com
Yeppers. I am no longer going to conferences in the U.S. And I am not alone.
Detentions of International Scholars at Airports Raise Alarm
A Johns Hopkins University researcher was detained at an airport by immigration officials and later released. Cases like hers make travel fraught for foreign scholars.
insidehighered.com
This couple came legally. They applied for asylum before their visas expired, wanting to do it all by the books. After six months, they applied for work permits to stay afloat, passing background checks. They worked legally and paid taxes while government delay dragged on. Then ICE came for them.
Laura Rodríguez Presa@lauranrodriguez.bsky.social · 6h agoThe couple’s arrest outside Midway Airport aligns with what immigration attorneys across the country have observed in recent months: an increase in ICE arrests at airports of people traveling domestically with expired visas but pending immigration cases. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/08/05/c...
ICE Built a $258 Million Surveillance Machine to Monitor Its Online Critics www.yahoo.com/news/politic...
ICE Built a $258 Million Surveillance Machine to Monitor Its Online Critics
ICE spent $258 million on social media surveillance tools to unmask anonymous critics, with agents visiting targets at homes and voting sites without filing charges.
yahoo.com
India's 'cockroach' protesters have wounds consistent with pellet-gun fire, say experts www.yahoo.com/news/world/a...
India's 'cockroach' protesters have wounds consistent with pellet-gun fire, say experts
Ballistic experts say the dozens of tiny round punctures are tell-tale signs of pellet gun injuries.
yahoo.com
Political prisoners are sent hundreds of millions of years back in time, in Robert Silverberg's excellent short novel Hawksbill Station (1968). New essay and podcast ep now up.
Prisoners of the past: Hawksbill Station (1968) by Robert Silverberg
A swift tale of political radicals trapped in the late Cambrian period
andyjohnson.xyz
"For Your Eyes Only": Israel’s Mole Inside the United Nations Hacked emails show Yahav Lichner, a UN official, repeatedly supplied Israeli diplomats with confidential UN reports and private briefings. He now directs UNICEF’s Washington office. www.dropsitenews.com/p/for-your-e...
"For Your Eyes Only": Israel’s Mole Inside the United Nations
Hacked emails show Yahav Lichner, a UN official, repeatedly supplied Israeli diplomats with confidential UN reports and private briefings. He now directs UNICEF’s Washington office.
dropsitenews.com
An obscure Texas firm secretly connected to Donald Trump Jr. said it received at least $100 million from Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries. At the same time, the Ambani family secured major policy wins from the Trump administration. (Published June)
An Indian Billionaire Was Targeted by Trump. Then He Poured Money Into a Startup Secretly Backed by Donald Trump Jr.
An obscure Texas firm secretly connected to the president’s son said it received at least $100 million from Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries. At the same time, the Ambani family secured major polic...
propublica.org
I think it's good and cool, actually, that Anders Folk is running to be the guy in charge of prosecuting ICE agents while taking money from the lawyer defending ICE agents.
New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Mamdani Is Shunning New York Business Leaders Who Are Used to Calling the Shots
The mayor fired corporate leaders from a city fund’s advisory board in the latest sign that he is changing the way such power brokers access City Hall.
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it pmo when i see an la->nyc-> london type person and theyre actually tapped in going to the cool clubs and underground stuff like fuck you
Unable to articulate the depth of my rage that he vandalized the moon. cbs12.com/news/local/a...
Abandoned SpaceX rocket slams into moon at 5,400 mph, carving new crater
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster that launched from Florida struck the surface of the moon early Wednesday, creating a new crater.
cbs12.com
🚨 #BREAKING (CHICAGO SUBURBS) ÏCE agents pulled a GUN, and a TASER, on unarmed U.S. citizens for recording them from a public sidewalk… while threatening, “you aren’t going to like the outcome.”
Trump administration revokes Brazilian ambassador’s visa in diplomatic dispute The action was retaliation for Brazil’s withholding formal approval for the Trump administration’s pick for U.S. ambassador to Brazil. www.nbcnews.com/world/brazil...
Trump administration revokes Brazilian ambassador’s visa in diplomatic dispute
The action was retaliation for Brazil’s withholding formal approval for the Trump administration’s pick for U.S. ambassador to Brazil.
nbcnews.com
Hours of raids on Qalandia. QNN: The occupation forces continue to storm Qalandia camp, north of occupied Jerusalem, amid a massive raid campaign. #Palestine
The US is negotiating with Uruguay to deport Cuban migrants to the South American country; “Uruguay entered the negotiations partly because it needs immigrant workers, and partly to win favor with the Trump administration. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/u... vi
As Trump Squeezes Cuba, He Plans to Send Cuban Deportees to Uruguay
The State Department under Secretary of State Marco Rubio has deported Cubans to Africa. Now it’s negotiating with a South American country.
nytimes.com
All the other logos behind Jennifer Hegseth at the military families initiative announcement are like, the Navy, the Marine Corps, the Air Force, the 101st Airborne, the Special Forces, MARSOC. And then there’s Delta Force’s semi-official semi-secret insignia that they don’t wear on their uniforms
