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Author @Rowohlt, freelance journalist, senior correspondent Religion Dispatches, writes about Christian Nationalism & Right-Wing Extremism in the Europe & the US 1/2 of @femshelfcontrol.bsky.social Agent: Landwehr & Cie Events: Paula DΓΆring, Kulturagentur

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Trump campaign peace promises loom large over wartime presidency The "anti-war" candidate has bombed seven countries and launched a new regime-change war in Iran.

πŸ’₯ No president in the modern era has ordered more military strikes against as many different countries as Donald Trump.

He's attacked 7 nations, three of which had never been targeted by U.S. military strikes. He authorized more individual air strikes in 2025 than Biden did in four years.

02.03.2026 12:15 β€” πŸ‘ 389    πŸ” 212    πŸ’¬ 34    πŸ“Œ 35
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Jesse Watters asked Former Navy SEAL Jack Carr why the recent U.S. attack on Iran is unlike previous wars in Iraq.

Because we re-named the Department of Defense to the Department of War.

No kidding. He really said that.

02.03.2026 10:31 β€” πŸ‘ 268    πŸ” 60    πŸ’¬ 32    πŸ“Œ 10
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Capitol rioter who wanted to be 'lone wolf killer' taken back to jail for stalking DC activist Bryan Betancur Battisti, of Silver Spring, Maryland, previously served four months in prison for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Aspiring lone wolf shooter, self professed white supremacist and stalker:

www.wusa9.com/article/news...

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Centcom update on Operation Epic Fail
www.centcom.mil/MEDIA/PRESS-...

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Pres Trump told me tonight the US had identified possible candidates to take over Iran, but they were killed in the initial attack.

"The attack was so successful it knocked out most of the candidates," Trump told me. "It's not going to be anybody that we were thinking of because they are all dead. Second or third place is dead."

Pres Trump told me tonight the US had identified possible candidates to take over Iran, but they were killed in the initial attack. "The attack was so successful it knocked out most of the candidates," Trump told me. "It's not going to be anybody that we were thinking of because they are all dead. Second or third place is dead."

complete insanity

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KUWAIT ARMY - ΩƒΨ§ β€’ Ψ§Ω„Ψ¬ΩŠΨ΄ Ψ§Ω„ΩƒΩˆΩŠΨͺي
@KuwaitArmyGHQ
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Statement No. 7
The spokesperson for the Ministry of Defense stated that several U.S. military aircraft crashed this morning, confirming the complete safety of their crews.
He explained that the relevant authorities immediately initiated search and rescue procedures, whereby the crews were evacuated and transferred to the hospital to check on their health status and provide the necessary medical care, noting that their condition is stable.
The official spokesperson added that direct coordination was conducted with the friendly U.S. forces regarding the circumstances of the incident, and joint technical measures were taken.
He affirmed that the concerned authorities are following up on the investigations to determine the causes of the incident, calling for information to be obtained from its official sources.

KUWAIT ARMY - ΩƒΨ§ β€’ Ψ§Ω„Ψ¬ΩŠΨ΄ Ψ§Ω„ΩƒΩˆΩŠΨͺي @KuwaitArmyGHQ O ... O Translated from Arabic Show original β€’ Statement No. 7 The spokesperson for the Ministry of Defense stated that several U.S. military aircraft crashed this morning, confirming the complete safety of their crews. He explained that the relevant authorities immediately initiated search and rescue procedures, whereby the crews were evacuated and transferred to the hospital to check on their health status and provide the necessary medical care, noting that their condition is stable. The official spokesperson added that direct coordination was conducted with the friendly U.S. forces regarding the circumstances of the incident, and joint technical measures were taken. He affirmed that the concerned authorities are following up on the investigations to determine the causes of the incident, calling for information to be obtained from its official sources.

β€œSeveral” US aircraft crashed this morning in Kuwait, according to Kuwait, AP and Reuters.

02.03.2026 08:01 β€” πŸ‘ 552    πŸ” 212    πŸ’¬ 59    πŸ“Œ 26

The WH is making no effort at all to convince the American people how or why military action in Iran will keep them safe or improve their circumstances. They're not even trying to sell this, because nobody cares about anything beyond cashing in and keeping Trump happy.

01.03.2026 22:09 β€” πŸ‘ 141    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 7

Ban the fucking polymarkets. Betting on death. Betting on war while Incentivizing death and war. Shaping foreign/domestic policy by rewarding the rich people already in the know and encouraging them to make decisions that destroy the world while padding their pockets. Burn it down.

01.03.2026 13:38 β€” πŸ‘ 874    πŸ” 320    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 10

Monstrous.

01.03.2026 20:13 β€” πŸ‘ 436    πŸ” 94    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 2

If the anti-interventionists caved, it was long before the US launched this attack. Project 2025 is hardly Buchananism, and it’s been the guidebook all along. I think Vance knew what he was getting into, and if he didn’t, he wasn’t reading his administrations own roadmap.

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Three Americans dead and Trump’s UN Ambassador waves it off with some bullshit jingoism. From the people who wailed about Benghazi for a decade. Absolute soulless ghouls.

