Gunman failed passing through the metal detector at the entrance to the ballroom, carrying his weapon. LE apprehended him. Six shots may have been fired. Apparently not dead.

Posted by: Acco Hengst | Apr 26 2026 1:57 utc | 304

Posted by: karlof1 | Apr 26 2026 1:26 utc | 298
 
Especially his fat ass

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Apr 26 2026 2:08 utc | 306

Araghchi was in Islamabad, there’s proof.

Posted by: Ornot | Apr 26 2026 2:15 utc | 308

 
https://x.com/caitoz/status/2047975737903435778
Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz 
 
One of the most frustrating things about hasbarists is how they constantly pretend to believe things they don’t really believe in order to push Israeli PR. This person does not believe his own claim. He is knowingly lying about what he thinks is true about Zionists. 
 
A Penn State survey published in Israeli media last year found that 82 percent of Jewish Israelis support the forced expulsion of all Palestinians from Gaza. Nearly half, 47 percent, said the IDF should kill all inhabitants of any city they capture — that’s inhabitants, not combatants.
Rabbi Poupko may not be aware of this specific poll, but he does interact with Zionists on a regular basis. He personally knows Zionists who would tell him to his face that his claim is false, and he is fully aware of this. He is knowingly lying in order to promote the information interests of a genocidal apartheid state. 
 
They do this all the time, with everything. They’ll falsely claim pro-Palestine protests make them feel unsafe just to get laws passed to shut down the demonstrations. They’ll pretend to believe that phrases like “from the river to the sea” and “globalize the intifada” are hateful slogans which encourage antisemitic attacks. They’ll regurgitate ridiculous hasbara slogans like “human shields” and “world’s most moral army” which they know for a fact are false. They just make whatever noises they need to make to keep the western weapons shipments heading to Tel Aviv. 
 
And, I mean, of course they will. They’re bad people. They’d support a genocide, so there’s not a lot they wouldn’t do. Of course they’ll lie and manipulate to advance the agendas of their favorite ethnonationalist war machine. Israel apologists are awful. 
 
 
https://x.com/RabbiPoupko/status/2047503656199569553
Rabbi Poupko  @RabbiPoupko 
 
I had never met a Zionist who does not care also for the lives of innocent Palestinians.
I have never met an anti-zionist who does care for the lives of israelis.
That is the difference between us.
 

Posted by: michaelj72 | Apr 26 2026 2:17 utc | 310

I guess its always prudent to suspect a false flag as well. 

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Apr 26 2026 2:22 utc | 312

@316 Tobias

“Multiple shots fired by multiple gunman”

For all we know the ‘multiple gunman’ was security detail, and the victim was a waiter who reached too fast for his ID.

Posted by: Ornot | Apr 26 2026 2:33 utc | 314

Guardian rolling report : 1m ago 03.35 BST

** “That was very unexpected,” Trump begins, speaking from the White House briefing room. He is still wearing his tuxedo from the evening’s gala. **

Posted by: Cynic | Apr 26 2026 2:38 utc | 316

@321 tobias

They don’t usually let people with automatic weapons anywhere near a hotel where the president is going to be.

Posted by: Ornot | Apr 26 2026 2:40 utc | 318

Tobias going for broke, looks like this was prepared and planned in advance.  TDS = Trump’s Defense Service.

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Apr 26 2026 2:44 utc | 320

Trump didn’t really need another dinner anyway.

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Apr 26 2026 2:44 utc | 322

I wonder if the warning that the trump creep copped tonite was from the zionists or was something both more prosaic, yet in its own way more exciting?
 
Who knows how many ‘deals’ the trump extended family plus cronies have put together over the last 2 1/2 years?  There will be all sorts of deals – more than just those the chabad obliged trumpist bagmen bought home from foreign climes, there will also be any amount of pork barrels,  ‘buyouts’ and even favour for favour , arrangements both consummated & alleged consummated by the entire gamut of what call themselves business interests’ that we know to be in fact the full gamut of seedy & greedy capitalist endeavour domestic & foreign.  
 
Consider also, that as the west asia resistance front has taken up so much trumpian&co effort; effort normally spent on ensuring deals run as they were intended to.  The reduced effort spent on them is compounded by the reality that reduced trumpian global control makes it necessary to invest more not less effort into the ‘arrangements’ – eg not assisting in the defense of the Gulf states has caused uae prez  Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan to ask for a refund on the billions that have been ‘donated’ to amerika to ensure that the uae is protected by amerika in a war.
Trump refused naturally cos trump never refunds (another of his fred trump rules), so uae has sold off a big parcel of amerikan investments, although he doubtless gonna find that door shut before much is transferred out.
 
