"Trump is heading to Kentucky today to campaign against Massie in the upcoming Republican primary. Yes, in the midst of the war, this is Trump’s priority."
"According to reporting by The New York Times, a preliminary U.S. military investigation has determined that an American Tomahawk missile strike likely hit the Iranian elementary school due to a targeting error involving outdated intelligence data"
"devastating Iranian drone strike that hit a U.S. command center in Kuwait at the beginning of the conflict.. killed six American service members and injured many others .. Dozens of troops suffered burns, brain trauma, and shrapnel wounds .. More than 30 wounded service members remain hospitalized"
"Iranian officials are also signaling a shift in strategy. Instead of what they previously called “reciprocal strikes,” they now say they are moving toward continuous attacks designed to raise economic pressure on the United States and its allies."
"The national average price of diesel in the United States has surged to $4.81 per gallon, the highest level since December 2022"
MEIDASTOUCH NETWORK
BEN MEISELAS
3/11/26
"Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps leadership is now openly threatening vessels linked to the United States, Israel, or their partners"
open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
Are you doing anything to help these folks? Or just taking pictures?
WE KILLED HIS WIFE.
So what the heck is Trump going to do now, because Iran's new leader has good reason to hate the U.S.
AP NEWS
3/9/26
"The younger Khamenei, who has not been seen in public since the war started, was long considered a potential successor — even before the killing of his 86-year-old father. The younger Khamenei’s wife, Zahra Haddad Adel, was killed in the same strike."
apnews.com/article/iran...
WTF?
ADAM KINZINGER
3/9/26
"it feels like the president is setting himself up to declare victory whenever it’s politically convenient. Maybe when oil prices spike even more. Maybe when polling shifts… Maybe simply when he gets bored"
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
"One particularly tragic incident involved a missile strike on a girls’ school in Iran that killed more than 150 children. Trump over the weekend blamed Iran for that strike. But U.S. officials have privately acknowledged the missile was American."
Fox News .. Kilmeade to oil tanker captains stuck near the Strait of Hormuz .. "show “guts” and sail through the dangerous waterway to break Iran’s pressure on global oil markets"
"In other words, Fox pundits are now urging civilian shipping captains to risk their lives to help the GDP"
"U.S. officials have intercepted encrypted communications believed to have originated in Iran that could serve as an operational trigger for sleeper cells outside the country. Federal alerts have already gone out to law enforcement agencies warning about the possibility of retaliatory activity."
MEIDASTOUCH
BEN MEISELAS
3/9/26
.. crowds gathered in Tehran’s Revolution Square after appointment of new leader, Mojtaba Khamenei .. rallying around the new leadership
If goal of war was to weaken regime politically .. the opposite may be happening
open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
"We need the kind of national courage that took us from Selma to the Voting Rights Act in the space of five months .. so many different outrages that it’s hard .. to pick one to coalesce around"
"But we can all condemn an attack on a school—and a president who lies about his responsibility for it"
"When it comes to the Iranian girls who were killed in their school, the one safe place that should have existed for them, the Trump administration will hide behind “we’re investigating” and hope everyone will forget and move on."
CIVIL DISCOURSE
JOYCE VANCE
3/8/26
"Brutality no longer outrages some Americans .. watch immigrants rounded up .. frog marched into El Salvadoran prisons .. assaulted by federal agents .. And they are unmoved"
"How we became that country .. is hard to comprehend"
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
DEMOCRACY DOCKET
MARC ELIAS
3/8/26
Maya Angelou: "When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time"
"Donald Trump showed us who he was on election night 2012, when he called for a revolution because Obama won"
newsletters.democracydocket.com/trump-told-u...
"A religious Nazi regime"? He's talking about Trump, right? Yeah, lets do it ...
Not feeling the war yet?
Increased oil prices not only makes a morning commute more expensive, it makes trucking more expensive, which means EVERYTHING moved by trucks becomes more expensive
EGGS 😏
CLOTHING
CAMERAS
BOTTLED WATER
CANNED GOODS
MEDICAL SUPPLIES
MEAT
PAPER
KITTY LITTER
EVERYTHING.
Too bad she didn't bite hard enough
It could not be more obvious that the president does not care about US service members and in fact regards their deaths as mere political inconveniences. He has more sympathy for Putin than Americans who died because he decided to wage illegal war. Just listen to him.
Nooo.... commit him to a psychiatric ward
Unbelievable.
When I first started out as a journalist I thought it paid to have a background in US history when covering America. Then I thought it would probably be better to be a constitutional lawyer with expertise in jurisprudence. Now I think it would be useful to be a psychiatrist.
