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#Trump's mockery of #Starmer and #Macron is an extraordinary sight. I have never ever seen any other head of state or govt mocking allies. It's very rare to see #mockery even of sworn enemies.
Trump has always been a bully. But even a year ago, there was some restraint in his public speech, some degree of diplomatic nicety.
Was yesterday's outburst anything other than part of Trump's cognitive decline? Or is it some sort of reasoned and calculated strategic shift in US diplomacy?
RE: https://mastodon.social/@randahl/116344336708355476
How many ways can Donald Trump lose this war?
What a child raping loser!
#Trump #IranWar #OperationEpicFuckUp #USPol #USPolitics
AodeRelay boostedTrump is so unhinged that I am now looking at posts from the speaker of the Iranian Parliament and thinking, "He is not wrong".
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Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf posting: After defeating Iran 37 times in a row, this brilliant no-strategy war they started has now been downgraded from “regime change” to “Hey! Can anyone find our pilots? Please?🥺” Wow. What incredible progress. Absolute geniuses.
Hegseth personifies Trump's "thuggish, sycophantic, Islamaphobic, power-drunk administration."
He's "not a fringe figure. Militarism, civilizational arrogance, & Crusader fantasies are.. at the center of power."
"Boastful, taunting, & intoxicated by violence, Hegseth claims a divinely-sanctioned mandate to kill anyone who does not align with his White Christian nationalist dogma [&] Zionist agenda."
https://www.juancole.com/2026/03/secretary-hegseths-christian.html
#USPol #EUPol #IranWar #ChristianNationalism #Zionism #Islamophobia .
This week's comic on the authoritarian takeover of US media
#media #uspol #democracy #journalism #authoritarianism #oligarchy
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Hostile Takeover
A Right-wing Billionaire Took over Twitter.
Twitter
@eel_crust
I Rule Now!
As If Fox and Newsmax Weren't Enough, the Right Wing Is Taking over Cbs, Tiktok, and Cnn.
No Libs Here!
Right-wing Sinclair Broadcasting Has Been Buying up Local Tv News Stations.
Up Next:
Immigrants Are Scary!
Local Newspapers Have Been Gutted.
The Biweekly Foghorn
4 Pages
Educators Are Being Harassed for Teaching American History.
The Civil War
And Yet...
The Problem with You Kids Today Is That You're Not Open to Other Points of View!
Eric Trump & Donald Trump Jr. are set to "benefit from a conflict started by their father."
The two have joined Powerus, a drone manufacturing company trying to sell drones to Gulf countries amid Iranian attacks.
"These countries are under enormous pressure to buy from the sons of the president so he will do what they want. This is going to be the first family of a president to make a lot of money off war".
Nationwide #GeneralStrike Planned for #May1: #NoKings Organizer
“No work, no school, no shopping. We’re going to show up and say we’re putting workers over #billionaires and #kings.”
Brad Reed
Mar 28, 2026
uspol [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
Justice Department says law requiring president to turn over records at end of administration is unconstitutional - CBS News
The opinion from the Office of Legal Counsel said that because it believes the Presidential Records Act is unconstitution...
#uspol #departmentofjustice
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/justice-department-presidential-records-act-unconstitutional/
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He said the quiet part out loud: no healthcare, no child care, only war.
“We’re fighting wars. We can’t take care of daycare. You got to let a state take care of daycare, and they should pay for it too. They should pay. They’ll have to raise their taxes, but they should pay for it. And we could lower our taxes a little bit to them to make up,” Trump said. “It’s not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things. They can do it on a state basis. You can’t do it on a federal. We have to take care of one thing: military protection."
#USpol
#TaxTheRich #EndTheWar
#HealthcareIsAHumanRight
https://newrepublic.com/post/208535/white-house-accidentally-easter-lunch-trump-speech
Looks like #JanetMills wants to stay in power as Senator Mills. She's been changing her tune on #IndigenousSovereignty and now this?
#Maine Governor backs #MillionaireTax, flipping from prior stance
By Greg Ryan Bloomberg,Updated April 2, 2026
"Maine Governor Janet Mills now supports increasing taxes on the state’s richest residents, reversing her past opposition after lagging in recent polls for a key Democratic Senate primary.
"Mills on Thursday endorsed a millionaire tax included in a budget proposal that passed a committee for the Democrat-controlled legislature. She vetoed a similar increase in 2024 and maintained that such a measure was short-sighted in an interview just a few weeks ago.
"Mills’ flip-flop comes as the 78-year-old trails political newcomer #GrahamPlatner in their contest to be the Democratic nominee to take on Republican #UselessSusanCollins in November. Platner, a 41-year-old oyster farmer, has called for higher taxes on the rich."
Read more:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/02/business/maine-governor-janet-mills-millionaires-tax/
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/Erw1h
Lake Corpus Christi stands at just over 9% capacity, and Choke Canyon Reservoir, the city’s other primary source, is below 8% full. A formal Level 1 #water emergency, requiring mandatory cuts across all users, could be declared as early as May. https://www.texasobserver.org/corpus-christi-water-crisis-climate-projections/
#environment #ClimateChange #politics #USpol #news #drought #GulfCoast #Texas
Pam Bondi and 1,000 FBI agents can't produce the Epstein files WITH MONTHS OF NOTICE?!?!? OMFG!
Now Todd Blanche claims it’s all over?!?! FUCK YOU, TODD—GET YOUR ASS MOVING!!!
#TrumpEpsteinFiles #EpsteinFiles #ChildRapistTrump #JeffreyEpstein #USPol
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EPSTEIN FILES DEADLINE MISSED BY 105 DAYS!
LET'S GO!!!!!
