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Interesting detail - Fox & Friends is hosted by the regular weekday hosts this morning not the weekend cast. How would Fox News have enough time to ask the regular cast to come in? The show starts at 6AM but they are usually there hours earlier.

Maybe Rupert was on one of the Signal chats 👊💥 🇺🇸

“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.

Trump bombed Iran. Here are multiple clips of Trump campaigning against endless wars, Middle East conflicts, and boasting that he will stop World War III.

Trump in 2011: “Our president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate. He’s weak and he’s ineffective.”

The Fairmont Hotel, Dubai

Democracy will not survive without strong independent media Trump and his allies are rapidly taking over our major news outlets.

The truth is that if democracy is to survive this era, we can no longer treat independent media as optional. It is essential, and we must do everything we can to help it thrive and grow — quickly. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/demo...

Strongmen, like Trump, live in constant fear of being held accountable — which is why all of us should be concerned about what they might do to the upcoming midterms.

The best thing we can all do is pay attention, call them out for what they’re doing, & turn out in huge numbers in November.

🇮🇷❌🇺🇸Footage of an Iranian attack drone slamming into the headquarters of the US Navy's 5th Fleet at Naval Support Activity (NSA) Bahrain moments ago. -OSINTTECHNICAL

America’s Character and the Rule of Law with George Conway III YouTube video by UW Office of Public Lectures

Here’s the link to my full speech, which I gave on Thursday as part of the University of Washington Graduate School’s Public Lecture series.

It’s about how impeachment and removal could save our republic and rekindle its spirit of liberty.
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The Framers understood first and foremost the need to safeguard against usurpation of power by the executive.

Correct. Trump has no plan. And even if he had one, it would make no sense.

Trump has no strategy to help the Iranian people build a legitimate state—in fact, he’s dismantling tools that could have helped promote civic engagement and build a united opposition in Iran, @anneapplebaum.bsky.social argues. theatln.tc/k99IcIzV