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"They’re not confused. The administration and its allies are running multiple arguments at the same time, and the arguments don’t need to be consistent with each other. They just need to do the same job: keeping Congress out of the decision-making process and letting Trump do whatever the hell he wants."
~ Parker Molloy
#Trump #Iran #war #Republicans #Congress
/17
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Schrödinger's War
They can’t agree on whether it’s a war, a mission, regime change, or self-defense. They don’t need to. They just need Congress to stay out.Parker Molloy (The Present Age)
"Over the last few days the markets started to go south. So did the optics and politics of the war. And so Trump’s now looking to end it.
This process will have plenty of zigs and zags. Pulling a TACO in war isn’t simple. Once you’ve decided to 'Cry "Havoc," and let slip the dogs of war,' it’s not as easy to get the fierce dogs of war back in the kennel as it is the docile puppies of tariffs."
William Kristol
#Trump #Iran #war #economy #TACO
/16
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TACOs With a Side of War Porn
Despite his callous bluster, Trump is seemingly retreating.William Kristol (The Bulwark)
As Aaron Parnas reports this morning, Trump is now threatening to rain "Death, Fire, and Fury" on Iran (though, of course, he imagines the word "rain" is spelled "reign" — since he truly knows no better).
His threats have to do with the fact that the Strait of Hormuz is now impassable due to his war, and this is affecting the global economy, creating political problems for him and Republicans in the US.
#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction
/15
"And it affected an almost entirely civilian population, that will be paying the price for decades to come. If we’re going to do this we should at least have to look at it."
#Trump #Iran #war #environment #ecology #ChemicalWarfare
/14
"U.S./Israeli force mounted another series of strikes, these on oil storage sites across the vast city of Tehran. The effect was astonishing—a cloud of truly toxic smoke—and I think it needs more notice than it’s been getting, even amidst all the other horrors of this war. This was in essence chemical warfare, even if the chemicals were the (easily anticipated) result of 'normal' bombs."
~ Bill McKibben
#Trump #Iran #war #environment #ecology #ChemicalWarfare
/13
"And it’s only costing us around a billion dollars a day."
~ Sam Osterhout
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Oil Up, Markets Down: Trump's War Spirals | Sam Osterhout & Iran Expert Dr. Sanam Vakil
The Iran War is costing us $1 billion a day. Is there an exit strategy?Sam Osterhout (Lincoln Square)
"I think everyone in politics and finance and media who anticipated a fictional, level-headed version of Donald Trump succumbed to years of spin and misinformation and algorithmic propaganda on Twitter."
~ Brian Beutler
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Elites Aren't Much Savvier Than MAGA
They're both easy marks for Donald Trump.Brian Beutler (Off Message)
"Trump blundered his way into a war in which one of the first acts was the killing of more than 160 innocent schoolgirls. Neither he nor the senior US military comm and has the decency or humanity to admit that they killed hundreds of Iranian children through their recklessness."
#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #children
/10
"Most presidents announce foreign policy in measured phrases freighted with forethought and significance. Trump blathers, tumbling over proclamations as quickly as he can pronounce them. Perhaps Trump’s secret plan is to confuse everyone so thoroughly that they are frozen with doubt. Not a winning strategy, to be sure, but the only way to make sense of Trump’s whirligig fountain of nonsense that erupted on Monday."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
"It has become clear that Trump had no plan in Iran other than to strike it, knock out the leaders he didn’t like, and hope the Iranian people would rise up and put in place new leaders he could deal with. It was supposed to look like what happened in Venezuela in January…."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
"Trump wants to be done because the conflict is getting too messy, Gulf allies are certainly privately asking WTAF Trump’s plan is and more than anything else Trump is realizing that he is triggering what has been the most reliable presidency killer in American politics for more than half a century: spiking gas prices."
"What this all comes down to is that the White House is running as fast as it can from regime change and even faster from its demand for 'unconditional surrender'."
~Josh Marshall
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Trump Now MoonWalking Away From Regime Change As Fast As He Can
Yesterday UN Ambassador Mike Waltz announced that the US was moving ahead rapidly to achieve all its war objectives which he listed as 1) destroying Iran’s…Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
"Reporters tried again. 'You said the war is "very complete.". But your defense secretary says "this is just the beginning." So which is it?'
'I think you could say both,' Trump replied.
