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Trump is demanding that Iran, a deeply religious Muslim nation, unconditionally surrender to the US, a country that Iran has called the “Great Satan” for the past four decades. I doubt Iran will willingly comply. It’s more probable that other Muslim countries will join their fight against “Satan.”

The Trillions of Dollars of U.S. Investment at Stake in the Gulf A Dubai billionaire’s critical post on X highlights how turmoil in the region stands to upset an increasingly profound economic relationship with the U.S.

Last year, the richest countries in the Persian Gulf pledged to pump trillions of dollars of investment into the U.S. in a bid to charm President Trump and strengthen ties.

Today that warm financial embrace is suddenly under stress.
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Trump demands to help pick Iran's next leader: 'I have to be involved' President Donald Trump insisted that he be "involved" in picking the next leader of Iran after the United States assassinated Ali Khamenei in Operation Epic Fury.In an interview with Axios on Thursday...

What a stupid idea!!! 👎😡

Why would Iran approve of anyone Trump selected???

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GOP leaders call on Rep. Tony Gonzales to abandon his reelection bid after admitting to affair with late staffer | CNN Politics House GOP leaders on Thursday called on Texas Rep. Tony Gonzales to abandon his bid for reelection after he admitted to an affair with a former staffer who later died by suicide.

House GOP leaders on Thursday called on Texas Rep. Tony Gonzales to abandon his bid for reelection after he admitted to an affair with a former staffer who later died by suicide.
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Republicans Toil to Avoid Saying ‘War’ as Iran Conflict Widens

Speaker Mike Johnson: “We’re not at war right now. We’re four days into a very specific, clear mission — an operation.”

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These cowards can end Trump-fueled madness — but won't Over a year into President Donald Trump’s second lawless, unconstitutional administration, Congress is only “considering” reasserting itself as a co-equal branch of government. It has mounted no meani...

Republican inaction repeatedly yields disastrous results. Trump’s unilateral declaration of war on Iran can be directly attributed to congressional inaction following Trump’s 2026 strikes on Iran.
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Trump's menu of Iran war excuses unconvincing even to his own voter base: analysis The reasons given by Donald Trump's administration as justification for the start of war with Iran are all unconvincing, according to a political analyst.While the flurry of excuses may play well with...

"None of them, including Trump himself, appears to be singing from the same hymn sheet. At times, it is not entirely clear whether there is a hymn sheet at all or if everyone simply arrived with their own playlist."
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The Dangerous Mismatch Between American Missiles and Iranian Drones The United States has only so many expensive munitions to send after Iran’s cheap and plentiful arms.

The U.S. is pursuing short-term gains against Iran, a limited threat, instead of strengthening deterrence against major powers like Russia and China, who have the will and capacity to destabilize the world.

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Trump said “forget about separation of church and state." He meant it. YouTube video by MS NOW

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We will be lucky to survive this regime.

Kash Patel gutted FBI counterintelligence team tasked with tracking Iranian threats days before US strikes, sources say | CNN Politics Just days before the United States launched a major military operation in Iran, FBI Director Kash Patel fired a dozen agents and staff members from a counterintelligence unit tasked with monitoring th...

No lectures please from the clowns who took down the counter-terror expertise of our U.S. government.
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JUST IN: 🇫🇷 President Macron says France cannot accept American and Israeli military actions.

The greatest military with the stupidest commander-in-chief.

Translation:

U.S. taxpayers are now subsidizing private shipping companies because of Donald Trump’s illegal war in Iran.

Melania kissing Jeffrey Epstein.

Any questions?

ICE training was slashed, records show, corroborating whistleblower claims Previously unreported records also offer new details about what was cut from ICE’s basic training program. Concerns about the quality of ICE agents’ training have mounted for months.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement dramatically cut its basic training program amid a hiring spree meant to speed up the Trump regime's deportation efforts, records show, corroborating a whistleblower’s claim.
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Opinion | Our Hospice System Subverts the Very Point of Hospice Care

In 2024, the average per-patient Medicare payment to hospice agencies was about $200 a day, with an annual cap of $33,500. That outlay would barely pay for a part-time aide, yet it is also needed to cover medications, medical equipment and nurse visits.
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Just one in four Americans say they back US strikes on Iran, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds One in four Republicans say Trump is too willing to use military force.

