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Husband of C, Dad of J & L, CEO/Editor-The DSR Network, Host-Deep State Radio, Siliconsciousness, other pods, Columnist-The Daily Beast, author of many books, also see my "Need to Know" Substack (djrothkopf.substack.com)

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Trump Went to War With Iran Because Jared Kushner Is a Fool Donald Trump’s top two negotiators have no clue what they’re doing.

Kushner and Witkoff are ignorant hacks, part 245,699.

"Several nuclear experts have raised questions about the disastrous duo’s technical understanding of uranium enrichment after they presented an assessment of Iran’s Research Reactor that made no sense."

newrepublic.com/post/207554/...

10.03.2026 00:39 👍 824 🔁 371 💬 61 📌 33

Trump is trying to get credit with China for intervening on their behalf in a war he started.

10.03.2026 00:40 👍 150 🔁 39 💬 17 📌 3

Monster

10.03.2026 00:37 👍 126 🔁 25 💬 12 📌 1

BREAKING: Iran's Revolutionary Guards say, in response to Trump, that they will be the ones who 'determine the end of the war'.

10.03.2026 00:16 👍 185 🔁 58 💬 11 📌 17

Trump: "The Iranian government is absolutely going to capitulate within days and I'm going to choose their new leader."

Or..."They are going to choose a new, younger, more anti-American hardline Ayatollah."

But definitely one or the other.

09.03.2026 23:16 👍 70 🔁 15 💬 9 📌 0

A+

09.03.2026 23:16 👍 167 🔁 31 💬 4 📌 0

The markets said stop.

09.03.2026 21:16 👍 183 🔁 40 💬 14 📌 1
With all these options remaining, why does the fate of thousands of criminal prosecutions in this District potentially rest on the legitimacy of an unprecedented
and byzantine leadership structure? The Government tells us: the President doesn’t
like that he cannot simply appoint whomever he wants. Notwithstanding the chaos that pervades criminal prosecutions in this District, and without regard to the
possibility that scores of dangerous criminals could have their cases dismissed or convictions eventually reversed, “the [E]xecutive branch, at least right now, is not
prepared to . . . use [the legal] options.

With all these options remaining, why does the fate of thousands of criminal prosecutions in this District potentially rest on the legitimacy of an unprecedented and byzantine leadership structure? The Government tells us: the President doesn’t like that he cannot simply appoint whomever he wants. Notwithstanding the chaos that pervades criminal prosecutions in this District, and without regard to the possibility that scores of dangerous criminals could have their cases dismissed or convictions eventually reversed, “the [E]xecutive branch, at least right now, is not prepared to . . . use [the legal] options.

A federal judge STRIKES DOWN the District of N.J.’s post-Alina Habba regime, consisting of a “triumvirate” of so-called “special attorneys.”

Judge Brann’s blistering opinion warns that “scores of dangerous criminals” can have their convictions reversed if Trump insists on illegal appointments.

09.03.2026 21:14 👍 436 🔁 153 💬 10 📌 8

This is like porn to Trump. Violent porn, which is no doubt his favorite kind.

09.03.2026 21:13 👍 142 🔁 24 💬 9 📌 3

Trumps is giddy about killing people.

09.03.2026 21:13 👍 62 🔁 14 💬 6 📌 0

In an ideal world, the guy who controls the nukes and the village idiot would be two separate people.

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Trump:

The hardest thing is to go to Dover because Dover is where, for the most part, a lot of the fallen—the warriors, the great young people who have died in war—seem to mostly go.

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Narrator: They had won in precisely zero ways.

09.03.2026 21:10 👍 141 🔁 25 💬 6 📌 0

When running a reality TV show war, it's very important to give it a cool name you can brag about.

09.03.2026 21:09 👍 121 🔁 23 💬 13 📌 4

Satire was dead long ago. Now he did the same to standup comedy.
Flabbergasting.

09.03.2026 21:09 👍 273 🔁 76 💬 7 📌 3
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BREAKING: Judge Brann has ejected the new leaders of the NJ U.S. attorney's office, once again finding the Trump administration is illegally attempting to circumvent Senate confirmation.

He says this could result in dismissals of indictments.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

09.03.2026 19:25 👍 2683 🔁 881 💬 30 📌 26
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Threats to democracy top issue for voters, new poll shows The finding comes as Trump says he wants to “take over” voting ahead of this fall’s contests.

A new national poll from NBC News finds that threats to democracy have surged to the top of voters’ priorities — matching inflation as the country’s most important issue ahead of the 2026 midterms. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

09.03.2026 18:57 👍 1230 🔁 439 💬 40 📌 21
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On the DSR Daily with @djrothkopf.bsky.social, we discuss the naming of Mojtaba Khamenei as the new supreme leader of Iran, Trump claiming he won’t sign any new bills until the SAVE America Act passes, and more. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

youtu.be/DlCsFcCcuPg

09.03.2026 16:27 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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"Jews don't belong in American society."

Imagine a sitting member of Congress tweeting that. You can't. Thankfully, it'd never happen. And *if* it did, it'd be the end of their career and the biggest story in America.

But Ogles can say this about Muslims without any censure.

09.03.2026 15:55 👍 7242 🔁 2100 💬 327 📌 126
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Billionaires Are Swaying Elections in All Corners of America

19 percent, christ. and that not counting eg the Twitter purchase www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

09.03.2026 15:06 👍 94 🔁 34 💬 7 📌 2
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Trump should pursue diplomacy with Cuba and respect its sovereignty. Obama’s deal with Cuba that Ben Rhodes spearheaded was done without threatening war.

A deal would allow American and Cuban entrepreneurs to invest in Cuba and help Cuba recover and modernize economically.

09.03.2026 14:28 👍 178 🔁 58 💬 25 📌 3

Even if the destruction somehow stopped today, it will take years to rebuild.

09.03.2026 12:14 👍 580 🔁 212 💬 24 📌 6
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Call off King's US state visit over Iran war, urge Lib Dems The party says the planned trip should be scrapped after Donald Trump's criticism of the UK's response to the war.

Cancel the April state visit to the US.

A state visit from our King should not be given to someone who repeatedly insults our country.

09.03.2026 13:30 👍 291 🔁 50 💬 14 📌 2
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Chip in! Show your support with a contribution.

📣 Dems have overperformed by 13 pts on avg across *93* Special Elections so far!

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09.03.2026 12:51 👍 56 🔁 22 💬 0 📌 0
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> @talsmith.bsky.social

09.03.2026 12:51 👍 2015 🔁 470 💬 276 📌 346

Oh. Oh my.

08.03.2026 18:04 👍 298 🔁 63 💬 25 📌 2
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“.. A woman who claims she was abused as a minor by both Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump has given the FBI vivid accounts that include aspects of her life corroborated by the The Post and Courier through public records.”

@postandcourier.bsky.social
www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...

08.03.2026 17:55 👍 2472 🔁 892 💬 48 📌 35

Thank you.

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We are the bad guys.

08.03.2026 16:13 👍 383 🔁 90 💬 34 📌 4

Madness. Nothing less.

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