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Structure-based oncology drug designer (UC Berkeley PhD), university lecturer, liberal & #DemocraticSocialist advocating "supermax" prisons for Republican scoundrels who betray the U.S. Constitution. ๐๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ฝ๐โ๏ธ LanternAndSwordWithJohnLox.substack.com
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Gold-sprayed Trump clutching Epstein on the National Mall is brutal political art because the truth behind it is worse. Power circles protect themselves with silence, lawyers, and selective amnesia. Artists just ripped the curtain down in front of the entire country. #NeverForgetTrumpstein
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A 12-foot โTitanicโ statue of Trump embracing Jeffrey Epstein now towers near the Capitol. Grotesque? Yes. But satire becomes necessary when power pretends memory is optional. Democracies decay the moment the public is told to forget who partied with whomโand why it mattered. #TrumpsteinFiles
A newly surfaced DOJ document from the Epstein database reveals an inmate told the FBI he overheard prison guards discussing a cover-up of Jeffrey Epstein's death on the morning he died in August 2019. ๐
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Trump promised peace and delivered fire. A government that glamorizes violence and sneers at restraint is not projecting strengthโit is advertising decay. Democracies fall when leaders mistake brutality for courage. History keeps receipts. So will voters. #DemocracyInDanger #StopAuthoritarianism
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A former GOP strategist calling Pete Hegseth a โbroken boy in a costumeโ is not partisan theaterโit is a warning siren. War is the gravest power a republic holds. Turning it into macho spectacle is moral rot at the top of the chain of command. #DefendDemocracy #AccountabilityNow
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Calling the laws of war โstupidโ while dismantling the very offices that track dead children is not strengthโit is moral collapse dressed as strategy. Democracies once proved power by restraint. This doctrine proves it by indifference to the bodies left behind. #CivilianLivesMatter
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A girlsโ school reduced to rubble, children buried beneath it; Pentagonโs civilian-casualty watchdogs reduced by 90% beforehand. Oversight slashed from ~200 experts to under 40. That isnโt โmaximum lethality.โ Thatโs engineered ignorance: destroy the evidence, then claim you cannot see it.
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And Sen. John Kennedyโin those cunty glassesโgleefully cuts funding for LGBTQ+ advocacy in Uganda. Homophobic much? These cuts are a man-made disaster killing people. They want us to forget? Fuck that. Remember this shitshow! #OliverExposesDisaster
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Look, USAID wasn't perfectโbut it was doing miracles: feeding kids, vaxxing millions, halting pandemics, all for <1% budget. Then Trump & Co. shove it into a woodchipper. Why? Reasons! Elon Musk swings the axe like it's personal, House GOP meme like they torched an orphanage. #TrumpAidAtrocity
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A federal investigative record now contains a chilling claim: a teenager taken to a Trump property through Epsteinโs network and assaulted. Independent reporting confirmed parts of her background across multiple states. Institutions can deny. Documents endure. #InvestigateTrump #TruthMatters
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Four FBI interviews. Government records. Court filings. Police reports. A newspaper investigation verified key details of a womanโs life after she told agents Trump abused her at 13 in Epsteinโs orbit. The paper trail keeps growing. #TrumpEpsteinFiles #Accountability
Follow-Up
Reports indicate the strike that killed Iranโs former supreme leader also killed Mojtaba Khameneiโs wife and other family members. Expecting someone who lost multiple relatives in the same attack to suddenly align with the country responsible is a serious misreading of human behavior.
Yes. His father and wife were reportedly killed in the same strike. Expecting the son to now โcooperateโ with the country responsible requires a breathtaking misunderstanding of human nature and geopolitics. History suggests the opposite outcome.
Washington helped create the most predictable political outcome imaginable: a new Iranian leader whose father was killed by the United States. Expecting capitulation from that man defies every lesson of history, psychology, and geopolitics. Grievance is powerful fuel. #Iran #MiddleEast
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Government by ultimatum is not leadership. Threatening to veto every bill unless Congress passes the SAVE Act turns routine governance into ideological ransom. Democracies function through consent and compromiseโnot one man demanding the rules of the electorate be rewritten midgame.
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Trump threatens to freeze the entire legislative process unless Congress restricts voting rights. The SAVE Act could block millions from votingโcitizens lacking documents, married women with mismatched names, ordinary Americans. Fear of voters is the oldest tell of a failing regime. #SaveTheVote
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Reporter questions Trump:
Did the US bomb a girl's elementary school, killing more than 160 people?
Trump:
โMy opinion, based on what Iโve seenโthat was done by Iran...very inaccurate, as you know, with their munitions. They have no accuracy whatsoever. It was done by Iran.โ
#MassMurdererTrump
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International law requires militaries to avoid attacks where civilian harm would be disproportionate to military gain. Human Rights Watch is urging a transparent investigation and public accounting to determine responsibility and ensure accountability if violations occurred. #Investigation
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Satellite imagery reviewed by investigators shows multiple precise strikes across the compound, including direct damage to the school building. HRW says the accuracy suggests guided munitions, raising questions about whether civilian risks were adequately assessed. #Accountability #Conflict
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Human Rights Watch says the Feb. 28 strike on a primary school in Minab, Iranโwhere scores of civilians, including many children, reportedly diedโshould be investigated as a possible war crime. Schools are protected under the laws of war unless used for military purposes. #HumanRights #LawsOfWar
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Trump demanded Iranโs โunconditional surrender.โ Tehranโs reply: U.S. and Israeli sites are now primary targets. The strongman fantasy meets geopolitical realityโand ordinary Americans are left holding the bill for a war they were promised would never happen. #IranWar #Accountability
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Trump sold voters a promise: lower prices, no endless wars. Now oil markets brace for shock, Iran declares U.S. targets โprimary,โ and affordability slips further out of reach. Nationalism sold as strength; Americans get higher gas and deeper danger. #IranWar #BrokenPromises
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Reports now suggest a U.S. strike may have killed 175 civilians, many children, at an Iranian school during Trumpโs war. Defense officials brag about ditching โrules of engagement.โ Those rules exist for a reason: without them, power stops being security and becomes atrocity. #HumanRights
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A jobs report showing 92,000 jobs lost, collapsing economic confidence, and approval for Trumpโs Iran war stuck around 38%. The myth of the โstrongman managerโ dissolves the moment reality arrives. Authoritarian swagger is easy; governing a country is not. #TrumpFreeFall #RealityCheck
MAGA propaganda.
Yes. Thatโs the Dow Jones conducting what experts call a gravity test.