If I was as desperate, angry, & conscienceless as Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, I’d be considering knocking the fucker – wouldn’t you?
 
 
I’m not seeking to divert people from the obvious conclusion, but suggesting we may as well derive some entertainment from he whose name litters every metro under corporate control, being exposed for the idiot clown he always was.

Posted by: A_User | Apr 26 2026 2:47 utc | 324

Looks like Tobias was given his marching orders and discussion points well in advance.  

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Apr 26 2026 2:54 utc | 326

What is this?  The 3rd or 4th attempted  assassination?
 
These must be the worlds most incompetent assassins in the planet.
 
Another round of “look at me”.  24/7 malignant narcissism lives in the WH.
 
Iran humiliation,  low approval, so let’s change the headline.
 
No doubt masses are falling for this chicanery.

Posted by: Trubind1 | Apr 26 2026 2:57 utc | 328

He [Trump] called it “crazy” and said “I want to live because I want to make this country great”.
 
Echoes of the US politician who a few years ago declared, “I’d rather die than see the economy suffer!”

Posted by: Cynic | Apr 26 2026 3:09 utc | 330

If the Democrats are the solution, you’ve got no clue at all what the real problem is. 🙂
 
God Bless the destroyed Disunited States of America where a Pheonix of Human Decency arises in its stead sometime in the distant future. 

Posted by: What the Duck? | Apr 26 2026 3:32 utc | 332

Trump posted the video of how th shooter went past the security.
 
He just “Naruto Dash” from the metal detection gate xD past several secret agents before they could even draw their weapons. Lol

Posted by: KillerDoll | Apr 26 2026 3:38 utc | 334

I wonder if Trump is intelligent or thoughtful enough to consider that it is he who has threatened assassinations of Iranian leadership, put prices on the heads of Iranian leaders, and bragged about having killed Ayatollah Khameini and Iran’s government and military leaders.
 
It is US propaganda of violence toward manufactured “enemies” – killing motorboat and fishing boat sailors and celebrating with videos of the murders, the support of Israel’s genocide of civilians in Lebanon and Gaza, the killing of children in Minab and refusal to admit it, showing videos of blowing things up in Iran (mostly decoys admittedly).
 
And Jack Posobiec tonight, “Enough is enough. They aren’t going to just ‘leave us alone.’ It is time for our federal govt to act.”  Who is “they”?

Posted by: Belle | Apr 26 2026 4:06 utc | 336

You have got to be impressed about Trump wanting to bring the electric chair, lethal gas, and firing squads for “violent rapists, murderers, and monsters”.
 
I wonder who appears to have done all that and might fit the definition of ‘monster’ as well? 
 
https://www.infowars.com/posts/us-to-bring-back-gas-chambers-electric-chairs-firing-squads-for-federal-executions
 

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Apr 26 2026 4:32 utc | 338

Posted by: Ornot | Apr 26 2026 2:33 utc | 318
 

For all we know the ‘multiple gunman’ was security detail, and the victim was a waiter who reached too fast for his ID.

 
I told you so. And it’s just the beginning.The show is on.
 
Posted by: Sebgo | Apr 25 2026 22:30 utc | 273

the hurricane that’s brewing this weekend.

Posted by: Sebgo | Apr 26 2026 4:39 utc | 340

The gunman was from California, his name was Mr Hollywood.

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Apr 26 2026 4:42 utc | 342

“Israel murdered her. She was a journalist.”

Since when Israel doesn’t kill journalists and other civilians?

Posted by: Surferket | Apr 26 2026 4:43 utc | 344

Cole Thomas / Thomas Cole
 
Sure

Posted by: Norwegian | Apr 26 2026 4:55 utc | 346

“I didn’t want to say this, but this is why we have to have the ballroom.” – Trump

Obviously he didn’t want to say that.

Posted by: Norwegian | Apr 26 2026 5:04 utc | 348

Posted by: too scents | Apr 26 2026 4:55 utc | 366
 

What has happened in Mali and how does it affect you?

 
Thank you for your interest in the Sahel.
 
I’m following the events in Mali a bit like you, from afar.
 
There are only 800-900 km between Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso, where I am, and Bamako in Mali, but it could just as easily be further.
 
The only difference is that we can get firsthand information from family and friends.
 
The situation is unclear, and there’s a lot of fake news, so it’s unwise to share information that might turn out to be false.
 
