Iraqi Oil Ministry: Tankers carrying Iraqi crude have passed through the Strait of Hormuz. - State media

Economic prosperity or ethnic cleansing. Choose one. MAGA impoverishes us all.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · yesterday

Don't miss this vile story: MAGA is raging at DHS chief Markwayne Mullin for admitting migrant farmworkers can beneft our economy. This means his devotion to ethnic cleansing is in doubt. He must be excommunicated! I wrote about the collapse of MAGA mythology here: newrepublic.com/article/2138...

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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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Started reading this fascinating thread, but it’s only been posted as far as the I-8 in Brest. I assume she took docs and sample penicillin back to Japan successfully. Thinking about the boat doing 5 knots through South Atlantic. How much underwater, how much on surface, I wonder? #navalhistory

Dan Kaszeta FRHistS@dankaszeta.bsky.social · 2d ago

Penicillin was not, in fact, the first antibiotic.

Here comes another thread covering all things Ukraine (and Russia) Day 1622 of the war on freedom, democracy, culture, a nation and its people. Those long range strikes are surely starting to hurt Russia. Let's catch up:

Hungary's new government is tested very early. Paks nuclear plant is about to go offline for the first time in 44 years because the Danube is drying up. That's nearly half the country's electricity. Collapsed supply & gas prices spiking throughout the region. Just brutal. apnews.com/article/hung...

Hungary braces for a full shutdown of the Paks nuclear plant as the Danube River hits record lows

Hungary's only nuclear power plant is shutting down for the first time due to record-low water levels on the Danube River.

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He dumped water we needed in LA to fight the Palisades wildfires into the Central Valley just to fuck us over and it wasted water they needed for the grow season. No one remembers this either. It's insane.

Stephen Judkins@stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 4d ago

It's pretty infuriating that Trump is denying disaster aid to Oregon for political reasons and I have barely heard anything about it, while Biden was falsely accused of doing the exact same thing to North Carolina and millions of people believed that

“.. The disclosure marks the first time a bank has formally tied money laundering concerns to U.S. President Donald Trump's family business.” @reuters.com $COF www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

As a new month begins, the skies are still light, but the soul is heavy. The darkness of Russia's collective character is evident wherever it treads, wherever it spreads murder, hate, colonial neo-nazism. It's Day 1620 of this💩in🇺🇦 And I've made a daily thread every one of 'em!

"Maria" is working in Coachella CA doing maintenance on the lemon trees. She wears thick gloves and sleeves to protect herself against the lemon thorns. She shares, "I will work any job to feed my children." Today Coachella temps are predicted to reach a high of 118°. #WeFeedYou

I was told I focused too much on corruption. Millions of dollars in dark money are pouring into this race, proving the point. That's why my first policy rollout was to end Citizens United, ban congressional stock trading, and clean up Washington.

This Day in Labor History: August 1, 1917. Hired thugs in Butte, Montana lynched the IWW organizer Frank Little. Let's talk about this incredibly brave and committed organizer, murdered for his talk of radical organization of miners, who, as a matter of fact, weren't' even interested in it.

A GOP Congressman, Griffith Morgan (Virginia), has introduced a bill to strip people in Guam, Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and every other US non-state territory of their birthright citizenship. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

Seth Meyers just referred to Steven Miller as the Cyclops’ two-eyed brother. Biclops. 💀

Day 610 of daily, uninterrupted protests in 8+ cities in Georgia.

OK, no break - here we go again with a brand new thread on Day 1618 of Russia's insane and inhumane war on its peaceful neighbour. I appear to be only midway through reporting a big multi-missile attack on Ukraine by Putin's criminal horde. So let's continue..

Not everything is terrible:

Emily Price@emilypricejourno.bsky.social · 6d ago

Behind my house high on the mountain there’s a radio tower that’s loomed over our village since I came to Wales when I was 7 years old. I decided to hike up to it last week and see what view the tower was enjoying. I enjoyed a thermos of coffee while taking in this stunning view of Aberfan.

Let me tell you, having chronicled Pentagon-style war game on attacking Iran nearly 25 yr ago, every single "surprise," "darkening turn," "narrowing option," spreading warfare," "rising casualties," "no easy exit," etc that comes drip-by-drip is EXACTLY why GHWB WJC GWB OBAMA BiDEN did NOT do this

A reminder to those with short memories: A move toward more progressive policies among Dems is actually a return to party roots. Today's "centrists" are vestiges of a Reagan-lite shift in the Clinton & Obama-era econ policy. And fwiw, Biden understood, his econ polices were most liberal in decades.

The final plenary session of the VIII Convocation of the Russian Federation State Duma was on 27 July. After reporting on the parliament's work (mostly new repressive laws), Speaker Volodin tried to end by getting the room to chant: "Russia, Putin, Victory!" Mike Johnson's model?

Should be a bigger story— “Alexandra Bravo, prosecutor investigating 🇺🇸 strikes on 3 Ecuadorian boats and survivor accounts of torture/kidnapping, shot dead… hitman on a black motorcycle opened fire… Bravo’s sister jumped to protect her, also killed…” www.dropsitenews.com/p/prosecutor...

Keeping America truly great. No gold appliqué anywhere, but great planning and hard work.

Jill Sargent Russell, PhD@jsargentr.bsky.social · last wk.

THE LOGISTICS OF LOGISTICS 😍

This cancerous view of power is as old as politics, & has been almost uniformly rejected as *the worst* form of it for just as long. Entire eras of political thought can be characterized as a series of disagreements about the *best way* to banish such arbitrary power from political communities.

Aaron Wherry@aaronwherry.bsky.social · last wk.

Freeland's contention that this is really ultimately just about power feels like the most coherent explanation. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/o...

A new website shows where the Soviets deported Moldovans from in the 40s, to Siberia and Kazakhstan moldova.europalibera.org/a/un-program...

Trapped? What about failure? That's the story. A president that launched a reckless war and completely and totally failed...with all of us paying the price. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/26/u...

Trump Seems Trapped by Iran War, Even as He Wields the World’s Biggest Hammer (Gift Article)

A president who thought there were no limits to his power has discovered several, leaving him more frustrated and erratic.

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lmao in 2022 Kyiv was defended in part by a couple battalions of Chechen exiles who've been fighting Russians for 30 years. Ambushing tanks in full beards with AKs and RPG-7s like it was Grozny 1995. Some had been in Syria with the rebels, the very people Loomer and her ilk built careers demonizing.

Arizona Right Watch@azrww.bsky.social · last wk.

AP running a puff piece on this woman:

They don’t care about actually winning as long as the losing is to their immediate benefit and doesn’t directly threaten them.

Sara Mitchell@sbmitche.bsky.social · last wk.

These folks might want to read the IR literature on why autocratic states lose more wars 🤷‍♀️

Czech Republic president Petr Pavel, who is a passionate sports photographer with a focus on motorsport, today is one of the official photographers of the Hungarian GP.

American Civil War ironclad. I thought it was a small replica of one of the ships Eads built for the Mississippi when I first saw the photo.

Samuel Bendett@sambendett.bsky.social · last wk.

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Day 1614 of all out war in Ukraine. Almost 4.5 years without a break of fighting at the front, being part of the support team, running to shelters, not knowing when the next missile will hit or if one will destroy your home, or claim your loved ones. Also no break for my daily🧵- here's Sunday's..