What's the real reason for this war in Iran? Trump and Netanyahu are using the same authoritarian playbook. A big part of that playbook is using war to blot out your failures and any criticism you are facing at home.
Some thoughts...
Trump lies: "I don't know anything about the Epstein files. I've been fully exonerated."
The thing about the U.S. and Israel is that both of their leaders are trying to stay out of prison.
Lindsey Graham: “If we lose anybody in this operation, they will die a noble death because they will have sacrificed their lives to make us safer here at home.”
We’ve heard this before.
I’m not buying it now, and I didn’t buy it then.
The Daily Show reminded us in the montage below how Netanyahu has LIED about the "imminent" threat of Iran obtaining nuclear weapons since 1995. Netanyahu has for years wanted US to bomb Iran. Netanyahu simply found in Trump a moron willing to sacrifice Americans for his cause:
A building at Dartmouth is still named after Leon Black who has serious allegations against him in the Epstein files.
This is what I mean by the Epstein class.
If the United States is going to go around the world causing regime changes, we should practice here first.
Your attack on Iran is working. No one is talking about you raping children
I thought it was for this reason as well…
They went to war with Iran (which nobody in America was asking for) so they could conjure an excuse to allow ICE to keep murdering Americans and teargassing schools here at home with impunity (which nobody in America was asking for).
While operations are coordinated at a members-only, private beach club — in between fundraisers and parties.
That's right. Worse than Pointless
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/o...
The question is: will the average American - who has already paid $1000 in tariffs on average - receive any of this $$, or is it just more taxpayer $ for mega corporations?
Is the $10B Trump just stole for "the board of peace" going to be the first pot to us pay back from?
“The United States may be required to refund billions of dollars to importers who paid the IEEPA tariffs, even though some importers may have already passed on costs to consumers or others,” Kavanaugh wrote. “As was acknowledged at oral argument, the refund process is likely to be a ‘mess.’”
Oh yeah that’s my #4 for all politicians going forward. To recap:
#1. Fuck Trump
#2. Abolish ICE
#3. Protect trans folks
#4. Call a genocide a genocide
It's a bit fractured on the rationales, but the basic bottom line is a 6-3 majority, with Justices Thomas, Alito, and Kavanaugh dissenting:
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
So the Court's decision is not likely to greatly restrict Presidential tariff authority going forward. But the Court's decision is likely to generate other serious practical consequences in the near term. One issue will be refunds. Refunds of billions of dollars would have significant consequences for the U.S. Treasury. The Court says nothing today about whether, and if so how, the Government should go about returning the billions of dollars that it has collected from importers. But that process is likely to be a "mess," as was acknowledged at oral argument. Tr. of Oral Arg. 153-155. A second issue is the decision's effect on the current trade deals. Because IEEPA tariffs have helped facilitate trade deals worth trillions of dollars—including with foreign nations from China to the United Kingdom to Japan, the Court's decision could generate uncertainty regarding various trade agreements. That process, too, could be difficult.
Kavanaugh is attempting to manufacture the legal doctrine of pointus de noreturnis: If the regime’s unlawful actions are too difficult to unwind, we apparently have no choice but to see them through.
For satire to work, it must either be so outrageous as to make us take pause or it must be rooted in truth. I believe this is satire rooted in truth.
DOOCY: On Prince Andrew, do you think American associates of Jeffrey Epstein will wind up in handcuffs too?
TRUMP: I'm the expert in a way because I've been totally exonerated. That's very nice. I can actually speak about it very nicely. I think it's a shame. I did nothing.
He has not been exonerated
But he doesn’t believe powerful men should be subjected to the same rules and laws that the rest of us are
Pam Bondi has been a complete and total failure at her job. The Epstein survivors showed more courage just by being in that room than she did under oath. She refused to answer questions and chose complicity.
America deserves better.
NEGUSE: AG Bondi, that man works for you now, right? The man in that video from J6 yelling 'kill them!' at cops. His name is Jared Wise.
BONDI: He does work for us, yes. I believe he was pardoned
NEGUSE: And you expect hard-working police officers to believe you take law enforcement seriously?
👇🏽
Gestapos opened fire, striking Martinez 5 times in the arm, chest & both legs
1 gestapo had body cam ... Martinez has said in court that it shows an officer shouting "do something b--"
The gestapo who shot her, in a group text: "I fired 5 rounds & she had 7 holes. Put that in your book, boys."
Someone explain to me why the men’s names are redacted?
Kristi Noem misled the American people and allowed ICE to violate Americans’ Constitutional rights.
She needs to be impeached.
reminder that a small handful of Republicans in the House and Senate could end this madness today
This isn’t about convicting Don Lemon. It’s unlikely that will happen. It’s about intimidating journalists & making them censure themselves out of fear of consequences. It’s about eroding the free press because the administration can’t afford the criticism.
COLBERT: “.. Do not compare ICE or the border patrol to the Nazis. .. The Nazis were willing to show their faces.”
@colbertlateshow.bsky.social
If the President is suing the IRS for $10 billion, why shouldn't the capos get a taste?
Marco Rubio has many titles, except when it’s time to take accountability. He may be the Secretary of State, but Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are negotiating with foreign leaders behind his back. When did the Senate confirm them as our representatives on the world stage?
