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17 July 2026 00:03

—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: In a reckless move, the U.S. targeted several railway bridges in southern Iran during the past 6 hours

Only a limited amount of bridges were attacked, this was not a widespread attack on infrastructure, but this is a clear red line for Iran.

@Middle_East_Spectator

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17 July 2026 00:03

🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — U.S. Central Command:

U.S. Marines from the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit conduct a verification boarding aboard M/T Wen Yao in the Gulf of Oman, July 16.

As of today, American forces have redirected 3 commercial vessels trying to run the blockade, disabled 1 that didn’t comply, and boarded 1 to ensure full compliance with the ongoing U.S. naval blockade against Iran.

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16 July 2026 23:10

🌬 🔥 🇨🇦 This aerial footage was captured by Scott Hatton, who said that it shows smoke rising from fires in Thunder Bay, Ontario.

At least 183 wildfires were burning in Ontario as of Wednesday, July 15.

Credit: Scott Hatton via Storyful

📎 FOX 9

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16 July 2026 21:53

🌡 🇫🇷 🌾 The before and after of France from late May to mid-July is jarring after a string of unprecedented heatwaves.

Over 2,000 are estimated to have died in the country during the record-breaking June heatwave.

Agricultural losses are likely in the billions of euros.

📎 Colin McCarthy

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16 July 2026 21:46

🌬 🔥 🇺🇸 Chicago has disappeared from the shores of Lake Michigan

It was there the last two days.

📎 WindyCity Weather and News

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16 July 2026 20:33

🛠🤝☪️ Speaking at the Political Terrorism Summit, Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, alleges a "new operation alliance" between "international Marxism and radical Islamic movements"

"Old ideological boundaries are now giving way to new operational alliances. A unified front between international Marxism and radical Islamic movements need not share the same ultimate vision to share the same immediate enemy of free and self governing societies. That convergence should concern every government representative in this room (...)"

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16 July 2026 19:33

🌬 🔥 🇺🇸 Detroit now has the worst air quality of any major city in the world

🔗 Breaking911 (@Breaking911)

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16 July 2026 19:28

🌬 🔥 🇺🇸 Another wave of dense wildfire smoke is forecast to reach New York and New England on Thursday afternoon and evening before it surges into the Mid-Atlantic on Thursday night.

Thick, unhealthy smoke is expected in D.C. on Friday, with some reaching Virginia and North Carolina.

📎 Ben Noll

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16 July 2026 18:58

📢 🇺🇸 🛠 Rubio: "We will dismantle these networks brick by brick. It is time for the people of the civilized world to defend ourselves."

📎 State Department

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16 July 2026 18:58

📢 🇺🇸 🛠 Rubio: "These are not distinct and isolated cells, they are interconnected networks. They do not recognize our borders. They do not believe in the nation-state itself."

📎 State Department

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16 July 2026 18:58

📢 🇺🇸 🛠 Rubio: "Antifa militants and their comrades travel from across Europe and to the Americas to participate in each other's attacks, to funnel propaganda and training, materials, and target information through shared encrypted channels — moving through underground networks of safe houses, and finance and sustain their operations through transnational funds."

📎 Rapid Response 47

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16 July 2026 18:10

🇺🇦 Ukrainian president, Vladimir Zelensky, has nominated Yevgeny Khmara for the ministry of defense.

Khmara is a Major-General in the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). Previously he led the Center Special Operations “A” (Alpha) of the SBU. CSO Alpha is specialised in irregular warfare and assassination.

@CIG_telegram

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16 July 2026 17:29

✊❌🗳⚖️ DSA Members: “We might not even have a president. Abolish the Senate, abolish the Supreme Court.”

🔗 DSA Watch (@DSA_Watch)

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16 July 2026 17:02

🇦🇪⚔️🇮🇷 New footage reportedly shows kamikaze drones striking Iran's Port of Bandar Abbas.

The drones appear consistent with UAE-made Yabhon R/H ISR platforms, possibly modified for one-way attack (OWA) missions.

Iran has so far avoided targeting the UAE or Saudi Arabia during the latest escalation, but that restraint may not last if these strikes are confirmed to have been carried out by the UAE.

