Iran says it is halting traffic in the Strait of Hormuz after Israel attacked Lebanon, testing fragile ceasefire deal. Follow live updates. https://cnn.it/4vg5XLY

The American Taliban

Iran is a radical Islamist theocracy. They’ve been stuck in the Middle Ages for the past 47yrs. Every war they fight is a “holy war.” I never figured the United States would regress to Iran’s level & fight a holy war as well, all in the name of white Christian nationalism. Scary, un-American shit.👇

Iran Cease-Fire Does Little to Convince Netanyahu’s Critics in Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had already declared victory over Iran once, in June last year. Few Israelis believe that the goals he set this time will be met, either.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel had already declared victory over Iran once, in June last year. Few Israelis believe that the goals he set this time will be met, either.

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

So before Trump’s war, Iran did NOT control the Strait of Hormuz. And now because of Trump’s war, Iran DOES control the Strait. And will continue to.

What a fucking disaster this illegal war has been. What a fucking idiot Trump is.

Well, Allah sure showed Trump.

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Nice. Ronny Mauricio with his first career walk off hit. Mets win 4-3 in 10th inning. #LGM

Line Of The Day: "What he meant to say..."

When do apologists become co-conspirators?

MAKING the threat is cause to immediately remove him from power and put him in a room with padded walls.

CARRYING OUT the threat is cause to immediately remove him from power and put him in jail.

I'm old enough to remember the hundreds of times over the past seven years when people excoriated me for writing articles and giving interviews describing Trump as a malignant narcissist potentially on par with some of the worst figures in history, like Hitler and Stalin and Saddam and the like.

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What are they gonna run on? “We cowardly allowed the country to throw away global leadership and domestic prosperity so one addled man could steal and stick his filthy name on our buildings?”

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Trump: “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!”

Trump: “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will … We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end”

The fact that threats by the President of the United States to destroy the civilian-sustaining infrastructure of another country - which experts consider to be a war crime - are being reported matter-of-factly by our media says more about where we are than anything else.

“How lucky is the United States that everytime they look for democracy in other countries they find oil instead”- Spain Deputy Gabriel Rufián

The Iranian Embassy in South Africa weighs in:

President Trump speaks at a lectern with an American flag in the background. A headline reads: "Trump Repeatedly Threatens to Commit War Crimes in Iran." Photo by Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times.

President Trump has repeatedly threatened to destroy infrastructure that makes up the foundations of civilian life in Iran — attacks that in most cases would be considered war crimes. He said on Wednesday that the U.S. would bomb Iran “back to the Stone Ages.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/u...

Trump’s Easter tweet does that sound like a mentally well person? Grok’s response: No, that post does not read like the writing of a mentally well person in any conventional, professional, or diplomatic sense. Here’s why it stands out as erratic and concerning, even by Trump’s long-established personal style: • Profanity and casual vulgarity: “Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards” — this is raw, unfiltered street-level trash talk, not the language of a head of state issuing a high-stakes military ultimatum. Presidents (even blunt ones) have historically used stronger rhetoric through channels that maintain some gravitas. This feels like an angry late-night text. • Bizarre, childish phrasing: “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one” sounds like a kid describing a theme park event (“it’s Christmas and birthday all in one!”). Framing potential bombing of critical infrastructure (power plants and bridges, which would cause massive civilian suffering) as cutesy “Days” is surreal and detached. • Incoherent religious flourish: Ending with “Praise be to Allah” right after threatening hell on a Muslim-majority country is jarring, tone-deaf, and reads like a troll or a confused mash-up. It undercuts any serious message and adds to the sense of rambling. • Overall tone: All-caps yelling (“JUST WATCH!”), exclamation overload, and threats that mix bravado with vagueness. It lacks structure, policy context, or strategic clarity — it reads more like emotional venting than calculated statecraft. This fits a broader pattern with Trump: impulsive, hyperbolic social media posting that often blurs the line between negotiation tactic, personal grievance, and performance. Supporters often call it “unfiltered” or “strong”; critics (including some in his own orbit over the years) have repeatedly described similar outbursts as unhinged, erratic, or evidence of declining impulse control.

Seung Min Kim @seungminkim WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump promises strikes on Iran’s power plants and bridges on Tuesday if the Strait of Hormuz isn't reopened.

textbook sanewashing

So the f-bomb is definitely unhinged but also is his base all cool with him praising Allah? Or is that supposed to be an insult or something? I’m confused

Trump unleashes curse-filled social media rant at Iran after U.S. rescues colonel In a profanity-laden post on Truth Social, President Trump lashed out at Iran and injected new volatility into the conflict, hours after U.S. forces carried out a high-risk rescue mission.

Update:

In a profanity-laden post on Truth Social, President Trump lashed out at Iran and injected new volatility into the conflict, hours after U.S. forces carried out a high-risk rescue mission. n.pr/47FhH0G

Arsonist congratulates himself for putting out the fire that he started.

Pope Leo XIV carried the cross across all fourteen stations for over an hour.

The prayers named children who had been “taken away and imprisoned during protests, deported by policies devoid of compassion, shipwrecked on desperate journeys of hope, killed in war zones, and wiped out in death camps.”

Amazing how quickly the “party of small government” has morphed into the party of “imperiously all up in everyone’s shit all the time.”

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Her dad died, and she can't stop laughing about it. Other caregivers know why. Like so many caregivers, comedian Alyssa Limperis finds humor in her grief. She's using that humor to raise funds for a grief and hospice nonprofit.

I interviewed actress and comedian Alyssa Limperis this week about grief, humor and what she's learned since her dad died 10 years ago. Grief and heartache can live in you, she said.

"So if you're not getting it out, you're carrying it."

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