Trouble is all these decades of operational successes have enabled Americans to become morally blind. We are a threat to others and to ourselves.
07.03.2026 19:12
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Trouble is all these decades of operational successes have enabled Americans to become morally blind. We are a threat to others and to ourselves.
The surgery was a success but the patient died.
Or that school.
Bombs don't bring democracy.
Trump is risking American lives with no plan for what comes next in Iran–risking another “forever” war where the American people pay the price.
AWD cured the car problem but getting the garbage bins down the hill may eventually kill me.
The top prosecutor in Hennepin County, which includes Minneapolis, is pushing ahead on efforts to hold federal agents accountable for their actions during Operation Metro Surge.
Reporter Jeff Day explains the latest:
"War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men. Though you follow the trade of the warrior, you do so in the spirit of Washington -- not of Genghis Khan. For Americans, only threat to our way of life justifies resort to conflict." Graduation Exercises at the United States Military Academy, 6/3/47 "Possibly my hatred of war blinds me so that I cannot comprehend the arguments they adduce. But, in my opinion, there is no such thing as a preventive war. Although this suggestion is repeatedly made, none has yet explained how war prevents war. Worse than this, no one has been able to explain away the fact that war creates the conditions that beget war." Remarks at Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 10/19/50 [DDE's Pre-Presidential Papers, Principal File, Box
Was browsing the Eisenhower Library site this morning trying to find a quote I remembered.
President Eisenhower, WW2 military hero:
“In my opinion, there is no such thing as a preventive war… none has yet explained how war prevents war.”
The Trump regime is currently holding more than three times as many detainees as Nazi Germany had six years into the Third Reich, and the stated goal of 15 to 20 million deportations would exceed the entire population that moved through the Soviet Gulag system over more than twenty years.
“Every child killed is the greatest war crime in the world. There is no ifs, ands, or buts about it, and no policy can force me to selectively condemn war crimes against children.
That children are killed by bombs in the 21st century is humanity's greatest defeat.”
It’s about time someone said it out loud on a national news show.
Major Gen. Paul Eaton (ret.) — on Trump’s interest in putting boots on the ground:
“We have a situation where someone called a malignant narcissist is unfortunately drifting into a state of dementia that is difficult to manage.”
The Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore romano focuses today on the US bombing of a girls' school in Minab, Iran.
Yeah she veered far right after Goode was killed and I think it took them a few days to figure out the city was not going with them. Very tone deaf.
Tegna got bought by some right wingers so either she is unleashed or auditioning. I think Bel leaving also indicates they’re having a shake up.
I was a KARE watcher till the last few months when as you say Nelson has unleashed her inner MAGA. Back to WCCO but don’t trust their association with CBS.
U.S. citizens are trapped in the Middle East with no clear information and no way out.
Donald Trump's response? “It happened all very quickly.”
This is a complete failure.
I'm pressing the Trump administration for a plan to evacuate Americans now.
My daughter reported that the ICE presence outside her school during recess last week involved ICE officers sitting IN AN ICE CREAM TRUCK. And this wasn't kids misinterpreting. We had an email from the school the day it happened; we just didn't get the ice cream detail in the email.
He could resign. I’d condition funding on that. He is not going to stop doing crazy things.
I don’t like the emphasis on college but the lack of any education or experience to run an agency as large as DHS is relevant. Trump already has too many unqualified people in his cabinet.
They better because he is not finished starting wars.
You do not need to be a pacifist to question Trump's war against Iran. It has serious shortcomings when examined through the lens of just war theory, says Fr. Thomas Reese.
ICE detain U.S. Army veteran—a 50 year old woman with major health issues.
20 plus armed agents stormed this residential neighborhood to arrest her at gunpoint.
Her crime? Kate just took part in a peaceful protest—evidently her 5 foot tall stature intimidated these agents.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
It’s not over. Coons was doing the “funding our warfighters” schtick today. Trump isn’t going to run out of wars.
I don’t see that happening before the siege of Saskatoon.
You read my mind.
That vote wasn’t on funding. Follow the money.
Exactly and yet Senate Democrats are still hiding behind funding the troops as if it is 1965.
While the surge of federal agents in the Twin Cities grabbed much of the attention the past few months, stories of children hiding at home, crying in class and being detained have quietly gripped some Minnesota small towns since January.
Pete Hegseth torpedoed an UNARMED ship sailing home from a friendly naval exercise, killed 87 sailors, and left the rest floating in the Indian Ocean without lifting a finger to help.
Do not underestimate the DANGER this incompetent individual has put our nation into.
Iran is not Venezuela.
If you are a Costco customer, Trump stole your money and won’t give it back.
Not a dime more for war.
@merkley.senate.gov
