Always the first to flee while everyone else suffers the consequences.

Holy shit! This is definitely a warning.

Iran’s Fars News Agency released a new propaganda video showing a massive underground drone arsenal.

It’s really crazy how much I’ve been agreeing with Rep. Thomas Massie recently!

www.draftbarrontrump.com

As a historian, I'd just like to remind the politicians who follow me that it is not, in fact, 2003 anymore and the current GOP war in the Middle East is not, in fact, even remotely popular.

So if you're a weathervane who just tries to do what's already popular, full-throated opposition is it!

Harrison Ford's Actor Awards Lifetime Achievement acceptance speech was beautiful. If he wrote it, he should be getting writing awards.

Vladimir Putin sent condolences to Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian over the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his family, calling it a "cynical murder."

ru.themoscowtimes.com/2026/03/01/p...

The Trump SCIF (Sloppily Curtained Info Fort) will soon be for sale in the Mar-a-Lago gift shop:

Is Convicted Felon Donald Trump’s super-duper secure SCIF with soft banquet-hall curtains, open air top, unsecured electronic devices, and roving guests located next to the bathroom where the classified documents are stored?

A tragic update from US Central Command:

3 US service members are dead and 5 are seriously wounded

Death toll from Iran school bombing reportedly rises to almost 150 Strike on girls’ elementary school in south of Iran has killed 148 people and injured 95 others, according to Iran state media

“Mizan news agency, the official news outlet of Iran’s judiciary, reported that the number killed in Saturday’s strike on a girls’ elementary school in Minab in southern Iran had risen to 148 killed, with 95 others wounded.”

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Epstein’s Zorro Ranch is the target of 2 new investigations launched by the Epstein Truth Commission and the New Mexico Attorney General:

3 dead, 14 injured in downtown Austin mass shooting Three people have died, and 14 were injured in a shooting on West Sixth Street overnight Saturday into Sunday, according to Austin-Travis County EMS.

In Austin: 3 dead and 14 injured in mass shooting

www.kxan.com/news/crime/p...

Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts

Homeland Security wants Social Media sites to expose Anti-ICE Accounts!!!!

The Government is trampling on our CIVIL LIBERTIES!!!!!

#ICE

#Iran

#Epstein

#EpsteinFiles

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

See a pattern here?

Iran May Name New Supreme Leader In ‘A Day Or Two’—Here’s Who’s Leading The Country Now A three-person Leadership Council stepped in after Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed.

A three-person Leadership Council stepped in after Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

Exactly. Blindly hooting for the Buffoon-in-Chief as he unlawfully orders airstrikes without a coherent plan isn't a foreign policy, and isn't patriotic; it's just stupid, and dangerous.

Currently trending on X.

Banning the words “freedom” and “innovation” would improve the clarity of our ruling class’ statements.

“Going to war is never free.” - there, fixed it

AYMAN: Can you tell me where Iran killed thousands of Americans in America?

ANNA PAULINA LUNA: I said they are responsible for thousands of Americans being killed

AYMAN: Where?

LUNA: Are you serious right now?

AYMAN: It seems like you don't want to have a good faith conversation

So far the reports from briefings… NO IMMINENT THREATS! Social media posting; Iran, interfered in two elections…????

How many more Americans is Trump willing to let die to protect himself, take over elections, and keep himself in power?

Morning recap <article data-history-node-id="434537" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/morning-recap-130" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/morning-recap-130" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Morning recap</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Good morning, Middle East Eye readers.</p> <p>Events are still unfolding rapidly across the Middle East, so here's a quick recap:</p> <ul> <li> <p>President Donald Trump has suggested that the Israeli-US war on Iran could continue for up to a month.</p> </li> <li> <p>The United Kingdom has agreed to a US request to use British military bases for what Prime Minister Keir Starmer claimed are “defensive” strikes on Iranian missile sites.</p> </li> <li> <p>Mass displacement has been reported in south Lebanon after Israeli attacks as Hezbollah joins the war.</p> </li> <li> <p>More than 20 people were killed in a US-Israeli attack&nbsp;on Tehran’s Niloofar Square, as explosions were heard across the capital. &nbsp;</p> </li> <li> <p>The death toll from the US-Israeli strike on a girls’ school in Minab has climbed to 180.&nbsp;</p> </li> <li> <p>Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has dismissed Trump’s warning against retaliation, vowing that Tehran will place “no limit” on its right to defend itself.&nbsp;</p> </li> <li> <p>The US military says it has hit more than 1,000 targets across Iran since launching its war on Saturday.</p> </li> <li> <p>The US military says it has destroyed the headquarters of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in a large-scale strike.</p> </li> <li> <p>Haaretz reported that roughly 200 buildings in Israel have sustained damage in the latest wave of attacks.</p> </li> <li> <p>All crossings into the Gaza Strip have been closed until further notice, Israel&nbsp;said on Sunday, following the start of the Israeli-US war on Iran.</p> </li> <li> <p>Petrol prices across the United States are set to rise above $3 per gallon on Monday for the first time in more than three months, as the US-Israeli war on Iran disrupts global oil flows and shocks energy markets.</p> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </article>

Morning recap - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/morning-recap-130

That sound you hear is irony dying.

Nobel Peace Prize, my ass.

More thoughts: https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-the-mounting-costs

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