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"The death toll in the lawless U.S. campaign against alleged drug-smuggling boats rose to at least 159 on Thursday after a strike in the eastern Pacific killed two people and left one survivor, who was turned over to the Costa Rican Coast Guard, according to the Pentagon. It was the 46th such strike on the high seas."
~ David Kurtz
#Trump #Hegseth #violence #WhiteChristianNationalism
/7
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Trump DOJ Keeps Charging First and Investigating Later
INSIDE: Kilmar Abrego Garcia ... Robert Mueller ... Elon MuskDavid Kurtz (Morning Memo)
Kurtz notes — and this is not beside the point of this thread:
"Elon Musk gave a 💯 to a tweet on his X platform that concluded: 'White solidarity is the only way to survive.'"
#Trump #Hegseth #ElonMusk #violence #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteSupremacy
/8
"He’s about to wind down and exit because he doesn’t give a damn about anything except maintaining his wealth and power — and the war is now costing him both.
It’s hurting his financial backers in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar — whose wealth has been seriously diminished by the war and whose vulnerability has been exposed."
~ Robert Reich
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #StraitofHormuz #economy #oil #gas #ApprovalRating
/26
"The Iran conflict has been sold to the public as a story with a clear objective, to stop their nuclear program, punish its proxies, restore deterrence, and then, by magic, stability reigns. But when you dig deeper, you don’t find a coherent plan; you find a chaotic conflict with no endgame. There is no path toward resolution, but rather an endless catastrophe."
~ Mark Mansour
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #StraitofHormuz #lies #disinformation #propaganda
/25
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What Are The Endgames For The Iran “War”?
all are fraught with grave problemsMark Mansour (America’s Fractured Politics)
"Simmons is the father of 28-year-old Master Sergeant Tyler Simmons, who was among the six crew members killed last week when their refueling plane crashed in Iraq."
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #StraitofHormuz #lies #disinformation #propaganda
/24
"The father of a dead U.S. serviceman has denied claims by Pete Hegseth that he told the Defense Secretary to 'not stop until the job is done' – referring to the war in Iran.
'No, I didn’t say anything along those lines,' Charles Simmons told NBC News in an interview Thursday, recalling his encounter with Hegseth at the Dover Air Force Base in Delaware."
~ Mike Bedigan
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #StraitofHormuz #lies #disinformation #propaganda
/23
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Father of dead serviceman says he never told Hegseth to ‘finish the job’ in Iran: report
‘No, I didn’t say anything along those lines,’ Charles Simmons told NBC News in an interview ThursdayMike Bedigan (The Independent)
"People are still trying to pretend there's some sophisticated plan here."
~ Ron Filipkowski quoting Gregg Carlstrom
#Trump #Iran #war #StraitofHormuz
/22
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This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 333
… Trump made another disgusting post celebrating the death of former FBI Director Robert Mueller: “Robert Mueller just died.Ron Filipkowski (Meidas+)
"All the madman posturing in the world can’t change this simple fact: Iran knows how badly Trump needs to get the oil-price situation under control. Again and again, Trump has signaled he will let other foreign-policy objectives fall by the wayside to address this major domestic concern."
~ Andrew Egger
#Trump #Iran #war #StraitofHormuz
/21
thebulwark.com/p/better-to-tac…
Better to TACO Than Not to TACO
Trump chickened out again . . . for now.William Kristol (The Bulwark)
"Anyone who speaks casually about the death and destruction and madness of war is a despicable monster."
#Trump #Iran #war #StraitofHormuz #KhargIsland #oil #gas #Marines #troops
/20
The Washington Post is taking things seriously tonight. Here is their headline:
“Trump threats, U.S. troop build-up raise specter of battle for Hormuz.”
It’s not boots on the ground. It’s blood on the ground. At the whim of one man, the blood of thousands has already been spilled. No matter who it belongs to, all blood is precious."
~ Lucian K. Truscott
#Trump #Iran #war #StraitofHormuz #KhargIsland #oil #gas #Marines #troops
/19
"Some estimates, the first two sources tell us, are easily in the dozens for an initial phase of occupation, with numbers likely to rise sharply if President Trump wished to hold the island for an extended duration.
Some of the internal Kharg analysis has been shared directly with Trump in recent weeks, sources stress."
#Trump #Iran #war #StraitofHormuz #KhargIsland #oil #gas #Marines #troops
/18
"In multiple scenarios, if Donald Trump were to invade and try to occupy Kharg Island for an extended period of time, American casualties would very likely be 'considerable,' one of the people familiar with the matter says."
