they just won't stop, will they? a 2.5 year sword hanging over the heads of those fleeing war or persecution - not knowing if the gov will decide to deport you because your home country is declared 'safe' www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Donald Trump is planning to use his attack on Iran to justify a power grab over voting in the 2026 midterms. The fact that the attack violates the Constitution won’t stop him from trying. It is our job to expose this plot and ensure that it does not succeed. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...

This is just idiotic. Think of how many Taliban leaders we killed in Afghanistan. Guess who still runs Afghanistan?

Trump and Republicans keep getting asked what’s next in Iran. Their answers are “hopefully” this or “we hope” that.  Hope is not a strategy, and a plan built on hope alone is how we end up in decades-long wars that cost thousands of American lives.

Even if this was a reasonable policy - which it isn’t - are you really going to trust the Americans only to fly defensive missions from the bases? What are they going to say? ‘Scout’s honor?’

When a right-leaning magazine from another country that is primarily concerned with Line Go Up capitalism tries to tell you who the de facto leader of your party is, don’t listen.

Two babies. The Israeli strike on the Gandhi Hospital in Tehran killed two babies. (I’m not going to share the images, but I saw them.)

Israel targeted a Tehran hospital. Will we be told the IRGC has a vast underground compound beneath it? We’ll see.

Americans are often shocked when I tell them that according to every single Arab Barometer poll issued, which tracks opinion across almost all of the Arab majority states, the US is consistently listed as the number one threat and impediment to regional stability.

BBC on J D Vance

Epstein is Trump’s *signature scandal* because it embodies every vile characteristic of Trump’s grifting personality…his utter lack of morals & ethics, his sexually predatory nature (on display in so many of his public appearances & pressers 😒), and his over-arching need for self-gratification.

I was on the verge of tears fr

Don’t even get me started…

Florida cuts 16,000 from from receiving HIV medication through the states AIDS Drug Assistance Program. This comes by lowering the income cutoff to access the prgram to only those making less than $20,345 per year Health officials say the adjustments will prevent a shortfall of $120 million

NEW TRUMP VIDEO On Iran: “Combat operations will continue until all of our objectives are achieved. We have very strong objectives.” [Yes, he really said that.] On the deaths of US service members: “Sadly there will likely be more…that’s the way it is.” [Yes, he really said that.]

This is a stunning result. Americans hate this war. 8 out of 10 of us. That means half or more of Trump’s most loyal base.

They went to war with Iran (which nobody in America was asking for) so they could conjure an excuse to allow ICE to keep murdering Americans and teargassing schools here at home with impunity (which nobody in America was asking for).

CBS News under Bari Weiss becomes a non-stop cheerleader for war with Iran. But CBS News polling shows that Americans disapprove of this war.

I know maps are less popular than clickbait, but pls entertain me 🧵 We are watching two escalating conflicts at the same time: • Pakistan–Afghanistan cross-border fighting • Israel–Iran strikes, with spillover across the Gulf These events may converge into a regional displacement crisis.

It's very hard for the public to learn who is behind these accounts, but if any prosecutors did want to take up this case, it would likely be trivially easy to subpoena all the evidence they need.

More than 150 tankers have anchored in the open waters off the Strait of Hormuz. Reuters reports this, citing shipping data. According to the data, due to fears of attacks on tankers, ships have stopped, concentrating near the coasts of major oil-producing countries.

Reporters should ask the administration -- if a foreign power bombed the United States, would they expect the American people to respond by suddenly demanding the Trump administration be removed from power, or would there be a different reaction? Especially if the bombs had hit a girls' school?

It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.

Worth remembering: During the Trump v. United States oral arguments before SCOTUS, Justice Sotomayor asked if assassinating political opponents would fall within the “official acts” for which a POTUS could receive immunity. Trump’s attorney responded that it would “depend on the hypothetical.”

If America still had the rule of law, this would be the easiest prosecution ever, but we all know absolutely nothing will happen.

These assholes are really gonna go with “war is peace, actually.”

“.. One of the challenges is you can deplete these [munitions] really quickly,” said Kelly Grieco, a senior fellow at the Stimson Center .. “We’re using them faster than we can replace them.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/world/middle...

That Trump II is killing its way through every level of Iran's leadership until the unqualified recent hires are in charge is consistent with the notion that hegemons always try to export their ideal regime type.

There were def people in Washington who advised Trump not to do this, basically saying, "hes 90, hes had cancer twice, hes going to die soon anyway. Dont make him a martyr for the cause". He didnt listen.

JD Vance’s close friend 👇

Farage/Yusuf policy is to respect the settled status of Europeans in UK, but to strip it from non-Europeans from the Commonwealth! I think the government should look at a programme of expedited citizenship for the 400-600k permanent residents who Reform/Restore are now threatening to deport.

"No more is the image of America one of strong, yet benevolent peacekeeper... Around the globe, our friends mistrust us, our word is disputed, our intentions are questioned. Instead of reasoning with those with whom we disagree, we demand obedience or threaten recrimination"

I just want to say, very clearly, I am pleased the Greens printed election leaflets in Urdu. Unlike the Mail, I think democracy benefits when voters are well informed.

"Before the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the consensus among Western military analysts was that it would be a cakewalk." War continues to defy expectations. Re-upping for no reason:

China's state-run news agency 🇨🇳 calling the attack a "brazen aggression against a sovereign nation" & "power politics and hegemony" stating Washington's use of military coercion was a "flagrant violation" of the purposes and principles of the U.N. Charter

How Trump is taking control over CNN. It's terrible to watch how MAGA is gradually defeating the free press.

JUST IN: 🇮🇷🇮🇱 1 civilian killed, 20+ civilians wounded in Iranian ballistic missile strike on Tel Aviv, Israel.

Reportedly, Iran has closed the Strait of Hormuz, halting oil tanker traffic through a route carrying nearly one-fifth of global oil and gas supplies and raising fears of major energy price spikes. 1/2

It would be cool to have a legislature that acted to defend its own constitutional prerogatives and, maybe as a treat, the interests of the people it represents too.

Absolutely horrifying. More details here: www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/...

In case you’re just waking up, the U.S. has teamed up with Israel overnight to start an illegal war of regime change, apparently on a presidential whim with no involvement of Congress, and they are already committing horrific atrocities.

This aged well. Note the author.

If this is airstrikes only, who are they supposed to surrender to, and who are the 'forces of liberation'?

Marjorie Taylor Greene unleashed on the Trump administration over its war with Iran, calling them “sick fucking liars.”

The people leading the U.S. war on Iran are a former “Fox & Friends” guest and a former “Fox & Friends” host.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the cancellation of members of the military attending some of the country’s top-ranked colleges and universities on Friday, beginning academic year 2026-27, arguing the schools are teaching the “enemy’s wicked ideologies” to servi... TAT: [Attacking Education]

You do wonder what happens if iran starts hitting refineries

Trump : we stand with the brave iranian people fighting oppression People : so iranians in the us with asylum claims will b- Trump : deported, yes