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Look at this photo carefully.
Mikaeil Mirdoraghi. Third grade.
Waving goodbye to his mother before school.
She, and he, thought he'd be coming home.
That school is now rubble.
Mikaeil is gone.
Absolutely heartbreaking.
His name should be remembered.
F*ck the demons who killed him.
If Trump has totally destroyed their navy and all their missile capabilities, as he says, then why can’t ships move through the Strait of Hormuz?
WATCH — @jamestalarico.bsky.social : “Every dollar we spend bombing people in the Middle East is one we’re not spending here at home. We’re always told we don’t have enough money for schools or healthcare or for veterans, but there’s always enough to bomb people on the other side of the world.”
Congress:
Term limit -12 years
(doesn’t need to be consecutive)
Presidents/SCOTUS:
-0- convictions
& adhere to the US Constitution
All:
No PAC funding
No Stock trading
pretty simple…
& it would almost force leaders to move toward our forefathers’ intent - representing
⬇️⬇️⬇️
We the People
It's looking increasingly like these guys thought that if they could wreak more death and destruction than the other side then they would be respected as strong powerful men and they would "win" and that would make them big important heroes. Very possibly they had no rationale deeper than that.
Nothing to see here—just the Trump administration officials who'd oversee an invocation of the Insurrection Act and subsequent martial law declarations moving into military-base housing.
Miller, Bondi, Rubio, Hegseth, the Secretary of the Army and Secretary of the Navy...
Pay no attention to this.
Definitely don't be worried about this unless we get news that the president is secretly constructing a massive bunker under the White House that he could live in long-term and govern America from while literally "covering up" this gambit with a ballroom no one anywhere asked for
Netanyahu has tried for years to get a US president to go along with his desire for a war with Iran. He finally found one. Then he used chemical weapons on Lebanon. This man is committing war crimes and igniting hatred that will start more killings and destruction everywhere.
If only there was another war I could think of in recent memory involving the US in the Middle East, where regime change was promised, didn’t happen, victory was declared and then the whole thing was repeated catastrophically badly at a later date. 🤔
I know you are surprised to find out it’s a clown show.
Since Trump’s election:
🔵 Democrats have flipped 28 state legislative seats
🔴 Republicans have flipped 0
Way to spread the word, @rubbercityresist.bsky.social 👏✊
Has anyone pointed out to ICE agents that if they're arresting people solely to collect a bonus, they're not law enforcement officers. They're bounty hunters.
I look forward to all of them losing their jobs and being blacklisted from serving in law enforcement.
Kim: The vast majority of what I hear in these classified briefings can be said publicly, but they intentionally do this to as a tactic to be able to prevent the American people from hearing and questioning what it is that they're doing.
They know that the American people do not want a war
The president had his DOJ seizing ballots while he is trying to force Republicans to enact new voter suppression laws. Our democracy is in danger.
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European Council President Costa said Russia is the only country benefitting from the war on Iran, as energy prices soar and attention from Putin’s war on Ukraine is diverted.
No date has been agreed for the next Russia-Ukraine peace talks b/c Russia simply wants to continue its attacks on Ukraine.
JUST IN: Democrats flip a seat in the New Hampshire state House.
Dem Bobbi Boudman has won today’s special election, NHJournal reports.
(Boudman was the Dem nominee in 2024 & lost by 14%; Trump won here by 9%.)
This is Dems’ third legislative flip so far this year, after Texas and Arkansas.
Anyone else have the feeling that Trump has already floated the idea of the Navy escorting tankers through Hormuz (to the Navy) and they told him no, but he can’t admit that the threat is not eliminated?
“In my 15 years in the Senate, I have never left a briefing this angry. We are heading down a path toward sending U.S. troops to Iran as ground forces,” — Sen. Richard Blumenthal
BREAKING: As many as 150 U.S. troops have been wounded in the war with Iran, according to sources familiar—far higher than the Pentagon’s publicly disclosed figure of just 8 seriously wounded troops. The true toll of this war is already far worse than the public has been told. (Reuters)
A Social Security administration whistleblower says a former DOGE employee took confidential data with him to his next job.
This potentially massive security breach is currently under investigation.
MAGA at home: We don’t want immigrants here!
MAGA traveling abroad: My family’s from Italy (or whatever country)! I love Italians!
Never ceases to amaze me.
This amazing scientific advance may one day lead to either more effective treatments or dare I say perhaps a cure.
This is why it is vitally important to fund basic scientific research.
Scientists Discover Way To Reverse Chemical Process Linked With Alzheimer’s Disease share.google/Vm0hfSMfkGIc...
A fundamental characteristic of megalomaniacs is their insistence on micromanaging their subordinates. There's a very real possibility Trump is picking some of the targets in his war with Iran.
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.
I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.
1/ Here's what I can share:
Not really breaking any news here.
I know it's not much compared to this war, but we're now also spending $650 million a month just on the *interest* accruing on the tariff refund money that Trump is stalling on paying back.