For the moment, there are no direct consequences for us in Burkina Faso, and there hasn’t been an official statement here yet.
But if this continues, there will inevitably be an impact.
 
The only thing I can say is that it was largely predictable.
Those in charge have become more concerned with politics, propaganda, and geopolitical positioning than with terrorism.
 
When they talk about security, it’s primarily about the security of the regimes, not the population.
 
The terrorists are taking advantage of this. They attacked several locations including the Capital, Bamako. There are deaths.
Everything else is questionable.

Posted by: Sebgo | Apr 26 2026 6:07 utc | 350

see the 1:47 video at the first link. Elijah magnier with Rachel Blevins
 
see the 50:26 video at the second link. Michael Hudson with Glenn Diesen
 
 
 
https://x.com/RachBlevins/status/2046757055374012783
Rachel Blevins @RachBlevins 
 
“IRAN WILL NOT ACCEPT A CEASEFIRE. IRAN WANTS THE END OF THE WAR.” 
 
@ejmalrai noted Iran is fighting for an end to the US and Israel’s illegal attacks and endless war crimes across the region. This fight has united the Resistance, and Yemen will be the next to enter the war…
 
——————–
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPvP9ojKmpY
Michael Hudson: Iran War Ignites Global Financial Armageddon – with Glenn Diesen 
 
“…..That’s going to cause such a shortage that it’s going to cause an international depression worse than the 1930s. And the reason why it’s worse than the Great Depression is because that was really a financial uh depression. But a cut back in energy and the tangible physical flow of goods is part of the production process itself. That is that cannot be solved by writing down debts. Cannot be solved by saying let’s uh have a war economy and military Keynesianism to pull us out of the depression. uh it’s much more serious….”
 
“It’s (Iran) not going to be a world power in in the sense that America, Russia or China is a military power. It’s not going to be an investment power uh itself because it’s been stripped of its foreign uh means of investment. It’s not even going to be a major trade power. What is giving it all the power that it has is the moral power that it’s got saying we we are not going to stand up for letting the United States become the world’s dictator and using uh oil trade, food trade, uh the dollar as weapons against other countries uh to maintain one-sided exploitative control over them. We’re not going to let that happen. uh and somebody has to draw the line and it’s Iran that has drawn the line. That’s what that’s what it moral power is…..”
 
—————–
 
https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/31501
Middle East Spectator — MES 
 
I can’t even make this into a serious post because it’s so ridiculous: 
 
ISRAEL has informed the U.S. that it needs to put more pressure on Hezbollah to ‘respect the ceasefire in Lebanon’. It calls the violations ‘unacceptable’. 
 
Yes, you got that right. The side that has bombed more than 300+ places, carried out dozens of assassinations, and demolished villages is asking the other side to not violate. 
 
The state of the world is absolutely ridiculous and it’s fucking insane that Israel is allowed to get away with this.
 

Posted by: michaelj72 | Apr 26 2026 6:36 utc | 352

In response to
”
 The state of the world is absolutely ridiculous and it’s fucking insane that Israel is allowed to get away with this. 
Posted by: michaelj72 | Apr 26 2026 6:36 utc | 354
”
 
Agreed and maybe it is coming to a climax, eh?
 
The shit show continues until it doesn’t and your contributions at the bar are appreciated.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Apr 26 2026 6:43 utc | 354

I’ve not yet recovered from the shock and amazement of watching people like Sam Harris, James Kunstler and Ilargi Meijer (The Automatic Earth) all come out of their closets as loud and proud Zionists.

Posted by: caliban | Apr 26 2026 8:55 utc | 356

see the photo at the first link.
 
see the 56-second video at the second link.
 
see the photo at the third link
 
 
 
https://t.me/PalestineResist/95051
Resistance News Network 
 
17-year-old Obada Montaser Asaad Al-Qadi from Surif, north of Al-Khalil, ascended to martyrdom due to a heart attack while being pursued and detained by the occupation forces. 
Glory to the martyrs.
 
—————-
 
https://x.com/BeckettUnite/status/2047967145867305443
Howard Beckett @BeckettUnite 
 
An Irish 🇮🇪 funded school destroyed by Israeli 🇮🇱 occupiers in the West Bank 🇵🇸.  The school educated 60 Palestinian children.
Ireland 🇮🇪 will demand compensation.  But Israel 🇮🇱 won’t pay a penny.
 
It’s occupation
It’s apartheid
It’s ethnic cleansing 
 
Expel 🇮🇱 from the UN now.
 