~ Asawin Suebsaeng and Andrew Perez
#Trump #Iran #war #StraitofHormuz #KhargIsland #oil #gas #Marines #troops
/17
zeteo.com/p/the-kharg-island-b…
First Draft: 🇮🇷 The Kharg Island Bloodbath?
If Trump carries out his decades-long violent fantasy, his team expects ‘considerable’ US casualties. Plus, the clock is ticking on the US president's threat to commit war crimes in Iran.Asawin Suebsaeng (Zeteo)
"At least 2,200 troops of the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit have departed from Camp Pendleton aboard the USS Boxer, an amphibious assault ship."
~ Marcie Jones
#Trump #Iran #war #StraitofHormuz #KhargIsland #oil #gas #Marines #troops
/16
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Mullah Said There'd Be Days Like This. Tabs: Mon. March 23, 2026
News and things to read and watch! Iran, Trump, Jeffrey EpsteinMarcie Jones (Wonkette)
"Donald Trump is backing down from striking Iranian power plants, giving a five-day extension due to what he describes as productive talks with Iran. The problem is that Iran denies having any conversations with the White House or even through intermediaries."
~ Aaron Parnas
"Third, unlike the Iraq War (when George W. Bush urged Americans to go to the mall to shop) or Trump’s first attack on Iran, virtually every American already has felt — or will soon feel — the war’s impact. The price of oil won’t come down anytime soon."
"Several factors increase the likelihood that Trump’s support will crater.
First and foremost, a decomposing president, plainly out of his depth, is on display as the public increasingly grasps that this debacle was predictable and entirely avoidable. ...
Second, even if Trump wants to, it will become obvious that he has lost control of the timeline and the ballooning cost of the war."
"As unpopular as Donald Trump’s ill-conceived, incompetently managed war was when it began, it is now more unpopular with a key segment of voters. 'Trump’s net approval of -20 for handling the situation in Iran represents a drop from last week’s poll. Then, 39% of Americans approved of how Trump was handling Iran and 52% disapproved — a net approval of -13,' The Economist/YouGov reported last week."
~ Jennifer Rubin
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #ApprovalRating
/11
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Trump’s Disastrous War Comes Home to Roost
Three big risks threaten that things will only get worseJennifer Rubin (The Contrarian)
"'And he’s not going to get a ceasefire as long as Iran is holding the gun of the strait of Hormuz against his head.'
'He tends to be naive about how things can happen,' Panetta told Smith. 'If he says it and keeps saying it, there’s always a hope that what he says will come true. But that’s what kids do. It’s not what presidents do.'”
"As former defense secretary and Central Intelligence Agency director Leon Panetta told David Smith of The Guardian, '[I]f there was an escape here for Trump, it would be to declare victory and it’s over and we’ve been able to be successful in all of our military targets. The problem is he can declare victory all he wants but, if he doesn’t get the ceasefire, he’s got nothing.'"
"The president is under enormous pressure, as his war with Iran sparked Iranian officials to close the Strait of Hormuz, through which about 20% of the world’s oil flows. This outcome was expected by previous presidents, but Trump seemed to think he could avoid it and now is stuck without an easy solution."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
"After more than two weeks of consistent bombing, new US intelligence suggests Iran’s regime is now consolidating power, unlikely to collapse, and led by a cadre more extreme than before."
~ Jon Hoffman
#Trump #Iran #war #StraitofHormuz #oil #gas #Israel #RegimeChange
/7
"Instead of imploding from within, Iran’s govt has dug in and escalated the conflict, striking blows and counterblows against military bases, cities, ships in the Persian Gulf, and against vulnerable oil and gas installations.”
#Trump #Iran #war #StraitofHormuz #oil #gas #Israel #RegimeChange
/6
"The belief that Israel and the US could help instigate widespread revolt was a foundational flaw in the preparations for a war that has spread across the Middle East."
Mark Mazzetti, Julian E. Barnes, Edward Wong and Ronen Bergman
#Trump #Iran #war #StraitofHormuz #oil #gas #Israel #RegimeChange
/5
"Why the desperation? The answer is obvious. It’s turning out not just that regime change — if that was really the goal — is hard to engineer, but also that the world is a lot more dependent on the Strait of Hormuz than Trump and co. seem to have realized."
"This weekend showed that we can expect more madness this week and beyond."
~ Steven Beschloss
americaamerica.news/p/how-abou…
How About One Dull Day?
