Iran War Live Updates: Two Ships Are Fired On As Iran Says the Strait of Hormuz is Closed

The only path forward is put both Trump and the IRG on Kharg Island and then rename that island Elba. But make it escape proof.
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To be sure, the FBI is better off if Lush Patel is MIA and drunk in locker rooms. A bad day for America is when Patel shows up for work.

It’s way past time for Trump’s Liquor Cabinet to turn on him and 25A him away.

All the MAGA Christians wailing about Trump posting that he was a new Jesus, spare us your indignation. Y’all came up with that idea first. You preached that we should vote for Trump because God had sent him to save America from multiculturalism. Y’all made it a cult. YOU made him Jesus.

Trump saying he didn’t realize that post made him look like Jesus is the first thing he’s said honestly.
The ONLY things about Jesus Trump has ever noticed are things like Joel Osteen’s mansion. Trump has spent ZERO time with the images and teachings of Jesus.

Book cover: Hitler’s Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII. John Cornwall.

Can’t believe anyone is surprised by Trump’s rancor against Pope Leo XIV.
Trump has not liked a Pope since Pius XII.

Nancy Folbre has been a voice of reason for a long time. More people should be listening.

Next stop for Orban: his St. Petersburg dacha, at least until his Dubai condo isn’t being bombed.

Red poster with large white and pink text repeatedly stating "Health Care Not Warfare." The logo of National Nurses United is in the bottom right corner.

The Trump administration is defunding health care and funneling money to tech companies, defense contractors, and ICE.

Nurses say: Stop the ICE terror at home and end Trump's war on Iran!

In half the Democratic primaries for Congress- if Virginia redistricting moves ahead - there'll be 10-20 candidates. Nearly all of them would be great in Congress. But a half billion dollars will be spent by August deciding which one wins. Half a billion, not opposing Trump. Not healing his wrongs.

I don’t think the 25A can fix this.
Abolish the presidency.
If you want 425 Democrats in Congress after November, put Squeaker Johnson in charge and let’s see how that plays out.

The beloved dog, Nala, in a family photo from 2025.

Beloved dog Nala has crossed the rainbow bridge. During her 14 years with us, we called her Sweetie Pie as often as we called her Nala.
In her later years, Nala went blind. The walks and her gastro-discipline fell off. But if you can't love a dog at their worst you don't deserve them at their best.

Barr and Mitchell are off the hook- Bondi sailed past them as the most anti-justice AG ever.
But Bondi and Rubio are the only Trump liquor cabinet members who show up and do the dirty work.
Hegseth spends more time at the salon than briefing room.
Trump HATES people who work. Rubio is next to go.

Year 1 of Trump 2: Trump undermined EV and renewables production in the US, basically ceding the entire world market to China.
Year 2: Trump closed the Straits of Hormuz, convincing the entire world that oil is the past and EVs/renewables are the future.
Year 3? Does Trump mandate we speak Chinese?

Bondi should sue Trump over the firing. If Trump cannot remember tomorrow that he fired Bondi today -- and he will not remember -- Aileen Cannon can fabricate a reason why Bondi can keep her job.

It is not known if the only reason Trump started a war on Iran was because he heard it would mean control of "Straight hormones." But you cannot rule that out. These are the same fellas who cut transportation funding because their AI told them it was about promoting transgender.

If the 15 million people Trump wants to deport are not "subject to the jurisdiction of the United States," how can the ICE agents lay a hand on them?
Diplomats, with immunity, are not subject to the jurisdiction of the host country- true since hundreds of years before the US. 14A limits it to them.

Can the press stop reporting that "Trump attended the Supreme Court to hear the arguments," like it was a plural for him. Trump left when the woman started to speak. He only went to hear one argument.
Did Trump measure the drapes on the way out? He wants to put his name on the building, after all.

Trump has discovered the only public place he can go and nap without photos of him asleep going viral. No photography or videography in the Supreme Court courtroom.
I think he will become a regular so he can sleep.

Porta potty with sign: No Kings comfort station.

Happy #NoKingsDay!
We live quite close to one of Arlington’s bridge protests and we temporarily have a portapotty outside our house.
All are welcome to use it!

in bladder matters, resistance is futile.
I didn’t note on the sign “Offered by a Boomer Resister.” I think that’s implied.

There are many reports of ICE agents stealing phones and selling them because they want more cash than their six figure taxpayer funded paychecks give them.
Their crimes and executions are more than enough reason to defund and abolish ICE.
Why isn’t that enough to impeach, convict, and remove Trump?

Dogs, not Frogs YouTube video by Michael Shea

I forgot to post this on World Frog Day last week. My son and I in the AIM studio almost 20 years ago. I also missed posting it on National Dog Day. youtu.be/vZL6c89PK1U

I agree 💯 with Sen. Pekarsky. Gov. Spanberger should sign the Tysons Casino bill. The bill doesn’t create a casino. It allows the community to move the conversation forward on the benefits of an entertainment district. Workers and Nova Labor support it.
Totally false that “no one asked for it.”

Iran says it wants to talk to JD Vance and not Jared Kushner.
Do y’all realize how annoying Kushner must be if JD Vance is preferred? That dude got the cold shoulder at a bakery couple years ago.

Newspaper headline: “Trump claims conflict is won.”

Dude has slipped this reality coil. And press secretary Dee Lulu ain’t gonna make any corrections.

An Exxon gas pump set at $50 and 12.5 gallons.

Stop calling this gas station “Exxon.” Call it “Dead Presidents.”

Israel and Iran exchange strikes as Trump says U.S. is negotiating end to war Israel and four Gulf states reported Iranian attacks a day after President Trump said talks to end the war were underway. Iran denies direct negotiations are taking place.

Netanyahu and Iran both have a grasp of reality and in the real world, this tragic war on for no purpose.
Trump has slipped this reality coil and both Netanyahu and Iran ignore his blathering nonsense.
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Not sure about Florida law. If an autopen or Stephen Miller signed that vote from Trump, probably a felony.

Seems amazing that the Russians had an original idea to stage a fake assassination attempt on Victor Orban and help him win over voters based on raw emotion.
Maybe they got the idea from that 2016 time hen Trump was rushed off the stage in Las Vegas after someone shouted "gun!" and there was no gun.

To tilt Hungarian election, Russians proposed staging assassination attempt To aid Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a friend of Russia, in his election, operatives proposed “the Gamechanger” — a staged assassination attempt to stir supporters.

I have no idea where the Russians got the idea to stage a fake assassination to help a candidate in an election. Seems like something this would work. Hard to believe no one thought of this before!

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