New reporting reveals the Pentagon threatened Pope Leo XIV’s ambassador over the Pope's anti-war statements:

"America has the military power to do whatever it wants in the world. The Catholic Church had better take its side.”

The IDF never claimed so you bastard lying inciters

https://x.com/i/status/2042014708639711690

A senior Vatican diplomat, Christophe Pierre, was reportedly summoned to the Pentagon and given a “bitter lecture” by Elbridge Colby, urging that Pope Leo “better take [the U.S.’s] side” and noting America can do “whatever it wants.”

Source: The Free Press

Trump wants taxpayers to pay 15 million for his 250 million dollar arc; 13 million in matching grants.
All this while his 2026 budget makes much needed cuts to many programs for Americans.

Mohamed Karim Ibrahim Nour El-Din

Maya Muhammad Balaghi and her daughter Lina Hassan Afif Issa, from the southern town of Ramiya killed today in the attack on the mosque in Sidon

On this day in 1970,

Israel bombed Bahr el-Baqar primary school in the Egyptian village of Bahr el-Baqar killing 46 children and injuring more than 50.

The whole school was levelled by US made F-4 jets.

Rare footage from the Reuters archives shows the aftermath of the Israeli air force bombing of the Bahr al-Baqar primary school in Egypt, which resulted in the martyrdom of 46 children, April 8, 1970.

Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan commented on the massacre:

"Perhaps the Egyptians put the schoolchildren in a military base."

The only demographic still pro-Israel in the US is a Republican over 50.

❗️Hezbullah confirms they are part of the ceasefire and stress that the limited rocket fire tonight is the start of a response ladder until Israel and the U.S comply

Hezbullah:

In defense of Lebanon and its people, in response to the enemy's violation of the ceasefire agreement, and after the resistance adhered to the ceasefire while the enemy did not, the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted the "Manara" settlement at 02:30 on Thursday, 09/04/2026, with a rocket barrage.

This response will continue until the "israeli"-American aggression against our country and our people ceases."

No oil tankers have passed through the Strait of Hormuz since yesterday's ceasefire, and the four ships that have passed are all dry cargo carriers, data from shipping intelligence firm Kpler shows — NYT

Physical crude oil rose to $157 today, up from $150 yesterday.

The manipulation in the futures market is absolutely wild.

Tucker Carlson: "Why can't this president, or any president, say no to Israel?"

"Why does this tiny country have so much control over our government?"

Tucker Carlson: "The United States has to detach from Israel."

"This distancing should begin with a total end of aid of any kind—military or economic—to Israel."

❗️The U.S. had seen Pakistan PM Sharif’s statement before he tweeted it, and may even have written it themselves...

..and that statement mentioned Lebanon in the ceasefire.

It’s obvious Lebanon was included, Israel saw an opportunity to trap Iran by pursuing the war in Lebanon, and Trump subsequently claimed, falsely, that Lebanon wasn’t included

By NYT

❗️Trump then proceeded to tell Israel to violate what Trump's own administration mentioned and approved

Trump reportedly gave Netanyahu the "green light" to continue pummeling Lebanon, and thus violate the terms of Trump's own "ceasefire," almost immediately upon Trump announcing it.

Really makes you wonder about the whole premise of this supposed "ceasefire"

🗣 Barak Ravid about Trump to Netanyahu: “You can continue on doing what you’re doing in Lebanon.”

The day when even President Reagan stood against Israel over Israeli bombing in Beirut and told them: You are doing another holocaust

https://www.reaganfoundation.org/ronald-reagan/white-house-diaries/diary-entry-08121982

🇺🇸 Trump, posting about US troops remaining around Iran, says the U.S. military is “looking forward” to its “next conquest.”