This is from the independent news which I do believe it will go down in history as a failure

Breaking News: The State Department is urging all Americans to “DEPART NOW DUE TO SERIOUS SAFETY RISKS” more than a dozen middle eastern countries. Bahrain Egypt Iran Iraq Israel The West Bank and Gaza Jordan Kuwait Lebanon Oman Qatar Saudi Arabia Syria United Arab Emirates Yemen

whoa -- this is new. Trump has a significant rash-like injury on his neck today in addition to his disfigured hand (Saul Loeb/Getty)

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🧵 Following the death of Khamenei, high-ranking cleric Alireza Arafi has been appointed to Iran’s 3-member interim leadership council. A polyglot and tech-focused hardliner, Arafi represents ideological continuity and a "steady hand" for the regime. Arafi is a longtime protégé of Khamenei.

60 Minutes has found a dedicated Trump supporter in the person of Reza Pahlavi, son of the former shah of Iran, who lives in exile in the US and is positioning himself to take over the Iranian government at this time. It's an important interview and suggests he and Trump may be working together.

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Oh so this feeling is what I’ve previously only read about in books called “murderous rage”. Now I get it.

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Reports indicate at least 100 children have already been killed in strikes on schools. That is unconscionable. Three U.S. service members are dead as a result of this entirely preventable war of choice. The blood of these service members, these children, and every civilian rests in Trump’s hands.

Well when you put it THAT way.

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It's easy for Trump and his staff to speak so flippantly about war. None of them ever fought in one. The closest any of them got was midnight sessions of Call of Duty and other war games. Trump Says He's Weighing Several ‘Off Ramps’ From Iran Strike: ‘I Can Go Long’ www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

Democrats in Congress led the charge to release the Epstein files. Now, prominent party power brokers and allies are paying a price as a result of information in the documents.

This is how Trump’s ambassador to the UN responded to news that three U.S. service members were killed and multiple others injured

WTAF is wrong with these people? I'm just so disgusted with the whole republican party #USDemocracy www.wdbj7.com/2026/02/18/m...

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The felon is WEAK and was MANIPULATED.

"The attack came despite US intelligence assessments that Iran was unlikely to pose an immediate threat to the US mainland within the next decade." So why do it? "A weeks-long lobbying effort by Israel and Saudi Arabia..." Ah. Not just weak, but cheap, too. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Billionaires start the wars. Our kids bleed for them. It won’t be Trump’s children dying in a regional firestorm in the Middle East. It will be working‑class & poor families’ kids, sent into a war of choice, a war of vanity, an illegal war. Call your MOCs. Tell them: block this war, demand a vote.

How is everyone feeling today? I have hated this man forever and can’t hate him and his supporters more than I do at this moment. I am angry and sad that people voted this worst person in office to lead our nation. #TrumpWar

I guess now they realize nobody cares about them . You destroy Gaza and then when it happens to you cry about it.

My newsletter tomorrow will explain how Donald Trump is plotting to use his attacks on Iran and Venezuela to justify an unconstitutional power grab over voting in the 2026 midterms. Subscribe to Democracy Docket now to receive. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

Former Vice President Kamala Harris with some choice words for Trump about getting us into another forever war. Congress needs to get back to Washington and vote to curb this tyrants appetite for war, Americans don’t want this shit.💥🔥💥

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei died in the initial strikes carried out by the U.S. and Israel on February 28, 2026.

BREAKING: Three U.S. service members were killed and five were seriously wounded as part of Operation Epic Fury, U.S. Central Command says.

The US said the first Americans have been killed in the war with Iran that’s spread to several countries in the Middle East, while threatening to upend energy markets.

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Belgium seizes suspected Russian shadow fleet tanker reut.rs/4shWcun

We see each action as a one off. The PM does not have that luxury. It appears the Arab states in the Middle East are also in support of this action. I am also deeply disappointed in the UN for letting this situation and others go unanswered. I don't support this action. I do however support my PM.

Iranian Cabinet warns that this "great crime will never go unanswered" after Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in a major attack by Israel and the United States.

During the U.S.-Israeli attack in Iran on Saturday, dozens of people, most of them likely children, were killed when a strike hit a girls’ elementary school in Minab and a high school in Tehran, according to Iranian health officials, state media and a human rights group. trib.al/y3MsQLC

Trump’s SOTU revealed the only thing Suzanne Collins got wrong when she wrote The Hunger Games: the idea that the game show is a function of the government rather than the WAY the government functions. You can find this & more in this week’s “Elie v. US.” https://bit.ly/3MZ2ccu

After the United States and Israel launched a regime change operation against Iran on Saturday morning, footage emerging on social media and geolocated by CNN offered a window into its impacts. https://cnn.it/4u1JhhT

OpenAI secured a Pentagon deal, sparking backlash and shifting some users' loyalties to Anthropic's rival Claude chatbot.

✈️❗️ Video from Dubai airport after drone attack

Trump may have just launched the kind of Middle Eastern forever war he has long condemned in his predecessors (via Bloomberg Opinion)