An important thread. But something is missing.
The refusal of Republicans to hold Trump accountable AND ALSO to exercise the least little responsibility on confirmations would have mitigated this risk.
Joni Ernst, Thom Tillis, Murkowski and Collins all KNEW Whiskey Pete would push war crimes.
Pete Hegseth's recent statement that "no quarter" be given to Iranians (clearly against the Hague Convention/international law) is exactly why 6 congress members needed to remind US military members of the Uniform Code of Military Justice and the need to refuse to obey any and all unlawful orders.
Men love admitting they want to date a tiny frightened child, but with cooking skills
So when we said DOGE wasn’t going to root out waste, fraud, & abuse, reduce the deficit, but instead smash agencies billionaires find inconvenient, steal our data, & get people around the world killed using punk kids too dumb to realize they’re committing treason… we were right?
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Does the GOP Senate realize that we know they could stop Trump and will blame them for this whole mess?
She is in ACTUAL labor and they brought a tablet to her bedside. Gathered on the screen were a judge in a black robe and several lawyers, doctors and hospital staff. To tell her how to give birth. She didn't want a C section because she had three prior C-sections, one that resulted in a hemorrhage.
#ProudBlue #Resist #EpsteinFiles
WTF!! THIS ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Nothing like waiting for the last minute to gather a judge and witnesses to make a decision on how a woman can deliver a baby! Something is ethically and morally wrong with this country!
Would they have let a wealthy white woman wait that long?
Giant cat knocking fighter jets off of an aircraft carrier
Happy Caturday
Do you agree with Trump that only people with the right genetic background should come into the nation, and people with wrong genetics should be removed?
Hang on… sorry that was the Nazis - we definitely don’t agree with that, right MAGA?
Help fight ICE, TRUMP & NAZIS: www.gofundme.com/f/PAXIS
I don’t see a way out of this. Taking the Strait of Hormuz or seizing Kharg island will result in considerable loss of life. We can’t exactly apologize because we killed the Ayatollah. I doubt anyone besides Israel is gonna help us. This is a disaster.
I’m low key astonished by the number of finance experts that didn’t anticipate problems with the Strait of Hormuz. Did they really trust Trump and Hegseth knew what they were doing? Did they take for granted all the usual experts that Trump fired? Didn’t most of us see this coming?
“If the strait remains closed for even a month…sustained higher oil prices could plunge the world into a recession, raise borrowing costs, alter the outcome of ongoing wars, and shift the balance of global-power competition in favor of Russia and China”
www.theatlantic.com/economy/2026...
the administration is run by solipsists who cannot comprehend that Iran is not going to break just because they told it to, and that there is no one who is going to break Iran for them no matter how hard they tantrum
the media is simply their cheerleading squad
One of the 6 servicemembers killed in the refueling accident Thursday has been identified by his family: Tech. Sgt. Tyler Simmons, 28, 121st Air Refueling Wing at Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base.
His family spoke to WSYX in Ohio:
abc6onyourside.com/news/local/f...
Major Alex Klinner has been named by his family as the 2nd of 6 US service members killed in Thursday’s refueling operation to support the US war against Iran. He leaves behind a wife and three children. (Photos from GoFundMe set up to support the family www.gofundme.com/f/major-alex...)
Handsome young black man in uniform
Handsome young white man in uniform
Americans are not prepared to handle a constant flow of images like this of young people who died in service of a war that the majority of the US public does not support.
L: Tech. Sgt. Tyler Simmons
R: Major John “Alex” Klinner
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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.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is on MS Now making clear that they are going to make this into war based on how long others are willing to suffer for America. It doesn’t take much to outplay Donald Trump, but I can’t help but feel this has a certain artfulness to it.
I have nothing to add here. Yes, it’s that bad.
"Numerous employees have reported to me that their bank accounts are at zero or negative," said AFGE TSA Council 100’s Johnny Jones. “No funds for daycare, no funds for food. They just want to know why the hell they can’t get paid when we have money to shoot missiles into other countries."
Dems should pledge to sign and ratify the ICC treaty that Clinton signed but W (smartly for his ppl) refused to push thru.
Make it clear we will arrest these ppl… and ship them someplace no future vice-signaling GOP Pres’s pardon power can reach.
An entire government warped around the primary function of managing the fragile ego of an elderly, mentally declining malignant narcissist.
"I ASSUMED the US Military had an active plan to open the Strait." How can people who are paid to understand geopolitics be so bafflingly naive?
the problem with the media’s “both parties are functional, serious equivalents” framing is that elites consume the same media the rest of us do. It may seem obvious that Pistol Pete thinks anticipating what the opposition is going to do is Woke, but you wouldn't know that from the media coverage.
His whole life, Trump has always had someone else around to bail him out of the messes he creates: his father, Allen Weisselberg, the "adults in the room" in his first term. Now all those protectors are gone and he is openly begging for someone to save him from his own folly.
He knew the risks, but decided he could wing it.
Gift article.
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
BREAKING: World interconnected. Economies interdependent. People besides you get a say. Cultivating relationships has long-term value. Picking unnecessary fights with everyone at once: bad idea.
Really sucks to have national leaders shocked by that, and who will quickly forget that they learned it.
