Sarah Posner

He's putting up record job losses, driving the country into a war he can't even explain, and was credibly accused of raping a teenager in the Epstein files released yesterday - so of course it's time to try and ruin more trans people's lives

I reluctantly repost this.

We need to know the White House's glee at death and destruction.

@drewharwell.com is doing a good job of reporting it. Worth a follow.

FFS

Does he grasp what "UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!" implies to the world, or does he just think it makes him sound like Grant and Eisenhower? It's not a rhetorical question, you know the answer!

nothing $150 a barrel oil can't solve

These are war crimes, violations of the Geneva Conventions.

Increasingly I think we should turn the whole Trump cabinet over to the ICC to be tried at The Hague.

CSPAN @cspan . @SpeakerJohnson after House blocked War Powers Resolution: "We're not at war, we have no intention at being at war. The president and the Department of Defense have made it very clear, this is a limited operation."

Darkly funny he had enough self-awareness to revert to "Department of Defense" here.

One of the things that I think will puzzle future historians is how a man who inspired such fanatical cult-like loyalty also made no secret of the fact of his utter contempt for his fans and his total indifference to what happened to them.

YES!! Seriously, listen to this!!

Also what his denomination believes about Christian nations (plural) as opposed to just America as Christian nation.

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002: Pete Hegseth, Doug Wilson, and the God of War Listen to Reign of Error with Sarah Posner on RedCircle

I know I've plugged this incessantly this week, but if you haven't, you really should listen to my interview with @julieingersoll.bsky.social about Pete Hegseth's religion. Illuminates his obsession with maximum lethality as a religious imperative, and more -->

redcircle.com/shows/fbed71...

Things will get even dumber

I too remember the earlier, woke wars. tons of spent microaggression munitions strewn about everywhere, friends crying out for God as they were slowly cancelled...look, if you weren't there, you'll never understand

Excellent NYT video analysis finds that the bombing of scores of schoolchildren in Iran came amid other US strikes in the vicinity:

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...

This is the regime Trump has been coddling in its efforts to take over another country.

Russia is providing Iran intelligence to target U.S. forces, officials say The targeting information has included the locations of American warships and aircraft in the Middle East, the officials said.

"Russia is providing Iran with targeting information to attack American forces...

Russia has passed Iran the locations of U.S. military assets, including warships and aircraft...

'It does seem like it’s a pretty comprehensive effort,'" an official said.

I really encourage everyone to spend some time with the DHS Flickr page, which in one year posted thousands and thousands of glamour shot propaganda photos of Kristi Noem and little else. Our tax dollars! www.flickr.com/photos/dhsgov/

Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump in Jan. 6 case gets life sentence for child sex crimes Andrew Paul Johnson, authorities said, tried to keep one of his victims mum by floating the promise of money he was expecting to receive from the Justice Department.

Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump in Jan. 6 case gets life sentence for child sex crimes

begging more people to read this thread and the linked piece

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inquiring minds want to know more about this "Nuremberg 2.0"

WASHINGTON, March 5 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Thursday he was not concerned about rising U.S. gas prices driven by the widening Iran ​conflict, telling Reuters in an exclusive interview that the U.S. military operation was his priority. "I don't have any concern about it," he said, ‌when asked about the higher prices at the pump. "They'll drop very rapidly when this is over, and if they rise, they rise, but this is far more important than having gasoline prices go up a little bit."

Let them run on fumes

www.reuters.com/business/ene...

As @andrewperez.bsky.social and I report here, including by quoting an email from the trump White House we got more than a year ago, the supposed last straw for Noem was also (lol) based on obvious lies.

Trump signed off. Noem has been telling this story for more than a year, publicly…

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I've got laryngitis so I'm not on TV today. but if I was, I'd remind everybody that mass deportation *remains* family separation, whether Noem or Mullin or anyone else is Trump's DHS Secretary. and that policy has not changed.

Markwayne Mullin, set to run Homeland Security >>

Trump timed his Truth Social post so that Noem wouldn't know as she started speaking at this meeting, didn't he

Statement from Christopher Parente, attorney for Chicago's Marimar Martinez:

"Everyone involved in the spreading of lies about Marimar Martinez is out of their job. Now it is time for the FBI to do their job and investigate."

If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.