#Trump #idiocracy

New #US Missile Hit #Iran Sports Hall & #School, Analysis Shows

The #Pentagon used missiles #untested in combat in a deadly attack that struck #civilian sites near a #military compound on Feb 28, acc/to visual evidence examined by NYT & weapons experts.

#TrumpsWar #IranWar #war #WarCrimes #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #MiddleEast

#GiftArticle →

nytimes.com/2026/03/29/world/m…

Behind the scenes with the #Trump #admin during a month of #war

A day-by-day look behind the scenes as #KaitlanCollins covered the #WhiteHouse for #CNN in March.

youtube.com/watch?v=8dTfLfOdod…

Yes! more than 8 million people! in a country so reluctant to protest like the US this is quite a feat!
Of course it is still disappointing that not more people went to the streets.. Everyone not protesting at this stage, but who could (physically) protest, is just complicit in the crimes of this government.

#UsPol #Trump #NoKings

"More than 8 million people protested against the Trump administration at more than 3,300 No Kings events [in all 50 states] across the US and in more than a dozen countries on Saturday, according to organizers. It’s the greatest number of protests in a single day in US history, said Britt Jacovich, the deputy communications director for Move On, one of the organizers behind No Kings."

~ Lex McMenamin, Fabiola Cineas, Rachel Leingang and Amy Qin

#NoKings #Trump
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theguardian.com/us-news/2026/m…

Third No Kings protest draws 8 million worldwide to push back on Trump administration

Anti-authoritarian rallies, in all 50 states plus more than a dozen countries, were the largest number of protests in a single day in US history

^{Lex McMenamin (The Guardian)}

Invoking “faith” in #wartime, Pete #Hegseth breaks norms & worries critics

The #defense secretary is upending decades-old norms, & current & former leaders say his proselytizing violates the #Constitution & undermines troop cohesion.

#law #Trump #Republicans #FreedomOfReligion #Christianity #Evangelism #NewApostolicReformation #NAR #military #war #NationalSecurity #geopolitics
washingtonpost.com/nation/2026…

May 1st Date announced for US national strike aimed at crippling #Trump: 'No work, no school'

rawstory.com/date-announced-fo…

Date announced for national strike aimed at crippling Trump: 'No work, no school'

Ezra Levin, co-founder of Indivisible, said on Saturday that a nationwide general strike is being planned for May 1 that will be modeled on the day of action residents of Minnesota organized in January against the brutality carried out by federal imm…

^{Brad Reed, Common Dreams (Raw Story)}

Warum ist den Menschen in den #USA dieser #Trump nicht peinlich?

Ich wollte nur noch ein paar Hashes unterbringen.
#TrumpWar #TrumpCrimeFamily #UnplugTrump #stupidTrump

Preserve our Democatracy

Cats Against Fascists #nokings

#cats #Caturday #trump #democracy #democatracy #america #iran #war #MAGA #news

#KashPatel’s push against Democratic lawmaker raises concerns within #FBI


The FBI director seeks to post documents on Rep #EricSwalwell despite no evidence of wrongdoing, officials said.

#Trump #DOJ #law #LegalEthics #EnemiesList #RevengePolitics #WeaponizationOfGovernment
washingtonpost.com/politics/20…

Trump's conflicting messages sow confusion [& disbelief] over the #IranWar

#Trump says the #US is winning the #war with #Iran even as thousands of additional American #troops deploy to the #MiddleEast.
He has pilloried other countries for not helping the US, only to say later he does not need their assistance. He has 2X delayed deadlines for Iran to reopen the #StraitOfHormuz.

#FactCheck #TrumpLies #TrumpsWar #propaganda #RulesOfWar #law #WarPowers #geopolitics #economy
apnews.com/article/trump-iran-…

#Minnesota serves as the flagship for nationwide '#NoKings' #protests against #Trump

Organizers of Saturday’s “No Kings” rallies across the country are predicting that the protests against the actions of President Donald Trump & his admin could add up to one of the largest demonstrations in #UShistory, with Minnesota taking center stage.

Organizers say >3,100 events have been registered in all 50 states, with >9 million people expected to participate.

#law #democracy
apnews.com/article/no-kings-pr…

"Before Iran, there was Covid: Trump falls apart in a crisis. But journalists are still letting him write the headlines."

As Dan Froomkin says, this is exactly analogous to how the press behaved when Trump careened from lie to lie and bogus solution to bogus solution during the Covid crisis of his first term.

