There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.
Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.
They blew up an elementary school Tom
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No other US president will be able to do this. They have decided that the former game show host is the Very Special Boy.
Obama: "We are living in a time where it can be hard to hope. Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions. Another setback to the idea of the rule of law ... but this man - Rev. Jesse Jackson - inspires us to take a harder path ... bc if we don't step up, nobody else will"
Is it just me, or does Hegseth seem to derive sick, twisted pleasure from blowing people up? How often does he watch these videos? Who does he watch them with?
markwayne declined his option
You’re not racist if you voted for James Talarico, but I wish some folks would just admit that they voted for Talarico not because he’s better, just whiter. And in this country, our default is supporting candidates we think other white people will vote for. That is identity politics.
During its annual meeting taking place this week in Mexico City, a hurricane committee within the World Meteorological Organization decided that just one name would be retired following the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season: #Melissa. Melissa is the 100th retired storm name in the Atlantic.
The used car salesman who owns Epstein's New Mexican ranch for some reason is in the lead for comptroller I guess.
Since July, more than a dozen pregnant children have been moved to a single facility in the small town of San Benito, along the south Texas border. The children kept in Texas are as young as 13, and about half are pregnant because of rape, according to a joint investigation by the Texas Newsroom and the California Newsroom. In Texas, abortion is banned in nearly all circumstances, including rape and incest.
the phrase “more than a dozen pregnant children” ringing in my ears www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
The approximate cause of death for Anne Frank was the Nazis. The specific cause of death was the outbreak of Typhus at Bergen-Belsen camp, which overtook her (and others) from chronic malnutrition and medical abuse. These conditions are not, in character, unlike our system of immigration camps today
“Deeply unpopular, immoral, illegal war”
After a briefing that appears to have clarified little, Dem senators sound the alarm about Trump’s war in Iran and the potential for 🇺🇸 boots on the ground
Maybe it’s a bad idea to put people in charge of government who are eager for the rapture.
everything theyre saying now they said during iraq
this is what a fifteen year old kid playing some video game would say
We wanted to save Iranians from the bad guys.
So we killed the bad guys.
This turned out to be unfortunate, because our plan was, after saving the Iranians from the bad guys, to pick one of the bad guys to be *our* bad guy and to leave him in charge.
"Friendly fire does happen. But three F-15Es? Downstream effects of ops tempo + lack of training + faulty mission planning + panic. I mission planned F-15Es for a living in the USAF… our military is IN Kuwait on permanent station in multiple locations. This is operational incompetence." - Former Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-VA05)
"I mission planned F-15Es for a living in the USAF… our military is IN Kuwait on permanent station in multiple locations. This is operational incompetence." - Former Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-VA05) bluevirginia.us/2026/03/mond...
When you have the chance, please take the time to watch Harrison Ford's remarkable, beautiful Life Achievement Award acceptance speech. #ActorAwards
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@Osinttechnical New New York Times Interview with President Trump: Trump: "What we did in Venezuela, I think, is the perfect scenario" When pressed on his plans for a transition of power, Mr. Trump said he hoped Iran's military forces would simply turn over their weapons to the people. 5:26 p.m. • 01 Mar 26
@jonkarl Pres Trump told me tonight the US had identified possible candidates to take over Iran, but they were killed in the initial attack. "The attack was so successful it knocked out most of the candidates," Trump told me. "It's not going to be anybody that we were thinking of because they are all dead. Second or third place is dead." 9:40 PM • Mar 1, 2026
jfc he is just profoundly stupid
Pres Trump told me tonight the US had identified possible candidates to take over Iran, but they were killed in the initial attack. "The attack was so successful it knocked out most of the candidates," Trump told me. "It's not going to be anybody that we were thinking of because they are all dead. Second or third place is dead."
complete insanity
I know that everyone here hates the “Donald Trump started a war and jacked up your gas prices” messaging but “Donald Trump started a war and jacked up your gas prices” is likely the single thing about this nightmare that will most affect the day to day lives of a lot of people in the US
Tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has all but stopped since yesterday.
Read the @financialtimes.com Economics editor, Sam Fleming's analysis of what the impact the war in Iran will have on the global economy
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“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”
James Baldwin
A crazy time to NOT HAVE FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS!!!
BREAKING: Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead, Iranian state media reports.
Trump in dopey USA baseball cap, posed at the head of a table full of crisis actor White House staffer flown into Perv-A-Lago for the “war” photo op, in a black-draped section of his club, which is supposed to make it look like a high security “situation room,” but doesn’t.
Cropped version on the previous photo, showing aires peeking in through the high security, top secret curtains.
Pipe and draping does not make it a SCIF. And DEFINITELY not a SCIF if you can just peek your head in from outside.
‘piles of bloodied, dusty backpacks’ is some harrowing shit my god
