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14 July 2026 22:44

🗳 🇺🇸 🚷 House just passed 215-211 to attach the SAVE America Act to the NDAA, pushing proof of citizenship and voter ID requirements forward.

📎 Bethany O'Leary

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14 July 2026 22:31

🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — The U.S. Treasury has sanctioned more than 50 individuals, companies, and vessels linked to Mohammad Hossein Shamkhani’s global shipping and sanctions-evasion network, which Washington says supports Iranian oil exports, container shipping, and commodities trading.

➡️ The action targets key financiers, shipping executives, vessel managers, and companies across the UAE, Singapore, Hong Kong, India, the Marshall Islands, and other jurisdictions. Treasury says the network moves both legal and illicit cargo, including goods linked to the Houthis (Ansarallah), and also helps transport Russian petroleum products.

➡️ The latest measures bring the total number of Shamkhani-linked people, entities, and vessels sanctioned by the U.S. to more than 200.

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14 July 2026 21:51

—❗️🇮🇷/🇺🇸 Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister, Kazem Gharibabadi:

‘The U.S. has not merely ‘violated’ the Memorandum of Understanding. With tonight’s action (naval blockade) the MoU has been completely dismantled.

Iran is no longer bound by the MoU.’

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14 July 2026 21:33

🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — NEW: U.S. Central Command:

At 3 p.m. ET today, U.S. Central Command forces began launching an additional round of strikes against Iran to continue degrading Iranian capabilities used to attack commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.

The strikes are taking place as American forces prepare to resume the naval blockade against Iranian ports and coastal areas. The blockade goes into effect at 4 p.m. ET.

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14 July 2026 21:33

🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — At least five explosions in Bandar Abbas, southern Iran.

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14 July 2026 21:33

🇺🇸⚡️ — Darline Graham Nordone takes the oath of office, filling the seat left vacant by her late brother Lindsey Graham.

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14 July 2026 20:37

🇮🇷🚫🚢 Video of the Bulk Carrier Luni (IMO: 9070711) partially sunken near the strait of Hormuz today.

🔗 Mehdi H. (@mhmiranusa)

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14 July 2026 20:31

—❗️🇮🇷/🇧🇭 BREAKING: Iran has decided to attack Bahrain again

Explosions are being reported.

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14 July 2026 20:04

📖 🇺🇸 🇨🇳 US China policy from the 1930s onwards was very heavily influenced by "The Institute for Pacific Relations", which turned out to be a Communist front that drove the US towards pro-Communist positions. The Institute was heavily financed by foundation grants.

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14 July 2026 20:03

🌟 🇺🇸 🌏 Two Decisive Theaters for Safeguarding America in Dangerous Times:

As the rivalry with China intensifies, the U.S. Navy must concentrate its limited forces where they matter most. In 2020, The Heritage Foundation identified two decisive maritime theaters—the Eastern Mediterranean and South China Sea—where naval presence best deters rivals and enables an economy of force. Since then, the strategic landscape has shifted dramatically: Russia’s war in Ukraine, conflict with Iran, the fall of Venezuela’s Maduro regime, and intensifying pressure on China’s “dark fleet” energy shipments. ThisBackgrounder updates the concept, arguing that the two decisive theaters should now be the South China Sea and the Arabian Sea and offers recommendations to reposition U.S. and allied naval forces accordingly.

https://www.heritage.org/sites/default/files/2026-07/BG3970.pdf

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14 July 2026 20:01

🇧🇭⚡️ — All clear in Bahrain.

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14 July 2026 19:49

🇮🇷❌🇺🇸🇧🇭 — Targeting Naval Support Activity Bahrain. Explosions are heard very close to the base. Possible impacts.

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14 July 2026 19:44

🇮🇷❌🇺🇸🇧🇭 — C-RAM activity occured in Bahrain. This means UAVs were getting very close to their targets.

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14 July 2026 02:02

📝 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 President Donald Trump's notification that the U.S. is again at war with Iran gives the administration another 60-day clock for military action.

