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@narceducator 25% of American voters believe it.

A narcissist who is failing and diminished, under threat of his defective true self being exposed, resorts to ever grander fabricated declarations of his “achievements.” His dementia is accentuating his inane grandiosity as diminished filters prevent any alignment with reality.

@hippyygoat 10/7/2023 was hateful. What followed was worse.

I AM CONVINCED EVIL WALKS AMONG US… "Bomb their children, not their infrastructure. Parents deserve to see their children die. It took us two years to do this in Gaza. We haven't done it in Lebanon yet." -Israeli academic Orit Perlov

@MiddleEastEye More propaganda.

Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, argued that Israel is “the source of peace and stability” in the region in response to a question about why Israel should be the only nuclear power in the Middle East.

@IhabHassane How wrong is this? Religion at its worst.

Israeli MK Yitzik Kroizer on the killing of a Palestinian family by the Israeli army in Jenin: "There are no innocent civilians in Jenin, there are no innocent children in Jenin. I support the IDF soldiers in every situation, even if the incidental cost is children or women."

@ReutersScience Oil majors have no ambitions except profit.

The world will not be able to reach carbon neutrality by 2050 as outlined in the Paris Agreement, French oil major TotalEnergies said on Thursday, and the company will have to adapt its own climate ambitions as a result. reut.rs/4dcduF7 reut.rs/4dcduF7

@NewsNation What a rag.

President Donald Trump says Iran is desperate to make a deal to end the war in the Middle East, though Iranian leaders say no talks have taken place. The Pentagon says the U.S. has hit more than 10,000 targets since the operation began. More: newsnationnow.com/world/live-upd…

@AnnevanLeur Witnessing Trump’s public decline into dementia is slow, painful, embarrassing, and expensive.

Trump’s promises to Americans that negotiations with Iran are going well. Meanwhile, Iran has announced that Trump must be negotiating with himself.

@Microinteracti1 @ZelenskyyUa 998 more days of Trump.

Zelensky is being polite. The rest of us don’t have to be. There is one world leader Trump has never criticized. Not once. Not even when it would have cost him nothing. Every ally has taken fire – Zelensky, Macron, Trudeau, the entire EU, Canada, Australia, the UK. Putin alone gets the soft voice and the benefit of the doubt. Everyone knows why. The compromised part isn’t a conspiracy theory anymore, it’s the operating assumption of every intelligence service in Europe. And this is the man now positioning himself as a peace broker between Russia and Ukraine. You cannot broker peace between a burglar and a homeowner when you are holding the door open for the burglar. The US has spent 13 months blocking pressure on Russia, undermining Ukraine’s negotiating position, and telling Europe to sit down. The result is that Russia continues to take territory by force while Trump runs diplomatic cover from Mar-a-Lago. Seven billion people outside the United States can see what is happening. The question is what anyone is actually going to do about it.

We do not see any genuine desire from Russia to end the war, and we share this view with our partners. The United States believes that Putin wants the war to end. Our views here are completely different. On one hand, that’s not a problem – it’s normal for opinions to differ. But on the other hand, when we want to end the war, to accelerate this process, we raise the issue of putting pressure on Russia. We know that Putin does not want to end the war. We call for additional pressure to make him want to. But the U.S. believes he wants to end it, so why apply extra pressure if Russia is showing it is also ready for peace? There are different perspectives on certain issues, and this is something we need to work through. From an interview with Le Monde (3/5).

@CheburekiMan Chosen for what and by whom?

Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai: "We are destroyed. We are living in shelters for weeks now. Why exactly are we the ones suffering right now? We are the chosen people!" Life's tough, get a helmet.

Since war planning with Iran is so slipshod or non-existent, what’s next? President Trump can’t be believed or trusted. Opening the Strait of Hormuz is uncertain. The toilets and laundry aboard the world’s most expensive ($13 billion) warship, the USS Ford, have put it out of action. Are the Keystone Cops lurking about?

