Kristina Gronquist

As Israeli settlers continue to attack Palestinians across the occupied West Bank. CNN Producer Abeer Salman reports from Umm al-Khair, where razor wire has blocked Palestinian children from going to school.

This is why "America is the richest country in the world" always requires a follow-up question: Rich for whom? Forty million people in poverty. Sixty million without adequate healthcare. Working class life expectancy declining. Suicide rates up. The opioid epidemic consuming entire regions. In the richest country in the world. While Wall Street posts record profits. While defense contractors bill the government for wars that make the poverty worse. The empire extracted from the world and handed the proceeds to a few hundred families. The American worker is still waiting for his share. He has been waiting since 1945.

Iran has never killed one American civilian on American soil. Virtually 99% of the so-called 1,000 deaths were of lethally armed US soldiers deployed to the middle of middle eastern wars and centuries old religious battles which are none of Washington's business and have no bearing whatsoever on the America's Homeland Security.

🚜 Farms in the south are struggling: 78% of Southern farmers say they can’t afford all required fertilizer this year, the highest of any region.  The South is exposed for two reasons: crop mix and pre-booking behavior. Just 19% of Southern producers pre-booked fertilizer ahead of the season, vs. 30% in the Northeast, 31% in the West, and 67% in the Midwest.  Cotton, rice, and peanut growers, largely concentrated in the South, barely locked anything in before fertilizer prices skyrocketed. Only 13% of cotton growers and 9% of peanut growers pre-booked.  Those are also the most fertilizer-intensive crops on the board. Rice runs $1,308/acre to produce, peanuts $1,166, and cotton $943 vs. $658 for soybeans and $396 for wheat. U.S. farm sector losses have exceeded $50 billion across the past three crop years. Nearly all (94%) farmers say their financial situation has worsened or stayed the same vs. last year. Farms are getting squeezed.

Jack Keane on Fox News takes a cue from Marc Thiessen and says killing Iranian negotiators at this point is a "reasonable path," urges Trump admin to once again bomb their way to regime change "We got to move away from negotiations and get back to what we started to do from very beginning ... so weaken this regime that it becomes vulnerable to rising up inside the country. We can't do that, that's something the Iranian people have to do. Can Mossad and the CIA work to help that a little bit? I think so, and I assume they're already doing things." Fox host: "Well, the intelligence from Mossad has been nothing short of spectacular"

President Trump, live on CNBC right now, just claimed that if he were president, we would have won the Vietnam war and would have won the Afghanistan war. That is a huge red flag, because that makes me fear he may think he can “win“ the war with Iran, and not make a reasonable deal to end it - meaning he may make the same mistake previous presidents did, thinking he can militarily conquer the opponent, not realizing it is a military task beyond our capacity.

Further proof that America's imperialism/ militarism is the great unifier across party lines; and a hypermilitarized foreign policy hyperfixated on securing hegemony has been the single constant between administrations. No matter who dons the crown or holds that office, American imperialist devastation remains continuous and unequivocally bipartisan because the sustenance of the empire services the corporate class which funds both parties. Irregardless of difference in political vision and rhetoric on the domestic front, there is a semblance of continuity in morally bankrupt foreign policies. Methods for enacting that violence may change, yet the primary architecture and logic that necessitates that violence, remains the same.

Famous author Wajahat Ali completely destroys Pastor Doug Wilson on live TV. He exposes the Pentagon's religious extremism, calling out Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as a cosplay crusader getting innocent civilians killed in an illegal and unwinnable war in Iran.

Overnight, U.S. forces conducted a right-of-visit, maritime interdiction and boarding of the stateless sanctioned M/T Tifani without incident in the INDOPACOM area of responsibility.

As we have made clear, we will pursue global maritime enforcement efforts to disrupt illicit networks and interdict sanctioned vessels providing material support to Iran—anywhere they operate.

International waters are not a refuge for sanctioned vessels. The Department of War will continue to deny illicit actors and their vessels freedom of maneuver in the maritime domain.

About 54% of U.S. adults (ages 16-74) — roughly 130 million people — read below a 6th-grade level. Why does nobody talk about this?