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US moving fighter jets to Middle East
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Florida attorney general held in contempt
after challenging court's block on immigration law
Wednesday 06/18/2025

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Home Front: Politix
'Anti-ICE riots inspire lawmakers to
halt federal funding from cities that supported rioters
Africa Horn
Dupe headline: 'Kenya protesters
clash with men wielding clubs
Fifth Column
Man arrested near 'No Kings' protest
allegedly had stash of pipe bombs at home
Caribbean-Latin America
Reputed cartel leader %u2018El Flaquito' arrested in Tijuana
-Lurid Crime Tales-
Mayor Johnson warns Trump against deploying
federal troops for immigration crackdown in Chicago
Britain
How Musk Forced The UK To Admit
It's Islamic Grooming Gang Crisis
US police charge suspect in fatal shooting of Minnesota lawmaker and husband, published hit list appears odd%u200B


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Posted by: Fred || 06/18/2025 || Comments || Link || [29 views] Top|| File under:


Caribbean-Latin America
Reputed cartel leader ‘El Flaquito' arrested in Tijuana
[SDUT] Pablo Edwin Huerta is accused of being one of the region's "main generators of violence" to control drug trafficking corridors
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Posted by: Frank G || 06/18/2025 00:17 || Comments || Link || [145 views] Top|| File under: Narcos

#1  Diff Narco: San Diego indictment unsealed after reputed cartel boss killed in shootout with Mexican police
Prosecutors said alleged leader of Guatemalan cocaine-trafficking group known as Chiapas-Guatemala cartel was lead defendant in San Diego prosecution
Posted by: Frank G || 06/18/2025 0:40 Comments || Top||

#2  lead defendant

Does that mean he was at the head of the line,
or was the heaviest?
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/18/2025 0:48 Comments || Top||

#3  I think Fat Leonard was the heftiest defendent
Posted by: Frank G || 06/18/2025 0:50 Comments || Top||

#4  Loved his piano accordion work with the Texas Tornados.
Posted by: Glolutch Tingle1702 || 06/18/2025 1:09 Comments || Top||

#5  El Flaquito, sounds like a nickname for a body part.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 06/18/2025 3:08 Comments || Top||

#6  Flaquito is a diminutive (the Spanish language uses diminutives or augmentatives a lot) for flaco: a person or animal that is meager/underweight for his size

So El Flaquito => "The little meager man"
Posted by: JFM || 06/18/2025 11:43 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
Man arrested near 'No Kings' protest allegedly had stash of pipe bombs at home
A West Chester, Pennsylvania, man arrested near a "No Kings" protest on Saturday has allegedly been found to be in possession of seven pipe bombs at his home, according to police.
"Personal use, man!"
The West Chester Police Department said 31-year-old Kevin Krebs was arrested on Saturday after members of the public told officers a man with a concealed weapon was walking near a large rally in Chester County, one of several held in communities across the country to protest President Donald Trump.

When officers identified the suspect, they stopped and questioned him before allegedly discovering he was in possession of a firearm without having a concealed carry permit.

When questioned, Krebs allegedly told detectives "he wanted to go protest peacefully, but also wanted to be safe because of what he has seen on television."
Sounds like he is a little lacking in the social awareness area.


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Posted by: Skidmark || 06/18/2025 00:44 || Comments || Link || [65 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israeli tank shelling kills 51 people awaiting aid trucks in Gaza, ministry says
[GEO.TV] Israeli tank shellfire killed at least 51 Paleostinians on Tuesday as they awaited aid trucks in Khan Younis in the southern Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip, the territory's health ministry said, adding that dozens of others were maimed.

Medics said residents said Israeli tanks fired shells at crowds of desperate Paleostinians awaiting aid trucks along the main eastern road in Khan Younis. They said at least 51 people were killed and 200 maimed, with at least 20 of them at death's door.

There was no immediate comment by the Israeli military on the incident.

Witnesses said Israeli tanks fired at least two shells at thousands of people awaiting aid trucks. Nasser Hospital wards were crowded with casualties, and medical staff had to place some on the ground and in corridors due to the lack of space.

The incident was the latest in nearly daily mass deaths of Paleostinians who were seeking aid in past weeks, including near sites operated by the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
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Posted by: Fred || 06/18/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [90 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  "Nasty tanks," sez Gollum.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/18/2025 0:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Sez GEO.TV, obviously an unbiased source. spit.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 06/18/2025 5:34 Comments || Top||


Gaza death toll rises to 55,493, says health ministry
[GEO.TV] The Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Health Ministry said on Tuesday that at least 61 bodies have been brought to the hospitals over the past 24 hours, Al Jazeera reported.

