Platner hits the Epstein class in his first ad. Treating Collins with kid gloves hasn’t worked before, Platner is taking them off. Video: @grahamformaine.bsky.social via X (@grahamformaine)

Drop Site also looked into the disappearance of these women. The Israeli military, after several weeks of going back and forth, finally provided this comment: "The three individuals mentioned in the query are not being held by the IDF, and there is no indication that they were held in IDF...

Iran is in violation of the War Powers Act? Video: Department of State via X (@StateDept)

What’s also interesting here is that AOC is well aware of how Smalls feels about her but took this step anyway. That’s a good thing.

Per an admin official to me, Kuwait also cut off access, basing and overflight (ABO). @natashakorecki.bsky.social via X (@natashakorecki):

Why’d all 3 guys run in the same direction? New Hezbollah FPV drone video released Video: barry with the NED via X (@bonzerbarry)

Ala Stanford looks to be ducking another candidate forum this evening, this one in South Philly

This has been verified as authentic From Eman from Gaza || إيمَان 𓂆🇵🇸 via X (@EmanSamir210699) x.com/EmanSamir210...

Trump says “4 or 5 snipers” killed 42,000 Iranian protesters

This from Susan Collins is genuinely disturbing. How did this get approved??

This evening in Manhattan, “The Great Israeli Real Estate Event” will be advertising land available for sale in Gush Etzion, a cluster of illegal West Bank settlements, while also making tax, legal, and banking services available for those who want to become settlers, according to the event’s...

So how are we processing the news out of Maine? Everyone good?

Scoop: Kid Rock flew to Fort Belvoir this morning on his private jet & took a little joy ride on 2 Apache helicopters w/ War Secretary Pete Hegseth, according to multiple Army sources, & backed up by flight data. Apaches typically have 2 pilots, but they went up w/ 1 so the boys could each ride...

Chinese authorities have called for “every effort” to strengthen capacity controls in the solar industry, as the sector continues to struggle with excess production.

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I don’t mean to smack the anti-Platner, genocide-apologist hornets nest here but fyi

J Street endorsing Mejia seems like a significant step for them

💢 A massacre reported...[approximately three hours] ago in Gaza, with at least 8 civilians killed in an Israeli airstrike on Al-Bureij camp in central Gaza, according to Al Jazeera Arabic.

The 2025 documentary Pistachio Wars by Yasha Levine (Watermelon Pictures) shows that billionaire California pistachio magnates Stewart and Lynda Resnick, owners of The Wonderful Company, use their influence to drive a hardline U.S. foreign policy against Iran to protect their market monopoly...

Yeah, let’s go with this

HUGE: J Street now backs blocking all aid to Israel, including for “defensive” weapons like iron dome Just weeks ago this was a controversial position for Dems, now J Street is backing it. A few years ago a Dem could get censured for holding this position. @aoc.bsky.social moving on this moved...

Joining me and Sharif Abdel Kouddous (X: @sharifkouddous on the @dropsitenews.com livestream now is Abubaker Abed (X: @AbubakerAbedW) to memorialize a friend and colleague, journalist Mohammed Wishah, assassinated this week by Israel

Drop Site livestream starting momentarily. Stop what you're doing. Or keep doing it and just watch passively.

Significant strikes hit the American base in Syria, Al Tanf, no fatalities, significant damage and fires. Two shahed drones suspected, I’m told

Asab oil field, linked to UAE’s ADNOC, burning badly after Iranian strikes. Before and after April 5, from Sentinel 2 satellite images:

Habshan oil field, also part of the UAE’s ADNOC, before and after 4/5. Burning after Iranian strikes. Sentinel 2 satellite images:

The damage being done to the global economy just tonight is going to be felt for years. Petrochemical plants in Saudi and Iran on fire, oil fields in the UAE burning.

This is absolutely insane.

Such an unconventional way to welcome liberators but perhaps this is their custom Video: Middle East Observer via X (@ME_Observer_)

Janet Mills just pulled out of a second debate with Graham Platner in Topsham scheduled for April 11, according to the debate moderator. She previously declined to participate in a debate organized by the Wabanaki nations.

Dispatch from the seder with Platner (After he wins, maybe there should be a truth and reconciliation commission or something to allow all of his haters back into polite society? Something has to be done)

We don’t thank people here enough for self-deporting from the national political conversation. Can you imagine if the toxicity on display here was broadcast regularly to the American public? Thank you for quarantining.

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“This Strait of Hormuz situation, we’ve set the conditions for success,” says Pete Hegseth. Now it’s up to others to deal with, he adds. Video: @acyn.bsky.social via X (@Acyn)

Kast is an actual Pinochet-loving fascist so I have no sympathy for him but man, I would not want to have been elected a new leader of a country in the past month with the global economy about to spin out of control. Hello and goodbye, Sr. Presidente!

Is this champagne Ben-Gvir is trying to pop? Israel moving forward with a plan to execute hundreds of Palestinians.

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🇫🇷 French ICC judge Nicolas Guillou, sanctioned by Pres. Trump in Aug. because of the court’s warrant for Netanyahu, says he has been cut off from basic financial & digital services. “I discovered that almost all payment methods in France today are American,” Guillou said. “The only cards we have...

💰 US Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent says he is “jujitsuing the Iranians.” The decision to lift sanctions on the 140 million barrels of Iranian oil stored on tankers, he says, will prevent China from purchasing it at steep discounts, & will allow the US to track the oil flow. Bessent claimed Iran...

🇦🇪🚨NEW: UAE says ceasefire no longer a priority as focus shifts to confronting Iran 🔸UAE FM & Dep. PM Abdullah bin Zayed, a senior member of the ruling family & a central architect of the country’s foreign policy, wrote on X today that UAE “will never be blackmailed by terrorists,” referring to...

🚨 BREAKING: Iran announces plan to reciprocate ongoing US-Israeli strikes on financial institutions 🔸Iran’s parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said financial institutions funding the U.S. military through purchases of U.S. Treasury bonds will now be considered “legitimate targets.”...

💢 Israel has destroyed the Qasmiyeh Bridge, a key coastal crossing north of Tyre that serves as a main link between southern Lebanon and Beirut, effectively cutting off large parts of the south from the rest of the country.

Video: Ihab Hassan via X (@IhabHassane)

🚨NEW: NATO Sec Gen. Mark Rutte tells CBS they “cannot confirm” Israel’s assessment that missiles fired at Diego Garcia were Iranian intercontinental ballistic missiles. Rutte also tried to frame the war as a necessity & called on Americans to back Pres. Trump, saying: “I’ve seen the polling, but...

🚨BREAKING: 3 Palestinian police officers killed in Israeli strike in central Gaza An Israeli strike targeted a police vehicle in the central Gaza Strip, killing 3 officers, w/ video showing the moments after the shelling. The attack comes amid repeated Israeli attacks on police units in recent...

🗞️ Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) backs Schumer amid Dem. frustration Sen. Chris Murphy said Sunday he continues to support Chuck Schumer as Dem. leader despite growing frustration w/in the party, saying the caucus remains united behind him. Speaking on NBC’s Meet the Press, Murphy said Schumer has a...

🗞️ “We did Iwo Jima. We can do this”: Graham pushes plan to seize Iran’s Kharg Island 🔹Sen. Lindsey Graham has urged Pres. Trump to escalate the war by seizing Iran’s main oil export terminal, arguing that controlling Kharg Island would cut off roughly 90% of Iran’s oil revenue and “end the war.”...

🇨🇺 Cuba’s second nationwide blackout this week as US blocks fuel for over 3 months Cuba’s 11 million people were plunged into a second nationwide blackout this week after the US blocked nearly all oil shipments to the island since Jan., leaving the country w/o fuel for more than 3 months. Tanker...

Another nationwide power outage was...announced in Cuba. Power was out in most of Havana...[two nights ago]. Doing this to 9+ million people is just completely insane.