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🧵 “Finish the Job”: Trump’s War on Iran and Easter Messaging Go Nuclear” 🧵 Brief thread / article preview on the warning signs in administration rhetoric bsky.app/profile/msen...

Reminder: Trump’s key message in that last Iran War speech focused on his promise to “finish the job.” Trump underscore that language by saying (lying, according to reporting) that the families of American soldiers who have died in this conflict *told* him they want him to “finish the job.” 1/7

There’s something unspeakably creepy about all the right-wing accounts, whether official US government or merely ‘aligned,’ using the same Good Friday “it’s finished” imagery, coupled with the emphasis on “sacrifice for all humanity” — in conjunction with expected Iran War escalation. 1/2

holy shit

BREAKING: Hegseth’s latest leadership decapitation strike in the Iran war

the unintentional admission here, lmao

BREAKING: Hegseth’s latest leadership decapitation strike in the Iran war

Trump actually said the US will ‘send Iran back to the Stone Ages where they belong.’ IRAN. Contemporary nation-state built on a civilization that’s like 7,000 years old.

I’ve got to say, as someone with indigenous background, listening to the SCOTUS oral arguments on birthright citizenship is much more emotional than I expected

well played, Fox News, well played

someone please buy me the domain homelandsecurity.org I need it for reasons

lmao, tried to download an article from the Department of Justice today and

Pope Leo has the chance to do the funniest thing of all time right now

correction: this is the funniest part

funniest part of all this is that Kristi Noem’s husband has a bimbofication kink but it’s for himself and not her

Kristi Noem’s husband doesn’t deny his bimbofication cross-dressing kink, just talking shit on his wife I think he should take pride in BOTH

Marc Caputo (Axios) says he was tipped off about Noem’s crossdressing husband in February by an undocumented immigrant who wanted revenge

Didn’t have “Kristi Noem’s husband is a cross dresser who paid online fetish models to look at him in giant fake boobs while she was head of DHS” on my 2026 bingo card but hindsight is 20/20 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Baby Satan is a diabolical genius and there is nowhere left for me to hide

A super kind Palestinian cab drivers was the first person to open my eyes to how Islamic world felt about SA and gulf states in general . I was blown away

fuck off

John Waters with a "Trump Ruined Bad Taste" sign just might be the best protest photo of all time.

How incoherent are the US justifications for starting the Iran war? Enough for an entire wiki entry. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationa...

Isfahan’s nickname is “Nesf-e Jahān,” in English: “half of the world.” This image of US-Israel bombs dropping on Iran gives that nickname a new, heartbreakingly layer of significance apt for geopolitics today.

‪Don’t “pray to survive” a nuclear attack. ‬ ‪Pray that you’re located in the blast zone’s dead center. ‬

I’ve seen way, way too many people ask “how do we survive the aftermath of a nuclear attack?” You don’t WANT to survive a nuclear attack.

Apropos of nothing you might want to Google the Samson Option

The US war on Iran, to my mind, feels far less conventional global military conflict and more: Power struggle of an unhinged, self-destructive toddler’s tantrum, driven entirely by an undeveloped frontal lobe’s rage-fueled impulse to break everything he can just because someone told him “no.” 1/3

IMO, global responses to Iran’s attack on Dimona mark a (potentially) significant geopolitical shift in perceptions of / engagement with the nuclear issue — particularly around Israel and the question of parity and self-defense against existential threats under international law (or lack thereof).

🧵 overlooked significance to Iran’s strike on Dimona and Israel’s nuclear program 🧵 Thread: 1/4

This made me so sad to read, particularly because its inaccurate projections are, ironically, nearly 100% antithetical to my perspective, particularly this last post. The “grime, pain, and horror” this person believes I don’t see is exactly what drives my desire to practice empathy — for us all.

To paraphrase in Christianity’s terms: ‘there but for the grace of God go I.’ Eid Mubarak to all who celebrate, and wishing peace finds everyone in need of it, wherever they may be and to whatever faith (or none) they belong.

To add (Ramadan and empathy as spiritual obligation): we must struggle to practice it particularly those for whom empathy is hardest to find, who seemingly don’t “deserve” compassion — — those seen as beneath us in any / all forms, the most marginalized, disgraced, beyond redemption, dehumanized.

One of the most healing things that happened for me growing up in fundie Christian land is moving to this side of the state with a big Muslim presence and being told ‘only god is perfect’ after decades of being treated horribly for being a ‘sinner.’

I don’t care what you think about Mamdani as a politician — it’s so, so rare that non-Muslims in the US are exposed to anything about Islamic spiritually, not a propagandistic conflict frame. Beautiful description of Ramadan’s purpose: actively practicing empathy for our fellow human family.

💚 عيد مبارك 💚

The long dreaded day has finally arrived. Baby Satan learned how to unlock the door. I will never again know solitude — bathtub or freezer, to the depths of hell itself.

Wished an old friend from Lebanon Happy Eid and got this message back from her in Beirut. Such a beautiful, resilient, generosity soul — I can’t describe how ashamed I feel for not doing enough, nowhere remotely even close. Forgive us all, human family. Forgive us all, God.

It’s Eid so I want to focus on something positive for once: the Americans DID, in fact, learned *something* from Iraq. No one’s arguing that “Iran hates us for our freedom!” Alhamdulilah and Eid Mubarak, y’all. 💚

you know what I haven’t yet seen or heard anyone bring up about Iran and conflict on here TAAROF. [Google it and have fun, crackers!]

on a more positive note, I didn’t sleep last night because I have food poisoning so at least there’s that

for some “reading the news brings me down and makes me feel everything sucks these days” perspective — I have 3 areas of professional subject-matter expertise and they are: 1) Middle East / Islam 2) conflict / political violence 3) white supremacism / fascism

So try and hear me out about this Strait of Hormuz security situation

cc: Marco Rubio subject: you’re bad at your job A country’s top “diplomat” should not live on a military base for obvious reasons, ever. — (Yes, I’m fully aware that numerous Trump administration officials live on military installations.)

Yes, that is indeed the punchline

which horseman of the apocalypse is “John Bolton gets something right about Iran” asking for a friend

Wanna hear a good joke?

A Chaldean (Catholic) Iraqi that grew up in Beirut (who works with his best friend, a Trump-supporting Syrian Alawite married to an American Jew), told me he hates Iran because of Iraq, but 100% supports them in the current war if they nuke Israel. Welcome to the Middle East: it’s complicated