But he doesn’t care, not one teensy bit! He’s too busy running the country and only took time out to post this very important message!

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If the DOJ’s history killer memo stands, Trump - and every future president - will be able to operate in total secrecy. We can’t let that happen. My latest for @theintercept.com:

“.. He said they were protected by little more than a thin layer of vertical standing blast barricades .. Asked to describe the degree of fortification, he responded: ‘I mean, I would put it in the none category. From a drone defense capability … none.’” @cbsnews.com www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-wa...

GDP for the 4th quarter of 2025 has been revised down — again! ⬇️

Q4 GDP: 0.5% [Lutnick, 12/19/25]

NEW: Republicans refuse to recognize democrats on a war powers resolution

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Unprecedented corruption

This is so on brand for Trump. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/u...

The Trump administration offered a Vatican envoy "a bitter lecture warning that the United States has the military power to do whatever it wants—and that the Church had better take its side" www.thefp.com/p/why-the-va...

This is an account close to the Iranian leadership. We are now seeing the shape of why Iran agreed so enthusiastically to this "ceasefire". They will control and toll the Strait for the first time. They keep their nuclear program. They keep their missiles. What a disaster.

I like this because it articulates the conservative concept of freedom in a nutshell. You have the freedom to do x, except you don't, because I don't want you to. bsky.app/profile/atru...

I feel like withdrawing from NATO and lobbing military threads at the Vatican is a two step that is going to create some really problematic alliances we are not prepared to deal with

While 4 astronauts are on a historic trip around the moon, Trump is proposing to slash NASA's budget by almost 50%. Everything Trump does undermines the very things that make America great.

Iran has told Pakistan mediators that it will officially withdraw from ceasefire. Hormuz is now shut back down. Iran and Hezbollah will respond to Israeli aggression on Lebanon, with Yemen & Iraq now joining in the response saying they will not commit to a ceasefire that doesnt include Lebanon.

Yes!

Gov. Mike Braun suspends Indiana gas sales tax amid Iran conflict www.indystar.com/story/news/p...

This feels a lot less like "peace through strength" and more "unjustified violence through weakness"

When Jimmy Carter's rescue mission to Iran failed, he went on TV and took full personal responsibility The US is in *every* way worse off than six weeks ago. And Iran, for all its losses, is in a stronger position. Starting with control of Hormuz. And NorKor-style determination to develop nukes

God doesn’t want war.

This, in its own way, is as delusional and disastrous as his pledge to wipe out their civilization just yesterday.

Pete Hegseth is the quintessential ugly American

Sánchez to Trump: Spain won’t ‘applaud those who set the world on fire just because they then show up with a bucket’

So there’s no regime change, we lift all sanctions against them going back decades, they retain missile and drone capabilities, they control the strait and can charge tolls, and keep their enriched uranium. So much for “unconditional surrender.”

$2 million per ship — to cross a Strait that was free six weeks ago. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/w...

APNewsAlert: JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli military official says the country is still attacking #Iran, after White House said Israel agreed to ceasefire.

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In other words: US doesn’t attack — Iran doesn’t respond. Iran’s military controls the strait. This is worse than what it was before it all started, and there’s no peaceful way out of it. “The Art of The Deal”.

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Vance has been trafficking in conspiracy slop for years - but this is another low. He accuses Ukrainian intelligence of interfering in both America’s and Hungary’s elections. “This is just what they do,” Vance said. Not it isn’t. This is what the Kremlin says they do.

🚨 TRUMP: “I agree to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks.”

TACO TUESDAY!

That red line is doing something unusual. www.pewresearch.org/global/2026/...

New: Federal agencies warned today that Iranian hackers have hacked into multiple US industrial/infrastructure systems with the intent of causing disruption. Unclear how/if serious. Comes same day Trump threatened Iranian civilization would "die" and is considering strikes on Iranian infrastructure.

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I'm the daughter of an Army paratrooper who refused orders during our illegal invasion of Vietnam back in the day. He went to LBJ military jail. Dad taught his girls this: "Just following orders" is NEVER any excuse for anyone who's complicit in war crimes. You MUST refuse heinous orders.

This is the nail in the coffin of many special relationships.

Two weeks is good. But we should never be threatening genocide. No matter what happens tonight or in two weeks, America’s image is tarnished forever.

wow wow wow

Yet be well assur’d You put sharp weapons in a madman’s hands.

Come on then, and remove him.

Donald Trump’s deranged threat to destroy “a whole civilization” in Iran is a threat to commit war crimes and genocide. Republicans in Congress must prevail upon VP Vance, now campaigning for Putin’s puppet Viktor Orban in Hungary, to return to the U.S. and invoke Section 4 of the 25th Amendment.

From thousands of miles away, it looks so peaceful. Perspective is everything.

Speaker Johnson, we are calling on you to bring the House back to DC IMMEDIATELY! The Cabinet needs to invoke the 25th Amendment. But Congress can’t just sit on its hands and wait for that to happen when the President is threatening to commit war crimes TONIGHT.

The BBC asked Karoline Leavitt to clarify the White House stance on use of nukes. Her 100% absolutely reassuring response: “The Iranian regime has until 8PM Eastern Time to meet the moment and make a deal with the United States. Only the President knows where things stand and what he will do."

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The UK has evacuated its forces from Iraq, The i Paper reports.

Sen. Ron Johnson: "I am hoping and praying that President Trump is, that this really is bluster. I do not want to see us start blowing up civilian infrastructure. I do not want to see that. We are not at war with the Iranian people. We are trying to liberate them."