Beth*Bostic

1/ Why is the USPS in the constitution? Here's what Ben Franklin knew...with us since right before the official birth of the republic,

Important story about how new DHS head Markwayne Mullin helped coordinate a meeting with election deniers claiming Venezuela interfered in the 2020 election and the Trump campaign in 2024. "Both Byrne and Berntsen said Mullin helped open doors for them at Mar-a-Lago." rawstory.com/raw-investigat…

I was an aviator at Fort Campbell for two tours. This is unacceptable. These crews need to be grounded and disciplined.

>>@IamPoliticsGirl said it best: “In the past year, Trump has pardoned at least 14 of his friends for fraud...whose fraud adds up to around $700 million dollars.” “You wanted them to drain the swamp? Well, DC is now the thickest, grossest, deepest, darkest swamp that has ever been.” “You want fraud and corruption, JD, maybe you start your task force with the President's son-in-law because these people don't give a s*** about fraud. All they want is talking points against Democrats. This administration is a fraud, and the American people deserve so much better.”

Trump can't be bothered to talk about the Iran War for long before veering off into what really matters: his emotional support ballroom

.@Timodc with a message to Democrats: "This is the moment to go on Fox and say to people, 'you signed up for this—for no new wars, for lower costs. And we're in the stupidest war I could possibly think of, and everything is costing more, and it's about to get worse.'"

It feels like we’ve reached a point where Donald Trump’s wild antics and outbursts have finally exhausted everyone, and he’s now being told a direct, unambiguous “NO,” nothing more. The humiliating groveling, the streams of flattery, the constant appeasement, the way people spoke to him like a spoiled, difficult child -- all of it only made his unhinged narcissism, volatility, and sense that the world owes him everything even worse. I suspect that as he continues to drag himself down with his own madness and mistakes, people will gradually stop taking him and his social media tirades into account at all.

BREAKING: Poland has refused the US request for a missile battery. And Italy has denied US military aircraft bound for the Middle East permission to land at a base in Sicily. And MAGA thinks that the world “respects us again”.

Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said something on Day 30 of the war that should be studied in every war college on earth. He said: “The enemy that claimed it had destroyed our air force, navy and missile forces has now set its operational ambition to opening the Strait of Hormuz, a strait that was open before the Ramadan War began.” Read that again. Iran’s own leadership is articulating the paradox of the war from the other side. The United States destroyed Iran’s conventional military. And the reward for that destruction is that America’s stated objective has narrowed from regime change to reopening a waterway that was functioning normally before the first strike was launched. The war created the very crisis it is now being fought to resolve. The strait was open on February 27. It is closed on March 31. And everything the US military has accomplished in between, the airbases, the factories, the radar systems, the navy, has not moved the strait one kilometre closer to reopening. Ghalibaf is not the only one speaking. IRGC Khatam al-Anbiya spokesperson Brigadier General Ebrahim Zolfaghari declared that American troops will become “good prey for the sharks of the Persian Gulf” and that the war will continue until enemies are “brought to their knees.” Foreign Minister Araghchi repeated there are “no negotiations so far” and “no reason to trust the United States.” Zolfaghari added today that Iran’s armed forces will “cut off the legs of any aggressor invading the country.” Iran’s parliament formally approved a rial-based toll regime for the Strait of Hormuz, banning all American and Israeli vessels and any country participating in unilateral sanctions against Iran. Press TV reported that Russian Chechen units are ready for deployment to Iran in the event of a US ground invasion. Every one of these statements is maximalist. Every one is designed to project total resolve. And every one is being delivered on the same day that Pakistan’s foreign minister is sitting in a conference room in Beijing refining a peace framework with Chinese officials. Iran is screaming defiance through one door while whispering through another. The missiles are flying. The toll regime is formalised. The sharks are invoked. And the backchannel is open. This is the negotiation pattern that Western analysts consistently fail to decode. Iran does not signal flexibility by moderating its rhetoric. It signals flexibility by maintaining maximum rhetoric while simultaneously allowing 20 Pakistani-flagged vessels through the strait it claims to have closed. It signals pragmatism by approving a parliamentary toll system for a waterway it says is completely shut. The contradiction IS the signal. The formal toll regime is not preparation for permanent closure. It is preparation for managed reopening on Iranian terms. Ghalibaf also said something CNN reported that cuts deeper than any missile: “Missiles, the street and the strait are squeezing the enemy’s throat.” Three pressure instruments. Missiles deplete American interceptors. Street protests sustain domestic legitimacy. The strait denies global energy. None of them require an air force. None of them require a navy. None of them require the conventional military the US has spent a month and $50 billion destroying. Iran is fighting the war that remains after the war America designed has been won. The strait was open before the war began. It is closed now. And every institution in Washington that approved the strikes is now spending more to reopen it than it cost to close it. Ghalibaf does not need intelligence briefings to understand this. He has arithmetic. Full analysis - open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

The Iranians destroyed one of these. They cost $300 million dollars. Russia gave them the coordinates.

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺 frustration boiling over in Washington "We're giving Iranians billions of $ by letting them sell oil to China, which they use to buy drones from Russia. And, we're allowing Russia to sell oil so they can fund attacks against Ukraine and our own troops. You couldn't make this up in a Hollywood script." - Jim Himes 🇺🇸 That’s basically calling out a loop where money, drones, and war all feed into each other, and saying the US is letting it happen in plain sight

I regret to have to remind you that Pete Hegseth is a disgrace and should not be the Secretary of Defense. theatlantic.com/newsletters/20…

Timeline Cleanse: I ain’t no Senator’s Son. April 14,1970: CCR-Fortunate Son. John Fogerty who was drafted in 1965 at 20 years old, wrote Fortunate Son in 20 minutes after his rage over sons of Senators/Elites magically finding ways to escape the draft peaked. 🇺🇸

💥 Ukrainian housewife kitchen drones rescued two Ukrainian prisoners of war and killed their Russian fascist captor in Myrne, Zaporizhia region. ✊

These AI pipe dreams are not sustainable.

I have a physical reaction to this guy’s voice that makes me autonomically turn off the sound. He is a level of insufferable previously unknown to man.

The 'best' part about this is that this outcome is worse than the JCPOA deal we had a decade ago A $200 billion war to achieve less than we had before. Congratulations, America, for electing a guy who repeated every US strategic mistake since Vietnam

Ridiculous

But hey -- corruption exists only in Ukraine, and so Putin is totally right to erase it as a country.

🚨🚨🚨🚨 Stephen Miller is the architect behind the masked and armed ICE ILLEGAL detentions and inhumane family separations at 26 Federal plaza I filmed for 6 months. Last week it came out in court they LIED. They never had jurisdiction

MAGA is still on their "paid protester" kick. Bitches, you've lost 26 special elections in a row with zero wins for MAGA. The people have spoken.