William Lindsey

"As the U.S.-Israel war on Iran enters its fourth week and President Donald Trump orders the deployment of thousands of additional sailors and Marines to the Middle East, the troops he is counting on appear increasingly wary of the conflict."

~ Akbar Shahid Ahmed

#Trump #Iran #war #Israel #Marines #troops
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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-troops-iran-war-israel_n_69bf18a1e4b01c6ce885ce6d

"At what point does it get fair to call them death camps? Deaths in ICE detention have soared under Trump, with a record-setting 41 deaths in custody so far, surpassing the rate of state and local deaths in custody."

~ Marcie Jones

#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #DeathCamps #immigrants #EthnicCleansing

https://www.wonkette.com/p/dont-forget-about-trumps-war-at-home

"Whether Jane Doe #4’s trafficking and rape allegations against Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, and Ghislaine Maxwell are ever proven or disproven is ultimately a matter for evidence, corroboration, and law. What cannot be denied is that her testimony exists, the FBI considered it important enough to document repeatedly, and details provided to the FBI and released in the Epstein files have now been corroborated."

~ Dave Shuster

#Epstein #Trump #PamBondi #JaneDoe
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https://www.blueamp.co/p/the-fbi-believed-her

"Why did Donald Trump attack Iran? Did he believe that a quick victory would boost his poll ratings? Was he looking for a way to change the subject from the Epstein files and affordability? Was he seduced into war by the Israeli government?

The answer, surely, is all of the above."

~ Paul Krugman

#Trump #Epstein #Netanyahu #Iran #war #BigOil #oil #GulfStates
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https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/donald-trump-petropresident

Paul Waldman notes the strains in the MAGA movement re: the Iran war, as Trumpist Mark Levin calls Trumpist Megyn Kelly "an emotionally unhinged, lewd, and petulant wreck" and a "harlot," and she responds by saying he has a micropenis:

"Trouble is, once you build a movement and a political style around hate, personal insults, performative conflict, and conspiracy theorizing, it’s not easy to channel it only in the directions you want."

#Trump #MAGA #Iran #war
/1

https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/maga-turns-on-itself-and-its-ugly

Kristin Du Mez, author of the acclaimed Jesus and John Wayne, is back in the classroom teaching a course entitled "Reading for Resistance." She shares her list of books she's use in the course:

Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

Milton Mayer, They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison

#resistance #solidarity #TimothySnyder #MiltonMayer #Bonhoeffer
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https://kristindumez.substack.com/p/reading-for-resistance

Wondering whether AI-generated slop is good for our brains? And hearts and souls? Wonder no more. Jamison Foser says,

"The truth is inaccessible [with our increasing reliance on AI slop]. Everything becomes vibes.

And it is getting worse, because we have created and deployed the most powerful lie machine ever imagined, with virtually no actual guardrails and precious little social stigma applied to its use."

#AI #AISlop #stupidity #vulgarization
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https://www.findinggravity.net/ai-generated-celebrity-slop-is-making-america-dumber/

With about half of Americans supporting some version of Christian nationalist ideology, it's impossible to ignore the centrality of that ideology to Trump-Hegseth's war against Iran.

As Zachary B. Wolf says,

"Hegseth has long wanted to reprogram the country.

'America was founded as a Christian nation,' he said at a recent National Prayer Breakfast."

#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #WhiteChristianNationalism
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https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/13/politics/hegseth-iran-israel-war-american-crusade-analysis

#Trump #SouthAfrica #Afrikaaners #WhiteSupremacy #immigrants

Commentary continues to pour out re: Trump's war against Iran. I'm starting a second thread of things I've read today about that topic that seem worth sharing.

"The hardest thing for the media to wrap its hands around over the last year is that Donald Trump has no plan — for anything, ever."

~ Garrett M. Graff

#Trump #Iran #war #media
/1

https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/trump-surprised-to-find-he-s-at-war-in-iran

"It becomes clearer with each passing day that the people who took us to war with Iran had and have no idea what they’re doing — that they’re adolescents who think they’re playing video games while thousands die and the world careens toward economic crisis. The New York Times reports that Trump officials dismissed warnings that attacking Iran could disrupt world oil supplies."

