Kathleen Ryan

📹 “Victory Chronicles” Part Two A new Lego-style propaganda video released by Akhbarenfejari shows Donald Trump begging for a ceasefire alongside Benjamin Netanyahu, while depicting missile and drone strikes on US-Israeli targets across the Gulf, including Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia and sites in Dubai, Qatar, and Bahrain. The video also references “the victims of Epstein Island” and “the girls of Minab School,” and portrays rows of American coffins and stacked bodies, suggesting large-scale casualties and framing what it implies could be the outcome of a wider ground war.

@detroitnews An alternative readout: wdet.org/2026/03/16/dif…

(yet another reason I stopped subscribing to the dishonest @detroitnews)

@nannburke Why is the @detroitnews adding Dr. Abdul El-Sayed's picture under your headlined story, "These Michigan U.S. Senate candidates took money from ICE contractors"? Isn't this pure malicious guilt by association? How could you have even allowed this misdirection?

@ReallyAmerican1 Though Cobb unloaded on Rachel Maddow's take of the Mueller report as well.

Trump’s former lawyer Ty Cobb just unloaded on his ex-boss after Trump celebrated the death of Robert Mueller: “He is a demented narcissist, rules the country in a very authoritarian manner with the assistance of a cowardly cabinet…”

@amyspitalnick Maybe people will stop associating Jews in America with Israel's crimes when Jews in America stop associating with Israel and its crimes.

Attacking a synagogue isn’t “anti-Zionism.” It’s antisemitism. When Jews are targeted for the actions of the Israeli government, that is antisemitism — period, full stop.

WATCH: A Palestinian American constituent, living in the West Village, confronts AIPAC's Rep. Dan Goldman about his continued denial of Israel's genocide in Gaza. #NY10 - via @DumpDanGoldman

This decision by the Israeli military is inexcusable: nytimes.com/2026/03/12/wor…

@Campfire_Lofi @galeabrewer Luckily they are OK. I say that sincerely, though I know they were traumatized (as was/is the rest of the community). I truly hope all this terror overseas and here ends ASAP. Praying for all who are unfairly associated with phobias of all sorts. Religious bigotry must end.

@kmarnyc @galeabrewer That has nothing to do with that. His brother was a legitimate target he was with hezbollah, those Jewish kids were American citizens.

I was horrified to learn of today’s violent attack on Temple Israel, a vibrant synagogue in West Bloomfield Township, Michigan. I am thankful that the security team bravely prevented a tragedy on the many children and staff in the building, all targeted because they are Jewish. My prayers are with the Jewish community in Michigan, here in New York and for us all. Hate crimes like these are abhorrent and intolerable; and bias incidents and speech perpetuate discrimination and prejudice and make communities less safe for us all. @ujafedny and @jcrcny

@Campfire_Lofi @galeabrewer Like the IDF soldiers whose sexual assault cases against Palestinian prisoners are always so conveniently dropped? Someone's terrorist army is learning from someone else's terrorist army apparently.

@kmarnyc @galeabrewer Apparently his brother was in hezbollah and was also a sex offender

@Campfire_Lofi @galeabrewer ... has to be acknowledged.

@Campfire_Lofi @galeabrewer Israel's going after every neighbor in the region and killing them isn't justified either. American Jews are NOT Israel, granted. They should not ever be punished. But unconditional allegiance to Israel DOES mean that such an alliance entails associations and accountability that

@jimsciutto @ColinPClarke This means nothing?!?! x.com/ryangrim/statu…

Question: Has the DHS focus on immigration raids impacted its ability to police and prevent terror attacks? @ColinPClarke: “It certainly seems to be the case and that’s what happens when you make political decisions for security.”

NEWS: The man who rammed his explosives-laden truck into a Michigan synagogue today was named Ayman Ghazaleh, according to a source familiar with the situation. Ghazaleh posted photos overnight of his family members, including young children, who were killed in a recent Israeli attack on the town of Mashghara, Lebanon. This is a developing story.

His family members had been killed in recent Israeli airstrike, but apparently that doesn't count bec ... he's "not like us": detroitnews.com/story/news/loc…

🎥The Economic Consequences of War in Iran. My first data dive on the extraordinary events in the Gulf. On chokepoints, oil & gas giants, and the reason a drone strike on a plant most people have never heard of thousands of miles away could plunge Europe back into energy crisis

@SenBooker ... When are you going to start listening to your constituents and not your open and hidden funder$$$$?

