Trump doesn’t get that he cannot avoid a quagmire in Iran simply by leaving the battlefield as he has so often in his business life. The quagmire is already happening And its boundaries extend far from Iran and The rest of the region.
The Pentagon says it has destroyed 16 mine-laying ships in the Strait of Hormuz, not unexpected in war. The question is did they pick up survivors this time or let them drown as they did in the Caribbean and off Sri Lanka?
I am all for It? But again, how?
Why izzit that so many people have expressed surprise that a president who says ”I can do whatever I want" is doing whatever he wants?
Apparently, the Associated Press has never heard of HOAs or they wouldn’t have written this headline. apnews.com/article/fron...
Yes, agreed. But given SupCt decisions regarding campaign finance money dating back to Buckley v. Valeo 50 years ago, getting Big $$ out politics without a revolution is going to be accomplished how?
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse: When Donald Trump uses “hoax,” it’s a “tell word for something we know is definitely true.“
If you haven't read this amazing piece by Beau Hodai at New Times, you should. www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/trumpis...
Apparently, the Associated Press has never heard of HOAs or they wouldn’t have written this headline. apnews.com/article/fron...
Do US boots on the ground against cocaine cartels in Ecuador have anything to do with expanded oil production that harms Indigenous communities whose eco-activism the govt there seeks to curtail by freezing bank accounts?Coming soon to the US? insideclimatenews.org/news/1003202...
Do I have this right? Trump will not go to Congress for war authorization… But he will go to Putin for war authorization!
Putting an idiot in charge of DHS whose only qualification is loyalty to Donald Trump is exactly how we ended up with American citizens detained and murdered by ICE. What Markwayne Mullin said about those murders is unforgivable.
Tell your Senators: Vote no.
While the fuck-the-rules-of-engagement crew at the White House celebrates its attacks on Iran as if it were a football game, America’s Supreme Leader brags Cuba is next and continues to assert that Putin wants peace in Ukraine but Zelenskyy is a stubborn obstacle.
When we tally the defense budget, we ought to include the Veterans Administration budget as part of it. This would show actual defense spending has been a trillion-plus dollars a year for nearly a decade. bsky.app/profile/deec...
As long as you don’t need gas, groceries, affordable healthcare, retirement savings or constitutional rights, things aren’t so bad.
Yes. And about 3/4s of gas stations are independently owned even when they sport major brand names.
Companies as oil prices drop don’t seem immediately focused on what the future will look like based on the speed with which retail prices are typically lowered.
Yes. Only about 2% is.
$20,000 is the low end for most kits and the cost can go far higher, plus you’ve got the price of the car, and when you’re done you still don’t have a vehicle as efficient as one made to be electric. And most electrics — Kia, VW, BMW — look pretty much like like combustion engine cars externally.
This doesn’t explain why gasoline prices after oil prices drop are, as economists say, “sticky downward.”
Yes, agreed. But given SupCt decisions regarding campaign finance money dating back to Buckley v. Valeo 50 years ago, getting Big $$ out politics without a revolution is going to be accomplished how?
Elizabeth Warren: "I am a hard no on a supplemental. This is not a war the American people want us to engage in. This is not a war that makes us safer ... No. No more money. The only thing Congress has the power to do is to stop actions like this through the power of the purse."
He’s bored and besides that he always leaves when the going gets tough.
While the White House posts juvenile war porn and the media measures the costs only in American service member deaths and gasoline price increases, worth remembering the enormous destruction we are causing the citizens in Iran who Trump claimed he wanted to help. @billmckibben.bsky.social 1/
NBC’s Richard Engel: “The White House meme campaign is outraging many former US military commanders… they say only someone who has never really seen combat would think it’s a joke and put out material like this.”
The more extreme RW voices like Matt Schlapp are attempting to steer the conversation by dropping deliberately offensive talk into the narrative about how (trigger warning!) the girls are BETTER OFF DEAD THAN LIVING UNDER IRANIAN RULE:
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Today the United States wasted another #1B on an illegal war in Iran, money that could have been spent on funding health care or providing SNAP benefits or cancer research or academic scholarships for minorities. I could go on and on but I think you get my point. #endtheiranwarnow
The political clout of the fossil fuel interests needs to be shorn. What’s happened in the U.S. bcuz they are so powerful is that tens of billions of dollars in renewables projects have been canceled. These guys want to keep the US a petrostate while China becomes the world’s leading electrostate.
As we're plunged into an oil crisis, let's take a moment to remember the countless denialists, delayers and obstructionists who have worked so hard to keep us hooked on oil and gas, and slow our transition to a safer energy system
