Loren Fogel

Gil Scott-Heron - "Work For Peace" (Live 2001) youtu.be/XsR8NWFCRq4

Rubio publicly pleading with the Houthis like this, saying he hopes they'll stop and saying they'll cause problems for China (as if that isn't a goal of this administration), is really something. It reflects a remarkable level of desperation.

EA-37Bs Arrive At RAF Fairford As Iran Threatens To Attack The UK Air Base RAF Fairford is a major hub for USAF bombers flying missions against Iran and other aircraft transmitting to the Middle East. twz.com/air/ea-37bs-ar…

EA-37 Electronic Warfare Aircraft Deploy as Trump Weighs Large-Scale Ops Against Iran airandspaceforces.com/ea-37-electron…

Proud to lead a statement with 10 of my colleagues to condemn the State Department’s attack on Americans’ free speech rights and collective punishment of Cubans: “Trump appears hellbent on taking America back 70 years to the height of Cold War McCarthyism, when hawkish foreign policy was paired with unsubstantiated accusations of communist subversion and political repression against dissidents at home.   “Trump has repeatedly threatened to take over Cuba and has deployed U.S. military ships to seize fuel vessels attempting to arrive on the island. And yet, in an Orwellian move, this administration now claims it is Cuba carrying out the ‘assault’ against the United States, by turning ‘Americans into instruments of their own nation's undoing.’   “We condemn this report’s attack on Americans’ constitutional rights to free speech and assembly. We denounce this administration’s irresponsible attacks against civil society organizations, activists, journalists, labor leaders, Members of Congress, elected officials, and private individuals based on their advocacy for peaceful foreign policy and social justice at home.   “And we stand firmly against this report and other efforts by the Trump Administration to weaponize the federal government against dissent, which is a patriotic tradition. We commit to using our full oversight power as Members of Congress and elected officials to stop the persecution of Trump’s perceived political enemies.    “Trump and Secretary Rubio are intensifying decades of economic war against the very people they say they want to help—all while attacking Americans who oppose the policy. The U.S. blockade deliberately deprives the entire island’s population of adequate food, fuel, and medicine. It is past time for Trump to obey the Constitution and end the dangerous, cruel and illegal naval blockade causing collective punishment against Cuba.”

Today @BrennanCenter joined with 35 other organizations to call on Congress to use all "legal and political tools at [its] disposal to reaffirm Congress’s constitutional prerogatives and draw the unauthorized Iran War to a close." /1

The Pentagon removed the names of 4 servicemembers who died in Jordan from their official list of casualties. They explain that this is because "their deaths occurred after President Trump declared a cease-fire in the war in April." Free gift link: nytimes.com/2026/07/23/us/…

the Trump administration is manipulating the numbers of wounded and killed US military personnel in the ongoing Iran war

Met with a Raytheon team led by Vice President Joseph DeAntona. Raytheon is a very strong defense company, and Ukraine has long been using its equipment to protect our people from vicious Russian attacks. I am grateful for the company’s readiness to take our partnership to an even higher level, where Ukraine would co-produce, together with Raytheon, some of the most vital air defense assets – Patriot interceptors. This is what President Trump and I discussed in Ankara, and it’s time we moved forward on this. We also explored other areas of partnership regarding non-offensive military equipment during our meeting. Our teams – both at the government level and from the private sector – will stay in close touch to work out. Thank you to the United States for its support for Ukraine.

New in the @thenation, written by @CIPolicy's @NancyGEO and @SinaToossi The op-ed argues that the consequences of the conflict goes beyond institutional problems, and that U.S. foreign policy keeps taking the wrong lessons from their failures. thenation.com/article/world/…

For Trump, the calculation increasingly comes down to this: Does he escalate toward a far more catastrophic conflict, including a ground invasion and/or widespread attacks on Iranian infrastructure that invite reciprocal retaliation across the region? Or does he return to diplomacy and accept a deal in which Iran retains meaningful leverage over Hormuz? The political costs of a deal would be significant. He would face intense criticism from the hawkish foreign policy establishment and influential elements of his own coalition, particularly pro-Israel groups and donors. But those costs may ultimately be far lower than owning another endless, enormously costly war with no clear path to strategic success. A deal he can always be spin as a victory. A quagmire he cannot.

Admitting non-proportionality is a confession to committing yet another war crime icrc.org/sites/default/…

If restarting the war was successful, there would have been no need for Trump to issue this tweet. These threats are a manifestation that, once again, Trump has gone down a dead-end military path.

Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon’s parent company RTX have raised profit forecasts as they reported record order backlogs. ft.trib.al/ANYqNPU

Dozens of USAF cargo planes (C-17s and other heavy-lift) flying from European bases to the Middle East today. It's a full-scale "airbridge" reactivated after the June ceasefire with Iran collapsed in early July.

Publicly planning war crimes like it’s a sporting event

Donald Trump's Justice ‌Department will withdraw subpoenas issued to New York Times' journalists who reported on security concerns about the president flying on a Qatari-donated Air Force One, a prosecutor said at a court hearing on Thursday.

Judge Claria Horn Boom, a Trump appointee in Kentucky, has denied the administration bid to obtain Kentucky's voter rolls, the latest in an unbroken string of legal defeats on this issue. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

"Most people don't know we've set up a doomsday system." In @guardian, @UCSUSA's @LauraEGrego explains how the militarization of space & nuclear launch-on-warning policies increase global risks—& why stronger international guardrails are urgently needed. theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

NEW: @SenateBudget analysis finds Trump's ICE and CBP are flush with more than $152 BILLION after the passage of Republicans' second partisan funding bill. All while American families struggle just to get by with no help from Trump. budget.senate.gov/ranking-member…

New State Dept Worldwide Caution memo anticipates more canceled flights in the Middle East.