CENTCOM Statement on Recently Fallen, Missing U.S. Service Members
TAMPA, Fla. — On July 17, two U.S. service members in Jordan were killed in action as U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) and partner forces defended against Iranian ballistic missile and drone attacks. Additionally, one service member is currently missing.
Four American service members were medically evacuated to Jordanian hospitals. They have since been discharged. Other personnel who were evaluated for minor injuries have returned to duty.
Out of respect for the families, CENTCOM will withhold additional information, including the identities of the fallen warriors, until 24 hours after the next of kin have been notified.
Images show damage to the Bunjay desalination plant near Jask following U.S. strikes. The attack has cut off water supplies to 20 villages, leaving around 10,000 people without water, according to Iranian reports.
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The democratic party refuses to condemn the blatant election interference that Israel is committing in this country because all of our leadership is compromised.
We need a complete purge of the entire leadership class.
I know it’s Jesse Waters and there is no low this human shit stain won’t stoop to but he’s straight up giggling abt the idea of military men committing mass rape after taking T
💢 Breaking: The ICE agent who shot and killed 26-year-old Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine, on Monday has been identified as David Michael Brouillette, 37, a former Maine law enforcement officer and Army veteran, the Portland Press Herald reported.
Brouillette was first identified Wednesday by ICE List, a public database of ICE officers run from the Netherlands, which cited two people who knew him personally. His ex-wife confirmed it the next day.
His ex-wife, Ashley Brouillette, said he called admitting to the shooting and asking her to “lie for him.” She said she reviewed footage of the scene and disputed his account, saying “nowhere in there does it show that this man charged at you with a car.”
Ashley Brouillette also said that her ex-husband was abusive during their relationship and that she had previously reported concerns about his mental health to his military superiors. DHS has refused to identify him.
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Somerdale Cold Cuts is temporarily closed after alleged thieves stole copper wires and pipes that supply cold air for the walk-in refrigerator.
The South Jersey store's owner, Johnny Gabagool, says the theft spoiled around $20,000 worth of food.
Take care of yourself as smoke from Canada's wildfires travels across New York! To check the air quality in your area, put your zip code into https://t.co/reqeJPZ3No and follow the recommended precautions.
In 1830, North Carolina passed laws that criminalized teaching enslaved Black people to read and write.
On January 1, 1830, North Carolina enacted legislation making it a crime to teach any enslaved person to read or write. The law included:
• Fines for anyone (Black or white) caught teaching literacy to enslaved people.
• Specific penalties for distributing abolitionist materials, which authorities feared could spark rebellion.
This law was part of a wave of anti-literacy laws passed across the South after events like: The 1829 publication of David Walker’s Appeal — a radical antislavery text written by a free Black man and Nat Turner’s Rebellion in 1831, which further intensified white fears and led to even harsher restrictions afterward.
Teaching enslaved people to read was seen as dangerous because literacy:
• Enabled communication and organizing.
• Allowed access to abolitionist writings.
• Empowered enslaved people to challenge their legal and social conditions.
Enslavers knew literacy was power — which is why Black communities pursued it despite the risks.
A newly formed nonprofit — the State Legislator Israel Caucus — grew out of the 50 States One Israel initiative in which the Israeli foreign ministry paid for 250 state-level politicians from the U.S. to tour the country and meet with Israeli officials.
"Documents obtained by @DropSiteNews under the Florida Sunshine Law outline SLIC’s aims: to set up a system to distribute pro-Israel “model legislation” to state lawmakers around the country."
It took Kamala Harris losing an entire election and watching three primaries go anti-genocide before she’d even get on the phone with Mamdani or meet with pro-Palestinian activists. Yet it took Lindsey Graham zero effort to get a heartfelt eulogy out of her. That’s who she is.
This is exactly why we need a total replacement of the "leaders" of the democratic party that have led us to this point. Lindsey Graham was a fascist ghoul and war criminal. He is in hell right now. You trying to whitewash his legacy is DISQUALIFYING for office.
Senator Lindsey Graham was one of the most loathsome warmongering anti-worker bigots in the halls of the U.S. Congress.
Graham was as vicious a proponent of imperialist war as they come. For decades, he was a hardened supporter of Israel’s ethnic cleansing and its apartheid state. He effectively called for Israel to use nuclear weapons on the Palestinian people, likened Palestinians to Nazi Germany, and urged that Israel “flatten” Gaza and the West Bank. He called for “regime change” in Iran and was an undying advocate of the ongoing genocide in Gaza. He described American funding for the bloody inter-imperialist proxy war in Ukraine as “the best money we’ve ever spent.”
Graham was virulently opposed to social democracy and socialism anywhere, and especially hated the planned economy in Cuba and social democratic reforms in Venezuela. He celebrated a possible return to capitalism in Cuba by saying “their days are numbered.” He called Venezuela, Cuba, and Colombia “the drug caliphate.”
As working and poor people lost the ground from under their feet in the Covid pandemic, Graham used his position to speak out repeatedly against the bare minimum stimulus. Graham claimed that the relief package would encourage working people to be “lazy” and unemployed. It apparently gnawed at his insides that the Covid relief bill would pay the equivalent of over $24/hour in South Carolina versus the state minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, as the world's richest people doubled their fortunes and the incomes of billions of working people plummeted and over 160 million more people were forced into poverty.
Graham strenuously opposed abortion rights, introduced numerous anti-abortion bills, and voted for every bill he could to cut social assistance for working-class and poor families.
He was a staunch opponent of trans and queer rights. He voted for the horrendous Defense of Marriage Act (scandalously voted for by a majority of Democrats and signed by Democratic President Bill Clinton), and called himself a “proud defender of traditional marriage.” He voted against repealing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, voted against the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, and co-sponsored the bill against trans women in sports.
So in summary, good fucking riddance to Lindsey Graham. Never forget the misery he helped create for hundreds of millions of people. Shame on Democratic Party politicians, including Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, and Joe Biden, who are eulogizing Lindsey Graham.
We need to build militant mass movements of the working class and build our own party to defeat the right wing, the billionaires, and both their parties.