InevitableSwing

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InevitableSwing [none/use name] @hexbear.net 5h ago

I imagine all the yes men in the room are falling over each other telling him how clever and funny he is. Every time.

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InevitableSwing [none/use name] @hexbear.net 6h ago

Trump ~25m ago

If Iran surrenders, admits their Navy is gone and resting at the bottom of the sea, and their Air Force is no longer with us, and if their entire Military walks out of Tehran, weapons dropped and hands held high, each shouting “I surrender, I surrender” while wildly waving the representative White Flag.
And if their entire remaining Leadership signs all necessary “Documents of Surrender,” and admit their defeat to the great power and force of the magnificent U.S.A., The Failing New York Times, The China Street Journal (WSJ!), Corrupt and now Irrelevant CNN, and all other members of the Fake News Media, will headline that Iran had a Masterful and Brilliant Victory over The United States of America, it wasn’t even close. The Dumacrats and Media have totally lost their way. They have gone absolutely CRAZY!!!
President DJT

I edited to to be three parts.

InevitableSwing [none/use name] @hexbear.net 6h ago

CNN - [The IRGC] claimed Tuesday that 25 vessels, including oil tankers, passed through the Strait of Hormuz over the past 24 hours after receiving permission and security coordination from its navy. In a statement carried by Iran’s semi-official Tasnim News, the IRGC Navy said the vessels, which included container ships, transited the strategic waterway during the “last day and night” with coordination and security provided by its forces. CNN could not independently verify the shipping traffic numbers.
The IRGC Navy also said it was maintaining what it described as “intelligent control” over the Strait of Hormuz and warned that “any act of aggression will be met with crushing blows.” The Strait of Hormuz is one of the world’s most important shipping chokepoints, with a significant share of global oil and gas supplies passing through the narrow waterway.

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InevitableSwing [none/use name] @hexbear.net 8h ago

The Guardian - Benjamin Netanyahu has said that Israel is “intensifying” its military operations in Lebanon, with the IDF operating with “large forces on the ‌ground” in order to take control of “strategic areas”.
Earlier, we reported that a military official confirmed that Israeli forces had begun operating beyond its so-called ‘yellow line’, which marks the 10km (six miles) area deep inside southern Lebanon which Israel is already occupying. A reminder that these expanded ground operations are all despite a ceasefire that has been in place since 17 April, as Israel has continued to intensify its strikes on Lebanon while claiming it is acting to remove threats from Hezbollah.

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CNN - Israel repeatedly strikes Bekaa Valley, hitting road near Lebanon’s largest dam. The Israeli military launched successive attacks on a road near the largest dam in Lebanon, prompting condemnation from water authorities over potential damage to the key civilian facility. Israel “targeted the area” near the Qaraoun Dam, along the lush Bekaa Valley, Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) reported Tuesday. “Residents fear potential cracks in the dam,” NNA said.
The Israeli military told CNN that it “carried out a strike in that area to remove a threat.” Gaping plumes of smoke rolled over a blue lake surrounding the dam, in video of the aftermath verified by CNN. The Qaraoun dam is the largest in Lebanon, providing electricity and irrigation to agricultural pastures, according to Litani River National Authority.
Lebanese officials warned that “any direct or indirect targeting” of the dam and wider infrastructure “could lead to catastrophic risks for the population.” “They are civilian and vital installations whose targeting is prohibited under international humanitarian law,” the Litani River National Authority said. It came after an Israeli strike on the town of Mashghara, in the western Bekaa Valley, killed at least 11 people – including two girls – on Monday.
In total, at least 3,213 people have been killed and another 9,737 wounded since March 2, the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health reported on Tuesday. Hezbollah meanwhile has increased explosive drone launches on Israeli border villages. On Tuesday, the group claimed responsibility for at least 23 attacks on Israeli military posts in Lebanon.

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Al Jazeera - Israeli army issues new forced evacuation orders in southern Lebanon. The Israeli army has issued a forced displacement order for residents of eight towns and villages in southern Lebanon.
Military spokesperson Avichay Adraee urged in a post on X people from Khirbet Selm, Bir al-Sanasil, Qabrikha, Majdal Selm, Qalawiya, Kfar Dunin, Touline and Sawana to “immediately” abandon their homes due to what he says were Hezbollah violations of a ceasefire agreed last month and which was recently extended. Since the April truce, Israel military operations have continued on a nearly daily basis.
Earlier today, the military issued a forced evacuation order also for Mashghara and Sahma, the Lebanon’s National News Agency reported, adding that three Israeli air strikes targeted the vicinity of the Qaraoun Dam, Lebanon’s largest dam, in the eastern Bekaa Valley.

InevitableSwing [none/use name] @hexbear.net 9h ago

Trump posts...

DON'T MISS THE BIG, BIG, BIGGGEST REVEAL!

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InevitableSwing [none/use name] @hexbear.net 9h ago

Yeesh.

The Guardian - The US and Israel are “actively working” to strip Jordan of its historic custodianship of Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa Mosque complex, according to a report by Middle East Eye, citing multiple unnamed sources.
US, Jordanian and Palestinian officials, as well as western and Gulf Arab sources, told MEE that under the plan, championed by Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and the US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, the authority of Jordan over the site would end and a new body created by the Israeli government would declare the al-Aqsa Mosque a “multi-faith centre”.
Two US officials told MEE that Washington had drafted a paper on how they envisaged the mosque’s future. The officials said that the Trump administration would like to see the al-Aqsa Mosque stripped of its Muslim identity, with the site turned into a landmark tourist attraction that hosts all three Abrahamic religions.
Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site, al-Aqsa is often a flashpoint and disagreements over access and its management have lead to unrest.

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InevitableSwing [none/use name] @hexbear.net 10h ago

Holy mother of fuck is this a marketing blunder!

