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David Rothkopf:
"Once, we had wars of choice. Today, we have wars of distraction.
Call the catastrophically misguided wars in Iran and Venezuela the Epstein Wars.
These were not wars fought to defend national security. They were not wars fought to advance national interests.
They were wars conjured up not by generals or seasoned foreign policy advisors but by a frightened old man and his PR team to distract from a scandal he fears will be his undoing."
#UsPol
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trumps-forever-wars-all-come-back-to-jeffrey-epstein/
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This is Kohen Wiley, the one year old baby killed by a Mississippi police officer earlier today.
Patrol sergeant Hunter Foster shot and killed this innocent child after someone reported his mother stole diapers.
She didn’t steal them. She was the victim of racial profiling.
But even if she had … you don’t shoot people for shoplifting.
Many locals went to protest this senseless murder and the cops tear gassed them.
ACAB.
RIP Kohen Wiley. You deserved so much better.
@linuxgal He thought he could own the Iranians the way he could "own the libs", but it turns out that punching back, and blockading the one thing they want from you forces them to negotiate a deal back to status quo - that THEY fund.
There is a lesson in there for the anti-nazis / pro-democracy crowd.
Why didn't we actively encourage Texas to secede when we had the chance?
#USpol #USlaw #UScorruption
Republicans all militant about states rights... until they want to go around them.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/05/maga-judge-texas-steals-case-gender-affirming-care.html
"'I think we’re just going to have to appreciate that it’s green right now,' Hans Paerl, a professor of marine and environmental sciences at the University of North Carolina, told me. 'And it’ll turn blue later. And hopefully the algae blooming in there are not toxic.' Oh yes, there’s a chance this situation gets even worse."
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/06/reflecting-pool-green-blue-trump/687573/
'What must be especially hard on Trump, a man of renowned vanity, are the signs of physical decay—his bruised hands that makeup cannot wholly conceal, his swollen ankles, his stooped posture and slowed gait, his weight, and his face turning the color of a Halloween pumpkin.'
Nice sum-up of a live bigly American dumpster fire here.
14-day gift read
An astounding moment in history.
This is the great reveal of the great evil.
Hanna Arendt said the Nazi scourge taught us of the banality of evil. Today's billionaires say "Hold my beer"
'Dialog' leak horror.
#theil #wired #dialog #billionaires #coup #nokings #Bernie #aoc #dens #indivisible #uspol #cdnpol
U.S.-Iran MOU shared by U.S. Official.
"Among the most significant terms: a pledge to lift all sanctions against Iran, the release of frozen Iranian assets, a U.S.-led commitment to develop a $300 billion reconstruction and economic development plan for Iran, and a timeline for U.S. forces to withdraw from the proximity of Iran following a final deal.
Iran reaffirms it will not procure or develop nuclear weapons."
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/breaking-read-full-text-of-us-iran
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/06/17/world/g7-summit-trump-france#us-iran-agreement-deal-text
#UsPol
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"Trump admin:🚨allocating Ms of fed💰to an Embryo Adoption Prgm -classifying frozen embryos as “children who already exist” & funding svcs *treat adopting a frozen embryo -like adopting a child.
Sign: step➡️enshrining fetal personhood +brazen move from an admin *trying to avoid public #abortion battles ahead of the MTs -wasn’t: long ago➡️Rs faced a nat backlash when AL’s SC declared: frozen embryos: “extrauterine children.”
I assume: WH -thinks voters won’t notice-."
#USPol
https://jessica.substack.com/p/trumps-embryo-adoption-program-is
: #delusionaldon #democrats #donaldthehoaxtrump #eightysix47 #g7 #makebelieveeconomy #nokings #trumpcurse #trumpstein #trumpsteincoverup #trumpublicans #uspol #uspolitics @uspolitics :
THE SLUMBER KING AND SOMNAMBULISM
Mastodon Post
At the G7, Trump declared, "I'm the boss."
Later, following a group photo, Trump stood by himself while other, more wakeful leaders engaged one another in conversations.
Trump wandered off in the wrong direction until Macron and other world leaders persuaded him to come back. Why they bothered is anybody's guess.
The way the system is supposed to work is that if a US President is clearly corrupt and committing 'high crimes and misdemeanors' and repeatedly failing to uphold his Oath to the Constitution, then Congress is supposed to step in and put a stop to it.
