Joel S. Berg

Every dollar per week that Americans need to spend on gas is one less dollar they have to buy food.

Islamophobia and Antisemitism are flip sides of the same ignorance coin.

Not only is this bad for our defense, but that $300 million could have funded more than 100 million school breakfasts for U.S. kids.

For the last year when I went through TSA checkpoints, I’d say to the officers: “sorry about your crappy boss” and most would laugh heartily

Attendees: “You destroyed my hemisphere and all I got was this lousy pen”

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

Here’s a crazy idea:

Iranians should democratically be able to choose their own leaders.

Russia is providing Iran intelligence to target U.S. forces, officials say The targeting information has included the locations of American warships and aircraft in the Middle East, the officials said.

Any chance at all that the news that Russia is actively helping Iran try to kill U.S. troops and allies finally sours Trump’s bromance with Putin? www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

In any organized crime operation, the boss is always cool with underlings stealing, but only if the appropriate cut is kicked up to the boss.

Noem apparently forgot that basic rule.

The population of Iran is about double that of Iraq and its geography is about three times as large. Given that the U.S. couldn’t effectively occupy Iraq, it’s just insane to imagine that the U.S. can occupy Iran.

The unemployment rate is increasing at exactly the same time that the GOP’s big, ugly bill is depriving food aid to veterans, unhoused people, people between 54-64, and parents of teenagers if they are unable to find work.

Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

Reuters Exclusive

"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."

"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

U.S. payrolls unexpectedly fell by 92,000 in February; unemployment rate rises to 4.4% Nonfarm payrolls were expected to increase 50,000 in February while the unemployment rate held steady at 4.3%.

I pretty sure that Trump didn’t run on the slogan:

“Fewer jobs: more war”

www.cnbc.com/2026/03/06/f...

We’ve already spent more on this war than the annual budget of the National School Breakfast Program that feeds 16 million kids every school day.

146,115 more people voted in the Texas Democratic Senate primary than the Republican one. That’s not entirely predictive of the general election, but it’s certainly a good early sign.

The Trump Administration’s Reckless War in Iran Has Already Cost More Than $5 Billion The Trump administration has launched a reckless war of choice in the Middle East, which has already imposed an estimated cost of more than $5 billion on the American taxpayer.

www.americanprogress.org/article/the-.... This could have paid for literally 2 billion school breakfasts for U.S. kids.

Statement from Jasmine Crockett.

If his rich friends can privately fund his ballroom, they can also fund his war in Iran.

The glibness. The indifference. The carelessness. The utter lack of planning for a war against a country of 90M. The sickness of a man who acts on whim that will kill thousands not hundreds. The horror of a regime that enables this sickness. The broken body politic that votes in such malignancy.

An absolutely vile fundraising e-email from the President of the United States.

Hegseth just said it’s none of the American people’s business whether we have “boots on the ground” in Iran.

Actually, the American people absolutely deserve to not only know where we are bombing, but also where our ground troops are fighting.

“That’s the way it is.”

“So it goes.”

Ever since the first Iraq War, Pentagon war briefings have repeatedly and grossly fetishized the destructive power of our weapons.

Endless wars? … money is no object.

Feeding hungry American kids … sorry, we have a deficit to worry about and we certainly can’t make billionaires pay their fare share of taxes to pay for that.

Glorifying war — as opposed to explaining the need for national defense activities that are sometimes used reluctantly — is fascist.

Hegseth just admitted that we are not seeking to ensure democracy in Iran.

I assume that Hegseth had no idea that he just quoted the Notorious B.I.G.

That’s still appalling though, on a number of levels.

War isn’t a video game.

In the real world, multitudes of people die, most of whom are innocent civilians, including children and the elderly.