Ryan D. Walsh

Excited to share my first piece for @TimepDC on a topic that’s both fascinating and reflective of the linkage b/w the economic and human rights crises in Egypt. I’m grateful for the individuals who spoke to me for this - these are their stories, I’m just lucky to help share them

[ARGUING WITH A GRADUATE OF THE PONTIFICAL UNIVERSITY OF SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS] “This doesn’t line up with what I remember from VeggieTales.”

If the war truly ends with Iran in possession of the strait of Hormuz--as is currently the case--and if negotiations proceed according to Iran's 10-points, which include full sanctions relief and Iran charging tolls for use of the strait, then the outcome of the war will be clear. And it won't be a US victory.

Seriously, though. Look at the butchery being done here to logic and the English language: “Out escalate” to “escalate” to “de-escalate”? Both Tom Schelling and your fifth grade English teacher are spinning in their graves.

Trump's illegal attack on Iran has set off regional war. The latest - Israel's ground invasion of Lebanon. 800 are already dead. 1/ Tonight, I want to walk you thru a🧵on how devastating this new war could be, and how Trump's blunder set it in motion. theguardian.com/world/2026/mar…

Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.

The war with Iran is insanity in its own right. But it is gross incompetence Trump went to war with Iran with no plan to keep open the Strait of Hormuz. Now Iran is laying mines, global oil shipping is paralyzed, gas prices are skyrocketing and food prices are close behind.

A group of us in the Senate are demanding public hearings on Trump's disastrous war with Iran with Secretary Hegseth and Rubio. And we've introduced a half dozen war powers resolutions to force the Senate to vote every day on the war if the hearings don't happen.

Here's what I believe: no more business as usual in the Senate. We shouldn't be voting to proceed to normal legislation until Republicans schedule a debate and a vote and on a declaration of war against Iran. Let's see if Trump has the votes to authorize war. I bet he doesn't.

The idea that a deliberative legislative body would debate a war plays right into the hands of the enemy? The speaker of the house is shameful

Here's the relevant section - it comes before the notice provisions. Section 2(c) of the War Powers Resolution (50 U.S.C. § 1541)states: "The constitutional powers of the President as Commander-in-Chief to introduce United States Armed Forces into hostilities, or into situations where imminent involvement in hostilities is clearly indicated by the circumstances, are exercised only pursuant to (1) a declaration of war, (2) specific statutory authorization, or (3) a national emergency created by attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, or its armed forces."

essential piece by @emile_hokayem trying to address the key question of whether GCC anxiety will pressure US to shorten campaign or whether Gulf will join/relax restrictions and allow US to use their military infrastructure. ft.com/content/1cd2ed… via @ft

I think starting a war with Iran is a bad idea, and Trump specifically ran against regime change wars in the middle east. Reasonable people can disagree on the merits, but calling opponents "borderline traitors" is a reprisal of the dumbest Iraq-war era political bullshit.

If Khamenei is killed or incapacitated, what comes next? Iran's regime has been planning for this for 37 years. Here's my rundown of possible scenarios and how the US & international community should handle the transition, published last week by @cfr: cfr.org/reports/leader…

Trump's attacks on Iran are dangerously illegal and a mistake of staggering scale. Has he learned nothing from decades of U.S. military disaster in the Middle East? Has he spent not one single minute studying the lives lost and trillions wasted in Iraq and Afghanistan and Syria and Libya? The American public does not want our President dragging us into another totally unnecessary conflict in a far-off land. They want him to focus on American lives — lives that are being ruined by an economy beset by flat wages, disappearing jobs, rising prices, and widespread corruption. A military action to eliminate Iran's nuclear program was totally unnecessary. We had a diplomatic deal to do that. It was working until Trump — against the advice of all his advisors — tore it to shreds. Trump willfully precipitated this crisis. As for Trump's stated goal of regime change, he should be very careful what he wishes for. If he fails in his goal, it hardens Iranian resolve to make trouble for the U.S. and our allies. If it succeeds, the chances are better that an even more repressive, more anti-Israel and anti-U.S. hardline government emerges out of the rubble than that a tolerant, inclusive Iranian democracy will. The American people now see Trump for who he is — a would-be dictator who does not care what Americans think or want, cares nothing about our sacred Constitution or our laws, and sees himself as a kind of eighteenth-century king, with unlimited power to drag all of us into disastrous wars overseas without the consent of the people. No, in America, we have no kings. One doddering, self-obsessed old man does not get to decide if we go to war. The people — through a vote of Congress — decide. That's what our Constitution says. It's clear as day. And Congress should be called back into session this afternoon to immediately begin debate on legislation that would approve or deny the President's illegal war against Iran. I am praying for the safety of U.S. forces today. They are being led into war by a leader who is out of control. Congress must do our constitutional duty and reign him in, before it’s too late.

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Interesting, if a diplomatic agreement with Iran should come to Congress for a review and a vote shouldn’t the decision to attack Iran do so as well? Why do you only take your oversight responsibility seriously when there’s the threat of peace instead of war?

If the Washington Post is killing local metro coverage, foreign policy, books, and most of the other ancillary coverage, what's left? Stories about outrage in politics?

Sen MURPHY goes to the floor RE: this report, says: "For now, Trump and his friends may get away with these crimes and with this corruption, but the rule of law is coming back, and when it does, everyone who has greased their palms off government service, trading government favors for cash and violating the laws of this nation are going to jail."

To call this the most corrupt administration in American history doesn't really do it justice, because no prior president, Republican or Democrat, would have even conceived of a grift on this scale "Four days before Donald Trump's inauguration last year, lieutenants to an Abu Dhabi royal secretly signed a deal with the Trump family to purchase a 49% stake in their fledgling cryptocurrency venture for half a billion dollars." "The deal marked something unprecedented in American politics: a foreign government official taking a major ownership stake in an incoming U.S. president's company." wsj.com/politics/polic…

signs left at alex pretti’s memorial in minneapolis: “i love you so much / i’ll miss you forever” photo with a friend, “i would have done the same. RIP alex,” a stethoscope and “we’ll take it from here, alex” and a tshirt for the minnesota nurses association