So at this point in the Trump administration, these two spineless enablers are responsible for allowing Trump's blatant #Fraud, #Waste, and #Abuse to continue.
We all need to let them know: https://5calls.org
#Congress #MikeJohnson #JohnThune #House #Senate #USPol #Trump #War #Iran #China #DOD #DOJ #Corruption #NoKings #Resist #Protest #Democracy
RE: https://mstdn.social/@Nickiquote/116765431367491658
Everyone who ever did history in school will recall that, after the Treaty of Versailles, Germany was presented with a punitive bill from the Allies for war reparations of $33bn.
This was regarded as an impossibly huge figure, a “national humiliation” stoking resentment and the rise of the Nazis.
In today’s money, that is $617bn.
Or, just slightly more than twice what Donald Trump has agreed that the US and its Gulf allies will pay to Iran for the privilege of “winning”. #Uspol #iranwar
#Trump Bulldozed a 1,000-Year-Old #ArcheologicalSite to Make Room for a Second Border Wall
#DHS was in talks with the #WildlifeRefuge that hosts the ancient site to make sure it was protected, a local archeologist said.
Adam Federman
April 30 2026, 7:01 p.m.
"A rare archaeological site in the #SonoranDesert was bulldozed by a Department of Homeland Security contractor involved in building the latest sections of Donald Trump’s #BorderWall, according to multiple sources briefed on the incident.
"The area, in a remote corner of Arizona’s #CabezaPrieta #NationalWildlifeRefuge, is a nearly 280-by-50-foot etching in the desert sand known as an #intaglio.
"Last Friday, without any notice, a contractor working for DHS cut a roughly 60-foot swath across the middle of the intaglio, doing irreparable damage to the 1,000-year-old artifact.
"Cabeza Prieta, one of the largest wilderness areas outside of Alaska, also encompasses lands sacred to the #TohonoOodham Nation, which borders the refuge to the east. The O’odham have fought to prevent border wall construction across their reservation and during Trump’s first term largely prevailed; they also managed to protect the intaglio and a nearby burial site that they consider to be part of their ancestral lands.
" 'I liken it to destroying the Nazca lines — something that culturally we should have been relishing and promoting. Not destroying,' Rick Martynec, an archaeologist, said in a phone interview, referring to the hundreds of figures drawn into the deserts of southern Peru.
"The destruction was confirmed by a federal employee with direct knowledge of the incident, who asked not to be named for fear of reprisal."
Source:
https://theintercept.com/2026/04/30/arizona-archeological-site-bulldozed-border-wall/
#USPol #TrumpSucks #CulturalErasure #ProtectTheSacred #TohonoOodhamNation #ArchaeologicalSite #DestroyingHistory #Fascism #NativeAmericanHistory #NativeAmericanCulturalHeritage
U.S. is Dynamiting #Kumeyaay #SacredMountain for #BorderWall Expansion
Kumeyaay's sacred mountain is being dynamited at the same time Hia-Ced #Oodham's sacred place is being bulldozed for this border wall on the #Arizona border.
By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, May 15, 2026
"The United States government is dynamiting the sacred place of Kumeyaay, who live on both sides of the border, and blasted two sacred monoliths that were 60 to 120 million years old. The U.S. began blasting #CerroCuchumá in early April, a historic and #SacredSite where their #MedicinePeople carry out ceremonies, without consultation as required by U.S. federal law."
Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2026/05/us-is-dynamiting-kumeyaay-sacred.html
#USPol #ProtectTheSacred #DefundCBP #RespectTheTreaties #TohonoOodham #KumeyaayPeople #NativeAmericans #SacredSites #SacredLand #NoBorders
“We have tried to work with the Department on the border wall issue, but it insists on rushing forward with construction,” Tohono O’odham Nation Chairman Verlon Jose said in a statement. “We have been left with no other choice but to file suit to protect our land, our culture, and our rights.”
#USPol #NativeAmericanNews #NewMexico #IndigenousNews #TohonoOodham #BorderWall #CulturalGenocide #TribalLands #DHS #TohonoOodhamNation
All Nine #SouthDakota Tribes Pass Resolutions Supporting Developing Legislation To Return #FederalLands: #LakotaNation United in Effort for #BlackHills Federal Lands Return
By NDN Collective • June 9, 2026
Rapid City, SD –"All nine South Dakota Tribes have voted to move forward on developing legislation to return federal lands in the Black Hills to the #GreatSiouxNation – a historic display of Tribal unity and momentum around efforts to protect the Black Hills.
