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"Imminent" (ˈi-mə-nənt ): Might potentially occur at some point in the far-distant future-- whether in the physical universe we inhabit, or an imaginary parallel one."
-Websters GOP Dictionary.

06.03.2026 15:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Trump never has paid a serious cost for any action he's taken in his life. And never will.

Six US servicemembers-- and 1,000+ Iranians-- have.
Many more will.

06.03.2026 14:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Please don't.

06.03.2026 04:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Markwayne is actually a noble title, and is the Oklahoma equivalent to "Marquis," and may be passed on at the same time your father gives you his car dealership

05.03.2026 19:56 👍 4665 🔁 747 💬 81 📌 32
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Iranian Ship Was Leaving Indian Naval Exercise When Sunk, Raising Concerns in New Delhi The Iranian frigate sunk by a U.S. submarine last week had just left an Indian naval exercise. Now India's political opposition is demanding answers.

My lord! The frigate the US submarine torpedoed, the one the White House has been bragging about, was unarmed and headed home from an international naval exercise, hosted by India, that the US pulled out of at the last minute! www.military.com/daily-news/i...

06.03.2026 00:08 👍 251 🔁 137 💬 12 📌 10

Read this thread ⤵️

06.03.2026 02:31 👍 693 🔁 325 💬 6 📌 10

I'm not disputing your observations: My point is that the Shi'a population of Pakistan is somewhere between 20-30 million, and that large a population contains a lot of different opinions.

06.03.2026 02:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Doug Burgum, unlike his boss, is not an idiot.
He understands how the global oil market works.
And he knows this is a lie.
(So does anyone who's driven past a gas station this week).

05.03.2026 23:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I really don't understand "Mar-a-Lago face." All that Botox just makes its victims look like wax dolls.

Before subjecting herself to it, Kristi Noem looked like a normal person:

05.03.2026 23:16 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0

You're right-- he is still stuck in the era in which Pelé was the once soccer star everybody could name.

05.03.2026 23:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Until reading his staff notes, he'd never heard of Pele.

05.03.2026 22:37 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Trump’s Orwellian Board of Peace Consists Entirely of Human Rights Abusers An Intercept analysis finds that every single Board of Peace member state has been rebuked for human rights violations.

Trump’s Orwellian Board of Peace Consists Entirely of Human Rights Abusers

But the greatest offender to peace on the Board is the United States.

🧵mega-thread🧵

theintercept.com/2026/03/02/t...

05.03.2026 17:25 👍 150 🔁 75 💬 7 📌 7

1. He means "objectives" rather than "objections." Which is the opposite of true: Like or dislike Bush's Iraq war goals (for me: Dislike), we knew what Bush was trying to do. We have no idea whatsoever what Trump's war objectives in #Iran are.
2. Which rules of engagement in Iraq were "minimalist"?

05.03.2026 22:29 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Which Democrats betrayed their constituents to vote in favor on making Donald Trump the Emperor?
♦️Rep Cuellar, who was given a pardon by Trump for his rank corruption.
♦️Rep Golden, who is retiring, and therefore has no excuse.
♦️Reps Landsman & Vargas, who are...I have no idea who these guys are.

05.03.2026 22:26 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

NATO SecGen Rutte:

I know everybody's making fun of me for kissing Trump's behind. I mean-- I can hear you.

But I stand by my position that his butt is worthy of being kissed, by me.

05.03.2026 22:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change Google and others are committing $100 million to combat climate change.

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

05.03.2026 20:24 👍 7008 🔁 2017 💬 27 📌 61

Israel has just issued a demand that all of Beirut’s southern suburbs, an area roughly the size of central Berlin or lower Manhattan, run for their lives. Tens of thousands are forced to flee- again. Real fears that they will level much of southern Beirut- an area where more than 500,000 live.

05.03.2026 21:07 👍 139 🔁 107 💬 2 📌 15

Israel’s demand that hundreds of thousands of Lebanese flee the south of Beirut so they can carpet bomb it is absolutely outrageous. Israeli strategists really seem to think they can turn Beirut into Gaza and that grateful Lebanese will then rush for a peace agreement. Delusional and criminal.

05.03.2026 21:27 👍 28 🔁 20 💬 0 📌 0

I used to respect #LionelMessi.
Not after this.

05.03.2026 22:01 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

One of the fundamental rules about Trump:
♦️He lies about FACTS: Freely, flamboyantly, as easily as drawing a breath.
♦️But he tells us truthfully about his PLANS: Openly, proudly, just daring us to do something to stop him.

When he says he's going to do something awful, believe him.

05.03.2026 21:58 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

So far the war in Iran has cost an estimated $5.5 billion.

That's roughly $1 billion per day.

$41,666,667 per hour.

$11,574 per second.

People do not want this.

They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.

05.03.2026 17:31 👍 17667 🔁 6940 💬 755 📌 388

For those unfamiliar with #MarkwayneMullin
♦️He'll slip quite neatly into #KristiNoem 's cowboy hat and boots: He wears both cosplay outfits constantly, despite (like her) never actually having had a real-world use for them.
♦️He may be confused by the bidets in his new luxury jet.

05.03.2026 20:13 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Because #KristiNoem wasn't dumb enough?
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

05.03.2026 20:08 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

Big Brother doesn't like to see Orwell misquoted:

05.03.2026 20:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

In "1984," Miniluv-- the Ministry of Love-- carried out the functions of the US Department of Homeland Security.

It's a bit too on-the-nose for the head of Miniluv to put fake words in the mouth of George Orwell.

05.03.2026 19:43 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Also:
♦️Who governs #Iran is none of Donald Trump's business.

05.03.2026 19:34 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Very strong statement from the First Lady of Iraq:

05.03.2026 18:11 👍 9245 🔁 2810 💬 312 📌 158

You're saying this like it's something good.

05.03.2026 16:42 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What act could be so depraved that it would get someone banned from...Waffle House?

05.03.2026 16:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If he's uneasy about the "rising American body count" (or even just about its appearance), maybe he should contact someone with the power to do something about it.

05.03.2026 16:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0