Iran attacks commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, US strikes back once again

Iran appears determined to test President Donald Trump's patience, and the U.S. military responded accordingly, as in shock and awe, Saturday night.

U.S. Central Command announced that American forces launched a third round of strikes against Iran after accusing the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of attacking a commercial vessel transiting the Strait of Hormuz. The latest escalation follows repeated warnings from Washington that attacks on civilian shipping would carry serious consequences.

According to CENTCOM, the IRGC targeted the Cyprus-flagged M/V GFS Galaxy, leaving one civilian crew member missing. The attack also sparked an onboard fire and caused extensive damage to the engine room, forcing the ship to abandon its voyage.

The strikes came as Tehran once again declared the Strait of Hormuz effectively closed after a vessel traveling what Iranian officials described as an "unauthorized route" was hit with a warning shot. That declaration only adds to growing concerns over the security of one of the world's most important maritime trade routes.

CENTCOM noted that Iran had been given another opportunity to comply with the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding after previous attacks on commercial shipping but "has again failed." The military said the latest strikes were designed to further degrade Iran's ability to threaten civilian mariners and disrupt international commerce.

The operation was carried out at the direction of President Trump, whose administration has made clear that freedom of navigation through the Strait of Hormuz is not open for negotiation. U.S. officials continue to monitor Iran's response while maintaining an elevated military posture throughout the Middle East.

At this stage, the administration appears to be following a familiar strategy: respond with force when Iran escalates, while leaving the door open for Tehran to reverse course. Whether Iran's leadership chooses deterrence over further confrontation remains the question.

Hey good people, I want to thank you for following Brain Flushings. Please take time to simply check out the sponsors on this page--it's one way to support my work and you don't need to purchase anything to do so. Of course, you can Buy Me A Coffee if you want to support me directly. And finally, don't be afraid to subscribe if you enjoy the blog--it's free, and worth the cost.

Tweet

Iran's "New" Supreme Leader, Who Is Definitely Alive And Not Just A Voice-Over From A Bunker, Vows Revenge In Unhinged Social Media Meltdown

TEHRAN - In what Iranian state media is calling a "powerful display of leadership from our vibrant new Supreme Leader," Mojtaba Khamenei took to X on Saturday morning to furiously demand payback for his father's demise, all while experts quietly wonder if the guy has been room temperature since last Tuesday.

"We pledge to avenge your pure blood and the blood of all the martyrs of these two [recent] wars by taking revenge against the criminal, disgraceful murderers. This vengeance is what our nation is demanding, and this must definitely be done," Khamenei wrote, or at least someone with access to his account wrote while the actual Mojtaba was presumably busy decomposing.

The 86-year-old Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei met his end on February 28 in joint U.S.-Israeli airstrikes that turned his compound into a very expensive parking lot. His gay son, now supposedly in charge, followed up with another gem. "The criminal, disgraceful murderers of the martyred Leader, whose names are fully documented from the highest to the lowest ranks, will carry their dream of a peaceful death in bed to the grave," the new supreme leader allegedly added in his social media screed.

Iran rolled out the official funeral pageant for Ali Khamenei last week, with state media breathlessly claiming that more than 40 million people showed up to weep [by pulling out their nose hairs], wail, and pretend this was all very organic.

Mojtaba, or his social media intern, made sure to thank the crowd. "I extend my heartfelt gratitude for the incredible, enemy-shattering, and historic turnout of tens of millions of people across Iran and Iraq," he wrote. Meanwhile, the rest of the world is playing a lively game of "Is Mojtaba Even Breathing?"

Mojtaba while he was clearly alive along with his "adoring followers"

Western intelligence officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they do not want to get vaporized by a regime that may or may not still have a functioning head of state, described the new ayatollah as "looking remarkably still these days" and "possibly enjoying a very long nap."

Global oil demand in 2026 is set to decrease for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, due largely to impacts from the Iran war, but U.S. demand continues to increase, according to an International Energy Agency (IEA) report published Friday. While global production fell by an average of one million barrels per day (mb/d), U.S. consumers actually gobbled up more oil, increasing usage in the second quarter of 2026, according to the report.

Despite gas prices surging 50% since May, U.S. consumers bucked global trends to keep buying. “Even though it’s a really political price that people pay a lot of attention to, if you are in the higher quintiles of income in the U.S., you might grumble about it, but you’re not really driving less just because of that increase in prices,” Daniel Sternoff, senior fellow at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University, told the Associated Press.

