Sense & Synthesis

The talking snot bubble Miller must pay for his crimes. Legally, of course. Legally.

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...

"No stupid rules of engagement." — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, March 2, 2026

"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East." — Reuters, March 5, 2026

This is honestly one of the most anti-Jewish things I’ve ever seen from the United States government.

Executive Overreach in a Time of War The war in the Middle East launched by President Trump continues to unfold. Underneath the headlines and the chaos, something else is going on. Recent report...

The conflict in Iran has intensified efforts to undermine U.S. elections. Brennan Center experts break down the legal stakes and what must be done to keep elections free and fair on The Briefing with Michael Waldman. bit.ly/3NlVVb4

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Dammit-ProtonMail cooperating with the U.S. fascists

Keeper of the Flame - A film from 1942 warning Americans how democracy can be dismantled from the inside. This scene was written during World War II. Watch how calmly the plan is explained. Ask yourself why it still feels current today.

“Members are reminded to avoid engaging in personalities toward the president.”

SO…criticizing the president is verboten.

Congress members are prohibited from exercising their 1st Amendment rights AND their Constitutional protections under the Speech & Debate Claus.

Who passed THAT law?

The irrational strongman we’ve been warned about is here His name is Donald J. Trump.

"Trump's attack on Iran is terrifying in part because it's so untethered from policy goals and logic. He offered a range of half-hearted explanations for his rush to war, but the conflicting excuses only underlined the obvious truth — he attacked Iran because he felt like it."

"always the golfer, never the wildfire victim."

a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people

tl;dr: more people should watch this gentleman's speech and think seriously about what he is saying

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The savings we're getting here by annihilating decades of American science will pay for whole minutes of the operation to create decades of death, immiseration, and chaos in Iran.

Trump ripped up the Iran Nuclear Deal in his first term. Then he used the threat of Iran gaining nuclear capabilities as a justification for war.

We need to get back to the negotiating table, block Trump’s war that taxpayers do not want, and protect American troops.

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.

"I feel like we're just waiting for something terrible to happen."

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John Deering

Sen Chris Murphy (D-CT) to Face the Nation:

“I don't have any obligation to fund a Department of Homeland Security that is violating the law every day, just like I don't have any obligation to support this war that is illegal as well.”

Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) speaks to reporters outside a Senate Committee hearing

Chris Murphy: “He's the most corrupt president in the history of our nation — This is a disaster. It is illegal. And the president is obligated under the Constitution to come to Congress & ask for an authorization of military force”

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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.”

Just this week:

- Administration is caught hiding evidence Trump sexually assaulted a 13 year old

- Pentagon demands AI companies allow it to use AI for mass surveillance and killer robots

- Trump launches unconstitutional war against Iran

- Pro-Trump oligarch buys CNN

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My chief frustration in politics at all levels has always been the overwhelming apathy of the privileged

The people who sit back & ignore the fray because they know that any & all outcomes will not affect them

The is the state of the US Congress

Their apathy will be their undoing

And yours

Feds asked New Mexico to halt Jeffrey Epstein Zorro Ranch sex trafficking probe, records show Former AG says feds halted New Mexico’s Epstein inquiry without sharing promised evidence as state reopens Zorro Ranch investigation.

Former New Mexico Attorney General Balderas details how the FBI forcefully shut down New Mexico's criminal probe into what was up at Epstein's Zorro Ranch in Santa Fe Co. The feds insisted that they were running their own criminal probe and that NM's involvement would not be tolerated. It was a lie.

12 minutes ago Zolan Kanno-Youngs President Trump told The Atlantic on Sunday morning that Iran's new leadership wants to speak with him and that he was willing to do so, although he did not specify who exactly the dialogue would be with. "They want to talk, and I have agreed to talk, so I will be talking to them," Trump said. "They should have done it sooner. They should have given what was very practical and easy

To report this without mentioning that *talks were happening* when we suddenly shot them in the face is malpractice.

So for all you “leave NATO” dummies out there, wanna explain how we defend ourselves without them?

Britain, France, Germany, the GCC (Bahrain, Kuwait, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Oman) are currently knocking down Iranian missiles and drones.

And this is just Iran. Not a peer.

"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

The costs of this Iran war debacle will likely be more than the cost of extending the ACA health insurance subsidies.

If you asked Americans, which do you want: another war in the Middle East or lower health care costs at home, is the margin 90 to 10? 95 to 5?