The war in Iran is good business for some Trump insiders. Policy being made for private gain? The BBC did the investigation American newsrooms didn’t.

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The Pope said Stop and The President Posted Himself as Christ. On the same night Donald Trump attacked the first American pope in history, he posted an AI-generated image of himself healing the sick, surrounded by warplanes. Both posts went up before midnight.

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China Didn’t Change Its Mind. It Never Had To. Since 1980 Washington has had a dozen foreign policy doctrines. Beijing has been executing a single plan. Iran has helped them accelerate it. America’s allies may have to choose China.

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I Am an Atheist but I Am With the Pope on this one. What history can tell us when corrupt power threatens moral authority.

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They use God to justify their power and reject the values they claim to defend.

The Rescue Mission Succeeded. The Oldest Public Health Institution in the Middle East Was Destroyed. American commandos went deep into Iran to bring one of their own home. On the same day, a vital century-old public health institution was destroyed.

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We Are Invincible. Two Days Later, an F-15 Is Down Over Iran. One crew member rescued. One still missing. The contradiction at the center of this war landed on Iranian soil this morning

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The First Formal Address On The War With Iran. The Least Amount Of New Information. Thirty-two days into a war he launched without Congressional authorization, the President stood in the White House and said nothing new. The markets noticed immediately.

The President’s first formal address on the Iran war lasted 19 minutes and he said nothing he had not already posted on social media. Stock futures dropped. Gas hit $4.06 a gallon. Rubio is now suggesting NATO be re-examined.
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The Supreme Court Ruled on Conversion Therapy Yesterday. Here Is What It Actually Said. The decision is more complicated than either side’s reaction suggests. The evidence of harm is not in dispute. The legal question is real. The consequences are immediate.

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The War Has No Defined End. This Morning Made It Worse. On the thirty-first day of the Iran conflict, the President threatened to destroy civilian water supplies on Truth Social.

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China Didn’t Fire a Shot in Iran but it is winning. While Washington manages a war week by week, Beijing is executing a plan measured in decades. The difference is showing.

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While America Watches the Strait, Russia Is Winning the War. Moscow is not a bystander in the Gulf crisis. It is an architect. And the evidence is documented, sourced, and hiding in plain sight.

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The Gas Nobody Thinks About Is About to Stop the Machines. Iranian strikes on Qatar’s Ras Laffan facility eliminated a third of the world’s helium supply overnight. Here is what happens next to your phone, your AI, and your hospital.

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The Strait of Hormuz Is Closed. Here Is What Nobody Is Telling You. A plain-language breakdown of the most serious global energy disruption since World War II and what it means for your life, your money, and the decade ahead.

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Stephen Miller

Mahmoud Khalil is finally home with his beautiful wife and newborn son.

Each one of the 104 days he spent detained was a grave injustice.

From the moment of his detention, @ccrjustice.org + @aclu.org engaged my office as we worked closely to help secure his release. They did remarkable work here.

All this will do is make life more difficult for seniors

"The Constitution is not a document for the government to restrain the people: it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government."

-Patrick Henry

To those who say, "Stop reading between the lines."

No.

Always read between the lines. Never take a politician at face value. This goes for all politicians regardless of party.

Look at their history, listen to their words, and ask yourself,
"How is this benefiting them?"

"Dictatorships are born in whispers."

Pay attention to every bill or executive order. Don't ask how it'll benefit the country. Ask how it'll benefit the one trying to get it passed.

Zelensky Lashes Out at Trump for Excluding Ukrainians From Peace Talks Left out of a meeting between American and Saudi officials, the Ukrainian leader also canceled a trip to Riyadh.

“Decisions on how to end the war in Ukraine cannot be made without Ukraine, nor can any conditions be imposed,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday. “We were not invited to this Russian-American meeting in Saudi Arabia. It was a surprise for us.”

As if it’s up to America to decide the fate of democratic Ukraine by conducting negotiations with Russia without Ukraine. Yet another betrayal of democracy by this pro-Putin Trump regime.

True story

Did he just hire his own company?

Saw this on my way to JFK this morning. It’s the new class of Uber and you get half off, but you only get two wheels.

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