~ Paul Krugman

#Trump #Iran #war #economy #EconomicElites #oligarchy #oil #gas
/1

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-billionaires-war

"On March 9th, Rep. Andy Ogles tweeted, 'Muslims don’t belong in American society. Pluarlism [sic] is a lie,' prompting furious backlash from everyone…except his own party.

This kind of white supremacist rhetoric stems directly from neo-Nazi ideas and conspiracy theories and is the language of ethnic cleansing at its core."

~ The Feed

#AndyOgles #MikeJohnson #Republicans #Islamophobia #Muslims #EthnicCleansing #WhiteSupremacy
/1

https://thefeed1.substack.com/p/mike-johnson-greenlights-gop-bigotry

"At a press conference on Monday evening, President Trump said his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, was one of a handful of top advisers who convinced him to launch major combat operations in Iran. The disclosure raises additional questions about the role of Kushner, who is being paid tens of millions of dollars annually by Middle Eastern governments that were reportedly lobbying Trump to attack Iran."

~ Judd Legum

#Trump #Iran #war #JaredKushner
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https://popular.info/p/update-trump-says-kushner-helped

Both Jason Stanley and Peter Beinart ask today whether the Trump-Netanyahu war on Iran might step up antisemitism. Stanley says,

"Restrictions on speech critical of Israel lend unwarranted legitimacy to antisemitic ideologies. For the sake of both democracy and Jewish safety worldwide, it is therefore essential to allow citizens to freely criticize Israel without fear or sanction."

#Netanyahu #Trump #Iran #Israel #antisemitism #zionism
/1

https://zeteo.com/p/democracy-criticize-israel-netanyahu-iran-trump

"We are trying to get your kingdom to come,” said Charlie Kirk associate Andrew Sedra as he prayed enthusiastically to Jesus after Trump and Netanyahu launched violence against Iran. As Tim Dickinson explains, this prayer is rooted in the Christian nationalist theology that now has exorbitant influence in the Trump regime.

#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #ChristianNationalism #armageddon #rapture #zionism #Islamophobia
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https://www.contrariannews.org/p/these-christian-nationalists-are

"He does not understand that the rules that apply to the acquisition of inert objects do not apply to the matters of the spirit and society. ... This deadness, this disconnection, is at the heart of the main thing he would like us to shut up about and forget, the Epstein files."

~ Rebecca Solnit

#Trump #Epstein #women #misogyny #exploitation #domination #nature #war
/1

https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/visions-of-life-agents-of-death-on-love-thy-neighbor-and-love-thy-nature/

"What level of chess is it when you neglect to fill up your strategic oil reserves before starting a war that shuts down oil production worldwide, so you have to buy oil at an inflated price from your enemy who then uses those funds to back the enemy you just needlessly attacked?"

~ Conspiratorial Templates

#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #gasoline #economy #prices #Russia

https://xcancel.com/mynamehear/status/2029994630365011979#m

"Today, even one year may prove longer than the world can bear. Its only true superpower is captive to a venal, faithless old man, who’s as desperate and error prone as he’s ever been.

We’ve had to live too long already with the intolerable risk of handing a man like Donald Trump the power to deploy nuclear weapons."

~ Brian Beutler

#Trump #Republicans #Iran #war #nuclear #NuclearWeapons
/1

https://www.offmessage.net/p/no-quarter

"When war is raging it’s hard to say anything about what else is happening in the world.

But the best hope for ending the madness that Trump and Co. have unleashed - both in the Middle East and on America’s streets - is to build a broad coalition of everyday people that is more powerful than the plurality of American voters that have controlled the Republican Party for the past decade."

~ William J. Barber & Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

#MoralFusion #solidarity
/1

https://ourmoralmoment.substack.com/p/a-moral-vision-inspires-a-new-electorate

"When I look at Donald Trump as a person, I see a failed real estate guy from Queens with a lot of natural showman talent, whose obviously poor physical condition is covered by terrible, ill-fitting suits and a lot of makeup. When I listen to him I hear incoherent bluster and self-absorbed whining. None of this makes me experience him as strong."

~ Timothy Snyder

#Trump #Iran #war #strongman #masculinity #PerformativeMasculinity
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https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-transitive-strongman

"When Donald tells us the American economy is great and can withstand anything, he is talking about his own economy. He is talking about the fact that for him, his useless children, and his obscenely wealthy cohorts, everything is just fine."