🔗 EGYOSINT

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16 July 2026 16:43

📢 🇺🇸 🛠 Rubio: "Under President Trump, for the first time, the United States is building the infrastructure, the partnerships, and the strategy to defeat the scourge of far-left terror."

📎 State Department

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17 July 2026 00:03

🇮🇷❌🇰🇼🇺🇸 — Scenes from Kuwait, near the Iraqi border, following Iranian drone strikes.

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16 July 2026 23:31

📝 🔥 🇨🇦 Canada Is Primed to Burn. Why Aren’t We Ready?

Canada divides its wildfire-fighting responsibilities among provinces and territories, with a federal division for parks. How each agency manages its fires varies—Yukon, for example, lets most of its fires burn, jumping in only when they get close to urban areas, whereas BC and Alberta try to suppress the majority of fires wherever they are. Budgets and staffing are also decentralized, with each province and territory owning and contracting out their own firefighters and fleets of air tankers as needed.

When every wildfire fighter within Canada is deployed (NPL 5), CIFFC turns to countries like Australia, Mexico, and South Africa for help, a backstop that Canada has been increasingly leaning on. Between 2015 and 2022, the most international firefighters in Canada at any time was 785, with a yearly average of 350. In 2025, that number was 1,279. Two years before, during 2023’s record-breaking year for wildfires, it was 4,464.

A centralized, national body could make sure the country has a united and consistently funded approach to prevention and suppression, say advocates. Rather than coordinating scattered resources and personnel across jurisdictions with their own priorities and budgets, like CIFFC, it would have its own. They believe that if wildfire management was integrated into other national-priority areas like housing, infrastructure, green technology, health, and employment, there would be fewer gaps in resources and decision making.

Currently, Canada is the only G7 country that does not have a national agency to respond to wildfires. After the devastating 2023 fire season, then BC member of Parliament Richard Cannings called on the government to establish a national, non-military forest fighting force to be deployed when needed to support provincial teams. This prompted a survey by Abacus Data, which polled 1,500 Canadians and found that three in four are in support. An analysis of the data suggested that summer’s fires “left a lasting impression on the public consciousness, emphasizing that wildfires are not isolated incidents but a national problem requiring a national solution.”

📝 Maxwell Schaeffer: Ontario cut their forest firefighting budget by $42M last year.
And in 2023, “Canada’s wildfire season released the equivalent of the annual fossil fuel emissions of India.”

📝 Hotshot Anon: "Giant ass megafires shouldn't even be a thing. Nearly every forest that is managed, or has been managed in the past will explode because what should be a normal understory burn becomes an uncontrolled disaster. Poor logging habits compounded by the literal hippy environmentalist retards of the 1960s. A huge wave of legislation was passed in like the 70s and 80s to impair logging, and most companies basically just dropped everything and walked off. Most forests in the US are ugly and unhealthy. They're overgrown and scraggly, or sparse and overwhelmed. Where there should be ponderosa trees there are ugly field oaks; where there should be cottonwoods and birches there is barren soil. Decades of fire suppression has ensured the opposite of healthy resilience. In the east, they have terrible bugkill. Agencies typically don't do serious post-fire rehabilitation. We've taken natural fire out of the equation and now forests are slowly dying from poor care and misplaced priorities."

"Climate change is basically a slur for me at this point. Fires are getting larger and more dangerous because there isn't anything substantial being done to mitigate fuel loading and availability. Grass gets greener and grows taller; brush, vines, and smaller species grow thicker and die and are grown over by more of their offspring; and trees are haphazardly allowed to grow in dense stands with variable or no substantial forester oversight. Log-decks, slash piles, dead-and-down, harvest piles, junk wood that's piled high, all of these are growing because there isn't enough fire to keep fuel loading low. Fires aren't isolated, tragic events that just happen. I'd recommend reading up on the Big Burn of 1910 to better understand why it gets this bad."

https://thewalrus.ca/canada-wildfires/

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16 July 2026 22:22

🌡 🇬🇧 🌾 England is being crushed by drought after three brutal heatwaves since May.

Over 8 million UK homes now have hosepipe bans due to low reservoir levels.

Natural England has declared an "exceptional" wildfire risk, its highest tier, across much of England.

