[-] dead@hexbear.net 1 points 37 minutes ago

New WSJ article says that the attack that Trump wants to do is based on Israeli intelligence, rather than US intelligence.

paywalled currently.

https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/israel-believes-iran-moved-nuclear-centrifuges-into-pickaxe-mountain-d29d21c0

[-] dead@hexbear.net 9 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

There was this article published in WSJ around 6 days ago about the US striking Pickaxe mountain. I think that was the earliest report. WSJ linked in the thread below.

https://hexbear.net/post/9041879

Today Trump met with the President of Lebanon Joseph Aoun at the White House. He's pro-Israel and pro-US. Aoun is basically telling Israel that they can occupy 20% of Lebanon. Hezbollah, which is a political party and military in Lebanon, is not okay with Israel stealing the homes of Lebanese people.

A reporter asks Trump about plans to attack Pickaxe Mountain. Trump gets snappy and says that people shouldn't know where the US plans to attack. Then he says that the US will attack Iran's "nuclear centrifuges" very soon.

wsj article 1 https://archive.is/y7PgP

wsj article 2 https://archive.is/DLsIw

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https://nitter.net/Acyn/status/2079593305353138665#m

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/7/21/iran-war-live-us-launches-10th-night-of-strikes-tehran-attacks-kuwait?update=4793697

US will hit potential site of Iranian nuclear centrifuges ‘very heavily’

Trump has told reporters that the US will be hitting the area where Iran’s nuclear centrifuges are rumoured to be “soon”.

“We’ll be hitting that area very, probably pretty soon, and there’s not a thing they can do about it,” he said in response to a question about whether Iran has moved its centrifuges to Pickaxe Mountain in the Natanz area.

“Normally I wouldn’t say that,” he added, “If I thought they could do something about it, I would never say that, but we’ll be hitting that area pretty soon, and, and very heavily.”

[-] dead@hexbear.net 14 points 18 hours ago

Iran said the Strait of Hormuz is closed because Israel is occupying 20% of Lebanon. Every day, the US is telling oil tankers to go through the closed strait. Iran attacks the ships because the strait is closed. The US put the ships in danger by claiming that the strait is open.

[-] dead@hexbear.net 25 points 19 hours ago

Idk. Americans who drink Crown Royal are probably going to be upset.

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It mentions Mamdani 1 time in the document. It says he refused to denounce DSA for supporting Assata Shakur. Though today in the news, the Trump admin is feuding with Mamdani because Mamdani told NYTimes that he's consulting lawyers to whether he can arrest Netanyahu during his planned visit to NYC in September. Trump put out a tweet around 4 hours ago saying that Netanyahu isn't allowed to be arrested in the US.

state department quote

It is difficult to overstate the success of Cuba’s Shakur strategy. Shakur’s celebrity status serves as yet another example of how Cuba’s distinctive genre of Third World leftism has graduated from the fringes of the 1960s into the mainstream. Her death was not just mourned by BLM activists; it was met with a flood of glowing obituaries in legacy American media. The NAACP praised the convicted murderer as “a revolutionary who never wavered in her fight for Black liberation and a symbol of resistance against oppression.” Democratic congresswoman Ayanna Pressley tweeted “Rest in Power,” and shared a video of herself leading a crowd in call-and- response recitation of one of Shakur’s slogans. On the campaign trail in 2025, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani refused to denounce a Democratic Socialists of America tribute to Shakur.

mamdani nyt interview https://archive.is/LqP8C

trump tweet https://nitter.net/RapidResponse47/status/2079248315946828150#m

[-] dead@hexbear.net 19 points 21 hours ago

For the zoomers, LaserDisc was a competitor to DVD and it really was that big. LaserDisc vs DVD size comparison

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I searched for 'George Floyd' in the 100 page document and it appears 4 or 5 times. The document alleges that Cuba promoted the protests that occurred in response to George Floyd's murder. The implication being that protests were motivated by Cuba, rather than the injustice of police brutality.

All of this came on the heels of the Cuban regime’s gleeful support of the George Floyd uprisings. As protests and riots swept American cities in the summer of 2020, Cuban state media and officials issued daily commentary portraying the United States as a systemically racist country morally unfit to criticize Cuba’s human-rights record. Cuban President Miguel Díaz- Canel denounced America’s “practically uncontrolled expressions of hatred, racism, police brutality” in a September 2020 speech at the UN General Assembly. At the same time, the Cuban regime was violently repressing and imprisoning Afro-Cuban dissident artists and others who had criticized police killings of Afro-Cubans, and protested for artistic freedom inside Cuba.

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REPORT | State Department casts US peace activists as tools of Havana in report critics call ‘McCarthyite’

A new 99-page State Department report on Cuba is drawing accusations of McCarthyism from peace groups and civil liberties advocates for naming private American citizens, including a member of Congress’s daughter, over their opposition to U.S. policy.

