Sheer terror and hell

This is horrific

It's funny, a US President complaining about coming late to a war.

Ruben Ray Martinez: Footage shows US citizen shot by ICE agent in Texas traffic stop The Department of Homeland Security did not disclose Martinez was shot by one of its agents until almost a year later.

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas.

"He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger."
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Seyed Abbas Araghchi X.com @araghchi The U.S. committed a blatant and desperate crime by attacking a freshwater desalination plant on Qeshm Island. Water supply in 30 villages has been impacted. Attacking Iran's infrastructure is a dangerous move with grave consequences. The U.S. set this precedent, not Iran. 8:13 AM • 3/7/26 • 3.4M Views

Iranian Foreign Minister on the attack on the desalination facility:

they brought back fucking polio

The same day WaPo reports that Russia has provided Iran with intelligence on locations of US ships, aircraft, personnel and assets in the Middle East, Trump’s Treasury Secretary announces the administration is removing Russian oil sanctions.

DOJ releases Epstein files with accusations against Trump Over the course of four interviews in 2019, a woman told the FBI that Epstein and Trump sexually abused her in the 1980s.

“A DOJ source told the Miami Herald that agents found her to be credible—and that they would not have interviewed her four times if they thought she was lying.”

@jkbjournalist.bsky.social bringing it home
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Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump X.com The United States has spent EIGHT TRILLION DOLLARS fighting and policing in the Middle East. Thousands of our Great Soldiers have died or been badly wounded. Millions of people have died on the other side. GOING INTO THE MIDDLE EAST IS THE WORST DECISION EVER MADE...... 7:14 AM • 10/9/19

Throwback to 2019:

I’m sorry, what?!

And Ukraine

Thread of videos of strikes in Tehran and elsewhere in Iran:

'We don't see any reason to negotiate: Araghchi We have more comments from Iran's top diplomat. In a live interview with NBC, Abbas Aragchi said Iran is "not asking for a ceasefire". "We don't see any reason why we should negotiate with the US", he said. "When we negotiated with them twice, every time, they attacked us in the middle of negotiations." Araghchi also emphasised that Iran has not closed the Strait of Hormuz, saying "it is the ships and tankers" that have refused to cross the waterway.

Iranian Foreign Minister:

“We don’t see any reason to negotiate”

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The DOD is like other contractors in that you should triple the estimated budget and timeframe they give.

Fire Stephen Miller.

Trump unleashed: President bullish on Iran, eyeing regime change in Cuba and impatient with Ukraine The president told POLITICO that “Cuba’s going to fall,” revealed his growing frustration with Ukraine and discussed the uncertain search for a new leader of Iran.

“Cuba’s going to fall, too.”

Trump to Politico:

I have now published work on three Gulf Wars, isn't that just peachy?

(But seriously, we wrote interesting things, check it out)

This guy is the gift that just keeps giving

Meanwhile...

This is a great article and got too little attention when it first came out. @propublica.org is doing amazing work.

Nancy Youssef, ..guil @ X.com @nancyayoussef The preliminary Pentagon cost estimate of the war in Iran is $1 billion a day, a congressional official told me. 12:20 PM • 3/4/26 • 44K Views

Preliminary Pentagon cost estimate of the war in Iran is $1 BILLION a day. So far.

Shanaz Ibrahim Ahm... @firstladyofiraq X.com Leave The Kurds Alone, We Are Not Guns For Hire. SHANAZ IBRAHIM AHMED tiest Lady of the Hopubic of Beso FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Office of the First Lady of the Republic of Iraq Thursday, 5 March 2026 Leave the Kurds Alone. We Are Not Guns for Hire Sulaymaniah, Iraq - In 1991, the Kurds were urged to rise up against the regime of Saddam Hussein, only to be abandoned when priorities changed. No one came to our defense when the regime deployed helicopter gunships and tanks to crush the uprising. Those memories remain vivid and etched in our minds. Today, we commemorate that chapter as "Raparin" and we do not forget what it taught us. More recently, we saw what happened in Northeast Syria, or Rojava. After all the promises that were made, after Syria's Kurds stood on the front lines of the war against ISIS, we witnessed how they were treated. Today, the Kurds of Iraq have finally tasted a measure of stability and dignity in life. Because of this, it is very difficult, indeed impossible, for Kurds to accept being treated as pawns by the world's superpowers. The experiences are there. The empty promises are there. Too often, the Kurds are remembered only when their strength or sacrifice is needed. For that reason, I appeal to all sides involved in this conflict. Leave the Kurds alone. We are not guns for hire. - ENDS — 9:17 AM • 3/5/26 • 66K Views