President Donald Trump formally notified lawmakers this weekend that the nation is once again at war with Iran, giving his administration another 60-day clock to use the military in the region without congressional approval.

The on-again, off-again war has proved very difficult for Trump to resolve, as the two nations wrestle over the Strait of Hormuz, a vital choke point for world energy supplies. Trump has fumed about an inability to strike a peace deal with Iran, while Republicans worry about being blamed for high gas prices ahead of the midterm elections.

The ceasefire that went into effect in early April at that time had been indefinitely extended. The White House had argued that the move stopped the war powers clock.

Opponents of the war on Capitol Hill, however, contended that argument was a misreading of the law. They noted that the U.S. Navy was still engaging in a blockade meant to force Tehran’s hand, even if major combat operations had halted.

The Senate last month voted to end the hostilities in what was a largely symbolic rebuke of the conflict but still a loss for Trump, who has seen a slow erosion of congressional support for his military engagements against Tehran.

That vote, 50-48, was fueled by four Republicans who joined Democrats to vote against the war unless it was given the green light by Congress. Their votes, combined with the absences of Sens. Dave McCormick (R-Pa.) and Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), were enough to propel the war powers measure forward.

The Senate action followed a similar successful vote in the House, where four Republicans joined Democrats, 215-208, to call for a halt to military operations in Iran unless authorized by Congress.

But the legal impact of those votes was limited. Concurrent resolutions are legally untested pieces of legislation that do not go to the president to be signed into law. Any measure that could restrict those presidential powers would almost certainly face a veto from the White House.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/13/trump-notifies-congress-of-new-war-against-iran-00995170

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14 July 2026 01:53

#NEW
⚡️🇸🇦❌🇾🇪 - RSAF airstrike targets Yemen's Sa'dah.

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14 July 2026 22:31

🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent:

The Iranian regime survives on deception, and the Shamkhani network is one of its most profitable engines.

Treasury is shutting down the financial infrastructure that allows the regime to continue its threats to U.S. national security and global shipping.

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14 July 2026 22:16

🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — U.S. Central Command:

U.S. forces resumed the naval blockade against vessels transiting to and from Iranian ports and coastal areas today at 4 p.m. ET.

There are currently more than 20 U.S. Navy warships and hundreds of military aircraft operating across the Middle East.

American forces remain vigilant, lethal, and ready.

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14 July 2026 21:33

🇮🇱🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — Israeli officials believe the U.S. is increasing preparations for a possible renewed full-scale conflict with Iran, with sources in contact with Washington describing extensive planning for a return to high-intensity fighting that could come within weeks, i24NEWS reports.

➡️ One Israeli source said, "There will be a war. The only question is when."

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14 July 2026 21:33

🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — U.S. airstrikes struck several areas in Ahvaz County, southwestern Iran, according to IRNA.

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14 July 2026 21:33

🇮🇷❌🇰🇼 — NEW: A naval vessel of the Kuwaiti Naval Force was targeted by Iran this evening, resulting in four injuries among the armed forces, who received the necessary medical care and treatment; their condition is stable.

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14 July 2026 21:33

🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — Continuous explosions in Ahvaz, southwestern Iran, a local tells Tabz.

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14 July 2026 20:31

🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — A location on Qeshm Island was struck by U.S. airstrikes a short while ago, according to IRNA.

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14 July 2026 20:04

📝 🇬🇧 🇮🇳 Banning the Kirpan: Exploring the nuances of the dilemma | Millennial Woes

We have been told recently that a kirpan is a “small” Sikh ceremonial blade, usually about three inches long. But, looking through the newspaper archives (demonstrated by the photo above), British journalists and Sikhs themselves have historically used the word “kirpan” to refer to blades of many different sizes, so it is not surprising that, even today, nobody seems to be sure what the word actually means, or what exactly we have committed to tolerating on our streets.

