Iran should pursue a peaceful resolution and end its nuclear program because the United States has a lot more targets from which to choose, Senate Intelligence Chairman Tom Cotton (R-AR) said on Sunday. Cotton told ABC’s Jonathan Karl on “This Week” that the supreme leader and the Ayatollahs in Iran need to understand that President Donald Trump “means business” after ordering strikes on three of Tehran’s facilities this weekend to prevent the regime from obtaining nuclear weapons. “They have a chance to sue for peace here, to dismantle whatever remnants of their nuclear program remain, and to continue to actually survive,” Cotton said. “Because we haven’t targeted the supreme leader; we haven’t targeted their energy infrastructure. We haven’t targeted other critical infrastructure. That’s an implicit message that Iran still has things that they hold dear that neither the United States nor Israel has struck.” Cotton said the military strikes “severely damaged” Iran’s “critical nuclear infrastructure,” which he noted Trump had warned for 10 years he would do if Tehran got close to achieving a nuclear weapon. “Remember, this is a regime in Iran that has terrorized Americans for 46 years,” Cotton said. “For 25 years, American presidents have worried about them getting a nuclear weapon, have said that they’d never be allowed to. Finally, President Trump has taken decisive action to ensure that they’re not going to get nuclear weapons on his watch.” Cotton also said the United States should be “prepared” for Iran to retaliate. “I join the president in his warning to the supreme leader of Iran, that if he targets Americans, the military force he will see, will make last night look like child’s play,” Cotton said. “We have troops in the region. Iran has targeted Americans around the world and Marine barracks in Beirut and barracks in Saudi Arabia. They’ve targeted embassies of countries around the world. For all we know, they may have gotten sleeper cells into the country during Joe Biden’s wide-open border.” He added: “So, the threats are serious, and we take them seriously. President Trump has no higher priority, as do I, than the safety of the American people.”

In 1970, Barry Hansen began the Dr. Demento Show on KPPC in Pasadena, California. His love for off-beat comedic music quickly gained a cult following. His Dementoids and Dementites wanted more, and his show began syndication in 1974, running weekly until 2010. He launched his streaming show on his website in 2006, but we suppose all good things must end. Per Radio Online, Dr. Demento shared some sad news with listeners. After more than 50 years, he’s retiring. “I’m now 84 years old, and I have been doing this show for nearly 55 years — about two-thirds of my life,” he announced during his final broadcast. “It’s been a blast, but I have come to the decision that I need to hang up my top hat soon. The show you just heard is the last of my regular shows.” I have been a fan since 1991 it was saddening to hear the news, but we knew the day would come one day.Thank you Dr. Demento enjoy your retirement pic.twitter.com/AC8MXFrKvG— Seamus M Ahern (@Seamusmahern) June 2, 2025 Dr. Demento Helped Launch Weird Al Yankovic’s Incredible Career Weird Al’s parodies and sense of musical humor are like no one else in the business. Dr.Demento and his loyal fans loved Weird Al’s strange sense of humor, which helped him become a star who’s still touring today. The news of Dr. Demento’s retirement likely didn’t come as a huge surprise given the length of his career, but Dementoids and Dementities still felt sad when they heard the news. “I have been a fan since 1991 it was saddening to hear the news, but we knew the day would come one day. Thank you Dr. Demento enjoy your retirement,” a fan shared on X. “One of my radio heroes is retiring! First started listening to Dr. Demento in high school on a local ‘progressive’ FM station,” another fan wrote. “Then listened to him for years in syndication and for one glorious year on KMET in LA.” “well damn. dr. demento was a huge influence on my taste in music as a kid,” a melancholy post reads. “i can’t think of how many great songs i was exposed to by his program.” Per Radio Online, Dr. Demento will no longer produce his weekly show, but plans to have bi-weekly retrospective episodes until October. He’ll go out with a bang, celebrating 55 years in the business with a grand finale. This story’s featured image is by Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images for The Roku Channel. The post Iconic Radio DJ Hanging Up His Horn After 55 Years appeared first on InspireMore.

