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News: Sources say that Trump has been receptive to officials and allies privately encouraging him to send US troops into Iran.

This comes as Lindsey Graham has reportedly gone to Israel and coached Netanyahu on how to push Trump to take action in Iran.

Gas Prices Surged This Week Amid Iran War—These States Are Being Squeezed Tightest Gas prices spiked well above the $3 mark this week as strikes between the U.S. and Iran escalated amid the de facto shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz.

Gas prices spiked well above the $3 mark this week as strikes between the U.S. and Iran escalated amid the de facto shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz.

Trump Says 'I Guess' Americans Should Worry About Iran Retaliating on U.S. Soil: 'Like I Said, Some People Will Die' In an interview with 'Time,' President Donald Trump acknowledged the possibility that Iran retaliates with attacks on U.S. soil, saying, 'We think about it all the time. We plan for it'

Trump Says 'I Guess' Americans Should Worry About Iran Retaliating on U.S. Soil: 'Like I Said, Some People Will Die'

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The Iran War Is Also a Climate War Climate change is not a peripheral part of what we’re seeing in Iran—it’s structurally embedded in modern warfare.

War has the perverse effect of pushing the climate story down the news agenda. But, journalists cannot fully & fairly cover a war this carbon-intensive, destabilizing, and consequential if its climate dimensions are treated as optional add-ons rather than core fact.
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He doesn’t care about you. He never has.

CPAC Head Says Iranian Schoolgirls Are Better Dead Than “in a Burqa” Leading Republicans don’t seem to care about the bombing of a girls’ school in Iran.

Matt Schlapp has attempted to justify the killing of more than 100 young girls at an elementary school in southern Iran, by claiming they were saved from religious extremism. trib.al/DJ8uEUJ

A Reductress post features a photo of Kristi Noem with the headline, “Kristi Noem Put Down for Being Too Hard to Train”

Screaming

NEW: U.S. officials say Russia is providing Iran with intelligence to target American forces in the Middle East, including the locations of U.S. warships and aircraft, WaPo reports. Pete Hegseth recently said Russia is “not really a factor here.”

The New MAGA NAZI ICE leader 🥴

U.S. Representative Markwayne Mullin HIDES behind a chair in the House chambers as rioters enter the U.S. Capitol on Jan 6, 2021 PROVIDED/C-SPAN

The MAGA PEDOPHILE PROTECTOR was there TO OBJECT to Joe Biden being the duly elected President of the United States

Documents Reveal a Web of Financial Ties Between Trump Officials and the Industries They Help Regulate ProPublica is releasing a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who d...

Trump IS the swamp!:

Documents Reveal a Web of Financial Ties Between Trump Officials and the Industries They Help Regulate

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Hegseth complains that reporting on dead troops is bad PR for Trump At a Pentagon briefing, the defense secretary lashed out at the press while signaling the US war with Iran is “just getting started.”

“The press only wants to make the president look bad.”

Hegseth complains that reporting on dead troops is bad PR for Trump

Trump's actions threaten the integrity—and legacy—of our National Parks, critics say Big cuts and sweeping changes have destabilized the Park Service and its core missions.

Trump's actions threaten the integrity—and legacy—of our National Parks, critics say

Military leaders pushing 'Armageddon views' on troops as Iran war begins: complaint A combat-unit commander told non-commissioned officers Monday that the Iran war was part of God's plan to usher in the End Times and bring about Jesus Christ's second coming, according to a complaint ...

This is who is in charge of OUR country- fundamentalist lunatics looking to bring about armageddon (THEIR words!!!). VOTE. It matters!:

Some military officials are saying the Iran war was part of God's plan to usher in the End Times and bring about Jesus Christ's second comingbit.ly/4u1xwZ3

I wouldn’t be surprised if this administration starts employing suicide bombers

N.Y. Attorney General Orders Hospital to Resume Youth Transgender Care

GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE IS HEALTH CARE.

Thank you to the NY Attorney General’s Office for affirming our community.

Wow. The U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem tells Americans they’re on their own.

How come “How are you going to pay for it?” is never asked about endless war?

Call Grows to Impeach Trump, 'The Most Dangerous Man on the Planet' "Trump’s illegal war on Iran and the rule of law," said one pair of campaigners, "establish an intolerable pattern of egregious abuses of power, directly threatening our constitutional order, our safety, and our way of life."

Call Grows to Impeach Trump, 'The Most Dangerous Man on the Planet' | "Trump’s illegal war on Iran and the rule of law establish an intolerable pattern of egregious abuses of power, directly threatening constitutional order, our safety, our way of life.​"

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.

Kid Rock, mostly

Twitter?

"Drowning in Disinformation?"

Say it ain't so, Mindless Führer.

The MAGA Plot to Take Down Canada A growing movement of MAGA-pilled Albertan separatists would happily break up the country to be closer to Trump.

Figures like Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon, who has explicitly compared Canada to Ukraine, see Canada as a bastion of decadent liberalism in the West that must be broken and subdued, one way or another. trib.al/Hqq63Z2

Poll: Americans Overwhelmingly Oppose Trump’s Strikes on Iran Only 27 percent of respondents to a Reuters/Ipsos poll said they approved of the attacks.

Just one in four Americans supports the Trump administration’s ongoing strikes on Iran, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Sunday.

I promise you that the government that murdered Alex Pretti and Renee Good does not give a flying fuck about the protests in Iran.

In October 2024, the Georgia secretary of state’s office launched an investigation after receiving numerous reports from residents across several counties saying they’d received partially prefilled absentee ballot applications from Musk’s America PAC. trib.al/jzxMUxz

The US Attacks Iran in a War of Aggression The US has waged many wars—but this is one of the most senseless we've ever seen.

The US has waged many wars—but this is one of the most senseless we’ve ever seen. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

In NYC, everyone knows, when the U.S. starts another war, people protest by marching to Times Square which has a U.S. Army recruiting station at the center.

This is today at "Stop War on Iran" march.

Video shot by @yyeeaahhhboiii2 via @scootercaster.com

Gas Prices Could Go Above $3 Per Gallon Next Week After Iran Strikes, Analyst Warns Gas could reach a national average above $3 per gallon for the first time this year, as analysts anticipate crude oil prices will jump next week.

Gas could reach a national average above $3 per gallon for the first time this year, as analysts anticipate crude oil prices will jump next week.