China's Foreign Ministry confirmed a Chinese citizen was killed in Tehran as a result of what it called a military conflict (just like in Ukraine). Spokesman Mao Ning expressed condolences to the family and said the Chinese embassy in Iran has been instructed to provide assistance. #Iran

Trump said the US identified candidates to take power in Iran before striking, but that those candidates were killed in the first attack. "It was so successful that it knocked out most of the candidates. It's not going to be who we thought, because they're dead," Trump told ABC's Jonathan Karl #Iran

There’s a whole lot of opinions out there today; a friendly reminder that you do not have to listen to/read them. Here’s my silly dog at the top of a mountain.

You cannot talk like this about any other minority in America. And if it was any other president’s adviser who said something like this about any other minority, it’d be the instant end of their presidency.

This

I just learned that Ayatollah Khamenei and Ayatollah Khomenei are not the same person. Here's my plan for regime change in Iran....(1/23)

My big issue with this is that while yes tbe opinion page should reflect the debate at hand, editors are way too indulgent of bad faith arguments

In phone call tonight, President Trump told me this about the death of Ayatollah Khamenei: "I got him before he got me. They tried twice. Well I got him first." That’s a reference to what US intelligence believes was a plot to kill Trump in 2024.

Genius.

I noticed that a lot of the folks doing the most ridiculous takes don't use their real name. Look, I don't use my full name exactly, but it is not so hard to find. Anyway, did a lot of blocking today, when people show you they aren't worth reading, don't read them. (1/2)

I don’t know the OP and I’m not staying on here to argue with anyone about it, but the fact that this thread has led to folks on here accusing her of supporting mass rape is both absurd and inevitable

Israel has killed not only Iran’s supreme leader, but also a bevy of senior officials. But this is unlikely to bring the war to a swift close

Even if Platner isn’t an antisemite (he absolutely is), if your judgement is so fucking bad that you REGULARLY do an antisemitic whoopsie because it has never occurred to you to just fucking look something up then you ARE NOT FIT FOR OFFICE.

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I swear these people don't have object permanence

“I am the son of the guy whose secret police force used to terrorize you, please install me or my friends, for democracy” is an amazing pitch from the shah’s son

my expectations were insanely low and even still I’m surprised how they didn’t even bother to cook up even a half-assed narrative for all of this

so the podcast that Platner went on as a guest last month and called himself a “longtime fan” of isn’t just antisemitic, it’s also full of anti-Black racism and promoted the racist and xenophobic GOP attacks on Somali immigrants in Minneapolis?

As a historian, I'd just like to remind the politicians who follow me that it is not, in fact, 2003 anymore and the current GOP war in the Middle East is not, in fact, even remotely popular. So if you're a weathervane who just tries to do what's already popular, full-throated opposition is it!

Love that Thiessen is trying to pull the same "You're either with us or you're against us" shit that ghouls like him did during the Iraq war.

Siding with the Constitution isn't siding with Iran.

Reading this, again, you get the sense that someone at Anthropic knows how the intel community misleads by using definitions of words that are different than everyone else believes. And the people at OpenAI simply don't know or don't care about that.

I don't understand this coordinated response of Dems going, "Trump owes us an explanation for attacking Iran!" Do they expect his failure to provide one will produce a politically advantageous gotcha? Come on. Just say the war is stupid, wasteful and it should cease. Stop being weak and terrible.

The chairman of the Board of Peace bombed the Gandhi hospital. Process that.

According to WaPo, Saudi Crown Prince MBS, who has invested in excess of $3 bn in Trump family businesses, made multiple private phone calls to Trump over the past month advocating a US attack on Iran, despite his public support for a diplomatic solution. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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.

10/7/16: WikiLeaks releases John Podesta’s hacked emails 10/8/16: Jeffrey Epstein forwards a link to the drop to Peter Thiel Associates of MAGA3X—created by Thiel ally Jeff Giesea—later spread false claims that the emails contain coded proof of Dems engaging in pedophilia h/t Peter Jukes 1/

It’s really crazy how much I’ve been agreeing with Rep. Thomas Massie recently!

Really can't be left unacknowledged that every single state in the region that houses US military personnel, except for maybe two, do so against the will of the supermajority of their own public's opinion but it does not matter because most of these states are US backed dictatorships.

Draft Trump supporters, enablers, and sycophants first! Actions have consequences.

To all the protesters Supporting the war Find a recruiter Sign up for sure If you love Trump And his Whore Please go fight I’ll open the door Im a veteran Don’t want to see death anymore War kills Usually the poor Im not fighting Til they come to our shore Fuck You Trump Send Barron For a tour

DRAFT MAGA FIRST!! It's that simple. Let them die for Trump!

I really don't know why other teams aren't pulling out. When Hitler hosted the Olympics, it was 1936 - two years before he annexed the Sudetenland and three years before he invaded Poland. Trump is already attacking sovereign nations at will & rounding up people in concentration camps. Stay home.

“A US-Israeli strike on an elementary school in Minab reportedly killed at least 165 - mostly young girls who were only trying to learn.” Read here by @fbhutto.bsky.social: zeteo.com/p/gaza-iran-...

I have never seen a politician more directly copy this speech in my life

I will venmo any reporter $2,000 to give trump a map of the middle east and ask him to identify iran

Iran has a great many Mandelas and Walesas. Most of them are in a prison that Israel bombed back in July.

Blowing things up, kidnapping and killing foreign leaders, is good because it's Doing. Considering the consequences of Doing would be Thinking, which is weak and woke

This is a bombshell: "the Pentagon wanted the company to allow for the collection and analysis of unclassified, commercial bulk data on Americans, such as geolocation and web browsing data" This kind of agenda echoes the defunded Total Information Awareness effort, post-9/11

I think you can worry about American Islamophobia without minimizing American antisemitism. People literally shoot up synagogues in this country, it’s not an imaginary problem or a matter of microaggressions against bourgeois knowledge workers, which is how I see fellow leftists describing it

it went out later than usual, because I just finished up revisions to the cartoon I finished Friday evening, because there's this new development in the news that you may have heard about. I love the trump era, which allows me to achieve my dream of working seven days a week.

It's been wild to watch as some ostensibly liberal people like Debra Messing have just had their brains fried by algorithms since October 7, 2023, and are now indistinguishable from the most hardcore MAGA supporters.

The US is targeting Iranian territory w/ long-range surface-to-surface ballistic missiles & other precision weapons as part of coordinated strikes w/ Israel. According to AP, strikes have been reported in 24 of Iran’s 31 provinces — hitting areas near Tehran, Tabriz, Isfahan, Shiraz and multiple...

Platner sat for lengthy interview with antisemitic conspiracy theorist, said he was ‘longtime fan’ of his show - www.yahoo.com/news/article... (by Jewish Insider) via @yahoonews.com

Trump's attack on Iran was not America First.  Trump was played by Israeli PM Netanyahu and the Saudi Crown Prince. Putting Americans at risk to advance their personal ambitions is a complete betrayal of the American people.  www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Just for the official record -- USA: 5500+ nukes Israel: 300+ nukes Iran: Zero

The two options at this point are (1) that Platner is a straight up Nazi, (2) he is the dumbest motherfucker in the state of Maine, the second is arguably better in some abstract sense but both are disqualifying

Twitter? "Drowning in Disinformation?" Say it ain't so, Mindless Führer.

Trump launched an attack and sent American kids to war, and then attended a glitzy fundraiser at his country club. This is the life of the Epstein class. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u...

Three Americans dead and Trump’s UN Ambassador waves it off with some bullshit jingoism. From the people who wailed about Benghazi for a decade. Absolute soulless ghouls.