ABC NEWS: “.. Retired Adm. Mike Mullen, former chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Sunday that he worries the current war with Iran could drag on for years.”
abcnews.com/Politics/adm...
Guess who's pushing Trump to declare a national emergency & assume control of the 2026 elections? A bunch of far-right conspiracy theorists & election deniers. They failed to convince Trump in 2020 to seize voting machines. Might they succeed this time?
WSJ: 'The Long-Feared Persian Gulf Oil Squeeze Is Upon Us: Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has ground to a virtual halt, unleashing the most severe energy crisis since the 1970s threatening the global economy and sending oil prices soaring nearly 60%' www.wsj.com/world/middle...
Israel may not care much, but America must:
Human Rights Watch: The Israeli military unlawfully used artillery-fired white phosphorus munitions over homes on March 3, 2026, in the southern Lebanese town of Yohmor
www.hrw.org/news/2026/03...
bleeds with keenest anguish at the undraped spectacle of a valor-ruined man.
And that even includes GW Bush, with his grand tragic delusions about Iraq: they knew fixing it would be hard and had a plan to do so. An awful and delusional plan, but at least they recognized that simply destroying things was not a plan.
Reading this, you understand the dark ends of Trump believing that he does things because he is courageous in a way that others are not (a typical authoritarian mantra). For all their faults, previous US leaders knew that breaking things was easier than fixing them. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/w...
Jeffrey Epstein was a paedophile, and we all live in his world. By Carole Cadwalladr. Image of Epstein and documents against a blue background
In a week of grim revelations, perhaps the darkest of all was that the attitudes the dead millionaire represented – misogyny, control, abuse of girls – are embedded in power structures throughout our culture, writes @carolecadwalla.bsky.social
www.thenerve.news/p/carole-cad...
Zelensky said 11 countries have requested Ukrainian air defense experience, including interceptors, EW systems, and training, among them Iran's neighbors, European states, and the US. #Ukraine
❗️The US has ordered all diplomats evacuated from Saudi Arabia for the first time, the NYT reported. The US is also evacuating its consulate in Adana and advising citizens to avoid southeastern Turkey due to conflict and terrorism risks. #US
![Screenshot of tweet:
'BREAKING: The world is now experiencing its largest oil supply shock in history, losing nearly 20 million barrels of oil supply per day.
Top oil supply shocks:
1. Hormuz Closure (NOW): -20 million b/d
2. Iranian Revolution (1978): -5.5 million b/d
3. Yom Kippur War (1973): -4.5 million b/d
4. Iraq-Kuwait War (1990): -4.3 million b/d
5. Iran-Iraq War (1980): -4.0 million b/d
6. Russia-Ukraine War (2022): -2.0 million b/d
The current supply shock is roughly the same size as the top 2-6 COMBINED.'
[Kobeissi Letter]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:irtuz5ga77wkpe3j4c5zjufi/bafkreidsg3n332ofrt3xbvzmjgnqkhppqx3jhwmsaw4mvl7tlesutx2l74@jpeg)
Screenshot of tweet: 'BREAKING: The world is now experiencing its largest oil supply shock in history, losing nearly 20 million barrels of oil supply per day. Top oil supply shocks: 1. Hormuz Closure (NOW): -20 million b/d 2. Iranian Revolution (1978): -5.5 million b/d 3. Yom Kippur War (1973): -4.5 million b/d 4. Iraq-Kuwait War (1990): -4.3 million b/d 5. Iran-Iraq War (1980): -4.0 million b/d 6. Russia-Ukraine War (2022): -2.0 million b/d The current supply shock is roughly the same size as the top 2-6 COMBINED.' [Kobeissi Letter]
'BREAKING: The world is now experiencing its largest oil supply shock in history, losing nearly 20 mn barrels of oil supply per day.
1. Hormuz Closure (NOW): -20 mn b/d
2. Iranian Revolution (1978): -5.5 mn b/d…
The current supply shock is roughly the same size as the top 2-6 COMBINED. [Kobeissi]
Lindsey’s diplomacy working wonders in UAE.
If gas is too expensive to travel, the Trump family has a solution for you to stay home for entertainment.
Charlie Kirk dropped out of community college.
Donald Trump doesn’t give a fuck about our troops.
He doesn’t give a fuck about anyone but himself.
He never has and he never will.
open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
Our bases are being bombed.
Our embassies are under attack.
Thousands of Americans are stranded.
Innocent Iranians are being murdered.
We’re spending $1B a day to wage an illegal war which has resulted in the deaths of 6 US soldiers & injuries to countless others.
And where is Trump?
Golfing.
There is apparently credible evidence that the president of the United States is a pedophile. The comforting phrase “accused him without evidence” no longer fits this situation, and journalists must resort to the more perfunctory “hasn’t been formally charged.” www.thedailybeast.com/key-details-...
Post from the Maine Wonk asking whether JD Vance or Donald Trump thanked Ukraine after a tweet noting the U.S. is deploying Ukrainian drone interceptors to fight Iranian drones in the Middle East despite previously cutting off Ukraine’s weapons.
Who has the cards now?
I wonder what percentage of Americans knows that the CIA helped overthrow a democracy in Iran in 1953, installing a brutal dictator who tortured and murdered people. Republicans keep citing the 1979 Islamic Revolution as if that was the start of U.S.-Iran hostilities. Go back 26 years earlier.
#winter #snow #blizzard #dog #sledding #newengland
The conservative project in a nutshell: to maintain hierarchies.
Wilhoit's Law: "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
The South ending Reconstruction and plunging their populations into a backward looking culture and economy until it was forced to modernize by the Civil Rights movement is imo a very clean parallel.
AI is destroying the environment, depleting water, causing layoffs, destroying critical thinking, but at least it's also inaccurate.
Background on WEXMAC TITUS:
You’ll notice the American state media relentlessly attacked President Biden over his age as he did good work and chastised President Obama for creating a healthcare program but are giving the orange felon a pass for bombing any country he chooses. They are complicit.
Fascist republicans don’t care about Christianity, they bastardize it in order to excuse their insatiable lust for greed, power, brutality and war. There is no “holy war” with Iran, it’s just brutal war initiated by criminals.
Virginia’s Democratic controlled legislature has officially passed legislation prohibiting schools in the state from teaching lies about the January 6 insurrection.
Love this, all blue states should follow their lead and do the same.
