Stephen A. Rhodes

On MSNOW, an economic analyst said that the job numbers for the last six months now indicate zero job growth with the February report being the largest monthly job losses.

It’s complete crap since this change. I only use it in my office to listen to music. Whereas before, I could just ask it to play my public radio station, it now no longer understands my words and gives me some strange playlist.

The Most Chilling Detail in the U.S. Attack on an Iranian Naval Ship The Iranian warship was taking part in an international exercise with many other countries—including the United States.

This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea.
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I personally love nonfiction.

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump There will be no deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER! After that, and the selection of a GREAT & ACCEPTABLE Leader(s), we, and many of our wonderful and very brave allies and partners, will work tirelessly to bring Iran back from the brink of destruction, making it economically bigger, better, and stronger than ever before. IRAN WILL HAVE A GREAT FUTURE. “MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN (MIGA!).” Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP 65 ReTruths 208 Likes Mar 06, 2026, 8:50 AM

Meanwhile, Hormuz not opening any time soon

NBC News headline: The US economy lost 92,000 jobs in February, stoking labor market worries

92,000 jobs reportedly lost in February, and that’s even with Donald’s new people in place at BLS, so who knows how many were really lost. But don’t worry folks, Trump says we have the hottest economy in the world, amirite? 🤷‍♂️🙄

Correction: Mullins is the only member of the Senate without a bachelor’s degree — there are a handful in the House.

Markwayne (one word) Mullins is the only member of Congress who doesn’t at least have a bachelor degree. And he apparently is known to put his finger in other people’s nostrils.

She’s going to use taxpayer funds to commission a portrait holding a shield or something, isn’t she?

This. Why would the Kurds ever trust us again?

Who's got cards now?

The Pentagon is thought to be in conversation with Ukraine 😲

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This is not how forgiveness works. It’s not a magic get out of jail card.

Rahm Emanuel is not happening in the Democratic Party no matter how hard you push him.

Why would any Kurd ever want to work with us again? We have betrayed their trust over and over again. We always leave them hanging and never fulfill the promises we made to them.

It is.

Great thread 🧵

Ken Paxton is so corrupt that he almost makes Trump seem honest in comparison.

Musk, worth $829 billion, owns X.

Bezos, worth $234 billion, owns The Washington Post & Twitch.

Zuckerberg, worth $231 billion, owns Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp.

And now Larry Ellison, worth $202 billion, is about to control CNN, CBS, TikTok & HBO.

Yes, this is oligarchy.

great thread on how we got here

i'll add that a lot of this was primed by the rise and mainstreaming of pentecostalism in the interwar period—they were jonesing for another world war in the 1930s, and were awfully disappointed when WWII failed to deliver armageddon and the second coming

The glibness. The indifference. The carelessness. The utter lack of planning for a war against a country of 90M. The sickness of a man who acts on whim that will kill thousands not hundreds. The horror of a regime that enables this sickness. The broken body politic that votes in such malignancy.

This 100%.

I had completely forgotten about it.

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for those of you who werent adults during iraq, its hard to overstate how much the media loves war porn. they salivate over pentagon spin briefings. they love stories about all the bombs and how supposedly infallible they are. they love the notion of the commander in chief, in the situation room etc

Trump is just riffing. Begins with the Iran attack and soon loses interest and starts talking about the White House drapes and his plans for the ballroom. He can’t even feign seriousness about the war he initiated.

Frida Kahlo is a famous disabled artist. Her art explores her disability. When she had the accident that disabled her, she painted from her bed in her casts. Many artists in history have been disabled. Many are now. You will not find them fighting to have AI take their creative process from them.

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez: “Today more than ever, it is essential to remember that one can be against a hateful regime as is the case with the Iranian regime…and at the same time be against an unjustified, dangerous military intervention outside of international law.”

Of course. No one wanted this war. They wanted food and health care and energy prices to go down. Now all those things will cost more.

It's a war of folly by a doddering old man who likes when things blow up and needs to distract us from the child sex ring he's connected to.

Another Fetterman in the making.