Exactly one week ago at this moment, the world learned that the United States and Israel had launched a war against the Islamic Republic, striking targets across Iran — including the compound of the Supreme Leader in Tehran.
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After the NCAA meeting at the White House, Condoleezza Rice is pulled aside by Donald Trump and Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and walks back with them.
BREAKING via NBC News
Trump has privately shown serious interest in U.S. ground troops in Iran.
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The thumbnail for Tucker Carlson’s latest episode.
CNN is reporting that former Secretary of State and former National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice was seen entering the White House today.
Great—just what we need in the middle of a war in the Middle East.
If I have to hear this song one more time I'm going to have a nervous breakdown.
But I will tolerate this version.
I found a new salad I love which means I need to eat it every single day until the thought of that salad makes me want to vomit.
I give it about 50 days.
Tehran tonight.
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Gavin Newsom indicates that he’d go on Hasan Piker’s show which streams on Twitch.
I think he would be the first major presidential candidate to go on with Hasan.
BREAKING via Reuters
U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday but have not yet reached a final conclusion or completed their investigation.
President Trump has slammed Tucker Carlson in an interview with ABC’s Jon Karl. This comes after Tucker Carlson called the war in Iran “absolutely disgusting and evil.” “Tucker has lost his way. I knew that a long time ago, and he’s not MAGA. MAGA is saving our country. MAGA is making our country great again. MAGA is America first, and Tucker is none of those things. And Tucker is really not smart enough to understand that.” No one should take this as President Trump condemning Tucker Carlson’s increasing Jew-hatred. The president is attacking Tucker because he feels personally slighted, not because he’s disturbed by Tucker’s rhetoric. That also means Tucker could easily regain the president’s favor.
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BREAKING
The U.S. State Department has suspended operations at the U.S. embassy in Kuwait due to ongoing safety concerns.
3. She also annoyed some people in Trump world with her personal interactions with them.
When Trump announced that she was his pick for DHS secretary, people didn’t get super excited — it was more of a “meh” reaction.
2. She might have been six years ago, but she lost a lot of luster with socially conservative MAGA figures after she intervened to change — and ultimately derail — a bill restricting transgender athletes while she was governor of South Dakota.
1. Kristi Noem was never a core MAGA favorite, which is why picking her for one of the most important jobs in the Trump administration always felt a bit odd.
BREAKING
President Trump has fired Kristi Noem as DHS Secretary and says he is replacing her with Oklahoma Senator Markwayne Mullin.
A federal crime.
The president of the United States is accusing his DHS secretary of committing a federal crime.
President Trump tells Reuters that he never signed off on a controversial $200 million ad campaign prominently featuring Noem herself.
Which means the President is accusing Noem of lying to congress.
BREAKING
President Trump is preparing to fire DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.
Her combative Congressional hearing was the last straw, sources tell the WSJ.
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2. While Al Habtoor is not speaking on behalf of the government nor is he a member of any of the ruling families, it is very difficult to imagine someone as shrewd as him posting this if he thought it would anger anyone in the government.
Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor O @KhalafAlHabtoor X.com © Translated from Arabic by Grok His Excellency President Donald Trump, A direct question: Who gave you the authority to drag our region into a war with #Iran? And on what basis did you make this dangerous decision? Did you calculate the collateral damage before pulling the trigger? And did you consider that the first to suffer from this escalation will be the countries of the region itself! The peoples of this region have the right to ask as well: Was this your decision alone? Or did it come as a result of pressures from #Netanyahu and his government? You have placed the countries of the #GulfCooperationCouncil and the Arab countries at the heart of a danger they did not choose. Thank God, we are strong and capable of defending ourselves, and we have armies and defenses that protect our homelands, but the question remains: Who gave you permission to turn our region into a battlefield? For before the ink has dried on the #BoardOfPeace initiative that you announced in the name of peace and stability, we find ourselves facing a military escalation that endangers the entire region. So where did those initiatives go? And what is the fate of the commitments made in the name of peace? Most of the funding proposed in those initiatives came from the countries of the region themselves, and from Arab Gulf countries that contributed billions of dollars on the basis of supporting stability and development. And these countries have the right to ask today: Where did this money go? And are we funding peace initiatives or funding a war that exposes us to danger? More dangerous than that, your decision does not threaten only the peoples of the region, but also reaches the American people whom you promised peace and prosperity. And here they are today, finding themselves in a war funded from their money and taxes, with costs ranging, according to the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), between 40-65 billion dollars for direct military …
1. Emirati billionaire Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor slams President Trump:
“Who gave you the authority to drag our region into a war with Iran? And on what basis did you make this dangerous decision?”
“Who gave you permission to turn our region into a battlefield?”
BREAKING
President Trump says Israeli President Isaac Herzog must pardon Bibi Netanyahu "today" — calling Herzog "a disgrace" for failing to act.
"Every day I talk to Bibi about the war. I want him to focus on the war and not on the f*cking court case.“
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BREAKING
President Trump tells Axios he must be personally involved in picking the next supreme leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran and that Khamenei’s son is not an acceptable option.
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“Israeli officials promised the Kurdish Iranian factions not only military support but also political support for a Kurdish autonomous region in a future Iran if the regime collapsed, the official claimed.”
GOP Congressman Tim Burchett on Senator Lindsey Graham’s calls for the US to join the IDF in bombing Hezbollah targets in Lebanon:
“Lindsey hasn’t seen a fistfight he hasn't wanted to turn into a bombing, so I just take it with a grain of salt.”
I’m trying to learn more about cats as I want to adopt a pair eventually.
I’ve had four dogs over the years but know very little about cats.
Is this kind of play ok?
Please don’t yell at me, I truly don’t know!
Axios is now backing off this reporting and a Kurdish official says no Kurds have crossed the border
Axios is now backing off this reporting and a Kurdish official says no Kurds have crossed the border
There is reporting right now from Fox News and Axios that thousands of Kurds are on an offensive within Iran’s borders against the Islamic Republic. U.S. officials are also sharing this with reporters on background. I’m leery of reporting this right now because I can’t reach my source in Kurdish intelligence about the accuracy of these reports. I will also note that some key Kurdish leaders are confused by these reports because they are not in line with what they understand to be happening. This does not mean, however, that the reports are false. I just don’t feel comfortable confirming them yet. I also want to note that the Islamic Republic is heavily bombing the Iranian city of Bukan, which is in West Azerbaijan Province. Bukan is heavily Kurdish.
On reports of thousands of Kurds engaged in an offensive in Iran