Meanwhile, back in Tehran, the mullahs are reportedly still arguing over whether to prop Mojtaba up with wires like a weekend at Bernie's sequel or just admit the whole supreme leadership thing is now being run by a WhatsApp group.

Either way, the revenge plot thickens. Or at least the Twitter account does.

Hey good people, I want to thank you for following Brain Flushings. Please take time to simply check out the sponsors on this page--it's one way to support my work and you don't need to purchase anything to do so. Of course, you can Buy Me A Coffee if you want to support me directly. And finally, don't be afraid to subscribe if you enjoy the blog--it's free, and worth the cost.

Tweet

Marco Rubio Cleans Up Tim Walz's Latest Gift to Criminal Illegal Aliens

If there were an award for making ICE's job as difficult as possible, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz would have to clear some shelf space for the awards he received as a fan dancer.

The governor who never seems to meet an illegal alien he doesn't want to protect found himself at the center of another stunning controversy after helping pardon a convicted child rapist just before he was set to be deported. Fortunately, Secretary of State Marco Rubio stepped in and did what Walz apparently would not, make sure the predator was sent packing.

In an exclusive report, Fox News Digital said that Rubio revoked the legal status of Tue Lue Vang, an illegal alien scumbag from Laos whose clemency from Walz and Minnesota's Board of Pardons threatened to derail his removal from the United States.

"Just weeks ago, a foreign child rapist was freed to once again endanger America's children after receiving a pardon from Minnesota Governor Tim Walz," Rubio said. "Tue Lue Vang admitted to committing heinous crimes against a 10-year-old girl in Minnesota. He attempted to pay his victim for her silence and dismissed his acts of child abuse as a 'minor thing.'"

That is the man Walz's pardon board decided deserved another chance. But another chance at what? Hunting for another innocent child to brutally assault? And this governor has a daughter of his own, so he obviously is incapable of having empathy for the child's parents, much less the child.

According to court records, Vang was convicted in 2006 of first-degree criminal sexual conduct after repeatedly raping a 10-year-old girl between 2002 and 2004. Following his arrest, he reportedly told investigators that "it is a cultural thing... to marry and have sex with girls as young as 12."

It's also a cultural thing for child rapists to be 'taken out' in American prisons.

Apparently, somewhere inside Minnesota's ever expanding progressive compassion manual, someone forgot to include a chapter titled "Don't pardon convicted child rapists."

Rubio continued his criticism of Walz's disgusting decision.

"Just days before he was scheduled to be deported, the Minnesota Governor pardoned him, setting him free to endanger American families once again," Rubio lamented.

Instead of accepting that outcome, Rubio took action.

"Americans should never have to live in fear that foreign sex predators shielded from deportation by their own elected officials could endanger them or their children."

"That's why I terminated his legal status in the United States," he continued. "Vang has now been removed from our country and will never pose a threat to any American ever again."

Let him get his culture on in Laos.

That statement sounds remarkably like what government is supposed to do.

Walz's anal retentive face

The pardon itself was not Walz acting alone. Minnesota's Board of Pardons, made up of Walz, Attorney General Keith Ellison, and Chief Justice Natalie Hudson, approved the clemency on June 10 after receiving a recommendation from the nine member Minnesota Clemency Review Commission.

The commission even congratulated Vang in writing.

"Being granted a pardon is a notable achievement and a reflection of the work you have done since your conviction," a CRC member said in a letter to Vang informing him of his clemency.

One has to wonder what exactly qualifies as a "notable achievement" these days. Evidently, in Minnesota's political class, serving time for repeatedly raping a child and avoiding deportation earns a congratulatory letter instead of a one way ticket home.

The Department of Homeland Security certainly was not impressed.

"Governor Tim Walz's decision to pardon an illegal alien convicted child rapist so he can remain in our country is disgusting," DHS Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis said. "These are the criminal illegal aliens he and his Minnesota sanctuary politicians are protecting."

The Democrats would vote for Hitler if he ran against a Republican.

Rubio ultimately ensured that Walz's pardon would not become a permanent shield against immigration enforcement. Vang has now been deported and barred from returning to the United States.

The episode also was not an isolated incident. In May, Walz and the same pardon board granted clemency to another illegal alien from Laos, this one a convicted armed robber, just before he too faced deportation.

Minnesota voters may eventually have to decide whether their governor's version of "mercy" is really just another word for putting criminals ahead of the safety of law abiding Americans, all for the sake of politics.