From Iran to Mueller to ICE in our airports, I think we've had enough of Trump's reckless actions putting the country on constant edgeSteven Beschloss (America, America)
Ok y’all, #Trump is rolling his #paramilitary out to travel infrastructure, putting #ICE on the ground of some airports, with threats to roll it out to all. But, Dear Leader told his thugs to take off their masks at the #airport. You know what this means? I want every single person who has to use an airport to take pictures and add them to the ICE agent database.
Why should you do that? Because hack unto them as they hack unto us. sahanjournal.com/immigration/i…
Secondly: If you are not American, DO NOT TRAVEL HERE. It is not safe for you. It isn’t safe for us, but it’s really not safe for you. Boycott us like we are contagious.
ICE Agents unmasked: wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Main…
It’s run by Crust News: crustnews.com/
#USdanger #DHS #travel #airlines #airports #thugs
ICE isn’t just tracking your phone. The surveillance technology goes further than that.
Federal immigration agencies are using a vast surveillance network in Minnesota – from facial recognition technology to ‘stingrays’ that collect data by impersonating cell phone towers.Shubhanjana Das (Sahan Journal)
The #US Securities & Exchange Commission's top enforcement official, who left abruptly last week, had clashed with agency leaders over the direction of its #enforcement program, including the handling of cases with ties to #Trump & his family, according to 3 people familiar with the matter.
#criminal #law #SEC #felon47 #fraud #InsiderTrading #MarketManipulation
reuters.com/business/finance/u…
"It appears that members of Trump’s cabinet get chosen not despite their endorsements of violence, but because of them. Pete Hegseth was primarily known as a dapper TV host willing to defend war crimes. Markwayne Mullin is apparently still proud of challenging a witness to a fistfight at a Senate hearing; he also refuses to apologize for 'understanding' an assault on fellow senator Rand Paul."
~ Jan-Werner Müller
#Trump #Hegseth #violence #WhiteChristianNationalism
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theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Pete Hegseth is promoting a nihilist cult of death
The Trump administration is embracing violence for the sake of violenceJan-Werner Müller (The Guardian)
#SCOTUS hears arguments over “late” [postmarked on time] arriving #mail [absentee] #ballots
The #US #SupremeCourt is hearing arguments over whether #states can continue to count late-arriving mail ballots — an election [non]issue targeted by #Trump.
#law #ElectionLaw #access #equality #overseas #military #disabled #elderly #parents #students
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"As the U.S.-Israel war on Iran enters its fourth week and President Donald Trump orders the deployment of thousands of additional sailors and Marines to the Middle East, the troops he is counting on appear increasingly wary of the conflict."
~ Akbar Shahid Ahmed
#Trump #Iran #war #Israel #Marines #troops
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huffpost.com/entry/trump-troop…
'Do Not Want To Die For Israel': Doubts About Trump’s Iran Strategy Spread Among Troops
The possibility of an American ground operation in Iran is growing, but one service member familiar with troops in the region told HuffPost the prospect would be "an absolute disaster."Akbar Shahid Ahmed (HuffPost)
James Fallows responds to Trump's statement about Robert Mueller's death — "Good. I'm glad he's dead":
"Any head of state who can say this in public about a countryman, even about a political adversary, is a moral monster."
#RobertMueller #Trump #MoralMonster #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals
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One Man a Hero. One Man a Monster.
America has lost a very good man. It must find a way to control a very bad one.James Fallows (Breaking the News)
#Trump to deploy #immigration agents to #airports Monday
Trump said Sunday that #ICE agents will be sent to #US airports Monday, with border czar Tom “Bag of Cash” Homan leading the effort. The move comes as #Democrats voice strong opposition & a partial government #shutdown continues to strain airport operations.
#law #tyranny #fascism #untrained #DHS #USpol
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Patriot missile involved in #Bahrain blast likely #US-operated, analysis finds
Middlebury Institute of International Studies researchers concluded with moderate-to-high confidence that the suspect missile was likely launched from a #US Patriot battery located about 4 miles (7 km) to the southwest of the impacted neighborhood.
#TrumpsWar #kakistocracy #Iran #war #Trump #WarCrimes #RegimeChange #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #MiddleEast #economy #oil
reuters.com/investigations/pat…
#Trump says the #US will “obliterate” #Iran power plants if it doesn’t fully open the #StraitOfHormuz within 48 hours
Trump issued the ultimatum on social media while he spent the weekend at his resort in Florida.
He said he’s giving Iran exactly 48 hours to open the vital waterway or face a new round of attacks. He said the US would destroy “various POWER PLANTS, STARTING WITH THE BIGGEST ONE FIRST!”
#TrumpsWar #WarCrimes #RulesOfWar #law #geopolitics #MiddleEast
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