Mr Big The Cat @starrynight3p14

NEW: 🇺🇳 UN votes 164-1 to ditch the Mercator projection in favor of the “Equal Earth” map, The US was the only country who voted against The dark blue shows the real size of the countries in the world

Nearly 10% of young Americans now spend all day alone. The Surgeon General calls it an epidemic of loneliness as research shows that social disconnection raises the risk of premature death by ~29%. That's on par with smoking 15 cigarettes a day.

BREAKING: The Netherlands has moved 86 tonnes of its gold stock, worth $12 billion, out of the US, citing Trump's unpredictability over the Iran war and "increasing geopolitical unrest," per Daily Mail. The move follows senior officials warning that the gold is “no longer safe” in Trump’s hands, which prompted the Netherlands to immediately begin removing its gold from the US.

BREAKING: Former US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll met with Trump to inform him that the Iran war was making it impossible to achieve foreign-policy goals, with Trump talking exclusively about his ballroom in response, causing Driscoll to resign believing the admin was "doomed," per Dominic Michael Tripi. The military's largest service is now vacant, as it has no Secretary, no confirmed Chief of Staff, no confirmed Army general in charge of operations, and no confirmed commander of Army troops in Europe. Deputy Under Secretary of the Army Dave Fitzgerald is expected to resign this week as well.

ANOTHER Launch from Iran to UAE Reports of Siren in KUWAIT Iran has CONFIRMED targeted U.S. bases in UAE, Jordan, and now Kuwait. IMPACTS in Jordan were made.

New on MoA: Is Trump Offering Mustang Beef? moonofalabama.org/2026/08/mustan…

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BREAKING: Iran gives the US an ultimatum of "3-4 weeks" to meet all of its demands or it will "severely escalate in the Strait of Hormuz" and launch its planned preemptive strike on US-backed Gulf infrastructure, and US & Israeli assets, a senior Iranian source in Tehran familiar with the matter says. Iran's demands include: 1. $300 billion in reconstruction funds 2. Full release of Iran's frozen assets of up to $120 billion 3. Lifting of the U.S. naval blockade 4. End to the war across all fronts, including Gaza and Lebanon 5. Accepting Iran's permanent control of the Strait of Hormuz, including up to 7% of transit fees 6. The lifting of all US sanctions on Iranian oil, petrochemical products, and gas

The @bankofengland allowed the Nazis to confiscate Czechoslovakia's gold when they invaded in 1939 but won't allow Venezuela access to its 31 metric tons of gold to help victims of an earthquake that killed 6k people. Moral of the story: you can't trust the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street.

This is the original text referred to by NYT (translated by Gemini). As you can see, there’s no deal. The Supreme National Council is who approves the deal. In the Name of the Exalted Until the United States corrects its behavior, the Strait of Hormuz will not open. Correcting behavior means: 1. Never threaten Iran in any language, nor insult the sanctities of this nation. 2. Permanently end the war and aggression against Iran and its allies in Lebanon, Palestine, Yemen, and Iraq. 3. Lift the naval blockade and withdraw its military forces (naval and air) from around Iran. 4. Pay full compensation, without deduction, for the damages of the two aggressive and imposed wars against Iran. 5. Lift the cruel and illegal sanctions against the Iranian nation. 6. Unconditionally release the frozen and stolen assets of the Iranian people. These are the demands of the risen people of Iran, which they have shouted through 160 days of relentless presence in the squares and streets. The Supreme National Security Council will never back down—neither in war nor in negotiations. Mohammad Baqer Zolghadr Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council

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Something for #InternationalCatDay: Meet Unsinkable Sam the Cat — the smallest survivor of the doomed German battleship Bismarck. Serving as the vessel’s resident mouser, Sam was among the 114 German sailors rescued from the North Atlantic by Allied warships following destruction of the notorious battleship. Plucked from the ocean by sailors on HMS Cossack, Sam was warmly welcomed aboard and soon added to the crew as the ship steamed for the Mediterranean. In October of that year, the Cossack herself was sunk by U-563 while escorting a convoy out of Gibraltar. The entire ship’s company, including Sam, was saved by HMS Legion and put ashore. Back at base, a group of sailors from HMS Ark Royal adopted Sam. He lived aboard quite happily until the carrier was fatally damaged off Malta by the Nazi submarine U-81. Sam and all but one of the stricken vessel’s complement were rescued from the Med. The incident marked the end of Sam’s career at sea. After returning to Gibraltar with his shipmates, the lucky feline was taken on by the staff of colony’s governor with whom he remained until after the war. A sailor later took the cat home with him to Belfast. Sam died of old age in 1955.