Thank you for following Brain Flushings. Please take time to simply check out the sponsors on this page--it's one way to support my work and you don't need to purchase anything to do so. Of course, you can Buy Me A Coffee if you want to support me directly. And finally, don't be afraid to subscribe if you enjoy the blog--it's free, and worth the cost.

Tweet

Massive Influx Of Transgender Refugees Is Causing ‘Civil Emergency’ In Leftist City That Apparently Has Infinite Taxpayer Money And Zero Common Sense

Seattle, that rain-soaked progressive Disneyland where the tents have better real estate than the condos and the only thing growing faster than the crime rate is the virtue-signaling, now finds itself choking on its own rainbow-flavored utopia.The latest crisis? Too many refugees from those awful, backward red states: Texas, Florida, Tennessee, places that still harbor the primitive notion that you shouldn’t pump confused teenagers full of hormones and carve them up like Thanksgiving turkeys.

These desperate souls are flooding into Seattle looking for free housing, free validation, and the sacred right to have the government pay for their delusions. And the city’s own LGBTQ Commission is in full panic mode, pen in one hand and begging bowl in the other.In a May 2026 letter to Mayor Katie Wilson, they formally requested she declare a civil emergency, yes, a civil emergency because of the “rapid influx” of transgender and gender-nonconforming arrivals.

These poor “internally displaced persons” need cash, shelter, and an entire underground railroad of nonprofits to keep the dream alive.

The letter spells it out with the usual bureaucratic poetry: these folks are fleeing “anti-trans legislation, threats to personal safety, and barriers to healthcare.” Translation: states that passed laws protecting minors from irreversible medical experiments dared to say no, and now the true believers are stampeding toward the Pacific Northwest like it’s the new Promised Land.

One of the groups on the front lines is Traction, whose executive director, C. Michael Woodward, a man who transitioned decades ago and has been in the advocacy game nearly as long, told conservative outlet The Daily Wire they’ve had over 1,600 applicants since Trump’s election but could only help about 130.

Even the veterans of this movement sound stunned. “I never once imagined we’d be doing this kind of work,” Woodward said. Indeed. When the revolution starts eating its own cities, the script has officially gone off the rails.

At a city council meeting, social worker and commission co-chair Kody Allen painted the picture: his homeless shelter, the biggest in town, is turning away at least ten young adults a night, many of them “trans refugees.” The queer health clinics are running out of money. The whole glorious experiment is straining at the seams. Council members vowed to stand firm, build trans-specific shelters, and create interdepartmental teams for long-term “infrastructure.”

Because what Seattle really needs, amid its existing tent cities and open-air drug markets, is more of the exact same demographic bringing the exact same problems.

Meanwhile, Washington State has positioned itself as a gleaming sanctuary. SB 5599 lets shelters hide runaway minors seeking “gender-affirming care” without bothering to tell the parents.

The Supreme Court is now hearing the challenge, with red states warning that this could turn the country into a parental rights demolition derby. But in Seattle, the message is clear: come one, come all. Your confusion is our sacred mission. Your family’s heartbreak? Somebody else’s problem.

This is the progressive masterstroke in all its glory. A city already drowning in chaos looks at the red states that said “maybe don’t chemically castrate kids” and decides the solution is to import the chaos wholesale. More bodies, more trauma, more demands on a system already collapsing under the weight of its own ideology.What could possibly go wrong? Well, everything, of course. But in Seattle, that’s just another day in paradise.

Thank you for following Brain Flushings. Please take time to simply check out the sponsors on this page--it's one way to support my work and you don't need to purchase anything to do so. Of course, you can Buy Me A Coffee if you want to support me directly. And finally, don't be afraid to subscribe if you enjoy the blog--it's free, and worth the cost.

Tweet

Tyler Robinson’s Trans Furry Boyfriend Spills the Beans on Those Engraved Bullets"[

"[I] told him to make sure he doesn't set off the bullet on accident in the house."

In a twist straight out of the clown world newsroom, Lance [Twiggy] Twiggs, the trans-identifying former boyfriend of accused assassin Tyler Robinson, took the stand in audio form during Thursday’s preliminary hearing.

He revealed that Robinson had been planning to engrave bullets ahead of a so-called “hunting” trip that somehow ended with Charlie Kirk, the late Turning Point USA founder, in the crosshairs.

The police interview with Twiggs, taped months after the assassination, finally got its big courtroom debut.

According to trans-identifying Twiggs, Robinson casually mentioned a family hunting excursion and wondered if he could borrow a Dremel tool to customize some ammunition with personal messages.