#DisbarPamBondi #PamBondi #Florida #RepublicanKakistocracy #TrumpDidThis #GOPGrifter #GOPLiar #GOPFraudster #USPol
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DISBAR PAM BONDI
"There are no words to adequately express the evil that is Donald J. Trump"
- Aure
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Breaking #BreakingNews
Suck on this, Donald.
US judge upholds decision to toss subpoenas into Fed Chair Jerome Powell
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/3/us-judge-upholds-decision-to-toss-subpoenas-into-fed-chair-jerome-powell
#TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansDidThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #NoKings #USPol
Thousands of U.S. troops their families and pets evacuated from Mideast base to Norfolk, VA sends community groups scrambling to help : "The base was asking for donations of toiletries and different things for the sailors [and their families] coming back, because they were coming back with nothing," said Derrick Johnson, commander of American Legion Post 327 in Norfolk.
Not only are we abandoning our bases in the Middle East but the troops are coming back to not even shit paper.
What a shambles #USPol
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/03/nx-s1-5770491/evacuation-bahrain-norfolk-troops
Disturbing article about Pete Hegseth imposing white supremacy on the US military.
Hegseth just fired the Army's top uniformed officer, Army Chief of Staff and four star General Randy A. George, because he refused to remove two black women from a list of people being considered for 1-star General promotions.
"In Trump's military, white male supremacy reigns"
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/4/3/2376189/-In-Trump-s-military-white-male-supremacy-reigns
@johnlogic @Nonilex Kegseth also apparently unaware what happens to US POWs if they're in the hands of someone to which the US military has shown "no quarter".
"In the body camera footage, a police officer parks his black SUV on the grass, a rosary swinging from the rearview mirror. He exits his car, moves briskly past a pair of protesters, and points an accusatory finger at the suspect: a 7-foot-tall inflatable penis holding an American flag.
The alleged crime? Unclear. There’s no sound at first, only the silent spectacle of a person in a penis suit turning toward a cop with a stance that says, 'Who, me?' A handmade sign comes into view in the person’s right hand. It reads 'No Dick Tator.'"
https://theintercept.com/2026/04/03/penis-costume-no-kings-protest-alabama-censorship/
This is not a scandal unless we have extremely regressive politics, and i don't practice extremely regressive politics.
They're trying to drag us into the mud because that's where pigs like to play
#usPol
New York Times predictably converging on their preferred Dem candidate for POTUS.
Just a few more guest visits on right-wing podcasts and Newsom will secure the Times endorsement.
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Opinion
MATTHEW SCHMITZ
Gavin Newsom Is No Longer Your Deferential
White Male Ally
4 MIN READ
I hate it when "Left" or "liberal" people act like they finally get to dish out hate like a Republican because it's a Republican target. "But they said!...", "But they should feel!..."; yeah sure. But they also deliberately harm entire categories of people and they lie for power. Let's try to do better.
Let's not shame people's identities, intellect, or appearance. Just stick to highlighting their bad choices and hypocrisy
#usPol
#NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet
April 3, 2017 – Donald Trump stopped all funding for the UN Family Planning Agency, which supported women’s health and family planning efforts across the globe.
In 2016 alone, American funding for the UNFPA prevented 100,000 unsafe abortions and 800,000 women from going without access to contraception.
#TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
#NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet
April 3, 2017 – Donald Trump signed a bill eliminating rules that would have required internet service providers to ask consumer permission before sharing or selling private information.
Though the rule only applied to broadband companies—leaving out internet data giants like Facebook and Google—the privacy law had been a first step at protecting consumer information online.
#TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
#NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet
April 3, 2017 – Donald Trump praised Egypt’s authoritarian leader President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, saying, “I just want to let everybody know in case there was any doubt that we are very much behind President el-Sisi.”
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#TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
"Trump Fires Pam Bondi for Not Being Corrupt Enough"
While she tried to prosecute his enemies & she helped cover up the Epstein scandal, it wasn’t enough.
Trump said Bondi did a “very subpar” job leading DOJ criminal investigations into his political enemies.
... & that she hadn't investigated the 2020 election results aggressively enough.
Source: Zeteo, April 3
More info:
#Bondi #USPol #EUPol #EpsteinFiles #democracy #Autocracy #news .
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Bondi and epstein victims
@DemocracyMattersALot Susan Collins is a liar. In 1996, she pledged she would only be a two-term Senator even if the law didn't change and allowed her to do more.
#USPol #Maine #SusanCollins
https://www.c-span.org/clip/public-affairs-event/user-clip-susan-collins-re-term-limits/4841176
Hey, anyone else remember that unarmed Iranian warship that the US warcrimed the shit out of, or did I imagine that?
discrimination,uspol [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
Supreme Court sides with therapist in challenge to Colorado’s ban on “conversion therapy“ - SCOTUSblog
Updated on March 31 at 3:08 p.m. The Supreme Court on Tuesday sent a challenge to Colorado’s ban on “conversion therapy”—treatment intended to ...
Archive: ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/3vf4s
#uspol #bigots
https://www.scotusblog.com/2026/03/supreme-court-sides-with-therapist-in-challenge-to-colorados-ban-on-conversion-therapy/
Sen. Susan Collins became the 50th senator to support the voter suppressive SAVE America Act.
Always "concerned," but almost ALWAYS VOTES WITH TRUMP.
Come on, Maine?!? Vote this corrupt, lying piece of shit out of office!
#SusanCollins #Maine #ChooseSomeoneElse #GOPTraitor #USPol
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Cartoon: Trump taping a sign to Susan Collins’s back. Originally read, “Sucker,” rewritten to “Liar.”
Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration
Under Attorney General Pam Bondi, the DOJ abandoned a record number of cases—including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and dru...
#uspol #departmentofjustice #immigration
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doj-immigration-bondi-declinations-criminal-investigations
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White House executive order purports to limit mail-in voting, mandate federal voter lists CyberScoop
The order is expected to be quickly challenged in court, where the Trump administration’s previous efforts have been struck down as unconstitu...
#uspol #votingaccess
https://cyberscoop.com/white-house-elections-executive-order-limits-mail-voting-creates-federal-voter-lists/
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Trump administration exempts Gulf oil and gas drilling from endangered species protections
Convening a rarely used committee for the first time in more than three decades, top Trump administration officials voted Tuesday to exempt oil drilling in...
Archive: ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/o05ze
#environment #uspol
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2026/mar/31/trump-administration-exempts-gulf-oil-and-gas-dril/
I am leaving the university system, possibly forever, at the end of this month. I will be living in the woods, studying mathematics and (hopefully) farming enough to survive. I have posted an essay explaining why I'm doing this on my website:
https://aten.cool/leaving_university_2026.html
#math #research #academia #USpol #mathematics #trans #transgender #farming #solarpunk #fascism #university
#Trump 🚨aides gutted some offs that worked to counter anti-American disinfo by foreign powers. Now the US finds itself embattled in an info war with IR, RU & CN. The St Dept tells diplomats to use X & work with #DOD psyops teams.
St Dept:🚨ordered every Am embassy & consulate this week to do more to push back agst fgn infl campaigns, warning *fueled hostility toward US sec interests.
Admin: taken steps recently to restore some broas of the govt-funded news orgs...
#USPol
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/business/trump-foreign-disinformation-iran.html?unlocked_article_code=1.X1A.MkbI.bYvZQ1drhu8m
"Even Thailand’s Prime Minister is driving a BYD EV amid surging gas prices."
"BYD (making cars for just twenty years) sold 120,000 NEVs --> overseas <-- in March, but the EV giant says this is just the start"
BYD is now the top seller in China, and during March 2026 alone, sold 120,000 outside China.
Now its opening 20 dealerships in Canada, this year.
https://electrek.co/2026/04/01/byd-sold-120000-nevs-overseas-claiming-this-is-just-the-start/
Good. More of this sort of moral courage, please. #Politics #Democrats #Democracy #US #USpol #AOC #DemocraticSocialism https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/us/politics/aoc-congress-israel-military-aid.html?unlocked_article_code=1.XlA.EVz2.zpWfd8kYUbiA&smid=url-share
I miss George.
#USpol
#SevenWords
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A meme with a photo of comedian George Carlin with an excerpt from his 2005 book, “Life Is Worth Losing.”
THEY OWN EVERYTHING.
THEY OWN ALL THE IMPORTANT LAND.
THEY OWN AND CONTROL THE
CORPORATIONS. THEY'VE LONG SINCE BOUGHT AND PAID FOR THE SENATE, THE CONGRESS, THE STATE HOUSES, THE CITY HALLS. THEY GOT THE JUDGES IN THEIR BACK POCKETS AND THEY OWN ALL THE BIG MEDIA COMPANIES, SO THEY CONTROL JUST ABOUT ALL OF THE NEWS AND INFORMATION YOU GET TO HEAR.
THEY GOT YOU BY THE BALLS.
THEY SPEND BILLIONS OF DOLLARS
EVERY YEAR LOBBYING.
LOBBYING TO GET WHAT THEY WANT.
WELL, WE KNOW WHAT THEY WANT. THEY WANT MORE FOR THEMSELVES AND LESS FOR EVERYBODY ELSE, BUT I'LL TELL YOU
WHAT THEY DON'T WANT.
THEY DON'T WANT A POPULATION OF CITIZENS CAPABLE OF CRITICAL THINKING.
THEY DON'T WANT WELL-INFORMED, WELL-EDUCATED PEOPLE CAPABLE OF CRITICAL THINKING. THEY'RE NOT
INTERESTED IN THAT. THAT DOESN'T HELP THEM. THAT'S AGAINST THEIR INTERESTS.
THAT'S RIGHT.
With Pam Bondi out as Attorney General and Kristi Noem out as Secretary of Homeland Security, my guess is next Frank Bisignano will be out as IRS CEO and Social Security Commissioner. This is another area where Trump policy has hurt seniors by changing up systems that barely functioned and making them worse. Frank Bisignano will likely be up on Kalshi soon enough. #uspol #trump
[Gift article] #Bondi Fired as Attorney General
"President #Trump fired Attorney General #PamBondi on Thursday, removing the nation’s top law enforcement officer after privately venting his frustrations for months over her handling [finger quotes] of the Epstein files and her failed efforts to prosecute his #PoliticalEnemies.
"In a social media post, Mr. Trump said he was replacing Ms. Bondi with #ToddBlanche, her deputy, on an interim basis."
How it started vs. how it's going
#Andor #DedraMeero #FateOfPamBondi FateOfKristiNoem #Fired #LoyaltyToTheEmpire #USPol
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Dedra Meero seen in a prison sitting in a bed in bend position covering her face in despair.