First Lady of Iraq:

“Leave The Kurds Alone, We Are Not Guns For Hire.“

I keep seeing the "OUR 50 YEAR WAR WITH IRAN" headlines and think, dang, really? Then maybe we should've come down harder on those Reagan administration guys for selling arms to Iran and using the proceeds to seed an illegal slush fund for far-right counterrevolutionaries in Central America

By Barak Ravid (Axios) President Trump told Axios in an interview Thursday that he needs to be personally involved in selecting Iran's next leader — just as he was in Venezuela. Trump revealed this exclusively in an eight-minute phone call — his second conversation with us to explain his war planning. Why it matters: Trump confirmed that Mojtaba Khamenei, son of assassinated supreme leader Ali Khamenei, is the most likely successor — while making clear he finds that outcome unacceptable. For several days, the Iranian regime has postponed the announcement of the new supreme leader. But statements by Iranian politicians on Thursday suggested an announcement could be imminent. What he's saying: "They are wasting their time. Khamenei's son is a lightweight. I have to be involved in the appointment, like with Delcy [Rodriguez] in Venezuela," Trump said. He added that he refuses to accept a new Iranian leader who would continue Khamenei's policies, which he said would force the U.S. back to war "in five years." "Khamenei's son is unacceptable to me. We want someone that will bring harmony and peace to Iran," Trump said. The big picture: Trump's comments represent an extraordinary claim of American power over Iran's political future, adding to uncertainty over the massive U.S. military campaign he launched on Saturday. The backdrop: Mojtaba Khamenei — the 56-year-old son of the assassinated supreme leader — has emerged as the frontrunner to succeed his father, though no formal announcement has been made. A hardline cleric with deep ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Khamenei has never held public office. Israel bombed the Iranian building in Qom housing the clerical body responsible for selecting Iran's next supreme leader on Tuesday, seeking to disrupt the vote-counting. Between the lines: Trump compared the Iran succession to his intervention in Venezuela, where vice president Delcy Rodriguez took over after U.S. forces captured Nicolás Maduro in January. In …

So Trump is demanding he gets to pick the next Iranian leader while we're in the middle of a shooting war with them. Elsewhere, he also just told Channel 12 news in Israel that Herzog must pardon Netanyahu immediately, mid-war.

Israel's Digital Occupation — The Dial Lebanon has become a laboratory for a new age of warfare.

“The drones that hover over the skies of Lebanon…collect large swathes of data — Wi-Fi, IP addresses, phone signals — which are then organized by AI…in what some scholars and activists say amounts to a “digital occupation.” Fascinating by @justinsalhani.bsky.social

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Emanuel (Mannie) Fa... & X.com @manniefabian The IDF issues an "urgent warning" to residents of Beirut's southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold, ahead of planned strikes against the terror group. "Residents of the neighborhoods of Bourj el-Barajneh and Hadath, move east toward Mount Lebanon on the Beirut-Damascus road. Residents of the neighborhoods of Haret Hreik and Shiyyah, move north toward Tripoli on the Beirut-Tripoli road, and also east toward Mount Lebanon via the Metn Expressway," says army spokesman Col. Avichay Adraee.

"Save your lives and evacuate your homes immediately," he says. "It is forbidden to move south. Any movement southward may endanger your lives. We will notify you when it is safe to return to your homes," Adraee adds. [map of Beirut] 6:42 AM • 3/5/26 • 72K Views

⚠️ In an unprecedented move, the IDF has issued an evacuation warning for the entirety of southern Beirut in Lebanon.

Previous evacuation warnings in Beirut have been for specific buildings only that the IDF has then bombed.

War (What Is It Good For)

I’m still in disbelief that Capitol Police and a Republican senator broke the arm of a Marine in full dress uniform because he was voicing opposition to sending troops to Iran. Horrifying.

Hey that’s about the cost of the SSI Restoration Act, which would cut recipient poverty by 60%, eliminate marriage penalties, and modernize draconian asset limits.

Last time I checked, we weren’t the United States of Israel.