Trump fails at everything except stealing our money
“Im a flash, Trump and his weirdly credulous vice president have discovered the putative moderation, and decency of what is an even more hard-line crop of Iranian leaders. Regime leaders must be chortling over their unearned new international legitimacy.”
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“When the going got tough, Trump started to flail. One day he threatened to wipe out Iranian civilization, the next he promised a deal was around the corner. He confessed to being bored with the war and grasped for any way out, damn the cost to US credibility.”
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“We have no assurances that war won’t continue, and no evidence that Americans are any better off today than they were before this all started,” Baldwin said in a press call Wednesday, calling the Iran war “a disaster for Wisconsinites.”
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“Trump has propped up the new leadership, ostensibly run by Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of Ayatollah Khamenei, killed in the opening strike of the war.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, which has overseen the nuclear program for years, seems firmly in control”
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U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin is skeptical of Trump's claims about an agreement to end the war in Iran while Johnson embraced the deal sight unseen
Perhaps this was always how Trump’s ill-conceived war was destined to end.
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Perhaps this was always how Trump’s ill-conceived war was destined to end.
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Trump: "The congressional medal of honor -- I wanted to give it to myself, but I was informed I couldn't do it."
(note the audible discomfort of his audience)
🕯️Rescuer Mykola Derkach has died in hospital from the severe injuries he sustained during russia’s double-tap strike in Kharkiv on 15 June.
With his death, the number of emergency workers killed in the attack has risen to six.
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Jen Bendery
In countries that have successfully reversed democratic backsliding in recent years—from Poland in 2023 to Hungary in 2026—opposition movements made prosecuting those who have broken laws a central campaign issue.
