11 March, 2026 #Japan 🇯🇵 🥀🕯️
The magnitude-9.0 earthquake, ensuing tsunami, and Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster claimed over 22,000 lives—an enduring human tragedy. The plant’s operator continues the complex task of dismantling the damaged reactors, a process expected to take until 2051. ⚠️‼️
My opinion?
#warcriminalPutin is pleased the media are busy with Iran, not Ukraine.
#warcriminalNetanyahu is pleased the media are busy with Iran and Lebanon, not Gaza.
And both are pleased that the outrage is aimed at #Trump, not them.
Wake up, media. Critical thinking is required everywhere.
'Trump is talking abt putting ground forces there bc that is the only way he will be able to claim any nature of victory. Only that will be the end of the US presence in the Middle East bc we will not be able 2 sustain that econ'lly, physically. We do not have the soldiers or Marines to do that.'
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"...Trump, Hegseth, Rubio➕the other entourage of their natl. security complex have completely misjudged the nature of this war, as has [..] Netanyahu. [Iran] is a country as big as Western Europe, w/93 million people, who live in terrain that [..] is entirely inhospitable to military operations.
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After having been caught illegally redacting files that incriminate Trump, DOJ finally published *some* of them but withheld others, evidently in the hopes that people wouldn't notice yet another partial release.
For the GOP, Trump raping a 13-year old girl is just not important.
... "➕bombing war materiel.
We’re bombing people.
We took a lesson from the IDF, if you will. We are bombing people, as, incidentally, they are still doing in Gaza➕doing now in Lebanon to a fare-thee-well.
These are all war crimes. [..] someday we [..][will] have to account for these war crimes."
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"We have bombed civilians relentlessly. We have bombed a school. We have bombed a hospital. We have struck facilities in the nature of Iran’s oil capacity that is now putting black poison all over 10-plus million people. And we are essentially not bombing ballistic missile sites...
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"This administration has committed more war crimes in the last few days than I think any country since Adolf Hitler committed. And that is an incredible condemnation of this entire process."
Highly remarkable interview with US Army Ret. Col. Lawrence Wilkerson⤵️
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ProPublica has done amazing work again--a searchable database of Trump administration staff, their wealth and ties to the industries they are now regulating.
projects.propublica.org/trump-team-f...
Great quotes in military history.
@atrupar.com
Hegseth: "This is not endless. This is not protracted. We're not allowing mission creep. The president has set a very specific mission to accomplish, and our job is to unrelentingly deliver that. He gets to control the throttle."
Trump's not demented, totally normal talk for a president at war!
If incompetence were a sport, this cabinet would be undefeated.
Rand Paul: "As far as reasons for the war, there have been many different ones floated, but none have been very convincing... we were told their nuclear weapons were obliterated, and now we're told their nuclear weapons are just moments away from being a bomb. I don't think the arguments are valid."
It's so bad that we've reached a point where members of Congress casually discuss stripping citizenship from and deporting people because they don't like their views.
you see we didnt hit iran. iran slipped and fell in the kitchen and thats why iran has a black eye. if iran would just stop being clumsy we wouldnt have to get so mad at them. if iran would just use its brain we wouldnt have to yell at iran...
Meanwhile...
Donald Trump shows his commitment to "populism" by seeking to undermine elections so he doesn't actually have to do anything popular.
Noem’s firing is proof that protests don’t just fill the streets, they can shape how institutions behave. And judges, lawmakers, and even Trump’s allies seem to be getting the message. Historian @timothysnyder.bsky.social adds, “a democracy means the people rule.” #Velshi
A military watchdog says it received hundreds of complaints from service members alleging commanders invoked religious rhetoric to frame the U.S. war on Iran. Army Col. Jack Jacobs (Ret.) warns,“To the extent that you turn it into a religious war, you almost guarantee your own defeat.” #Velshi
“We’re just hiding them in a parking garage somewhere..."
www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immig...
This @postandcourier.bsky.social investigation of the woman accusing Pres Trump and Epstein of sexual assault is excellent. The allegations remain unproven. But the reporters confirmed elements of her story, and blackmail by Epstein illuminates his approach. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...
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