Just one in four Americans supports Iran strikes, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds - www.reuters.com/world/us/jus...

ProPublica Sues Education Department for Withholding Records About Discrimination in Schools Under Secretary Linda McMahon, the work of the Office for Civil Rights, which aims to protect students from discrimination, is cloaked in secrecy.

NEW: ProPublica has sued the Department of Education in federal court, accusing it of withholding public records about how it’s enforcing civil rights protections for millions of U.S. students.

Conservation groups: Stibnite gold mine permit violates Clean Water Act, would harm Salmon River, threatened bull trout - Western Environmental Law Center Last Friday, conservation groups filed a petition for review with the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) challenging a permit the agency issued early this year to Perpetua Resources for t...

NEWS RELEASE: Conservation groups: #Idaho Stibnite gold mine permit violates Clean Water Act, would harm Salmon River, threatened bull trout

Hat tip to our partners at the Idaho Conservation League, Idaho Rivers United, Advocates for the West, @earthworks.bsky.social, and Save the South Fork Salmon

MAGA Christian nationalism - men's rights - anti LGBTQ - anti democracy ⁃ anti free speech - control education - ban books - one religion - pro gun - totally incompetent - no sense of humor Iranian Islamic Principlism - anti science - anti women's rights - anti LGBTQ - anti democracy - anti free speech - control education - ban books - one religion - pro gun - totally incompetent - no sense of humor

I mean.....🤷🏾

Some 90% of Iran’s Crude Oil Goes to China. What Now? The vast majority of Iran’s roughly 1.6 million barrels a day of crude exports is bound for China, but the world’s second-largest economy has spent months shoring up its supply, cushioning itself from...

China has built up around 1.5 billion barrels of strategic petroleum reserves, enough to cover around 200 days of oil imports.
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3 U.S. Planes Are Shot Down in ‘Friendly Fire’ in Kuwait, U.S. Military Says

“During active combat — that included attacks from Iranian aircraft, ballistic missiles, and drones — the U.S. Air Force fighter jets were mistakenly shot down by Kuwaiti air defenses,”
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Republicans facing 'escalating backlash' as signature bill closes more hospitals: report President Donald Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" is triggering a healthcare crisis across rural America, forcing hospitals to close maternity wards, shutter clinics and lay off staff — and those ...

Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" is triggering a healthcare crisis across rural America, forcing hospitals to close maternity wards, shutter clinics and lay off staff — threatening Republican control of Congress.
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New records show Florida officials burned more than $1.2 million per day on 'Alligator Alcatraz' Last August, the Florida Division of Emergency Management requested a $1.49 billion grant from the federal government, underscoring the staggering scale of spending of taxpayer dollars on federal immi...

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Killing a Dictator Isn’t a Strategy The Iranian regime has killed Americans and fueled chaos across the Middle East for decades. But if the United States is going to war, the American people deserve a clear objective and a plan for what

Iran’s regime has armed terrorists, killed Americans, and fueled wars across the Middle East.

But killing a dictator is not the same thing as having a strategy.

Trump is shifting goals in real time. That’s dangerous when American lives are on the line.
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2026: Trump has explicitly invoked the idea of regime change as part of U.S. objectives. In a video message announcing U.S. military action, Trump told the Iranian people that “when we are finished, take over your government. It will be yours to take.

Call grows to impeach 'the most dangerous man on the planet' After the unprovoked bombing of Iran over the weekend by the United States—strikes that included the unlawful assassination of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Hosseini Khamenei—the call for US President Do...

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The most mentally unstable and dangerous man in the world is this pedophile.

Former Vandalia Christian teacher in Guilford County arrested on 10 counts of child sex exploitation, court records show Richard Lynn Upright, 56, was taken into custody on Feb. 27.

North Carolina: A former sixth-grade teacher at Vandalia Christian School, a private Christian school, was arrested on Friday. The charges against the teacher include 10 counts of second-degree sexual exploitation of minors.
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