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President Trump: "As soon as this war ends, inflation is gonna be eradicated totally. But nobody talks about that.” Video: @atrupar.com via X (@atrupar) x.com/atrupar/stat...

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⭕️ President Trump on Truth Social: “Axios just released a story that ‘Trump’ offered Sanctions Relief and Frozen Funds to Iran. This is untrue. I offered them NOTHING!” “They should withdraw this fake story, IMMEDIATELY!”

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🇺🇸🇮🇷 US-IRAN NEGOTIATIONS LATEST 🔸Pres. Trump said Mon. his team spoke w/ mediators working to end the war w/ Iran, but offered no details. "We're going to win. As far as I'm concerned, it's going to be one way or the other. It's going to go pretty quickly," he told reporters in the Oval Office...

🇺🇸🇮🇷 US-IRAN NEGOTIATIONS LATEST

🔸President Trump said Monday his team spoke with mediators working to end the war with Iran, but offered no details. "We're going to win. As far as I'm concerned, it's going to be one way or the other. It's going to go pretty quickly," he told reporters in the Oval Office, adding that more strikes before the midterms were also "possible."

🔸 Hours later, Trump denied an Axios report, citing a US official, that he was willing to offer Iran sanctions relief and frozen funds for "concrete progress on nuclear." "I offered them NOTHING!" he wrote, calling the story a "HOAX."

🔸 Despite his public rejection of Iran's seven-day plan, the US has not formally rejected it, three officials told the AP. Mediators are drafting a deal to reopen Hormuz, lift the US blockade, and then remove sanctions. One official told the AP the US is seeking nuclear concessions, including access for inspectors, which Axios has also reported.

🔸 Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met a Qatari mediator in New York on Monday. "They had some ideas, and we held discussions that they will also raise with the US side," he told state news agency IRNA, adding he hoped for Washington's final response by Tuesday. He flew back to Tehran rather than wait: "The Qataris know how to reach us whenever they have the response."
https://x.com/Acyn/status/2104652794104025174/video/1

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🌽 Iowa Sen. candidate Ashley Hinson reaches new levels of Iran war incoherence: 🔹At a press conference in Iowa this weekend, Rep. Ashley Hinson said she texted House Speaker Mike Johnson urging him to call the House back into session for a "resolution to end the war" w/ Iran, but not another war...

🌽 Iowa Senate candidate Ashley Hinson reaches new levels of Iran war incoherence:

🔹At a press conference in Iowa this weekend, Rep. Ashley Hinson said she texted House Speaker Mike Johnson urging him to call the House back into session for a "resolution to end the war" with Iran, but not another war powers resolution, which she has voted against four times.

🔹"We don't need another resolution on the House floor," Hinson said. "We need a resolution to end the war as quickly as possible and the president can do that."

🔹 Hinson joined Trump in the Oval Office on Monday as he announced a Minnesota company's plan to build a $15 billion steel mill in Iowa. 🎥👇
https://x.com/Acyn/status/2104644363112644783/video/1

Acyn
@Acyn
Iowa Voter: Hinson all of a sudden portraying herself as the person who's always opposed the war and who wants all these good things. But you check her votes and she doesn't.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wrapped up her upstate NY tour in Syracuse on Mon., meeting Mayor Sharon Owens & local Dem. & WFP members on how to get infrequent voters to the polls, per CNY Central. The swing also took her to Buffalo & Ithaca, where she held a packed "Students vs. Billionaires"...

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wrapped up her upstate New York tour in Syracuse on Monday, meeting Mayor Sharon Owens and local Democratic and Working Families Party members on how to get infrequent voters to the polls, per CNY Central.

The swing also took her to Buffalo and Ithaca, where she held a packed "Students vs. Billionaires" town hall at Cornell, and campaigned with battleground Rep. Josh Riley.

New York "has become increasingly relevant to whether we have a majority or not in the House," she told The New York Times. The tour has also fueled speculation about a 2028 Senate or Presidential run. "I love Syracuse," the Bronx native told reporters.

progupdates
@progupdates
AOC in Syracuse with a message to discouraged voters:

"We’re going to turn this around, but it’s going to take a lot of work—all of us banding together and turning out higher numbers than we have"

(🎥 IG/pace.reports)

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🇵🇸 Palestinian-American journalist & Drop Site contributor Naqaa Hamed has been freed on bail after 13 days in Israeli detention. She was arrested Sep. 15 at a checkpoint near Bethlehem while returning from a reporting assignment on settler violence. An Israeli military court released her on 8,000...

🇵🇸 Palestinian-American journalist and Drop Site contributor Naqaa Hamed has been freed on bail after 13 days in Israeli detention. She was arrested September 15 at a checkpoint near Bethlehem while returning from a reporting assignment on settler violence. An Israeli military court released her on 8,000 shekels bail, her lawyer told AFP.

The Committee to Protect Journalists had previously condemned the "unsubstantiated espionage allegations" against her. Israel still holds 36 Palestinian journalists, the Palestinian Prisoners' Society reports.
https://x.com/QudsNen/status/2104561464711471356/video/1

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⚡️NEW: The US State Dep't announced visa restrictions against foreign nationals it says are “undermining democratically elected governments” in countries across the Western Hemisphere. The list of sanctioned individuals features prominent politicians including a sitting Senator with the left-wing...

