Alexander Ross

"Their lives were changed forever."

CNN on the perpetrators of violent Islamophobia, not the victims of violent of Islamophobia.

The JCPOA would still be actively functioning as intended right now if this were the truth.

...can we not publicly announce the deployment of United States special forces in advance?

“Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.”

—Aldous Huxley

It's been underreported, but the initial proposed Trump-class battleship design entailed the vessel being equipped with nuclear-capable cruise missiles.

If this US Navy vessel class existed right now and were operating in the Strait of Hormuz, I fear how "Death, Fire, and Fury" would manifest.

A reminder that the Washington Post laid off *everyone* doing Middle East coverage while there was a United States carrier strike group in the region.

All we're going to get from the Washington Post on the Iran War at this point are takes.

Elected Republicans need to be asked non-stop "What is a war?"

"The US will do the humanitarian thing if you don't."

Doesn't sound like a thing that Donald Trump would ever say in person TBH.

Donald Trump concluded his first term attempting to have his own VP killed as part of a plot to overturn the results of a US presidential election.

If you voted for Donald Trump after he did this lunatic shit, you're an enabler and therefore responsible for all the lunatic shit that he does next.

Now that this has been out there for 24 hours, we can safely say that Joe Biden presiding over the end of the War in Afghanistan enraged the press way more than Donald Trump’s White House going “Who gives a shit if Russia is helping Iran target our troops.”

Lovely media ecosystem we’ve got here.

Now that this has been out there for 24 hours, we can safely say that Joe Biden presiding over the end of the War in Afghanistan enraged the press way more than Donald Trump’s White House going “Who gives a shit if Russia is helping Iran target our troops.”

Lovely media ecosystem we’ve got here.

...so this isn't about nuclear weapons. Good to know.

Donald Trump has nuked all the past portrayals of the GOP's agenda: the party of free trade, the party of national security, the party of personal responsibility, the party of Christian family values, the party of fiscal responsibility, the party of limited government.

None of it was ever true.

SCOTUS ruled that Donald Trump's tariffs are illegal, and he's refusing to give US voters a legal refund.

His form of "immigration enforcement" has led to US citizens being detained and/or killed.

And he gets irritated when you point out that Russia is helping Iran target US military assets.

This assessment of Donald Trump's modern Republican Party sounds about white.

This sentence is a political scandal.

I understand that 1) impeachment & removal is an uphill battle given the current makeup of Congress & 2) this wouldn't be happening had enough people voted Democratic in 2024, but if Donald Trump is not impeached & removed, there's little stopping him from continuing to go on a global war spree.

REPUBLICANS 20 YEARS AGO: We have to fight these people over there so that we do not have to fight these people here.

DONALD TRUMP TODAY: You might be facing these people here... I guess... this is not in any way an indictment of how I'm fighting these people over there.

Hmm...

Unfortunately, this is what I'm afraid of... because Mullin is a Senator, you're going to see fellow Senators rationalizing supporting him out of institutional deference.

If Republicans were actually "pocketbook voters", this is when they'd turn. But they're absolutely not, so they won't.

Donald Trump has threatened Canada and land that belongs to Denmark with conquest & most recently threatened to keep using air bases in Spain without the nation's consent.

1) All three are NATO allies.
2) None have nuclear weapons.

If I'm a non-US NATO nation, I'm ignoring whatever the US wants.

It's a great sentiment. That said, not liking that he didn't share all of it on his corresponding post on X.

Sharing that one time Senator Markwayne Mullin was ready to start a physical fight with a labor leader during a Senate hearing. This is who Donald Trump wants in charge of Homeland Security.

Donald Trump has publicly and repeatedly threatened to conquer multiple nations that are *NATO* allies.

I think we can safely say that anybody on board with his administration's agenda after this isn't there to think through the diplomatic consequences of anything.

Also, your church should be taxed.

It's now critical leverage. Natasha Bertrand (CNN) just yesterday reported that the United States does not believe it has the air defenses to intercept all attacking Shahed drones.

If United States Submarines are striking foreign warships with torpedoes for the first time since World War II, and in waters outside a current theater of warfare that the United States is advancing against Iran... then this is not simply about stopping Iran from having nuclear weapons.

It's noteworthy that in a political landscape where there are a plethora of "purity tests" for Democratic candidates, there are political commenters strongly arguing that a Democratic candidate having a Nazi tattoo for two decades should absolutely not be subjected to any purity test.

Greg Landsman represents OH-01 (my district), and it's been historically very hard to keep an elected Democrat in OH-01.

GOP from 1995-2009, Democratic from 2009-2011, GOP from 2011-2023, and currently Democratic... and he's risking our advantage here by fully backing Donald Trump's War in Iran.