"At a recent tribal council meeting, the #CheyenneRiverSioux Tribe passed a resolution to move forward on working together to protect sacred sites, clean drinking water, and ensure better land management through the development of legislation to return federal lands in the Black Hills to the Great Sioux Nation.
"The proposal — which is still in early draft form — aims to return federal lands in the Black Hills back to the #OcetiSakowin, providing a framework for land return and management. The proposal does not involve privately owned lands, and it does not settle or involve claims by the Great Sioux Nation regarding the 1868 Ft. Laramie Treaty.
"Right now, there are 8,800 active #mining claims in South Dakota – about 17 percent of the entire Black Hills. The legal strategy would protect the Black Hills from all #ExtractiveActivities and preserve clean drinking water for all.
"#Indigenous organizations, elders, grassroots leaders, and community members have been organizing and providing support around proposed legislation since 2020, helping Tribal leaders prioritize this proposal as a critical way to protect drinking water for the region, preserve sacred sites, revitalize culture and land, strengthen sovereignty, bolster community wellbeing, and support jobs and economic development.
" 'The Oceti Sakowin people are coming together to claim the land that is rightfully and legally owed to us,' said #MadonnaThunderHawk, Cheyenne River Sioux elder. 'We are here to say, loud and clear, that the Black Hills are not for sale. We love our land, and will continue defending it – from Pe’ Sla to #CravenCanyon and beyond.”
“#CrazyHorse set the bar on how to move as Indigenous people, and how important it is to defend the Black Hills,” said Joseph Brings Plenty Sr., District 5 Council Representative for the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. 'Together, we are strong – we need to be stronger than ever because we are fighting for an existence on our very own land.' "
#LandBack #IndigenousNews #NativeAmericanNews #USPol #PeSla #NoMining #WaterIsLife
#InTheSpiritOfCrazyHorse
Federal Judge Blocks #Idaho Law Criminalizing #Transgender Bathroom Use
Six transgender residents claimed that the #BathroomBan, the most restrictive in the nation, violated their constitutional rights.
By Amy Harmon, June 16, 2026
Excerpt: "Twenty states besides Idaho restrict transgender people from using bathrooms that align with their gender identity, according to the #MovementAdvancementProject, which tracks state-level legislation on #LGBTQ issues. But the restrictions elsewhere apply only to schools and colleges, government-owned buildings and public places like parks and airports.
"Idaho’s measure is viewed as the most restrictive such law in the nation because of its broad application and because of the penalties it imposes. Repeat violators face up to five years in prison. The law covers restrooms in all publicly owned buildings as well as privately owned settings such as restaurants, retail stores and business offices. It includes bathrooms with a single stall. Idaho’s law also applies more immediately, including no provision like the one in #Florida that requires a transgender person to refuse to leave a bathroom that does not match their sex at birth in order to establish a violation.
"State officials argue that even if the law is challenging to enforce, it is not unconstitutionally vague because it is clear about what must be proved. They noted that a person’s biological sex could be determined later through objective means, such as a birth certificate or DNA testing, even if it cannot be done at the scene."
Read more:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/16/us/transgender-idaho-bathroom-law.html
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/VjZXW
"Quick, get him to sign it before he dies!"
This was an Alan Partridge episode.
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/17/iran-deal-signing-text-release
Where has the romance gone? 🎻 💔
Has #Trump Had Enough of #Netanyahu? [And vice-versa?]
#Israel Defies U.S., Vows to Continue War in #Lebanon
http://www.democracynow.org/2026/6/17/iran_us_deal_lebanon
#DemocracyNow #WorldPol #USPol #IsraeliWarCrimes #BibiIsAWarCriminal #WarOnIran #WarOnLebanon #TrumpSucks
Iranian attack on US water supply triggers investigation
Story by Matt Cannon, June 16, 2026
"An Iran-linked hacking group claimed that it breached water systems in California, prompting an investigation by one of the state’s largest utilities—even as officials say there is no evidence the U.S. water supply was compromised.
