๐ท๐บ๐บ๐ฆ These systems were built to kill drones, and his morning the drones went hunting the systems.
Ukrainian strikes hit Adler on Russiaโs Black Sea coast, an S-300/400 battery and an oil depot, then the air-defense site cooked off in a massive secondary fire.
The shield just became the target.
Source: @Osinttechnical / Writer: Val
STEPHEN MILLER IS TRYING TO EXCLUDE ILLEGALS FROM THE U.S. CENSUS, WHICH REMOVES HOUSE SEATS FROM BLUE STATES LIKE CALIFORNIA, NEW YORK, ETC.
DO YOU SUPPORT THIS MOVE?
A. Yes ๐
B. No ๐
@NewYorker Why is it that Republicans can live with a Democratic packed Supreme Court for years and years but Dems canโt live with a Republican/ conservative court for a couple of years. Rep play by the rules - but not the Dems!
In principle, the Supreme Court supplies general drag, forcing whichever party is in power to contend with Justices appointed by previous Administrationsโbut the friction coefficient is now far greater in one direction. In the span of the Presidencies that yielded todayโs Court, Republicans won the popular vote less than a third of the time but have appointed two-thirds of the current Justices. A new legal history argues that the thing needed, even in the days of galloping authoritarianism, is to cut the Court down to size. But, with President Trump losing both support and inhibition, is now really the time to desupremify the Court? https://t.co/KNinWHMSSe
๐บ๐ธ๐ช๐จ The USS San Antonio has now sunk three cartel fuel ships in nine days
SOUTHCOM says Marines and sailors boarded another floating refueling station in the eastern Pacific Thursday, cleared it without incident, handed the crew to Ecuador and sent the hull to the bottom.
Same cartel, Los Choneros, same command, same script as August 27 and September 2.
Three in nine days says something about how the Pacific drug trade actually runs.
Source: U.S. Southern Command / Writer: Daniel
President Trump is rejecting reports that the U.S. is running low on ammunition after months of fighting with Iran, calling the claims "treasonous" and insisting America has "virtually unlimited" munitions.
Trump says the U.S. is producing ammunition at record levels, stockpiling for future conflicts and putting America's military needs first before resuming weapons sales to allies.
The comments come after reports raised concerns about U.S. weapons stockpiles following the Iran war. Trump also blamed the Biden administration for sending too many weapons to Ukraine.
๐บ๐ธ ๐ฎ๐ฑ The House voted 237-169 to strip federal funding from any university that boycotts Israel, including institutions in West Bank settlements the ICJ ruled illegal in 2024.
Read the mechanism behind this.
A school must certify annually that it permits cooperation with those institutions or lose Pell Grants and student loans, which for most universities is the difference between operating and closing.
Only two Republicans, @RepThomasMassie and Davidson, voted NO.
Thirty-three Democrats voted YES.
Now look at who lives on a campus.
Pew's data shows 75% of Americans aged 18 to 29 hold an unfavorable view of Israel, including 64% of young Republicans and 80% of the religiously unaffiliated under 50.
Among adults under 30, the Palestinian Authority now polls better than the Israeli government.
Congress just aimed a funding clause at the exact demographic that has moved furthest away, and threatened their financial aid to do it.
Here is what more Americans keep noticing. No other country gets this.
Universities divest from fossil fuels, from Sudan, from private prisons, and Congress stays silent.
Boycotts of China draw no legislation at all.
It's OK to support Israel's security and still find that strange.
When persuasion stops working, the honest move is a better argument or more healthy discourse, not a lien on a student's tuition.
Source: NBC, TOI / Writer: Daniel
๐บ๐ธ๐ช๐บ๐ฎ๐ท Scott Bessent said Europe lined up with the U.S. squeeze against Iran.
He said Brussels took a strong, early stance on Operation Economic Outcast, the Treasury drive to cut Iran off oil money, shipping, gold, planes and crypto.
Washington launched it August 24th.
The EU said at the G20 it welcomes that pressure and will keep working with the U.S.
That is Europe standing next to the dollar system, not China quitting Iranian crude.
Bessent said they will not stop until the last financial pipe is closed.
The war at sea is one front, the banks are the other.
Writer: Lucas