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Let’s all congratulate @FIFAcom on their genius choice of Donald Trump for the FIFA Peace Prize as Trump just murdered a confirmed 55 school girls at the very least.
NO #IranWar. 3 dead US troops so far, all to deflect attention from the #EpsteinFiles and the #TrumpEpsteinCoverUp

A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else.

We mustn’t let this war do so.

In this Quincy bar, behind the taps of Budweiser and Sam Adams, hang three autographed pictures: Celtics great John "Hondo" Havlicek, Sox hurler Luis Tiant, and Bruins defenseman Ray Borque. But this week they'll be adding a fourth: former Harvard president Larry Summers.

For a new generation of Iranians, slogans like "Death to America" seem both cringe and cheugy.

Opinion | The next Ayatollah needs to be on TikTok

Every Ayatollah as a character from Game of Thrones.

by Chris Cillizza

My WARP (Wars Above Replacement President) model estimates that Trump's presidency will lead to an additional 2-3 wars between now and 2029. And I tell you the best place in Westwood to get Khoresh bademjan. All that and more in the next Silver Bulletin.

I just learned that Ayatollah Khamenei and Ayatollah Khomenei are not the same person. Here's my plan for regime change in Iran....(1/23)

I didn't know Khamenei the Supreme Leader. But Ali the carpool dad was a great guy.

This is art! 😂😂😂😂😂

My 2024 support for Donald Trump, who I do not support, has not aged as well as my continued support for Vladimir Putin, who I also do not support.

by Glenn Greenwald

The lesson of this war? Aging dictators should get out while the getting is good.

by JD Vance

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Those who stand for nothing will fall for anything.

The Ayatollah should’ve bought some Trump crypto and complemented him more. Then you can pretty much do whatever you want.

He was warned. Repeatedly. For weeks if not months.

He did it anyway

And now they’re dead

While campaigning in 2024, Trump kept calling Liz Cheney a warhawk and mentioning the repercussions of starting a war.

Back then, Republicans didn't like war.

Opinion | An Unwise and Unconstitutional Attack on Iran More war isn’t the answer. If it were, the past 70 years would have produced a better outcome than what we see today.

Sen Tim Kaine (D-VA): “As a member of the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees, with access to ample classified information about threats from Iran and others, I can state plainly that there was no imminent threat from Iran to America…” www.wsj.com/opinion/an-u...

“As James Madison put it: ‘In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to the legislature, and not to the executive department. ... [T]he trust and the temptation would be too great for any one man.’”

Trump's Unauthorized Strikes on Iran Take America's Imperial Presidency to New Heights Khamenei's departure is nothing to mourn but regime change might require more than air strikes

“Article I of the Constitution gives Congress the exclusive power to declare war. This attack is very obviously large enough to qualify as a war. That means it just as obviously requires congressional authorization.”

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He is a proper man’s picture, but alas, who can converse with a dumb show?

These people are so endlessly greedy. Bottomless greed.

2025 reports of Trump obliterating Iran’s nuclear weapons to be scrubbed from White House, CBS News websites.

Bill Clinton could have used his Epstein deposition to exonerate Donald Trump. He did not. What’s more, Wag the Dog was filmed and released during his administration. The blood of this war is on his hands.

Anyone who questions the Trump/Netanyahu war with Iran threatens my personal safety as an American Jew.

by Bret Stephens

While the Constitution says only Congress can declare war, it says nothing about conducting a war without declaring it. It's hard to see how Trump's war on Iran could be considered unconstitutional.

by Jonathan Turley