Andy Goodwin

"Later, when the cameras were off, he said, 'Billy, look, you just tell them and they believe it. That's it: you just tell them and they believe. They just do.'" -- B. Bush

this is the "stripping the copper wire" phase of looting and the residents are too stunned to do anything about it

Jared Kushner has no security clearance, he has provided no financial disclosures, is hopelessly conflicted financially (if not in other ways too), is not Senate confirmed, and doesn’t report to anyone subject to Congressional oversight. Diplomatic mercenary.

The President of the United States is hosting a meme coin conference at Mar-a-Lago on April 25th. He is personally promoting a token he profits from while signing the legislation that regulates it. This is not crypto adoption. This is a sitting president running a side hustle from the Oval Office. In any other context this would be called corruption.

Imagine that Orban announces victory on Sunday (irrelevant of the actual result) and Trump and Putin back his claim immediately. What do we do ?

Israel killed Khatoun Salma in Beirut, Lebanon. She was not a fighter. Not a threat. She was a renowned Lebanese poet. Israel murdered her and her husband — flattening the residential building they lived in.

The guy overseeing Trumps’s dismantling of the Forest Service btw is a multimillionaire rancher and tech executive who has a history of petty disputes with the agency eenews.net/articles/trump…

Infuriating details about attack in Kuwait that killed 6 U.S. troops: -Unit was relocated *closer* to Iran -Post was “not a fortified position” -Post a “known target” to Iran, per intel -SecWar claim “that 'one squeaked through' is a falsehood” -Tragedy was preventable cbsnews.com/amp/news/iran-…

“Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part”

🚨HOLY SHIT !!!!! Israeli politician Yitzik Kroizer says killing Palestinian children is normal if it supports the IDF mission. He adds there are no innocent children in the West Bank. Repost this. Please I beg you

The decision to dismantle the US Forest Service will go down as one of the many massive blunders of this presidency. They are set to close all 10 regions offices and over 50 research labs. This agency manages 193 million acres of national forests, protects ecosystems, manages wildfires, conducts research, and more. This represents yet another step toward the destruction of our environment and shows a complete disregard for our future wellbeing.

It is truly remarkable that after the Vietnam War, after the Afghanistan War, after a catalogue of US military failures in the post 1945 world, people claiming to be serious analysts are saying because the US dropped alot of bombs it won this war. It did not.

I don't think a one-state solution makes sense because Israelis would literally destroy human civilization rather than accept that. On the other hand they'd probably also destroy human civilization rather than accept a two-state solution, so I'm not sure where that leaves us.

This guy deserves to not only become a social pariah but also be questioned for following illegal orders, because threatening the Pope and the Vatican is certainly not within the boundaries of the law. Elbridge Colby is repugnant.

If I understand correctly, ships seeking safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz are required to make payments to Iranian entities that are either formally sanctioned or additionally designated as terrorist organizations by the US and EU. In other words, it all comes down to a simple, binary choice: either maximum pressure on Iran together with maximum pressure on the global energy market, or sanctions relief on Iran as a condition for relief of the global energy crisis. That is the scale of the astounding US-Israeli victory in their latest war. More brilliant achievements to come.

From a friend in Beirut: “They bombed highly populated and non-evacuated areas. Last I heard there were 254 dead and 1169 injured. The day before, at the time they bombed, (my husband) and I were passing in that area. The casualties will rise because there are still people under the rubble. This is higher than the Beirut port explosion. And they are threatening that they will continue their unannounced raids for 48 hours. So nobody knows where they are going to bomb today. We don’t know anymore where it’s safe. And the sad thing is that they are getting away with everything they do and no one is able to stop them.” All this because Benjamin Netanyahu understands that peace will mean the end of his tenure as Israel’s Prime Minister. The people of Lebanon suffer because of the ego of one man. A man who heads a nation of genocidal maniacs. Where is Europe? Where is Russia? Where is China? Don’t bother asking where America is. We lost our moral compass a long time ago. We stand with Israel. We stand with the murderers.

Dear journalists…

"The United States ignored evidence of cooperation between russia and Iran and trusts Vladimir Putin — and that is a disgrace," said President Zelenskyy.

Ritaj Rayhan was nine years old. She was sitting inside a school in northern Gaza, two kilometers from the yellow line, when Israeli occupation forces shot her three times. She was killed instantly. She was not near a military target. She was not in a combat zone. She was in a classroom. The yellow line, which the Israeli occupation army has used as a pretext for continuous fire across northern Gaza, has now reached a nine-year-old girl doing what nine-year-olds are supposed to do. anas.fteiha (IG)

ICE killed an indigenous Mayan teen who spoke Tzotzil who is reduced to “Mexican man” in US media.

Hussein Saleh lost 8 members of his family in an Israeli strike on their home, including his pregnant wife. He found the head of his young daughter amid the rubble. “When I picked up her head, everything changed. Something in my heart broke and went silent.” It is one of the most heartbreaking stories @NadaOHomsi and I have worked on during the war. Nothing could justify such a horrific attack.