Remember, these are the same clowns who told us nukes were unislamic & that there’s a fartwa against them….
Congress on Thursday passed legislation that would restore funding to key parts of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) except for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol, which ends a record 76-day shutdown of the department.
The Senate is more concerned about preserving the filibuster than they are about preserving the Constitution. The filibuster is not in the Constitution.
‘Do Not Be Stupid’
‘Dems Will Do It on the First Hour of Their First Day’
President Donald Trump called on Senate Republicans to lift the filibuster on Thursday so they can pass the Save America Act, which would require proof of citizenship to register to vote.
US President Donald Trump says “we might need” to restart war with Iran, adds that “nobody knows what the talks are except myself and a couple of other people”.
Not giving up nuclear program: Iran will “guard” its “advanced technologies” like it does its own borders, Mojtaba Khamenei said in a written speech read aloud by state TV. It will “secure the Persian Gulf region and dismantle the hostile enemy’s exploitation of this waterway.”
Iran reportedly utilising ceasefire to retrieve buried weapons
US media reports that Iran is utilising the ceasefire with the US to retrieve weapons previously hidden or buried under the rubble of strikes.
Trump said the US “might need” to restart war with Iran, even while claiming Iran’s leaders “want to make a deal badly”.
Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said the US’s naval blockade on Iranian ports amounts to “an extension of military operations” and is “intolerable”.
“The Chancellor of Germany should spend more time on ending the war with Russia/Ukraine (Where he has been totally ineffective!), and fixing his broken Country, especially Immigration and Energy, and less time on interfering with those that are getting rid of the Iran Nuclear threat,” Trump wrote in a social media post.
He added that the war on Iran, which has sent energy prices soaring across the globe, is “making the World, including Germany, a safer place”.
The episode underscores the fraying effects of the Iran war on the US-Europe alliance, which Trump launched jointly with Israel without consulting Washington’s NATO partners.
On Wednesday, Trump said his administration is considering scaling back the number of US troops in Germany, where Washington’s military presence is seen as the centre of its security umbrella over Europe.
Berlin has said it is ready for the possibility of fewer US soldiers on its soil while emphasising NATO cooperation.
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Latest developments
Iran’s supreme leader says a “new chapter” is emerging in the Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf.
He has defended Iran’s attacks on Gulf countries and blamed what he calls “America’s puppet bases” in the Middle East for insecurity in the region.
Khamenei also says Iran will closely guard its nuclear and missile capabilities despite Trump’s desire to dismantle them.
The Israeli army has issued threats for eight towns in southern Lebanon as the military intensifies its attacks.
Lebanon’s President Aoun has called for Israel to “stop targeting civilians, paramedics, civil defence” and other civilian groups.
Italy has denounced Israel’s interception and seizure of Global Sumud Flotilla boats in international waters and demanded the release of its citizens.
Trump said the US “might need” to restart war with Iran, even while claiming Iran’s leaders “want to make a deal badly”.
Iran has no leverage in this game of chicken. While they threaten to harass commercial shipping through the Persian Gulf, the US has blocked all Iranian shipping.
Not only does that prevent Iran from selling its oil, it means that the Iranians have to store millions of barrels of oil that are being pumped every day.
But their storage capacity is quickly running out.
Pumping oil isn’t a matter of turning a spigot on and off. Shutting down productive wells means risking their usability forever, because the oil flow will effectively destroy the wellhead.
Iran’s latest “peace” offer — which President Donald Trump would be nuts to consider — continues the Islamic Republic’s history of playing from a posture of strength when the regime is actually in a state of near-collapse.
Now the mullahs say they will agree to open the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for an end to the hostilities.
Yet the nuclear question will remain off the table for now … future talks TBD.
What chutzpah! The whole war was started to prevent Iran from achieving nuclear weapons, so why would the United States — which paused its hell-storm to give the Iranians a chance to get their minds right — give up a key demand, as though we were the ones on our heels?
Iran’s foreign-policy strategy seems to be “fake it ’til you make it.” Its leaders — whoever they are at the moment — think that if they pretend to be a major world power, and demand to be treated as such, eventually Washington will partake in the fantasy.
