The reason we have “stupid rules of engagement” is to make sure we don’t bomb elementary schools.

My current enemies are not in Iran, they’re in the Epstein Files.

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If it’s true that the United States bombed an elementary school and killed scores of children it is an unfathomable crime. I have never been more disgusted to be an American.

Jacobs: The Trump administration doesn’t give a shit about the Iranian people… They are literally deporting people back to Iran who fled the brutal Iranian regime. He doesn’t care about human rights anywhere — not here in the United States, not in Iran, not anywhere else.

MASSIE: “Iran is not Venezuela. The Ayatollah was not a president. He was a religious leader… 🇺🇸 & 🇮🇱 turned him into a martyr, expended billions, 6 🇺🇸 families must now lay to rest their sons & daughters. And for what? This administration can't even give us a straight answer.”

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Yesterday, the White House used Call of Duty frames in their Iran war hype video. They are hyping the prospect of war like an exciting video game. Yes, I know this administration has no bottom. No class, no integrity, no honor, no decency. Yet they never cease to shock me.

The fuck kind of answer is this

In a new TIME interview, Trump casually acknowledged Americans could face retaliatory attacks at home due to his escalating war with Iran. “I guess,” he said when asked about the risk, adding: “When you go to war, some people will die.” time.com/7382697/trum...

Apparently, Andrew Tate has some dumb point to prove and tried to cross into Dubai, and is now being held in a detention center by Saudi Arabia. If they could keep him right where he is forever, that’d be a win for humanity that we all really need right now.

Why is this man President?

Trump was just asked if Americans should be worried about retaliatory attacks by Iran within the United States: “I guess… Like I said, some people will die.”

Thou shalt arrest Kristi Noem and put her in a detention center indefinitely so she can “await processing.”

Republican U.S. Sen. Steve Daines of Montana dropped his bid for a third term on Wednesday in a surprise withdrawal just minutes before a filing deadline for candidates. https://to.pbs.org/4l9aUS6

If @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social cannot whip the vote to reclaim the rightful, constitutional authority of Congress from Trump, why is he still the leader?

In Dallas and Williamson counties, voters faced long lines, extended wait times and confusion about voting location

Trump fired Kristi Noem. It wasn't because her immigration agents murdered American citizens. Or the repeated violations of due process. Or even her mismanagement of FEMA. No, Noem was fired because she upstaged Trump. He wants to be on Mt. Rushmore, after all. This is the mind of our president.

This was a direct result of her disastrous hearing yesterday, where she should’ve been arrested on the spot for fraud and embezzlement. Her fatal mistake was tying Trump to her scams. She claimed Trump had approved her $200M ad campaign. He was reportedly furious about it.

It’s official. Kristi Noem is out as DHS boss. Markwayne RickyBobby Mullen is in.

Bye Kristi 👋🏽

Kristi Noem has used $200M+ in taxpayer funds to pay firms with close ties to her top aides to make anti-immigrant PSAs. Her luxury jets will cost taxpayers nearly $300M. Trump's lackeys rail against "government waste," but are happy to pilfer taxpayer funds for themselves.

I’ve spent years, decades, obsessing over the Bush Administration’s Iraq WMD lies, writing about them, debunking them. I can think of no lie about Iraq WMDs told by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al that comes even close to the enormity and absurdity of this lie from Donald Trump.

Great read from @aselrod.bsky.social on Trump lingering lovingly over descriptions of violence and death. "This obsession with the body—and particularly with the body as the subject of serious injury, even death—is a hallmark of right-wing politics in America." The lifeblood of MAGA is sadism.

New on MS NOW: The war with Iran is costing the U.S. an estimated $1 billion a day, according to two congressional sources with knowledge of the matter. Based on that estimate, the U.S. has spent at least $5 billion on the war since it began on Feb. 28.

So far the war in Iran has cost an estimated $5.5 billion. That's roughly $1 billion per day. $41,666,667 per hour. $11,574 per second. People do not want this. They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.

The Pentagon is spending $1,000,000,000/day to distract you from Donald Trump's alleged pedophilia.

$1.5T defense budget $170B on ICE & Border Patrol $100B on tax cuts for the 1% $20B from Treasury for Argentina $1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet $300M on Kristi Noem's jets $100M+ for Trump to golf $75k+ for Kash Patel's Olympic trip And now $50B in emergency funding for war in Iran? Priorities.

Breaking: WASHINGTON (AP) - More than 20 states sue over new global tariffs Trump imposed after Supreme Court loss.

Remember this when Donald Trump tells you we can’t afford health care.

Markwayne Mullin looks to be the only currently serving senator without at least a bachelor's degree.

And that’s how congressional hearings are supposed to work. Hopefully there will be some fraud charges to go with it. But way to shit your pants and change your shirt, Trump.

Good news that the execrable Kristi Noem has been fired, but Trump should really be firing Stephen Miller, the primary engineer of the vile ethnic reengineering agenda and murderously violent civic tensions that are sucking all of them into a bottomless political sinkhole, Trump included.

Reminder that the US military budget is larger than the military spending of the next nine largest countries combined. Over half goes to private defense contractors. This is the military-industrial complex Eisenhower warned of — on steroids.

NOEM: I would disagree with the judge CROCKETT: I'm sure you would, but can you tell me whether or not you have a law degree? NOEM: A what? CROCKETT: A law degree NOEM: No I do no- CROCKETT: Okay

AOC: We already have multiple American service members who are dead for an illegal action that the president has pursued with no plan out. They don’t know why they got into this war. They’re talking about a hundred different reasons, and they don’t know how they’re getting out.

This is how you write a goddamn headline.

I am now in my 55th year of being an imminent millionaire.

This is a man way in over his head.

NOPE

It is so damning of US news media that so many outlets refuse to just straight up say that Senator Tim Sheehy assaulted an activist. He did not "help" Capitol police. They did not need his help. He wanted to assault the guy and did. He should resign.

Pete Hegseth is one Iran update away from showing up smeared in fake blood, war paint and holding up plastic skulls.

This is what @MarshaBlackburn thinks Iranians should be grateful for — as @SenatorHagerty just joined her to vote for Trump and Bibi’s war. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

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

“Missing files Aren’t in Iran”

James Talarico tonight: "It doesn't matter what happens in this Republican runoff. We already know who we're running against: The billionaire mega-donors and their corrupt political system. Not any one politician ... We are running against the broken system and the powerful people who broke it."

We identified 12 shootings by federal agents that led to the deaths or injuries of citizens & immigrants since Sept. Nearly every time, the Trump admin blamed the injured and dead. Experts say this apparent lack of accountability demands that local authorities step up to investigate federal agents.

Americans in the Middle East calling the U.S. State Department hotline after Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Americans to contact it were hearing an automated message saying, “Please do not rely on the U.S. government for assisted departure or evacuation at this time.”

I don’t want to hear MAGA whining about being “betrayed.” I’m out of empathy. The real betrayal happened when they voted for Donald Trump after Jan. 6. What we’re seeing now isn’t about doing what’s right. It’s shock that they thought the damage would hit everyone else, not them