Nobody in the Trump administration planned for Iran to shut the Strait of Hormuz. Nobody planned for sustained missile strikes on American bases across the Gulf. Nobody planned for an energy crisis. Nobody planned for Europe to look at Washington, shrug, and walk the other way. Nobody, it turns out, planned for very much at all. Read the accounts of how this war was decided and you are left with one deeply uncomfortable realisation: the people who launched it appear to have been genuinely surprised by almost everything that followed. The Iranians shot back. The allies didn’t show up. The oil price went vertical. All of it, apparently, news to them. Which leaves two questions so obvious they’re almost embarrassing to ask. What exactly did they think was going to happen? And did anyone, in any room, at any point, think further ahead than the applause? Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

@ProfBillMcGuire Some in power in Israel believe they have a free pass to commit war crimes. Why else would they do this?

When has Israel and its leaders ever given a sh*t about legality Frankly, this pales into insignificance compared to the Gaza genocide, which Starmer and the UK government is pretending never happened, and has never even criticised theguardian.com/world/2026/mar…

@politvidchannel Thank you Governor Hobbs.

BREAKING: Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has vetoed a bill that would have created a specialty license plate honoring Charlie Kirk.

@CBSNews Trump is providing a perfect example of “being hoisted on his own petard”, as written by Shakespeare in “Hamlet”.

President Trump called the war with Iran a “military operation” during his remarks at the NRCC fundraising dinner at Union Station in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday. “I won’t use the word 'war' because they say if you use the word 'war,' that’s maybe not a good thing to do. They don’t like the word 'war,'” he said.

@RobRobbEdwards A certainty I fear.

Extreme global climate outcomes are possible even at 2°C warming, study warns phys.org/news/2026-03-e…

@MrMatthewTodd We’re stuck; economic growth, population growth, fossil fuel addiction.

It’s utterly unbelievable that we didn’t come off of fossil fuels years ago. Like, a catastrophic mistake for multiple reasons. It’s stone age technology. Barbaric.

@fodiesen @WhiteHouse @01Adam12 Didn’t realize Trump was so thin.

@WhiteHouse @01Adam12 The American Dream Launch

@lrozen A Kharg Island invasion is unnecessary and probably a useless expenditure of US lives.

Votel warning on Kharg is essentially just cause we can do it does not mean it makes sense: “I guess the comment I have about Kharg is, I’m not sure what the significance is of putting troops there. It’s only about 20 miles off the coast of Iran. So you’re definitely under the threat of their weapon systems. You’d be very, very vulnerable there. And I don’t know that it would give us any particular tactical advantage that we don’t already have or couldn’t get someplace else at an offset location where we have established bases and other things like that. So I’m not sure what the tactical advantage of it is.” twz.com/news-features/…

“My concern is that when we move to a new normal that hasn’t necessarily changed the dynamic all that much, we will have to stay committed to this for some time forward. I don’t know that that was necessarily what we had envisioned at the start of this, or had envisioned for the force long term,” retired Centcom Gen. Joseph Votel to @haltman

@anadoluagency If not the people or the secret leaders who can’t be known, who then is the ‘Iran‘ that wants to make a deal so badly?

#BREAKING Trump says Iran wants to make a deal 'so badly', but ‘they figure they'll be killed by their own people. They're also afraid they'll be killed by us’

@EpshtainItay I take it that the citizens of Israel, at least the ones who count, don’t understand this.

I did not expect to find myself nodding along to Tzipi Livni, Israel's former, and hawkish, Foreign Minister. Yet here we are. She is right on this: A State that treats the rule of law as optional, and human rights as conditional on race or nationality, irreparably corrodes itself. The decades-long project of violently subjugating Palestinians has not only harmed its victims. It has consumed Israel, from within.

@Reuters Trump can’t legitimately guarantee Ukraine’s security. He loves Putin too much for that.

Exclusive: US links security guarantees to Ukraine giving up Donbas, Zelenskiy says reut.rs/3No7BKI reut.rs/3No7BKI