The Apache helicopter that crashed into the sea the previous day was shot down by Iran while patrolling over the Strait of Hormuz, President Trump said Tuesday, vowing to "respond to this attack." "There were two pilots involved, both are safe and uninjured," Mr. Trump wrote. "Nevertheless, the United States must, of necessity, respond to this attack." The two crew members were rescued by a sea drone in the first such operation ever carried out by the U.S. military, officials told CBS News. The surface drone rescued the soldiers and transported them to another location on the water where they were then hoisted up to a helicopter for further transport, according to a U.S. official. The two U.S. Army soldiers on the Apache had been patrolling waters off the coast of Oman when the crash happened. They were rescued at about 7:30 p.m. Eastern time on Monday, "within approximately two hours" of their AH-64 Apache going down.
It's been more than two months since President Donald Trump announced a ceasefire with Iran, saying at the time that the two sides were close to a deal. Trump said on social media on April 7 that they were "very far along" but needed two weeks for "the Agreement to be finalized and consummated." He concluded by saying that "it is an Honor to have this Longterm problem close to resolution." There was no resolution, of course. But Trump has nonetheless spent the two months since then continuing to suggest a deal was right around the corner. A lot. Including the period before the ceasefire, he's done it at least 38 times. That's the number of times he's said directly " in social media posts, public appearances and phone calls with the media " that a deal was nigh or claimed Iran was desperate to cut one. There's no indication that's any more true today than it was back on April 7.
Kurt Olsen, who helped try to overturn Donald Trump's 2020 election loss, is now part of the Justice Department, working on a "grand conspiracy" investigation targeting the president's foes.
Disgraced former deportation czar racist Greg Bovino, freshly returned from a neo-Nazi summit in Portugal, announced he's thinking of running for POTUS:
What financial and PSYOP support would Greg Bovino receive from international fascists, Felon Musk, and/or the Kremlin if he attempted this quixotic, but vile, campaign?
Good-for-nothing House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) bleated this confession in a podcast:
Screwed again
IDF soldiers battered and arrested Ismail en-Nicce (10) in the occupied West Bank before he was taken to a detention center where he was held for three hours. His uncle, Ziya al-Haddad: "[Palestinian] children live in an atmosphere of fear, full of terror every day, and are exposed to punishments by occupying soldiers."
The peace-loving, hardworking American taxpayer is subsidizing this horror show of child abuse and ethnic cleansing in Israel
D/ICE Tom Homan brayed on "Fox and Fiends" that plans have been laid out to flood NYC with more ICE agents "than you've ever seen." The Trumpf junta apparatchik, who the FBI caught accepting a $50,000 cash bribe in 2024, doubled down on his threats to flood the Big Apple with ICE agents after NYS Gov Kathy Hochul (D) and Albany Democrats passed sweeping sanctuary state laws last month curbing local cooperation with federal authorities.
Ripesuck Tom Homan (R) is a nasty bully and simply not a good human being
Voters in Washington state could approve an anti-transgender law, Initiative Measure No. IL26-638, which would require girl student-athletes statewide to confirm their "biological sex" with genital inspections just to play sports. Opponents of the initiative say it's invasive, could block poorer students from getting verified, and could meet pushback from medical professionals who refuse to comply.
The initiative would require students who want to participate in girls' sports to provide "a health examination and consent form or other statement signed by the student's personal health care provider that verifies the student's biological sex, relying only on one or more of the following: The student's reproductive anatomy, genetic makeup, or normal endogenously produced testosterone levels."
What impressed me most about Obama was the restraint. Now let us be honest as Black men for a second. There were countless moments where many brothers would have snapped publicly dealing with the level of disrespect he faced. People interrupted him.
Yemen's Houthis declared a ban on Israeli shipping in the Red Sea and claimed a missile strike on Israel, with the Bab el-Mandeb and Hormuz blockades now simultaneously threatening roughly a third of the world's seaborne oil and gas. Read more
House oversight committee alleges that Minnesota Democrats in the state turned a blind eye to mass fraud because they feared "political retribution from the politically active Somali community." James Comer, R-Ky, and the committee chairman said "Americans are fed up with fraud and expect action from the government entrusted with their hard-earned money."
Near the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, an IDF soldier murdered seven-month-old Sam Fahd Abu Haikal by opening fire on the family car, despite the infant's father stopping the vehicle when ordered to do so. The IDF soldier opened fire, pulled back his unit, and then simply walked away without a single word or a second thought.
The IDF treats Palestinians as Untermenschen
I noticed today that I never check the DR on my phone anymore. It used to be my #1 boredom blocker. In a waiting room or on the subway, it was my go to. Now with all the drop down ads and in between ads, etc. I just don't anymore, it's just not worth the trouble. It seems counter productive to me to make your site so annoying that folks give it up. Now the ads play to no one.
After vastly underqualified acting USAG Todd Blanche said the controversial "weaponization" fund to pay Jan 6 lunatics would "not be moving forward," good-for-nothing still-in-the-closet Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) noted that the aggrieved have always had a pathway for extracting lucrative settlements from the nefarious Trumpf junta, like the way treacherous PV1 Michael Flynn received a generous dollop of American taxpayer dollars after he betrayed the United States of America.
Here is a potential claimant
Been working on a book about psychoanalysis. The question popped into my mind. And so ... Read more
The conflict was supposed to force Iran to compromise. Instead, Tehran is negotiating from a position of surprising strength.
