Republicans to Democrats: We started a war so now you have to agree to additional DHS funding without ICE reforms.

There’s now a miles-long queue of oil tankers and cargo ships in the Strait of Hormuz.

Kaine: "Donald Trump abandoned diplomacy and now our service members are dying as a result. Iran has shown it will reach a deal to block its nuclear path. Donald Trump prefers war and he doesn't want to come to Congress to ask for permission."

KAINE: To wage offensive war, the framers of the Constitution were absolutely plain that you gotta come to Congress KERNEN: But it's almost a moot point KAINE: Let me just underline the fact that I made an argument about the Constitution and you said it's a 'moot point.' I don't believe that

I love this woman.

On the 6 US service members who were killed: “Prior to the attack, there were discussions on the ground about whether the tactical ops center should not be used, as it concentrated too many troops in a location that wasn’t defensible.” www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-st...

Also, and seriously have these people never heard of history, one of the biggest political scandals of the mid-80s concerned Reagan officials **trafficking arms to Iran** COME ON. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2...

The six U.S. service members confirmed dead in the U.S.-Iran war were killed while inside a triple-wide trailer that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had described as “fortified.”

I mean what the fuck. Our taxpayer dollars funded Iran, and this was THE biggest political scandal of that decade. We were NOT at war with them. We TRAFFICKED ARMS to them. COME ON. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2...

I don't know why this has done it this morning, but: The claim from MAGA reps that we have been "at war with Iran for 47 years" when a huge swath of Reagan's administration was convicted at trial or pled guilty to selling arms to Iran THROUGH ISRAEL for six years in the 80s is 🤯.

Al Jazeera investigation raises questions over deadliest single attack of war that killed 165 schoolgirls and staff.

Uh-oh

So Israel dictates US policy. Was THAT part of the 2024 campaign? I may have missed it .

I can’t stand all this winning.

Trump is now at the point Putin was 4 years ago when he started to realize his grand plan to defeat Ukraine wasn’t going to be a 72 hour operation.

FYI Markwayne Mullin is not A war veteran and never served

American Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, tells Americans in Israel that despite his bloviating religious nonsense and how studly his Orange Overlord is, they can’t help them.

Wow. The U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem tells Americans they’re on their own.

I was alive during the Carter administration, and I remember Reagan getting the hostages released right on time for his election and declaring victory over Iran. The GOP is watching the war they started spinning wildly out of control, and this transparent propaganda is fooling NO ONE.

Anyone else wondering why Israel has more say in when we go to war than Congress?

My god. This absolutely demented & deranged maniac just called brave Zelenskyy “P.T. BARNUM”. Absolutely crazy since Trump himself is the most P.T. Barnum-esque conman carnival barker leader in the history of the world!!! INSANE & despicable. Plus the post is just crazy. WTAF.

Trump administration: “Please sprint in an orderly fashion to the nearest Delta gate like it’s the Hunger Games with luggage.”

Analysts say the US has already used up about one-quarter of its missile interceptors, crucial for a prolonged assault.

If this is “precautionary,” I’d hate to see “urgent.”

They’re now speaking about it openly.

I'm making this short story, which I wrote last year, free to read for the next 24 hours (but only telling people on Bluesky about it): www.tom-cox.com/brad-francis...

"From Gaza to Iran, Children Have Always Been Sacrificed by Western Imperial Aims" A US-Israeli strike on an elementary school in Minab reportedly killed at least 165 – mostly young girls who were only trying to learn, writes Fatima Bhutto for Zeteo:

Europe’s gas price is up 33% today, UK up 30%.

Please please please......

Embattled FBI Director Kash Patel’s revenge-fueled firing spree resulted in several key specialists in the threat posed by Iran losing their jobs—just days before Donald Trump’s latest war.

Holy shit.

Interceptors are expensive and slow to produce, especially when compared with the relative speed of cheap ballistic missiles and drones. This quote nails it: “They can chuck garbage at us for substantially longer than we can chuck Lamborghinis at them.”

Let’s talk Iranian war. You’ve probably seen a lot of hand-wringing over missile interceptor quantities. Are we running out? Can we fight for years? As usual, the answer is somewhere in the middle. Bottom line up front: interceptors are a finite resource. That’s a fact.

Pete Hegseth: “War is hell and always will be.” Tommy Tuberville: “It’s war, it’s gonna git worse before it gets better.” Markwayne Mullin: “War is ugly.” Mike Johnson asked why War Powers Act is being ignored: “It’s not a war because it’s defensive in nature and design.”

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It’s times like these when we can be grateful as a nation that some our most highly trained FBI counterterrorism experts are detailed to do private security for Kash Patel’s girlfriend as she pursues a career as a UFC pre-fight national anthem singer.

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SENATOR @gallego.senate.gov : “We’re all paying for this. We’re cutting Medicaid to pay for those bombs… They’re following Netanyahu— who literally just told us he’s been trying to do this for 47 years. I know. I suffered the first attempt at this in 2005.”

Why are we agreeing with Matt Walsh what is happening

Even Matt Walsh isn’t buying it

Well, we did it because of the protesters Nukes I mean they’re building an ICBM We did it defensively because Iran was going to attack us I mean Israel was gonna do it anyway so we did it too They were gonna attack us because Israel was gonna attack them so we attacked them

Bob Dylan said when you ain’t got nothing you got nothing to lose.

And just how was Netanyahu able to get Trump on board? ... He made it clear that he'd release the Epstein files.

Republicans spent 17 months on Benghazi because 4 Americans were killed. It’s been 3 days and Trump’s illegal Iran attack has already gotten 6 American soldiers killed. He promises more will die soon. And Republicans don’t care.

BREAKING: Saudi defence ministry says US embassy struck by two drones So, how's it going, war hawks? You ready to enlist?

Has anyone asked Cy Vance or the Manhattan DA's office what happened to their investigation of Leon Black? Has anyone asked former SDNY prosecutors about it? Black lent money to Kushner and went to Russia with Trump and Matt Calamari. Might be kind of important.

So far we’ve heard 12 different primary reasons for the war, 7 different main objectives, and 5 different exit strategies.

The US Embassy in Riyadh seems to have taken a direct hit. No idea on casualties, but it looks bad. Hope it was evacuated.

6 American service members killed, but it's decorations, dinners and drapes on Trump's mind today.

A fraud: