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The "Ballroom Offensive."

Donald said, "Our president will start a war with Iran because he has no ability to negotiate. He's weak and he's ineffective."

I hate it when he talks in the third person.

imagine spending your career working to get all those lil patches only to end up taking orders from donald trump lmao

JUST NOW: “What are our objectives? 🇺🇸 wants to know what they’re sending men & women to war for?”

In a trainwreck performance, smug Sec of War Hegseth:

-fails to clarify objectives/give a timeline
-calls rules of engagement “stupid”
-says 4 🇺🇸 troops killed by a “squirter”

To be clear, drunkard rapist Fox Propagandist Pete Hegseth isn’t a General or a Commander or anyone militarily distinguished or experienced, he’s a trashy vulgar war criminal murderer who was appointed by a known draft dodging coward. He and his boss should be in a jail cell.

Pamela Brown: "President Trump just told my colleague Jake Tapper that the big wave is yet to come, so clearly things are gonna be escalating, not deescalating"

Trump has no plan. This is a damning summary from The Economist’s Middle East Correspondent Gregg Carlstrom.

Today should be your 38th birthday.. When you lose your son you lose more than a child you lose a piece of your heart and your joy. Life is forever altered, and nothing can ever fill that space. Yet in my soul, he remains, my precious boy, forever loved. His laughter, his smile, and his love are woven into who I am. My love for him will never fade. Yor are my pride and my joy - you've made a change that cannot be broken..

Alex's mom on his 38th birthday.

Fuck him.

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MAGA really fucked it up this time; good job 👏

Epstein’s Zorro Ranch is the target of 2 new investigations launched by the Epstein Truth Commission and the New Mexico Attorney General:

Raise your hand if you think we deserve a president that has a better response to American troops dying than “that’s the way it is.”

🙋‍♀️

Republicans when Americans die in Benghazi vs when Americans die in Iran

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.

Zero Republicans call for Benghazi-style hearings. No rightwing media outrage. Republicans dined off of 4 dead Americans in Benghazi for a decade, and yet 3 dead Americans at the hands of a GOP president who promised no new wars gets no pushback. Fuck these fake outrage ghouls.

Congrats to all the politicians who have made statements supporting this bullshit while Ted Cruz finds a spine.

John Fetterman, come collect your prize!

My law firm is currently litigating 86 voting and election cases in 41 states. I expect several more to be filed this week. Here are the states where we are currently most active:

Georgia 8
Arizona 6
Florida 6
California 4
Virginia 4
Wisconsin 4

Well when you put it THAT way.

Biggest US foreign policy gamble in 20 years. If you need more than an eight-minute video, can’t help ya.

“Is there a plan?”
“No.”

Any questions?

(H/T @atrupar.com )

Freedom is never free? Did your pals sharing troop locations on unsecured networks over Signal chat tell you that?

Never forget that Trump called dead service members, "suckers and losers."

You have clearly not read the War Powers Act, Mike. Everything you've written is totally wrong.

The War Powers Act SPECIFICALLY PROHIBITS military action unless: a/ there is a prior congressional authorization; or b/ it's a response to an attack against the U.S.

Ted Cruz: "I have no indication they were anywhere close to getting nuclear weapons"

So one of Trump’s propagandists tried to peddle the story that Iran was about to strike multiple US bases so we had to attack them preemptively, but the only person in media they could get to push out the lie was Scott Jennings. Then CNN pays him to air it on their network.

Mark Warner: "I saw no intelligence that Iran was on the verge of launching any kind of preemptive strike against the United States. None."

Trump's Iran strikes came at the behest of an 'unusual pair' of allies: report President Donald Trump may have been led to strike Iran alongside Israel by an "unusual pair" of allies, a new report revealed. The Washington Post reported on Saturday, citing four sources familiar w...

Trump's decision to conduct a series of strikes against Iran's ballistic and nuclear missile facilities came at the behest of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who had been lobbying for the strikes for weeks, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Apollo with the dodgeball of prophecy

Years ago in another life I gave a guest lecture at The Hague warning “AI weapons” could be invoked to remove accountability for war crimes from the chain of command. I said “there are no autonomous weapons, only unsupervised ones,” and sadly it seems I was cooking with that one

Really concerned to hear the Defence Secretary refuse to rule out UK's involvement in future strikes on Iran.

Iraq lessons must be learned.
Further escalation in the Middle East makes us all less safe.

Starmer must rule out UK involvement immediately.

Is Convicted Felon Donald Trump’s super-duper secure SCIF with soft banquet-hall curtains, open air top, unsecured electronic devices, and roving guests located next to the bathroom where the classified documents are stored?