Even before being officially legalised in 1988, the kirpan (in all sizes) was almost always tolerated in Britain. Various Sikhs were arrested for carrying one but charges were usually dropped, convictions only happened for long blades and even then not always, and in at least one instance the police actually apologised for the arrest. Interestingly, two of those arrested Sikhs were converts - one White in 1973 and one Black in 1982.

Where it was used in crime, it was only ever against other “Asians”. I found two examples. In Southall in 1983 a street fight occurred between two “Asian” gangs and involved the use of both short and long “kirpans”, among many other types of weapon. Dozens of men were injured. In Kent in 1987, a huge fight broke out inside a Sikh temple between “rival groups of Asians”, some of whom had blades of 75cm in length. Four men were slashed.

But all of these victims were Asian, and the stories would only make local news. Most White British, the broad public, would be oblivious. Perhaps that is how the kirpan could be formally legalised, the very year after that fight in a Sikh temple. The Criminal Justice Act 1988 made it officially legal for Sikhs to carry a ceremonial blade in public. (This was later ratified by the Offensive Weapons Act 2019.)

Thereafter, there was the question of how much to tolerate it. In several cases in the 1990s and 2000s, it caused concern in schools and airports around the country. In every case, the answer found was to tolerate it more. It is remarkable how smooth the trajectory of acceptance has been. Then again, what school would forbid a pupil from carrying one around, when, given the legalisation, that would amount to the school breaking the law?

Though the law stipulates no size limit, there seems to be an assumption in the legal profession that most Sikhs only carry a small blade of about three inches in length. (Although it has to be said, even this could easily kill a man.)

But, as noted, even before this law, Sikhs carried much longer blades than that. Moreover, there is “mission creep”; if a law officially allows small blades, gradually longer blades will be tolerated, since nobody wants to take a non-white to task. I can’t find a single case after 1988 of a Sikh being arrested for carrying a kirpan of any length. Laws are used expansively against Whites, but diminishingly against non-whites. They have ever more leeway, we have ever less.

If we read the actual text of both acts, we see that the exemption is not solely for Sikhs. In fact, Sikhs aren’t even mentioned. It applies to the adherents of any religion which requires the carrying of weapons. But of course, Sikhism is the only such religion. Some strands of modern Paganism and Wiccanism involve an athame, some strands of Buddhism a phurba, but there is no requirement to carry one around so neither qualifies for the legal exemption.

In theory, a bunch of White people could invent a religion which required them to carry swords around, and going by established law the British state would have to tolerate it. In practice, of course, this would never happen. Therefore, in practice what British law provides is a privilege for Sikhs that isn’t, and never would be, enjoyed by anyone else. Natives can only enjoy that privilege if they convert to the foreign religion of Sikhism.

This bizarre situation went on unchecked because very few people had any reason to be aware of it.

https://www.woes.blog/p/banning-the-kirpan

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14 July 2026 20:04

🇺🇸 Nick Fuentes says the radicals on the left are winning.

“On the right, we're mourning Lindsey Graham, on the left they're electing like a hundred communists."

📎 Fuentes Updates

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14 July 2026 20:02

🇮🇱❌🇵🇸🇱🇧🇸🇾 — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:

There are no longer terrorist armies on our borders.

We have created security zones around Gaza and inside Gaza, around Lebanon and inside Lebanon, and around the Golan and inside Syria.

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14 July 2026 19:57

🇮🇷❌🇺🇸🇧🇭 — Fire trucks in Juffair, where Naval Support Activity Bahrain is located.

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14 July 2026 19:45

—❗️🇧🇭/🇮🇷 Multiple direct hits in Bahrain.

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14 July 2026 19:42

—❗️🇧🇭/🇮🇷 NEW: Continuous heavy explosions heard again, dozens back to back—some say more than 30+

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14 July 2026 01:56

⚡️❌🇮🇷 - Explosions in Iran's 'Mahshahr'.

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14 July 2026 01:39

⚡️🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 - Explosions in Iran's 'Bushehr'.