The Iranian people and US military personnel are pawns in his desperate search for a win-which makes this situation terribly dangerous.
02.03.2026 11:08 — 👍 135 🔁 17 💬 4 📌 4The Iranian people and US military personnel are pawns in his desperate search for a win-which makes this situation terribly dangerous.
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"This sort of vaguely justified attack on another country usually reflects that the leaders in the attacking country are worried about losing power and are launching a war to try to get disaffected people to rally around the flag."
-- @hcrichardson.bsky.social
"District court judges are upholding the law and doing the work the Constitution demands of them—deciding cases based on the facts and the law without fear or favor.
"Doing it without fear in this environment makes them all heroes."
-- @joycewhitevance.bsky.social
Nice e-meeting you too. My dad was from Gladenbach and my mom from Breslau.
02.03.2026 02:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0My German parents settled in NYC after World War II. Thanks for your note!
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"This war is like Trump’s Greatest Tariff. It's going to cost every single one of us higher prices for everything because it will affect world trade across the board."
-- @lktiv.bsky.social
"Trump's objectives for going to war sound vague because they are. The event that triggered his attack is also vague.
"There is no evidence of an imminent threat that required the attack. His prescription for what his war is trying to accomplish is also vague."
— @hcrichardson.bsky.social
"Replacing a regime, or trying to reshape its behavior through punishment from above, or compelling its people to rise up are strategic gambles that seem to rest on hope more than on a clearly articulated plan."
— @markhertling.bsky.social, retired Army lieutenant general, at @thebulwark.com
"Trump's objectives for going to war sound vague because they are. The event that triggered his attack is also vague—so far, there is no evidence of an imminent threat that required the attack.
"His prescription for what his war is trying to accomplish is also vague."
-- @hcrichardson.bsky.social
"The legality of the U.S. strike is, at best, highly questionable. ...
"But many people will be pleased to see a ruthless dictator, one who gruesomely killed tens of thousands of his own people, done in. They may be willing to ignore legal niceties to get there."
-- @joycewhitevance.bsky.social
West Point grad @lktiv.bsky.social shakes his head:
"They called it 'shock and awe' when we attacked Iraq [in 2003]. This time they’re calling it 'epic fury. . . . It's like fuzzy-faced teenage boys sending each other exciting text messages as they play Call of Duty on their X-boxes, isn't it?"
March comes in like a beauty in Southeast Michigan.
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@elliotkirschner.bsky.social posts wisdom from Winston Churchill in 1930 that "captures my sense of foreboding today:"
"Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter."
"The most pressing question right now is, do the president and those around him know what they are doing?"
-- @thedanrather.bsky.social
“President Trump's decision to bomb Iran is indefensible. This was not about preempting an imminent threat—it was a strategically misguided power play, with no discernible endgame,” Cato Institute’s Jon Hoffman says.
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"Following the money is the key to identifying Epstein's clients as well as the henchmen and banks that enabled his sex trafficking network.
"It's past time for [Treasury Secretary Sciott] Bessent to quit running interference for pedophiles and give us the Epstein files he's sitting on.”
The DOJ's clumsy attempt to hide files that discuss [Trump] has only called attention to them. ...
"The fact that the administration has hung a giant image of Trump’s face on the outside of its building undermines confidence that the DOJ is following the law impartially"
— @hcrichardson.bsky.social
“The basic question here is whether a bunch of rich pedophiles and Epstein accomplices are going to face any consequences for their crimes. . . .
"My head just about exploded when I heard [Treasury Sec'y Scott] Bessent say it wasn't his department's job to investigate these Epstein bank records."
@timothysnyder.bsky.social, author of "On Tyranny," urges readiness for "this gambit" next:
"Trump . . . can claim that the very disaster of the war that he himself started in Iran means that there can no elections because of the associated terrorist threats."
Presciently, here's how @pkrugman.bsky.social ended a State of the Union essay Wednesday morning:
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"Right-wing activists are circulating a draft of an executive order that declares a national emergency to give Trump control over voting. The activists say that they are working w/ the White House. ...
"The U.S. Constitution gives sole control of elections to the states."
-@hcrichardson.bsky.social
Election rights are "not yet lost," Heather Delaney Reese (@itsalovelylife.bsky.social) posts as a call to action:
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"The state of Trump is that he is stuck. He is failing at fascism. He can break things, but he cannot make things. He can bluster, but he cannot triumph.
"Every day is harder than the day before, rivals are in the wings and elections coming."
-- @timothysnyder.bsky.social, author of "On Tyranny"
"There's not an emergency involving our elections that means Trump should take control of them. . . .
"To the extent that there’s an emergency, he’s the cause of it."
-- @joycewhitevance.bsky.social |
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"What is it about Jeffrey Epstein that has Republicans so frightened that they won’t ask questions of the powerful men who knew him?
"Inquiring minds want to know."
-- @lktiv.bsky.social
"The State of the Union was the marker for the White House to launch directly into campaign mode. . . .
"The next several months are going to be a morass of lies and disinformation. . . . Election season is underway."
-- @hcrichardson.bsky.social
"The survival of independent media has never mattered more than it does right now.
"Voices not tethered to corporate messaging and journalists not answering to billionaires are our last line of defense."
-- Heather Delaney Reese (@itsalovelylife.bsky.social)
Trump knows, as Heather Delaney Reese (@itsalovelylife.bsky.social) posts . . .
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"It's craftivism at its best."
This legal commentator teaches me a new word and 84-year-old history with fresh relevance.
From @jenrubin.bsky.social at @contrariannews.org:
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