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Sarah Paulson wears dollar bill over her eyes to call out the ‘One Percent.’ The actress, who is worth an estimated $12 million, used her outfit to call out the world’s elite while attending the $100,000 per person Met Gala.

For the record. Iran’s Historic Mistake Carl von Clausewitz wrote that war is “the continuation of politics by other means.” President Trump grasped this from the start: Operation Epic Fury exists to stop Iran’s nuclear march and restore deterrence, not to pursue the familiar neocon fantasy of occupation and nation-building. Epic Fury is peace through strength in action: credible force applied decisively when adversaries mistake restraint for weakness. By weaponizing the Strait of Hormuz, Iran committed a strategic blunder of historic proportions. Tehran meant to punish America. Instead, it exposed every power built on imported energy, vulnerable sea lanes, and the delusion that globalization repealed geography. China is exposed. Europe is exposed. Britain is exposed. Iran has created a world where hard resource power decides outcomes. Start with China. Beijing’s industrial machine depends on imported oil and gas moving through vulnerable maritime chokepoints, the old Malacca dilemma in modern form. A great power reliant on long, exposed sea lines cannot be secure, regardless of economic scale. The Hormuz shock forced China to scramble for alternatives, proving that size is not resilience. Europe and Britain face the same problem. After escaping Russian dependency, they traded one vulnerability for another, leaning on imported LNG and maritime flows exposed to coercion. When chokepoints tighten, they absorb shocks rather than project strength. European criticism says less about American failure than about discomfort with a world where hard power still matters. Iran’s mistake is that once Hormuz becomes structurally unreliable, the world builds around it. That means bypass corridors, revived pipeline politics, and urgent planning for routes linking Aqaba to Mediterranean outlets near Gaza and the long-stalled Basra-to-Aqaba pipeline. The old energy order is cracking. The UAE’s OPEC exit signals cartel discipline giving way to national advantage under pressure. Trump deserves credit, not European scolding. Operation Epic Fury struck thousands of targets, degraded Iran’s offensive capabilities, and shattered assumptions that the West would absorb escalation without response. The administration acted while others lectured. It restored deterrence in the only language Tehran understands. The larger lesson matters more. Secure natural-resource hard power is what the Western Hemisphere possesses in abundance. The United States, Canada, and the Americas command hydrocarbons, LNG, farmland, freshwater, critical minerals, and strategic depth on a scale import-dependent Europe and Asia cannot match. This crisis clarified, not weakened, the Americas structural position. The financial dimension reinforces the point. Demand for Federal Reserve swap lines during crisis proves King Dollar remains supreme. When stress hits, governments run toward dollar liquidity, not away from it. Hard resource power and monetary power reinforce one another, and the United States sits at the center of both. That is Epic Fury’s real significance. Clausewitz wrote that “the political view is the object, war is the means.” Trump understood that. Iran tried to weaponize geography, Trump turned the confrontation into a demonstration of who is exposed and who is not. The Trump administration deserves far more praise than it has received, and history will likely judge that Iran’s greatest miscalculation was not merely closing Hormuz, but revealing which powers still command the real sources of strength.

CENTCOM commander says the U.S. sank 6 Iranian boats that tried to obstruct the U.S. from freeing the ships trapped in the Strait of Hormuz, including by firing cruise missiles at the U.S. Navy. One South Korean cargo ship was damaged. The Islamic republic has also fired missiles at the UAE repeatedly in recent hours and there are reports of damage at Fujairah Oil Depot. Meanwhile, Israeli air defense system Iron Dome, deployed to the UAE, was used to intercept an incoming Iranian missile today, marking the first operational use of Israel’s Iron Dome outside Israel or the United States.

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U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyers are currently operating in the Arabian Gulf after transiting the Strait of Hormuz in support of Project Freedom. American forces are actively assisting efforts to restore transit for commercial shipping. As a first step, 2 U.S.-flagged merchant vessels have successfully transited through the Strait of Hormuz and are safely headed on their journey.