Additionally, at least 397 people were maimed in Israeli attacks over the same period.

The figures bring the number of people killed in the territory since the start of the war in October 2023 to 55,493, with at least 129,320 injured.

Meanwhile,
...back at the pound, the little lost dog backed into the corner and showed its teeth. And what big teeth they were!...
Israeli attacks have killed 5,194 Paleostinians and injured 17,279 others since breaking a ceasefire with Hamas
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
in March.
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Posted by: Fred || 06/18/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [46 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
TousiTV:: Khamenei SURRENDERS Power To Military As Israel Controls Tehran
[X]

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Posted by: 3dc || 06/18/2025 11:02 || Comments || Link || [132 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


#2  excellent collection of video footage

unfortunately, the announcer doesn't give date and time for each
Posted by: Lord Garth || 06/18/2025 12:17 Comments || Top||

#3  He's a Shah supporter.
Posted by: 3dc || 06/18/2025 12:40 Comments || Top||

#4  "Shah supporter"

Ahhhh - there have been conversations about where Tousi gets his funding. Know your sources, they say.
Posted by: mossomo || 06/18/2025 13:15 Comments || Top||

#5  Trump should have started this war months ago. Hell, Biden should have started this war half a year ago!

The writing was on the wall!
Regime change in Iran is the only possible outcome. And a complete dismantling of their nuclear weapons program like Libya did.
And we kept our end of that deal, too. Colonel Gadafi stayed in control of his socialist country until he started genociding his own people. That's a crime against humanity. The US has R2P, responsibility to protect. Borders don't matter when a genocide is going on.
So NATO attacked and destroyed his country and topped the genocide. Unfortunately Gaddafi did not survive to face war crimes trials at The Hague. Some asswipe killed him before we got to try him. That was disappointing, it would be great to see him rotting in prison for the rest of his life. Unfortunately he couldn't hang like the Nazis did.
Posted by: Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 || 06/18/2025 13:46 Comments || Top||

#6  "Unfortunately he couldn't hang like the Nazis did."

BUT
Argentina now admits Hitler went there..
Posted by: 3dc || 06/18/2025 14:08 Comments || Top||

#7  Why not turn Iran into the 51st State?
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper || 06/18/2025 14:19 Comments || Top||

#8  5^

I don't agree that we were without blame in Libya.

A convoy with Mumar in it was hit by a NATO air squadron (mostly US) after which Mumar tried to hide. He was then killed by other Libyans but there is considerable doubt whether the NATO strike was within the rules. NATO was supposedly mainly defending civilians in non Mumar ruled Libya at the time.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 06/18/2025 14:24 Comments || Top||

#9  #8: Ask Killary it was her game including "Arab Spring" which destroyed Syria and almost Egypt too.
Posted by: 3dc || 06/18/2025 14:35 Comments || Top||


Air Defense Unit protecting Fordow Nuke Plant has been destroyed
[X] This site is about 60 miles south of Tehran. The working space is about 200' below ground level. There are about a half dozen entrance points however which could be destroyed and electricity to the plant is pretty vulnerable also.

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Posted by: Lord Garth || 06/18/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [241 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  As I recall, 200 ft is nothing.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/18/2025 0:04 Comments || Top||

#2  GBU-57A/B MOP

these components enable the GBU-57A/B to penetrate up to 200 feet (61 m) of reinforced concrete or soil, making it the most powerful conventional bunker-penetrating weapon currently in the U.S. arsenal
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/18/2025 0:39 Comments || Top||

#3 
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/18/2025 0:40 Comments || Top||

#4  Skid, the most powerful bunker buster currently ‘admitted’ to be in the US arsenal. Published concept sketches suggest the possibility of more than just two stages, which with properly shaped charges might be capable of greater penetration.
Posted by: Glenmore || 06/18/2025 1:28 Comments || Top||


#6  It will take 4 GBU-57s down the same hole to wipe out the complex!
Posted by: Daffy Jones3653 || 06/18/2025 3:52 Comments || Top||

#7  Down the same hole and precisely timed. But you say that like it's an impossible thing...
Posted by: Glenmore || 06/18/2025 11:51 Comments || Top||


#9  The only way Israel can possibly take out Iran's most heavily fortified Fordow nuclear enrichment facility - with Trump's help

Anyone cares to put a little bet on it?
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 06/18/2025 13:06 Comments || Top||

#10  I walked the ground at Osirak in the 80's. The IDF was finished with the job in less than 5 minutes.

