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Several elected officials condemned the attack on Washington Post photographer Heidi Levine, who was beaten and injured by masked Israeli settlers in the West Bank.
Levine was treated for broken vertebrae, a broken rib and lacerations throughout her body. wapo.st/4hRLVTE
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BREAKING: The US appears to have abandoned its naval blockade line against Iran, pulling its aircraft carriers off it entirely after Iran's first use of anti-ship ballistic missiles against a carrier. The warships have not been located in the CENTCOM area on Sentinel-2 satellite imagery since the beginning of September, including the USS George H.W. Bush, the USS George Washington, the amphibious assault ship USS Boxer and even their escorting destroyers.
The finding suggests the US has pulled back beyond the range of Iranian anti-ship missiles from a blockade line that until August sat at the exit of the Gulf of Oman. The pullback was likely prompted by Iran's first use of anti-ship ballistic missiles against a US carrier on the night of September 5 with the Qasem Basir, which has a range of about 1,200 km and covers almost the entire Arabian Sea.
Iran said on September 12 that not a single US warship remains in the Persian Gulf, down from around 30 before the attack, with all US vessels holding at least 400 km off the Iranian coast. Iran's SNSC chief Rezaei said the Qasem Basir "created hell for the Americans, and they fled."
Independent imagery had not supported that withdrawal until now.
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i don’t consume copaganda. closest i get is law and order svu but they aren’t cops they’re members of an elite squad known as the special victims unit
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BREAKING: US stations are running out of diesel. Stations in North Texas are now posting "OUT" on their diesel signs, and an Orlando, Florida station has blanked its diesel price to 0.00 with the pump dry today.
California stations already began posting "out of diesel" signs on Sunday, with the national average at a record $6.31 a gallon.
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east german manic pixie STEM girlie to ordoliberal austerity auntie pipeline 💔
Young Angela Merkel at a physicists’ conference of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin-Adlershof, 1987.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
That is actress Jella Haase, not a younger Angela Merkel, in the photo
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Of all the things that I would've imagined as a kid that I would be spending time on in 2026, I don't think spending a bunch of time trying to get goddamn two-step verification systems to work was one of them
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This image was sent to me from the field. These are messages US servicemen in the Persian Gulf have scribbled on the dust of an aircraft flap.
"Be a good guy and do what Israel tells you to"
"Operation Epstein Fury"
"Peace deal #64 incoming... ALL THIS FOR THE HOLY LAND"
I have no frame of reference, I can't compare it to the sentiments of US soldiers in previous conflicts. But I suspect these are new sentiments, or at least a new willingness to express them this openly and directly.
But as one serviceman told me: "What people in the media don't understand when they compare past conflicts to this one, is this operation has no morale behind it. That makes a world of difference to service members deployed to undesirable locations indefinitely."
Read that last part again: No morale. Deployed to undesirable locations INDEFINITELY.
My own conclusion: When a war has no morale behind it, winning means that you simply end it. There is no other "winning" in such an unjust war.
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The dissent from Neil Gorsuch in the birthright citizenship case is actually very interesting. He basically says that he would deny birthright citizenship to children of temporary visitors but not to illegal immigrants who lived here permanently. So on the question of whether illegal immigrants' kids are citizens, it's actually more like a 7-2 decision.
“Hey let’s try vapid centrism — it worked so well with Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris”
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Despite spending time in Belgium and later France under quarantine and medical screening measures to ensure they had not contracted Ebola, not a single DR Congo supporter traveling from Kinshasa was granted a U.S. visa for the World Cup. Among them was Michel Nkuka Mboladinga, better known as “Lumumba,” an iconic Leopards supporter who became one of the most recognizable faces of AFCON 2025.
Since the start of this tournament, we have been witnessing clear bias against African countries embedded in visa and immigration systems.
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IT'S PARTY TIME IN CAPE VERDE. 🇨🇻🎉
Scenes of pure joy across the country after Cape Verde held tournament favourites Spain to a historic 0-0 draw in their first-ever World Cup match.
A day the nation will never forget. ❤️🇨🇻🇪🇸🔥
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“I worked all my life for this. For this moment, for this dream.” 💙
@alexaljoe spoke with 40-year-old Cape Verde goalkeeper Vozinha after an emotional resonant FIFA World Cup debut 🇨🇻
It’s ridiculous to say that Todd Blanche is Trump’s yes man.
When Trump says no, Blanche also says no.
(h/t The Distinguished Gentleman)
I just wrote a letter: Tell Cisco: Stop Networking For Israel's War Crimes. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/te…
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Today’s the 30th anniversary of RATM’S um, ‘memorable’ performance on SNL. There was a fight onstage between our crew and SNL stage hands moments before our performance, wrestling over some upside down American flags which adorned our amps. Timmy C then attacked host/billionarie/presidential candidate Steve Forbes’ family in the dressing room with a wadded up flag. Secret Service flooded the hallways. SNL cut (censored?) our second song and kicked us out onto the sidewalk.
Evil Empire entered the Billboard Album Chart at #1.
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If this is an honest question, I’d say: Americans are rooting against America because we facilitated a genocide and followed it with a surprise attack on a girls elementary school followed by attacks on universities, medical centers, more schools, a world famous pharmaceutical research center, a volley ball team, an unfinished bridge we claimed was transporting weapons and then a nuclear power plant. We are now promising endless attacks on civilian infrastructure.
We are hunting and targeting anyone who might be involved in ceasefire negotiations.
Most people do not pay enough attention to have absorbed all the propaganda about the U.S. and Iran. So people coming to this fresh see us for what we are: absolute monsters. And monsters must be stopped. That’s why people are rooting against us and for civilization to prevail.