"The group, known as #Handala, said it hacked systems tied to California Water Service (#CalWater) and accessed internal data, framing the cyber intrusion as retaliation for alleged recent U.S. strikes on Iranian water infrastructure amid the joint U.S.-Israel war with Iran that began on February 28."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/iranian-attack-on-us-water-supply-triggers-investigation/
#USPol WorldPol #WarOnIran
Hmmmm... Common ground?
Iran-linked hackers take aim at U.S. and other targets, raising risk of cyberattacks during war
Mar 12, 2026
"The datacenters need to be taken out," wrote one user, as uncovered by researchers at U.S.-based SITE Intelligence Group. "They host the brains of USAs military communication and targeting systems."
"When the moon hits your eye Like a big pizza pie, that's amore "
Losing the war to Iran has broken what is left of his mind, lol
@ai6yr The future Musk wants is the Technocracy / AI #digitalID surveillance grid. He gets this by creating civil war (the tool) and then selling the #uk government his Technocracy (as the solution) The Technocracy will crack down on these violent thugs along with everyone else
He also wants USA to become the Technate, so no special relationship with UK & again to cut off UK he creates civil war, after which UK is ripe for pillage and plunder, vassal state becomes slave state
Report: US rejects formal Israeli request to review the US-Iran MOU.
The MOU, to be signed on Friday, "has triggered widespread criticism within Israel, including criticism of Netanyahu".
Amanda Marcotte:
"Trump’s White House is run by men obsessed with looking tough, but who are, in actuality, weak and incompetent. The more they fail, the more they grasp for these theatrical but ineffectual displays of masculine preening, hoping that the public mistakes loud and violent displays for strength. This may fool the hardcore MAGA base into perpetuity, but increasingly, it’s becoming evident to everyone else ..."
https://www.salon.com/2026/06/17/ufc-fight-cant-hide-maga-male-weakness/
#UsPol
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So to recap:
— Russia owns Trump
— China owns Trump
— Israel owns Trump
— Iran owns Trump
— Epstein files cite him 1M+ times that we know of
— Inflation is 40% higher than when Trump came in office
— Unemployment is 9% higher than when Trump came in office
Problem is—Trump doesn't care. Why?
Trump doesn't care about all these (and more) failures because:
— He's already grifted billions in personal wealth, and will grift billions more
— His Christian Nationalist base is happy Project 2025 is full speed ahead, &
— His approval (39%) is still higher than Dem Party approval (36%)
Dems must stop running as Republican-lite & actually run as a party that is pro working families, anti-war, & anti-billionaire.
You can't take money from the same people funding MAGA and expect people to trust you.
Corporate Dems still won't run FOR something, and we're all worse off for it.
source https://bsky.app/profile/qasimrashid.com/post/3moh6bgbebs2b
#Trump #Iran #Israel #USpol #CesefireTalks #MoU #WarOnIran #WestAsia #Politics
Trump’s🚨own anger masks a desperate desire to find an off-ramp from a conflict *didn't go the way he'd planned...—& #Trump🚨—reduced in the eyes of the world.
For a decade, Trump's dominated the global stage & wielded extraord exec power. Now:🚨saddled with low poll#S & unhappy Rs +may soon have to contend with a Dem Cong. His evol into a lame duck is accelerating...
World ldrs *once cowed,🚨have begun to defy him. His defeat in Iran... may🚨HASTEN HIS IRRELEVANCE."
#USPol
https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2026/06/trump-defeat-iran-war/687566/?gift=SCYx-5scVta3-cr_IlgTyRIKIGuzjYC3MeZvTLpkpZU
RE: https://zirk.us/@CindyWeinstein/116765792699800266
"Trump, Hegseth [and] all the other MAGA male leaders [...] know, deep down inside, that they’re weak men. As long as they’re in office, they’ll be tempted to “prove” their masculinity through violence, even though this never works. If it were only UFC fights on the White House lawn, that’s survivable. But the siren call of war is never silent to the insecure man with power." - @AmandaMarcotte
They can both be right about each other, and also both wankers. We don't have to choose a side in this, they can both go to hell.
White Fail-Bros....as far as the eye can see
"give us one more chance, ah go,. ah go, ....ahhhh go on!"
