Hegseth mentions the six Americans who died and then does a hard pivot: "I liken Iran's predicament to a football team ... "

ICYMI — Trump forgot where his father was born. Cant wait to read @jaketapper’s book about this

No "war" supplemental funding for something that is not a "war". You want supplemental funding? Ask for a declaration of war or an AUMF. That's how the Founding Fathers envisioned it, Whiskey Pete and General Bone Spurs.

No Congressional authorization of the conflict? No supplemental funding.

This is what Donald Trump used to say about war.

Anyone saying Iran is a bunch of "crazed religious fanatics" should give Pete Hegseth a quick listen.

Trump Blurts Out Damning Iran Admission as MAGA Turns Harshly on Him As Trump accidentally reveals too much about his failure to plan for his war against Iran, a reporter who covers Trumpworld explains the real reasons MAGA is in such a fury over this developing fiasco...

"A lot of people in MAGA are thinking: You were supposed to be making war on the Twin Cities and Minnesota and Mexico! What are you doing with this invading Iran bullshit?"

On the pod, @swin24.bsky.social skewers the myth of antiwar MAGA. It's great stuff. Listen:
newrepublic.com/article/2073...

A ballet dancer once abused by Jeffrey Epstein, Dani Bensky tells me she and other survivors are not being asked to appear on “Republican media” outlets like Fox. open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...

This cartoonishly childish Hegseth persona is an insult to the American military, the American people, the Iranian people, and just about everybody affected by this war. It is absolutely incredible, in the literal sense, that this man is at the hinge of the chain of command in this spiraling war.

Spain's leader with a message that should be adopted by every top Democrat

Trump administration waging illegal war on Iran, experts say Administration offers shifting explanations as it acts without congressional approval or legal premise

Stories about the illegality of the Iran War under both international law and the US Constitution and War Powers Act have featured on the front pages of Süddeutsche Zeitung, El País, Le Monde and papers all around the world. Not, however, in major US papers. Something is seriously wrong.

To get a job as an analyst at the NSA, applicants are now required to identify their favorite executive orders.

Are you effing kidding me? DOJ has no control or power over state bar licensing.

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Trump abandoned the Kurds in Turkey to let them get slaughtered after they defeated isis for us. Now USA promises them a country inside Iran. Weird

Soldier Details Chilling Messaging From Higher-Ups About ‘God’s Plan’ In Iran: ‘It Shocked Many Of Us’ One commander had a “big grin” on his face while saying Donald Trump “has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran," a service member said.

No, the US Bombing of Iran is NOT ‘Part Of God’s Divine Plan’.

www.huffpost.com/entry/troops...

No Democrat should vote for a single penny of a military appropriation for the Iran War until they first get to vote on a Declaration of War.

Today, Congress was finally briefed on Trump's war of choice in Iran.

Even behind closed doors, they couldn't get their story straight.

But one thing is clear: they don't have a clue what the end game is, and it sure as hell isn't making America safer.

That’s so MAGA.

This is what happens when the Secretary of HHS is a guy who snorts cocaine off of a toilet seat

Measles. In 2026. In the US of A. 🤦🏼‍♀️

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Sneak preview of 2026 and 2028 elections. Republicans will cheat.

As Trump endangers our servicemembers' lives in the Middle East, he's also cutting care for veterans back home.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...

Just now: Texas Democratic Party says “hundreds of Dallas County voters are being turned away from the polls” because of new Republican-led requirements that they vote only in their precinct, rather than anywhere in the county #txlege

Theo Moudakis, Toronto Star

The grift that keeps on grifting.

POLL: “Dems' real problem isn't being too liberal — it's being seen as too weak… The path to 2026 doesn’t run through the center. It runs through the fight.” www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

All I can think about is Jeff Bezos saying that he slashed jobs at the Washington Post — including those of foreign correspondents in the Middle East — based on "the data," and a few weeks later a whole war breaks out in the Middle East that these laid off folks would have covered as true experts.

I left the classified briefing on Iran even more concerned about what comes next as Trump drags us into what's so clearly a war. 
 
This Administration has no plan. American lives are on the line.

The era of right-wing nepo-media In the aftermath of Donald Trump’s second presidential victory, his media supporters began asserting that America had entered a new, definitively conservative cultural era.

With Trump a year into his term, the U.S. is nearing a right-wing cultural transformation — but not from a swing in popular sentiment.

Instead, it is one wealthy family that has used its roughly $200 billion fortune in an effort to acquire, consolidate, and control news and entertainment media.