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⚡️NEW: The U.S. State Department announced visa restrictions against foreign nationals it says are “undermining democratically elected governments” in countries across the Western Hemisphere. The list of sanctioned individuals features prominent politicians including a sitting Senator with the left-wing Historic Pact in Colombia, and the sitting Attorney-General of Bolivia, who they link to "narcoterrorism" and "corruption."

“This is yet another example of Trump abusing the machinery of government to punish those who do not share his views. Justifying authoritarian behavior in the name of democracy has become a hallmark of the Trump administration,” human rights lawyer
@mrtommybecker
told Drop Site.

More details from Drop Site News in thread below. 🧵⬇️

Juan Pablo Segura

@WHAAsstSecty
The U.S. stands with fellow Shield participants Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru as we deliver on our commitment to defend democratically elected governments against the corrupt and narcoterrorist networks that seek to undermine it. Today the U.S. is taking steps to impose new visa restrictions on corrupt actors in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru who threaten democratically elected governments across our region, such as designating Bolivia’s Attorney General Roger Mariaca for corruption. This is what hemispheric partnership looks like. -JPS

https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesman/2026/09/visa-restrictions-for-foreign-nationals-undermining-democratically-elected-governments-in-western-hemisphere-countries/

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⭕️The US Strategic Petroleum Reserve fell to 283.8M barrels as of Fri, its lowest level since Oct. 1982, after releasing 800,000 barrels of crude last week, Dep't of Energy data compiled by OPIS show. Releases have slowed to a trickle. Just 1.8M barrels have left the reserve in Sep., the smallest...

⭕️ The US Strategic Petroleum Reserve fell to 283.8 million barrels as of Friday, its lowest level since October 1982, after releasing 800,000 barrels of crude last week, Department of Energy data compiled by OPIS show.

Releases have slowed to a trickle. Just 1.8 million barrels have left the reserve in September, the smallest monthly total since the drawdown began in March and down from 19.2 million in August.

The US has released 131.6 million barrels since March in response to the Hormuz closure, loaned to companies that must return it with premium barrels. The Trump administration pledged 172 million barrels but has contracted only 133.5 million so far.

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🔺Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi denied reports that Tehran has shifted its position in talks with the US, telling state media Mon. that there has been no discussion of the nuclear issue, "let alone flexibility." "Iran's position has not changed at all," he told IRNA after meeting Qatari...

🔺 Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi denied reports that Tehran has shifted its position in talks with the US, telling state media Monday that there has been no discussion of the nuclear issue, "let alone flexibility."

"Iran's position has not changed at all," he told IRNA after meeting Qatari mediators in New York, according to a translation by Iran Nuances. "Current discussions concern the Strait of Hormuz, and reopening it remains conditional."

He said Qatar would present ideas for meeting Iran's terms to the US, "hoping for a response by tomorrow," and that he was returning to Tehran, where "decisions will be made" once an answer arrives.

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#Iran FM firmly rejects media reports claiming shifts in Tehran's stance: "Iran's position has not changed at all, nor has there been any talk [on #nuclear issue], let alone flexibility. Current discussions concern the Strait of Hormuz, and reopening it remains conditional."

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💢 Israeli attacks killed a pregnant woman & at least 1 other Palestinian, & wounded others, including children, across Gaza from Mon. into early Tue., as attacks continued despite the ceasefire. ➤ Amal Khaled al-Ajla was killed & her husband critically wounded when Israeli forces shelled their...

💢 Israeli attacks killed a pregnant woman and at least one other Palestinian, and wounded others, including children, across Gaza from Monday into early Tuesday, as attacks continued despite the ceasefire.

➤ Amal Khaled al-Ajla was killed and her husband critically wounded when Israeli forces shelled their home on al-Nafaq Street in Gaza City around midday Monday, Shehab News reported. Local accounts said she was pregnant.

➤ An Israeli drone struck near the desalination room at Al-Sawarha School, west of Camp 2 and south of Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, wounding several people, according to Shehab.

➤ At around 3:30 a.m. Tuesday, an Israeli strike hit a residential apartment in Gaza City's Al-Nasr neighborhood and set it on fire. Palestinian journalists reported that at least one person was killed, with remains recovered in pieces. Others were wounded, including children taken to al-Shifa Medical Complex.

Gaza's Health Ministry said Monday morning that Israeli attacks had killed 1,421 Palestinians and wounded 4,983 since the ceasefire began. It said 74,022 had been killed and 175,980 wounded since October 2023. Those figures don't include the deaths later Monday or overnight.

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🚨Breaking | One Palestinian has been martyred and several others injured, including children, in an Israeli strike on a residential apartment in the Al-Nasr neighborhood, west of Gaza City.

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⭕️Palestinian journalists have shared footage of a man burning in a residential apartment in Gaza City’s Al-Nasr neighborhood following 3 Israeli drone strikes on the residence at 3:30am Tue. Local media reported at least 1 person killed & others, including children, wounded Vid: X - @Ahmed_A1Najjar

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🔺 Rising oil flows through Hormuz don't mean Iran has lost its leverage, argues sanctions expert Esfandyar Batmanghelidj of the London-based Bourse & Bazaar Foundation, rebutting claims Iran has "lost control" of the strait. Iran retains "undiminished capabilities" to strike Gulf oil...

