Ever since Trump began running for president in 2015, it was obvious he was BS'ing--that he did not & would not do the necessary homework to actually understand the issues and make genuinely informed decisions. This war with Iran is the deadly consequence of his ignorance, laziness and narcissism.
Conscript Barron Trump and Kai Trump. Front lines.
Balint to Noem: "You're the secretary of DHS -- for now. And you think you're immune from accountability. But I promise you this: one day he is not gonna be president anymore. And when that day comes, we will still be here. And in hearings like this, we are going to continue to prove your guilt."
Tulsi Gabbard: "A war with Iran would make the war in Iraq look like a cakewalk. The devastation and the costs would be far greater than anything we've ever experienced before."
It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.
things every single republican president of your lifetime has done
- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy
“Much more likely is a short to medium-length campaign to degrade the capabilities of the IRGC and the paramilitary Basij force in order to reduce the repressive capacity of the Iranian state... That wouldn’t be as easy in reality as it is on social media.”
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Trump: "For 47 years the Iranian regime has chanted 'Death to America' and waged an unending campaign of bloodshed and mass murder targeting the U.S. ..."
No mention of what happened 73 years ago, when the U.S. overthrew Iran's democratic government, installing the Shah's murderous dictatorship.
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Trump said he could end the Ukraine war in 24 hours. He had no plan.
Trump said he could deliver better and cheaper healthcare. He had no plan.
Trump said he he would rebuild US infrastructure. He had no plan.
Trump has no plan for Iran. Just blow shit up, kill some people, and see what happens.
“Remember what I said…” Yeah. About that. It’s almost impressive how confidently wrong that prediction aged.
Donald Trump has said almost nothing to justify going to war against Iran. The real reason may be something he dare not speak of.
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NEW: Several high-ranking federal election officials attended a summit last week at which prominent activists who worked to overturn Trump’s loss in the 2020 election pressed for the president to declare a national emergency to take over the midterms.
Just want to note that 3am in Washington is like 11:30am in Tehran. The American people are the ones he snuck up on in the dead of night to conduct this illegal attack, not the purported enemy.
Here it is. Notice the setup.
Trump is again warning about foreign interference, this time Iran. Meanwhile, plans in his orbit would use interference claims to justify sweeping federal control over elections.
Pay attention.
The IOC Olympic Truce calls for a global cessation of hostilities 7 days before the Olympic Games until 7 days after the Paralympics (February 6th-March 15th).
Russia and Belarus were excluded from the Milan Cortina Olympics for the invasion of Ukraine.
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FWIW, this is sec. 2(c) of the War Powers Resolution:
2015: Obama signs a multi-national Iran Nuclear agreement, stopping Iran's nuclear program.
2018: Trump withdraws U.S. from Iran Nuclear Agreement, giving Iran the green light to reboot their nuclear program.
2026: Trump wants to go to war with Iran because they rebooted their nuclear program. 🫤
NEW: The SAVE America and MEGA Acts could steer voter registration drives into a ditch by preventing civic organizations from collecting and submitting registration forms.
And who would get hit the hardest? Black and Latino Americans who rely on these initiatives. https://bit.ly/4tXfYgw
How to understand war with Iran? We must get away from propaganda. Facts suggest two interpretive frameworks: a foreign war as a mechanism to destroy democracy at home; and a foreign war as an element of personal corruption by the president of the United States.
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HSI and ice officers masked standing by their vehicle at the site of the arrest of Ward 12 neighbor.
Today, I received confirmed reports that agents from ICE and HSI forced entry into a residence on the 5200 block of 36th Ave., kicking in the door and detaining a constituent. Witnesses report that 8–9 masked agents carried out the operation. 🧵
Updated:
🧵This is the story of an UNSUNG HERO who helped expose Prince Andrew:
Emily Maitlis has gotten all sorts of accolades and awards for her 2019 Newsnight interview in which Andrew showed the world he was guilty AF and Sam McAlister, the BBC Newsnight producer and booker
Fake NYTimes headline in their signature font: "Here's Why It Would Be A Mistake To Do Anything That Inconveniences Rich Assholes by Some Rich Asshole"
Literally the meme manifest
Jeffrey Epstein killed everything
Even newspapers
Amazing story by an old Philly pal, Maureen Tkacik prospect.org/2026/02/26/n...
It is difficult to overstate how quickly & thoroughly & shamefully we have normalized “the president can use federal funding as a cudgel to punish blue states & only blue states on his whim” in our polity & society. Yet another thing that would have ended any other presidency in the modern era.
stop calling us nazis just because we are invalidating IDs and rounding people up based on their skin color and putting them in concentration camps and sending them off to foreign gulags and using all that nazi imagery and banning books and dont forget about all the pedophilia. so just stop alright
I learned from this new Miami Herald story that Alex Acosta, who cut the secret sweetheart deal with serial rapist Jeffrey Epstein in 2008, is now on the board of directors of the right-wing propaganda outlet Newsmax. Figures.
(Here's a gift link from journalism hero Julie Brown.)