Genius RIP

To my Muslim friends, I hear some of you want to live in Japan. Let me be honest with you. More than half of our ramen shops use pork broth. Even convenience-store rice balls often contain pork extract. Summer brings shrine festivals, autumn brings rituals, New Year means a visit to a shrine. When someone dies, we cremate them. And refusing a drink? That’s not really part of our culture — here, people pour one for you. This isn’t hostility. It’s just 1,500 years of daily life. And we have no plans to change it. Before you come to a place that doesn’t fit you, please — think it through carefully. For your sake, and ours.

@tanpukunokami Most of that's true. But I don't drink and no one has ever poured one on me.😜

@AbogadoDijo Not fair. Unarmed TSA agents.

Las cuotas de género impuestas por el feminismo durante el atentado a Trump

An effective tutorial

@TheModerateCase See above. So dumb. A reminder: One VLCC = 3,660 rail tank cars. Give or take.

1. This is more expensive for Iran. 2. Train only transports 2-8% of what they could do by ship. 3. America could bomb the railroads in 10 minutes that’d take 20 years to rebuild. 4. They’ve been doing this for a year. You didn’t know because you just read a headline and made a tweet thinking your Einstein. The only thing being played is your brain.

한국의 대구라는 도시에 이슬람사원 공사장 앞에 모인 시민들이 이슬람을 강력히 반대하며 돼지고기 파티를 하고 있는 모습입니다. 결국 이슬람 사원은 건축 중지돼었고 방치된 상태로 지금까지 있습니다

Although considerable resources will be dedicated to protecting ships transiting the Straits, CENTCOM makes it clear that Operation Freedom is part of a larger operation, involving the Department of State, to coordinate movement through the narrow waters. Interestingly enough, Operation Freedom is explicitly linked to the naval blockade of Iran, acting as its flip side. This implicit larger contextual operation, for which we have been given no name as yet is more interesting than Operation Freedom itself. For one thing it implies that not only will the US deny passage to Iranian and other hostile ships, it will also secure the passage of neutral and friendly through Hormuz. If Operation Freedom succeeds the Strait will essentially belong to the United States.

@Sassafrass_84 Florida is the United States. The rest of the states are basically Germany.

Yes. I do agree with this. This is what real governance looks like. Other governors should be paying attention.

@govt_corrupt Trump.

When Trump is gone, who will the liberals blame for all the problems we have?

@JasonMBrodsky Tiresome. The Islamic state isn't going to stop enriching uranium for 15 minutes let alone 15 years.

"According to the sources, #Iran is proposing a "complete freeze" on uranium enrichment activity for a period of up to 15 years. After that period ends, it would be permitted to resume enriching uranium at a low civilian-grade level of 3.6%, under a principle of "zero stockpiling," meaning no enriched uranium inventory." If this is true, Iran's position is softening. Only a few weeks ago, Iran was offering only a complete freeze of uranium enrichment activity for 5 years. The blockade is working. Keep the pressure on. israelhayom.com/2026/05/03/ira…

@travisakers Too dumb to understand the evidence or a political weasel. Most likely both.

If you really believed Iran was going to launch a nuke at the U.S., when they don’t even have an ICBM capability to reach the U.S., you should lose your right to vote. But hey, glad you got to own the libs with $5 gas.

@_MAGA_NEWS_ 😀 Ya think? It wasn't a big ask.

ALERT: Certain NATO officials believe Europe may have committed a major blunder by refusing to let the Trump administration use its air bases.

@RadioGenoa What's with Starmer's obsession with Muslims?

Keir Starmer: "Muslims have made an enormous contribution to British society and culture. They have made a positive difference, still do, and will continue to do so."

@bundeskanzler So you say. As for Iran nukes: There have been multiple documented cases where German companies or individuals exported dual-use machine parts, components, and equipment to Iran that could aid its nuclear program—often in violation of export controls or sanctions--NYT.

The United States is and will remain Germany‘s most important partner in the North Atlantic Alliance. We share a common goal: Iran must not be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons.