This administration would be so funny if it wasn’t so historically embarrassing and destructive. America deserves serious leaders.
And yesterday Trump demanded that Ukraine stop bombing Russian refineries.
Can we all agree that this is not OK? Listen to this armed lunatic threaten this poor woman!
Aaron Fritschner@fritschner.bsky.social · 2mo agoVideo of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.
I wonder how much of the $300bn we’re paying them will go towards Trump Tower-Tehran?
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 4mo agoBREAKING: The US has released the full 14-point memorandum with Iran.
If the Nobel committee won’t give Trump the Peace Prize for ending the most number of wars… maybe they’ll give it to him for ending one war the most number of times.
The Spectator Index | Global News@spectatorindexen.bsky.social · 4mo agoBREAKING: Trump says Iran close to deal, but talks could take a few more weeks.Link
"I expect soon that Trump will come up with a fund to compensate those men in the Epstein files for the embarrassment they had to go through" - LP Senior Advisor Stuart Stevens
Just how stupid do they think we are?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo agoNEWSNATION: But we did hear a much shorter timeframe at the beginning of this. How do we reconcile the original timeline with what we're dealing with now? GORKA: There's a very simple answer to your question -- we've just been too effective
So the Feds did more to investigate VA workers who went to Alex Pretti memorial than those who killed him.
Minnesota Reformer@minnesotareformer.com · 5mo agoCNN reported Tuesday morning that the Department of Veterans Affairs has opened investigations into employees who attended Alex Pretti memorials and spoke to the press.
LOL…I’m actually pretty confident that Witkopf and Trump would fall for a Sasha Baron Cohen prank like this…
it's an uncivil war@lucyksy.bsky.social · 7mo ago
Absolutely, totally normal stuff from Pete “Warcrimes-R-Us” Hegseth’s demented circle.
Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 7mo agowww.huffpost.com/entry/pete-h...
Absolutely shocking news about Trump’s bogus post about peace with Iran…
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 7mo agoFT Exclusive: Traders made bets worth half a billion dollars in the oil market about 15 minutes before Donald Trump’s post touting 'productive' talks with Iran sent the price of crude tumbling ft.trib.al/SVLeLoM
again I point out how strange it is that high-level diplomatic negotiations of war and peace are being conducted by freelancers Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, both of whom have egregious conflicts of interest, and not the actual secretary of state
So is he worried about the US military or Israel targeting our (fake) negotiating partners? Sounds like things are well under control…
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7mo agoQ: Who is Steve Witkoff speaking with in Iran? TRUMP: A top person Q: Who is it? TRUMP: I can't. I don't them to be killed
I truly don’t get how any veteran or serving member of the military can support this psychotic clown (spoken as a Desert Storm veteran)
The Lincoln Project@lincolnproject.us · 7mo ago150 US soldiers have been injured, 5,000 more heading into Iran today. Trump is a coward, criminal, five-time draft dodging piece of shit sending your kids to war.
I struggle to identify who I dislike most in the Trump regime, as the competition is fierce…while usually Stephen Miller sits firmly in the lead, I think this clown deserves the crown for the duration of this unnecessary war
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7mo agoHegseth: "Some in the press can't stop. Allow me to make suggestions. People look at the TV and they see banners, 'Mideast War Intensifies.' What should it read instead? How about, 'Iran increasingly desperate.' More fake news from CNN. The sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better"
I love the idea that *this* US government, which has been nabbing landscapers and five year olds knows where Iranian sleeper cells are but just hasn’t gotten around to doing anything about it yet.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7mo agoDOOCY: If Iran tries to hit us back, have you been briefed about how many Iran sleeper cells there could be inside the US right now? TRUMP: I have been, and a lot of people came in through Biden with his stupid open border. But we know where most of them are.
QUINTANILLA: Do we think the Russians have shared intel about US military assets, and if so, why would we be giving waivers on oil sanctions? WITKOFF: I can tell you that on the call with POTUS, the Russians said they have not been sharing. That's what they said. We can take them at their word.
There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.
Let me guess, wealthy people who moved to Dubai to avoid paying taxes now want the countries they moved from to protect them?
Yes, please keep trotting out one of the most unlikable dinguses in human history to tell people in swing states that he's going to yoink their federal funding. This is an excellent strategy. Proceed.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 8mo agoQ: Is there a point where the administration would withhold federal funds from Wisconsin? VANCE: We're going to look at every option that we have
BREAKING Former ICE agent: On my first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant.
The ICE surge in Minnesota cost $280M, to detain 4k people of whom only 30 were accused of violent crimes. $9 million per capture of the "worst of the worst". Plus two citizens murdered. ~ Veterans for Peace
Hard to overstate the excellence of this long-read from @shaunwalker7.bsky.social on the Western and Ukrainian intelligence run-up to Russia's full-scale invasion: the Iraq War's legacy, Zelensky v Zaluzhny, the geopolitical forces that shaped what followed. Awesome work, wonderful writing.
A war foretold: how the CIA and MI6 got hold of Putin’s Ukraine plans and why nobody believed them
Drawing on more than 100 interviews with senior intelligence officials and other insiders in multiple countries, this exclusive account details how the US and Britain uncovered Vladimir Putin’s plans ...
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