It helped. A little.
I’ve been warning about Trump, annihilatory rage, and nuclear weapons for almost a decade now.
Here are parts of a thread I wrote before the 2016 election:
Annihilatory rage is a feature of malignant narcissism—and a dangerous one in a man with the capacity to launch nuclear weapons.
Pathocracy =
A form of government where power is seized and held by a minority of people with severe personality disorders, particularly psychopathy, narcissism, and Machiavellianism
“We’re going to do what we did in Gaza,” a senior Israeli official says of Lebanon.
If Trump gives the order, it will be obeyed. There are no stopgaps, and the process is designed for speed.
I agree he wants to and is probably continuing to raise the possibility but being talked out of it. For now.
Annihilatory rage is a feature of malignant narcissism—and a dangerous one in a man with the capacity to launch nuclear weapons.
The most immediately notable part of the verdict is that people were convicted material support for terrorism for believing in antifascism and going to a noise demo where people lit off consumer grade fireworks.
⚠️ US attacks Iran’s Kharg Island
Trump:
“I have chosen NOT to wipe out the Oil Infrastructure on the Island. However, should Iran, or anyone else, do anything to interfere with the Free and Safe Passage of Ships through the Strait of Hormuz, I will immediately reconsider this decision.”
More on Kharg Island and why it’s likely no coincidence this bombing took place after the close of the markets:
Kharg Island alone handles around 2% of global oil supply.
“Despite statements from the US President, Iran will not surrender and will not allow completely free passage through the Strait of Hormuz… Tehran understands very well that this is one of its greatest strategic leverage points in a war.”
Danny Citrinowicz, frmr head of Israel defense intel on Iran
I think my colleagues in the DC policy world are having difficulty wrapping their heads around this basic reality:
Whether we are talking about international structures, economic stability, regional stability, or international law... it is the United States and Israel that are the problem
⚠️ US attacks Iran’s Kharg Island
Trump:
“I have chosen NOT to wipe out the Oil Infrastructure on the Island. However, should Iran, or anyone else, do anything to interfere with the Free and Safe Passage of Ships through the Strait of Hormuz, I will immediately reconsider this decision.”
Very much a not good situation:
⚠️ Bad and ominous news—this case conflated antifascist and anti-ICE protests with terrorism:
So glad to hear this 💜
There is an international re-ordering in process—and the US is choosing the side of disorder.
Scroll up to read the thread:
“A woman sits outside her destroyed apartment after it was damaged by an airstrike while she was inside, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Tehran, Iran, March 12, 2026. REUTERS/Alaa Al Marjani”
(Many in Tehran are wearing masks because of air quality.)
Via @idreesali114.bsky.social
⚠️ Israel reportedly planning a ground invasion of Lebanon with plans to annex territory under the auspices of a “buffer zone”:
“A woman sits outside her destroyed apartment after it was damaged by an airstrike while she was inside, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Tehran, Iran, March 12, 2026. REUTERS/Alaa Al Marjani”
(Many in Tehran are wearing masks because of air quality.)
Via @idreesali114.bsky.social
⚠️ Israel is also dropping lots of flyers on Beirut, as seen in videos on X.
According to will_christou of the Guardian on X, the one on the left calls on the Lebanese to disarm Hezbollah/contact Israeli intelligence and the one on the right warns that Lebanon could face total destruction like Gaza.
⚠️ Israel reportedly planning a ground invasion of Lebanon with plans to annex territory under the auspices of a “buffer zone”:
As time goes on, Jewish anti-Zionism reveals itself not only as solidarity with Palestinians but also as an anti-antisemitism strategy. We want out of this toxic dialectic, this terrible feedback loop between Israeli belligerence and the Jewish precarity it incessantly engenders
At least Putin is happy. Funny how that worked out.
From 2021
As an older person, I keep feeling a need to apologize that this is the world we are leaving to younger people.
All I can say is many of us tried to make it better—and we did in some ways.
Nonetheless, we failed to constrain the powerful forces who profit from greater entropy.
It’s heartbreaking.
Trump’s chronically, self-harmingly, dangerously, monomaniacal brain. My Swamp Notes with @gideonrachman.bsky.social
Free to read as.ft.com/r/793d87f5-c...
There is an international re-ordering in process—and the US is choosing the side of disorder.
Scroll up to read the thread:
So we’re clear about who to blame for higher prices for gas and…everything:
“The Pentagon has been planning for Iran's desperate and reckless closure of the Strait of Hormuz for DECADES, and it has been part of the Trump Administration's planning well before Operation Epic Fury was ever launched.