~ Dan Froomkin

#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #media
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criticalread.substack.com/p/be…

Before Iran, there was Covid: Trump falls apart in a crisis

^{Dan Froomkin (Press Watch)}

"The #US🚨is learning some very expensive lessons from this war - particularly if, as I expect, this is the work of Shahed drones."
-Chris Owiki

"Iranian forces🚨appear to have damaged or destroyed multiple USAF KC-135 tankers parked in the open at Prince Sultan Airbase in Saudi Arabia."
-OSINTTechnical
#Incompetence #Drones #DOD #Hegseth #Trump #TrumpRegime #NationalSecurity #IranWar #Israel #Waste Corruption #IllegalWar #Kakistocracy #Kleptocracy #NoKings #Protest #USPol

#HouseRepublicans expected to reject #Senate passed #DHS bill, extending #shutdown

#House #GOP leaders are expected to soon announce they are rejecting the Senate-passed bill that would fund large swaths of the DHS but not provide money for #ICE & #CBP operations, & instead pass their own version, 3 sources.

#law #immigration #Trump #extremism #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #ExtraJudicialKillings #murder #Sturmabteilung #StateSponsoredTerrorism #TheCrueltyIsThePoint
cnn.com/2026/03/27/politics/li…

"If any one day could define the hazy transition from slow to rapid decay — 24 hours that truly defined the decline of the American empire from its pedestal as a global superpower — it would have to be March 23."

~ Will Bunch

#Trump #LaGuardia #AirTravel #airports #ICE #ClimateChange #InsiderTrading #Iran #war #oil #gas #corruption #authoritarianism
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inquirer.com/opinion/laguardia…

One crazy day that defined the decline and fall of the American empire

Over 24 hours, a deadly jet crash, militarized airports, insider trading, and a killer heat wave define a nation in rapid decline.

^{Will Bunch (The Philadelphia Inquirer)}

#Hegseth Strikes 2 #Black & 2 #Female Officers From Promotion List

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s highly unusual decision to remove officers from a one-star promotion list has spurred allegations of racial & gender bias.

#WhiteSupremacy #MaleSupremacy #law #discrimination #CivilRights #military #Trump #bigotry
nytimes.com/2026/03/27/us/hegs…

MAGA radio. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.

#Trump #MAGA #liar #PostTruth

Judge blocks #Pentagon order branding #Anthropic a #NationalSecurity risk, calling its underlying logic 'Orwellian'

The #ArtificialIntelligence lab argued that the #Trump admin was punishing it for speaking about the risks of its #technology.

#law #LegalEthics #RevengePolitics
washingtonpost.com/technology/…

#Trump his sharpy signature will be added to the #Dollar bank notes..

A reminder for all the destruction and despair he brought the past time

I can't wait for that man to be gone from that position

#US #USPol

#WallStreet slumps on #MiddleEast uncertainty. #US #stocks had their biggest loss since the #war with #Iran started, with the S&P 500 falling 1.7%. #Nasdaq confirms correction.

#economy #TrumpsWar #Trump
reuters.com/business/us-stock-…

#Trump said Thursday he will delay a threatened strike on #Iran #energy #infrastructure & extend his deadline for Tehran to reopen the #StraitOfHormuz until April 6, claiming talks to end the #war are “going very well.” The move marks a pullback from Trump’s earlier warning that the #US would target Iran’s energy plants if the crucial shipping lane remained closed.

#TrumpsWar #WarCrimes #RegimeChange #RulesOfWar #law #geopolitics #MiddleEast #economy
apnews.com/live/iran-war-israe…

AYFKM??!!

#US #Treasury working to put Trump's signature on new paper #currency in first for sitting president

It’s the latest instance of #Trump putting his name & likeness on US cultural institutions, following his renaming of the US Institute of Peace #USIP, the #KennedyCenter performing arts venue & a new class of battleships, among other tributes.

The plans come in tandem with an ongoing effort to get Trump’s face on a #coin.

#NoKings #authoritarianism #law
apnews.com/article/trump-curre…

"The network that protected Epstein for decades wasn’t a coincidence of geography—it was a community of interest. Men who understood, on some level, that their world runs on the same principle Epstein ran his life on: acquire, control, use, discard. What Epstein did to children, this class does to everything.

Call them what they are. Call them the Predator Class."

~ Lawrence Winnerman

#Epstein #Trump #EpsteinClass #men #predators

blueamp.co/p/call-them-by-thei…

Stop Calling Them Billionaires. Start Calling Them Predators.

Jeffrey Epstein wasn't an anomaly. He was a member of the Predator Class—billionaires who buy, extract, and corrupt everything they touch. We have to name them.

^{Blue Amp Media}

"It turns out that there isn’t a ratings bump for MAGA capitulation. ...