——————
 
https://x.com/Palestine_UN/status/2048049600418721963
State of Palestine @Palestine_UN 
 
Today, Israel killed a pregnant mother carrying twins alongside her two children, Hamza and Naya, in artillery shelling that struck a home in northern Gaza. 
 
At least four children are among the 14 people killed across Gaza since Friday morning.
📷 Mahmoud Hamda
 

Posted by: michaelj72 | Apr 26 2026 9:00 utc | 358

360 – I don’t know about the other two but the noisy atheism of Harris has essentially always been hostility to Islam more than anything else, and his deep love of the Entity is no surprise. 

Posted by: Waldorf | Apr 26 2026 11:16 utc | 360

MUSA ZAFI
 
Pepe Escobar is 100% right.
China isn’t just trading through Iran it’s building a sanctions-proof fortress.
In May 2025, Beijing quietly activated the 10,400 km China-Iran railway.
Trains now run from Xi’an straight through Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan to Tehran’s Aprin Dry Port in just 15 days slashing the old sea route by more than half.
Goods. Containers. And soon oil moving overland in tank cars, settled in yuan, backed by barter.
1. No navy.
2. No Strait of Hormuz.
3. No Strait of Malacca.
4. No US blockade possible. This is the ultimate backup corridor the empire can’t touch.
While Washington obsesses over naval chokepoints, China is rewriting the map with rail and reality.
The New Silk Road just got armor.
This is how multipolarity actually wins.
 
https://x.com/masuzafi/status/2048092182205141422
 

Posted by: Menz | Apr 26 2026 11:25 utc | 362

Search query analytics reveal a brief spike in Israel for the name “Cole Allen” at 7:00 AM EST–nearly 12 hours before the shooting incident at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.  Coincidence or not?
 
https://t.me/geopolitics_prime/68815

Posted by: Belle | Apr 26 2026 11:30 utc | 364

Posted by: What the Duck? | Apr 26 2026 4:47 utc | 347
I think you have made an important point here that I do not see picked up by the press.
 
By killing leaders in Iran and also the attempted assassination of Putin, basic diplomatic conventions have been broken.
 
Essentially all political and military leaders are fair game for assassination. This includes presidents, Generals, foreign ministers,  scientists, religious leaders AND journalists.
 
I am not sure when it will start against the western leaders but it will start.  Preferably they would be captured and handed to a war crimes tribunal (a fair one) then imprisoned (I cannot support execution even for a monster like netanyahoo although hanging him by his toe nails and lashing him 1000 times for every child he had murdered might be  a justified punishment ) .
 
Anyway I think it is only a matter of time.  It is a terrible state of affairs and probably if forced to be reasonable I would accept that two wrongs do not make a right and be more forgiving but it is very, very hard.

Posted by: watcher | Apr 26 2026 11:33 utc | 366

ZACHARY FOSTER
 
In Hebron, if you are Jewish, you can throw rocks at Palestinians for fun all you like.
 
In Hebron, if you are Palestinian & you throw rocks at Jews, you’ll be executed on the spot or disappeared into the most well-documented rape dungeon on earth.
 
Not so complicated after all. It’s called apartheid.
 
Videos (3.03)
https://x.com/_ZachFoster/status/2048086579999109394
 
https://x.com/_ZachFoster/status/2048086579999109394

Posted by: Menz | Apr 26 2026 11:43 utc | 368

JEREMY SCAHILL
 
Some thoughts on the current state of play on Iran:
 
The next 48 hours will tell us a lot about the diplomatic realities of the Iran standoff. There is no question it is the U.S. that is seeking direct talks right now, not Iran. Tehran remains firm in its demand that the U.S. naval blockade be lifted as a condition to move forward. If that happens, a formal second round of top level direct talks can happen, Iran says. On Friday, the U.S. announced it would dispatch Witkoff and Kushner to Islamabad to try to force the Iranians into semi-formal talks while Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is in Pakistan. The Iranians have total disdain for Witkoff and view him as both ignorant of diplomatic processes and totally worthless in his understanding of technical issues. Kushner is viewed by Iran as Israel’s man at the table. Iran does not see any reason to deal with these two without a figure like JD Vance present. Whether Araghchi would participate in a meeting with them, or proximity talks or some secret meeting is unclear, though Iran says for now it’s not happening.
 
Iran is not only focused on the U.S. talks. It is also engaged in a parallel track of talks with its strategic allies, including Russia and China, as well as Oman, a longtime mediator trusted by Tehran.
 
