NEW: The US-Israeli combined force continued to strike naval, military, defense industrial, and internal security sites across Iran on March 22 and 23. ISW-CTP has observed strikes in 14 provinces since 3:00 PM ET on March 22. (1/7)

Damn, Gerry Baker. 👀

1/ Has Donald Trump accidentally recreated, in an even more severe form, the energy crisis that doomed Jimmy Carter's presidency? A comparison with the 1979 oil crisis shows worrying parallels with the current situation. ⬇️

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Russian oil is burning so hard even Orbán can smell it from Budapest

look at this baby beaver and feel better briefly (@ wildheartrescue on TT)

Dozens of Israeli settlers stormed the Palestinian village of Jalud during Eid al-Fitr, torching homes and wounding at least one person. The attack comes amid a surge in settler violence in the occupied West Bank, where over 1,000 Palestinians have been killed since October 2023.

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SBU Alpha shares a reel of precise strikes on Russian infantry. The unit says 1,834 Russian occupiers were put into 200/300 status over the past week.

Ukrainian forces repelled a massive Russian mechanized assault across 7 axes near Lyman, involving 500+ troops, 28 armored vehicles and over 100 light vehicles, inflicting heavy losses and stopping the advance. #Ukraine

I miss skating San Francisco, but my knees have officially retired from the concrete.

Hassane Diallo is 6’8, and he is absolutely towered over.

I can’t believe we’re mainstreaming this shit. This is what happens when the billionaires own the media.

Aah, Chopin, the age-old lullaby for cultured felines. 😸💤 #cat #chopin #piano #concerto

“.. Investors are now betting overall US inflation over the next 12 months will surge above 5%. Implied inflation rate from 1 year breakeven:” @bloomberg.com

nothing like a saturday of labor day weekend newsdump, but no time like the present: I wrote a book, and it’s available for pre-purchase! linktr.ee/artbutmakeit...

Out of respect for the Chief, LeBron should retire tomorrow

Best friend doggos reunited after a week apart.

⁨"Breaking records when it comes to unpopularity"⁩

This is how passenger trains have to operate in frontline regions - with a flatbed car ahead in case of mines, and drivers shielded by additional protective plates and mesh. Russia has been attacking Ukrainian trains a lot recently. 📹: tvoe_rivne / Threads

❗️"I have no idea what the allies were looking at for 4 years while we were fighting," – Ukrainian Armed Forces instructors who were sent to help counter Iranian missiles and UAVs are shocked by how the US shoots down targets, – The Times. The most interesting points:

NEW: This new report, from BBC, is the best takedown of the insanity of Trump you will see anywhere. Calm, coherent and repeating only Trump’s own words. Devastating. Brilliant work once again from Roz Atkins. (🎥 BBC News)

Trump cannot be brainwashed by Putin. For obvious reasons.

In the very large universe of shocking things Trump has said to other foreign leaders, this is easily in the top 2 or 3.

❗️🇺🇦Ukrainian soldiers from the SIGNUM battalion are destroying 🇷🇺Russian fortifications on the Lyman direction

1/ Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland in January, with military support from France, Germany, and Nordic nations. Elite troops and F-35 jets with live ammunition were sent, and runways were to be blown up to prevent an invasion. ⬇️

I can listen to this on a loop all day long, lol. 🤣🤣

1. A few months before it started a war in Iran, the Trump administration decommissioned the last of its four mine countermeasure ships. These ships were “capable of finding, classifying and destroying moored and bottom mines.” Now the Strait of Hormuz is closed.

Die russischen Idioten haben beschlossen, die Frontlinie bei Nowopavlivka zu stürmen, aber das ist irgendwie nicht so richtig geklappt. 😏🤷‍♂️

Jon Stewart Invites Panel of Trumps to Debate Iran War youtu.be/a2aYd-XHzsI

1/ Iran intends to leverage its stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz to force the US and Gulf Arab states to accept an agreement in which Iran has set "appropriate political and security conditions", in which its security is guaranteed and US bases in the region are closed. ⬇️

Jon Stewart is echt briljant www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2aY...

europeans when asked to help unblock the strait of hormuz

1/ Leaked orders from the Russian Ministry of Defence show that Telegram is being banned immediately for operational use by Russian forces in Ukraine, with soldiers reportedly facing being sent to their deaths in assaults if they are found not to be complying. ⬇️

AUTHERS: “.. logic now points toward escalation .. The Strait of Hormuz is closed, Iran evidently intends to keep it that way, and there is no credible means to claim US victory unless it reopens.” @johnauthers.bsky.social

❗️Blocking of Telegram in Russia has already begun. Russian media are reporting this. For the third day already, the popular messenger is not working and experiencing failures in a number of regions. A number of so-called “experts” believe that a specific targeted blocking has already started.

1/ Russia is having increasing problems using drones in the Kherson area, due to improved Ukrainian electronic warfare and drone strikes against Russian forces. Ukraine is reported to have devised an ingenious approach to deploy fibre-optic drones across the Dnipro river. ⬇️

Over the past week, #Ukrainian Defenders struck and destroyed multiple Russian targets.This is a selection of several of them.Ukrainian Defense Forces are increasing middle-range and long-range strikes. Glory! ▪️Tor SAM system -destroyed by Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces (USF) in Donetsk region;⤵️

MAGA understanding basic supply and demand challenge (impossible)

Cancel the MLB season and give me six months of this. Team USA is only invited if it can remove the stick from its ass and remember the joy of this children’s game.

It's so cool that baseball can sound like this in March.

☠️ Russians who will never return home, - BBPS 57

👀 FPV drone operators of the Forpost brigade destroy the invaders who were masked from aerial reconnaissance: upon noticing the drone, they often fall to the ground and try to pretend to be dead.

❗️🇺🇦Ukrainian troops from the 15th Separate Artillery Reconnaissance Brigade “Chornyi Lis” (“Black Forest”) are adjusting a HIMARS strike on 🇷🇺Russian trucks that are loading ammunition.

Whisky Pete can’t keep his story straight.

So if anybody -- state attorneys general, Democratic politicians, sentient beings -- doesn't understand why Paramount Skydance's takeover of Warner Bros./CNN is a huge problem, Pete Hegseth is here to explain it to you. Stop the propaganda. Block this merger.

Zwientjes!

☠️ Spring is in full swing, as is the great cleaning of our land from the occupiers and their trash, - 92 OSHBR

❗️🇺🇦Ukrainian soldiers from the SIGNUM battalion attack 🇷🇺Russian infantry and logistics in the Lymansk direction