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Iran has hit an oil refinery in Bahrain and forced them to invoke force majeure. x.com/MarketIntl_/...

NBC’s Richard Engel: “The White House meme campaign is outraging many former US military commanders… they say only someone who has never really seen combat would think it’s a joke and put out material like this.”

Trump is a talented bullshitter and world class fuck up. And somehow we re-elected this piece of shit to the most powerful job in the world. A world history level charlatan and enough people thought- yeah, that's my guy I like the cut of his jib. That weave, it's really doing it for me.

Important ruling on immigration operations in Minnesota

Judge Tostrud (Trump appointee):

"Plaintiffs have made a clear showing that Defendants have adopted a POLICY authorizing federal immigration officers to conduct investigatory stops based on ethnicity or race without reasonable suspicion."
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A ship off the shore of Iran got struck.

There are conflicting reports whether it was a tanker or warship, but it certainly underlines how hot the war in the Gulf has become.

The DOJ released evidence, which the FBI deemed credible, that the President of the United States sexually and physically assaulted a 13 year old girl AND she was afraid to talk about it because Trump would kill her—and it’s somehow not the biggest scandal in American history?

A wealthy and otherwise unremarkable middle aged man says “I’m not enlisting, but you should.”

The Bone Spur agrees

Energy crisis?
It’s an oil crisis. Wind, solar, hydro, even coal, are unaffected by Hormuz.

love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region

we are back in the 1970s, lads

March 8, 2026 - Tehran at sunrise today. But the sun is hidden behind a sky filled with smoke. After a night of intensive strikes on oil facilities, thick black clouds now hang over the city, turning morning into something that feels like night.

This is what ecocide looks like.

This is crazy, but also this complaint is capital F frivolous. They're suing for tortious interference with contract, abuse of process, and unlicensed practice of law and guys, no, what are you doing? The first two are dead as a doornail because ChatGPT cannot have the needed intent. And the last 1?

This is what I am saying. I’m not taking crazy pills, right?

“For all the power of the US and all that invested in our president, neither we nor he should get to impose our will everywhere willy nilly without rhyme or reasons just because of that power. Not that we haven’t tried in the past. But even as we acknowledge the hubris underlying those past errors”

The people in Hungary are showing that they have enough of Orban.

Its been Israel’s strategy in Gaza. Schools, water, energy, hospitals… US joining them as self-declared war criminals

It is what you would do if you want to punish civilians rather than the regime. In other words, a war crime.

It's simple really, it's because he faced no real accountability for his actions.

Russia is aiding Iran’s war effort by providing intel on US military targets, sources say | CNN Politics Russia is providing Iran with intelligence about the locations and movements of American troops, ships and aircraft, according to multiple people familiar with US intelligence reporting on the issue, ...

Super shocking. Given that Russia helped our enemies during Vietnam, Korea, and both gulf wars, who could have guessed this would happen. www.cnn.com/2026/03/06/p...

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I double checked. This is not being reported at WaPo.

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As we’ve been saying, war is not the answer unless the question is how do we give treasure and waste blood for oil billionaires

But with supplies dwindling and costs soaring - a single Patriot interceptor can run over $13.5 million - officials are looking to Ukraine’s experience for a cheaper alternative, the Financial Times reported, citing sources familiar with the discussions."

Source: Kyiv Post

Re “Ground troops”, a couple relevant thoughts:

At the estimated $1 billion/day price tag, one week of this war could fund the annual salary of one additional teacher in every public school in America.

99,200 schools at an average salary of $72k/year.

One week of this war.

Low hanging fruit, Walter

It's abundantly clear that Trump & team had no plan for what to do if the Iranians didn't immediately surrender. And I'm sure they were told by the professionals that an immediate surrender was highly unlikely. So now they're floating random low-probability options while lying their asses off.

According to Ukraine's President Zelenskyy more than 800 PAC-3 Patriot missiles have been used in the latest Iran war, more PAC-3 missiles Ukraine ever possessed, altogether.

$4 billions in 5 days for shooting down flying mopeds. Well done.

I wrote about raising daughters in the ICE age WHILE in treatment for triple negative breast cancer. Scroll down to read the short piece.

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