Iran still believes it is likely the U.S. and Israel will resume the war and has indicated it has prepared new forms of retaliatory strikes and other actions, including in the Strait of Hormuz. Its military commanders have said that while the U.S. has moved more military assets into the region during the “ceasefire,” Tehran has also taken this period to prepare its own weapons systems for more fighting.
 
Trump would be taking extreme risks by relaunching the war and the immediate costs will be in the Strait and in the Gulf nations. Iran would also resume missile attacks against Israel. The global economic situation would further deteriorate. And there is no indication more strikes will weaken the Iranian government. Tehran has made clear that capitulation isn’t an option and the idea of a domestic uprising hoped for by the U.S. and Israel has never materialized. The U.S. was caught completely off guard by Iran’s ability to fight on both an asymmetric and symmetric basis and Iran is likely to continue this pattern in the event of resumed attacks.
 
https://x.com/jeremyscahill/status/2047992639945916776
 

Posted by: Menz | Apr 26 2026 11:51 utc | 370

Iran war cost ticker
 
https://iran-cost-ticker.com/

Posted by: arby | Apr 26 2026 12:24 utc | 372

— 🇮🇱/🇮🇷 NEW: Hezbollah has uploaded a video where they vow that Israel’s northern settlements will no longer be safe unless Lebanon is safe

https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/31510
 

—❗️🇮🇱/🇦🇪 BREAKING: At the start of the war with Iran, Israel sent an Iron Dome air defense system to the United Arab Emirates, along with soldiers to operate it – Axios
This marks the first Arab country in the world to officially host Israeli troops on its territory.

https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/31515
 

Posted by: Norwegian | Apr 26 2026 12:36 utc | 374

🇮🇷Iran could cut underwater internet cables in the Strait of Hormuz and disconnect Gulf countries from the internet.
 
This is made clear by the Iranian state agency Tasnim, which published a map of cables in the strait. The destruction or damage of cables threatens a digital collapse in the region, as a number of countries would be left without physical access to the internet in such a case.
 
Seven cables (Falcon, AAE-1, TGN-Gulf, SEA-ME-WE), through which 15% of the world’s internet traffic passes, are located in Oman’s territorial waters.
 
For countries such as the UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Iraq, this would lead to severe economic consequences. Without the internet, banking operations would cease and data centers would stop functioning.

https://t.me/intelslava/87081
 

Posted by: Norwegian | Apr 26 2026 13:25 utc | 376

Well another attempt on the white house inmates – unsuccessful again! However there is one main power in the near east, iran, and that doesn’t suit the americanised jews since they strive and have striven to change that set up since at least the balfour declaration some hundred years ago. So they work ceaselessly to change that so that the jews on their stolen plot of land can build the jewish pipe dream of a greater israel and in that work resort to all kind of crimes against the palestinians and the people in the neighbouring states, such as genocide, thievery of land and chattel and assassinations galore and blackmail a la epstein and and.. And the iranians have endured in their ceaseless work to stop the jews to succeed. The jews are a minion without the resources to fulfil their ambitions but lo and behold have employed the once mighty United states of america for their cause and lured the poor americans to supply weapons and money for the jewish endeavour. At this stage it’s an all in or a break. Most likely a break. It should be known by all and sundry that the jews are incapable to do what they set out to do. They just don’t have the resources and katz, who is a windbag, sounding off without a hope in the world to accomplish what he claims to do – bomb iran to rubble and in the process destroy eons of heritage going back millenias. And this the world quietly accepts. Mentally retarded trump possibly senses that the jewish pipedream ain’t going to be accomplished and would prefer to go home to deal with the consequences at home but the jews with their pipedream realise that this is it and can’t allow the sucker to jump ship. Pentagon, except half in the bag hegseth, is probably much against the war and its continuation and the threat against the world economy is palpable right into the white house and wall street. And sending to jews, not even official government representatives, to negotiate with iran is an affront no one should accept. Stupidity reigns in wahington and the jews. 

Posted by: Nisses | Apr 26 2026 13:45 utc | 378

And this the world quietly accepts. 
Posted by: Nisses | Apr 26 2026 13:45 utc | 384
 
 This is what Michael Hudson says. 
 
Iran is saying to the rest of the world that if you do nothing to stop the illegal aggression against Iran than you will suffer the consequences along with us. 
 
 Security for all or Security for none
 
Prosperity for all or prosperity for none.
 
Iran is quite right. The ROW does nothing. The UN does nothing. Actually if they do do anything it is to blame Iran amd help the US.

Posted by: arby | Apr 26 2026 14:10 utc | 380