We don’t have the budget, ships, or crews to sit in the Strait of Hormuz forever playing “guardian angel” for global oil traffic. Keeping a permanent carrier group there costs billions, burns through readiness, and ties down forces we need elsewhere.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo ago

Trump says US might impose tolls in the strait: “There will be NO TOLLS in the Hormuz Strait for 60 days during the Cease Fire Period, & there will be NO TOLLS after 60 day period, unless they are imposed by and for the US, should the deal not be completed, for services rendered as Guardian Angel”

Well, I've been gone for quite a while off this platform. I think it's time to reengage over here.

We should be asking the same question that MAGA and real Republicans we're asking just prior to the 2024 election. Are you better off than you were 14 months ago?

Jeremy Scahill says the White House is selling a story it wants to be true: that Iran is folding. In reality, Iran is setting terms, building alliances, and waiting Trump out. The result looks less like leverage and more like a trap.

Propaganda narrative crumbles in 'political disaster for Donald Trump': analysis

Negotiations between the United States and Iran to end the war are at an impasse as the conflict enters its third month. The Wall Street Journal reported late Tuesday that Trump has told aides to…

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MARCO RUBIO: These people are lunatics. They are insane STEPHANOPOULOS: You call then 'lunatics,' but Trump just posted that 'we're in discussions with a new and more reasonable regime'

BREAKING: After ProPublica published letters written by children at the Dilley concentration camp, ICE officers raided the dormitories and confiscated the children's letters. I'm suing ICE to get them back. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-i...

NEW: ICE Raided Children's Dorms at Dilley and Confiscated Their Letters. I'm Suing to Get Them Back.

In our latest lawsuit, MSW Media is demanding children's letters confiscated by ICE agents, and the Office of General Counsel memo authorizing warrantless home entry.

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I mean there it is.

NBC: Under intl law, hitting civilian infrastructure is prohibited. Why is POTUS threatening war crimes? LEAVITT: POTUS has made it quite clear to the Iranian regime their best move is to make a deal or else N: Which objectives would destroying a desalination plant help? LEAVITT: Haley, go ahead

Newsom: The New Testament and Old Testament have one dominant thing in common—Matthew, Isaiah, Luke, Proverbs, go down the list—it’s about food, about serving those who are hungry. It’s not a suggestion; it’s core and essential to what it means to align with God’s will.

The president had a MRI but won't say why. He had bruises on his hands but wouldn't say why. He just had an 'annual medical' even though he already had his annual medical. He got shot in the ear but has never released the medical records relating to it. How is any of this ok?

“Very, very unfair and even worse than Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl. Your favorite president was snubbed for someone who’s not even American.” www.reuters.com/world/venezu...

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Good morning all

SEN: @ossoff.bsky.social: “WHO’S GETTING FIRED AT THE VA?” COLLINS: 🤷🏼‍♂️

They’re assaulting the mothers and fathers of US soldiers. Roving gangs of masked men grab human beings off the street. They send them without due process to prisons in countries they’re not even from where they are then sold into slavery. Make it stop!!!

Between 1999 and 2023, heat deaths in the United States more than doubled. It’s a deadly climate crisis. Please take care. www.nytimes.com/2024/09/07/o...

Opinion | It’s Time to Name Heat Waves Like We Do Hurricanes

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Hard pass.

We don’t know what the real name of the Director of White House Personnel is, we don’t know what country he came from, he refuses to turn in background check forms, and nobody will ask the president or press secretary about it.

WATCH this! And then tell the Republicans in Congress that when they're burning down this house, there's people still inside. #DontKillOurMedicaid

Ted Cruz is doing the most Ted Cruziest thing imaginable - posting a bunch of clips from a debate that he lost.

I don't know about you...but I'm disturbed by the amount of hell NOT being raised by leadership about masked individuals jumping out of unmarked vans, refusing to identify themselves...and just shoving people into a Goddamn vehicle and whisking them away.

"THE END OF OUR CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC AS WE KNOW IT COULD BE HAPPENING NOW"

@jd-vance-1.bsky.social idiocy has entered the conversation

Just a few days ago, Speaker Mike Johnson, the puritanical pixie twit, refused to rule out arresting Governor Newsom. He added that Newsom should be “tarred and feathered,” a form of torture popularized by vigilantes. He is a reckless hypocrite.

"Veterans know the layoffs aren’t about saving money. They’re about weakening the institution and ultimately privatizing and gutting VA disability funding, as spelled out in Project 2025." share.google/pz6mLWSzZIYC...