Truly the dumbest timeline
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/01/politics/fema-official-gregg-phillips-defends-teleportation-claim
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‘Haters gonna hate’: A top FEMA official defends his claim that he was teleported
And here's as close to an official statement as we are likely to get: the big wet president finally bleated about it on Truth Social
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116336247856387679
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Donald J. Trump on Truth Social (@realdonaldtrump):
"Pam Bondi is a Great American Patriot and a loyal friend, who faithfully served as my Attorney General over the past year. Pam did a tremendous job overseeing a massive crackdown in Crime across our Country, with Murders plummeting to their lowest level since 1900. We love Pam, and she will be transitioning to a much needed and important new job in the private sector, to be announced at a date in the near future, and our Deputy Attorney General, and a very talented and respected Legal Mind, Todd Blanche, will step in to serve as Acting Attorney General. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP"
CNN's home page has dropped the "TSA wait times at major airports" counter and switched back to the "change in price of gas since February 28" counter. If you're the editor over there, your biggest task is figuring out which disaster to focus on today
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Today's price of gas
$4.08 +$1.10
Average per gallon in the US; change since Feb. 28, 2026. Source: AAA.
Now she was supposedly fired last night, but we don't find that out from an official statement, we find it out because someone leaked it to the press. Again, classic Trump
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FIRST ON FOX — President Donald Trump reportedly has already fired Attorney General Pam Bondi, according to two sources familiar with the matter who spoke with Fox News Digital.
Bondi met with Trump in the Oval Office Wednesday night ahead of his speech to the nation on the war in Iran, where she reportedly was informed of her ouster, according to two sources familiar with the meeting.
One of those sources said that by the time Trump took his place behind the podium for the address, Bondi already had lost her job and was on her way back to Florida.
Pam Bondi has been fired as Attorney General https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04/02/us/trump-news #uspol #epstein
The #Senate on Thursday sent a bipartisan funding deal to reopen #DHS back to the #House, which convened for a 2-minute session & took no action to pass it. The Senate’s bill to fund the agency is now formally back with the House, & the #shutdown will continue at least through Monday, when the chamber will hold its next session. The plan would have funded DHS through Sept 30 but omit money for #Trump’s #immigration crackdown.
#USpol #Republicans #dysfunction #Congress
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/us/politics/house-no-action-homeland-security-funding-shutdown.html?smid=url-share
It is extremely Trump to leave one of his loyalists who has lost favor hanging out in the wind indefinitely, rather than just firing her
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THE SCOOP
President Donald Trump has informed Pam Bondi that her time as his
attorney general is nearing an end, multiple sources familiar with the
situation told Semafor.
Trump has not yet made a formal announcement of Bondi’s replacement,
but one is expected soon. As is typical, the sources noted that Trump can
also change his mind at any time.
Largest Dutch pension fund cuts ties with controversial tech firm Palantir
ABP, the Netherlands’ largest pension fund, has withdrawn from the controversial AI company Palantir, the Financieele Dagblad reported. Palantir is known to provide services to the American immigration service, ICE, and the Israeli army.
Six months ago, ABP still held €825 million in investments in Palantir. The pension fund for civil servants in the Netherlands has sold those shares, according to FD.
Palantir is globally renowned for its advanced AI data analysis software, which can combine colossal amounts of seemingly unrelated data such as online communications, DNA, fingerprints, financial transactions, travel records, contacts, and surveillance footage. The software is used by hundreds of intelligence and investigative services worldwide to track down all kinds of suspects. Amnesty International has warned multiple times that the use of Palintir’s software violates human rights.
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#palantir #ABP #ICE #USA #uspol #AI #surveillance
https://nltimes.nl/2026/04/02/largest-dutch-pension-fund-cuts-ties-controversial-tech-firm-palantir
"Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service."
https://morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-trump-administration-orders
"They’re shuttering every single one of the ten regional offices that have governed this agency since Gifford Pinchot built the system over a century ago — and with them, the career professionals who spent entire lifetimes earning the expertise and the authority to push back when politicians came calling with bad ideas and worse motives. They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states…And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees called 'state directors,' embedded in state capitals alongside the very governors, legislators, and industry lobbyists who have spent their careers demanding that the Forest Service log more, protect less, and get out of the way."
#DefendResearch #Environment #Forests #Forestry #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
RE: https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/116335444407269160
77 million Americans voted for this. To make the USA as isolated and unpleasant as they are.
Instability makes young people mobile. Trauma makes them hungry for belonging.
Traffickers understand this. They do not begin with force. They begin with belonging. https://www.texasobserver.org/foster-care-rejection-lgbtq-texans/
#Texas #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #politics #USpol #news #HumanRights #children
Pam Bondi will be out as Attorney General before April is over. Trump has already told her that her time at the Department of Justice is coming to an end. #uspol
"Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin on Wednesday rescinded a rule that DHS expenditures over $100,000 be personally approved by his office, ending a widely criticized policy implemented by his predecessor Kristi Noem that critics said put a particular burden on the Federal Emergency Management Agency ’s work aiding disaster response and recovery."
"#Israel's goal🚨in this war is to ensure that #Iran becomes a failed state. Complete state collapse.
Since #Trump🚨has no plan of his own, by default he's following IL's lead.
Hence🚨Trump's comments about bombing Iran back to the stone age..."
-T Parsi
"Pasteur Inst of Iran, a 105-yr-old med research cen founded in p'ship btw the Imperial St of IR & the Paris-based Inst Pasteur🚨has been destroyed in airstrikes by the #US & Israeli regime. Horrifying..."
-K Ziabari
#IranWar #Netanyahu #USPol
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Scene of the ruins with smoke:
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Another view of the destruction:
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Another pic of the ruins left after the bombing:
"In the past 24 hours🚨we’ve learned Trump is talking about firing like 3 diff ppl in the #DoJ & now the #DNI.
So either:
*They're🚨refusing to do something very illegal -which for them is a far out line.
Or
*There's🚨a major intel scandal happening & Trump is going to throw ppl under the bus."
-A Cochran
"Trump polled advisers about🚨replacing Gabbard."
Trump has informed AG Bondi🚨that “her time as AG is nearing its end."
