Peter Kohan

For those who never had to go through a “duck and cover” drill in case of nuclear war during the Cold War, it’s kind of like opening up this app every morning.

The Financial Times is reporting something that should be front-page news everywhere.       Pete Hegseth didn’t just help design the Iran war. He championed it publicly, cheered it on, and sold it to the American people. And according to the Financial Times, while his own department was in the final stages of preparing to launch it, his broker at Morgan Stanley was attempting to make a multimillion-dollar investment in the defense companies that build the weapons we used to fight it.       The investment didn’t ultimately go through, but only because the fund wasn’t yet available on Morgan Stanley’s platform. Not because anyone stopped it.      If these reports are accurate, the Secretary of Defense was positioned to profit from a war he helped start, using information no private investor could ever have. That is a profound betrayal of every service member he commands, and of every American who trusted this Administration with their national security.      No one should be cashing in on privileged information while lives and national security are on the line.

My intel is that Trump administration used Orban to help sabotage the EU’s Russian-assets-to-Ukraine deal. More Trump/Russia. politico.eu/article/operat…

Yale historian Timothy Snyder says Trump’s proposed 50% military budget increase isn’t a defense strategy. It’s a bribe. His words: paying off officers and soldiers to help him stage a coup against Americans. Snyder also warns: be skeptical of Trump’s account of any future terrorist attack on U.S. soil. Preemptively. Now. This is where we are. rawstory.com/trumps-militar…

💢 Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner on U.S. support for Israel: “Not a single taxpayer dollar should be spent on arming and defending a country that commits a genocide. I would absolutely support Senator Sanders' bill to restrict military aid, but I'll be entirely honest, looking down the road, this is a nation that right now is exterminating people. It is going to be very difficult for me to ever be able to look at them again and see someone that we should be working with closely… What I am witnessing now is the height of horror. And the fact that it is being done by bombs that are built in this country and paid for with our tax dollars is utterly unconscionable. And it needs to end.” Clip via @MarcoFoster_

💥While Netanyahu was toying, in public, over which lowlife to keep on staff, swaying back and forth, 4 people remain buried deep underground in Haifa, in a still explosive situation. The entire neighborhood may have to be evacuated.

Booker admitting that he's never even listened a single minute of Hasan's show, and only put out a position because Third Way prodded his office.

🚨 Trump’s student loan cuts are hitting young people like a shock wave. Incoming law & medical students are just now finding out that federal loans will only cover half their costs. Now millions will be forced into predatory private loans just to get a degree.

Whose prediction market bet did Trump just influence in a corrupt manner?

Ah yes, the stock market is reopening

It’s remarkable that Christians can publicly celebrate Easter in Tehran, but not in Jerusalem.

Pope Leo's Easter message: "Let those who have weapons lay them down! Let those who have the power to unleash wars choose peace! Not a peace imposed by force, but through dialogue! Not with the desire to dominate others, but to encounter them!"

Yeah I suspect @JulieMenin is going to find out that NYC can either raise taxes on the super rich the easy way (with her support) or the hard way (with her bulldozed into a political ditch). The idea that Mamdani is going to cut billions from the budget just so Julie's taxes don't go up slightly is not serious.

And?

Fucking outrageous. And highly illegal. "Trump has grifted his entire life. Now he’s just taking it. The State Department transferred $1.25 billion in foreign aid to Trump’s Board of Peace, pulling $1 billion from international disaster assistance, $200 million from peacekeeping operations, and $50 million from international organizations. Money that Congress authorized for hurricanes and refugees, moved without a congressional vote, into a fund that Trump created by executive order and controls personally. When reporters asked the State Department about it, a spokesperson said they had nothing to announce at this time. The Board of Peace has one defining characteristic. Trump controls it forever. He named himself chairman for life. No audits. No transparency requirements. No conflict of interest rules. Countries pay $1 billion into a fund he runs to get a seat at the table. It has transferred nothing to Gaza, disclosed nothing about its spending, and received $1.25 billion of your disaster relief money without a word of explanation. When he leaves the White House he keeps the fund. That is not a loophole. That is the design." He’s Not Grifting Anymore. He’s Just Taking It. open.substack.com/pub/meidastouc…

🚨JUST IN: Trump just told Fox News the US secretly sent guns to Iranian protesters through Kurdish intermediaries. “We sent guns to the protesters. A lot of them. And I think the Kurds took the guns.” The President just publicly admitted a covert weapons program inside a country America is actively at war with. On camera. He doesn’t know if the weapons reached anyone. Two possibilities: It’s true — a massive foreign policy revelation that will reshape the entire region. It’s not true — the Commander in Chief is fabricating covert operations on live television. Either answer is disqualifying.

💥Labor Party Leader Yair Golan: "Netanyahu is panicking. The war is spiralling on all fronts. The polls aren't improving. And elections are coming closer. Like a dog returning to its vomit, Netanyahu is again inciting against the Supreme Court and "the left." Israel has had enough of Netanyahu. Elections are coming. We will replace him."

But we are all supposed to accept Israel as the singular global voice on Judaism, right?

💥Do not ask me why, as Haifa and its refinery are getting pounded, the news that Russia is transferring specific data about Israeli energy facilities to air the Iranian war effort, is not making headlines in Israel.

We have never been so fucked

Genuinely unbelievable Israel can ethnically cleanse over a million people and still keep its name out of the headlines.