Status’ Oliver Darcy got ahold of some CBS News ratings data from the first quarter of 2026, and it is brutal. CBS Evening News has lost 7% of viewers year-over-year, placing it 'on track for its lowest-rated first quarter of the 21st century in both total viewers'" (continued in /2)

~ Matt Gertz

#CBS #BariWeiss #WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #LarryEllison #Trump #MAGA
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mediamatters.org/bari-weiss/le…

Legacy outlets that bent the knee to Trump haven’t just lost credibility — they’re bleeding readers and viewers

^{Media Matters for America}

"Donald Trump didn’t surprise anyone by welcoming the death of Robert Mueller, an American hero who exemplified all the admirable qualities he does not possess.

But the president’s fresh demonstration of depravity underscored a defining characteristic of his presidency. I do not mean corruption, or dishonesty, or ignorance, though Trump is thoroughly corrupt, dishonest, and ignorant."

~ John Harwood

#Trump #Hegseth #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
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zeteo.com/p/trump-anger-stumbl…

Trump’s Angry, Stumbling Presidency

Donald Trump stoked populist rage to win the White House twice. Now, he faces it himself.

^{John Harwood (Zeteo)}

It's striking how smallminded and myopic it is for mainstream #Trump supporters to laud a history of attacking during negotiation as a way to get future negotiation.

Reporting suggests #Iran isn't negotiating this time. For SOME reason.

#USPolitics

Noting that the election of a Democrat in the district in Florida representing Trump's Mar-a-Lago adds confirmation to the expectation of a blue wave in the coming elections, D. Earl Stephens writes:

"Let’s start here today, patriots:

Republicans are in charge of the House.

Republicans are in charge of the Senate.

Republicans are in charge of the Executive.

Republicans are in charge of the Supreme Court."

#Trump #MaraLago #BlueWave #elections
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dearlstephens.substack.com/p/w…

WINNING

Why this Democratic wave will build into an unstoppable tsunami come November ...

^{D. Earl Stephens ✍️ (Enough Already)}

Top #Trump housing official, #BillPulte, issues new #criminal referral for New York AG #LetitiaJames after several previous attempts failed

According to a person familiar with the matter, Pulte, the director of the #FHFA, issued 2 referrals to the #DOJ, one to the #USAttorney for Northern District of Illinois & another to the US Attorney for Southern District of Florida.

Both alleged “suspected homeowners insurance fraud.”

#law #LegalEthics #RevengePolitics
cnn.com/2026/03/25/politics/bi…

What?!? #Extortion!

Exclusive: #US links #security guarantees to #Ukraine giving up #Donbas, #Zelensky says

The US is making its ​offer of security guarantees for a peace deal in Ukraine conditional on Kyiv ceding all of the country's eastern region of Donbas to #Russia, President Volodymyr Zelensky told Reuters ‌in an interview.

#MafiaState #law #InternationalLaw #geopolitics #Europe #NATO #Trump #PutinsPuppet #StandWithUkraine
reuters.com/business/aerospace…

RE: mastodon.social/@AnnaAnthro/11…

good; then send #trump there with a one-way ticket

#Trump showed classified map to passengers on his plane in 2022, memo says

The document offers a snapshot of an early moment in the investigation by special counsel #JackSmith & adds new shading to the public understanding of Smith’s probes.

#criminal #law #ClassifiedDocuments #NationalSecurity
washingtonpost.com/national-se…

#SteveBannon suggested #ICE agents’ presence in airports is a "test-run" ahead of the 2026 #midterms

The high-profile deployment of #Immigration & Customs Enforcement agents to airports has renewed support on the right & fear on the left about the possibility of ICE going to the polls in November.

#Trump #Republicans #law #ElectionLaw #ElectionInterference #VoterSuppression #VotingRights #StateSponsoredTerrorism #intimidation #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
cnn.com/2026/03/25/politics/ic…

#GiftArticle

#TSA Tipped Off #ICE Agents Before Arrests at #SanFrancisco #Airport

Transportation Security Administration officials told ICE that a mother & daughter under a detention order had planned to fly domestically, federal documents show.

#law #entrapment #immigration #Trump #privacy #InfoSec #DueProcess
nytimes.com/2026/03/24/us/tsa-…

“15 minutes before Trump announced that the U.S. would postpone strikes against Iran’s energy infrastructure, the volume of stock market trades mysteriously spiked and the price of oil just as mysteriously plunged."

~ Robert Reich

#Trump #Iran #war #PredictionMarkets #StockMarket #InsiderTrading #profiteering
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robertreich.substack.com/p/tra…

Trump’s Graft, Insider’s Grift

There’s a word for this, and it’s not pretty

^{Robert Reich}

#GiftArticle

In Trump’s war messaging, #veterans see something new — & disturbing

#Service members & families who lost loved ones say the #Trump team’s memes & jokes trivialize #combat & #sacrifice. Trump aides say the backlash sends views soaring.

#TheCrueltyIsThePoint #TrumpsWar #US #Iran #Israel #war #ForeverWars #WarCrimes #RegimeChange #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #MiddleEast #idiocracy
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