NEW: The Iranian drone strike that killed 6 U.S. troops in Kuwait at the start of the war was far more devastating than previously disclosed.
Dozens suffered traumatic brain injuries, burns, and shrapnel wounds. At least one required an amputation. More than 30 remain hospitalized. (CBS News)
How Strait of Hormuz closure can become tipping point for global economy
Who among us hasn't surrounded themselves with sycophants and started a costly, risky war on impulse?
Sen. Murray: "I'm just sickened by this. To go into this war unprepared, to use outdated data, and to have this horrific thing happen where children were killed in a school sends a horrible message to those that are in a war with us and to our own constituents about what America's values are."
"Yesterday, the Secretary of Energy announced that the Navy had escorted an oil tanker through the Strait of Hormuz. Wright’s claim was false...On February 14, Wright had said he wasn’t concerned that a war might drive oil prices up. Well, they’re up a lot." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
"Democrats should keep things simple: It’s Trump’s war. It’s Trump’s mass-deportation regime. These are Trump’s tariffs. Republicans have supported and enabled them all.
End the war. End mass deportation. End the tariffs. End Republican control of Congress."
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Rapid Response 47 tweet with a screengrab of a Trump TS post about Larry Summers resigning from teaching appointments "over Epstein ties"
if i was the Trump rapid response dudebros I would simply not highlight people facing consequences for Epstein ties
"A carrier strike group is designed for blue-water power projection, not littoral escort through a corridor where a $500 contact mine can cripple a $4 billion destroyer."
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Is the pillow guy on the case?
Yea, I'm sure they are thrilled with what is going on right now. 🤣
Romania’s top defense body has approved a U.S. request to increase its use of airbases to aid the Middle East campaign.
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The Department of Justice is quietly restarting a decades-dormant program to restore gun rights to felons. One of them was an alleged fake elector in 2020. n.pr/3OTXX2R
Steve Witkoff on Hannity's show makes a case that Trump last summer both obliterated but also didn't obliterate Iran's nuclear program
Like I said, the winners of the US-Iran war are likely to be China and Russia. wapo.st/4ui9QzJ
😂
Trump doesn't value Iranian democracy; what he values most is the elimination of constraints on his ability to act.
A conversation between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin saw the former brag about a chat the two world leaders had Monday— but the Kremlin had a very different version of the conversation.
Getting there.
“I think the president knows that, he just knows that this is a, certainly a mistake, a big mistake. And it’s being investigated, but he’s trying to muddy the waters by talking about the Tomahawks.” trib.al/trO4JmT
When you have to say it out loud, it probably isn't true.
When you know you are losing
Pathetic. Iran is laughing at us right now.
Jeffries: "We're in the middle of an affordability crisis. I know Donald Trump denies it exists. In fact, he thinks the most important thing Republicans should focus on right now is voter suppression legislation. That's extraordinary."
