1. In strategic terms this is correct.
2. The US military and intelligence apparatus still has immense resources and a lot of skilled people capable of big tactical wins in airstrike targeting and maybe down the line seizing Kharg.
3. Hubris generated by 2. reinforces 1.
CBS obtained video of the DHS killing of an unarmed man in Texas that DHS concealed for nearly a year, which clearly contradicts claims that he violently rammed anyone. He is shot with his brake lights on, car not moving or barely moving. Another DHS crime.
Reupping.
Not only did Trump minimize possibility of terrorist attacks on US. But White House nixed a law enforcement bulletin ABOUT those threats.
Links:
time.com/7382697/trum...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Iran retaliated with missile and drone bombardments against U.S. bases and allied territory, targeting military facilities across the Gulf, including Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar. One Iranian drone killed six American service members at a U.S. command center in Kuwait. Asked whether Americans should be worried about retaliatory attacks at home, Trump acknowledges the possibility. “I guess,” he says. “But I think they’re worried about that all the time. We think about it all the time. We plan for it. But yeah, you know, we expect some things. Like I said, some people will die. When you go to war, some people will die."
Donald Trump’s White House is blocking top US intelligence agencies from warning law enforcement across the country about rising threats to the homeland tied to his war with Iran, the Daily Mail can reveal. The FBI, Homeland Security, and the National Counterterrorism Center were preparing to put out a joint intelligence statement on Friday to state and local authorities alerting them of a heightened threat due to the ongoing war in Iran, a senior DHS official said. The bulletin, which was reviewed by the Daily Mail, details 'elevated threats by the government of Iran to US military and government personnel and facilities, Jewish and Israeli institutions and their perceived supporters, and Iranian dissidents and other anti-regime activists in the United States.' 'Radicalized individuals with a variety of ideological backgrounds also may see this conflict or other geopolitical events as a justification for violence,' the report continues. The five-page bulletin blocked by the White House provides specific details on how Iranian proxies may carry out attacks across the country. One section explains how local law enforcement can respond to this type of violence. The official title is 'A Public Safety Awareness Report: Elevated threat in the United States during US-Iran conflict'. Homeland Security broke protocol and gave the White House a heads-up about the nationwide bulletin hours before it was set to be released. Top Trump officials ordered it placed on ‘hold’. The White House did not deny blocking the terror bulletin in a statement to the Daily Mail.
Time: Asked if Americans should be worried abt attacks at home: I guess.
Daily Mail: The White House blocked release of FBI/NCTC warning of elevated risks.
Get ready for some "warflation": higher prices for oil, gas, food (lots of fertilizer passes through Hormuz), goods made with petrochemicals (umbrellas, shampoo, toys, etc.), and pretty much anything that needs to be transported anywhere.
Affordability! open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Unironically love my opposing counsel, who called me back after a meet and confer today because he forgot to ask how my family in Israel is doing (which reminded me to ask about his extended family in Iran). He's wrong about EVERYTHING substantive, of course, but just a good human being
Damnit. And I kept snidely commenting Persia invented chess today on @nicolesandler.bsky.social's show, KNOWING someone would tell me it was Russia.
Oh thanks. Makes more sense.
Doocy would be prettier if he smiled more.
I assume the private Qatari and Emirati complaints are even more pointed than the public ones.
Wow. Trump treats Doocy the way he normally treats Kaitlan Collins.
It's past 6:00pm Eastern Time.
ICE once again failed to release congressionally-mandated detention statistics on its typical biweekly schedule.
The last update was on February 12, 2026. Four weeks ago.
www.ice.gov/detain/deten...
Now pro se plaintiffs are catching Pam Bondi's AUSAs fabricating quotes and citations.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Israeli attacks on UNIFIL peace keepers tonight. Irish service men were not directly hit, but they aided their counterparts from Ghana. This will further deteriorate Irish Israel relations.
A picture of Kyle Wagner. he is bald, has a ton of tattoos (including a Resistance tattoo and an Iron Front tattoo), sneering into a camera.
Wagner is the heavily tattooed guy whom Bondi's DOJ arrested with an 18-person mob.
SCOOP — Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors.
My report:
Rather than making a threat, the defendant was calling out J.S. for threatening someone else. Also not addressed by the magistrate is that Mr. Wagner’s online posting of J.S.’s parents’ home address is, upon information and belief, a reposting of a prior doxxing of J.S. by another person. J.S. is, apparently, infamous in the circles of online activists who identify as anti-facist and famous among their right-wing online provocateurs. It appears highly unlikely that J.S. suffered any significant emotional distress from a reposting of a prior doxxing incident. From all indications, this sort of online trolling is what gets the guy up in the morning. As further discussed below, J.S. is no blushing lily.
More than a month after Kyle Wagner was arrested in MN, a public defender for him points out that his alleged victim, Jayden Scott, himself commits the alleged crime with which Wagner was charged, all the time.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
On the missing Epstein files: It's not JUST that DOJ is still withholding a bunch of pages re allegation he raped a teenager. It's that they only released duplicates (those sent to Ghislaine in discovery), raising questions if the originals still exist.
emptywheel.net/the-alleged-...
It's a very busy Emptywheel Friday today. We had a lot of ground to cover! Join Marcy @emptywheel.bsky.social Wheeler and me as she really ties it all up as it's all related. Strap in. Show starts at 3ET/12PT at youtu.be/MkJOfGVvuq8, nicolesandler.com, emptywheel.net, pod, nicolesandler.substack.com
Coffee, straight out of my nose.
I have serious questions about whether this stuff was shielded from Mueller.
NEW: ICE tackled + arrested Juanita Avila, an Oregon shop owner who is a legal permanent resident and had her green card in her pocket.
When she asked through sobs why they didn't believe her, one masked agent replied: “Because they lie all the time.”
Video + interview with her and her daughter:
Thank you, @emptywheel.bsky.social for flagging this post to me. I took a close look at another data source, and this plane appears to have made a stop in Dubai. Probably didn't show up on ADSBx bc some of their feeders are down and there is a lot of signal jamming in the region rn.
HOWEVER, 1/
TY. I actually was trying to check (bc of course she would have covered that flight), but forgot her moniker.
I should have checked @gbrockell.bsky.social to address this question.
But this would suggest State got evacuees from ... somewhere to Djibouti to fly out? Or Dylan Johnson is lying?
bsky.app/profile/gbro...
Let’s talk about Graham Platner’s Big Lie, finally. In 2009, at the height of the Gulf War, the Marines barred him from active duty. Platner claims it was his forearm tattoos. But his one forbidden tattoo was the Nazi symbol on his chest. He knew - and he left the Marines rather than give it up. 1/
A tweet: Dylan Johnson @ASDylanJohnson 👀 Americans boarding one of the many State Department charter flights leaving the Middle East to the U.S. This plane landed safely this morning in Washington. It has a picture of people getting on the Patriots plane.
Q: IS this the same Patriots plane that also moonlights as a deportation wagon?
This amount is double what anon MoC were saying 2 days ago. And Trump is escalating.
@whitehouse.senate.gov did a VERY long speech of Trump and Epstein's ties w/Russia yesterday.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylvT...
