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We're experiencing a fascist coup, they're openly rigging elections, & lots more. Its time we accept & deal with reality, stop dancing around it.

@AFP Trump's choices to vetted wartime allies: - Go home & be murdered. - Go to a country in the middle of collapse. We told these Afghans we would help ensure their safety after they helped us.

The US is looking to give former Afghan support staff and their families currently stuck in Qatar the choice of moving to war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo or back to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, rather than the US, an activist says. u.afp.com/SE9m

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Tornado Warning including Old Fig Garden CA, Biola CA and Rolling Hills CA until 2:45 PM PDT

Iran’s state-run Tasnim News Agency has said that no negotiation team will be sent to peace talks this week in Islamabad, and that the decision is “final,” stating that, “The Iranian negotiating team has announced to the American side through a Pakistani intermediary, for various reasons, that it will not be present in Islamabad, Pakistan on Wednesday, and there is currently no prospect of participating in the negotiations.”

@sentdefender Various reasons = Trump's blockade Iran's officials say it everyday. Also what happened to Trump's Iran "agreed to everything"?

The U.S. Department of Defense has announced, that overnight, American naval forces carried out a right-of-visit, maritime interdiction, and boarding of the Botswana-flagged crude oil tanker, M/T TIFANI, without incident in the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command Area-of-Responsibility. The TIFANI, reported to have been stateless at the time of the boarding and under sanctions by the U.S. Treasury Department for providing material support to Iran, was last seen in the Indian Ocean while enroute to Singapore.

Just The Sphere impressing as always 🔥

The Endangered Species Act is one of America’s most effective and most popular wildlife laws. It has helped prevent the extinction of 99% of listed species. Now Congress is pushing dangerous rollbacks that would weaken protections, sideline science, and put habitat at greater risk. Thank you to Chris Allieri of the@nycploverproject for his exceptionally well-written op-ed shining a powerful light on what’s at stake. Tell Congress: defend the ESA. #DefendTheESA #ProtectWildlife

As the US gives Iran an indefinite ceasefire extension for future negotiations, the Strait of Hormuz remains effectively closed. Iran demonstrated over the weekend that it was able and willing to enforce the closure by firing on neutral shipping.

Sinkholes, road collapses, and cave-ins are no longer rare in Indonesia. Road linking Jayapura and Wamena has been completely cut off due to a landslide in Kalimo Village, Waris District, Keerom Regency, Papua, on Sunday

MULTI-DAY #TORNADO OUTBREAK POSSIBLE Thursday-Monday from the central and southern Great Plains to Dixie Alley by Monday! This map shows the five days of severe weather threat color coded by day. Thursday we may work the dry line from central KS/NE into Iowa, then settle down into the southern Plains for three days of severe weather and #tornado threat including here in Oklahoma. The #tornado threat expands into Dixie Alley by Monday. Stay tuned as we nail down precise target areas for this uptick of severe weather

If you live in the northern U.S., don't pack away your winter wardrobe just yet! There are more chilly spells to come into early May.

Vexcel Gray Sky imagery of the Ringle, Wisconsin EF3 tornado from April 17th. Impressive tree and structural damage.

Residents along Black Lake in Cheboygan county are not only dealing with substantial flooding, but also a rare circumstance where ice has been pushed into the homes from the winds. This has created additional structural damage to many homes in the area.

Severe thunderstorms will be possible from northern Oklahoma into southern Minnesota on Thursday. Large hail to very large hail, damaging winds, and a few tornadoes are possible. Visit weather.gov for updates over the next couple of days.

EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon Approaches Automakers, Manufacturers to Boost Weapons Production wsj.com/politics/natio… @sharonterlep @MarcusReports

WOW: A stunning new report in the WSJ reveals that military advisers intentionally excluded Donald Trump from the command room during the recent high-stakes operation to extract a downed U.S. airman in Iran, because they feared his erratic behavior could jeopardize the mission. According to The Wall Street Journal, Trump was in such a volatile state after Iran shot down a U.S. jet that he spent hours screaming at aides in the West Wing, obsessing over the political fallout and invoking Jimmy Carter and the 1979 hostage crisis. Officials made the call to limit his access, only briefing him at “meaningful moments” instead of giving him real-time control. Meanwhile, the operation itself nearly fell apart, with aircraft stuck in desert sand and U.S. forces scrambling to avoid Iranian detection. The airman was eventually rescued, but the chaos didn’t end there. Just hours later, Trump woke up and fired off his profanity-laced threat online, warning Iran it would be left “living in Hell.”