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Political and media researcher. Just trying to make the world safe for democracy. All views are my own. Research Director @mmfa.bsky.social Book learnin' –– OSU, GU, KCL

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Living in Dubai never made any sense! It’s terrible.

06.03.2026 04:01 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

They got lucky in Venezuela. There was tactical skill too, of course, but if the rest of the regime didn’t want to play ball, if Maduro dodged it, if a lucky shot or accident killed US troops, etc.

Trump and Co. were really feeling themselves after Venezuela, and thought Iran would be easy too.

06.03.2026 02:56 👍 207 🔁 23 💬 8 📌 1

Worse than the worst War on Terror drone strikes. By innocents killed, worse than multiple of the worst drone strike errors combined.

06.03.2026 03:03 👍 759 🔁 220 💬 28 📌 3
The White House did not directly comment on the investigation, but press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement ​to Reuters, “While the Department of War is currently investigating this matter, the Iranian regime targets civilians and children, not the United States ​of America.”
Asked about the incident during a news briefing on Wednesday, Hegseth said: “We’re investigating that. We, of course, never target civilian targets. But we’re taking a ‌look and ⁠investigating that.”

The White House did not directly comment on the investigation, but press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement ​to Reuters, “While the Department of War is currently investigating this matter, the Iranian regime targets civilians and children, not the United States ​of America.” Asked about the incident during a news briefing on Wednesday, Hegseth said: “We’re investigating that. We, of course, never target civilian targets. But we’re taking a ‌look and ⁠investigating that.”

We would never target civilians except for those 150 little girls and don’t forget the hospital and of course all of the other collateral damage from our thousands of illegal strikes so far this week.

06.03.2026 03:44 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

This isn’t just impeachable, this is criminal negligence and in a just society everyone involved (including the weapons officer who released the munitions) should face prison. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

06.03.2026 03:42 👍 68 🔁 20 💬 2 📌 2
06.03.2026 03:38 👍 77 🔁 19 💬 2 📌 0
“I guess,” Trump, 79, responded. “But I think they’re worried about that all the time. We think about it all the time. We plan for it. But yeah, you know, we expect some things."

"Like I said, some people will die," the president added. "When you go to war, some people will die."

“I guess,” Trump, 79, responded. “But I think they’re worried about that all the time. We think about it all the time. We plan for it. But yeah, you know, we expect some things." "Like I said, some people will die," the president added. "When you go to war, some people will die."

It’s unimaginable that any other president in U.S. history would have such callous disregard for Americans.

06.03.2026 03:38 👍 25 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 1
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Trump Says 'I Guess' Americans Should Worry About Iran Retaliating on U.S. Soil: 'Like I Said, Some People Will Die' In an interview with 'Time,' President Donald Trump acknowledged the possibility that Iran retaliates with attacks on U.S. soil, saying, 'We think about it all the time. We plan for it'

Honestly, this headline quote is impeachable. people.com/trump-says-i...

06.03.2026 03:36 👍 83 🔁 23 💬 3 📌 0
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Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

Reuters Exclusive

"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."

"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

06.03.2026 02:50 👍 5890 🔁 3259 💬 369 📌 424

If you watched The Simpsons back when it was still good you’ve seen every scene of that film done up as a skit though.

06.03.2026 03:28 👍 37 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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Trump hints U.S. will turn to Cuba after Iran: 'Just a question of time' The Cuba comments show Trump, less than a week into an escalating military conflict in Iran, is considering another major foreign policy move.

I dunno, I feel like we probably shouldn’t host the World Cup or Olympics if we’re threatening to invade Greenland and Canada and either bombing or threatening to bomb Nigeria, Somalia, Syria, Yemen, Iran, Iraq, Venezuela, Ecuador, Mexico, and Cuba.

www.cnbc.com/2026/03/05/t...

05.03.2026 23:41 👍 21 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

The Republicans’ cowardice during this Article I crisis amounts to a de facto nullification of Congress.

05.03.2026 23:37 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0

The Republican-controlled House and Senate refused their constitutional obligations today by not initiating the War Powers resolution. But they did not affirm, authorize, or support the war at all in any way. It remains completely illegal.

05.03.2026 23:27 👍 88 🔁 20 💬 1 📌 0

But he’s none of those things?

05.03.2026 21:35 👍 22 🔁 1 💬 6 📌 0
"I hope you are impressed," he said to me. "How do you like the performance? I mean, Venezuela is obvious. This might be even better. How do you like the performance?"

"I hope you are impressed," he said to me. "How do you like the performance? I mean, Venezuela is obvious. This might be even better. How do you like the performance?"

"I hope you are impressed," he said to me. "How do you like the performance? I mean, Venezuela is obvious. This might be even better. How do you like the performance?"

"How do you like the performance?"

An illegal war for the sake of spectacle and the amusement of POTUS.

05.03.2026 21:08 👍 1874 🔁 724 💬 147 📌 183

this chart really undermines the veracity of the “Repubs are a broad national party/Dems are in bubbles” myth that a lot of people in both parties and the punditocracy are super attached to

05.03.2026 20:54 👍 55 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 1
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Corey Lewandowski is expected to leave DHS with Kristi Noem, according to Fox News' Jacqui Heinrich.

A Whte House source also says that "t was a combination of her many unfortunate leadership failures. From MN to the ad campaign to the allegations of an affair."

05.03.2026 20:26 👍 378 🔁 105 💬 44 📌 39

Nobody puts Tommy in a corner!

05.03.2026 21:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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"It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months."

— Donald Rumsfeld on the Iraq War (7 Feb 2003).

05.03.2026 17:26 👍 1635 🔁 599 💬 79 📌 60

Cursed sentence bsky.app/profile/empt...

05.03.2026 21:01 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is Ron Johnson erasure.

05.03.2026 21:00 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0

Trump’s occasional decisions that utterly and personally humiliate his idiots are always a fun guest star.

05.03.2026 20:36 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The image isn’t the joke, the act of asking Claude at all is tongue in cheek made even more macabre by the Claude prompt being less evasive and more detailed than the governments that used Claude for targeting.

05.03.2026 20:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

This is a US Senator saying this, bros.

05.03.2026 20:17 👍 17 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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05.03.2026 18:06 👍 104 🔁 4 💬 6 📌 0

We should return to the constitutional process of formally declaring wars.

If we ever needed to fight a war it should also come with the tax increases to pay for it.

05.03.2026 17:56 👍 28 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 1

Elbridge Colby is the blobbiest nepo baby to every nepo for the blob and everyone who convinced themselves he was a maverick standing up for a coherent strategy for a Pacific Pivot got ludicrously bamboozled

05.03.2026 17:43 👍 312 🔁 55 💬 7 📌 2

They’re not “war criminals” they’re War Criminals (who also happen to be war criminals).

05.03.2026 17:50 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Gas prices are now up YoY, but still down on the 2yr and 3yr stacks (for now)

05.03.2026 17:20 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Right-wing Christian media are celebrating Trump’s war with Iran as a fulfillment of End Times prophecy.

➡️ www.mediamatters.org/us-iran-rela...

04.03.2026 18:45 👍 165 🔁 84 💬 59 📌 33