The coffee chain, which has been in South Korea since 1999, had planned to start selling a large drink tumbler it calls a “tank” on May 18, declaring it “Tank Day.” May 18 is also the anniversary of a 1980 crackdown by South Korea’s former military dictatorship, in which hundreds of democratic activists in the city of Gwangju were killed or injured by troops, tanks and helicopters.
Making matters worse, the campaign used the slogan “Thwack it on the table,” which for many recalled a 1987 claim by police that student activist Park Jong-chol, rather than being tortured to death, had died suddenly after investigators “hit the desk with a thwack.”
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Even President Lee Jae Myung has weighed in, saying in a post on X last week that he was “outraged by this inhumane and disgraceful behavior by profiteers who deny the values of the South Korean community, fundamental human rights and democracy.”

InevitableSwing [none/use name] @hexbear.net 10h ago

Musk is really squeezing money out of the Pentagon. It's a great article filled with quoteable stuff. I'll share just this.

No other company provides a comparable alternative to Starlink, which has become an increasingly critical tool in modern warfare since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The satellite network provides global coverage, enabling battlefield communications and precision targeting even in remote areas. SpaceX's constellation of roughly 10,000 satellites accounts for more than 60% of those in orbit - dwarfing the constellations being built by other companies, including OneWeb and Amazon Leo.
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SPACEX HAS U.S. GOVERNMENT 'OVER A BARREL'
Unlike traditional defense contractors, SpaceX holds greater leverage over the Pentagon because it also has a large ‌commercial market for Starlink, alongside its rocket launch and artificial intelligence businesses, said Clayton Swope, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a national security-focused think tank. SpaceX generates about 20% of its total revenue from the U.S. government, according to an SEC filing.

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InevitableSwing [none/use name] @hexbear.net 10h ago

NYT - President Trump is expected to hold a cabinet meeting on Wednesday at Camp David, rather than the usual setting of the White House, according to the White House. The meeting comes as the Trump administration has signaled it was making progress toward a potential deal to end the war in Iran, even as tensions remained high between the countries. All cabinet members were expected to attend the meeting.

I wonder why they choose that locale. It feels weird to me. How often does Trump go to Camp David? I have no idea at all.

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CNN - The president has visited the highly-restricted Maryland presidential retreat relatively sparingly, just once during his second term and 15 times during his first.

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InevitableSwing [none/use name] @hexbear.net 10h ago

The Guardian - Israeli forces have begun operating beyond its so-called ‘Yellow Line’ in south Lebanon, which runs around 10km (six miles) deep inside Lebanese territory, a military official confirmed to AFP on Tuesday.
“The IDF is operating in a targeted manner beyond the Forward Defence Line in order to remove direct threats to the citizens of the State of Israel and IDF troops, in accordance with the directives of the political echelon,” the military official said when asked about reports that the military had begun ground operations beyond its demarcation line. “Specific details regarding soldiers’ locations cannot be provided,” the official added.

InevitableSwing [none/use name] @hexbear.net 11h ago

The doctor said "Name the numbers," - so I did. Highest numbers ever!

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InevitableSwing [none/use name] @hexbear.net 12h ago

They gave me a brain test. The doctor said "Mr. President Trump, sir - nobody in history has gotten that result." Best brain. Very, very good excellent brain. Also - body best.

AP - Trump arrives at Walter Reed military hospital for his latest physical. The White House said Trump would participate in a greeting with service members and hospital staff before he spends hours being examined by a team of doctors. It is the Republican president’s fourth publicly disclosed medical exam since he returned to office in January 2025, and it comes as the nearly 80-year-old Trump tries to project strength going into November elections that will test his sway with voters.
The White House says the visit is an annual preventative medical and dental checkup. Trump was last at Walter Reed in October and also had a physical there in April 2025. Last July, the White House said he’d been diagnosed with a condition common in older adults that causes blood to pool in his veins, causing the swollen ankles seen in some photos of Trump.
The White House also has blamed handshaking for visible bruising on Trump’s hands.

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InevitableSwing [none/use name] @hexbear.net 1d ago

The Guardian - Oil price falls despite US strikes. The price of the main US benchmark for oil fell more than 5% on Tuesday, despite the new US strikes on southern Iran. Around 0030 GMT the price of West Texas Intermediate was down 5.46% at $91.33 a barrel. But North Sea Brent crude was up 1.6% at $97.68 a barrel, AFP is reporting. Oil prices plunged below $100 on Monday amid investor optimism for a reopening of the strait of Hormuz after signs the US and Iran were edging closer to a deal.

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InevitableSwing [none/use name] @hexbear.net 1d ago

NYT - In a post on Truth Social on Monday afternoon, President Trump said Iran’s enriched uranium will either be turned over to the United States and destroyed or destroyed in coordination with Iran and the Atomic Energy Commission or an equivalent body as a witness. It is unclear if Iran has agreed to this, though a senior U.S. official told reporters on Sunday that Iran had, in principle, committed to giving up stockpiles of enriched uranium.

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InevitableSwing [none/use name] @hexbear.net 1d ago

NYT - American forces conducted what U.S. Central Command said were self-defense strikes in southern Iran on Monday “to protect our troops from threats posed by Iranian forces.” The targets included missile launch sites and Iranian boats trying to emplace mines, Capt. Tim Hawkins, a Central Command spokesman, said in a statement. “Central Command continues to defend our forces while using restraint during the ongoing cease-fire,” Captain Hawkins said.

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InevitableSwing [none/use name] @hexbear.net 1d ago

The Guardian - The Tasnim news agency said three explosions were heard in the Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas, while the Fars news agency said similar sounds were heard close to Sirik and Jask near the strait of Hormuz. The cause and exact locations of the explosions was unknown.