@adamscochran Or it's the drone equivalent of a red team test?
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Sophisticated drones attacked the US base where we store the nuclear bombers…
The drones:
* Had non-commercial signals
* Were resistant to jamming
* Came in waves of 12-15
* Swept over sensitive areas of the base
* Had long range control links
* Were more advanced than anything seen in Ukraine (Russian drones)
* Beyond Iranian capabilities
Over the multiple days of incursion, local residents heard explosions which Barksdale claimed was “weapons testing”
This is the second base incursion of a sensitive site IN THE US in the last 2 weeks.
Ari Schulman@AriSchulman
This should be the biggest story in the country right now. Barksdale is the HQ for our B52 nuclear bombers, it's where Bush sheltered on 9/11, and the drones are reported as "far more sophisticated than anything seen in Ukraine ... and well beyond Iranian capabilities."
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@BlueBoxDave Or the 2AM porn stations on TV in 1980
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@ConceptualJames And yet, they would still view him like they did with Daniel Pearl.
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He frequently dreams of the mullahs coming to tell him they've finally obtained a weapon of ass destruction and want to show him.
Eitan Fischberger@EFischberger
Glenn Greenwald admits he's sad Iran doesn't have nukes. Please weep with Glenn.
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@LudwigNverMises You forgot that he loves Bernie's policies.
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The people who supported Obama before becoming disillusioned and flipping are reverting to their original programming
Joe’s always looked down on conservatives
He’s a liberal who grew up in Boston and LA
But without MAGA we’d all be screwed
The American Conservative@amconmag
Joe Rogan says there are “a lot of dorks” in MAGA: “That phrase sucks. America is great. Make America greater? I’m down. But MAGA, and then it becomes a movement of a bunch of dorks? A lot of them are these really weird, f-cking uninteresting, unintelligent people.”
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@sarahadams Are you saying there haven't been planned pipelines through Syria before? Why weren't they built BTW?
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Yes, let’s run joint oil pipelines with Al-Qaeda, our Syrian policy never ceases to amaze me with how absurd it continues to get.
Levant24@Levant_24_
United States Special Envoy to Syria Tom Barrack said alternatives to the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea must be found, adding that Syria could play a role through pipeline routes.
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@Justincaseivn @sentdefender I'm guessing UAE will be very happy to get the island they're claiming is it's own?
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@sentdefender 40 miles from the UAE and nobody asked them how they feel about a war on their doorstep
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The Pentagon has suggested seizing the Iran-controlled Island of Abu Musa, located in the eastern Persian Gulf near the entrance to the Strait of Hormuz, roughly 40 miles from both Iran and the United Arab Emirates, sources tell Axios.
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@Osint613 Interesting. Why now, instead of maybe 3-4 years ago? What changed in the geopolitical landscape?
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Keir Starmer: "Putin is rubbing his hands at the war in the Middle East because he thinks higher oil prices will let him line his pockets. That’s why we’re going after his shadow fleet"
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@crackpothist As an aside, what’s the ETA of the next episode?
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Friendly reminder that there’s a greater than 0% chance Alexander the Great is buried in Venice under St. Mark’s Basilica but verification or further exploration hasn’t been permitted.
BBC News (World)@BBCWorld
Musketeer d'Artagnan's remains believed found under Dutch church bbc.in/4d5wmpn
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@sarahadams @Osint613 There's a huge difference between ability and willingness. What do you think happens in 5 years?
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@Osint613 The fact this weak bitch was a national security advisor is laughable. We can defeat Iran anytime we want. It’s not like we are bringing to bear the full force of our military.
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Former National Security Advisor John Bolton:
If the White House leaves a wounded beast alive in Tehran, whatever is left of the regime will come back and rebuild its nuclear program, its terrorist infrastructure, and the regime. It will only be a matter of time.
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@nikitabier How about properly labeling ads?
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We will be giving more weight to impressions from your home region—to encourage content that resonates with people in your country, in neighboring countries and people who speak your language.
While we appreciate everyone's opinion on American politics, we hope this will disincentivize gaming the attention of US or Japanese accounts and instead, drive diverse conversations on the platform.
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@MarkRuffalo Did you in your career, ever take money from Jews? What does that make you?
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Gavin, know where you stand and stand there. You said you what you meant. I don’t know what billionaire got in your ear but it’s not working for you. This is not how you are going to win. It’s Apartheid and it’s a Genocide. Today!
theguardian.com/us-news/2026/m…
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@RBPundit But don't you understand, Israel also needs to extend the rights to people who don't want to abide by its laws and wish for its destruction.
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Actually, it's pretty easy to prove Israel isn't an apartheid state.
Israeli Arabs are full citizens who can own property, vote, and hold public office.
That literally is impossible in an actual apartheid state.
You IGNORANT FUCK.
Cameron Kasky@camkasky
Nobody who claims Israel is not an apartheid state can explain to you from a policy or logical perspective why it is not an apartheid state. The word just hurts their feelings.
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Yes and Mizrahi Jews ban Ashkenazis from the kitchen....
Najat@theafroaussie
In Israel, Black Jews are banned from Ashkenazi Synagogues. Have a nice day
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@HenryGB_274 @RossBarkan Yes, manufacturing and shipping are the bastions of NYC's economy in 2026.
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@Pushkin_Street @RossBarkan Yeah, they’re going to move high level manufacturing, shipping, basically every job that makes decent money from NY, California, really anywhere on the coasts, to bumfuck nowhere Missouri or Texas. See how that goes.
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I had a good conversation with a very prominent right-wing person recently - won't say who it is, but it was for a book I'm doing - and he said, flat out, conservatives do not know how to hit Zohran Mamdani. They're outflanked, the way Trump used to outflank the left.
Jeff Coltin@JCColtin
On Day 83 of the Mamdani administration, the Manhattan Institute jumps the gun to discuss the First 100 Days. Expect much more over the next 20 days or so, including from City & State.
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@JTLonsdale Technically, he did kill himself.
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The founders of Volkswagen would kill themselves a second time if they saw it was partnering with the Jewish state to defend Germany.
The Kobeissi Letter@KobeissiLetter
BREAKING: Volkswagen is in talks with Israel’s Iron Dome maker over a deal that would switch production at one of their factories from cars to missile defense, per FT. The German government is actively supporting the proposal.
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@crtshawtyyy @RossBarkan Right. I guess it wasn’t Hochul begging expats to return or the debt rating agencies downgrading NYC. You can’t drive away your productive tax base while expanding social programs and expect everything to be ok.
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@Pushkin_Street @RossBarkan Yeah and when that doesn’t happen you’ll just say it did and think nothing of it
The very fact that you think it means its objective reality and is going to happen
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@HenryGB_274 @RossBarkan There’s never been a time in history when capital and production of that capital have been so mobile. Simply look at where the major NYC private sector employers are expanding and forecast the next two decades.
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@Pushkin_Street @RossBarkan Amazing how this both isn’t happening and hasn’t happened historically in the US.
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@RichardHanania You’re on a roll today. What built America is the private property owners deciding for themselves what to do with their property.
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They have a right to hold on to their land, but this is peasant morality and against everything that built America.
Collin Rugg@CollinRugg
NEW: Kentucky family rejects $26 million offer to convert part of their farm into a data center despite the offer being about 10 times the going rate for farmland in the area. "If it's my way, I'll stay and hold and feed a nation. 26 million doesn't mean anything." "As long as I'm on this land, as long as it's feeding me, as long as it's taking care of me, there's nothing that can destroy me if I've got this land." Video: Local 12 WKRC
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