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Esfandyar Batmanghelidj
@yarbatman
Someone sent me this analysis and asked me what I think…

Yes, there is more oil flowing through the strait—with the exception of Iranian oil. But people misunderstand the issue of control of the Strait of Hormuz and overstate its importance in the positioning of Iran, the Gulf, and the U.S. as the war drags on. Specifically, this analysis on oil export volumes and its impact on negotiation positions overlooks two more important factors.

First, Iran may not be able to disrupt energy flows as effectively as in the early stage of the war, but it retains undiminished capabilities to destroy stocks, by which I mean the underlying production infrastructure, whether upstream or downstream.

Second, the assessment fails to consider that Iran can still choose to escalate by hitting these production targets if it determines that Trump isn’t feeling enough pain to take the diplomatic off-ramps being put in front of him. Importantly, we know what happens when Iran is exporting no oil and there is no realistic pathway for diplomacy—we saw it in the Abqaiq and Khurrais attacks on Aramco facilities in 2019.

So while the risk premium around oil flows may seem tolerable for Trump, the threats to energy production infrastructure the Gulf remain significant, which is exactly why regional countries are still trying to mediate a return to a durable ceasefire and diplomatic agreement. Trump too, is erratic, and could give cause to Iran to escalate in this way through his own fixation on “winning” the war. Markets are able to price this, especially not when traders are so fixated on short-term price action.

In this respect, the strait isn’t really Iran’s principle source of leverage. It never was! The attacks on U.S. bases and Gulf cities and infrastructure were far more consequential, but these dimensions of the conflict were downplayed because of what it would mean to acknowledge that Iran has such dangerous capabilities that the U.S. was unable to mitigate or degrade during the entirety of the fighting.

Sure, the U.S. navy can escort vessels (at great cost) and keep oil flowing. But the more fundamental issue of the failure of U.S. security guarantees over the entirety of the Gulf remains unresolved, and this is what provides Iran leverage in the negotiations.

Iran did not wage a scorched earth campaign—but it may yet do so if the current situation persists for too long. That is what everyone who actually follows this region and its dynamics is worried about.

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⭕️🇮🇷Iran filed a formal complaint w/ the Internat'l Civil Aviation Org over US flight restrictions & is pursuing the restoration of routes suspended by several countries. 🔸Iran’s CAO chief told state media Iran is working through diplomatic & legal channels to restore flights, including to Baghdad...

⭕️ 🇮🇷 Iran filed a formal complaint with the International Civil Aviation Organization over U.S. flight restrictions and is pursuing the restoration of routes suspended by several countries.

🔸 Iran’s CAO chief told state media Iran is working through diplomatic and legal channels to restore flights, including to Baghdad and Najaf, with Najaf expected to resume services “in the coming days.”

🔸 The U.S. sanctioned 27 Iranian airlines on September 8 and threatened secondary sanctions against airports and companies providing Iranian aircraft with fuel, landing services or ticket sales. Oman and the UAE have since suspended Iranian flights, while four Iraqi airports have halted them.

🔸 Iraq’s ambassador to Iran said Monday that Najaf airport would resume Iranian flights within 24 hours, adding that Iraq had not ordered flights suspended but foreign ground-service companies had stopped servicing Iranian aircraft.

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🔴 🇵🇸 An Israeli airstrike targeted a home that was sheltering displaced Palestinians in northern Gaza City, according to WAFA, killing a Palestinian woman and wounding several others. Video: Quds News Network via X (@QudsNen)

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🇱🇧 Israeli warplanes carried out an airstrike on Monday between the towns of Mayfadoun and Zawtar Al-Sharqiyah in southern Lebanon’s Nabatieh governorate, while Israeli artillery targeted the outskirts of Zibqin and valleys near Yater, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA).

courtneybonneauimages
@cbonneauimages
Residents of the ‘pilot zone’ Zowtar Garabieh, Lebanon, are clearing rubble and trying to work on their homes while in the next neighborhood over, Zowtar Sharqia, the Israeli army continues to attack and demolish civilian homes. This is happening all day, every day.
Qantara was also attacked this morning.

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⭕️ Troy Jackson defies consultants, denounces Gaza genocide Troy Jackson, the Dem. candidate running against Sen. Susan Collins, has been instructed by his campaign consultants to moderate his language around Israel’s genocide in Gaza & to call for an end merely to “offensive weapons,” according...

⭕️ Troy Jackson defies consultants, denounces Gaza genocide

Troy Jackson, the Democratic candidate running against Sen. Susan Collins, has been instructed by his campaign consultants to moderate his language around Israel’s genocide in Gaza and to call for an end merely to “offensive weapons,” according to new reporting from Drop Site, which builds on an investigation by New York magazine.

Yet at a candidate event on Saturday, he was directly pressed on the question and did not back off his previous stance, saying he believes Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza and that he won’t send further aid to the state of Israel.

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At a town hall tonight, Troy Jackson says he believes Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza and that he won’t send further aid to the state of Israel.

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🇲🇲 At least 33 people were killed & 36 injured in a military airstrike near a market in Kyauktaw, a town in western Myanmar’s Rakhine state controlled by the Arakan Army, according to the rebel group & a local aid worker. ➤ Local aid worker Wai Hun Aung said the strike hit an area “quite far from...

