So let me get this straight ... 1. US bombs Iran 2. Oil price goes up a bit, benefitting Russia's petrostate 3. Russia gives Iran targeting info 4. Oil price shoots WAY up 5. US unsanctions Russian oil

Question: If the US offers reinsurance to people shipping on the Persian Gulf, who will pay for it if Iran hits a ship or tanker? I don't know, but it sounds like maybe the US taxpayers will. www.cnbc.com/2026/03/06/t...

It should be a much bigger story that oil prices surged because of Trump’s illegal war in Iran, forcing the White House to ease sanctions on Russian oil—only for Russia to take that money and help Iran target American troops.

No-one is happy about the jobs report.

Finally someone mentions the upcoming refugee problem that I raised here about a week ago - this should’ve been considered BEFORE the strike. Merz:

❗️Russia is giving Iran information to attack US forces in the Middle East - Washington Post, citing three officials. Since Saturday, Russia has provided Iran with locations of America's military assets, including warships and aircraft, sources told WP.

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“You’re a U.S. senator!” Bernie stops Noem’s replacement from literally trying to fight someone👇🏽 This should go great

The stock market is tanking, gas prices are spiking, the DHS Secretary was just fired after lying under oath to Congress, prices keep going up, Trump refuses to refund tariffs despite a SCOTUS decision, and we are in another war in the Middle East. When does the winning start?

Trump's talent pool

same guy lmao

Just thinking about what we could do with a billion dollars a day that doesn’t include bombing people.

Now that Republicans have done Trump's bidding by blocking limits on his war powers, remember that in doing this, they are also relieving *themselves* of the obligation to vote on the enormously consequential decision of whether to go to war. Craven abdication. newrepublic.com/article/2072...

AOC: This is about actual crimes happening in front of us. This is about shredding the Constitution and plunging us into war. This is about taking crypto money and money laundering… So if you’re asking me if I’d support impeachment, I do

GOP Rep Massie: "Some told us this war was about nuclear weapons. But 6 months ago, we were assured our last strike on Iran decimated their nuclear program...I think the most candid answer came from the secretary of state, who told the press that Israel forced our hand and dragged us into this war

Tax cuts for corporations. Healthcare benefits cuts. Tariffs (tax increases for regular people). And now, a war that is going to cost $1B a day. And in the meantime, gas and natural gas prices are going to be a HUGE tax on regular Americans that is directly attributable to this war of choice.

if not war then why war shaped

One hundred and sixty-five children were killed in a U.S.-Israeli strike on their elementary school. This is an aerial image of the graves being prepared for their bodies. I defy anyone to justify this.

Rubio’s State Department had all this time to prepare but failed to consider what the impact would be. Just like what happened with USAID when they gutted it overnight. Criminal incompetence.

A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔

The grift that keeps on grifting.

Donald Trump vowed he would not start a war. But he has unleashed U.S. military power on seven nations in his first year back in the White House.

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MS NOW EXCLUSIVE: Diplomats claim Trump’s special envoy undermined Iran talks www.ms.now/news/exclusi...

Priorities.

This is what happens when the Secretary of HHS is a guy who snorts cocaine off of a toilet seat

Everything every GOP administration does is demonstrably ANTI-LIFE. The only things that seem to drive GOP/MAGA policy decisions are greed and cruelty. They’ve become a genocidal death cult, and they must be destroyed, for the good of all humanity, and the sake of all life on Earth.

BREAKING: The UN's nuclear watchdog chief, Rafael Grossi, says inspectors have not found evidence of a coordinated Iranian program to build nuclear weapons, despite Israeli and US claims. LIVE updates: aje.news/dp8prb

There you have it. "This is President Trump's War." Own it all, Republicans.

Marjorie Taylor Greene: “We need to have a serious conversation about what the fuck is happening to this country, and who in the hell are these decisions being made for, and who is making these decisions.”

The Speaker of the House defending the outsourcing of the decision to go to war not just to the executive branch but to a foreign government. Article I Crisis on steroids.

The Pentagon is hanging the White House out to dry. www.cnn.com/world/live-n...

It seems to me we can draw a (relatively) straight line from Trump abandoning the Iran nuclear deal nine years ago to Trump launching a war in Iran.

No one has any idea what this war with Iran is about. What are Trump’s objectives? They don’t have nukes and aren’t close to having them. Trump isn’t clear why he’s bombing Iranians and getting US troops killed. He thinks attacks make him look strong. But we had a nuclear treaty and he tore it up

Ah, that's why he couldn't waste a moment clearing it with Congress. The threat was nearly here, almost, maybe!

Such a gentle howl ❤️ TT: Meko the Malamute

A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else. We mustn’t let this war do so.

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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

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Struck a deal to contain Iran's nuclear program forever. Didn't go to war in Iran. DID IT ALL IN A TAN SUIT.

It is reported that a Shahed drone has struck a few stories higher than the person filming in the capital of Bahrain.

That's the plan, and to the extent the Trump admin even wanted to help (they don't), they illegally dismantled the mechanisms for it, like USAID. It would've served our strategic interests greatly for millions of Iranians to see boxes and crates of vital supplies with U.S. flags on them. Oh well.

The idea of a legislative body representing the population having the ability to check the ultimate power of a country’s leader sounds really neat. Someone should write that down.

Trump hasn't gone to Congress for authorization to attack Iran. He hasn't explained the necessity or urgency of preemptive action by us. I'd very much like to see regime change in Iran, but Trump hasn't explained how we intend to help achieve that goal. Congress: Just say No.