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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.
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.
This feels infuriatingly helpless. Can’t we pressure them, and for what??
Diplomatic staff at the American consulate in Erbil were also forced to shelter-in-place when the facility came under attack from Iran before they were ultimately flown out of the country by the British Royal Air Force due to constraints on the U.S. military, which would normally carry out such a mission, according to the officials.
Amid discussions on TODAY's call to evacuate, this story from Wednesday did not get enough attention.
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I'd really like to see Mullin asked these questions in particular.
New at The Watch:
Part one of my list of questions for Markwayne Mullin.
Once again, the military & the paramilitaries are carrying out illegal orders to commit murder, on multiple fronts, including the home front:
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This should end any presidency immediately. It can't be fixed by more laws or court orders, bc Trump/the admin don't follow those.
This is the ranting of an insane person. None of these countries are going to fall for it. The reality star and his Fox News personalities are in way over their heads. They charged into a war that looks like a suicide mission he insists he’s already won.
Exactly!
All true
He was warned but went with his ‘I know best’ impulse instead.
“The president told his White House team that Tehran would likely capitulate before closing the strait, the world’s most vital shipping lane”
CNN: Trump underestimated problem of Hormuz
Trump: FAKE NEWZ!!
WSJ: Trump's advisors didn't underestimate the problem, Trump kept the smart ones out of the room and ignored what contrary advice he got
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It really is
Bunker Bondi joins the club.
“Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, former Homeland Security Director Kristi Noem, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth all live in housing on secured military bases.”
— You witnessed the fatal Capitol Police shooting of Ashley Babbitt during the January 6th riots. You called the officer who shot Babbitt a “hero,” and praised him for saving lives that day. Donald Trump has called that same officer a “thug,” a “coward,” and a “murderer.” How can you work for someone who is spreading lies about an incident that you saw with your own eyes? Does President Trump’s description of Babbitt’s death make you wonder if he might, possibly, be misleading the public about other things?
Markwayne Mullin ducking for cover as rioters storm the Capitol on January 6, 2021
Really hope both journalists and Senators ask Markwayne Mullin these @radleybalko.bsky.social questions.
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What a horrible fucking life philosophy.
What an empty, soulless approach to existence.
What a joke. FBI agents are not street brawlers. They interview witnesses, uncover documents, analyze intelligence, and testify in court, usually while wearing a suit and tie. Just one more frolic for Kash at taxpayer expense.
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Keep 'em coming
This is a good judgement but intensely depressing timeline
Trump nominating a woman who tweets about voter fraud conspiracy theories and openly sympathizes with January 6 rioters makes me think that we are, at most, six months away from him making a judge out of someone who was personally at the Capitol on January 6
Local Georgia woman charged with murder after taking abortion pills and giving birth in hospital By Madison Foglio, Action News Jax March 12, 2026 at 9:54 pm EDT non-shortened link https://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/local/georgia-woman-charged-with-murder-after-taking-abortion-pills-giving-birth-hospital/6GA7IHO7YNBCLC24BXHHBAV6XI/
Horrific. Georgia police charged a woman with murder after she allegedly used misoprostol. Hospital may have reported her.
@pregnancyjust.bsky.social calls it “an unprecedented murder charge for an alleged abortion, even though no law in the state of Georgia permits such a charge." bit.ly/46W2Ezb
When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.
The internet doesn’t work this way, but those boys deserved all the heat they got, and then more
A thread
These champagne flutes of room temperature milk make Beavis and Butthead look like Marie and Pierre Curie
This is BULLSHIT
“Undue reputational harm” IS DUE after what DOGE destroyed.
But we can’t make a penny anymore
What this coin change means
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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."