@SenBooker THIS IS NOT CLEAR. What are YOU, Senator Booker, going to DO about this? All you do is shoot off your mouth for 25+ hours but you never disavow your previous allegience$ or put any bills on the floor to back up your unclear "CLEAR" statements. 1/2

America must be strong and smart. Today’s actions were launched by a president who has rarely proven to be either. Let me be clear: The Iranian regime is one of the most dangerous, destabilizing forces in the Middle East. It has American blood on its hands. It has armed and supported terrorist proxies who have killed tens of thousands. It has brutalized its own people, killing thousands in recent weeks, simply for demanding basic human rights and a future free from oppression. Iran remains the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism, and a nuclear-armed Iran would pose an intolerable threat to the United States, to our allies, and to global security. That outcome must never be allowed. But none of these facts suspend our Constitution or confer upon any president the authority to unilaterally wage war. The Constitution is unambiguous: Congress alone has the power to declare war and to authorize the use of military force. Today, Americans are feeling less safe because President Trump launched “massive and ongoing” military strikes on Iran without Congressional authorization, without meaningful consultation with lawmakers, and without presenting a credible legal justification or coherent strategy. He has taken our nation into a major military confrontation with the stated intent of regime change and in doing so has put our troops, our diplomats, and our regional partners at grave risk, while dragging the United States toward another costly and protracted conflict in the Middle East. The president has presented no strategy for what happens if the Iranian regime collapses. No plan for managing the inevitable power struggle among armed factions. No plan for securing nuclear material. No plan for preventing a humanitarian catastrophe. No plan for protecting tens of thousands of U.S. troops and civilians across a region now on high alert. No plan for coordinating with suddenly imperiled neighboring nations. No plan for what comes after the bombs. And no transparency with Congress or the American people about the human and financial costs of his military actions. In fact, in the weeks before these attacks, even Secretary of State Rubio cautioned that no one can predict what would follow the fall of Iran’s leadership and that the risks to U.S. forces and regional stability would be enormous. These warnings were not heeded. Military action alone cannot solve Iran’s nuclear challenge. We saw this last year when President Trump claimed he had 'completely obliterated’ Iran’s nuclear program with a set of strikes - claims that were swiftly proven false. The American people deserve honesty, not bluster; clarity and sober judgment, not reckless adventurism in matters of national security. The Trump administration must immediately brief Congress on the intelligence, objectives, legal basis, and long-term strategy underlying today’s action. Congress must reassert its constitutional role - not simply roll over - because war and peace cannot be left to the impulses of any one president, especially not this one. We should have learned from the last two decades of conflict in the Middle East that wars launched without clear goals and without an end-state in mind rarely end well. They cost lives, destabilize regions, embolden adversaries, and weaken America’s moral standing. I am grateful for the professionalism and bravery of our service members who now find themselves in harm’s way, and I pray for their safety. They are the finest fighting force in human history, willing to shoulder dangers most Americans will never see. They deserve leadership guided by strategy, grounded in law, and worthy of their sacrifice - not reckless decision making that places them in the path of escalating danger.

Twenty million barrels of oil passed through the Strait of Hormuz yesterday. Today the number may be zero. Not because Iran mined the water. Not because a tanker was hit. Because Lloyd’s of London picked up the phone. War risk underwriters began canceling policies for strait transits hours after Operation Epic Fury launched. The Financial Times confirmed premiums surging 50 percent. Baseline war risk sits at 0.25 percent of hull value. For a hundred million dollar tanker that is 250,000 dollars per voyage. At peak escalation rates, one million per transit. Vessels linked to American or Israeli interests are becoming uninsurable entirely. No price. No policy. No passage. The KHK Empress was loaded with Omani crude heading for Basra when it executed a U-turn mid-strait and redirected to India. The Eagle Veracruz halted at the western approach carrying two million barrels of Saudi crude bound for China. The Front Shanghai stopped off Sharjah with Iraqi crude destined for Rotterdam. Nippon Yusen ordered its entire fleet to avoid Hormuz. Greece told its merchant armada to reassess passage. Hapag-Lloyd suspended all transits. None of them were fired upon. Every one of them got the same call. More than fifty million years ago the Arabian plate collided with the Eurasian plate and compressed the Persian Gulf into a basin that drains through a single geological bottleneck twenty one miles wide. Twenty one percent of global petroleum. Twenty percent of all seaborne LNG. One fifth of industrial civilization’s energy supply forced through a tectonic accident narrower than the English Channel, bordered on one side by the country whose supreme leader was killed yesterday morning. The USS Abraham Lincoln carries enough Tomahawks to sink every IRGC patrol boat in 48 hours. Operation Praying Mantis crippled Iran’s operational naval forces in eight hours in 1988. The Fifth Fleet has rehearsed this scenario for decades. None of that matters. Aircraft carriers cannot force an underwriter to rewrite a policy. Tomahawks cannot lower a premium. The most powerful navy in human history cannot make a Lloyd’s syndicate decide that a VLCC transiting Iranian coastal waters represents an acceptable risk on a Saturday afternoon when missiles are landing in Dubai. Goldman Sachs estimates Brent could peak at 110 dollars per barrel. JP Morgan projects 120 to 130. At those levels every airline bleeds cash. Every central bank watches three years of inflation fighting reignite overnight. Bypass pipelines from Saudi Arabia and the UAE handle roughly three million barrels. Hormuz handles twenty million. The math does not close. Iran figured out something the Pentagon still has not. You do not need to close a strait. You just need to make it uninsurable. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…