BREAKING
United States Central Command says it will begin enforcing a blockade on all maritime traffic entering and exiting Iranian ports.
Traffic that does not involve non-Iranian ports will not be impacted.
The blockade is set to begin in 23 hours.
From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
Octavia E. Butler, 1998:
The Generals are gone.
The AG is gone.
We started a war.
Gas is up.
Healthcare is up.
Prescriptions are up.
The rich are richer.
The poor are poorer.
Protesters have been killed.
Service members have been killed.
The law is a suggestion.
The constitution is a memory.
We. Are. Not. Okay.
Sec. Hegseth fired over 20 top generals and admirals, including a top Army general who served 7 presidents this week.
Purging generals to settle personal or political vendettas is what happens in China or Russia, not America.
Sen Elissa Slotkin broke down why this is dangerous back in November:
Reuters: Hegseth fires two more generals, David Hodne and William Green Jr., alongside Army Chief Of Staff Randy George
How did we end up in a timeline too dumb for Idiocracy?
It’s almost like Putin and Netanyahu control our foreign policy.
I’ve struggled to find words to talk about the UK this week because it’s so cynical it doesn’t even need an explainer. It’s bald-faced. I came up with better lies skipping class in middle school. Reposting because it captures a lot of my thoughts already.
Pete Hegseth's crazed rants at reporters reveal that Trump's rationales for attacking Iran are incoherent, confused, and based on lies. Dems don't have to take refuge in criticizing Trump's war on purely procedural grounds. They can go much harder. 1/
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newrepublic.com/article/2072...
An article on putin and his way out of war
The deals made behind closed doors. Saving face.
#proudblue. #pinks
Soldiers and citizens die. They get to look good.
Release the Epstein Files
deanblundell.substack.com/p/operation-...
What's scary about this story is the surveillance it hints at. This trans woman had changed her name, legally, but chose not to change her gender marker. She was apparently flagged in the DMV system as trans and her license was invalidated under a law that supposedly only concerned gender markers.
NC voters!!! If you are in line before 7:30, stay in line to get your vote counted!!!
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This is straight from the talking points that Trump has sent to to all Republicans in Congress, and it's straight from Orwell. "We're at war with Eastasia. We have always been at war with Eastasia." bsky.app/profile/atru...
I turned on the radio and the announcer was talking about a "murderous, authoritative regime" and I wasn't sure if he was talking about Iran or America.
The Roberts Court's position is that if you deserved justice or due process you would be rich bsky.app/profile/mjsd...
Exactly. Blindly hooting for the Buffoon-in-Chief as he unlawfully orders airstrikes without a coherent plan isn't a foreign policy, and isn't patriotic; it's just stupid, and dangerous.
"How can you oppose war when Khamenei was evil?"
Simple. If you killed Donald Trump by nuking Washington DC, I would not mourn Trump but I'd still say you're an evil war criminal who belongs in the Hague. It's really not hard.
A United States senator from the president's own party, one who serves on the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, has no idea what's going on as America goes to war with Iran.
Iran's Revolutionary Guard is closing the Strait of Hormuz, threatening the 20% of global oil that passes through it. Trump's "Operation Epic Fury" is pushing us toward higher gas and grocery prices. Elections have consequences. Organize! Speak out and vote!
Hey Marjorie Taylor Greene, you voted to give this administration unchecked power and cheered on every step. "This is not what I thought MAGA was" is not accountability, it's an alibi. Don't you dare say "shame" like you're a bystander. You ARE the reason.
#MAGARegret #EpsteinWar
OCASIO-CORTEZ STATEMENT ON TRUMP'S COMBAT OPERATIONS IN IRAN "The American people are once again dragged into a war they did not want by a president who does not care about the long-term consequences of his actions. This war is unlawful. It is unnecessary. And it will be catastrophic. "Just this week, Iran and the United States were negotiating key measures that could have staved off war. The President walked away from these discussions and chose war instead.President Trump flippantly acknowledged the possibility of American casualties, stating "that often happens in war.' "Mr. President: this was not an inevitability. This is a deliberate choice of aggression when diplomacy and security were within reach. Stop lying to the American people. "Violence begets violence. We learned this lesson in Iraq. We learned this lesson in Afghanistan. And we are about to learn it again in Iran. Bombs have yet to create enduring democracies in the region and this will be no different. "In moments of war, our Constitution is unambiguous: Congress authorizes war. The President does not. I will do my part to uphold our Constitution by voting YES on Representatives Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie's War Powers Resolution. Every member of Congress must join us in rejecting this aimless war.
My statement on President Trump’s combat operations in Iran⬇️
Americans do not want this. They do not want another war in pursuit of regime change. They want relief from the affordability crisis. They want peace.
Trump in 2011: “Our president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate. He’s weak and he’s ineffective.”
I was a teenager when George W. Bush took us to war in the Middle East based on lies.
Like everyone in my generation, I have friends who never came back from that endless war or never came back the same.
We cannot let Donald Trump do that to another generation of Americans.
MAGA has been a con for a very long time.
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