RAPIDAN: “.. two weeks into the war, Tehran's leadership has consolidated, forces have dispersed and absorbed strikes without decisive degradation, and Iran is shaping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz on its own terms. The regime sees no pressure to exit ..”
Donald Trump letting you know how the authoritarian capture of the media is going, in case you missed it. Unlike other authoritarians in places like Hungary and Poland he has no worries about advertising his authoritarian take over of the media.
The regime moves to censor news about the regime's failing wars.
10/ All of this was totally foreseeable. Frankly, it’s why previous presidents weren’t so stupid to start a war like this.
Trump has lost control of the war. His best course now is to cut his losses and end it. That’s the only way to prevent an even bigger disaster.
Excellent thread 👉
FCC chief Brendan Carr authored the chapter about the FCC for Project 2025, the blueprint for white Christian nationalist regime change.
First image was a week ago and the second last night I believe. And Trump is too stupid to figure out that pissing off our allies makes them less likely to deal with us.
As Trump, Hegseth & the FCC Chair all threaten journalists for reporting accurately on the Iran war, a reminder that it's the entire MAGA media ecosystem that is actually misleading Americans on the war ...especially the deadly school bombing.
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When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.
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Almost like it was a mistake to alienate all of our allies with idiotic trade wars, and then launch an actual hot war where we needed their help gcaptain.com/trump-calls-...
Folks, I regret to inform you: This design was OK'd by the Citizens Coin Advisory Committee in...October 2024. Its design was set in place when Biden was in office. The designer left out the olive branch to symbolize the colonists' not yet achieving peace, but hoping for it. Trump didn't do this.
Dang, Fahrvergnügen to the max!
Best ad for Volkswagen - their car survived a Russian attack on #Ukraine.
Women around the world recognize the lose-lose proposition here: emotionally immature men depend on women to keep them from making the worst possible choices and then demonize them for being killjoy nags.
ThOSE who could stop this—Congress GOP—instinctively know this and won't take the hit.
So, going after Fox News first? 😏
"As of earlier this week, the tornado mapping contract still had not been renewed..."
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NEW: DOJ is barely even a functional law firm at this point. Each day there is more proof.
Jeanine Pirro's effort to subpoena the Fed hit a wall. At the same time, DOJ was also forced to "clarify" arguments made in court about the Pentagon's new press policy.
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Trump last year, after taking over the Kennedy Center: "We're going to get the best talent in the world."
The talent:
“.. The conditions are not very much conducive” to diplomacy now, Fidan said. The Iranians “feel betrayed” because for a second time they were attacked while in active negotiations with the U.S. over their nuclear program, he said ..
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(NYT) - The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad urged all American citizens to leave Iraq immediately on Saturday after the embassy was attacked overnight for the second time since the war with Iran started.
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There is absolutely no bottom.
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“.. This is a good time to declare victory and get out,” David Sacks, Trump’s AI and crypto tsar, said on the All-In podcast he co-hosts. Such a move “is clearly what the markets would like to see”, he added.
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Construction is finished on a major Massachusetts offshore wind farm, the first project to reach this stage during President Donald Trump's time in office.
The US military can take over the Strait of Hormuz. But it would require a big ground invasion and sustained occupation of Iran’s coastline (at minimum).
The straightforward reason why I, with no access to classified info, knew the US had no plan is because they didn’t position the assets to do it.
so cool how he was warmly welcomed at a semafor event two weeks ago
Today in "Things that should have ended this presidency within 24 hours"
Destruction of a russian Shahed over the Dnipro River on the outskirts of Kyiv today during the combined attack
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