Donald Trump spent more than $11 BILLION in a week bombing Iran for reasons he cannot explain, but he can't find a nickel to help the 82M people who are struggling to pay for their health care.
It's all about priorities.
Fossil-fuel billionaires’ takeover of the Republican Party means they pull all the strings.
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If Joe Biden's son-in-law was flying around the Middle East as an unofficial Secretary of State while also working on business deals for his company with the same people he was meeting with on behalf of the US government, I'm pretty sure it would be a bigger story 🤔
Dude. Me too
Exclusive 1m ago The Trump administration will receive a $10 billion fee for brokering the deal that kept TikTok alive in the U.S.
JFC.
Impeach and remove this lawless man, you fools.
Just talked to a journalist about the scourge of dark money in IL primaries right now. Crypto is copying AIPAC's gameplan -dump in millions but *don't* talk about why. Crypto isn't running ads defending crypto - they're launching unrelated attacks against candidates who would regulate crypto.
Amanda didn't take the job. But some other folks might have. Here's a creator, The Woke Ginger, reciting specific attacks from the brief. He urges followers “to look past viral personalities and ask who is running and why” — a quote (see first skeet) matching a suggested quote in the brief.
And who IS Democracy Unmuted? It’s website, registered two weeks ago, seems to be a slapdash effort at a political advocacy website. It has no “about” section and no contact information. They aren't registered with IL the FEC or Secretary of State.
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I’ve got to think we’re already in a recession.
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What I am saying is the far left is not immune from the capture that we see on the far right. The same ugly tropes, the same disinformation channels. Like, how are my pro-Palestine friends sending me Glenn Greenwald articles now? How'd that enter their sphere? That's on top of the bonkers AI clips
Not my experience living in suburbs of Detroit. Pretty reasonable, levelheaded people who I know are deep into the AIPAC, Zionist rabbit hole and are saying exactly why the alt-right are saying.
And the far left pro-Palestine people who hate Trump and Israel. That horseshoe is converging.
There appears to be a fire at Temple Israel.
There are reports that the shooter rammed their car into the building.
Slotkin: "If Russia is helping to kill US forces, we have crossed a rubicon. We have to take decisive action on that. Instead, we're giving them breaks on oil. They're making a ton of money."
Republicans will pass laws to keep you from voting rather than giving you a reason to vote for them…
This is just astonishingly great reporting.
All of the crises the White House has claimed over the last 14 months were planned in advance. All of them.
And however much contempt you have for media outlets who reverently relayed Trump's claim to have no relation to Project 2025, it isn't enough.
Bellingcat has geolocated eight videos showing US Tomahawks cruise missiles in Iraq heading towards Iran. On Tuesday Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani spoke with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and stressed that Iraqi airspace and territory should not be used.
A foreign hacker likely has the Epstein Files.
The best way to prevent blackmail of government officials, such as trump and Howard Lutnick, would be for AG Pam Bondi to stop the cover up and release all the Epstein Files as required by law.
Breaking News: The U.S. was responsible for a missile strike on an Iranian elementary school, an ongoing military investigation found. The inquiry said the strike — which Iranian officials said killed at least 175 people, most of them children — was the result of a targeting mistake.
Smartmatic — the voting machine company at the heart of Trump's 2020 election lies — just accused the Trump Justice Department of vindictive and selective prosecution, saying that DOJ is now bringing a criminal case against them to further the Trump admin's baseless lies about that vote.
“In my 15 years in the Senate, I have never left a briefing this angry. We are heading down a path toward sending U.S. troops to Iran as ground forces,” — Sen. Richard Blumenthal
Kim: The vast majority of what I hear in these classified briefings can be said publicly, but they intentionally do this to as a tactic to be able to prevent the American people from hearing and questioning what it is that they're doing.
They know that the American people do not want a war
5/ And on the Strait of Hormuz, they had NO PLAN. I can't go into more detail about how Iran gums up the Strait, but suffice it say, right now, they don't know how to get it safely back open.
Which is unforgiveable, because this part of the disaster was 100% foreseeable.
4/ Ok, so what ARE the goals? It seems, primarily, destroying lots of missiles and boats and drone factories.
But the question that stumped them: what happens when you stop bombing and they restart production?
They hinted at more bombing. Which is, of course, endless war.
3/ Second, they confirmed "regime change" is also NOT on the list. So, they are going to spend hundreds of billions of your taxpayer dollars, get a whole bunch of Americans killed, and a hardline regime - probably a MORE anti-American hardline regime - will still be in charge.
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.
I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.
1/ Here's what I can share:
2/ Maybe the lead is that the war goals DO NOT involve destroying Iran's nuclear weapons program. This is, uh...surprising...since Trump says over and over this is a key goal.
But then of course we already know air strikes can't wipe out their nuclear material.
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