Twiggs, ever the helpful sort, confirmed he had the tool, pointed out its location, and issued the single most comically oblivious warning in recent memory, all about a month before the shooting.

“He said he was going hunting with his family and he asked if we had a Dremel he could borrow because he said he wanted to engrave messages on bullets,” Twiggs explained. “I just told him where the Dremel was and told him to make sure he doesn’t set off the bullet on accident in the house, but I didn’t really think about it until then."

Twiggs added that the day after the killing, Robinson looked restless, like a man trying very hard to pretend he hadn’t just turned a conservative icon into a headline. When Twiggs pressed him in person about those late-night texts confessing to the shooting, Robinson reportedly cracked.

“[He] didn’t go into detail. I just asked him in person if what he said was true the night before and he said it was, starting crying a little bit, and he says he wishes he hadn’t done it," Twiggs said.

Some chunks of the interview were redacted on orders from Judge Tony Graf to protect the delicate rights of the defendant while the rest of America wonders how many warning signs can pile up before someone connects the dots. Robinson, 23, now stares down the possibility of the death penalty if convicted, a fitting end to what the left will no doubt call “one isolated incident” involving a trans furry’s gun-engraving roommate. Business as usual in 2026.

The chances of Robinson getting the death penalty is as slim as a police captain forgoing a doughnut, but if he does, it will take decades before it's carried out, unless some Democratic socialist in power comes along and dismisses the charges.


Thank you for following Brain Flushings. Please take time to simply check out the sponsors on this page--it's one way to support my work and you don't need to purchase anything to do so. Of course, you can Buy Me A Coffee if you want to support me directly. And finally, don't be afraid to subscribe if you enjoy the blog--it's free, and worth the cost.

Tweet

Iran has launched a missile attack on Jordan

Not mosques; missiles

“Seek overhead cover and shelter in place immediately,” the embassy warned.

On Thursday, Iran directed missiles toward Jordan. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps asserted that its forces had targeted the U.S.-operated Muwaffaq Salti Air Base. This strike forms part of a confrontation between Washington and Tehran that now spreads steadily across the region.

Jordan’s military reported that it had intercepted eight Iranian missiles before they could reach their intended targets within the kingdom.The U.S. Embassy in Amman responded with a nationwide security alert. It spoke of “missiles, drones, or rockets” in Jordanian airspace and instructed American citizens to take immediate shelter.

“Reports indicate missiles, drones, or rockets are in Jordanian airspace. Seek overhead cover and shelter in place immediately,” the embassy said.The launches caused a temporary halt in air travel.

All flights at Amman’s Queen Alia International Airport were delayed while Jordan dealt with the aerial threat.This assault on Jordan followed a wider Iranian retaliatory operation launched earlier the same day.

Tehran declared that it had sent a large barrage of missiles and explosive drones against U.S. military sites in Qatar, Kuwait, and Bahrain. Iranian sources claimed successful strikes on an aerial early warning system in Qatar, fuel storage facilities in Bahrain, and a Patriot missile battery in Kuwait. Iranian state media described the targets as “key infrastructure and facilities” linked to the American military presence across the Gulf.

At the same time, Reuters noted a drone strike on a camp belonging to the Iranian Kurdish opposition northeast of Erbil in Iraq. Another front opened in a conflict that expands with alarming speed.

These latest attacks arrived while the United States pressed its own military campaign against Iran. Iranian media described explosions in several cities, among them Kerman, Bushehr, Asaluyeh, and Bandar Abbas. The deputy governor of Bushehr province was quoted as saying that U.S. projectiles had struck areas surrounding the Bushehr nuclear power plant.

Several locations in the province, including the perimeter of the nuclear facility itself, came under fire in the most recent wave of American strikes.This widening exchange of blows follows consecutive nights of U.S. operations against Iranian military infrastructure. It comes after Tehran first targeted commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.

The pattern now raises grave and entirely justified fears that the conflict is sliding into a broader regional war.

Thank you for following Brain Flushings. Please take time to simply check out the sponsors on this page--it's one way to support my work and you don't need to purchase anything to do so. Of course, you can Buy Me A Coffee if you want to support me directly. And finally, don't be afraid to subscribe if you enjoy the blog--it's free, and worth the cost.

Tweet

IRGC Boldly Warns World to Stay Out of Its Strait of Hormuz, Denounces Big Bad American 'Adventurism'

AI generated

TEHRAN—In what military analysts are calling "peak Persian tough-guy theater," the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps took to the airwaves Thursday morning to flex its nautical muscles over the Strait of Hormuz, reminding everyone that the world's most critical oil chokepoint now belongs to them and their speedboats.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Navy warned Thursday that foreign powers have “no stake” in the Strait of Hormuz and said U.S. involvement in determining traffic routes through the key waterway would draw a “crushing response.”