This is one of the most famous paintings in America, and most people have no idea what they are actually looking at... The painting is Christina's World, made by Andrew Wyeth in 1948, and the woman was real: her name was Anna Christina Olson, Wyeth's neighbour in Cushing, Maine. Since childhood a degenerative condition had slowly taken the strength from her legs, until walking was no longer possible. She refused a wheelchair, and for her entire adult life she chose to drag herself across the ground with her arms instead, going wherever she wanted to go under her own power. Wyeth saw her one afternoon from an upstairs window, alone in that vast field, crawling slowly toward the house on the hill. He said the painting was an attempt to do justice to her extraordinary conquest of a life which most people would consider hopeless. Her world, he said, was limited physically but by no means spiritually. That is what turns this painting from a portrait of frailty into one of the most triumphant images ever made... Look at it long enough and it stops being about what her body took from her, and becomes about what she would not stop doing anyway. The field is enormous and she is small and the house is far away, and still she goes, because the alternative, to be carried, to give up, to let the distance win, was something she simply would not accept. There is one more thing: Christina loved this painting. Pink was her favorite color, and Wyeth had placed her exactly where she most wanted to be, out in the open, in her own field, under her own sky. Late in her life, when she could no longer even crawl out to that field, she said something that holds the whole meaning of art inside it: "Andy put me where he knew I wanted to be. Now that I can’t be there anymore, all I do is think of that picture, and I’m there."

🇺🇸🌍 The U.S. State Department can’t even locate African countries on a map. During an official presentation in Rio de Janeiro, the American delegation displayed an AI-generated map placing Nigeria in the Sahara, Mozambique on the Horn of Africa, and Côte d’Ivoire on the opposite side of the continent. These are the same people funding programs across Africa, drawing borders, lecturing governments, and shaping foreign policy. If you’re going to interfere in countries around the world, you should at least know where they are.

Wildfires continue to rage uncontrolled in southwestern France. The fires in France have resulted in the largest peacetime evacuation effort since World War II. More than 220,000 people have been displaced.

The U.S. has been significantly weakened by the war with Iran. This administration depleted our missile defenses, drained our oil reserves, sacrificed our men & women, inflated the price of consumer goods, increased our debt, and neglected our domestic needs… all for Israel.

So Ukraine attacked an Iranian commercial vessel in the Caspian Sea on Sunday ... not a good idea mr Zelensky.

barry with the NED @bonzerbarry

2 months ago

Iranian MFA: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran strongly condemns the action of the Ukrainian regime in attacking an Iranian commercial vessel in the Caspian Sea early Sunday morning. This attack resulted in the explosion of the ship, the death of one

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#VNZWatch🇻🇪: Today, Venezuelan officials confirm that the death toll from the TWIN EARTHQUAKES has CLIMBED to 5,346. The disaster is the 12th-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century.

🤦‍♂️ This post illustrates why this account cannot be trusted. The US has no "earth-penetrating" nuclear weapons. A granite mountain will shrug off a nuclear explosion. And Trump said nothing "indicating" nuclear weapons would be used.

The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter

2 months ago

BREAKING: Trump announces the US will hit Iran's Pickaxe Mountain nuclear facility "pretty soon very heavily," adding "there's nothing they can do about it," indicating he will use nuclear earth-penetrating bunker busters, as these are the only weapons that can properly destroy

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Live shot of my coffee addiction

Polymarket @Polymarket

2 months ago

JUST IN: American Heart Association reveals drinking up to five cups of coffee per day may lower the risk of stroke, heart failure & type 2 diabetes.

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