~ Mary Trump

#Trump #war #Iran #economy #EconomicElites #prices #inflation
/1

https://www.marytrump.org/p/what-is-it-all-for

"No president in the modern era has ordered more military strikes against as many different countries as Donald Trump.

He's attacked 7 nations, three of which had never been targeted by U.S. military strikes. He authorized more individual air strikes in 2025 than Biden did in four years."

~ Axios

#Trump #Iran #war
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https://bsky.app/profile/axios.com/post/3mg3a6sil422i

"As this now becomes the seventh country Trump has bombed just since being back in office for one year, cui bono, who benefits? It seems like a disturbingly easy qustion to answer. Why has the US government been pushed in this direction? Follow the money. Why is Donald Trump willing to let that happen? Well, with this president, sadly, we keep learning over and over that the easiest answer is almost always the truest one."

~ Rachel Maddow

#Trump #Iran #war
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https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/why-trump-war-iran-benefits

This meme is circulating on social media today. I haven't been able to track its origin or creator, so can't give credit — but I think it's very apt.

#Trump #Iran #war

"Last week, in Buffalo, Border Patrol agents scooped up a refugee named Nurul Amin Shah Alam. They quickly learned he was in the country legally and not deportable. So they released him—in the parking lot of a closed Tim Horton’s, miles from both his home and the county jail where they’d picked him up."

~ Andrew Egger

#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #CBP #DHS #immigrants #EthnicCleansing #cruelty #ShahAlam
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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/same-brutal-ice-now-stealthier-dhs-nurul-amin-shah-alam-minneapolis-dhs-funding-midterms-primaries

"Over coffee at a Starbucks just outside Austin, Texas, Del Bigtree told me he wants his teenage son to catch polio. Measles, too. He’s considered driving his unvaccinated family to South Carolina, which is in the midst of a historic outbreak, so that they can all be exposed. He prefers pertussis—whooping cough—to the pertussis vaccine, which he later described to me as a 'crime against children'.”

~ Tom Bartlett

#vaccines #measles #polio #pertussis #RFKJr #Trump
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https://www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/02/del-bigtree-pro-infection-polio-measles/686092/

"I wanted to focus your attention on a genuine piece of news out of the Epstein Files, even weeks after their original release. In 2019, a woman came forward and spoke to the FBI claiming that Donald Trump had assaulted her in the early 1980s. In her allegations, Jeffrey Epstein essentially provided her to Trump."

~ Josh Marshall

#Epstein #Trump #PamBondi #DOJ #pedophiles #coverup
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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/yes-this-latest-trump-revelation-out-of-the-epstein-files-seem-big

"Eliminationism describes an ideology and politics founded on a pathological hatred and fear of entire blocs of other people, deploying rhetoric that demonizes and dehumanizes its targets, conceptualizing them as filth and vermin, actual threats to public safety and well-being, and objects fit only for elimination and eradication—the virtual embodiment of evil itself."

~ David Neiwert

#eliminationism #history #Trump #EthnicCleansing #ICE #DHS
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https://davidneiwert.substack.com/p/the-history-we-hide-trumps-war-on

"His Jeffrey Epstein problem isn’t going away. In fact, it’s getting worse. ...

It has become painfully clear that there is a double standard when it comes to justice and accountability in the United States. What am I saying? Double standard? There is no justice and accountability in the United States."

~ Mary Trump

#Epstein #Trump #EconomicElites #EpsteinClass #pedophiles #coverup #ApprovalRating
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https://www.marytrump.org/p/the-daily-wrap-up-f15

"The SAVE Act is nominally aimed at preventing non-citizens from voting. But since this is vanishingly rare, the real effects will be felt elsewhere. One new twist, compared to prior restrictive voting measures, is that women, especially White Republican women, will be hard hit by these burdens. The SAVE Act employs 'gendered burdens' – bureaucratic obstacles that purposefully and predictably hurt women."

~ Pamela Herd

#SAVEAct #women #ChristianNationalism
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https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-save-act-is-christian-nationalism

"Resistance is happening in a thousand ways from people destroying Flock cameras to judges upholding the Constitution to the pope once again spurning JD Vance's advances. Resistance in solidarity with immigrants and others under attack, resistance against surveillance, cruelty, lawlessness."