🇲🇲 At least 33 people were killed and 36 injured in a military airstrike near a market in Kyauktaw, a town in western Myanmar’s Rakhine state controlled by the Arakan Army, according to the rebel group and a local aid worker.

➤ Local aid worker Wai Hun Aung said the strike hit an area “quite far from the fighting” and unrelated to active combat.

➤ The Arakan Army said the attack was among the deadliest airstrikes in Rakhine since a December 2025 strike on a hospital that killed at least 30 people.

Reuters Asia
@ReutersAsia
At least 33 people killed in western Myanmar airstrike, rebel group and aid worker say

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/least-33-people-killed-western-myanmar-airstrike-rebel-group-aid-worker-say-2026-09-28/?taid=6aba79ff1de5760001f13207&utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter

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🇺🇸🇮🇷 8 U.S. Marines were injured in an Iranian anti-ship cruise missile attack on a vessel they were operating aboard in the Strait of Hormuz on Sep. 14, NBC reported. ➤ The Marines suffered smoke inhalation & possible traumatic brain injuries, including concussion symptoms such as headaches, but...

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Eight U.S. Marines were injured in an Iranian anti-ship cruise missile attack on a vessel they were operating aboard in the Strait of Hormuz on September 14, NBC reported.

➤ The Marines suffered smoke inhalation and possible traumatic brain injuries, including concussion symptoms such as headaches, but returned to duty soon afterward. Officials declined to identify the type of vessel involved but said it was not a U.S. Navy ship.

➤ The Pentagon’s Defense Casualty Analysis System added the eight Marines to its casualty count nearly ten days after the attack. The database now records 861 U.S. service members injured in the war with Iran.

➤ Iran claimed it struck 19 ships in the Strait of Hormuz over the past two nights. Iranian officials said any ship crossing without authorization will face an armed response.

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Originally posted Sep. 27, 2026: 🔺Iran says it struck 19 ships in the Strait of Hormuz over the past 2 nights, Fars News Agency reported Sunday, after Kpler reported over 20M barrels of crude & products exiting the US blockade line as 7-day avg. Iranian forces hit 12 vessels Fri. night & 7 more...

🔺 Iran says it struck 19 ships in the Strait of Hormuz over the past two nights, Fars News Agency reported Sunday, after Kpler reported over 20 million barrels of crude and products exiting the US blockade line as 7-day average.

Iranian forces hit 12 vessels Friday night and 7 more Saturday night after they tried to pass through unauthorized routes, according to Fars. Iranian officials said any ship crossing without Iranian authorization will face an armed response.

The claims could not be independently verified, and US Central Command has not commented.

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Originally posted Sep. 26, 2026: 🚨Gulf oil exports top 20 million barrels a day for the 1st time since the war began Oil exports from the Persian Gulf & Gulf of Oman climbed above 20M barrels a day on a 7-day avg. this week, according to preliminary Kpler data. The figure covers Strait of Hormuz...

🚨Gulf oil exports top 20 million barrels a day for the first time since the war began

Oil exports from the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman climbed above 20 million barrels a day on a 7-day average this week, according to preliminary Kpler data. The figure covers Strait of Hormuz transits plus loadings at Fujairah and Oman, and excludes Red Sea and shipments through other bypasses.

Saudi Arabia is driving much of the rebound. Its exports reached 5.4 million b/d in September, up nearly 3 million from August, though still about 1 million below September 2025.

The surge came the same day Trump rejected Iran's offer to reopen Hormuz within seven days. "I reject their proposal… Massive amounts of oil” has been leaving the Strait of Hormuz, he said Saturday.

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⭕️Israeli Nat'l Sec. Min. Itamar Ben-Gvir published footage Sun. showing him inside the prison cell of Palestinian prisoner Hassan Salama, telling him: “I want to kill you. … I want you executed.” ➤ Salama, 55, has been imprisoned since 1996 & is serving 48 life sentences over his alleged role in...

⭕️ Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir published footage Sunday showing him inside the prison cell of Palestinian prisoner Hassan Salama, telling him: “I want to kill you. … I want you executed.”

➤ Salama, 55, has been imprisoned since 1996 and is serving 48 life sentences over his alleged role in a series of Hamas-orchestrated attacks. He has spent a total of more than 14 years in solitary confinement.

➤ The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society condemned Ben-Gvir’s threat, saying it reflected a broader Israeli policy rather than an isolated act and warning that such public threats could precede attempts to kill Palestinian prisoner leaders.

@itamarbengvir
Translated from Hebrew
A huge full circle for me!

As a teenager, I stood in the streets and protested after the horrific hellish bombings on bus line 18 in Jerusalem. Dozens of innocent people were murdered, and entire families were destroyed.

About two weeks ago, I arrived at the prison and came face to face with the arch-terrorist Hassan Salameh - one of Hamas's top leaders, friend and partner of Yehiya Sinwar may his name be erased, who was sent by the tyrant Muhammad Deif may his name be erased to Judea and Samaria to organize those same bus bombings.

I told him that the boy who protested in the streets back then is today the Minister of National Security, and I looked the devil in the eyes. He trembled and was terrified - and he has good reason to be.

As Minister of National Security, I led a policy that turned his life into hell. And with God's help, as Defense Minister, I will act to ensure that murderer terrorists like him are put to death, and I will advance the immigration policy from Gaza and from Judea and Samaria.

