Michael the Blue Dot in the Big Red Sea

Ivan Chernov

@cmclymer No one demonstrates the opposite of Judeo-Christian values more than President #Trump.

This is the most anti-Christian presidential administration in modern American history, and it's not even close. That so many in political media are terrified of openly acknowledging this will be a mark of shame for decades to come.

Trump Friday: maybe we’re better off not making a deal with Iran Trump Saturday: I’ve rejected Iran’s ridiculous proposal Trump this morning: we very well could resume strikes on Iran Trump right before futures open: talks very positive! US will escort ships through Strait! 🙄

The amount of people defending Blanche saying you have to show ID to walk into a restaurant is really making me question the public education system

Democrats need to flip the Senate by a margin big enough so john fetterman becomes irrelevant.

@essenviews It is refreshing to hear a member of Congress speak intelligently, rationally, without reliance on notes, without the sole intention of using sound bites. This is Representative Adam Smith of Washington state. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Smit…

Trump before the election: “My plan will cut energy prices in half within 12 months of taking office. We’re going down and getting gasoline below $2 a gallon, bring down the price of everything…” The AAA national average for regular gas today is $4.44, the highest in four years. Are you tired of winning yet?

There is absolutely no occasion @realDonaldTrump won't seize as an opportunity to fulminate & divide. He cheers the death of poltical opponents & seizes on the critical illness of an ally--a friend--to attack his foes. But not one word of "get well." Didn't occur to him.

Has a single Republican in power bothered to learn the name of even one of the 13 service members killed in Trump’s war? Every Republican on the hill oughta be hounded by reporters re: their complicity in these deaths.

I’ve had my run-ins with Jennings. And I agree. With @keithboykin and others. He’s got to go. Not just because he’s a shameless propagandist chickenhawk. But also because he’s a total dick. One of the rudest people I’ve met in media. CNN is better than this. And better than him.

@SethAbramson I wonder where Trump ever got the idea from?

Trump treated Rudy like shit, refused to pay the millions he owed him and let him twist for Jan 6.

No one “earns” a billion dollars. No one can work a billion times harder than anyone else. There is no good, ethical, or righteous billionaire. That kind of wealth can only be accumulated through the exploitation of the working class. No exceptions.

Trump is making sweeping moves toward breaking up NATO... aligning with Russia... evidently Trump thinks authoritarians will take over and rule the world… He's purged so much of the top military and the national security and intelligence communities... making the US more vulnerable, with incompetent leadership, and inadequate preparation... He could be effectively leading our troops into harm's way with incompetent leadership and inadequate preparation... while he works with Putin and Iran behind the scenes... taking the US into something where Putin, Iran and Israel come out the winners... authoritarians aligned against democracy... He’s been ignoring the courts, congress and the constitution for a while… he’s becoming more blatant with his corruption, crypto, etc… shorting the market at wartime... pardoning more criminals... this could really get a lot worse, very quickly…

8/ Corporate media misreporting has left us confused. So to clarify: THE GREAT IRAN WAR (2025-) Planned 2010s/early 2020s Stage 1: The Twelve-Day “War” (2025) Stage 2: The Second Iran “War” (2026) Stage 3: The Third Iran “War” (2026) All illegal. All punctuated by war crimes.

3/ What the report above will do—in conjunction with its immediate predecessor at PROOF, which is linked to—is prepare you for the Third Iran War. As most of you now know, Trump is moving 100 planes, 15,000 soldiers, and numberless U.S. ships into the Strait of Hormuz right now.

4/ There’s been no ceasefire in the Great Iran War (2025-), only lulls. The recent lull was punctuated by one major attack by the U.S. Navy and Marines on Iran’s MV Touska on April 19 that underscored the lack of a ceasefire. Trump himself admits it was an American act of piracy.

5/ Tonight Trump launched Operation Freedom, another clear violation of the wholly notional ceasefire he and corporate media have been crowing about for weeks but was—by the laws of war—not a ceasefire but just a lull in hostilities. The whole naval blockade is another violation.