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The AP has called the closely watched Democratic #TXsen primary for state Rep. James Talarico. He beats Rep. Jasmine Crockett 53–46%.

Iran has bombed every base in the Middle East. Were those bases empty? Only 6 casualties? This is suspect. I’m concerned there are more and they’re hiding it! 🤞🏽crossed this is the one time they’re telling the truth. Pray for our brave soldiers!

Trump's Iran War and the Article One crisis Congress's refusal to do its job is now the world's problem.

New in PN: Trump's Iran War and the Article One crisis

"Unless and until the GOP acknowledges that the country is in the grip of a madman bent on consolidating all constitutional power in him and him alone, Trump is free to singlehandedly decide to go to war. That's not how it's supposed to work."

War Crimes don’t hide Sex Crimes

🔥 @jamestalarico.bsky.social : “The only minority destroying America is the billionaires. We are focused on the wrong 1%… it’s not left vs. right, it’s top vs. bottom.”

Bernie's new billionaire wealth tax would raise $4.4T from the super-rich over the next decade.

That's more than enough to reverse Trump's Medicaid cuts, raise teacher pay, make childcare affordable, and build millions of affordable homes.

And guess what? The super-rich will still be super rich.

Seems like the media should at least express some curiosity about this.

open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...

WELCH: Mr. Yoho is also the husband of your former spokesperson, Tricia McLaughlin?

NOEM: Yes

WELCH: So your former assistant and her husband are the ones that got the DHS no bid contract for $143m. Any dispute about that?

NOEM: No.

WATCH — @senpeterwelch walks through a no-bid $143,000,000 contract that went to @KristiNoem’s spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin’s husband’s company that had just been formed.

She should be impeached for this outrageous scandal alone.

Yet it’s barely a blip in this corrupt regime.

And then what? Is there some sort of assumption that the Kurds will rule Iran? They will want to carve out their own state (which would want to include territory in Iraq/Turkey/Syria)...this isn't just destabilization, it's a 9.9 earthquake

I'm currently in discussion about leaving the country with my family.
And, I NEVER thought I'd say this.
EVER.

It's better to live our final years in a different place - and, if we can make it happen, we're going to try.

Why would anyone choose to live like this, if you don't have to?!

Sen. Murphy: They told us in there that this is an open-ended operation that hasn't even really started... they refuse to take off of the table the insertion of ground troops ... there is no question that this is war.

WTF is this ⬇️. We have a Sadist as President! I’m at a loss for words. #nowar

After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death “Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.

Secretary Marco Rubio claimed no one died as a result of cuts to USAID. That’s not what we found.

After Trump officials cut food aid to Kenya, children starved to death in an American-made hunger crisis.

(Published Dec. 2025)

And Republicans got angry with Michelle Obama for stepping outside her lane by having a vegetable garden. We are, truly, living in the stupidest of times. . .

Gallego: "Young American men and women are dying because of these idiots"

The Iran War Is God’s Plan, Say U.S. Military Leaders (Who Believe Trump Was Anointed by Jesus) Didn’t the Bible tell us to beware false prophets?

WHAT?????
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“A combat-unit commander told non-commissioned officers at a briefing Monday that the Iran war is part of God’s plan and that Pres. Donald Trump was “anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth,”

www.esquire.com/news-politic...

This is fantastic. I just wish they had courage before they announced retirement

Americans urged to leave Middle East, but many airports are closed and embassy staff is reduced The State Department ordered the mandatory departure of non-emergency personnel and family members in six countries after the U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia was struck by two Iranian drones.

More than 1 million U.S. citizens in 14 countries in the Middle East have been ordered to evacuate, but the Trump administration has no plan to assist them. Since Saturday, more than 10,000 commercial flights have been canceled because airspace is closed.

Every senator who voted to confirm RFK Jr owns this tragedy. Every single one.

I'm begging my fellow politicians, Illinoisans, and Americans to realize that right now, we aren't fighting over policy or political party.

We're fighting over whether we're going to be a country rooted in empathy and kindness — or one rooted in cruelty and rage.

I mean, getting rid of the folks that tracked Iranian threats against Trump is the ONLY action by Patel I can get behind.

MN’s U.S. Attorney ordered to appear at contempt hearing Tuesday over violations in immigration cases The judge said he called the hearing for the U.S. government to explain why they shouldn’t be held in contempt

"U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Bryan’s order cites “numerous unlawful” failures by the U.S. government to return belongings to immigrants ordered released from detention, including their cash, cellphones, jewelry, driver’s licenses, passports and more."
www.startribune.com/judge-orders...

The lying. The deflection. The arrogance. The shifting rationale in support of an illegal war. The refusal to consult Congress. The fact that he casually discusses draperies while American soldiers are dying. The cowardice of a political party that won’t take action to stop his rampant lawlessness

Marco Rubio admits the war is to serve Israel.

“There was absolutely an imminent threat and it was that we knew that if Iran was attacked and we believe that they would be attacked, that they would immediately come after us and we were not going to sit there and absorb a blow”

The irrational strongman we’ve been warned about is here His name is Donald J. Trump.

"Trump's attack on Iran is terrifying in part because it's so untethered from policy goals and logic. He offered a range of half-hearted explanations for his rush to war, but the conflicting excuses only underlined the obvious truth — he attacked Iran because he felt like it."