Lev is suggesting what many of us have suspected: that Maduro is being set up to take the fall for Trump's fake stolen election claims so Trump can take control of elections.
Even you have to admit the strategic genius of starting a trade war with every country on earth, and then begging them to fight your dogshit war you started over nothing.
Would you like your MAGA with or without a side of corruption? ICYMI @jilldlawrence.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4b6oaUl
"Protesters march towards the One Towne Square building in Southfield, Michigan to demand that REDICO, the buildingโs management, cancel its lease with ICE..."
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The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled.
A truly extraordinary moment.
We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT.
Act like it.
โSection 14 of the Press Law ordered editors โto keep out of the newspapers anything whichโฆtends to weaken the strength of the German Reich, outwardly or inwardly.โโ
- William Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, p. 405
Trump a week ago: Sorry UK - no need to send ships to the Gulf as "We don't need people that join Wars after we've already won".
Trump today: Could the UK and others send their ships to the Gulf?
The SAVE Act is a massive voter suppression bill -- and folks should definitely be resisting it. It's been motivated and justified by conspiracy theories about election fraud. But we don't need new conspiracy theories (about DOGE, stolen SSNs, and future fraud) to justify pushing back against it.
Those just โobeying ordersโ are just as guilty
Well said๐
Mike Luckovich, Atlanta Journal Constitution
A banner ad from the Alliance Francise
โFrance is hiring. Think about it!โ
- ad in DC Metro
Zelensky states Russia transferred drones to Tehran and is sharing military intelligence on US bases in the Middle East with the Iranian regime. Zelensky said Russia's position is explicit: if Europe and the US share intelligence with Ukraine, Russia will share intelligence with Iran. #Ukraine
Ruben L Oppenheimer, NRC
There is nothing like the sound and smell of a supersonic cookoff to make your evening special!
Iran is โthreateningโ Ukraine, because of Ukraineโs assistance delivered to any country which is currently under Iranian drone attack.
Can you imagine, Iran โsuddenlyโ assisting Russia?
The only thing good I can say about him is he did call for the release of the Epstein files. Nothing else. Thatโs all Iโve got.
The first thing he says when trying to define the American Dream is that he wants to be able to get married, and then the first "threat" to that dream he identifies is schools treating LGBT people as equal.
Yeah man, they want to be able to get married to the person they love and everything.
I've studied the way broadcasting was censored by ะะปะฐะฒะปะธั in the Soviet period, and by the Ministry of Propaganda (ะ ะพัะบะพะผะฝะฐะดะทะพั) under Putin. Trump's system is far, far cruder.
Thank you for this. Important reading to be sure.
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๐ฆ๐ช๐ฎ๐ท Port of Fujairah (UAE) after Iranian drone attack yesterday.
โWith all newspapers in Germany being told what to publish and how to write the news and editorials, it was inevitable that a deadly conformity would come over the nationโs press.โ
- William Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, p. 406
The US fossil fuels industry will reap a $63bn windfall from Trump's Iran war and the resulting disruption in Gulf-based oil and gas. Because the US fossil fuels industry has captured Trump and the GOP, it has no reason to fear imposition of a windfall profits tax. www.ft.com/content/37d4...
The Stars and Stripes historically reflected the interests of the troops. Not it will be controlled by their bosses.
No F*ing way!!!!!!!!
Trump administration orders restart of oil drilling along California coast amid Iran war | LA Times
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โI alone canโt fix it.โ
Last night on Kremlin TV... "We are leading them by the nose." A discussion of Trump's war on Iran, and how Putin is able to manipulate Trump to secure everything he wants... starting with an end to sanctions against the Russian oil and gas industry. youtu.be/BsNnhqJHP7s?...
Last night on Kremlin TV... "We are leading them by the nose." A discussion of Trump's war on Iran, and how Putin is able to manipulate Trump to secure everything he wants... starting with an end to sanctions against the Russian oil and gas industry. youtu.be/BsNnhqJHP7s?...