Iran’s counter is that it has three M’s on its side:“munitions, markets, and the midterms.“
Trump TS claim: Tehran has informed Washington they are in a “state of collapse” and that the Iranians want the US to “open the Hormuz Strait” – as ‘tank tops’ loom.
Trump doesn’t appear open to Iran’s proposal which hinges on US naval blockade ending & nuclear issue being pushed to future negotiations (CNN). Tehran working on revised plan to be sent in ‘few days’.
First crude-laden Japanese tanker from Saudi port exits Hormuz Strait successfully without Iranian interference.
Iranian analyst describes that Tehran believes it can outlast Trump & the standoff with US in Hormuz, citing “munitions, markets, and the midterms.”
So it seems unlikely he will sign up to any sort of deal that would allow Iran to postpone those nuclear talks for the time being.
He’s also very much aware the blockade is doing significant economic damage to Iran. He thinks it’s putting the Iranians under extreme pressure and, as he said on social media, he’s waiting for Iran to effectively sort out its leadership so they can work out who to speak to.
Two months of near-total internet blackout in Iran
Iran’s near-total internet blackout has now lasted exactly two months, according to global watchdog Netblocks.
Five sentenced to life in Bahrain for plotting with Iran
Five people have been sentenced to life in Bahrain for plotting “terrorist and hostile acts” with Iran.
As Gulf leaders meet in Saudi Arabia, Qatar says the Strait of Hormuz should not be used as a pressure card and warns against the possibility of a “frozen conflict”.
US President Donald Trump’s national security team is reviewing an Iranian plan to halt the war and open the Strait of Hormuz, while postponing talks on its nuclear programme.
Israel and Hezbollah continue to trade fire as the death toll from Israeli attacks on Lebanon since an April 17 “ceasefire” rises to at least 40 people.
Dozens of nations have called for the “urgent and unimpeded reopening” of the Strait of Hormuz, with UN chief Antonio Guterres warning that the US-Iran standoff in the waterway risks triggering a global food emergency.
Visit our live tracker for the latest casualty figures from across the region.
The Arab Voice
Strait of Hormuz should have ‘never been closed’
Qatar’s FM spokesperson al-Ansari says they are engaging with all their interlocutors over reopening the Strait.
“We believe it should have never been closed and it should be opened immediately, regardless of other considerations going on in the region,” he said.
Qatar in favour of ‘comprehensive deal’ to end conflict
The spokesperson said that Doha would be in favour of a “comprehensive deal” to end the conflict, following a question about reports that Iran wants to decouple Hormuz talks from nuclear discussions.
Lebanon:
Lebanon began discussing the group’s full disarmament, while debates raged within the country over Hezbollah’s future as a military and political power.
However, Hezbollah is now back on the battlefield, fighting Israel in southern Lebanon and appears not to be as degraded a fighting force as many had believed.
The Brainrot happening inside universities has a cause, and it has a money trail. Watch Charles Asher Small of @isgapinternational expose the insanity of what’s happening, and the strange connection between the Taliban and liberal universities in the West.
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Jihad by the pen, jihad by speaking, by education and by corrupting western universities as enabled Islam to penetrate the West in ways unimaginable just half a century ago.
Roman Catholic voters are standing by President Donald Trump amid a deep and public spat with Pope Leo XIV, according to recent polling.
Newsweek examined polls from February, March, and April, during which the pope made public his disapproval of the U.S. war against Iran.
Continued sniping from the Vatican led Trump to suggest the pope stick to matters of faith and allow American leaders to govern.
Newsweek used three Fox News polls for its sampling of Roman Catholic opinion. In the first, taken between Feb. 28 and March 2, Roman Catholic voters gave Trump a 52 percent approval rating.
A poll taken between March 20 and March 23, as the pope was criticizing Trump, showed Trump had a 48 percent approval rating among Roman Catholics.
But a third poll, conducted between April 17 and April 20, showed Trump with a 51 percent approval rating with Roman Catholics, even after he suggested the pope should rein in his comments.
White House representative Taylor Rogers suggested Roman Catholics were focused on what Trump was doing for them and not the pope’s commentary.
“There has never been a greater president for Catholic Americans than President Trump, and his record proves it,” Rogers said in a statement.
Gramsci’s “long march through the institutions” was successful beyond his wildest dreams. Now you got the second commie pope in a row, but who will tell the believers?
A viral video from rural Gunma Prefecture in December 2025 captured it perfectly: roughly 50 Pakistani migrant workers lined up in synchronized rows, kneeling in prayer on a narrow farm road for nearly two hours. An ambulance and a school bus were forced to turn around and take detours.
This wasn’t an isolated mishap.
Similar scenes have played out in Osaka during Eid prayers, where crowds spilled from mosques into streets and parking structures, and in Fukuoka, where public parks became open-air prayer halls despite nearby mosques. These are not harmless acts of devotion. They are deliberate assertions of presence, a non-violent claim on public space in one of the world’s most orderly, homogeneous societies.
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Everywhere, where people allowed Mohammedans to settle behind, what they perceive to be enemy lines, they will get this in return:
If Mojtaba Khamenei and his minions, or whoever is now running the Islamic Republic of Iran, actually do at some point make a deal with Trump, it also must be remembered that it won’t be worth the paper it’s printed on.
President Trump said today he has ordered the US Navy to take lethal action against any Iranian vessels attempting to lay mines in the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran has granted “friendly” countries, including Russia, a fee exemption to transit the Strait of Hormuz, reports the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti.
That kind of stuff doesn’t work with Trump.
Nothing gets in or out:
This is the Persian Gulf! You see the first blockade in the narrow area? That’s the strait of Hormuz. That’s what the terrorist Islamic regime closed to put pressure on president Trump and US to back down. But they still don’t get it that President Trump is a 3 D chess player. He closed the second area which is wider and no ship related to the terrorist Islamic regime is able to leave or enter.
This is absolutely one of the smartest moves in the modern warfare. We give the glory to God for giving President Trump wisdom, knowledge understanding and might. The Islamic regime never thought of this and are caught by surprise. They literally can’t import weapons, missile fuels, they can’t sell oil. This is like holding them by the neck. Plus because of the Islamic regime closed the strait of Hormuz, now everyone is buying expensive oil from the USA. US oil sale jumped to 5.3 million barrels per day. Military masterpiece.
Relatives carry the coffin of Haider Farhat, a Hezbollah fighter killed during the conflict with Israel, in Tyre, southern Lebanon, on April 23, 2026
US President Donald Trump says he hopes to host Israeli and Lebanese leaders “in the near future”, after announcing a three-week extension to the fragile ceasefire in Lebanon, which was due to expire on Sunday.
President Trump said he is under no pressure to end his war with Iran, though time is limited for Tehran. “I have all the time in the World, but Iran doesn’t – The clock is ticking!” Trump wrote on social media.
A third US aircraft carrier has arrived in the Middle East. The USS George HW Bush joined the USS Gerald R Ford and USS Abraham Lincoln in a massive buildup of naval firepower.
Trump gives orders to “shoot and kill” any Iranian boats placing sea mines in the Strait of Hormuz, as the US naval siege of Iran’s ports continues, and officials in Tehran say talks will not resume until the blockade is lifted.
The black spot on Salami’s forehead is a zebiba, from banging his head on the floor when he prays to allah to help him destroy the infidels….
In a daring midnight operation, U.S. Special Forces launched a high-impact raid on a hidden Iranian naval fleet near Bandar Abbas, uncovering a top-secret IRGC compound that had been off the radar for years.
155 vessels were sunk, fast attack boats and missile craft obliterated, and high-profile figures extracted under extreme pressure. But the real bombshell came when one key figure was captured, and what they revealed could change everything.
Explosions tore through the harbor as the operation became one of the deadliest naval strikes in recent history. But what the world doesn’t know yet about this operation could send shockwaves through international security…