-Semafor.
#IranWar #TrumpRegime #Cabinet #USPol
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/02/trump-tulsi-gabbard-intelligence-chief
Tired of the lies.
Tired of the costs.
Tired of the incompetence.
The con is over.
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Grey hoodie with white lettering: VOTE.
CNN: "Just one-third of Americans believe President Donald Trump has a clear plan to handle the situation in Iran"
Yeah.The same one third of Americans also think dinosaurs and people lived at the same time, vaccines cause autism, and a 600-year-old guy and his kids built a boat the size of a WWII heavy cruiser out of wood with bronze age hand tools in his backyard and put two of every kind of animal on it.
Maybe we should stop listening to that third of America. - Jim Wright
#USpol
#IranWar
Called my senators about the planned destruction of the forest service while everyone is focused on everything else 😖 #uspol
#NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet
April 2, 2017 – In regard to an ongoing lawsuit, a federal judge in Kentucky ruled Donald Trump may have incited violence against protesters during his 2016 campaign rally in Kentucky.
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#TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
Trump calls for cutting Medicare from the federal budget due to the Iran War he started https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-says-no-money-daycare-215843378.html #uspol #iran
[Sign the petition] Avaaz - Stand up to Trump
https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/solidaritycuba_loc/
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>> To world leaders and heads of government:
As citizens from across the world, we call on you to condemn the illegal blockade of Cuba and all external coercion against Latin American and Caribbean countries. Using threats and deprivation to force political change is an attack on sovereignty, dignity, and the right of peoples to choose their own future. Stand for a Latin America and a world where every country can shape its own path, free from punishment and fear.
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If | criticize your side, you assume I'm on theirs.
If | criticize their side, they assume I'm on yours.
You're both wrong. I'm on neither.
| hate both of your sides, and | hate the fence you think I'm sitting on.
This isn't centrism. This isn’t fence-sitting. This isn’t neutrality.
This is rejection. Rejection of the binary brainrot you've deluded yourselves into
defending like a religion.
Today, the Integrity spacecraft launched four brave people toward the moon.
Integrity left earth, and then potus addressed the nation.
This makes a lot of sense.
'Trump may declare the Iran war “over"
That does not mean a return to normal...'
– Robert A. Pape
https://x.com/ProfessorPape
https://escalationtrap.substack.com/
https://cpost.uchicago.edu/
https://political-science.uchicago.edu/directory/Robert-Pape
#JD20260401 #JDLinkBlog
#Iran #USA #Israel #EndlessWar #IranWar
#UKpol #USpol #EUpol #Palestine all for #Israel
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Trump may declare the Iran war “over"
That does not mean a return to normal
It means the emergence of a new baseline:
Iran now has structural power over the global economy
Trump may declare the Iran war “over"
That does not mean a return to normal
It means the emergence of a new baseline:
Iran now has structural power over the global economy
If U.S. forces don’t visibly withdraw—carriers, MEUs, air assets—
nothing has changed
If they do withdraw, the system doesn’t stabilize
It shifts to a new equilibrium of permanent instability
Israel’s strikes won’t stop.
Iran’s leverage will grow.
Energy markets will remain structurally unstable.
The war isn’t ending.
Iran's new geopolitical power is becoming the baseline
Iran: 'The Strait of Hormuz will certainly reopen, but not for the USA' – 🤣 😆 😍
Iran to reopen Strait of Hormuz but only ‘to those who obey Tehran's new laws’
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/iran-to-reopen-strait-of-hormuz-but-only-to-those-who-obey-new-laws-5HjdX9G_2/
'The head of the Iranian parliament’s national security committee said that American vessels would not be allowed to pass.
The Iranian committee has signed off proposals to charge tolls to pass through the strait. It will cost ships around £1.5m to pass through.
Ebrahim Azizi, the head of the Iranian parliament’s national security committee, posted on social media: “Trump has finally achieved his dream of ‘regime change’ – but in the region’s maritime regime!
“The Strait of Hormuz will certainly reopen, but not for you; it will be open for those who comply with the new laws of Iran. The 47 years of hospitality are over forever.”...'
#JD20260401 #JDLinkBlog
#IranWar #Iran #USpol
#USA #Winning !!!
"A growing body of evidence, drawn from leaked planning documents, academic research, and the testimony of intelligence professionals, suggests that the most consequential military operation of the twenty-first century may have been shaped less by strategic necessity than by a phenomenon researchers now call AI sycophancy — the tendency of large language models to tell their users exactly what they want to hear."
https://houseofsaud.com/iran-war-ai-psychosis-sycophancy-rlhf/
To me the remarkable thing about this story is that it was broken by the Washington Examiner, a hard-core right-wing rag of long standing. They don't tend to go after Trump appointees out of some lofty sense of justice. It makes me wonder who decided it was time for Banks to get a kick in the nuts, and why
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Border Patrol chief Michael Banks hit with prostitution allegations by agents
By Anna Giaritelli
April 1, 2026 5:00 am
At 21:00 Eastern, at the Resolute Desk, the President will address the citizens of the United States informing them that the Iran war was actually just an April Fools joke
Fascism treats women as mere breeders. "Children, kitchen, and church" was the Nazi slogan for women.
#fascism #uspol #history #propaganda
Will this disaster finally move US public opinion on #climatechange to the point where policy reflects reality? #uspol https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/01/snowmelt-american-west?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Trump will put on a dress and slink into a lifeboat rather that go down with the Titanic.
#TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansDidThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #NoKings #USPol
Before the cuts, governments and landowners across #Texas stood to collect nearly $50B from current and planned projects, with roughly 3/4 of counties positioned to benefit. Now, many of these developments—and their hoped-for revenue—face a precarious future. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-clean-energy-future-political-winds/
#energy #sustainability #politics #USpol #news #Trump #environment
It's not like I want the constant hysterics of MS NOW or Fox News, but one of the things I can't stand about mainstream journalism is the tendency to refer to obvious things in a mealy mouthed way.
Today's example is from the Washington Post article "Hegseth exonerates helicopter crews over Kid Rock flyby, nullifying Army probe":
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/03/31/hegseth-kid-rock-flyby/
(Or: https://archive.ph/ejpZ5 )
"Hegseth’s swift intervention in the case raised immediate questions about whether the military can hold its own accountable for actions that Hegseth may deem politically favorable."
Is this an April Fool's Day joke? It doesn't "raise questions" about this, it's an incontrovertible example of it!
Fairness in journalism doesn't preclude calling things as they are. In fact, it demands it.
Bc lawless egoists lead the #US:🚨“It's unconscionable that US forces would knowingly put civilians at risk by leaving their bases & moving to hotels in the densely pop city cens🚨-the CMDRs who ordered these relocations➡️right into the heart of the civ pops, should be investigated for violating US laws of war.”
#Iran has urged ppl in the Gulf reg to report on US MIL troop locs off their bases. Iranian strikes have since killed civilians in the UAE, BH & KW.
#IranWar #USPol
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/us/politics/troops-iran-hotels.html?unlocked_article_code=1.XlA.ogbp.dsVi-0er6gyN&smid=tw-share
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@RnDanger/116330305902937100
Trump is an orange cat. Nobody wanted him, some people feel sorry for him, but most of us are just upset that he consistently shits on the furniture #usPol
(If this cat wants to live with me it needs to get its ear clipped and learn to use the litterbox. I even have a room we can lock him in during the transition)
New World Order
"We have enemies. They are not in Palestine. They are not in Lebanon. They are not in Iran. They are here. Among us."
"They dictate our lives. They are traitors to our ideals. They are traitors to our country. They envision a world of slaves & masters."
"Gaza is only the start. There are no internal mechanisms for reform."
"We can obstruct or surrender. Those are the only choices left."
Source: Chris Hedges Report Mar 28
#USPol #EUPol #Fascism #news #racism #NewWorldOrder .
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Koch plus murdoch, thiel, musk
Assault🚨on the CON, #RuleOfLaw, civil lib... The admin’s coord effort to deny basic 5A #DueProcess rights to all non-citizens🚨threatens: basic #rights➡️we enjoy as citizens. Violation of: 4A’s prohib on illegal searches/seizures not lim...➡️denial of these rights applies indiscrim to refugees, asylum seekers, DACA, TPS...
#ICE #CBP roundups swept up US citizens in “Kavanaugh stops”. #DHS: aggressive measures intend to discourage protests....
Push Back‼️
#Surveillance #USPol
https://steadystate1.substack.com/p/the-ice-gulag-power-surveillance
I can’t decide how funny I think this would be.
A T-shirt with Arabic writing on it that simply said, in Arabic, “release the Epstein file.”
The idea being that non-Arabic speakers would have to ask me what it says (which I would cheerfully answer), and Arabic speakers (presumably?) would chuckle.
It’s that second half that I don’t know about.
I also don’t know whether it’s even possible. A lot of non-English languages just toss in English for things like “Epstein files.”
I dunno - I can see Clarence Thomas voting for anything for the tRump regime.
#Birthright
#USpol
“This will likely be a 9-0 ruling against the administration. Embarrassing oral arguments here. Astoundingly embarrassing.” - The Resistance
Barrett's argument, a bit ago, about how come the SLAVES were brought here UNLAWFULLY (...) and yet their children were citizens leads to interesting places, re: the children of undocumented immigrants.
A federal judge just ruled that #Trump can face civil liability for inciting violence in the Jan 6 insurrection. His incendiary speeches that day were "unofficial" acts not covered by presidential immunity.
See the decision by Amit Mehta of the DC district court.
https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2021cv0400-219
Also see the summary in Politico.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/31/trump-setback-civil-suits-capitol-riot-00853761
If #SCOTUS overturns birthright citizenship, Marco Rubio could lose his U.S. citizenship, if they apply any ruling to politically "connected" people.
Rubio's parents were not U.S. citizens at the time of Rubio's birth on May 28, 1971. They were naturalized in 1975.
His parents were Cubans, of Spanish and Italian descent, who immigrated to the United States in 1956 during the regime of Fulgencio Batista, two and a half years before Fidel Castro ascended to power after the Cuban Revolution., which Rubio lied about and said he fled the Castro regime.
Texas Pastor (and former Trump spiritual advisor) sentenced to 10 years for child sex abuse -- is free after only 6 months. #PedoProtectors #uspol #EpsteinFiles #uspolitics
Trump losing support from core supporters as approval drops to record low in new polling
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5810850-trump-approval-hits-new-low/
❗️ Iran threatens Microsoft, Apple, Google & other top US companies
'For every assassination, one American company will be destroyed'
https://x.com/RT_com/status/2038996923701510488
#DonaldTrump #EpsteinClass #IsraelFirst
#StraitOfHormuz = #Iran #Sanctions
#news #socialmedia #uspol #mastodon #usa @politics @socialmedia #resistance #education #europe #middleeast #war #eu #humanrights #activism #protest #cdnpoli #canada #Palestine #Hezbollah #ai ##FreePalestine #Lebanon #economy @humanities #Cuba #tech @technology
🇮🇷 "The permanent passage of Israeli ships through the strait will be banned, for all of history, under our management."
https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/2039309551531671918
#Iran #StraitOfHormuz #news #resistance #freepalestine
#DonaldTrump #EpsteinClass #IsraelFirst
#StraitOfHormuz = #Iran #Sanctions
#news #socialmedia #uspol #mastodon #usa @politics @socialmedia #resistance #education #europe #middleeast #war #eu #activism #protest #cdnpoli #canada #Palestine #Hezbollah #ai ##FreePalestine #Lebanon #economy #Cuba
Interview: "Trump’s Iran Strategy: Bluff, Blackmail or Real War?"
