The WSJ should understand this isn’t news. It’s exactly the playbook every Republican administration uses. They fuck up the economy, drive prices higher, and distract from it by starting a war in the ME.
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this is, almost literally, a panel from next week's cartoon, written before I read this.
Trump vowed to turn the economy around, and in a way, he kept his promise.
Unfortunately, as the woeful job numbers prove, that meant turning around a healthy economy and delivering an unhealthy one.
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Was AI used for the targeting that likely resulted in the bombing of the girls school?
We must have answers to that question and there is ZERO reason for delay because the Pentagon damn well already knows the answer.
Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran.
No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles.
Worth a watch.
(🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)
Jock itch
I really wish I kept a file on my computer titled “reasons to never take a man named Markwayne seriously” and saved every video of him opening his mouth.
The University of Missouri students bringing regional reporting back to Washington, by @liamjscott.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/feature/capi...
But Kash Patel was too busy in the lead up to the Iran War to focus on the implications of firing the elite counter espionage unit specializing in Iran.
Jock itch?
Yay, @mujschool.bsky.social !
Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt have been uncharacteristically silent so far, but at least Jerry Moran noted Congress was shut out. | Opinion
THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON * OPERATION EPIC FURY This past weekend, President Trump made the decision to launch Operation Epic Fury – major combat operations against the Iranian Regime. The objectives are clear: 1. Destroy their missiles, and raze their missile industry to the ground. 2. Annihilate their Navy. 3. Ensure the regime’s terrorist proxies can no longer destabilize the region or the world and attack our forces, and no longer use their IEDs or roadside bombs, which have gravely wounded and killed thousands and thousands of people, including many Americans. 4. Ensure that Iran can NEVER obtain a nuclear weapon. While Operation Midnight Hammer obliterated Iran’s three major nuclear sites, the regime was committed to enriching and rebuilding their nuclear program, and they REFUSED to make a deal, despite months of extensive talks and good faith efforts by President Trump’s top negotiators. As a byproduct of Operation Epic Fury’s success – 49 of the most senior Iranian regime leaders – including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei – have already been wiped off the face of the Earth in the opening strikes of Operation Epic Fury. BOTTOM LINE: President Trump should be commended for killing terrorists and finally having the courage to do what American presidents for nearly 50 years have all contemplated but failed to execute. The rogue Iranian Regime, under the evil hand of the Ayatollah, has killed and maimed thousands of U.S. soldiers over the years. Their brutal attacks and threats will end under President Donald J. Trump. America will win – the terrorist Iranian regime will be defeated. * Q&A: Is the U.S. at war with Iran? • The President announced major combat operations against Iran with clear achievable goals: ○ Destroy their missiles, and raze their missile industry to the ground. ○ Annihilate their Navy.
#withalttext
This sounds familiar. Now, where have I heard something similar, like "special military operation" before?
The US Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, has been hit by Iranian drones. It’s on fire. (Al Arabiya)
MAGA media figures like Benny Johnson and Greg Kelly seemed to have inside information about the Iran war before Trump launched it. Fox News' Brian Kilmeade said he attended a "briefing with high-ranking Trump officials" on Saturday. Congress, meanwhile, is scheduled to get briefed tomorrow.
Stanley Plotkin, known as the “godfather of vaccines,” in an interview with @helenbranswell.bsky.social: “All I can say is that I’m beginning to regret having lived so long — because we’re going downhill.” www.statnews.com/2026/03/02/s...
a reminder that Graham Platner is the grandson of the designer of the "Windows on the World" restaurant at the WTC, has considerable family money, and his main business is selling oysters to his mom's two restaurants. These people are fucking marks.
Pentagon briefers acknowledged to congressional staff in a briefing Sun that Iran was not planning to strike US forces or bases in the Middle East unless Israel attacked Iran first. This undercuts Trump’s argument on Sat that Iran was planning to potentially strike the US preemptively. It wasn't.
Just resharing this.
Ms. Wilkins, the daughter of a financial specialist in the aerospace industry (her mother) and a global consumer products executive for Gillette (her father), had lived in London and Switzerland, and for a time attended elementary school at Collège du Léman in Geneva. She is originally from the Boston suburb of Weymouth, but likes to emphasize her time living in Arkansas. "There are just some things the limousine liberal will never understand from the coasts," she recently wrote.
Kash Patel’s girlfriend is exactly the sort of country singer you’d think she’d be. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u...
Sounds like this is a good time for Barron Trump to join up and serve in his father’s war.
This is so depraved in so many ways.
I went to several elementary schools on USAF bases during the Vietnam war, including in the Philippines, and during the Tet offensive. That girls’ school was hit deliberately 😡.
We are At War now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this War might last for "a very long time." Generals and military scholars will tell you that eight or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history - which is no doubt true - but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a wartime economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed. That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks.
From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.
"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school
there are a lot of people working in the government right now who want to intentionally trigger an apocalypse to create the conditions for the return of jesus christ and I know how crazy that sounds but its absolutely true
Reports now that this has been revised up to 85 dead, with even more injured
Up on the White House website.
If so then why are we bombing Iran again?
Tim Kaine: "Has Pres. Trump learned nothing from decades of U.S. meddling in Iran and forever wars in the Middle East? Is he too mentally incapacitated to realize that we had a diplomatic agreement with Iran that was keeping its nuclear program in check, until he ripped it up during his first term?"
