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Beautiful reminder at the Milano Cortina Opening Ceremony that in Europe, we're all part of something greater. Grazie Italia! 💙🇪🇺 ❤️🇮🇹 #MilanoCortina #MilanoCorrina2026 #Olympics2026 #OlympicGames #OpeningCeremony #cerimoniadiapertura #OlimpiadiInvernali2026

As the dust settles following more than five weeks of sustained U.S. combat operations against Iran, we now have the clearest picture yet of the toll taken on American aircraft during Epic Fury. After flying more than 13,000 sorties, the U.S. lost at least 39 aircraft throughout the 39-day operation, with another 10 damaged to various degrees. America’s drone fleet absorbed the heaviest losses, accounting for more than 60% of total combat attrition. Up to 24 USAF MQ-9A Reaper drones were destroyed, according to the latest reporting from @JimLaPorta and CBS. Five fighters were downed while in the air, four F-15E Strike Eagles and one A-10 Warthog. An F-35A was hit over Iranian airspace, marking the first known combat damage to a 5th-generation fighter, but the pilot made an emergency landing safely. 20% of attrition was due to friendly fire, including three F-15Es shot down over Kuwait, or the deliberate destruction of assets to prevent capture during a combat search and rescue mission in Iranian territory. Some losses, however, will be felt more than others, such as the prized E-3G Sentry that was totally destroyed. Take a closer look here: twz.com/air/operation-…

💥Heroes’ Square in Budapest is hosting the “anti-regime grand concert,” with tens of thousands bracing for the end of Viktor Orbán’s rule on Sunday. Chants of “Russians go home” are heard, while performers mock Orbán and Péter Szijjártó as servants of Vladimir Putin. 📸@444hu

Artemis II doesn’t reverse direction. Far out, its motion is mostly radial (toward Earth), so its small eastward speed is slower than Earth’s rotation, so it appears to drift west. Closer in, tangential speed grows and overtakes Earth’s rotation, so it moves east.

The influencer behind viral allegations against Rep. Eric Swalwell has academic and political connections with UC Irvine Law professor and California governor's race rival Katie Porter. cbsnews.com/sacramento/new…

Spain has withdrawn its ambassador from Israel and reopened its embassy in Tehran. Everything you need to know about Pedro Sanchez' Spain, now an open ally of the Iranian Axis.

Clint Eastwood filmed Gran Torino (2008) in just 33 days. Known for his efficiency, he often used the first take of a scene to capture raw and unpolished performances, a technique he felt was essential for the film’s gritty and realistic tone.

Louis van Gaal 😁🫸🫷😁 Robin van Persie #FIFAWorldCup

In DIGGER We Trust. 33.711°N, 116.233°W

@khodorkovsky_en x.com/i/status/20350…

It is nearly impossible for a European to comprehend the psychological reality inside Russia. It is not just "fake news." It is a total deconstruction of reality. Let me try to immerse you in the world Russians live in [1/9]

@POLITICOEurope Anyone urging Hezbollah or the Islamic Republic of Iran to halt their attacks on civilian areas IN Israel? Anyone?

Pooing in public… this was never a problem until the last 6-7 years or so, so why are these signs now popping up everywhere? 💩

This is the same species that hunted and gathered on the African savanna with stone tools not so long ago. Now four members of their species are tracing a breathtaking path across the heavens, reaching over 250,000 miles from their grasslands. What curiosity does to a species.

It's about all you, Free Palestine dipshits #FREEPALESTİNE

Poland is the strong point of NATO's eastern front. With 600 additional tanks required to complete modernization of its Abrams force, the U.S. - Polish defense partnership remains central to deterrence against Russia. 2026 is the key year to act. Read more from @rebeccagrantdc: lexingtoninstitute.org/poland-needs-t…

All of a sudden, people have woken up and so profoundly care about the situation in Lebanon. Where were you when Hezbollah was firing missiles at Israel? Where were you as Iran turned Lebanon into their own satellite state? Where were you when the Lebanese government and army for the last 20 years refused to constrain Hezbollah, as required under UNSC 1701? And where were you, as Hezbollah's terror turned Lebanon into an economic basket case, while using their own people as human shields and spreading a reign of terror and political violence for the last two decades plus? No, you don't care about Lebanon. You only manufacture outrage and concern the moment Israel, that stubborn little Jewish state, having endured how many years of restraint, defends itself and responds to Hezbollah.

@Astro2fish Uh...humanity has already seen it in the 1960s... Stop exaggerating

“Humans probably have not evolved to see what we're seeing. It is truly hard to describe.” - Victor Glover That hits different. We’ve spent our whole lives looking up at the Moon as this beautiful, distant silver coin in the sky. But now, our friends on Artemis II are out there seeing it as it truly is. We weren’t wired for views like this and yet here we are. This isn’t just a mission. This is one of the most awe-inspiring moments in human history!

He’s not wrong…… we can learn from Islam. 🤔👇 We can learn how to marry off 9-year-old girls, stone women for adultery, throw gay people off rooftops, perform FGM on little girls, enforce honour killings, chop the hands off thieves, behead apostates, and impose 7th-century sharia over democracy and free speech. Truly a masterclass in “enrichment” for the West. Thanks for the heads-up, Wills. 🇬🇧

Trump’s climb-down from Armageddon was not a TACO — it was a complete strategic defeat. Despite the predictable bluster and claims of “complete and total victory,” Trump abandoned his war objectives and left Iran in a stronger strategic position than before the war began. open.substack.com/pub/charliesyk…

@Anna_Askjaer BS Anna. It's about emotional reaction to news shaped by social media. Mood was the same in 2003 (Iraq). When Obama won in 2008 suddenly everyone started to LOVE US again. China is incomparably bigger strategic threat than US, which at worst is a competitor. Also what "genocide"?

@POLITICOEurope This started before Trump. Bidens blind support and the US complicity in the genocide in Gaza is as much to blame as Trump.

The U.S. under Donald Trump is seen as a bigger threat than China in six major EU countries, according to a new POLITICO Pulse survey. 🔗 politico.eu/article/poll-e…

BREAKING: Trump’s former spiritual adviser, pastor Robert Preston Morris, has been released after serving just six months in jail for abusing a 12-year-old girl.