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Maine voter who asked Troy Jackson to denounce genocide in Gaza reached out to Drop Site:

Nathan Bernard
@nathanTbernard
The Maine voter who asked Troy Jackson if Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza tells Drop Site that Jackson only referred to Israel's actions as a genocide after she yelled at him off-mic, leaving her unsatisfied with his "tepid" response.

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🔴 The Portland Press-Herald is out with a scathing editorial blasting Susan Collins for her flailing response to ProPublica’s bribery investigation: “It is extremely disappointing to watch Collins and members of her staff move to immediately discredit a thorough and fair piece of... Read ⬇️

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💢 Israeli forces killed 4 Palestinians across Gaza on Sun., including a teenage boy & a man struck in his tent, & wounded several others, according to Palestinian media. 🔸 In Khan Younis's al-Mawasi area, an Israeli strike on a tent killed Oday Adli al-Assar, 28. 🔸 Israeli troops shot & killed...

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Global energy markets are experiencing a sharp upward surge following the US' rejection of Iran’s proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. International benchmark Brent Crude is trading up 3% around $107 per barrel. The US national average retail price for a gallon of regular gasoline is down a...

$Global energy markets are experiencing a sharp upward surge following the United States' rejection of Iran’s proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. International benchmark Brent Crude is trading up 3% around $107 per barrel. The U.S. national average retail price for a gallon of regular gasoline is down a fraction of a penny to $4.48, and the national average for a gallon of diesel is $6.45, down from $6.53 reported high last week, according to data from AAA Fuel Prices.$ Rory Johnston
@Rory_Johnston
Prompt Brent futures >$107

Prompt Brent timespread ~$8/bbl

Brent DFL >$10/bbl

Tight and rising.

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Prompt Brent futures >$107

Prompt Brent timespread ~$8/bbl

Brent DFL >$10/bbl

Tight and rising.

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🔺 Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei quotes Uni. of Chicago political scientist Prof. Robert Pape in a new written message marking “Sacred Defense Week,” the anniversary of Iraq's 1980 invasion of Iran, & the 2nd anniversary of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah's killing on Telegram Mon. Key...

Key Highlights:

🔸 US forces "don't come further than the Arabian Sea" because of "painful blows" from Iranian fighters and the "guardians of the Strait of Hormuz," he wrote, predicting that "the Arabian Sea too will soon empty itself of them."

🔸 The "dominating aggressors themselves" now "seek shelter" from Iranian fighters and "raise their hands in pleading to abandon the war," he said. "Today some consider us the world's fourth superpower," he said, citing
@ProfessorPape
’s argument, but added that "by divine calculation" Iran is actually "the first power in the world."

🔸 He said Iranians have filled squares and streets for seven months, and that more than 30 million have declared their readiness to sacrifice their lives. When a new registration opened, over 500,000 filled the required capacity within 100 minutes, with "armed readiness" declared nationwide.

🔸Every segment of society, he said, is insisting on "preserving the blessed Strait of Hormuz," and women have surpassed men "in some arenas of courageous presence."

🔸 Contrasting the present with the Shah's era, when foreign ambassadors dictated policy, and the 1953 US-backed coup, he declared that the days "our enemy longs to return to" are gone and "will never be repeated."

🔸 He mourned Ayatollah Khomeini and his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, whom he called a martyr, and said the Islamic Republic, which rose "like a phoenix" from the 1980s war, has grown so large after "two recent imposed wars" that "the shadow of its flight falls over enemy lands."

🔸 He called Hezbollah’s late leader Nasrallah the greatest man to rise in the Levant after the prophets, praised his successor Naim Qassem, and said Lebanese figures relying on the "false promises" of the dominant powers will be remembered for "incompetence and perhaps even treason."

Khamenei has not yet appeared in public since succeeding his father, who was killed in US-Israeli strikes in February.

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📊 NEW: A GBAO poll commissioned by Sen. Maj. PAC, a Dem. super PAC, finds Dem. Abdul El-Sayed at 48% & Repub. Mike Rogers at 44% among 800 likely MI voters in the US Sen. race. The survey also finds Trump’s job approval in MI at 37%, w/ 61% disapproving. Asked which concern better describes them...

📊 NEW: A GBAO poll commissioned by Senate Majority PAC, a Democratic super PAC, finds Democrat Abdul El-Sayed at 48% and Republican Mike Rogers at 44% among 800 likely Michigan voters in the U.S. Senate race.

The survey also finds Trump’s job approval in Michigan at 37%, with 61% disapproving. Asked which concern better describes them, 51% said they were more concerned that Rogers “won’t stand up to Trump,” compared with 38% who said El-Sayed is “too risky for the economy.”

The poll was conducted Sept. 19–22 and has a +/- 3.5-point margin of error.

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🇬🇧🇸🇩UK Foreign Sec. Miliband also pledged to apply the same principles of internat'l law to Sudan, "the worst humanitarian crisis there is," promising to "use every diplomatic and political tool to address the suffering of its people." Britain is the "penholder" on Sudan at the UN Security Council...

🇬🇧 🇸🇩 UK Foreign Secretary Miliband also pledged to apply the same principles of international law to Sudan, "the worst humanitarian crisis there is," promising to "use every diplomatic and political tool to address the suffering of its people."

