Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei
• More hardline than father
• He’s the IRGC candidate
• Relatively young: 56
• Avoids public
• Trusted by father, clerics
• Was in military during Iraq-Iran war
• His wife, Zahra, killed in Israeli airstrike w his father
Screenshot of an X post by Really American claiming Republican Congressman Mark Alford said Americans must “sacrifice” by accepting higher gas prices to support Trump’s war with Iran. Below is a split-screen TV news segment with a female anchor on the left, a male reporter in the middle, and Congressman Alford on the right. A banner reads “BREAKING NEWS: CRUDE OIL PRICES HIT NEW HIGHS AMID WAR.”
The American people have sacrificed enough. Stop the war. Tax the billionaires.
Donald J. Trump Y @realDonald Trump Short term oil prices, which will drop rapidly when the destruction of the Iran nuclear threat is over, is a very small price to pay for U.S.A., and World, Safety and Peace. ONLY FOOLS WOULD THINK DIFFERENTLY!President DJT 362 ReTruths 1.25k Likes 3/8/26, 6:54 PM
posts u make when things r definitely going well
The racial hierarchy in gulf societies is truly disgusting to witness
While Trump bravely persevered through another round of golf despite bone spurs.
As Covid recedes, our memory of the crisis is softening. What we forget — about overwhelmed hospitals, uncertainty and tradeoffs — will shape how we respond to the next pandemic.
Screenshot of an X post by Jeremy Loffredo saying Trump told CNN’s Dana Bash that liberating the Iranian people is not a goal of the war and that he would accept an undemocratic religious leader if they treated the U.S. and Israel “fairly.” Below is a CNN image of the White House with a graphic saying Trump told CNN he is not worried whether Iran becomes a democracy.
So, like Venezuela, but a lot bloodier and costlier. Great. All for what?
The difference between the spike in global oil prices now versus 2022 is that this time the US president single-handedly caused it to happen overnight with a policy while accepting no responsibility, while the US president in 2022 was blamed for it even though he didn’t cause it.
A year ago we were supposed to be getting $2,000 rebate checks, DOGE was going to find $2 trillion in waste to balance the budget, we were going to pay no income taxes because tariffs would pay for everything, gas and home electric bills would be cut in half, and no new wars.
open.substack.com/pub/alisav/p... Epstein won the Powerball (& other lotteries)…he was connected to everyone from the guy in charge of the lottery, in Oklahoma, to the store it was bought from.
“hypocrisy isn’t the main issue here. Rather, it’s the loss of reliable federal support for vaccines, and how that loss is already dissuading companies from developing new shots that could someday protect hundreds of millions of people from dangerous, even lethal infections.”
Syria’s Kurds are warning their Iranian counterparts not to align with the US, saying Washington will eventually betray them and citing their own experience in the last few months as proof.
This directly contradicts Trump and Hegseth’s claims that Iran bombed the area where the Iranian school was hit. We knew it, but it’s good to have the video.
It's a sign of the times that AI companies are deciding whether or not to allow the military to engage in mass surveillance of US citizens and this is treated as a legitimate debate of two reasonable positions.
NEW BLOGPOST: Keir Starmer and David Lammy are taking an extraordinarily dangerous gamble with our individual liberty
For any MP unsure of how to vote on the government’s proposals to restrict trial by jury.
The Home Office is hiring staff from McDonalds and supermarkets to decide on refugee deportation cases. Staff know so little that some consult Lonely Planet guides to decide if a country is safe. Some can’t even find countries they’re returning people to on the map
Inside the UK’s asylum system
Cooper rejects Blair’s call for UK to have backed Trump’s strikes on Iran
I mean it appears to be a lost battle but literally every credible source says that the Iranian regime was surprised by October 7th, so how the fuck they “masterminded” the attack is beyond me
No other country matches the rich heritage of hedgerows that weave across the damp British Isles. But they don’t just make a classic English countryside scene
An unexpected benefit of London's cycle lanes...our would-be Dalek overlords are able to take an afternoon stroll with their human minders, unimpeded
“If you want to look at the economics, then look at all of it. For example, I've never seen a calculation of how much capacity, how much GDP, a poorly-paid immigrant working in a care home frees up for the family and relatives of all the people there, by taking on their caring responsibilities.”
Trump is now lying about bombing the girls school because …
Trump lies about EVERYTHING.
What a thread.
A judge even tried to ban the word ‘rape’ from the courtroom. Throughout it all, her refusal to be cowed - and her insistence that shame must change sides - were, and remain, utterly inspiration.
Thank you, Gisèle Pelicot.
#IWD2026
I don't think it's impossible to communicate to the American people that, even if you think he got it right this time, normalising the President unilaterally deciding which foreign leader lives or dies places more faith in their judgement of both justice and consequences than is wise.
When Israel targeted Gaza’s water supply, people rightly called it out as a war crime, denying civilians the most basic supplies.
Genuine questions: could these people be in the pay of the regime? And would that, to use language some of them favour, make them both ‘economic migrants’ *and* ‘welfare scroungers’?
It's extremely clear that the US doesn't really have an objective here except to inflict maximum pain, and attacking water supply is going to end catastrophically for the entire region. It's not just a war crime, it's approaching a crime against humanity.
Aside from anything else here (and there is a lot to unpack), the idea “Donald sending a few angry posts on truth social” is more humiliating than anything since Suez is remarkably psychologically illuminating. Our only job in the world is apparently to hang on America’s shoulder.
