What this country needs is a politician brave enough to advocate in *favor* of ‘forever wars’ in the Middle East…

Trump’s Iran attacks are “terrifying” bc “they seem untethered alike from policy goals and logic” as he “offered a range of half-hearted explanations for his rush to war, but the conflicting excuses only underlined the obvious truth — he attacked Iran because he felt like it.” @nberlat.bsky.social

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ICE is directly interfering with medical care in hospitals and clinics nationwide Nearly 40 have died, with critical meds and care being withheld That’s not justice, it’s inhumanity Thankfully @gavinnewsom.bsky.social is taking the lead in safeguarding patient care.

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

Aaron's work is essential to me 👇🏼

More impacts of the Republican disease and death cult. 19thnews.org/2026/03/idah...

Patel "targeted an elite counter espionage unit that investigates threats from foreign adversaries and specializes in Iran" days before the US attacked Iran. www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...

Maj. Gen. Randy Manner (Ret.): "It's a little bit disheartening to hear that the UK govt is arranging transport for the British citizens, whereas here as Americans we feel abandoned. The State Dept is in survival mode because as we know the administration reduced their budget by almost half."

Just want to give a shout out to this classic.

The same way you don't want people bombing you and your loved ones is the same exact thing that other people feel where they live.

who made this

The surgery was a success, ma’am, and also, your husband died.

This is correct. The rationale that Hegseth advances for war against Iran—to the extent you can call it a rationale at all—is completely contradictory to the claims he makes to reject support for Ukraine.

US leaders have warned about an irrational strongman with atomic weapons for decades. Then he ran for president and we gave him the nuclear codes. www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-iran...

The peace president. No president in the modern era has ordered more military strikes against as many different countries as Donald Trump. He's attacked 7 nations, 3 of which had never been targeted by US military strikes. He authorized more individual air strikes in 2025 than Biden did in 4 years.

Is this, too, from shaking lots of hands?

After mentioning four dead US servicemen Trump starts talking about his ballroom. In a competitive field, this may be one of the most offensive things he has ever done.

America's being led into war by a rambling, disassembling old man with no plan who gets distracted by the golden drapes next to his podium.

Hours before U.S. strikes in Iran, new accounts made predictions on Polymarket, which Trump Jr. is on the advisory board for, raking in massive profits. This is beyond suspicious. No one should profit from a war that has already cost American lives — these bets need to be investigated and banned.

Watching Trump joke around in his usual narcissistic way, it's clear he has absolutely no appreciation for the graveness of what he's just unleashed on the world. And joking about giving himself the Medal of Honor when he's put thousands of US service members in harm's way is especially abhorrent.

I know that I sound like a broken record but I think once this society was ok with accepting mass covid deaths just to be able to eat at Applebees then all bets were off.

Kuwait's air defense system, which it buys from US companies, shot down 3 American planes. My tax dollars just shot down my tax dollars.

a smiling Hegseth shakes hands and chuckles following a White House event on same day the military announced the 4th death of a US soldier fighting Iran

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At least the families of the fallen have this to comfort them.

FAT FUX SITTING IN THE WH WHO DODGED SERVICE SHOULD NEVER BE ALLOWED TO SEND AMERICAN TROOPS INTO HARMS WAY.

Good morning! Hey, has anyone seen Congress? We’re getting kind of worried about them… Just wondering if they’re still sleeping, or… The dipshit in chief did a bunch of illegal shit again and we were kind of hoping for some of those checks and balances…

Pat Trump on the back for acknowledging his lightly planned war will cause “more casualties.” Most Presidents try to prevent any, but the man who bankrupted casinos knows how his operations usually go.

The Department of Defense is buying up our data and seeking to use powerful AI systems to amass information about our private lives without a warrant. That's the definition of Big Brother surveillance, and it’s unconstitutional.

Important piece by @timothysnyder.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

"In Iran, the destruction and general illegality is the point: This administration wants to drop a shitload of bombs, to kill a foreign leader, to destabilize a foreign nation, if not an entire region simply because it can—and because no one can stop them." newrepublic.com/article/2071...

There it is. Republicans want more money from taxpayers to feed Trump's insatiable desire to bomb things everywhere all the time.

At some point even American corporate media needs to just bite the bullet and publish an accurate headline noting that this guy absolutely loves war crimes and is looking forward to doing some war crimes in Iran Because that is exactly the translation of what he's saying here

How shameful it is to stand there and tell people to prepare for more loss in a war no one asked for.

The WH reporter for the NYT thinks “that’s the way it is” = expressing condolences. 😳

Biden was also the first president who could credibly say he didn't send more US soldiers to die in pointless wars and the media eviscerated him for getting US soldiers killed while pulling out of a forever war

Well holy shit that’s one hell of a section from this substantial NYT story. I recommend reading it out loud in as matter-of-fact demeanor as possible and … let that sink in. Why the Epstein Investigations Took So Long and Did So Little www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/u...

JUST 3 DAYS IN Nations whose citizens “Trump’s War” has killed so far (8): 🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷🇦🇪🇧🇭🇰🇼🇸🇾🇱🇧 *Additional* nations now under attack in Trump’s War (6): 🇴🇲🇨🇾🇸🇦🇶🇦🇬🇧🇯🇴 *More* nations experiencing violent unrest (2): 🇮🇶🇵🇰 *Still more* nations expected to join the fray soon (1): 🇾🇪

This 28 second clip alone could help to bring down the US President. Trump clearly says this "war" is "not for now", showing there is no immediate risk by Iran. That means, as per the War Powers Act 1973, he has broken the law by not gaining Congress's approval for this action.

War crimes are war crimes no matter who carries them out, no matter the reason. Human rights are for all humans, even the ones you hate. Anything else - especially from people sitting in a place of relative privilege and safety - is dehumanization and part of the problem.

I never thought I’d be jealous of the phrase “regime change.”

"Aside from the internment camps used to incarcerate Japanese Americans in the 1940s, such facilities have no precedent in American history..." US Conference of Catholic Bishops statement on Trump's new mass prison camps. Full statement at the link: www.usccb.org/news/2026/th...

🚨 Trump tells The New York Times that Pentagon projections show U.S. casualties in Iran “could be quite a bit higher” than the 3 troops killed so far www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/u...

Exactly. Blindly hooting for the Buffoon-in-Chief as he unlawfully orders airstrikes without a coherent plan isn't a foreign policy, and isn't patriotic; it's just stupid, and dangerous.

GOP, you good with this?

You know what the saddest part of everything going on in the world is? None of this is a surprise. At all. A man stood behind a podium and told the world exactly what he was going to do and then a bunch of people voted for it. We could have had health care, education, and housing

Every senator who voted to confirm RFK Jr owns this tragedy. Every single one.