Britain is the "penholder" on Sudan at the UN Security Council, meaning it drafts the Council's resolutions and statements on the war and leads negotiations over them.

He did not mention the UAE, a close UK partner that UN experts and rights groups have extensively documented arming the RSF, as it carries out mass rapes and genocide to assert control over land and resources in the country of over 50 million.

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🇬🇧"You were right," UK Foreign Sec. Ed Miliband told people outraged by the plight of Palestinians, in his 1st speech in the role at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool on Mon. Calling the suffering "a stain on the conscience of the world," Miliband said Labour had "reset" its approach under...

🇬🇧 "You were right," UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband told people outraged by the plight of Palestinians, in his first speech in the role at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool on Monday.

Calling the suffering "a stain on the conscience of the world," Miliband said Labour had "reset" its approach under new Prime Minister Andy Burnham, who replaced Keir Starmer. "We call out ethnic cleansing by the settler terrorists in the West Bank. We call out the evidence of war crimes in Gaza," he said, pledging to ban imports from illegal settlements and cut off British finance and services to them.

Critics say the rhetoric has outpaced action. The government has not suspended or revoked a single additional arms export licence for Israel since Miliband announced new restrictions on September 8, according to Declassified UK. Around 150 people were arrested outside the conference for holding placards reading "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action," which the government has proscribed as a “terrorist” group.

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Qatar's PM Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani rejected Israeli journalist Ronen Bergman's report that Qatar funded Hamas's armed wing, telling CNN "There is no single penny that has flowed into Gaza without the full coordination and consent of the United Nations and the Israeli government."...

Qatar's Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani rejected Israeli journalist Ronen Bergman's report that Qatar funded Hamas's armed wing, telling CNN "There is no single penny that has flowed into Gaza without the full coordination and consent of the United Nations and the Israeli government."

He said that was the case across "not only Netanyahu" but previous Israeli governments as well. He said Qatari money bought Israeli gas for Gaza's power plants and paid needy families and civil servants on lists pre-approved by Israeli security agencies.
https://x.com/cnnarabic/status/2104104025050210382/video/1

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Oil exports see modest rebound; Senate map expands for Dems; Israeli settlers attack Palestinian olive harvest

⚡️Drop Site Daily | September 28, 2026 Oil exports see modest rebound; Senate map expands for Dems; Israeli settlers attack Palestinian olive harvest dropsitenews.com/p/oil-export...

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💢 Israeli forces kill 3 Palestinians in Gaza, including a 12-year-old boy, despite ceasefire 🔸In Rafah's al-Mawasi area, Israeli forces shot & killed 12-y.o. Mohammed Saif al-Din al-Shakhreeti as he sat outside his family's displacement tent. 🔸An Israeli drone strike on Jouls Street in central...

💢 Israeli forces kill three Palestinians in Gaza, including a 12-year-old boy, despite ceasefire

🔸 In Rafah's al-Mawasi area, Israeli forces shot and killed 12-year-old Mohammed Saif al-Din al-Shakhreeti as he sat outside his family's displacement tent.

🔸 An Israeli drone strike on Jouls Street in central Nuseirat refugee camp killed one person.

🔸 Qusai Muammar Hillis died of wounds sustained in an Israeli strike on Gaza City weeks ago.

🔸 Israeli forces stationed east of Deir al-Balah shot and wounded several people, and a drone strike near the al-Iqlimi junction in Khan Younis's al-Mawasi area wounded others, including children.

🔸 Israeli tanks fired heavily toward displacement tents in Rafah's al-Mawasi and southern Khan Younis, shelled eastern Khan Younis, and fired on the Hamad City area and the al-Salateen and al-Atatra areas west of Beit Lahia.

The attacks continue despite the ceasefire in effect since October 2025 and President Trump's July 31 announcement of a "new agreement" to begin the second phase of the Gaza "roadmap." Almost all of Gaza's population still lives in tents, shelters, and damaged buildings, with reconstruction blocked.

Source: Shehab News, Felesteen Online

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Visual footage of occupation aircraft bombing a tent sheltering displaced persons in Sheikh Radwan neighborhood west of Gaza; and a citizen critically injured.

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Reuters reported that Ethiopia’s military says it inflicted heavy losses on Tigrayan forces during fighting in northern Amhara and Afar this week. The military claimed that 436 Tigrayan fighters were killed, 220 wounded & 44 captured in the latest round of clashes. A day earlier, it said another...

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⚡️NEW: The IRGC Navy announced that they have seized a second unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) in the Strait of Hormuz “through a coordinated and complex operation involving intelligence superiority and electronic warfare.” The U.S. Navy's MK18 Mod 2 Kingfish is primarily designed for mine...

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Kansas pastor Adam Hamilton is challenging party lines in a tight Senate race.

⭕️ NEW from @dropsitenews.com: “Wasn’t Jesus Woke?” Kansas pastor Adam Hamilton is challenging party lines in a tight Senate race. Story by Clayton Steward and Justin Perkins dropsitenews.com/p/wasnt-jesu...

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🔴🇺🇸 The avg. 30-yr. fixed mortgage rate rose to 7.03% this week, up from 6.3% a yr. ago, Freddie Mac said Thu., as war-driven energy costs & inflation push borrowing costs higher. Rates dipped below 6% in late Feb. before climbing steadily after the US & Israel launched attacks on Iran on Feb. 28...

