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"Iran dramatically escalated its strategy of striking civilian infrastructure and transport networks across the Gulf on Wednesday, attacking commercial ships and targeting Dubai’s international airport as US and Israeli warplanes launched new waves of strikes."
~ Clea Skopeliti
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #StraitofHormuz #Dubai #Israel
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First Thing: Iran escalates attacks on infrastructure and transport networks across the Gulf
Oil prices again rise over $100 a barrel as Iran threatens long ‘war of attrition’. Plus, San Francisco slashes air pollutionClea Skopeliti (The Guardian)
"As we keep pointing out, if the US and the rest of the world had actually taken the threat of climate change seriously for the past three decades and sharply ramped up clean energy production, we’d all be less subject to sudden interruptions of oil supplies by now."
~ Marty Kelley
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #StraitofHormuz
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Maybe Trump Bombed Some Schools, But At Least Gas Prices Are Going Higher And Higher
It's a Dire situation in the Strait, and we're spending all this Money for Nothing.Doktor Zoom (Wonkette)
"'U.S. officials called London insurers and brokers, trying to figure out how the market operates, industry insiders said. Some have received calls asking for confidential data on the Lloyd’s market that participants have been reluctant to share.'
Experts on the insurance market tell the WSJ that insurers are still willing to underwrite shipping through the Strait of Hormuz but that shippers, understandably, aren’t willing to risk the lives of their crews."
#Trump #oil #StraitofHormuz
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"Racing to respond to the utterly predictable impact of its Iran attack on global oil prices, President Trump made the impromptu policy announcement that the U.S. government would backstop insurers shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, but as the WSJ reports, the administration had little idea what it was proposing:"
~ David Kurtz
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #StraitofHormuz #prices #economy #affordability
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Of Course It Did: Trump Tantrum Led to Reversal on Law Firm Appeals
INSIDE: Pam Bondi ... Karoline Leavitt ... Pete HegsethDavid Kurtz (Morning Memo)
"He framed the surge as a positive development while insisting the war is necessary to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. For Americans paying more at the pump, that message is likely to land very differently. But good for Trump’s wealthy oil baron friends, I guess."
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #StraitofHormuz #prices #economy #affordability
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"Instead of expressing concern about rising costs for Americans, Donald Trump posted on Truth Social celebrating the price spikes. In his message, Trump argued that higher oil prices are good because the United States is the largest oil producer in the world and therefore 'makes a lot of money' when prices rise."
~ Ben Meiselas
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #StraitofHormuz #prices #economy #affordability
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Thursday Afternoon Updates: Trump Celebrates Higher Oil Prices as Iran War Spirals — 3/12/26
It’s Thursday afternoon, and as we head toward the end of the week, there is a lot happening around the world that you need to know about.Ben Meiselas (Meidas+)
"He clearly thinks that is what will happen here—that he can just choose the moment where he wants to undo this and go back to the way it was. Leaving aside all the other reasons why that’s probably not possible—such as trust in the U.S., the Israelis might not be ready to stop—just assume all those problems are solvable. What you have now is the Strait of Hormuz has become militarized in a way that it wasn’t before."
"So basically this mess is like turning off the spigot that controls 20 percent of the world’s oil flow. ... This is one of those shocks that is going to be very hard to get back to any sort of status quo before the war. There’s also no end in sight. ...
Can we extricate ourselves? With the tariffs, he could say, '20 percent tariff today,' & then back off, leaving aside the illegality of doing that."
~ Elizabeth Saunders
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #StraitofHormuz
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Trump’s Iran Blunders Suddenly Look Darker After Damning New Leaks Hit
As brutal revelations emerge about Trump’s handling of the war, a foreign policy expert explains why he won’t be able to extricate us from this debacle anytime soon—and provides a roadmap to what’s next.The New Republic
"Now an undeclared, unauthorized, unpopular, and unconstitutional war of aggression against Iran has spread like wildfire through the region and into Europe. A new 'forever war'—with an ever-increasing likelihood of American troops on the ground—may very well be upon us.
As we’ve seen over and over, this administration uses lies, misdirection, and attempts to flood the zone to justify its abuses of power at home and abroad."
"Even before February 28, the reasons for Donald Trump’s imploding approval rating were abundantly clear: untrammeled corruption and personal enrichment to the tune of billions of dollars during an affordability crisis, a foreign policy guided only by his own derelict sense of morality, and the deployment of a murderous campaign of occupation, detention, and deportation on American streets."
~ The Nation
"Time and again, national pundits and the White House press corps invent a logical Donald Trump who sets, announces, and later “changes” real 'policies' or 'plans,' failing to convey what is clear to anyone who is actually following events closely: In each public appearance and social media post, the Mad King Donald Trump spouts a string of words, devoid of meaning or purpose, that may or may not represent anything at all."
Commentary continues to pour out re: Trump's war against Iran. I'm starting a second thread of things I've read today about that topic that seem worth sharing.
"The hardest thing for the media to wrap its hands around over the last year is that Donald Trump has no plan — for anything, ever."
~ Garrett M. Graff
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Trump Surprised To Find He's At War in Iran
Once his not-even-half-baked plan failed to materialize in Iran, it’s clear that there’s no Plan B.Garrett Graff (Doomsday Scenario)
"If you want to understand how this country has degenerated to such a state, how we can be spending nearly $2 billion a day attacking Iran without a clear endgame in sight, while children go without healthcare, nursing homes are understaffed because their workers have been deported, home electricity bills skyrocket due to data centers, consider who benefits and who isn’t hurt."