The report, titled “Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism,” casts the island as a decades-long covert threat that has “infiltrated the highest reaches of the U.S. government” and “cultivated generations of American activists.” In a section on “revolutionary tourism,” it names streamer Hasan Piker (@hasanthehun), Amazon Labor Union founder Christian Smalls, the Democratic Socialists of America, former UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, and Isra Hirsi, a campus activist and the daughter of Rep. Ilhan Omar, over their participation in a March 2026 aid convoy to Cuba. It goes on to note that Hirsi was suspended from Barnard in 2024 for organizing Gaza solidarity encampments.

“Why is the State Department naming American citizens in their Cuba report where they seemingly complain about our opinions on US sanctions policy?” Piker wrote. “This is absolutely protected by the 1st Amendment. They are trying to chill speech through intimidation.”

@MedeaBenjamin of @codepink, whose group is also named, called the report “McCarthyism, plain and simple.” She told Drop Site that CODEPINK is now under Treasury Department investigation for bringing medical supplies to Cuban children’s hospitals. “The people delivering medicine are under investigation, not the officials enforcing policies that deprive Cubans of medicine, food, fuel, and electricity,” she said.

The group Cuban Americans for Cuba called the report “an act of instigation and warmongering,” saying it “reads like a document assembled to confirm a predetermined conclusion.” It said the blockade the report exists to justify has left Cuba with shortages of medicine, a healthcare system starved of supplies, and a collapsing power grid. “Cuba poses no threat to the American people,” the group said.

The report makes no mention of the U.S. energy embargo imposed in January, which the groups note has caused nationwide blackouts and devastating collective punishment across the island.

This month, 136 countries at the UN voted to condemn the suffocating economic sanctions on Cuba, with the U.S. and Israel among the handful opposed.

https://nitter.net/DropSiteNews/status/2079285813079372128#m

[-] dead@hexbear.net 28 points 23 hours ago

I copied and pasted the list from the Ken Klippenstein article. Those were the names that he found in the article which he says that document says supports Cuba. He also wrote that there's 3 whole pages dedicated to DSA. You have to read the article or read the 100 page document for more specific details.

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Adely, Suzanne: The president of the National Lawyers Guild who participated in the Nuestra América Convoy and who, the report notes, praised Venezuela’s 2024 elections.

Amazon Labor Union: A labor union founded by Christian Smalls that participated in the 2026 Nuestra América Convoy to Cuba.

Antifa: A decentralized group of self-described “Anti-fascist” political activists

Assata’s Daughters: A Chicago-based Black Lives Matter abolitionist offshoot that trains young activists in the radical spirit of Assata Shakur.

Association for Investment in Popular Action Committees (AIPAC): A California-based umbrella nonprofit that funds left-wing media and delegations to Cuba and Venezuela.

Bass, Karen: The current Mayor of Los Angeles and former Congresswoman who was a Venceremos Brigade organizer in the 1970s.

Benjamin, Medea (Susan Benjamin): A co-founder of Code Pink and Global Exchange who previously lived in Cuba and frequently organizes solidarity efforts for the regime.

Black Alliance for Peace: An activist group that maps U.S. military bases and police training facilities as targets for radical agitation.

Black Lives Matter (BLM) (including Global Network Foundation, Grassroots, and at School): A sprawling racial justice network whose leaders and offshoots express solidarity with the Cuban regime and radical figures like Assata Shakur.

Boudin, Chesa: The former District Attorney of San Francisco and son of Weather Underground member Kathy Boudin.

changingFrequencies: A Black Queer Feminist-led abolitionist project aiming to disrupt waht it calls the “Medical Industrial Complex”.

Claudia Jones School: A Washington, D.C.-based organizing collective that conducts popular education and pro-Cuba lobbying.

Code Pink: Women for Peace: A left-wing protest group that describes itself as anti-war and organizes solidarity delegations to Cuba.

Cohen, Ben: The co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s who attended the wedding of Neville Roy Singham and Jodie Evans.

de la Cruz, Claudia: The co-founder of the People’s Forum, IFCO executive director, and 2024 presidential candidate for the Party for Socialism and Liberation.

De Los Santos, Manolo: The co-founder and head of the People’s Forum who the report says maintains deep relationships with Cuban regime elites.

Democratic Socialists of America (DSA): A major socialist political organization that formally advocates for the Cuban regime and organizes official delegations to the island.

Ensler, Eve (V): A prominent playwright who attended the wedding of Neville Roy Singham and Jodie Evans.

Equality for Flatbush: A Brooklyn-based Black Lives Matter abolitionist group fighting gentrification, police, and ICE.

Evans, Jodie: The co-founder of Code Pink who married billionaire Neville Roy Singham and heavily praises anti-American foreign states.

Floyd, George: A man whose 2020 death sparked nationwide uprisings that were celebrated and supported by the Cuban regime.

Garza, Alicia: The co-founder of Black Lives Matter who credited Assata Shakur as a key influence in her organizing work.