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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth held a press briefing with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan “Razin” Caine at the Pentagon early Sunday morning, detailing the U.S. military’s strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities.  “It was an incredible and overwhelming success,” Hegseth said at the Pentagon. “Iran’s nuclear ambitions have been obliterated.” At President Donald Trump’s directive, the U.S. Central Command executed Operation Midnight Hammer, a precision strike on “three nuclear facilities in Iran Fordo, Natanz, and Isfahan” in the middle of last night. Hegseth said the mission was successful as the goal was “to destroy or severely degrade Iran’s nuclear program.”    Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (@SecDef): "We devastated the Iran nuclear program…Iran's nuclear ambitions have been obliterated." pic.twitter.com/39zW06zFtm— CSPAN (@cspan) June 22, 2025 Hegseth attributed the successful mission to “President Trump’s bold and visionary leadership and his commitment to peace through strength.” “Many presidents have dreamed of delivering the final blow to Iran’s nuclear program and none could … until President Trump,” Hegseth said. “The operation President Trump planned was bold, and it was brilliant, showing the world that American deterrence is back.”  Hegseth also noted that Trump has said the U.S. “does not seek war.”  “Let me be clear: We will act swiftly and decisively when our people, our partners, or our interests are threatened,” Hegseth said. “Iran should listen to the president of the United States and know that he means it. Every word.” Hegseth described last night’s mission as “historic.”  “Without the world knowing at all,” the U.S. Air Force’s B-2 Spirit Stealth Bombers traveled in and out of the nuclear sites, without a single shot fired at them. Last night’s strikes included “the longest B-2 Spirit Bomber mission since 2001” as well as the first time using a Massive Ordnance Penetrator, according to Hegseth. The MOP is a new “weapon system” made to destroy nuclear weapons situated in highly protected facilities, the Air Force states in its website. Twelve GPU-57 bunker-busters were used in the attack. Caine explained the strikes in detail during the press briefing, stating that it “was a highly classified mission with very few people in Washington knowing the timing or nature of this plan.” “At midnight Friday into Saturday morning, a large B-2 strike package comprised of bombers launched from the continental United States,” Caine explained. “As part of a plan to maintain tactical surprise, part of the package proceeded to the west and into the Pacific as a decoy.”  Caine said the strike package consisted of seven B-2 Spirit Bombers, each containing two crew members who “quietly” moved to the east “with minimal communications.”  “Throughout the 18-hour flight into the target area, the aircraft completed multiple in-flight refuelings,” Caine said. “Once over land, the B-2s linked up with escort and support aircraft in a complex, tightly timed maneuver requiring exact synchronization across multiple platforms in a narrow piece of airspace, all done with minimal communications.” Just before the bombers entered Iran, a U.S. submarine launched over two dozen “Tomahawk land attack cruise missiles against key surface infrastructure targets at Isfahan,” Caine detailed.  President of The Heritage Foundation Kevin Roberts supported Trump’s decision to have the U.S. military strike in Iran.  “What follows must not culminate in another regime-change quagmire,” Roberts said in a Heritage press release early Sunday morning. “We learned that lesson in Iraq and President Trump was right to call out the failures of nation-building and military adventurism when running for president in 2016.” Heritage Vice President for National Security Victoria Coates also supported the president’s decision. “This is not a time for nation building or a broader conflict. Now that Iran’s self-defeating dreams of nuclear military power have been decimated, we are closer to peace,” Coates said in the press release. The post Operation Midnight Hammer Successfully ‘Obliterated’ Iranian Nuclear Facilities, Hegseth Says at Sunday Press Briefing appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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Credit: Max AfterburnerA retired US fighter pilot has shared his incredible encounter with a UFO that defied physics. Major Ryan Bodenheimer, a 13-year F-15 and F-16 veteran, described one of the “wildest experiences” of his career—a close call with a rectangular UFO over southern Wyoming during a training mission. The massive object appeared suddenly, seemingly on a collision course. “Then I realized we weren’t going to hit, and all of a sudden it came more into view, and it was a rectangular shape. This was like essentially a perfect rectangle,” Bodenheimer said. The UFO, 30 to 50 feet tall, glowed around its bright white edges as it flew near the Thunderbirds, the Air Force’s elite aerobatic team. It left no vapor trail, emitted no radar signal, and moved at 400 knots (460 mph). “It really was defying any type of aeronautical laws that I’ve learned,” he admitted. When Bodenheimer reported the sighting, air traffic control responded with “dead silence” before labeling it an “anomalous object.” The UFO flew so close at 30,000 feet that he could see every detail before it vanished. Denver controllers asked for more details, and he described a cream-colored interior that seemed transparent or had a hole. “I know it sounds like I’m talking about a delicious pastry, but this was the wildest experience I’ve ever had,” he joked. The only official record was an air traffic report noting an object in the Thunderbirds’ training area, but Bodenheimer never heard more. On his YouTube channel, Max Afterburner, he ruled out explanations like weather balloons or drones. “There was nothing that made me think this was some sort of illusion. It was clear as day. It was right down our wing line, a 30 to 50 foot object,” he said. Though not a “science fiction” fan, Bodenheimer speculated it could be extraterrestrial, matching other military pilots’ encounters that “defied physics.” “Going against aerodynamics definitely blows my mind. Anti-gravity, something that cloaks radar, I didn’t see anything on the radar,” he added. The UFO stayed perfectly vertical despite its speed, unaffected by wind. This wasn’t his only UFO encounter. Near Area 51, he saw a “lightning-fast triangle” during Thunderbirds training. “There’s been lots of crazy stuff that’s been reported out there,” he said. The object raced past his F-16 as his squadron prepared to land. “This lightning-fast triangle blitzed past me… It had basically done an interceptor maneuver, a dust-off. So maybe this was its way of having fun, saying maybe this should be Top Gun 3,” he recalled. Bodenheimer hopes his story encourages other pilots to come forward, noting 800 UFO reports in the last four years. The post Fighter Pilot Reveals Near-Miss With ‘Rectangle’ UFO That Defied Physics appeared first on Anomalien.com.

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