~ Rebecca Solnit

#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #cruelty #immigrants #EthnicCleansing #solidarity #resistance
/1

https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/welcoming-the-stranger-and-fighting-the-power-a-roundup/

"On paper, Operation Metro Surge is over.

It supposedly came to an end on Feb. 12, following border czar Tom Homan’s announcement that federal immigration agents would be withdrawing from Minnesota. …

'They’re much stealthier,' [Avonna Starck ]said. 'They’re not in full military garb. They’re wearing jeans, they’ve got baseball caps on, you really have to look for them now.'”

~ Nicolas Scibelli

#ICE #TomHoman #Trump #Minneapolis #Minnesota
/1

https://sahanjournal.com/immigration/ice-minnesota-suburbs-operation-metro-surge/

"So apparently, J.D. Vance flew to the Vatican to invite Pope Leo to the United States for America’s 250th birthday, but he declined and will instead spend July 4th standing with migrants. As a practicing Catholic, I can’t put into words how meaningful it is to watch the Church meet this moment with an American as pope."

~ Mike Nellis

#Trump #JDVance #PopeLeo #Catholic #WhiteEvangelicals
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@mike_nellis@www.threads.com

"This [Reuters] photo [by Phil Noble] will … forever tie the British royal family to the Epstein files and all the grim truths they have revealed.

Will this be their legacy? Will this be how history remembers the royals in the early 21st century?"

~ Ed Frankel

#AndrewMountbatten #PrinceAndrew #Epstein #crime #EpsteinClass #EconomicElites
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https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/feb/20/andrew-mountbatten-windsor-arrest-photo-royal-portrait-munch-goya

"Why does someone who overstayed their visa need to be held in shackles? Why does someone who isn’t a flight risk need to be indefinitely confined in a filthy overcrowded cell? Does any child belong in a prison camp? Does anybody at all deserve to be forced to sleep on a concrete floor, or underfed, or brutalized, or denied medical care?"

~ Dan Froomkin

#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #DHS #ICE #cruelty #immigrants #media
/1

https://criticalread.substack.com/p/the-inhumane-treatment-of-immigration

"As the Trump administration escalated its assault on human dignity, many Catholics have wondered: Where are our bishops? Why don't they do something?

Where were their voices when cuts to USAID consigned millions across the world to hunger, thirst and death?"

~ National Catholic Reporter

#Trump #immigrants #violence #ICE #MaskedThugs #USAID #hunger #children #healthcare #ProLife #Catholic #CatholicBishops
/1

https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/editorial/editorial-bishops-united-states-history-has-its-eyes-you

"There’s an old line that says you can judge a civilization by how it treats its most vulnerable, and by that measure, Trump’s America is failing spectacularly. Few people are more exposed than LGBTQ+ asylum seekers, yet this administration is working overtime to shove them onto planes bound for places like Uganda and Iran, where being queer can mean prison, torture, or a death sentence."

~ The Feed

#Trump #LGBTQ #immigrants #deportations

https://thefeed1.substack.com/p/the-trump-administration-is-sending

"The number of U.S. billionaires rose 85 percent between 2010 and 2023, from 404 to 748. But billionaires’ share of political contributions rose by 1700 percent.

In short, we are in the midst of an unprecedented power grab by America’s oligarchs."

~ Paul Krugman

#EconomicElites #wealth #oligarchy #democracy
/1

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/billionaires-gone-wild

"New polling in the wake of Alex Pretti’s killing at the hands of federal agents and recent, disturbing revelations in the Epstein files shows Trump’s approval rating average has hit an all-time low. He is currently 15 points underwater and less popular than Joe Biden was at this point in his presidency."

#Trump #polls #protests #ApprovalRating #BigLie #elections #VoterSuppression
/3

"I get the impression that a lot of very powerful people are operating on the assumption that authoritarianism is here for the long run. If and when it fails, watch them scramble to pretend they were never who they are right now, just as after the end of the Second World War lots of French people who were part of the collaborationist Vichy regime pretended they'd always been with the Resistance," (continued in /2)

~ Rebecca Solnit

#Trump #authoritarianism
/1

https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/journalism-is-dead-long-live-journalism/