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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: The U.S. has lost 25% of all its MQ-9 ‘Reaper’ drones in the war with Iran @Middle_East_Spectator

Peak Perseids tonight if you're still up and have a reasonably clear sky. New moon a bonus. Caught half a dozen here before tapping out. Northeast sky. https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/meteors-meteorites/perseids/

Big Heidi arrested on fraud charges! https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/12/politics/exclusive-splc-fraud-cfo-charges

🇺🇸🫏⚡- BREAKING: In a shocking and humiliating upset, Democrat David Crowley has defeated the DSA candidate Francesca Hong in the Democratic primary in the Wisconsin Gubernatorial race. He will face Tom Tiffany in the general election. According to the polls, Hong maintained a 20% lead over her Democratic opponents before the primary election. To note, DSA candidates' polling appears heavily skewed in their favor, with election nights reflecting much less of an appetite for their politics or personalities, as seen with Hong and Abdulrahman Mohammed El-Sayed in Michigan.

Our military and intelligence leadership knew this would be a shitshow. But Bibi whispered sweet nothings and Trump took the bait. So here we are. https://www.amerikanets.com/p/they-saw-it-coming

🇺🇸 US Strategic Petroleum Reserve falls to lowest level since 1983. @Fin_Watch

🇺🇸🐘⚡️- Representative Andy Ogles has been ousted in a GOP primary, regardless of his endorsement from President Trump. Ogles has been active on social media this term with two viral posts saying homosexuals and Muslims have no place in America. Ogles deleted the post about homosexuals and blamed an intern when he got criticism.

🇺🇸🫏⚡️- Democrat Representative Shri Thanedar in Michigan has lost his primary race to DSA-endorsed socialist Donavan McKinney. Capping off a night of huge wins in the state for the DSA

🇺🇸🫏⚡️- Abdul El-Sayed has defeated Haley Stevens in the Michigan Senate Democrat Primary in a major defeat for the DNC and the first major swing state victory for the DSA side of the Democrat Party. El-Sayed will face Republican Mike Rogers in November in a pivotal Senate race that could decide control of the Chamber.

🍎 Last night, Apple briefly removed Telegram from the App Store because a single user had planted illegal pornographic content in a public group chat. ⬅️ Telegram was restored within hours. But I want to explain what happened — to warn other app developers and help protect online communities from similar attacks. 🧹Because Telegram quickly removes illegal content from public groups using user reports, AI filters, content hashes, and other moderation tools, the attacker had to resort to a technical trick. He inserted AI-modified illegal content by editing an old message in an active group chat. As a result, the content was effectively hidden from the group’s members, preventing them from seeing and promptly reporting it. 💰 The attacker was a takedown extortionist: someone who demands ransom from group owners in exchange for not targeting their communities. These extortionists use automated accounts to plant illegal content in public groups and then report it directly to Apple, attempting to trigger the removal of legitimate communities whose owners refused to pay them. 🤝 From a practical standpoint, illegal pornographic content in Telegram’s public groups is not a systemic problem. Our moderation is effective. The fact that attackers must resort to backdated, effectively invisible content and other technical tricks proves this. ⚠️ However, there are two important lessons here for app developers and online communities: — Extortionists have found a way to manipulate Apple into overreacting. Apple removed Telegram from the App Store before contacting us. This creates a potential systemic risk for every mobile app that hosts user-generated content. If an app used by more than a billion people can be removed from the App Store without prior warning, any app can be. — The tactics used by takedown extortionists are evolving, putting communities across social platforms at risk. Telegram has extensive experience identifying the tricks used by coordinated reporting gangs and protecting legitimate communities (even when doing so risks our own app being temporarily removed from the App Store). Other platforms may not be equally prepared. Stay vigilant! ☝️

🇺🇸⚡️- Telegram has said their application has been restored on the app store, and will soon become available to all users again. They did not provide any explanation as to why it was removed.

🇺🇸⚡️- BREAKING: Telegram has been removed from the App Store.

🇦🇺⚡️- Australian Nationalist news outlet Noticer News has been suspended from Twitter on behalf of the Australian Government. Elon Musk has previously said he would fight demands from governments to censor accounts.

"at levels of Military Terror..." A refreshingly honest and candid admission from a President for a change. What a guy!

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — NEW: President Trump announces canceling an attack against Iran out of hopes a deal could rapidly be made involving opening the Strait of Hormuz and ending Iran's "nuclear threat".

Trump Orders Fresh Attack Against Iran as War Enters Sixth Month -WSJ

This one is a whopper. - WSJ

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "U.S. forces began launching strikes against Iran at 8 p.m. ET today. The strikes are a powerful response to yesterday's attempted Iranian attacks on U.S. forces based in the Middle East." - U.S. CENTCOM on X.

Saudi Arabia joined U.S. attacks on Iranian proxies in Iraq. -WaPo