Two weeks into the war with Iran, the regime has taken hits—but it's holding. No major defections, a new supreme leader, and an uncertain endgame for the Trump administration.
For The Current podcast, Suzanne Maloney, Mara Karlin, and Aslı Aydıntaşbaş assess the state of the conflict.
McGowan: You're saying 46 Americans died, so we should attack this country. Here at home, 68,000 Americans die a year because they don't have health insurance. So, if we're going to spend billions of dollars on something…
Ossoff: "The WH put out a video depicting this war as a video game. When service members are returning in flag-draped coffins, & even more have lost limbs or suffered brain injuries or are fighting for their lives, this WH treats war like a game. It's a disgrace. And it speaks to a moral rot."
With oil prices skyrocketing, take a moment to remember all the renewable energy and electric vehicle initiatives this administration tore up.
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Search-and-rescue crews were “flying blind” trying to rescue survivors from deadly tornadoes that hit the Midwest last week.
Why? Because Kristi Noem hadn't approved FEMA’s $200,000 contract with a tornado-tracking tool.
But she had time to spend $220 million on anti-immigrant ads. Priorities.
The defense department is at war with Iran while the defense secretary is at war with the media.
Hegseth has ordered a review of our senior service colleges to root out classes he claims “help cultivate a radical hate America agenda.” What they call abolishing wokeness is really abolishing independent expertise, inconvenient facts, and any analysis that might push back on their agenda.
Hahahhahahahaha toy soldier really hopes you think the military academy is the military!
It ain’t lol
HOLY SHIT.
A dark money group, hidden behind a bunch of shell companies, is paying influencers thousands of dollars PER POST to attack @katmabu.bsky.social on social media a month before her election.
Thank you to the people who declined the money and went forward with this. So who's behind this?
Hegseth claims Iran is unable to build more weapons and that new supreme leader is ‘likely disfigured’. The country’s ‘production lines, their military plants, their defence innovation centres’ have been destroyed, said the US defence secretary.
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The guy who bankrupted casinos has caused the largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market.
The team that accidentally invited a reporter to a top secret military discussion was taken by surprise when the Iranians closed the Strait of Hormuz.
On a Thursday in America…
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He is just making things up, and the whole world knows the truth. The United States has never looked weaker because of these lies and his complete lack of a plan or strategy. Wars cannot be won with gaslighting and Truth Social posts.
"The tragic failure at the center of this devastation is not that most Americans have succumbed to war fever," writes @rbreich.bsky.social.
"In fact, this is the first war America has entered in modern times without majority in support."
This is incredible.
APNewsAlert: ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey's Defense Ministry says NATO air defenses intercept third ballistic missile over Turkey since start of #Iran war.
Trump on Iran: “Watch what happens to these deranged scumbags today…I, as the 47th President of the United States of America, am killing them. What a great honor it is to do so!”
Sweden has detained the sanctioned tanker Sea Owl 1, part of Russia's shadow fleet, Civil Defense Minister Carl-Oskar Bohlin announced. The vessel is suspected of operating without a country of registration while transporting oil. #Russia
"I no longer talk about 'safe.' I talk about 'safer.'"
I spoke to @steveinskeep.bsky.social @npr.org Morning Edition about the increased threat environment, anti-Semitism, Islamic terror, and our homeland security in a wide ranging 7 minute conversation.
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Sec of Def Hegseth on C-Span today:
The Strait of Hormuz is “open for transit” and the only thing preventing that is continued drone and missile attacks by Iran.
Best and brightest…
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@TheChiefNerd SAM ALTMAN: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."
i don’t know how this is supposed to work in terms of intelligence but whatever these guys do is taking stuff that is not theirs to take and then sell it for the highest possible price
electricity water clean air knowledge
you name it
they should be treated like the common thieves they are
If this is enacted, Florida will be sued.
"Florida lawmakers are poised to approve sweeping new restrictions that would require voters to prove their citizenship status, as well as remove student ID as an acceptable form of voter identification." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
The genius businessman strikes again
The Russian envoy claimed Washington now understood the “systemic role of Russian oil and gas in ensuring the stability of the global economy.”
Talarico on Trumpworld's "short term pain" talking point: "I'd like them to tell that to the parents of the American troops who have lost their lives. That is not short term pain. That is pain that will last forever ... no one asked for this."
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🇺🇦 Ukrainian engineers have created a "network gun" against FPV drones
The company BlueBird Tech has introduced the Chipa system, which intercepts attack FPV drones at close range.
Trump posted on his social media account about the people of Iran that "I, as the 47th President of the United States of America, am killing them. What a great honor it is to do so!”
This is the very same Trump who once listed protecting the people of Iran as one of his rationales for war.
Too many people, including some news media, let the truth be trampled upon without thought for what is happening to us and our nation.
