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Publishing my normal Sunday polling article early (for obvious reasons):

Trump starts a war with Iran that few Americans support.

Overall support for Trump in early post-strike polling is below that for Afghanistan and Iraq, including among Republicans.

www.gelliottmorris.com/p/polls-trum...

Reality check

The war on Iran is fundamentally illegal

Yet not one general or even soldier -- they we know of -- refused to follow this illegal order

I told the Times that if Trump installs the statue of Rodney at Freedom Plaza then they should rename it the Freedom For Some Plaza but they didn't run that quotation.

I made this point in class the other day. Until Congress changes the name, it's the Department of Defense. It's not hard.

Pete Hegseth can call it whatever he wants. Uncle Drunky's Funtown or the He-Man Warfighters Secret Clubhouse or whatever. No one else should feel the need to follow him.

she’s such a willing propagandist it’s disgusting

Complete rightwing hackery for a national news outlet to tweet a comment from a local Brooklyn activist responding to a local mayor's comment on a global war.

Dump your HBOMax subscription as soon as Weiss gets her hands on CNN.

Gonna be weird. Trump now claiming “this is for Iranian freedom for the people!”, (he’s lying, obviously), and at tye very same time, Trump wants to “federalize the American elections”

im not really sure the iranian people are going to put their trust in donald trump backing them if they take to the streets given ya know…his whole deal

Sen. Chuck Schumer is calling for Congress to come back to Washington immediately and vote on a war powers resolution regarding Iran.

Such a perfect example of Pundit Brain at work: Harper says he always knew Trump was lying about being the peace candidate — but still turned that into criticism of Harris.

When Bush lied us into an illegal war, he expended some effort convincing us that the lies were real. That was enough to delude a huge majority of Americans, still traumatized by 9/11, into supporting the war. Trump didn't bother, and he's going into this without public support. Huge difference.

Trump spent years attacking the military interventions of GWB, and now the GOP base is finally seeing that the new administration is the GWB administration on steroids.

I call Bari Weiss’ hideous dark-money weird-ass “Free Press”

They’re absolutely in love with us going into Iran. Something something “freedom”

sickening

Sen. Tammy Duckworth: "If there was ever a time for Republicans to find their spines, it's now, when the Commander in Chief readily admits that he is choosing to put our troops' lives at risk without a legitimate imminent threat to our homeland or our citizens."

Excellent, EXCELLENT thread, Jonathan. Proud to call you a friend 🙏

At least 40 killed in Israeli strike on girls' school in Iran, state media reports The reported deaths are the latest in the region after the United States and Israel began its attack on Iran this morning.

11. Trump is acting like the Great Liberator. In reality, he’s justified more repression by an already repressive government. More than that, he’s undermining the credibility of dissidents. Who’s going to be seen as US allies after the US bombed a girls school?

www.thejournal.ie/iran-strike-...

6. This is not a US-Iran war. Those titles give this moment too much dignity. This is little more than a militarized political stunt, with the real consequences being murdered Iranians.

Trump's cover-up breaks open, entire ‘Epstein class’ in danger Meanwhile, Trump is safe in his executive suite.

4. There’s a sense that the Epstein class can act with impunity while everyone else pays the price. If Trump doesn’t change the subject, his presidency, and perhaps more than that, will cease to be as it is once the Congress is turned over to the Democrats.

www.editorialboard.com/dam-breaking...

1. The American people were under no imminent threat from Iran. Its government does not have nuclear weapons. It was no more threatening to Israel or any other US ally than it normally is.

The Iran Deal and the Madman Theory Why pulling out severely damages American interests Nicholas Grossman Oct 6, 2017 https://medium.com/arc-digital/withdrawing-from-the-iran-nuclear-deal-is-trumps-worst-decision-so-far-a88356e3ff2c

If the United States ends up withdrawing, it sets the Middle East on a path to two possible futures: A nuclear Iran. War. Both are much worse than the status quo. From: https://medium.com/arc-digital/withdrawing-from-the-iran-nuclear-deal-is-trumps-worst-decision-so-far-a88356e3ff2c

"If the US ends up withdrawing [from the Iran nuclear deal], it sets the Middle East on a path to two possible futures:

1) A nuclear Iran.

2) War.

Both are much worse than the status quo."

Oct 2017, warning against breaking JCPOA, saying no "better deal" would arise.

I was hardly the only one.

Trump’s self-serving made-for-TV war with Iran Taking a page from Netanyahu’s war-crimes playbook.

24. Whatever the American consensus on Israel used to be, it clearly no longer is. The more Netanyahu exploits Trump’s vanity to stay out of jail, the wider that gap will grow, to his and Trump's detriment.

/end

www.editorialboard.com/trumps-self-...

Israelis No Longer Ahead in Americans' Middle East Sympathies Israelis no longer lead the Palestinians in Americans' sympathies, with independents' shift toward the Palestinians driving most of the change.

23. Moreover, on Friday, Gallup found for the first time in 25 years that more Americans, not just Democrats, sympathize with the Palestinians more than they sympathize with the Israelis.

news.gallup.com/poll/702440/...

Bored of Peace

The Pentagon war-game people I sat with back in 2004 said this would be the (utterly foreseeable) first counter move after a attack on Iran.

And not the last.

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

one thing ppl are going to have to do right now is resist the wave of domestic islamophobia that always emanates from the blast wave

He's a monster assembling his own axis of evil who want to kill babies in their quest for wars of real estate. He needs to be impeached the second you can do it.

Trump promised young men good-paying jobs and no new wars they’d get drafted into. Now the job market is destroyed, and he’s striking Iran. He’s broken every major promise he made to the American people.

THEY MURDERED 60 KIDS IN AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL YOU FREAK

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"One counterprotester waved an American flag with the words 'Native Americans beware of foreign influence' written along the stripes. The flag is a reference to the Know Nothing party, a nationalist political party formed in the 1840s, which protested rising immigration in the country."