~ Andrew Roth
theguardian.com/world/2026/mar…
Vague and contradictory Trump says Iran war ‘won’, but not ‘won enough’
After oil prices surged on Monday the US president sought – and failed – to offer a clear vision for when the largest US intervention in the Middle East in years will endAndrew Roth (The Guardian)
"He came up with the idea that the war will end during a phone call with murder hornet Vladimir Putin."
~ Lucian K. Truscott
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Memory hole, meet Iran war.
Donald Trump, speaking at a press conference at his golf club in Doral, Florida, because of course that is where you announce big decisions, today said that the war against Iran will end “very soon.”Lucian K. Truscott IV (Lucian Truscott Newsletter)
"The top story: Donald Trump says the war in Iran is 'very complete' and appears to be searching for an off-ramp after speaking with Vladimir Putin today."
~ Aaron Parnas
"Hegseth says today will be the ‘most intense day of strikes’ in war against Iran."
~ The Guardian
Exclusive: Up to 150 #US troops wounded in #Iran #war, two sources tell Reuters
As many as 150 US troops have been wounded in the Iran war, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
The figure has not been previously reported & is far higher than the #Trump admin’s publicly disclosed figure of 8 seriously wounded US forces.
#SuckersAndLosers #ForeverWars #warmonger #WarCrimes #RegimeChange #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #MiddleEast
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Trump's #Iran spin falls flat
#Trump has spent a lifetime talking himself out of tough spots. But in the #war with Iran, his trusty technique of sowing confusion to postpone reckonings is beginning to fail.
Ten days in, Trump still hasn’t settled on a consistent rationale for why he went to war. Now, he’s hinting that peace might soon be at hand—even while he & top aides simultaneously warn the fighting might get more intense & last longer.
Finally! This man is all kinds of wrong.
#Trump #DOJ official #EdMartin formally accused of ethical violations over letter he sent to #Georgetown Law about its #diversity programs
Ed Martin, an outspoken Trump admin official, is facing #attorney discipline proceedings in Washington, DC, for a letter he sent to Georgetown Law about its diversity programs, the district’s professional conduct investigator announced on Tuesday.
#law #LegalEthics #WhiteSupremacy #Jan6
cnn.com/2026/03/10/politics/ed…
Under the Trump administration, two of the three major credit bureaus have sharply reduced the share of complaints they resolved in customers’ favor.
In 2024, Experian’s relief rate was 20%. Last year, that figure fell to less than 1%.
Read our full investigation: propublica.org/article/credit-…
#Data #Finance #PersonalFinance #Credit #Trump #DataViz #Research #Journalism
Credit Bureaus Are Leaving More Mistakes on Frustrated Consumers’ Reports Under Trump’s CFPB
The credit bureaus have started dismissing a larger share of consumer complaints without help since the Trump administration began dismantling the CFPB.lisa.larson-walker@propublica.org (ProPublica)
...#CharlieKirk must be turning in his grave, tormented by his defected would be Messias, #Trump.👈
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...not be easy and could easily become a calamity.
Thanks to President #Trump’s restraint during his first term, #America has a golden opportunity to pull away from #MiddleEast quagmires for good.
We shouldn’t throw that opportunity away so that sone D.C. has-beens can feel tough by sending young #Americans to die yet again.
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If you believe in this, and I'm quite sure, many of 👉 the "#ChristianNationalist" #MAGA base do,...
👉️Another #MAGA defector: #MegynKelly
PART II
Whereas yesterday's defection from the #Trump team, #CandaceOwens, was a blow to #Trump's social-media influence, the "legacy media" also continue to jump ship.
What is worse, the bad news is now coming even from #Trump's favorite right-wing channel, #FoxNews [#FauxNews.]
Where #CandaceOwens needed a lot of simple terms to dumb it down for the redneck #MAGA voter base, the intellectual #MegynKelly,...
,,,#Iraq], right? They were serving their country, because the #Taliban...[in #Afghanistan],...they were serving their country, whatever.
And these people gave up their lives, and ask yourselves FOR WHAT?!?"
And the aswer to that question is: for the elites! You're like toy soldiers!
And I would have said that #Trump would never do that to you.
He would never through you into an #Israeli war.
But right now, OUR planes are flying in the sky, and 👉 I don't have that confidence anymore, and
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Just the earliest of the US strikes on #Iran cost the #UnitedStates $5.6 billion in munitions, #Pentagon estimates
The figure, accounting only for the first 2 days of the #Trump #war is likely to intensify concerns in #Congress that #US forces are churning through a scarce supply of advanced weaponry.