Goodman, Amy: The host of Democracy Now! who the report notes attended the wedding of leftist billionaire Neville Roy Singham and Jodie Evans.

Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees: An activist group led by Black women that organizes to defend Black migrants and stop deportations.

Hirsi, Isra: A campus activist and daughter of Ilhan Omar who was suspended from Barnard College for organizing anti-Israel encampments before traveling to Cuba.

IFCO / Pastors for Peace: An ecumenical foundation that organizes aid caravans to leftist regimes and serves as a fiscal sponsor for numerous radical U.S. groups.

Larudee, Paul: A U.S. citizen based in San Francisco who serves as the North American coordinator for the pro-Iranian “Resistance Axis” coalition Al-Tajammu.

Mamdani, Zohran: Mayor of New York

National Lawyers Guild (NLG): An association of radical lawyers that provides legal defense and “legal observers” for various left-wing groups

National Network on Cuba (NNOC): A coalition of over 60 American groups dedicated to lobbying for the Cuban regime and coordinating nationwide direct actions.

Omar, Ilhan: A Democratic Congresswoman and mother of campus activist Isra Hirsi.

Party for Socialism and Liberation: A leftist political party that fielded a 2024 presidential candidate and conducts protests.

People’s Forum, The: An activist hub for anti-ICE and pro-Cuban agitation.

Piker, Hasan: A streamer and left-wing political commentator who, the report notes, traveled to Cuba to film a documentary and participated in the Nuestra América Convoy.

Pressley, Ayanna: A Democratic Congresswoman who, the report notes, publicly praised convicted murderer Assata Shakur upon her death.

Singham, Neville Roy: A Shanghai-based American technology magnate who funds various left-wing activist groups.

Smalls, Christian: The founder of the Amazon Labor Union who participated in the 2026 Nuestra América Convoy to Cuba.

Thousand Currents: A progressive nonprofit that served as the fiscal sponsor for the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation.

Villaraigosa, Antonio: A former Mayor of Los Angeles and Speaker of the California Assembly who was a Venceremos Brigade alumnus.

Viva Palestina US: The American branch of an international network that, the report notes, previously provided convoys and funds to Hamas.

Waters, Maxine: A Democratic Congresswoman who, the report notes, once wrote a letter urging Fidel Castro not to extradite fugitive Assata Shakur.

Wilson, Diane: A co-founder of the anti-war protest group Code Pink.

Witness for Peace Solidarity Collective: An organization that runs recurring U.S. solidarity delegations to Cuba.

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Why not?

I think that the Season 14 is consistent to the qualities of the original show. There were some parts that I did not like. The weakest character was probably Bill. However, I enjoyed watching the season overall.

The political commentary of Season 14 was relevant to current times.

spoiler

as example the manosphere episode. The theme of the episode was that better parenting would stop teens from following Andrew Tate. I think that is true to Hank Hill's character, believing that systemic misogyny would be solved by 'family values' or chivalry. Hank is a right winger, but an altruist. He wants to help people, but his framework is wrong.

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[-] dead@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago

King of the Hill season 15 comes out today. It's season 2 of the reboot. Season 14 was decent.

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CENTCOM began conducting a new wave of strikes against Iran at 7 p.m. ET today for the ninth consecutive night. The strikes will continue degrading Iranian military capabilities used to attack commercial vessels and civilian mariners transiting the Strait of Hormuz.

https://nitter.net/CENTCOM/status/2078982210611192290#m

https://nitter.net/PressTV/status/2078983796167192627#m

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/7/19/iran-war-live-us-launches-new-strikes-trump-mourns-killed-soldiers?update=4788478

power plant https://www.presstv.co.uk/Detail/2026/07/19/772576/Iran-condemns-US-attack-Darkhoveyn-nuclear-power-plant-construction-site

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Kinda wild that some burger got smoked so hard that they couldn't even find the body. Yesterday, the US reported that 2 troops were killed in the missile attack in Jordan and that 1 was missing.

https://nitter.net/CENTCOM/status/2078530691109974522#m

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CENTCOM Update on Recently Fallen U.S. Service Members

TAMPA, Fla. — Yesterday, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) announced the passing of two U.S. service members and the missing status of one in Jordan following an Iranian attack on July 17. After a thorough search, U.S. military personnel found unidentified remains at the location earlier today. An examination process to verify the remains is ongoing.

Separately, a U.S. service member in northern Iraq was killed in action July 18 during a controlled detonation of unexploded ordnance from a downed Iranian one-way attack drone. A second service member was wounded and continues to receive medical treatment for a minor injury.

CENTCOM is withholding additional information, including the identities of the missing and fallen warriors, out of respect for the families during the notification process.

https://nitter.net/CENTCOM/status/2078920477779890312#m

https://nitter.net/DropSiteNews/status/2078924984647606653#m

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/7/19/iran-war-live-us-launches-new-strikes-trump-mourns-killed-soldiers?update=4787281

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