#Trump #Iran #war #economy #EconomicElites #oligarchy #oil #gas
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"It becomes clearer with each passing day that the people who took us to war with Iran had and have no idea what they’re doing — that they’re adolescents who think they’re playing video games while thousands die and the world careens toward economic crisis. The New York Times reports that Trump officials dismissed warnings that attacking Iran could disrupt world oil supplies."
~ Paul Krugman
#Trump #Iran #war #economy #EconomicElites #oligarchy #oil #gas
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The Billionaires’ War
The ultrawealthy put Trump in power but other people will pay the pricePaul Krugman
The FAA once said that pieces of space debris “pose a significant risk,” but the Trump administration has backed off a rule that would have required companies like Elon Musk’s SpaceX to remove rocket parts from orbit within 25 years of launch.
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#News #ElonMusk #SpaceX #Aviation #Space #Rockets #Safety #Trump
Amid Crowded Skies, FAA Kills Rule Aimed at Regulating Space Junk
The agency once said that pieces of space debris “pose a significant risk,” but the Trump administration has backed off a rule that would have required companies like Elon Musk’s SpaceX to remove rocket parts from orbit within 25 years of launch.Diego Sorbara (ProPublica)
Veterans Who Depend on Mental Health Care Keep Losing Their Therapists Under Trump
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Hundreds of mental health professionals have left the Department of Veterans Affairs since President Donald Trump took office, leaving staff “at a breaking point” and some veterans waiting as long as six months for help.
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#News #Military #Army #Veterans #MentalHealth #PTSD #Health #Psychology #Psychiatry #SocialWork #Trump
DHS Seeks Access to Massive Employment, Salary and Family Database Legally Restricted to Use in Child Support Cases
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The Trump administration’s immigration enforcers are requesting unfettered access to the government’s “most powerful people-finder system,” which contains sensitive information on children and victims of domestic violence.
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#News #Trump #DHS #Data #Children #Privacy #Government #USPolitics #Law #DomesticViolence
#Anthropic is suing the #Trump admin, asking federal courts to reverse the #Pentagon’s decision designating the #AI company a “supply chain risk” over its refusal to allow unrestricted #military use of its #tech.
Anthropic filed 2 separate suits Monday, one in California federal court & another in the federal appeals court in Washington, DC, challenging different aspects of the Pentagon’s actions against the company.
#law #surveillance #AutonomousWeapons
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"At a press conference on Monday evening, President Trump said his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, was one of a handful of top advisers who convinced him to launch major combat operations in Iran. The disclosure raises additional questions about the role of Kushner, who is being paid tens of millions of dollars annually by Middle Eastern governments that were reportedly lobbying Trump to attack Iran."
~ Judd Legum
#Trump #Iran #war #JaredKushner
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UPDATE: Trump says Kushner helped convince him to go to war with Iran
The disclosure highlights Kushner's massive financial conflicts.Judd Legum (Popular Information)
Trump touted the U.S. military actions in Iran on Thursday, saying they were destroying Tehran's missile and drone capability and that "their navy is gone - 24 ships in three days," as he called on Iranian diplomats to request asylum and help shape a better country. "We also urge Iranian diplomats around the world to request asylum and to help us shape a new and better Iran," he said. FRANCE 24's Fraser Jackson reports from Washington.
#Iran #USA #Trump #war
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Trump urges Iranian diplomats around the world to request asylum • FRANCE 24 English
Trump touted the U.S. military actions in Iran on Thursday, saying they were destroying Tehran's missile and drone capability and that "their navy is gone ...YouTube
Speaking with FRANCE 24's Mark Owen, Barbara Slavin, Distinguished Fellow at the Stimson Center in Washington, says that "the skyrocketing price of oil, the collapse of the stock market, the increasing casualties and the Iranian ability to continue to hit infrastructure are beginning to sober up" US President Donald Trump, adding that "there never was a plan" behind the United States war on Iran.
#Trump #MiddleEast #Iran #war #Israel
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'There never was a plan' behind war in Iran, analyst says • FRANCE 24 English
Speaking with FRANCE 24's Mark Owen, Barbara Slavin, Distinguished Fellow at the Stimson Center in Washington, says that "the skyrocketing price of oil, the ...YouTube
Speaking with FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney, Peter McNally, Global Head of Sector Analysts at Third Bridge, says that "the duration of the outage in the Middle East is going to be the biggest factor" in the G7's decision to tap into strategic oil reserves, adding that US President Donald Trump has "very few" options to keep energy prices down in the short term "other than to make demand go lower".
#Iran #oil #Trump #war #energy #StraitofHormuz
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Trump has 'very few' options to keep energy prices down in the short term, analyst says
Speaking with FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney, Peter McNally, Global Head of Sector Analysts at Third Bridge, says that "the duration of the outage in the Middle ...YouTube
Excerpt from How Democracies Die, by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt.
#BigTech #SocialMedia #USPol #Trump #Journalism #LeaveX #HateSpeech
#Iran
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Diverging objectives: Israel's and America's aims in Iran not aligned • FRANCE 24 English
Ten days after the first US-Israeli strikes, the close relationship between the allies is experiencing its first strains as Donald Trump faces growing pressu...YouTube