#ForeverWars #US #Trump #warmonger #WarCrimes #RegimeChange #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #MiddleEast
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"With new evidence emerging that the United States was responsible for the strike on a school in southern Iran than killed scores of children, President Trump baselessly blamed Iran for the attack."
~ David Kurtz
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #WarriorEthos #PerformativeMasculinity #lies #disinformation #propaganda
/17
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Inside the DHS Campaign Against US Citizens
INSIDE: Abrego Garcia ... Kari Lake ... Enrique TarrioDavid Kurtz (Morning Memo)
"He’s even stated explicitly that this should be going how it did in Venezuela, where the next in command steps forward and agrees to an indefinite period of vassalhood under not so much the U.S. but Donald Trump himself. What remains of the Iranian state leadership does not seem interested in that."
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #WarriorEthos #PerformativeMasculinity
/16
"Trump started this war as part of the international acting-out he’s been at for the last few months, a way of compensating for reverses at home. If we look at his statements and U.S. actions leading up to the beginning of the war, the impulse or the goal seems simply to be in charge, for Iran to do what Trump says."
~ Josh Marshall
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #WarriorEthos #PerformativeMasculinity
/15
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Iran: It’s Hard to Know How to Exit When You Don’t Know Why You’re There
In discussions of modern wars, Americans obsess about “exit strategies”. How do you avoid getting “bogged down?” How do you know when the mission is finished?Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
"House Intelligence Committee Chair Rick Crawford on Fox: 'We have been at war with Iran since 1947.'
… The Republican talking point is to claim that Iran has been at war with us for 47 years, so Trump’s bombings are just a continuation of that and are being done in self defense. But Crawford got it a little confused trying to follow the script."
~ Ron Filipkowski
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #WarriorEthos #PerformativeMasculinity
/14
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This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 323.
… Trump was widely criticized for wearing a campaign hat he’s selling on his website for $55 during the dignified transfer ceremony for the soldiers killed during his Iran War.Ron Filipkowski (Meidas+)
"In just over a week, Trump and top administration officials have given at least 17 different responses about why the war began. ...
Hegseth has described the war’s mission as 'very very clear' and 'laser-focused.' Rubio said the war had 'a very clear goal' and he didn’t understand why there was any 'confusion.' Leavitt said that Trump had laid out 'achievable objectives.'”
~ Judd Legum
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #WarriorEthos
/13
"The situation is scary. And what’s even scarier is that the 'warrior ethos' gang in the Trump administration seem to have been caught completely off-guard by the fallout from their adventure, even though the military and the intelligence community tried to warn them about the risks."
~ Paul Krugman
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity #WarriorEthos
/12
"Trump sees war as 'blowing things up.' Dealing with the bodies of soldiers he sent to war is—for Trump—an annoyance that delayed his weekend golf by a day, to Sunday, when he wore the same golf hat that he wore during the dignified transfer."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
/11
"Hundreds of thousands displaced, and many millions more are terrified across the Middle East. …
The longer we remain blind to the terrible consequences of war, the more we are risking the most precious gift God gave us: our humanity."
#Trump #CardinalCupich #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence
/10
"A real war with real death and real suffering being treated like it’s a video game — it’s sickening. Hundreds of people are dead, mothers and fathers, daughters and sons, including scores of children who made the fatal mistake of going to school that day. Six U.S. soldiers have been killed. They are also dishonored by that social media post."
#Trump #CardinalCupich #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence
/9
"As more than 1,000 Iranian men, women and children lay dead after days of bombardment from U.S. and Israeli missiles, the official White House X account on Thursday evening posted a video of scenes from popular action movies spliced with actual strike footage from their war on Iran. The clip was captioned: 'JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY.'"
~ Cardinal Blaise Cupich, Catholic archdiocese of Chicago
#Trump #CardinalCupich #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence
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Statement of Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, “A Call to Conscience”
As more than 1,000 Iranian men, women and children lay dead after days of bombardment from U.S. and Israeli missiles, the official White House X account on Thursday evening posted a video of scenes from popular action movies spliced with actual strik…Archdiocese of Chicago
"Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago excoriated the clip, pointing out that
a real war with real death and real suffering [is] being treated like it's a video game … It's sickening.'”
#Trump #CardinalCupich #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
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"The Trump regime certainly frames the war in Iran as a particularly boneheaded and un-nuanced Hollywood film along the lines of 'Rambo' (1985). ... Perhaps even more tellingly, the White House X account posted a video collage of clips from the war intercut with footage from Hollywood action, war, and superhero films."
#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
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