In a statement, the IRGC Navy accused Washington of “adventurism and interference” as tensions rise over commercial shipping in one of the world’s most important oil corridors. Because nothing says "legitimate maritime power" like a theocratic regime that treats international waters like its personal driveway.

American bases in the region would be targeted if what the IRGC called “U.S. aggression” is repeated, according to state media. This threat lands with all the intimidating force of a guy yelling at clouds while hiding behind his mullah.

The IRGC also claimed Iran had increased vessel transit through the strait over the past two weeks, but said recent U.S. actions had seriously disrupted the process of reopening the route. Transit capacity under Iran's supervision had recovered to about 50% of pre-war levels over the past two weeks, the IRGC claimed, adding that transit capacity was only being expanded for vessels granted permits to use routes designated by Iran. Translation: "Please ignore the burning tankers and our history of piracy. We're very good at this."

The warning comes as the U.S. and Iran trade strikes and threats over maritime security in the Gulf, with Washington saying its military operations are aimed at protecting commercial vessels and civilian mariners. You know, that crazy outdated concept called "freedom of navigation" that used to matter before we decided strong countries aren't allowed to act strong anymore.

Tehran has since taken effective control of the strait, allowing it to force a stalemate in its confrontation with the world's most powerful military. Nothing quite like a regime that can't feed its own people lecturing the U.S. Navy on naval strategy."The U.S. has yet to learn that bullying and breaking its commitments no longer come without a cost. Let me be clear: If you strike, you will be struck back," Iran's top negotiator, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, wrote Wednesday night on X."The Strait of Hormuz will be reopened only under Iranian arrangements, not through U.S. threats."

Meanwhile, the U.S. military continues polishing its very large arsenal, wondering if the mullahs have ever seen what happens when America stops pretending these threats are serious.

Thank you for following Brain Flushings. Please take time to simply check out the sponsors on this page--it's one way to support my work and you don't need to purchase anything to do so. Of course, you can Buy Me A Coffee if you want to support me directly. And finally, don't be afraid to subscribe if you enjoy the blog--it's free, and worth the cost.

Tweet

President Trump might remove Syria from US's list of state sponsors of terrorism

Trump Eyes Syria Terror List Removal: “Guy’s Crushing It, Folks” POTUS said, referring to Syria's POS.

In a move that has foreign policy experts clutching their pearls and reaching for their smelling salts, President Donald J. Trump announced Wednesday that he’s strongly considering yanking Syria off America’s official “State Sponsors of Terrorism” list, because, in his words, the new Syrian leader is “doing a great job.” [And had probably told "The Donald" that he likes him.]

The announcement came during a press gaggle in Turkey as Trump met with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, a man whose résumé apparently now reads “Reformed Bad Boy” instead of whatever it said last week when he was the "Be-header in Charge."

“Are you going to remove Syria from the state sponsor of terrorism list?” a brave reporter asked, bravely risking a brave follow-up question.

“I think I will, yeah,” Trump replied with the breezy confidence of a man ordering a well-done steak. “Why wouldn’t I? He’s done a great job. Maybe he would have brought that up in a little while. That’s a good question. Yeah. Any problems that I think we should? Yeah, I will.

”Translation: Syria went from “Axis of Evil Adjacent” to “Model Student” faster than you can say “Art of the Deal.” The country, which until recently was starring in “Failed State: The Sequel,” now gets the Trump stamp of approval.

For context, Syria currently shares the prestigious terrorism sponsor list with such luminaries as Iran, North Korea, and Cuba, the geopolitical equivalent of the island of misfit toys.

Trump seems ready to hand Syria a diploma and a participation trophy just for showing up and not blowing anything up this week. 

At press time, State Department bureaucrats were reportedly seen wandering the halls muttering, “But we have a process,” while Trump was already sketching out potential Trump Tower Damascus on a napkin. Because if there’s one thing the Middle East needs, it’s more winning. And Donald Trump is, as always, happy to oblige.

Thank you for following Brain Flushings. Please take time to simply check out the sponsors on this page--it's one way to support my work and you don't need to purchase anything to do so. Of course, you can Buy Me A Coffee if you want to support me directly. And finally, don't be afraid to subscribe if you enjoy the blog--it's free, and worth the cost.

Tweet