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Saturday morning #headlines recap

Editor’s note: I did a complete news fast while I was on vacation, so I have no idea what went on while I was gone. If I missed something noteworthy please drop it in the comments…

Bulk carrier struck in the Strait of Hormuz at 05:46 UTC this morning, the third in as many days. Meanwhile Trump says he will declare the Strait of Hormuz "a territory of the United States" after defeating Iran. It’s like I never left… Washington says it can maintain the naval blockade indefinitely, per Reuters, while ceasefire talks flounder. Bessent promises economic isolation "like the world has never seen before". He also told cameras the strait will be "just another body of water" within two years as volumes move to pipelines — a claim picked apart on the grounds that pipeline terminals have already been droned and that fertilizer, helium, sulfur and ammonia can't be piped at all. Angry social media posts and delusional interviews are all we have left from this administration.

More sources reporting on the talks-rumor mechanic: Trump admin reportedly routing "fake talks" claims through Pakistani officials timed to market opens, while Tehran repeatedly denies any negotiations. I’m surprised they haven’t found a way to sell some merch around this.

US officials estimate 25% of the Reaper drone fleet lost in the Iran war. The survivability assumption of too high for MANPADS and too fast for cheap interceptors no longer holds against Iran, degrading a $30-55m asset to expendable.

The USS Abraham Lincoln story is compounding: fresh food shortages, low morale and mechanical failures from overextended deployment, with West Asian port disruption blocking replenishment-at-sea. When asked if the deployment lasted too long, Trump replied “No. No. No. Not nearly long enough.” I hope this and other ships in the area are staffed with the maximum number of DEI recruits.

Simplicius reports on the munitions factory debacle in Austin TX: Despite being paid $533 million, General Dynamics did not produce a single usable shell at its new factory, and has not been held publicly accountable. (Accountable. lol.) Since the Army halted two production lines at the factory, the General Dynamics unit responsible for the debacle has received additional contract awards totaling $2.5 billion. The setup was a rushed process exempted from “normal rules” where a Turkish subcontractor was brought on with little or no vetting. US looking for Turks to help them build munitions, lol.

Yemen: Mokha port ablaze after ballistic missile salvo; Aramco's Najran facility struck. This isn't only missiles, as a ground offensive against Saudi-backed forces in Mokha is capturing positions as well. Honestly I need a scorecard to keep up with who is fighting whom. What I do know is the jews and sand niggers have been fighting each other for the entirety of their recorded histories, and nothing will ever change that.

Lebanon: at least 7 killed by an Israeli airstrike in the south, another ceasefire violation, while President Aoun continues praising talks with Israel. Sounds like Aoun is on the Israeli payroll?

Russia reports intercepting 598 Ukrainian fixed-wing UAVs overnight across 20+ regions and the Azov and Black Seas, in one of the largest single attacks of the war. As one pundit notes: even if the individual numbers aren’t 100% accurate, the trend of increased interceptions is undeniable. NATO standing by watching every weapon in their arsenal either wasted without restocks coming, or rendered obsolete by the enemy.

The port war is the main front now. Overnight strikes on Izmail port infrastructure and an Odessa warehouse; a fuel/lubricant warehouse at Yuzhny and a patrol boat in Odessa the evening before. Ukraine offered a mutual halt on Black Sea civilian targets. Russia rejected it the same day, with Lavrov ruling out any freeze along the contact line and promising to intensify attacks on the sources of Western support. C’mon Russia, assassinate Zelenskyyyyyy and put a speedy end to this thing.

The yen is sliding back toward 160, erasing half its gains from the historic joint US-Japan intervention. PRINT HARDER

Editor’s note: all of the numbers around consumer spending, inflation, housing, fuel costs, and unemployment look bad, and even more so when you consider that the numbers have already been cooked to make them look better. Suffice it to say that all of Trump‘s chest thumping about the stock market and the economy is as fictional as his claims of victory over Iran.

FT reports OpenAI and Anthropic are shipping cheaper models to hold cost-conscious customers defecting to Moonshot and DeepSeek. In a related AI story, industry analysts say more than two-thirds of the power sought for US data centers will never materialize due to infrastructure limitations.

HEADLINE: Influential Wife Of Anthropic CEO Pitched Post-Conviction Epstein On 'Luxury Porn' Company, And Claude Has No Idea. The pictures of her protruding proboscis confirms early life status.

Memory mania continues: Sandisk stock +70% in two weeks. The US government is urging Apple not to buy Chinese memory, which mostly helps Micron, SK Hynix and Samsung have more leverage. The memory industry has a long history of boom/bust cycles… This one is gonna be a doozy.

Homan defends ICE agents possibly using shock gloves to de-escalate conflict. AC comments: “De-escalate as in, ‘After these 300,000 volts pass through your commie ass, and paralyze you, the violence will de-escalate.’ A better de-escalator would be a 5.56 through the brainpan. I voted for that, but will settle for this. Now, where do we get these commie-tickler gloves?”

ICE refuses to disclose records on Ilhan Omar fraud probe, cites ongoing ‘enforcement proceedings’. ”Enforcement proceedings” temporarily replaces “national security” on the fake-and-gay phrase leaderboard.

Luigi Mangione pleads guilty. Very disappointing. I bet a jew lawyer talked him into it, it seemed like the case had enough holes that he could have beat the rap.

The prisoner who stabbed Derek Chauvin is an FBI informant. At this point isn’t every prisoner somehow connected to a three letter agency?

In 1979 a man by the name of Leslie Donald Epstein published a book titled ‘King of the Jews’. It is a novel set in a Jewish ghetto in Nazi occupied Poland during the Holocaust. The book features a jew conman (but I repeat myself) named Trumpelman and a wealthy mill owner named Mosk. A major glitch in the matrix.

 I really enjoyed my time away, but it’s good to be back on the timeline with my fedi frens…