Posted by: Besoeker || 06/18/2025 13:36 Comments || Top||


Iran Attacks Israeli Air Bases
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Iran attacked air bases in Israel. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC, elite units of the Armed Forces) made a corresponding statement on June 17.

"The target of the new large-scale missile operation was the Zionist regime's air bases from which enemy planes take off [to carry out attacks] on our country," the Fars news agency quotes the IRGC statement as saying.

The IRGC also emphasized its readiness to continue conducting targeted operations against Israel.

As reported by the Regnum news agency, the Iranian security forces announced that they have many "aces up their sleeve" that will come as a surprise to Israel. According to the military command, Iranian troops are inflicting painful blows on the territory of the Jewish state.

On June 17, Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov stated that the situation surrounding the conflict between Israel and Iran is on the path of galloping escalation, and its level of unpredictability is absolute.

More from regnum.ru
120 women and children injured in Israeli strikes on Iran

At least 120 women and children have been injured in Israeli strikes on Iran since June 13. This was reported on June 17 by Iranian government spokesperson Fatemeh Mohajerani.

“The number of injured women and children has exceeded 100 and reached 120,” ISNA agency reports her words.

On June 16, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei reported that 73 people, including women and children, were killed in three recent IDF strikes on Tehran. He also noted that Tel Aviv is deliberately attacking civilian infrastructure and civilians.

On the same day, Iranian Health Minister Mohammad Reza Zafargandi announced that at least 1,800 people had been injured by Israeli aggression. He noted that most of those killed or wounded were civilians.


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Posted by: badanov || 06/18/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [173 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


#2 
2025-06-18 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran Attacks Israeli Air Bases


...For all the good it did 'em.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 06/18/2025 10:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Iran Attacks Israeli Air Bases

Hits open field and a parking lot.
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 06/18/2025 11:49 Comments || Top||

#4  pretty obvious who Russia is supporting

also becoming obvious that Russia is pretty disjointed in the performance of the Russian weapons in Iran

probably won't be getting a lot of IRGC troops to use as cannon fodder in Ukraine
Posted by: Lord Garth || 06/18/2025 13:11 Comments || Top||


Trump Says US Controls Iranian Airspace
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

As we should...

[Regnum] Iran's airspace is now under the full control of the United States, US President Donald Trump said on June 17.

"We now have complete and total control over Iranian airspace. Iran had good air surveillance and other defense equipment, and there was a lot of it, but it does not compare to what was designed, developed and manufactured in America," Trump wrote on his Truth Social page.

He did not provide any other details.


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Posted by: badanov || 06/18/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [99 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


#2  Sounds like the same old Middle Eastern story: Arab countries and Iran spend big bucks on Russian air defense systems and Israeli Air Force bombs those countries with impunity. Russia gets the gold and their clients get the shaft.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/18/2025 12:48 Comments || Top||

#3  We now have complete and total control over Iranian airspace.?????????
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 06/18/2025 13:07 Comments || Top||

#4  Keeping in mind that Iran is 3 times the size of Ukraine - and the number of airframes the Israeli's can put airborne over that space at any given time - that doesn't sound like a statement with 100% confidence.
Posted by: Clem+Elmish4239 || 06/18/2025 14:27 Comments || Top||


US moving fighter jets to Middle East
[GEO.TV] The US military is deploying more fighter aircraft to the Middle East and extending the deployment of other warplanes, bolstering US military forces in the region as the war between Israel and Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
rages, three US officials said.

One of the officials said the deployments include F-16, F-22 and F-35 fighter aircraft.

Two of the officials stressed the defensive nature of the deployment of fighter aircraft, which have been used to shoot down drones and projectiles.

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Posted by: Fred || 06/18/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [129 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


#2  Another middle east war that demands our attention. I hope Israel trusts us enough to share intelligence. We've been absolutely horrible allies since January and i don't blame them if they won't share. Too many leakers in the US.
Posted by: Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 || 06/18/2025 13:50 Comments || Top||

#3  Some of the reason we stay in the UN is so we have a say in how things play out. America / Trump will most likely get involved in Iran so America has some pull in what comes next after the mullahs.
#FreePersia
Posted by: mossomo || 06/18/2025 14:12 Comments || Top||



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