Hehseth must resign
12.03.2026 16:15
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Hehseth must resign
"This fault lies directly on Trump and Hegseth" -- Sen. Andy Kim points out that the Trump administration gutted the budget for the DoD's "civilian protection center," which could've helped Hegseth and company not bomb an elementary school in Iran
🚨Young people staged a protest outside @Meta's HQ demanded the company pay for its role in the youth mental health crisis.
Read the story in the @the-independent.com 👇
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
"The question we should be asking is: why was any money paid out at all?"
Peter Mandelson asked for a £500k payout after he was fired as US ambassador, ultimately receiving £70k from the government.
But @maitlis.bsky.social asks: "What are you paying for?"
@jonsopel1.bsky.social @lewisgoodall.com
WICKER: Sen. Gillibrand, you did not mean to say that we targeted a school?
GILLIBRAND: That missile hit a school
Gillibrand: "How they missed this was a girls' school is very concerning to me. If Sec. Hegseth did not cut the funding for this area of review by 90%, if he did not continually try to undermine the rules & procedures our service members & generals take - I think he should resign bc of this failure"
Bless Liz Landers, who repeatedly and forcefully called out President Criminal’s election lies right to his bruised face.
The NHS waiting list in England has fallen for the third month in a row
I think we're seeing that existential crisis in full display this week!
Lower bills.
Protect the NHS.
Protect public services.
And replace Labour.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
"It’s almost as if Trump felt that, as a would-be dictator, he had to have his own nihilistic war, just like his idol Vlad Putin. But Trump’s 'excursion' against Iran is nothing like Putin’s years long 'special military operation' against Ukraine — it’s actually more stupid." — @davidrlurie.com
Shocker
This is what Reform UK in power looks like
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/reform-uk-george-finch-no-confidence-5HjdWDq_2/
US bombers loading up on UK airstrips before raining down bombs on Iran.
Parliament wasn't consulted - and polling shows huge numbers oppose it.
When do MPs get a say over our involvement in this war?
www.forbes.com/sites/peters...
The fate of the Iran War now rests on whether the US can secure the Strait of Hormuz.
If the US can't secure it, Iran will have massive leverage over the global economy & therefore over Trump.
The only other way to overcome this is regime change, but Trump can't do that without huge ground forces.
Trump doesn't realise that Iran has gamed this scenario for literally decades. The regime knows it can't win a conventional military fight. So its aiming for a tactical victory by shutting the Strait of Hormuz via asymmetric warfare.
No quick and easy way out for Trump without a humiliating defeat.
If either the current iteration of the bill, or the pie-in-the-sky version Trump is now reaching for, were to become law, it would be a massive disruption for this year's midterm elections. https://cnn.it/40rkeHM
Energy Secretary Chris Wright: "We're less than two weeks into this 47 year long conflict"
The US hasn’t been releasing true casualty figures. The strike on Kuwait in the early hours of the war was worse than previously revealed.
The UN Refugee Agency says more than 3.2 million people have been displaced in Iran since the start of the war.
The big decision to release oil reserves yesterday has had little effect. Price per barrel soared above $100. It’s now hovering in the high 90s. Traders are expecting Trump and Netanyahu’s war to be prolonged.
If Mandelson isn't entitled to any severance pay, it shouldn't matter than it was "only" £75,000 rather than £547,000.
That's not a bargain when the alternative was £0, it's a cop out.
And if he is entitled to severance pay, then there should be a solid legal trail to back up that assertion.
“'The administration thoughtlessly terminated people with crisis experience, and now they’re left without depth in the bench in the middle of a wide scale and broadening crisis,' said a former official with more than a decade experience in evacuation operations..."
www.cnn.com/2026/03/10/p...
Trump says he doesn't care about Iranian democracy. Of course, he doesn't care about American democracy either.
This is a polite way of saying that Trump just makes up imaginary numbers as he goes, and they're generally unrelated to both reality and whatever imaginary numbers he made up yesterday or last week.
The list of things Trump cares about has only one thing on it.
The US military accidentally struck an Iranian elementary school, in an attack that state media said killed at least 168 children and 14 teachers, likely due to outdated information about a nearby naval base, according to two sources. https://cnn.it/4bzFnFT
TBF, it's hard to take a picture that makes this man look good.🤷♀️
So the bottom line is no one should ever put Pete's picture in any publication ever again.
