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How Russia Emerged as an Early Winner of the Iran War The war in Iran has shaken global markets and caused geopolitical blowback, but Russia could benefit in the short term.

How Russia emerged as an early winner of the Iran war

Six years in, the future of democracy is still on the docket None of these attacks on our elections were getting the attention they deserved. In October 2019, I decided to do something about it.

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I will say it again: There are no moderate Republicans. There are just proud MAGA and sacred MAGA. The scared ones leave. The proud ones stay.

Former Ambassador and Steady State member Luis Moreno says the Trump administration sidelined experienced professionals and lacks structured crisis planning,

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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.

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.

And suddenly MAGA no longer cares about higher gas prices.

A federal judge in Washington, D.C. has ruled that Kari Lake was not lawfully appointed as the leader of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) the independent federal agency that oversees Voice of America and other U.S.-funded international broadcasters.

“Unconditional surrender” sounds clean. History says it is anything but clean...and the human cost is almost always worse than the public imagines at the start.
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Trump’s Ballroom Corruption Exposed Is this the most corrupt thing a president has ever done?

Over 97% of public comments submitted to the commission reviewing Trump's ballroom oppose his White House vanity project.

So who is this monstrosity even for?

Billionaires and corporate donors seeking to bribe Trump for political favors. Watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbf6BJzpk1E

It's a sign of the times that AI companies are deciding whether or not to allow the military to engage in mass surveillance of US citizens and this is treated as a legitimate debate of two reasonable positions.

Trump Is Risking a Global Stagflation Crisis With His Iran War The effect on oil and gas could be much, much larger than he thinks. And that shock will be passed on to every sector of the economy.

Trump Is Risking a Global Stagflation Crisis With His Iran War

The effect on oil and gas could be much, much larger than he thinks. And that shock will be passed on to every sector of the economy.

The incompetence sometimes even trumps the corruption.

The Ellisons’ new Paramount/Warner Bros mega-media monopoly would never pass muster if America still had antitrust enforcers.

So who can stop this? State attorneys general. Here's how. ⬇️

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It could not be more obvious that the president does not care about US service members and in fact regards their deaths as mere political inconveniences. He has more sympathy for Putin than Americans who died because he decided to wage illegal war. Just listen to him.

Is The CIA Arming Kurdish Militias In Iran? Podcast Episode · The Rest Is Classified · March 7 · 39m

Why the Kurd idea is nutty.

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Reporter: Did the US bomb an elementary school and kill 175 people? Trump: Based on what I’ve seen, it was done by Iran. Reporter: Is that true Mr. Hegseth? Hegseth: We’re investigating. Trump: It was done by Iran. They are very inaccurate with their munitions.

this is unspeakable

Leaked documents (including a database) reveal that hundreds of signs, exhibits, films, and other materials were flagged for review under a Trump administration order.

Trump multiple times just today has said the country is at war. War can only be declared by Congress, and Iran posed no imminent threat. What Trump is doing there is a textbook illegal war and impeachable offense — if we still had a Congress.

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Could the Trump’s be standing any further apart from each other? Yikes!

Trump blocks FBI terror threat alert linked to Iran war Top Trump officials ordered it placed on hold over concerns that it could show the domestic risk of the war and further erode public support.

See no evil...

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Now comes the ritual humiliation of NFL players. Just a few people speaking out in defense of their own dignity would make a big difference here.

I like this Ben Stiller fellow. When he made a movie in Wilmington, Ohio, he was nice to people. And look — he stands up for himself rather than allowing himself to be ritually humiliated.

To clarify this: the context is college sports. Trump is saying that Russia helping Iran target Americans in a war is less important than the pay structure for athletes.

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TODAY: People around are protesting Trump’s illegal war. And police around the country are on high alert.

“There always seems to be money for war, and these wars are always fought on the backs of working people.”

Trump: “The United Kingdom, our once Great Ally, maybe the Greatest of them all, is finally giving serious thought to sending two aircraft carriers to the Middle East. That’s OK, Prime Minister Starmer, we don’t need them any longer — But we will remember. We don’t need people that join Wars after we’ve already won! President DONALD J. TRUMP

Trump: “The UK, our once Great Ally, maybe the Greatest of them all, is finally giving serious thought to sending two aircraft carriers to the Middle East. That’s OK, PM Starmer, we don’t need them any longer — But we will remember. We don’t need people that join Wars after we’ve already won!”

Trump has launched a war in the Middle East without our consent, without a plan, without a strategy, and without any clear idea about where it leads or how it ends.