Trump: Iran has no “anti-air traffic anything.” Iran: shoots down a U.S. fighter jet Maybe stop flapping your jaws and start telling the truth.

Maybe we shouldn’t have gloated about Iran having no air defenses left when Iran clearly still has air defenses? Just a thought.

Has Iranian state TV paid a $787 million settlement for spreading lies about an election?

People need to realize the Trump regime is trying to remake the military the way they remade the Justice Department. The fascists are moving very fast. Many steps forward for every scandalous step back. The midterms are still far away and what’s done now will determine whether they’re free and fair.

Crazy things Pete Hegseth did YESTERDAY alone: 1) Fired head of the Army 2) Changed rules to allow military personnel to carry personal weapons on bases 3) Fired head of the Chaplain Corps 4) NBC reports he blocked promotions of a dozen Black or female officers All further evidence for my column:

This has been Trump’s MO since his first time masquerading as a president!

BREAKING: U.S. job growth for February revised sharply lower — from -92,000 to -133,000 jobs, marking the largest monthly job loss since December 2020.

Trump is asking Congress for a $1.5 TRILLION military budget in fiscal year 2027. A massive increase. Pentagon funding hit $1 trillion last year between appropriations and party-line reconciliation legislation. The military has failed to pass an audit for eight straight years.

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it speaks to the criminal nature of Trump 2.0 that nobody close to him is ever actually fired because it's too risky for them to be fully on the outside. Instead, they get reassigned to cushy fake jobs to keep them onside.

Raskin: "It doesn't give me a lot of comfort that Todd Blanche is now the acting AG. This is the guy who transferred Ghislaine Maxwell from the higher security prison to the low security prison camp in Texas."

Gupta: Medicare and Medicaid are federal programs, He is now saying that these are the responsibilities of the states. That means that purple and red states are likely going to struggle a lot more to provide basic healthcare to their Medicare and Medicaid recipients than blue states

Bondi's out. Fired apparently for not bringing enough indictments. Oddly, juries like facts to do that. She has none. Next should be Jeanine Pirro who has ZERO indictments for the same reason. Turns out revenge on Dems who committed no crimes isn't a slam dunk for even fascists.

"Encouraged by this blatant corruption, Trump’s most ardent supporters are demanding their own cut. This week, a group of J6 rioters filed a class action demanding recompense. The stage is set for the wholesale looting of the federal coffers by Trump and his MAGA allies." — @lizdye.bsky.social

Deliberately attacking civilian infrastructure without apparent military value is a war crime. Shouldn't be surprising since America elected a war crimes advocate, who in his first term pardoned convicted war criminals, and in his second made the public champion of those war criminals SecDef.

Firing watch is one for Tulsi Gabbard. The purge of women from the cabinet continues on.

“My” Attorney General says it all. Also, the private sector? Is she gonna be the new CNN bureau chief?

I guess he eventually fires all of them until he ends up with one apprentice?

Both of Marco Rubio’s parents were born in Cuba. Marco Rubio was born in Miami in 1971, before they became US citizens. He is a US citizen because he was born in the US under birthright citizenship. #Hypocrites

Bombing residential buildings to kill “moderate” politicians trying to broker a deal. Absolute madness. Either Trump is lying about wanting a deal, or Netanyahu wants to kill anyone who might help it happen. Or both. Again: Bibi hated the Iran Deal because it worked.

A warning on the future from a wise man of the past

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If we had a functioning Congress and SEC, they'd be investigating whether everyone in Donald's inner circle shorted the S&P just prior to his remarks.

Objectively, the plain evidence shows they are not close to "decimated": - they still have loads of missiles and drones and take out U.S. and allied targets every day. - they control the Strait for the first time - they still have a nuclear program - the regime is intact

Trump says we’re going to keep hitting them hard for 2-3 week. Always 2-3 weeks

If the roles were reversed, and a Democratic president lied that the families of soldiers who were killed in a reckless needless war he launched had insisted he "finish the job" in their memories, Fox News would meltdown and Republicans would be howling for impeachment.

So far, Trump is just lying about Obama’s nuclear deal. Not a word he said about the JCPOA is true

Like *literally* the definition of cult belief.

Reminding you this Holy Week that Christian nationalism looks like seeing Jesus getting arrested, tried, convicted, and executed, then saying to those who are shocked and grief stricken by the injustice of it all, “Well, he should have just obeyed the law!”

Oracle just laid off 30,000 people In 2025 Oracle made $57.4B in revenue & saved $3.3B in federal taxes due to Trump's tax cut for billionaires & mega corps $57.4B revenue, $3.3B additional tax savings, 30K workers fired "Trickle down" is the greatest scam in history to rob working people

Just a reminder that the senator who sponsored the bill which became law with broad bipartisan support that states a president cannot pull the US out of NATO without congressional approval was … Marco Rubio.

Amazing- Trump is now holding Ukraine hostage to try to force Europe to help him clean up the mess he made. Putin is pleased. www.investing.com/news/economy...

BREAKING: DOGE and tariff checks are being sent out today!

Marco Rubio in 2023

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Donald Trump just signed an insane Executive Order telling the Department of Homeland Security to keep a list of who should be allowed to vote by mail. Trump wants DHS to tell the US Postal Service whose ballots are allowed to be mailed. DICTATORSHIP ORDER. #TrumpVotedByMail

This executive order will be knocked down in record speed. Not only is it a poorly thought out order, it’s clearly beyond his constitutional authority

No sitting president has ever appeared before the Supreme Court during oral arguments in the history of the United States.

Vote-by-mail is safe, and Massachusetts law is clear. The President does not have the authority to override states' authority on elections or interfere with your right to vote. We'll see him in court.

They’re not hiding it. The goal is to flip the midterms before a single vote is cast.

They are begging other countries to bail them out

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Trump promised us “America First.” What we got is America Alone. He's isolated us from our allies, weakened our global standing, and left us standing solo on the world stage. This isn't strength. This is self-sabotage. #AmericaAlone 🇺🇸

Hegseth tells us that every soldier he’s spoken to overseas told him they support the war, as if some corporal is going to say something different to SecDef with his Sgt Maj, Company Commander and Commanding General standing right there. Dog & pony shows as old as the military.

Start the fire. Walk away. Tell the world they’re on their own.

A throne with a golden toilet just went up on the National Mall, in front of the Washington Monument, protesting Trump’s grandiose White House renovations. It includes a roll of toilet paper that reads “The Secret Handshake,” from the same group responsible for the statue of Trump and Epstein.

This might be the most unhinged thing he’s ever tweeted, and that’s saying something. He’s flailing. Has no idea how to get out of this war cleanly.

Iran destroyed a US Air Force E-3 Sentry in an airstrike on a Saudi Arabian base. There are only about 15 of these aircraft, valued at approximately $500 mill each, and losing one is a serious hit to the U.S. ability to detect and track threats at long range. And there’s a Russia connection… 1/2