TAPPER: Do you see an equivalence between US helping Ukraine defend itself & Russia helping Iran targetservice members? WALTZ: We've known that Russia & Iran have a strategic partnership T: But surely this is upsetting & requires action W: If they are doing it, it certainly hasn't been effective

Donald Trump is now just openly bragging about interfering in the media. He's the president. He's running a truck over the first amendment here.

Rep. Mike Flood: "Listen, we are in a conflict with Iran right now. There's going to be temporary pain. And it is painful. I don't want to discount that at all. But this will end and we will have energy independence."

Ossoff: "The WH put out a video depicting this war as a video game. When service members are returning in flag-draped coffins, & even more have lost limbs or suffered brain injuries or are fighting for their lives, this WH treats war like a game. It's a disgrace. And it speaks to a moral rot."

KILMEADE: You think Putin is helping Iran? TRUMP: I think he might be helping them a little bit, yeah, & he probably thinks we're helping Ukraine, right? K: You are, right? T: Yeah, we're helping them also, & so he says that, & China would say the same thing. It's like, hey, they do it & we do it

NEW -- In a particularly unhinged performance, the defense secretary and former Fox News weekend host says he doesn't "worry" about the Strait of Hormuz, that it is "open" except for all the shooting by Iran, and that David Ellison should take over CNN. www.huffpost.com/entry/hegset...

"The sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better." The Defense Secretary calling for a billionaire ally of the government to take over a media outlet & make it more pro-government. This is what authoritarianism looks like. But in other countries they try & hide it.

Hegseth: "Some in the press can't stop. Allow me to make suggestions. People look at the TV and they see banners, 'Mideast War Intensifies.' What should it read instead? How about, 'Iran increasingly desperate.' More fake news from CNN. The sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better"

Another favor to the Russians by Trump.

Gen. Grynkewich: "What I've observed over the course of studying air power in history is that any time you attack a civilian population, you usually end up finding that it just hardens their resolve."

How it’s playing in France. 🤡

Quite the split screen: -Millions of Americans are skipping meals or cutting back on utilities to afford health care -First 6 days of Iran war cost $11.3 billion, Pentagon tells Congress

Keeping it simple, so his audience of one understands.

I asked President Trump about the FBI reportedly seizing election records in Arizona. He said they must have done that because it was a “rigged” election. I pointed out to him that his own AG said there was not measurable voter fraud to overturn that election. Then he called me a rotten reporter.

In South Burlington, Vermont, protesters are being tear-gassed by ICE and local police as they attempt to prevent a kidnapping.

A new art installation by the anonymous artist collective Secret Handshake appeared this week on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., depicting figures representing President Donald Trump and the late financier Jeffrey Epstein.

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:

Some of the frivolous September purchases made under Secretary Pete Hegseth’s stewardship include a $98,329 Steinway & Sons grand piano for the Air Force chief of staff’s home, $5.3 million for Apple devices such as the new iPad, and an astronomical amount of … newrepublic.com/post/207555/...

If you’re roughly my age, it’s wild to reflect on the optimism for the future Americans felt when Obama was elected — young Americans spontaneously took to the streets to celebrate! — and contrast with what we face today. The falloff over the past 18 years is hard to process.

The bottom line is Trump sacrificed 8 American lives (& counting) and more than 1,000 Iranian lives (& counting) for nothing. He hurt the US & global economies, destabilized the Middle East, & will pull out with the same Iranian regime in power. There's no silver lining. A senseless, criminal waste

Trump says US Navy sank Iran's warship off the coast of Sri Lanka because "it's more fun" to sink ships than capture them.

Trump: "You daughter, she has to be of age. Like above 6 years old."

it is not normal for official government social media channels to behave like arms of the Republican Party

Breaking: SC newspaper verifies portions of Trump accuser's story. Textbook journalism. Local journalism. Support your local news outlets. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...

Remarkable how shook Fox is by the footage of Trump wearing a tacky campaign hat to a dignified transfer

They're still lying on the website: www.foxnews.com/video/639055...

Amazing - Fox just showed old footage of Trump at a DIFFERENT Dignified Transfer because of the criticism he got for wearing a baseball hat yesterday 🤔 (H/T @badfoxgraphics.bsky.social )

Wow -- as first spotted by @BadFoxGraphics on X, Fox & Friends this morning used *old footage of a previous dignified transfer* to mislead their audience about the fact that Trump wore a baseball cap during the one yesterday

There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

Time to discuss the realities of, "So You Want to Launch a Ground Invasion of Iran." 1. First, of course, you need ground connected to Iran. That means Iraq, Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan or Pakistan.

Trump Is Dangerously Close to Sending Troops to Iran: Sources Tell Zeteo

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.

Trump to Latin American leaders: "I'm not learning your damn language. I don't have time."

Draft dodger, criminal, rapist Donald Trump, folks.

🚨FBI Interviews of Epstein/Trump accuser.🚨 Read for yourself. Time to subpoena Trump. ⬇️ www.justice.gov/epstein/file... www.justice.gov/epstein/file... www.justice.gov/epstein/file... www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

DOOCY: It sounds like the Russians are helping Iran target and attack Americans-- TRUMP: That's an easy problem compared to what we're doing here. What a stupid question that is to be asking at this time. We're talking about something else.

BREAKING: Russia has provided Iran with information that can help Tehran strike the U.S. military, AP sources say.

These most recent allegations against Trump are vile and disgusting. Nobody is above the law. Especially not the leader of the pedophile protection party.

It’s almost like he’s hoping for it so that he can have an excuse to use “emergency powers”

“In WhatsApp conversations leaked to the Miami Herald, participants used variations of the n-word more than 400 times, regularly described women as “whores,” used slurs to talk about Jewish and gay people and mused about Hitler’s politics.”

"You told a lie about them. Do you regret that?" -- Raskin grills Noem about her comments that Good and Pretti were domestic terrorists

Garcia: "I want to just show this image here. This is an image of some kids, including one of Liam Ramos's classmates. These are kids that are being held at detention facilities."

Wow: under the radar special election in Arkansas tonight for House District 70, a GOP-held seat in suburban Little Rock. Democrat Alex Holladay with a huge 27-point win over Republican Bryan Renshaw. Another red to blue flip for Democrats.

This would immediately kick off a civil war resulting in the genocide of Iranian Kurds, no?

REPORTER: Yesterday you told us Israel was going to strike Iran and that's why we needed to get involved. But today the president said Iran-- RUBIO: No. Were you there yesterday? REPORTER: Yes. I asked the question

Trump: "Finally, we honor one more American soldier, a fallen warria of world. Of wars. And really, terra.”

Pentagon tells Congress no sign that Iran was going to attack US first, sources say reut.rs/4aYKAFU

complete insanity

Alex's mom on his 38th birthday.