A group of Ecuadorian fishermen survived a US drone strike, were detained at gunpoint, hooded, phones wiped, ship blown up, disappeared to El Salvador, then released without charge.
“They knew we were fishermen. Even the Salvadorian authorities said things had been handled very badly.”
Ukraine has downed or suppressed 189 of 215 Russian drones overnight April 21-22, including around 140 Shahed UAVs. Air defenses engaged targets across multiple regions, with impacts recorded at 13 locations and debris falling at 6 additional sites. #Ukraine
Russian losses 🔥
Andrei from Astrakhan, Russia, is starting to question whether dying for Putin in a trench in Ukraine is really that heroic and necessary.
He says half of his unit are already dead.
1/ Russian companies are blocking foreign IP addresses en masse in a bid to block VPNs, stranding thousands of Russians abroad without access to money, flight details, or taxes. Major Russian apps are also being repurposed to scan users' phones for VPNs and secretly obtain user data. ⬇️
It is almost like the Trump administration has no idea what it is doing, beyond enriching itself of course…
www.cnn.com/2026/04/21/p...
Satellite imagery has emerged showing that Russian occupiers in the village of Manhush, near Mariupol, have destroyed a mass grave of people they killed during the siege of the city in 2022.
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🔥 Samara LPDS, from which oil is pumped attacked.
💥 Military unit 22179 - 150th Motorized Rifle Division was attacked in Rostov
🔥 Novocherkassk. Drones attacked railway infrastructure.
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1/ Ukraine's increasing dominance in drones is reportedly leading to individual Russian soldiers being attacked by 20 or 30 drones at once. Russian warbloggers say that Ukrainian drones are operating with impunity while their side faces a shortage. ⬇️
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#Ukraine’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Andrii Melnyk:
Thirty-five million Russians have no toilet at home.
On the one hand, Russia demands recognition as a "great superpower," claiming the right to redraw state borders by force and impose a new sphere of influence⤵️
🇺🇦 116/143 drones and 1/2 Iskander-M missiles shot down!
“Ukraine is acting & performing like it has the strategic momentum in this war; there is a fair argument that maybe now it does.” My latest. mickryan.substack.com/p/turning-th...
Pete Hegseth, when he was an Army National Guard major, was one of 12 Guard members removed from duty at President Joe Biden's inauguration in January 2021 following vetting by the FBI and military officials.
Those were all the credentials he needed for Trump to appoint him Defense Secretary.
CNN put together a montage of Trump saying as far back as March 9 that his war against Iran "is going to be finished pretty quickly," then him saying that same thing over and over for the past six weeks
IRAN CAUGHT IN INTRA-REGIME ARGUMENTS
The Supreme Leader can only be accessed by the Commander of the IRGC and he’s opposed to negotiations with the Americans. The Speaker of Parliament who is ex-IRGC himself, is keen to proceed. However according to Intel reports the IRGC commander is abusing his
THEY THOUGHT NOBODY NOTICED THE WIAVER
Scott Bessant stood there Friday morning and said they would not be renewing the waiver on the sale of Russian oil and it would remain a price capped commodity.
In the middle of the night a renewed waiver was published giving the Russians free reign to sell
❗️Estimated losses of the 🇷🇺Russian Armed Forces as of April 21, 2026
EV sales surged everywhere apart from the US, rising more than 20% globally in 2025
* EVs were half of Chinese sales and electric truck sales in China tripled
* EV sales outside CN/Eu/US grew 80% (!)
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The current rate of people being killed in ICE concentration camps is one every six days (h/t @austinkocher.com ).
Images of some of martyrs of Iran’s freedom who were shot and killed by regime security forces during #IranProtests2026💫
The passage of time will never erase you from our memory🌹
We will neither forgive nor forget!
#Iran
#IranMassacre
#IranRevolution2026
A wildlife disaster unfolds alongside the human tragedy in the Strait of Hormuz
@greenpeace.org reports Iranian vessel Shahid Bagheri, stuck by a US warplane in early March, is still leaking oil near the Strait, with nearby wetlands at risk:
www.cnn.com/2026/04/17/s...
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Spain is crushing it ⚡🇪🇸
Solar is delivering the equivalent of 27 nuclear plants during the day. Pumped hydro stores ~3 nuclear plants worth. Batteries already stepping in.
This isn’t a generation problem anymore. It’s storage scale.
Energy scarcity → energy timing. #BESS #Solar
🚨🚨Fascinating @politico.eu report on how Donald #Trump has become so politically toxic in Europe that even his closest ideological #far-right allies increasingly view him as a liability. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/trum...
Old stone house, Pserimos, Greece, 2018 Panasonic TZ-200
From the vaults.
#photography #architecture
Trump’s Iran lies boil down to two possibilities:
1. A blatant pump-and-dump scheme to enrich his inner circle.
2. He’s completely lost his grip on reality.
Federal crime or mental collapse — take your pick. Both are a disaster.
😳 TikTokers from Akhmat staged a "special operation" in several houses in the village of Novaya Tavolzhanka in Belgorod Region, threatening local residents with weapons. Military police were unable to stop them.
