TheOldBird

Working man, Spec Ops Dad, Grandfather, Navy Brat

[MoundLore @MoundLore]

The Lemon Drop opened in Anderson in 1954. 🍋

That means there are grandparents, parents, and kids in this town who have all eaten there at the same stage of life. Not many places get woven into a community that deeply.
Most businesses have customers.

Some become landmarks.

[LiterateIndy @LiterateIndy]

Bing Crosby and The Andrew Sister sing Don't Fence Me In, one of my favorite Cole Porter songs:

https://t.co/vUAASj17S7

[Barnaby Breaks History 🇺🇸 @CorpBarnaby]

🇺🇸 Just a guy who flew 39 combat missions talking to a guy who was machine gunning on D-Day.

Greatest Generation. Built Different. 🫡🇺🇸

[Israel Army @IsraelArmyX]

Breaking News 🚨

Iran's advanced air defense radar systems were completely destroyed in pre-dawn strikes.

Utilizing advanced electronic warfare and stealth capabilities, the Israeli military successfully neutralized several key air defense sites within Iran. More than 150 personnel associated with Iran's air defense network have been confirmed killed in these massive strikes.

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

The IRGC have said that they targeted the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet Headquarters in Bahrain.

[Midwest Modern @JoshLipnik]

Scottish Rite Cathedral (1927-29)
Indianapolis, IN

Designed by architect George F. Schreiber for the Scottish Rite Freemasons. One of the world’s largest Masonic buildings and one of the finest examples of Gothic Revival in the Midwest.

[Ford Fischer @FordFischer]

The conviction of Joseph Morrison, accused of providing aid to an informant-swarmed plot to kidnap Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer, has been overturned.

https://t.co/G3JCh5gGfh

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

Third round of U.S. strikes now against air defense systems and other military targets in Southern Iran.

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: Iran warns that the US military response to the Apache helicopter downing will immediately place all regional Gulf energy infrastructure under continuous Iranian missile fire, costing the US oil, gas, and regional interests "for years," per Iran's Parliamentary Vice Speaker.

US senators briefed by CENTCOM Commander Admiral Brad Cooper now believe Iran intentionally struck the US Army Apache helicopter and US retaliation is "imminent," per NBC.

[LiterateIndy @LiterateIndy]

Elsa is experiencing Indiana, follow along:

[U.S. Central Command @CENTCOM]

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces began launching self-defense strikes against Iran at 5 p.m. ET today at the Commander in Chief’s direction, in response to yesterday’s downing of a U.S. Army Apache helicopter. The mission is a proportional response to unjustified Iranian aggression.

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: Iran directly rejects today's claim that Iran sent a new draft peace proposal to the US, saying "no such proposal exists," due to the suspension of talks with the US, per Fars. Iran also denied agreeing to a 15-year enrichment suspension, denied "zeroing in" on four nuclear issues, and denied Trump's claim of a deal being reachable in "two or three days" and that the Strait of Hormuz "will open up right away."

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

Keep in mind literally ALL of the people who say Karmelo Anthony had the right I stab a kid to death for telling him to leave a tent also said that Rittenhouse did not have the right to use lethal force against an armed mob chasing him down the street to kill him

[Andy Ngo @MrAndyNgo]

The migrant who brutally killed Rhiannon Whyte in 2024 by stabbing her nearly two-dozen times with a screwdriver in Walsall, England was from Sudan.

Deng Majek was recorded dancing and laughing after killing the woman. He was sentenced to 29 years in prison in January this year.

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

According to the Washington Post’s @DanLamothe, the U.S. Navy drone that aided in the rescue of two U.S. Apache helicopter crew members was a Saronic Technologies Corsair unmanned surface vessel (USV). First deployed in the U.S. Central Command AOR in March of this year, the USV reportedly picked up the two soldiers and then took them to a secondary location where a waiting helicopter hoisted them up. Such a rescue would be the first time that such a system was used in this role.

[RNC Research @RNCResearch]

.@RepBarryMoore talks about how he and other Congressmen are being targeted by the SPLC:

"I was put on a hate watch list simply because I put a flag up, one of the founding flags of this nation, that encourage our country to pray for our leaders."

[Ryan Morse @RyanMorseWx]

This is St. Peter’s Church Rd in Lanesville, IN where serious flooding continues in southern Indiana. Rainfall reports range from 6-8”+.

Courtesy of Marissa Caldwell

[War Times @wartirnes]

German Child Soldiers Surrender to U.S. Forces (1945)

Colorized footage shows a group of young German soldiers and children surrendering to advancing American troops near Unterammergau on April 30, 1945, as the Third Reich collapses.

Many of them were part of the final desperate wave of child soldiers thrown into the war by Nazi Germany.

A sobering image from the very end of World War II in Europe.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

A series of car explosions in Moscow

Two vehicles have been blown up in the Russian capital today. In one of the explosions, a 62-year-old lieutenant general was killed.

The blasts occurred in residential districts where Russian military personnel and their families live. The name of the deceased general has not been released.

It is still unknown who was the target in the second explosion.