The Americans had "a poor assessment, not only of Iranian capabilities, but, more importantly, of Iran's willingness to match Israel & American aggression step by step."
~Mouin Rabbani, analyst
"This war is not just about Iran—it’s about shifting global power, the future of the Middle East, & the fate of Palestine."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF0poYQQ514
#USPol #EUPol #IranWar #USCrimes #IsraeliCrimes #news #USImperialism .
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Map of ME shipping routes
"Record wind output helps shield the UK from worst of Iran war fallout."
Meanwhile, Trump is making sure Americans have no choice but pay for highly polluting gas by blocking the use of renewable energy.
#iran #war #fossilfuel #gas #climatechange #renewable #wind #economy #pollution #uspol #trump
No Kings! Your reps need to hear from you daily to protect and restore democracy: Call them.(thanks to https://www.5calls.org/ )
* Stop the unauthorized military strikes on Iran, impeach Hegseth
* (Federal and State) Publicly investigate the figures in the Epstein files
* Block the Paramount merger.
* Reform FISA Section 702 to Stop Government Surveillance
* H.R. 7661, a bill that opens the door for nationwide book banning
* (Senate) Oppose the SAVE act.
Find your rep: https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative
Senators:
Schiff: 202-224-3841
Padilla: 202-224-3553 (Fresno 559-497-5109 and Sacramento 916-448-2787)
Governor Newsom: 916-445-2841
#politics #democrats #democracy #California #santaclara #USPol #CAPol
US Pol [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
Strength? Power?
I see an immature adult with a fragile ego and zero empathy who childishly needs his face/name on everything. True leaders earn their honors via great deeds.
He's a little boy throwing tantrums. Close your eyes. Listen to him talk. When he doesn't get his way, he kicks and screams.
In a 1961 Twilight Zone episode (It's a Good Life), a little boy (Billy Mumy) with infinite power isolates a town and toys with its residents because he can.
Sound familiar?
SPEAKING OF A PAPER TIGER...
Trump has said he is strongly considering pulling the US out of NATO - The Telegraph
"Oh yes, I would say [it's] beyond reconsideration. I was never swayed by NATO. I always knew they were a paper tiger, and Putin knows that too, by the way."
#AureFreePress #Politics #uspolitics #uspol
More News at @Free_Press
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FUCK THIS SHIT. 😡 The Jews™️ are most definitely NOT amused.
SHOT:
#UPenn must comply with federal subpoena seeking list of #Jewish community members, judge rules
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/31/us/upenn-subpoena-jewish-community-list
TRUMP CRIME FAMILY
When the 'Joker' takes over and runs Gotham City!
Trump’s Justice Department dropped 23,000 criminal investigations, then shifts focus to non-white immigration!
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol
More News at @Free_Press
The Iran war threatens US domination of the oil market (petrodollar).
What happens when countries try to break the dollar’s grip on energy trade? Look at what happened in 2003 to Iraq after it moved to price Iraq’s oil exports in euros instead of US dollars.
In 2021, Iran began selling up to 95% of its oil in yuan. That's ok, said the US, "as long as the practice remained limited to Iran. It did not"
Trump is the gift that keeps on giving to every totalitarian and would-be totalitarian shithead on the planet. What utter filth.
#uspol #uspolitics #politics #fascism #moron #fool #clown #shitstain
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A (real!) overwatch end-of-game DEFEAT card, with a green REWARD EARNED: [clown icon] CLOWN along the bottom, which was part of an event thing and it all did actually happen.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@randahl/116325598364670792
am sorry, but $4/gallon in 2026 is a fucking joke. back in the 1990s, gas was $7/g̶a̶l̶l̶o̶n̶ litre in many european countries.
petrol should be $20 a gallon if not more because USians should have changed the way they develop suburbs.
USA DOESN’T NEED CARS, it needs walkable towns with stores, hospitals, schools, post offices, grocery stores.
i hate USA suburbs because they are literally food, health care and education deserts.
KILL THE USA SUBURB,
SAVE THE WORLD.
Ugh. US Forest Service HQ moving from DC to Utah.
My friend who has worked there for 20 years will now be looking at early retirement I guess. She sure as hell isn't moving to Utah.
https://wapo.st/4v3rMym (gift link)
The one thing pundits will never say is that gas prices are the only thing that matter and none of their opinions are worth a 💩.
Holy shit, (american) people. CW your endless protest/vote arguing with #uspol for the love of everyone else on this planet.
Newsletter: Coinbase is accused of holding the cryptocurrency industry hostage over stablecoin rewards, prediction markets face an onslaught of opposition, and a Stand With Crypto poll can’t even get enthusiasm from its own activists
HOW TRUMP OPERATES...
1. Create Problem
2. Fail Miserably at Solving Said Problem.
3. Pass the buck and make it someone else’s problem.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Breaking #BreakingNews
More News at @Free_Press
Trump Tuesday Morning...
MAGA fundamentalists 'panicked' by rise of Christian progressives
The James Dobson Family Institute published an article by far-right evangelical Christian fundamentalist Gary Bauer — president of American Values and former president of the Family Research Council — headlined "The Left Wants to Hijack Jesus! Don't Let Them."