🔴 🇺🇸 The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate rose to 7.03% this week, up from 6.3% a year ago, Freddie Mac said Thursday, as war-driven energy costs and inflation push borrowing costs higher.

Rates dipped below 6% in late February before climbing steadily after the U.S. and Israel launched attacks on Iran on Feb. 28. Existing home sales fell 2% in August to their lowest level since June 2025.

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Iran pushes 7-day plan to end war; Saudi calls on regional pact for defense; Argentina’s poverty rate climbs to over 32%

⚡️Drop Site Daily | September 25, 2026 Iran pushes 7-day plan to end war; Saudi calls on regional pact for defense; Argentina’s poverty rate climbs to over 32% dropsitenews.com/p/iran-us-wa...

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The Guardian reports FM Araghchi is waiting in the US over the weekend for Washington’s response to Iran’s 7-day proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. The FM said China is fully on-board & reporting suggests Saudi Arabia could likely endorse the plan as well. The kingdom was already set to...

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⭕️ FM Araghchi (in remarks reported by FT): 🔹Tehran “not in a hurry” to reach an agreement based on Iran’s 7-day proposal. 🔹 “I think it would be much better if it is done before the midterm election, but it depends on the US administration to... Reporting on Iran’s President's comments is below ⬇️

Sina Toossi
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Pezeshkian met with American journalists and think tankers tonight. The message he is delivering is consistent with what Tehran has been signaling for some time, from the SNSC to senior IRGC figures close to the Supreme Leader.

Iran wants a deal based on the June MOU, but with US concessions implemented upfront before Tehran eases pressure on Hormuz. And if Washington refuses, it is signaling readiness for significant further escalation.

There are disputes in Tehran over tactics and how to engage Washington, but little sign of a serious factional divide over this core position. On that, the message has been remarkably consistent.

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💢 Israeli forces kill 5 in Gaza, including a woman, & wound dozens in strikes & gunfire on Thu., Felesteen Online reported, citing medical & local sources. 🔸An Israeli drone struck a vehicle near al-Baidar on al-Rashid Street, killing 1 person & wounding 16 others (Video)... x.com/MosabAbuToha...

💢 Israeli forces kill 5 in Gaza, including a woman, and wound dozens in strikes and gunfire on Thursday, Felesteen Online reported, citing medical and local sources.

🔸 An Israeli drone struck a vehicle near al-Baidar on al-Rashid Street, killing one person and wounding 16 others. (Video)

🔸 In Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, an airstrike on a vehicle killed one person and wounded nine.

🔸 Hassan al-Batta died of wounds from shelling on Khan Younis.

🔸A woman was shot dead by Israeli forces in al-Mawasi, Rafah.

🔸A man identified as Abu Mdein was critically wounded by gunfire west of al-Zahra City and later died.

🔸 A woman was shot on Twenty Street in Nuseirat camp, and another man was wounded by Israeli tank fire in Bureij.

🔸 Late Thursday, residents reported quadcopter drones over Gaza City dropping bags containing foul-smelling substances. The contents and purpose were not known.

🔸Israeli forces also carried out demolitions east of Gaza City and fired artillery near Jabalia and Beit Lahia, with reconnaissance aircraft flying low over the strip.
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Israel burned a human being twice today.

Believe it or not:

At noon today, local time, Israel bombed a car in Deir al-Balah, instantly killing Jabr Muqbil and leaving his body charred.

Three hours later, at 3:23 p.m., as Jabr’s family was transporting his body to Gaza City, where they are from, to bury him, Israel struck the vehicle again in the Sheikh Ajleen neighborhood.

At least 15 people, including some of Jabr’s relatives, were critically injured. Jabr’s body was completely burned again in the second strike.

The first photo shows the second strike. The second photo shows the first strike that killed Jabr, with his charred body circled.

In the comments i’m putting a video of the second car while it’s burning.

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⭕️ 2 Israeli reservists were killed when a drone they were operating crashed & exploded inside their own military outpost in northern Gaza, the Israeli army said Fri. Maj. (Res.) Nadav Kali, 24, & Maj. (Res.) Ofek Moalem, 23, both of the 16th Brigade, were evacuated to Barzilai Medical Center in...

⭕️ Two Israeli reservists were killed when a drone they were operating crashed and exploded inside their own military outpost in northern Gaza, the Israeli army said Friday.

Maj. (Res.) Nadav Kali, 24, and Maj. (Res.) Ofek Moalem, 23, both of the 16th Brigade, were evacuated to Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon, where they were pronounced dead, 99th Division commander Brig.-Gen. Elad Tzuri said. The pair had completed one operation successfully before the drone crashed during a second. No soldiers were hurt in the initial crash.

The army said it is investigating how the explosive detonated as the two approached the downed drone, and whether Hamas interfered electronically, though it believes Hamas lacks that capability. Israel declined to say whether it was a suicide drone or one designed to drop munitions, and has grounded attack and munition-dropping drones pending the probe.

Of 472 Israeli soldiers killed during ground operations in Gaza, 80 died by friendly fire or in accidents, according to army data.

