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In January of this year, Iran’s regime faced its biggest protests in years as anger spread over spiraling prices and a crumbling economy.

The regime murdered thousands in a vicious crackdown.

Iran’s Drones That Russia Is Using. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

Now, despite its bellicose talk, the country’s military has been battered by war and suffocated by a U.S. naval blockade; the country is now in even worse shape economically as Washington and Tehran once again have an uneasy truce after fresh fighting last week.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov admitted on Tuesday, June 30, that Moscow is considering importing fuel to address domestic shortages. Peskov framed the problem as a matter of panic buying rather than a major supply shortage and distribution bottlenecks. Russia is facing growing pressure from Ukraine as its long-range strike campaign continues through the summer.

You know the horror film currently creeping the crap out of audiences? The one that was made by a twentysomething YouTuber and has gone on to make $371.1 million globally (so far)? You know the one I’m talking about (BECAUSE I WROTE ABOUT IT LAST WEEK). 
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“Obsession.” Yeah. That one. It’s an indie film. 
An indie—or independent—film is one created, produced, financed, and often distributed outside of the traditional Hollywood studio system.

Kyiv is following through on its promise of an intensified 40-day, long-range strike campaign against Russia, announcing on Tuesday, June 30, that a Moscow satellite communications center was struck overnight. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed the strikes in a statement and on social media, accompanied by video footage of the attacks. Moscow also announced that hundreds of drones were shot down over its territory overnight.

The fight over the Strait of Hormuz has moved off the water and into the wording of diplomatic statements. Months after Iran’s blockade of the world’s most important oil chokepoint sent crude prices above $120 and stranded thousands of sailors, the question now is not whether ships can pass but whether they will have to pay Tehran for the privilege. Iran wants to charge them.

A geyser of water shot into the air when the decommissioned amphibious transport dock USS Juneau was struck by a torpedo fired by the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force as part of a live-fire ship sinking exercise, photos recently posted by the U.S. military show.
The torpedo was the final salvo used to sink the Juneau earlier this month as part of Valiant Shield, a biennial exercise with U.S. and allied forces, said Lt. Cmdr. Katie Koenig, director of the Combined, Joint Information Bureau for the exercise.

Six time zones east of Moscow, in the Siberian region of Zabaikalye, the line of cars waiting to reach a working fuel pump stretched three kilometers. In some districts, garbage collection has stopped because the trucks have no diesel. In parts of the Pacific region of Khabarovsk, where the governor says about 40 percent of stations are dry, residents have reported fighting wildfires themselves because the fire trucks cannot be fueled.

The Pentagon and Office of Personnel Management announced a recruiting effort Tuesday that officials are calling “War Force.”
The initiative doesn’t seek to hire trigger-pullers but rather AI experts and other software engineers that could “embed down to the unit level across the department” to support operational needs and “ensure a more lethal United States military,” according to an OPM press release.

On Sept. 16, 1620 the Mayflower left Plymouth, England bound for the new world, bound for the northern Virginia colony. They never made it—not to Virginia, anyway. Trouble with the ships, stormy seas, and some unexpected course corrections delayed their arrival to America and when they finally saw their new continent, the most disturbing trouble of all happened: they were low on beer.
The ship’s commander, Capt. Christopher Jones, made an executive decision: the Pilgrims would be departing a little sooner than they expected so there would be more beer for the crew.

Oil is closing out its weakest quarter in five years on Tuesday, with Brent crude down roughly 30 percent over the three months and off about 20 percent in June alone, the steepest quarterly fall since the pandemic crash of 2020. The slide has carried both major benchmarks back to where they traded just before the United States and Israel began striking Iran on February 28. West Texas Intermediate sat near $70.75 a barrel and Brent near $73.22, a remarkable round trip for a market that watched prices climb above $120 at the height of the war.