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Got a cab near the Department of Education. Hadn’t seen the Charlie Kirk banner before.

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Transpose this 1970 campaign speech by antisemitic white supremacist Asa Carter into the voice of JD Vance or Elon Musk or Matt Walsh and tell me if you could tell the difference.

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The National States Rights Party, a domestic terrorist organization headed up by admirers of Hitler who wanted to kill all American Jews and deport all non-whites. This is their 1963 convention. The keynote speaker was Asa Carter, the author of George Wallace's "Segregation forever" speech.

21.02.2026 23:03 β€” πŸ‘ 113    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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They went to war with Iran (which nobody in America was asking for) so they could conjure an excuse to allow ICE to keep murdering Americans and teargassing schools here at home with impunity (which nobody in America was asking for).

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β€œMassive” war launched by a man with no plan. Again. Donald Trump is repeating George W. Bush's catastrophic mistakes.

"Trump has no plan for Iran. Just blow shit up, kill some people, and hope for the best. It is the war of a Mad King."

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Now that Khameini’s death is confirmed, will the regime collapse?

I would bet against it.

Khameini was v old, and both he/his lieutenants had been planning for the succession for some time. He had also delegated much of the gov work to others before the strikes in case he was killed/incommunicado

01.03.2026 11:32 β€” πŸ‘ 226    πŸ” 50    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 2

They've monetized and incentivized committing crimes against humanity.

It's a scandal on par with Pete Rose betting on baseball, if Pete Rose were undersecretary of defense, and baseball was murdering civilians with bombs.

01.03.2026 11:40 β€” πŸ‘ 931    πŸ” 308    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 5

7/9. And now Trump uses the Iranian electoral operations that were on his side and which he has enabled as a reason to attack Iran. Absurd.

01.03.2026 02:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1129    πŸ” 203    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2

6/9. Trump and allies rewarded the Iranians and the Russians and the Chinese by punishing the US researchers who discovered all this and abolishing the agencies that tracked it.

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USAUpdate 262: Der neue Plan der Heritage Foundation - Heiraten fΓΌr's Vaterland | Annika Brockschmidt Get more from Annika Brockschmidt on Patreon

Die ersten 7 Minuten sind zum ReinhΓΆren fΓΌr alle frei. Danke an alle Patrons, ihr macht meine Arbeit ΓΌberhaupt erst mΓΆglich.

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Roderich Kiesewetter, Fraktion CDU/CSU, zum Angriff auf Iran Roderich Kiesewetter, Fraktion CDU/CSU, zum Angriff auf Iran

Bemerkenswertes Interview mit Kiesewetter. Er sagt letztlich, MilitΓ€rschlΓ€ge seien im Interesse Deutschlands und im Interesse der Iraner*innen. Das Regime im Iran habe bei den Verhandlungen nicht eingelenkt und mΓΌsse nun die Konsequenzen tragen. Ich halte fest: Das VΓΆlkerrecht gilt nicht mehr.

28.02.2026 16:30 β€” πŸ‘ 433    πŸ” 93    πŸ’¬ 48    πŸ“Œ 5
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At least 6 killed as Shiites storm US Consulate in Pakistan over killing of Iran's supreme leader Authorities say at least six people were killed in clashes with police on Sunday after hundreds of protesters stormed the U.S.

Police say at least 6 people have been killed in clashes as hundreds of protesters stormed the U.S. Consulate in Pakistan following the killing of Iran's supreme leader.

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Trump vies for Bush’s crown for worst foreign policy decision in history The US president upended half a century of US foreign policy in an eight-minute video with another attempt at Middle Eastern regime change

Trump vies for Bush’s crown for worst foreign policy decision in history www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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This is some next-level swiftboating

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Carney speech moment, nice while it lasted…

28.02.2026 23:03 β€” πŸ‘ 137    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Trump Officials Attended a Summit of Election Deniers Who Want the President to Take Over the Midterms The meeting’s participants included Kurt Olsen, a White House lawyer charged with reinvestigating the 2020 election, and Heather Honey, the Department of Homeland Security official in charge of electi...

Several high-ranking federal election officials attended a summit last week at which prominent figures who worked to overturn Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election pressed the president to ***declare a national emergency to take over this year’s midterms***
www.propublica.org/article/elec...

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Judge blocks Trump admin from rescinding health grants to Democratic-led states The ruling temporarily blocks the Trump Administration from cutting $600 million in public health grants that had already been allocated to four Democratic-led states.

Unbelievable that we still talk about withholding HIV funding as a form of political maneuvering rather than an act of social murder, as if the 80’s + 90’s never happened and we didn’t lose an entire generation to this already.

16.02.2026 01:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2528    πŸ” 781    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 21

The threats against judges who have ruled against Trump happen in a context: religiondispatches.org/2025/06/09/p...

01.03.2026 04:36 β€” πŸ‘ 57    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œβ€¦ the witness who alleged Trump sexually assaulted her was interviewed by the FBI four times. If the witness wasn’t credible, a second, third and fourth FBI interview probably wouldn’t have been warranted.”

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