"Pete Hegseth's pastor, Brooks Potteiger, was so incensed by Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Texas, James Talarico's faith and politics that he went so far as to wish for his death."
#USPol
"The PrSM detonates just before contact with its target, exploding into a huge number of tungsten pellets that are sprayed outward. Video of the strike shows the missile exploding just above the hall and school, and images of the aftermath show an array of pockmarks in the school, playground, and yard around the area."
#WarCrimes #Children #USpol #Iran #Zionism
#WesternComplicitg
US Killed Children in Iran Using New Missile That Explodes Into Pellets | Truthout
https://truthout.org/articles/us-killed-children-in-iran-using-new-missile-that-scatters-pellets-explosively/
Cory Booker says Democrats have ‘failed this moment’ and calls for new leaders
Senator’s comments come amid growing divisions within the party, which he says has ‘too small of a coalition’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/29/cory-booker-democratic-party
Kids can be subjected to harmful 'conversion therapy,’ U.S. Supreme Court rules, court saying conversion therapy is basically protected under the 1st amendment speech since it is primarily "talking."
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, on Transgender Day of Visibility, struck down Colorado’s ban on so-called “conversion therapy” for minors. The decision elevates abstract free-speech doctrine over a growing body of medical evidence and leaves LGBTQ+ youth more exposed to a practice doctors have long described as harmful. The Court ruled 8–1, with a broad majority, including two liberal justices, joining the opinion striking down the law, and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissenting.
Colorado argued that conversion therapy is not merely an expression but a form of clinical intervention — one associated, major medical groups say, with depression, anxiety, and increased suicide risk. The Court was unpersuaded and concluded that the Constitution does not allow the government to decide which messages may be delivered in a therapist’s office.
🔗 Kids can be subjected to harmful 'conversion therapy,’ U.S. Supreme Court rules #News #SCOTUS #USPol
It's a stunning setback for #LGBTQ+ young people who are put at significant risk for harm by this decision.
https://www.advocate.com/news/scotus-rejects-conversion-therapy-bans
"The #Trump admin🚨criticizes our Eur allies for supposedly restricting #FreeSspeech by regulating SM,🚨but when #Russia bans FB, X, IG, WA, YT, & TEL & the internet itself, not a peep."
-R Stengel
"When a fire broke out this month in a shopping cen a few mins’ walk from the Kremlin, one of #Russia’s scrappy TEL news CHs sent a reporter to the scene. Problem:🚨mobile data was completely down in the center of Moscow, TEL: throttled. Blackouts & blockages: cause havoc.
#USPol
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/world/europe/russia-putin-telegram-internet.html?unlocked_article_code=1.XVA.T5Wr.cCqzW2skJPiY&smid=nytcore-ios-share
Iran IRGC just listed the legitimate American companies for the retaliation of the current escalation of the war on Iran.
1. sisco
2. HP
3. Intel
4. Oracle
5. microsoft
6. Apple
7. Google
8. Meta
9. IBM
10. DEL
11. Plantier
12. Nvidia
13. GP. Morgan
14. Tesla
15. GE
16. Spire Solution
17. G42
18. Boeing
The spokeman of IRGC warned that offices and assets of those companies will all be targeted by the IRGC drones and missiles in the future.
#WarOnIran #EspteinWar #WarOfAggression #Israel #Technology #Politics #USpol #WestAsia #Iran #US #IRGC
Disturbing case study in censorship and self-censorship: climate scientists trying to do their work without using the word "climate".
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/to-keep-climate-science-alive-researchers-are-speaking-in-code
#BannedWords #Censorship #Climate #DefendResearch #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
“King Charles and Queen Camilla's state visit to US to go ahead in April’
WTF ?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjd8nkezdyxo
#trump #iran #iranWar #middleeast #israel #donaldtrump #gop #republicans #congress #usa #us #uspol #uspolitics #epstein #epsteinfiles #economy #economics #trade #oil #gas #uk #ukpol #ukpolitics #kingcharles #britain #british #eu #europe
Gideon Levy:
Every Israeli gets, with his mother's milk, that:
* "we are the biggest victims in the world, the David against the Goliath."
* "we are the chosen people - so we have the right to do whatever we want."
* "the Palestinians were born to kill, & the only thing in their mind is how to kill us & to push us away from here."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DhiN3UhwHY
#USPol #EUPol #IsraeliExceptionalism #Racism #Palestine #News .
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The Israeli media has much more influence than the
education system does.
Until the age of 20, | never heard the word Nakba. | had no
idea what it is. | saw the ruins in all over Israel. | never asked
what are those ruins? Who are their owners? What happened
to them?
Every Israeli gets, with his mother's milk, that we are the
biggest victims in the world, the David against the Goliath.
We are the chosen people - so we have the right to do
whatever we want. The Palestinians were born to kill, & the
only thing in their mind is how to kill us & to push us away
from here.
When you are brought up in such an atmosphere with all
those values, you get an Israeli who is totally convinced in
anything his army & state is doing, who immediately labels
any criticism as anti-semitism, who thinks that international
law does not apply to Israel because Israel is a special case.
Israel is a victim & there is no other victim like Israel in the
world, & we are the chosen people.
Gideon Levy, 29 Mar, 2026 (abridged)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DhiN3UhwHY
Trump [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
Normally, they name stuff after dead presidents. We live in hope...
But I can't help thinking that naming an airport after oneself when air accidents are increasing might not be a good look!
I guess with increasing oil prices, soon no-one will be able to fly - end of problem!
"Ron DeSantis signs bill renaming Palm Beach airport after Donald Trump."