16. This is a deadly combo for Trump.
With their vote, the Democrats say *they* are the real party of America First. Meanwhile, maga figures like Green give that claim credibility with the allegation that Trump is a traitor to the cause.
61% of indies oppose war.
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28. Thousands dead. Billions wasted. No goals achieved. And, according to Jim Himes, the potential for Iran becoming an even hotter hotbed for state-sponsored terrorism.
But that’s not only the wreckage that comes from not being able to win a war you can't sell or sell a war you can't win.
13. The AP even assigned ownership of it to the president. “Senate Republicans voted down an effort Wednesday to halt President Donald Trump’s war against Iran.” (For God's sake, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer said with pride on Thursday that he's been calling it a war from "day one.")
12. I think what's more significant is that the AP and other media organizations have consistently rejected the Republican effort to characterize the Iran war as anything but a war.
8. This time, however, there is no such emergency. Iran did not pose an imminent threat to the US. Therefore, the notable restraint of today’s reporting might be interpreted as a kind of tacit skepticism of the president’s claim that attacking Iran was an act of self-defense.
6. At the same time, there is a conspicuous lack of enthusiasm in reporting on the domestic politics of the war, something that would have been inconceivable in the aftermath of a national-security crisis like the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001.
4. But with all that focus has come unwanted attention to the fact that Trump broke his word. Virtually all reporting on the Iran war has included reminders that in his 2024 victory speech, Donald Trump said: “I’m not going to start a war. I’m going to stop wars.”
3. Trump’s biggest weakness right now stems from his biggest strength – looking like a war president on TV. This would normally be a boon, as the press corps usually drops everything to focus on war and on patriotic portrayals of the American president as a great leader.
It could be proven beyond doubt that Putin is paying Trump for intel that Putin is in turn providing Iran and the response from the White House would be just like this one.
SCOOP — Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors.
My report:
Julie K Brown: FBI releases interviews with woman who alleges Donald Trump sexually assaulted her when she was a minor... "A DOJ source told the Miami Herald that agents found her to be credible—and that they would not have interviewed her four times if they thought she was lying."
US intelligence has not uncovered what Russia is doing for Iran.
I think he accepted as true Platner's claim about the National Guard, which might be true. The Marines are different. That's what @capitolhunters.bsky.social told me.
I don't have health insurance.
So what is the president going to do about this?
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It should be insulting to actual working class people when the failson of affluence settles for less, thus making a mockery of their hopes and aspirations.
Feels relevant that both Fetterman and Platner were/are downwardly mobile sons of the white upper-middle class. That can nurture a distinctly different bundle of resentments than are usually found in products of working or middle class households.
Noem’s ouster was the worst kept secret in DC. Noem knew she was toast when she appeared before the House and Senate committees, which explains why Republicans felt free to attack her.
Which podcast please.
What is curious?
It really is painful how impulsively dumb the president is. All the people who put him back in power should be deported.
So their vote for a war powers resolution was a lie?
I think I’m clear when I say attack AIPAC with my blessing. Attacking AIPAC is also not the point I’m making.
Donald Trump broke the law 53,173,939 times, in this instance
