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Friday, 31 July 2026
the government's lawyer scrambled to get back in after the judge had already ruled, pressing her to limit discovery so Blumenthal can't ask why they were interested in his phones.
The US government seems desperate to prevent me and the American public from learning why the orders were given to violate my rights by seizing my phones, and which malign political elements might have been behind the whole unconstitutional scheme
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Jeremy Loffredo
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At today's hearing over CBP seizing Max Blumenthal's phones at Dulles, the government's lawyer scrambled to get back in after the judge had already ruled, pressing her to limit discovery so Blumenthal can't ask why they were interested in his phones.
They have a word for every form of resistance.
If you fight with weapons, you are a terrorist.
If you fight with boycotts, you are antisemitic.
If you fight with words, you are spreading hate.
If you fight with international law, you are politicizing the courts.
If you document the casualties, you are spreading propaganda.
If you mourn publicly, you are inciting violence.
If you survive and refuse to be silent about surviving, you are a threat to stability.
There is no form of resistance they will permit.
Because the point was never to find a form of resistance they could accept.
The point was to make resistance itself the crime, so that the original violence, the violence that created the conditions requiring resistance, could be discussed, if at all, as an unfortunate but necessary background detail.
The trick is not complicated.
It just requires everyone to look at the resistance and never at what produced it.They have spent centuries perfecting the art of controlling where you look.
An overnight US strike on Iran’s Qeshm Island hit a residential building, killing a couple and their two-year-old child, Iranian media has reported.
According to Iran’s PressTV, Ahmad Nafisi, a deputy governor of Iran’s Hormuzgan Province, said that two other children from the family were rescued from the rubble. He said that the rescue operations had concluded and all of the people in the home had been accounted for.
People conduct search and rescue operations at a residential building on Iran’s southern Qeshm Island after it was hit by a US airstrike on July 30, 2026 (PressTV)
So far, the US hasn’t responded to the Iranian reports of US strikes killing a toddler. US Central Command released a “fact check” on Thursday addressing claims made by Iranian media but didn’t mention the reports of a US strike killing a two-year-old. The US still hasn’t taken responsibility for its February 28 strike on an elementary school in Minab, southern Iran, which killed more than 100 children.
CENTCOM said that it launched strikes across Iran in response to an IRGC attack on a US base in Jordan, claiming to target “dozens of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) targets in Iran, including military command centers, missile and drone facilities, coastal surveillance and defense sites, and maritime capabilities.” The IRGC said that three of its members were killed by US strikes in the northwestern Zanjan province.
Iran launched retaliatory strikes at US bases in response to the US strikes, which the IRGC claimed destroyed three US F-35 fighter jets in Jordan. CENTCOM denied the claim, but it has been known to not disclose damage at US bases and downplay US casualties.