Remember, only White Blokey Blokes are the authentic Working Class, everyone else is a liar.../s
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/platner-fetterman-feud-working-class-authenticity-20260617.html
If not Sex Trafficker, then why Sex Trafficker shaped?
https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/trump-epstein-files-2677046799/
#EpsteinFiles #JDVance #Couchfucker #USPol #USPolitics #TrumpTower #Trump
There are so many signs of #Trump's #dementia (see Dr. John Gartner) & here's another one: Trump can't seem to say anything w/o swearing or using profanity (I was just reading about his latest taunt directed at Jon Ossoff). He is obviously profane (#Epstein, #EJeanCarroll, I could go on) but his public outbursts & evening insomnia, another aspect of his dementia, have become increasingly frequent. #Media, do you have something you'd like to say?
The Iranians (and the World) are laughing at TRUMP, and calling him a 'stupid son of a bitch'
His tiny, diseased mind thinks he's outwitting us when he does this Projection crap.
You lost, you dirty fucking rapist, ....you LOST!
#Trump admin abandons fight against #WindEnergy as clean energy output surges
Legal victories have dampened the Trump admin’s efforts to halt #wind and #SolarPower.
Aman Azhar, Jun 16, 2026
Excerpt: "Environmental and wildlife advocacy groups applauded the move. #NancyPyne, a senior advisor to the #SierraClub, said renewable energy continues to prevail and grow in spite of Trump’s relentless attacks.
" 'While everyday Americans face soaring bills and unstable prices,' she said, 'renewable energy offers an affordable, common sense solution to lower costs and protect our health and our environment.' "
Are they asking AI for ideas now?
#EpsteinFiles #JDVance #Couchfucker #USPol #USPolitics #TuckerCarlson #GhislaineMaxwell
In 2024, the #CDC🚨reported nearly 4K new cases of #syphilis in babies *highest case number since the mid-1950s. Typically ~5%-10% of those reported cases are stillbirths or die soon after delivery.💔Many surviving babies are left with lifelong disability or developmental delay.
The:⬆️reflects the nat loss of syphilis control *began with TGR & the defunding of local #PublicHealth programs in 2008... #Trump, #RFKJr...🚨further defunded the CDC. #Measles is back too.
#USPol
https://www.statnews.com/2026/06/17/congenital-syphilis-rates-mothers-babies-policy/
So it's not just England fans chanting about the US President and the Epstein Files?
Fans of Roman History know what happens when you lose the terraces of sports fans...
https://www.givemesport.com/brazil-fans-anti-donald-trump-chant-us-national-anthem/
#EpsteinFiles #WorldCup2026 #Trump #USPol #USpolitics #Brazil
#UFC fight can’t hide #MAGA male weakness
By Amanda Marcotte, June 17, 2026
"Above all things, the Ulitmate Fighting Championship spectacle on the White House lawn on Sunday was Donald Trump’s birthday present to himself. The self-proclaimed 'Greatest President in History' once again reminded the public that the only record he’ll set is in White House corruption, using the fight both to line his own pockets and enrich his billionaire benefactors. But if the 80-year-old was hoping that proximity to half-naked men punching each other would make him look more robust and virile, the opposite happened. Despite the dramatic music and his ever-thickening foundation application, Trump looked frail and his ever-present hand bruise was hard to ignore, despite the efforts to cover it with makeup.
"The painful event was an almost too-perfect symbol of the larger problem infecting Trump’s White House: it’s run by men obsessed with looking tough, but who are, in actuality, weak and incompetent. The more they fail, the more they grasp for these theatrical but ineffectual displays of masculine preening, hoping that the public mistakes loud and violent displays for strength. This may fool the hardcore MAGA base into perpetuity, but increasingly, it’s becoming evident to everyone else that all the chest-pounding theatrics are just a cover to conceal the weakness that defines MAGA manhood."
Read more:
https://www.salon.com/2026/06/17/ufc-fight-cant-hide-maga-male-weakness/
#USPol TrumpSucks #MAGAMen #MaleFragility #Overcompensation #ToxicMasculinity
The Gaza genocide was planned decades ago
Just as today, soldier testimonials from the 1967 war show ethnic cleansing & murder was Israeli policy:
"At first I wasn't willing to execute Arabs who weren't resisting," one soldier said. Then we concluded "that we had to kill." We ceased "to see them as human beings."
"300,000 Arabs were expelled or displaced from the West Bank, Gaza & the Golan Heights" in the 6-day war.