Source: Jerusalem Post

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Ethiopian Army: 272 soldiers of Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) were killed and 260 injured in recent clashes in northern Ethiopia’s Amhara region. TPLF has not confirmed the toll.

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🇪🇹 Fighting erupted in Northern Ethiopia b/w Tigray forces & gov't forces Thu. morning. The Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), the rebel faction central to the 2020-2022 Ethiopian conflict, has announced that fighting has resumed in the country's northern region following an offensive from...

🇪🇹 Fighting erupted in Northern Ethiopia between Tigray forces and government forces Thursday morning.

The Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), the rebel faction central to the 2020-2022 Ethiopian conflict, has announced that fighting has resumed in the country's northern region following an offensive from the Ethiopian army.

In an interview earlier today, TPLF Vice President Amanuel Assefa said, "Fighting between our forces and the Ethiopian army started yesterday and is still going on. We are in a full blown war.”

Regional authorities stated that TPLF initiated a major assault in the Afar and Amhara regions. Local media and officials confirmed fighting across Tigray, Amhara, and Afar, prompting Ethiopian Airlines to suspend flights to key northern destinations due to security concerns.

The African Union and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged both sides to de-escalate immediately and honor the 2022 Pretoria Cessation of Hostilities Agreement.

This escalation follows the TPLF seizing an airport in Mekelle and forming a new political-military alliance with other opposition groups against Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government.

The original two-year conflict in Tigray resulted in widespread devastation and displacement before concluding with the 2022 peace accord, which left several territorial and disarmament disputes unresolved.

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Middle East Gulf oil flows have rebounded sharply. Kpler data puts regional exports at roughly 17–18M barrels/day on a 7-day average, up from around 10–11M b/d at the end of August. The total includes Strait of Hormuz transits plus exports loaded from Fujairah & Oman, but not any Red Sea exports...

Middle East Gulf oil flows have rebounded sharply. Kpler data puts regional exports at roughly 17–18 million barrels per day on a 7-day average, up from around 10–11 million b/d at the end of August.

The total includes Strait of Hormuz transits plus exports loaded from Fujairah and Oman, but not any Red Sea exports.

The most recent 14 days are provisional/preliminary and are expected to revise upward as cargoes are confirmed.

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🇸🇩 The State Dep't declared this week that neither of Sudan's warring factions is fit to govern, a move veteran US-Africa analyst Cameron Hudson says has left Washington diplomatically stranded, Semafor reports. 🔸The fmr. WH official said Washington has been "ratcheting up pressure very steadily...

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🇸🇩 The State Department declared this week that neither of Sudan's warring factions is fit to govern, a move veteran US-Africa analyst Cameron Hudson says has left Washington diplomatically stranded, Semafor reports.

🔸The former White House official said Washington has been "ratcheting up pressure very steadily on the army with the assumption that it could get the pressure high and severe enough that the army would relent and sign a deal."

🔸Those measures include sanctions over alleged chemical weapons use, a push to extend the UN arms embargo beyond Darfur to all of Sudan, and restricting SAF leader Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan's visa ahead of the UN General Assembly unless he agrees to a 90-day ceasefire.

🔸The RSF has signaled it would accept a ceasefire. The SAF, which has gained ground, has rejected one. After the US announcement, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Pakistan, and Türkiye issued a joint statement backing Sudan's "legitimate national institutions" and rejecting "parallel entities” — not so subtly backing the SAF.

🔸"What this episode demonstrates is how isolated the United States has made itself," Hudson said. The US is "moving in a very different direction from the rest of the countries that are engaging in diplomacy on Sudan."

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A look at the current US-Sudan dispute with views from me: “What this episode demonstrates is how isolated the US has made itself." Washington is “moving in a very different direction from the rest of the countries that are engaging in diplomacy on Sudan.”

https://www.semafor.com/article/09/23/2026/us-increases-pressure-on-sudan?utm_medium=principals&utm_campaign=flagshipnumbered5&utm_source=newsletterlink

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Podcaster @profgalloway.com repeated the same false claim as the one made by PM Netanyahu at the UN on Thursday, while interviewing MI's Abdul El-Sayed on Tue. Israel does not "provide" vaccines or food to Gaza. The UN, WHO, UNICEF and aid groups purchase & deliver them. But Israel controls the...

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repeated the same false claim as the one made by PM Netanyahu at the U.N. on Thursday, while interviewing Michigan's Abdul El-Sayed on Tuesday.

Israel does not "provide" vaccines or food to Gaza. The UN, WHO, UNICEF and aid groups purchase and deliver them. But Israel controls the crossings and therefore decides what gets through, by constantly restricting, delaying, and denying life essential aid far below what Gaza needs.

This, despite the ICJ ordering Israel in 2024 to allow unimpeded humanitarian access.

Nour Odeh 🇵🇸🍉 #FreePalestine
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Fact check: Polio vaccines were provided by WHO not Israel.
Israel blocked & continues to impede food provided by international orgs, even now, a year after the “ceasefire” & Israel-created famine.
Israel bombed & continues to bomb people lining up for food, water & medical aid

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Netanyahu:

I want to ask you some questions.

What genocidal regime gives a million polio vaccinations to the enemy's population?

What genocidal regime enables the distribution of 2 million tons of food into Gaza? That's a ton for every person.

Accusing Israel of genocide is the greatest lie of the century.

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