📎 Colin McCarthy

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16 July 2026 21:48

🌬 🔥 🇺🇸 The disappearance caught live

📎 WindyCity Weather and News

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16 July 2026 21:04

🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — Several areas in Bandar Abbas, southern Iran, have been struck by U.S. airstrikes, according to Fars News Agency.

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16 July 2026 19:34

📢 🇺🇸 🛠 Secretary of State Rubio says there will be more terrorist designations of left-wing groups "soon."

🔗 Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein)

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16 July 2026 19:32

🌬 🔥 🇺🇸 How bad will the smoke get in your city?

Here's predicted air quality index values for 20 places that will be smoky into early Saturday.

Unhealthy air quality levels are predicted for more than 115 million people.

Wildfire smoke will worsen in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic through Friday.

This comes after NOAA's GOES-19 satellite, which was tracking the fires, experienced an anomaly and its data has stopped flowing.

https://archive.ph/lAGQI

📎 Ben Noll

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16 July 2026 19:18

🚢 🇺🇦 🇷🇺 This video reportedly shows strikes against commercial shipping launched by Russia against the Ukranian ports of Odesa and Chornomorsk.

Both Ukraine and Russia are conducting strikes against commercial shipping.

📎 Sal Mercogliano

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16 July 2026 18:58

📢 🇺🇸 🛠 Rubio: "This is a distinctive and unique evil. It has always been driven by a hatred, above all else, for civilization itself."

📎 State Department

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16 July 2026 18:58

📢 🇺🇸 🇨🇺 Rubio: "The Cuban regime's sprawling intelligence and ideological network helped to build the far left in our country and in our hemisphere and it remains inextricably linked to the far left groups and movements across and beyond the West."

"Today's far left terrorists can raise money in one country. They can host their communications in a second country. They can receive training in a third country."

"They can recruit militants in a fourth country and then together strike a target in a fifth country."

"And so we have no choice but to confront this menace together. We will either cooperate across our borders or the terrorists will continue to exploit the gaps between them."

📎 Eric Daugherty

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16 July 2026 18:49

🇦🇪 No disruption in the air traffic above Dubai meaning that the explosion reported on by Reuters was minor and not related to a resumption of drone and missile attacks by Iran on the UAE.

@CIG_telegram

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16 July 2026 17:35

🇰🇷📉 The South Korean stock exchange trades as if its stuck in a financial crisis

The 30-day KOSPI index volatility spiked to 82 points, an all-time high.

Over the last several weeks, the gauge has doubled and exceeded the Great Financial Crisis peak of 81 points.

This is also now ~20 points above the high posted during the 2020 crash.

KOSPI was up as much as +116% year-to-date before falling into a bear market.

Now, the index is up +59% and is no longer the world's best-performing stock market after falling -26% from its June peak.

The bear market in South Korea caught many complacent investors off guard.

🔗 Global Markets Investor

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16 July 2026 17:11

🇮🇷⚔️🇺🇸 Yesterday, Iran launched a wave of OWA drone attacks targeting Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Today, newly released Sentinel-2L satellite imagery appears to show a completely burned area with smoke still rising from the U.S. Patriot PAC-3 battery site at Erbil Airport.

The Patriot launcher was likely destroyed.

🔗 Egypt's Intel Observer (@EGYOSINT)

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16 July 2026 16:53

🇾🇪⚔️🇵🇰 Reuters: In Pakistan there are growing concerns that Houthi ​involvement may be more likely to draw Pakistan into the conflict than the Iranian missile strikes were earlier this year. Pakistani soldiers are deployed near the Saudi border with Yemen, two Pakistani officials said, increasing ​their direct exposure.

There are also concerns in Islamabad that a Houthi-led escalation could disrupt shipping in the Red Sea, an important trade route that Pakistan and many other countries depend on. A widening conflict there could be more difficult to contain and could target Saudi interests in a way that forces Pakistan to intervene militarily under the terms of its mutual defense pact.

🔗 bonzerbarry

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16 July 2026 16:41

📢 🇺🇸 🛠 Rubio: "For far too long, however, our counterterrorism doctrine has had a blind spot. A blind spot when it comes to extremist violence from the political left."

📎 State Department