Iran in Ghana @@IRAN GHANA •6h Read slowly. "We don't need the Strait." "Go open it yourselves." "Fine, we'll open it." "Actually, we're blockading it." "OK not blockading everyone." Five positions. Six weeks. Two of them today. And our armed forces just sat there, sipping tea, watching America negotiate with America over a strait Iran already blockades. Empires used to fall in centuries. This one can't hold a policy for an afternoon.

Iran in Ghana & @IRAN GHANA • 5h X The Pope prayed for peace. Trump tonight called him "WEAK" and said: "I don't want a Pope who criticizes me!" Let the record show who this man is: He went to Epstein's island consistently FOR YEARS! He paid hush money to a porn star while his wife was pregnant — and got convicted for it. 34 felonies! His missile hit a school full of innocent children in Minab. 168 dead! Six months ago, he said with his own mouth: "I'M NOT HEAVEN-BOUND" (the only honest sentence he's ever said). The Pope lit a candle for your DARK soul. But there are 168 little girls at heaven's gate who got there before you. BECAUSE OF YOU! They'll be the jury. And they remember your name. THE HELL AWAITS YOU, DON! @ 23 17 557 S2.1K i

Let's review: Trump threatened to destroy "a whole civilization." Then he begged for a ceasefire. Then he flew his VP across the world to negotiate for 21 hours. Vance left with nothing. So now Trump wants to blockade the strait he can't even sail through; the same strait Iran closed weeks ago and dared anyone to reopen. Your best generals failed. Your best diplomats failed. And your big move is.. doing Iran's job for them?!? Our Revolutionary Guard should send you a thank-you note. You're the cheapest contractor they never hired. No one can write a comedy this good.

Iran in Ghana & @IRAN GHANA • 18h BREAKING: IN A BRAVE MOVE, THE US JUST ANNOUNCED IT'S BLOCKING A STRAIT IT'S BEEN BLOCKED FROM. Read that again.

New Iranian tweets on the blockage and negotiations.

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So jealous! Hungary votes themselves a bonafide regime change. Congratulations! You give us hope!

This reality check by Rebecca Solnit grabs you right from the killer first sentence. Do yourself a favor & give it a read.

Someone take his phone away!

Hell no!

I hate when fantasy films I made a long time ago begin to come true in real life.

Melania's Immigration Witness, Paolo Zampelli, Asked to Get His Baby Mama Deported - emptywheel Even as Melania rushed to the cameras to insist the story of how she first met Donald Trump was true, the now-deported baby mama of her witness to that claim, Paolo Zampelli, has been making a stink.

We can be fairly certain Melania's statement last night was at least partly an attempt to stave off Amenda Ungaro's claims bc AFTER she made it, Paolo Zampolli told the Daily Mail he would back her story under oath.

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TOMORROW: Be a part of history! Show the world that the majority of Americans oppose the most corrupt, inept, criminal, orange "president" in U.S. History.

NO KINGS. Also: NO SERIAL LIARS/CONVICTED FELONS/ADJUDICATED RAPISTS & NO ILLEGAL WAR IN IRAN

Be there. Make your voices heard! 🇺🇸 ✊

#NO_KINGS

“After objecting to nine attempts by Democrats to fund the TSA, Republicans finally relented. Rather than pass commonsense legislation to fund these agencies and address the chaos at America’s airports, Republicans spent all week inflicting needless pain on travelers, trying to disenfranchise millions of American citizens from voting, and defending Trump’s deeply unpopular war in Iran. I’m glad they came to their senses and I’ll do all that I can to push for safeguards to ensure that our immigration laws are enforced in a way that doesn’t cause chaos and violence and waste taxpayer dollars.”

My statement on Senate Republicans relenting and agreeing to fund the TSA, CISA, Coast Guard, and other entities within the DHS, while negotiations regarding Border Patrol and ICE continue:

He’s frickin’ gooood.

CONGRATULATIONS!! I was hoping this would happen. Wow!!!!

Let’s put an unhinged malignant narcissist sundowning into dementia in control of the most powerful military force in the history of mankind because what could go wrong.

George W. Bush releases statement mourning Robert Mueller, calling him a lifelong public servant and decorated Marine who helped protect the U.S. after 9/11. Bush: “Laura and I are deeply saddened… We send our heartfelt sympathy to his family.”

DON'T UNBLOCK!

Nasdaq losing 2% in a single afternoon and Iraq declaring force majeure, the 'cost' of this war is being billed directly to the retirement accounts of the American people. One does not 'win' a war by bankrupting the 'winners.'
To declare 'Victory' because you've run out of

Monday - Send more troops
Tuesday - Say we’re ending war
Wednesday - Send more troops
Thursday - Say ending war
Friday - Send more troops
Saturday - Golf
Sunday - Golf

Finally, the affordability message the GOP has been searching for

MAGA people going to have to take out a second mortgage to afford gas for their boat parades.

Reporter: “If you could say something to Trump, what would it be?”

PA voter: “You're a worthless pile of shit.”

Reporter: “How many times did you vote for him?”

PA voter: “Three times. That was my bad. Apparently I'm an idiot.”

I make chicken knickers, otherwise known as rooster roos. You never know what fun an indoor rooster can be!

Every Trump admin answer about the war is PRECISELY why no previous president has ever been dumb enough to start exactly this war with Iran.

Like all of this — all of it! — is why everyone else considered this too stupid to attempt.

I knew Bill Hagerty slightly when he was a normie Republican and then ambassador to Japan in Trump 1, and a pretty thoughtful and responsible guy.

But acquiescence to Trump and Trumpism corrupts, and being an ambitious Republican in the era of Trump seems to corrupt absolutely.

Inside the Department of War are two wolves:

"We've shut down the Colleges of War because book learnings are woke, gay, and irrelevant to war fighting."

"How come no one told us the Strait is important, there are different kinds of Kurds, Iran is big, and air power historically doesn't win wars?"

Inflation Comes In Hot (Again), Nation State AI Propaganda Here Now, New 2026 Battlefield Emerging Trump, Hegseth, Witkoff, and Kushner Are All Up Shitt's Creek

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Trump Is A Titanic, Vainglorious F*ck Up (New Video, Written Analysis) Morning all.

Best post I have heard to date. Simon gave me hope & encouragement. He explains all very calmly, provides a plan/path forward, reduces stress, encourages action. He gives focus through our black clouds. He speaks in his quiet comforting yet strongly serious voice. open.substack.com/pub/simonwdc...

im just really fucking sick of spending my entire adult life lurching from one worldwide economic disaster to another all because people pretend republicans arent dumb as dog shit morons completely detached from reality