Google has illegally broken into my Blogs over 47 times. Google has edited and illegally deleted some of my content. Additionally, X, Meta, and Google are still censoring many people, including me. Elon Musk never fixed any of the evil censorship that Jack Dorsey and his team built into the X software.
We do not have online freedom of speech.
On July 17, 2026, Iranian ballistic missile and drone attacks targeted U.S. and partner forces in Jordan. According to CENTCOM:
Two U.S. service members were killed in action.
One service member is currently missing.
Four American service members were medically evacuated to Jordanian hospitals.
This marks the first confirmed U.S. combat deaths in the current phase of the conflict since earlier in the year (total U.S. service member deaths since the war began: 16 killed and over 430 wounded). CENTCOM issued a formal statement on July 18 regarding the “Recently Fallen, Missing U.S. Service Members.”U.S. ResponseIn direct response, U.S. forces launched new precision strikes against Iranian military targets. Reports describe this as part of an ongoing campaign (referred to as the 7th or 8th consecutive night of strikes in some accounts), with the latest wave explicitly tied to punishing the attack on U.S. personnel while continuing to degrade Iran’s capabilities. CENTCOM has framed the broader operation as targeting Iranian military infrastructure — including missile and drone sites, coastal defense systems, and maritime capabilities — primarily in southern Iran (areas such as Bandar Abbas, Jask, and others) to reduce threats to commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. President Trump directed the military response, consistent with prior statements in this conflict.
Despite having little experience in commanding large, conventional
military forces, Washington’s strong leadership presence and fortitude
held the American military together long enough to secure victory at
Yorktown and independence for his new nation.
Unlike the successful Siege of Boston, the efforts to defend the city of
New York ended in near disaster for the Continental Army and the cause
of independence. In what proved to be the largest battle of the
Revolutionary War in terms of total combatants, Washington’s forces on
August 22, 1776, were flanked out of their positions atop the Gowanus
Heights (part of today’s modern Brooklyn) and soundly defeated by
William Howe's roughly 20,000 man force on Long Island.
It was during these dark days at the close of 1776 that Thomas Paine’s
words from the recently published American Crisis rang most true:
“These are the times that try men’s souls…the summer soldier and the
sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their
country; but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man
and woman.”
Retired Gen. Jack Keane on President Trump's Iran approach following U.S. strikes in early July 2026 that hit over 170 Iranian targets, including air defenses and small boats.
The strikes responded to Iranian attacks on commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz, with Trump declaring a prior ceasefire over while stating negotiations would continue alongside military pressure.
Keane has highlighted Trump's use of targeted bombings and threats as leverage to extract concessions from Iran, stressing the need for ongoing enforcement to counter delays and non-compliance in talks.
The observable universe—the portion from which light has had time to reach us since the Big Bang—is a sphere centered on Earth with a current radius of about 46.5 billion light-years, for a diameter of roughly 93 billion light-years. This figure accounts for the universe's expansion: light from the earliest moments (like the Cosmic Microwave Background, or CMB) left its source ~13.8 billion years ago, but the space it traveled through has stretched dramatically since then. The light-travel distance alone would suggest only ~13.8 billion light-years, but expansion inflates the current distance to ~46.5 billion light-years in every direction.
Why the boundary feels mysteriousThere is no physical "edge" or wall at the limit of the observable universe. It's a cosmic horizon set by the finite speed of light and the finite age of the universe (like how Earth's horizon limits what you can see on the ocean, even though more ocean exists beyond it). Beyond this horizon lies more universe—possibly vastly more. Leading models suggest:
The full universe could be infinite (especially if space is flat on large scales, as CMB data strongly indicate).
Or it could be finite but without boundaries (e.g., like the surface of a higher-dimensional sphere).
Inflation theory implies the entire universe is at least hundreds of times larger than the observable part, possibly by enormous factors like 10^23 or more.
