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Food prices could rise as Iran conflict disrupts fertilizer supply chain
The Iran conflict is disrupting fertilizer shipments through the Strait of Hormuz, raising supply concerns and potentially increasing global food inflation.Brandon Gomez (CNBC)
The National Security Case for Renewable Energy
If there may be one silver lining in Donald Trump’s war on Iran, it’s that it will likely speed up the renewable-energy transition.Ryan Cooper (The American Prospect)
Fears grow of Iran war spilling into the U.S. | CTV National News for March 12, 2026
Two separate attacks in the U.S., one at a synagogue in Michigan and another at a college in Virginia, are under investigation as potential acts of terrorism...YouTube
Raging at Media, Pete Hegseth Just Said the Quiet Part Out Loud
He wants “patriotic” coverage of the Iran war. He doesn’t understand: In a democracy, coverage that asks difficult questions of the government is itself “patriotic.”The New Republic
"One of the Iranian foreign ministers, I forget which one, said basically, 'In this Epstein administration, they either rape little girls or kill little girls.' And sadly, that’s true. That’s true. Morally, that’s the ground that we’re standing on now. Really pretty shaky."
~ Greg Olear
#Epstein #Trump #PamBondi #pedophiles #SexualAbuse #coverup #Iran #war
/12
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Ramble On: Over the Waterfall
Morning thoughts on the Iran war, the Iraq war, and the end of American empire.Greg Olear (PREVAIL by Greg Olear)
"As more records surface and investigations continue, the pressure for transparency is only increasing. The war in Iran may dominate headlines for now, but the Epstein story is far from over and the demand for accountability continues to grow."
#Epstein #Trump #PamBondi #pedophiles #SexualAbuse #coverup #Iran #war
/11
"International media continue to connect the Epstein scandal to the current geopolitical climate. Reports circulating globally note that Iranian missiles have been marked with references to Epstein Island victims, further amplifying attention on the controversy and the still unreleased documents connected to the case."
~ Adam Parkhomenko
#Epstein #Trump #PamBondi #pedophiles #SexualAbuse #coverup #Iran #war
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"[Trump's war on Iran] is so obviously about Donald Trump's involvement with Jeffrey Epstein and the fact that there are credible allegations that we've now seen that Donald Trump raped children. And so here we are with this distraction effort at the expense of American lives and American gold."
~ Michael Fanone
#Epstein #Trump #PamBondi #pedophiles #SexualAbuse #coverup #Iran #war
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Trump's Using American Lives in Iran to Distract from Epstein | Protect & Serve with Michael Fanone & Maya May
This is an opportunity for us to stand up and defend democracy—and to say loud and clear to the rest of the world: Trump is not us.Maya May (Lincoln Square)
"Undaunted, undistracted reporters do not aim to create 'balance' between lies and truth or between a pro-democracy party and a cult. Armed with facts, they can ferret out lies and hold the government accountable, which in turn preserves a free press, objective truth, and, therefore, democracy itself."
~ Jennifer Rubin
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #Minab #children #girls #school #TomahawkMissile
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"It was dogged reporting by U.S. and international journalists using open-source intelligence — 'geolocated videos, public statements from U.S. officials and the assessment of munitions experts' — that uncovered the growing evidence that it was the U.S. military that launched not one, but two Tomahawk missiles at the school."
~ Jennifer Schulze
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #Minab #children #girls #school #TomahawkMissile
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How U.S. Media Uncovered the Truth about the Iran School Strike
Dogged investigative news reporting has revealed the U.S. role in the deadly school bombing—but you won't hear much about that from Trump-friendly media.Jennifer Schulze (Lincoln Square)
"Trump’s gift to Vladimir Putin to get his own ass out of the sling is both a huge concession to Russia and an unmistakeable admission that the economic reverberations from the elective war in Iran are having acute downstream political effects on Trump and Republicans in an election year."
~ David Kurtz
#Trump #Putin #Iran #war #oil #gas #Russia
/25
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Trump Bails Out Russia to Save His Own Hide
INSIDE: JD Vance ... John Brennan ... Nathan CavanaughDavid Kurtz (Morning Memo)
"Fox News and Newsmax are doing their best Baghdad Bob impersonation to downplay the incredible surge in gas prices Americans have faced since President Donald Trump launched his war on Iran. Fox and Newsmax personalities are urging their viewers to accept spiking gas prices as a patriotic 'sacrifice' to take on Iran, and are claiming that prices will come back down quickly."
~ Zachary Pleat
"The White House’s videos mixing football hits with bombing footage tell us: We have some twisted people running this country."
~ Michael Tomasky
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #cruelty #lethality #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
/23
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War and football? What kind of sick mind thinks that video is cool?
Fighting Words. What got me...newsletter.tnr.com
"This is Trump’s Derp State in action, an administration full of people who are not only ignorant and stupid, but believe that anyone who knows what they’re doing or tries to anticipate problems that might arise is a traitor to the cause. This is not something unique in history; authoritarian regimes are often characterized by the way they elevate idiots to positions of power."
~ Paul Waldman
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #authoritarianism #idiocy
/22
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Welcome to the Derp State
The dumbest president, surrounded by the dumbest people, making the dumbest mistakes.Paul Waldman (The Cross Section)
"Oil prices have surged, and one of the biggest beneficiaries so far has been Russia. According to reporting from the Financial Times, Moscow could be earning up to $150 million per day in additional revenue due to the global energy shock triggered by the conflict. Analysts estimate Russia has already gained between $1.3 billion and $1.9 billion in additional oil revenue as demand for its crude rises."
~ Ben Meiselas
#Trump #Putin #Iran #war #oil #gas #Russia
/21
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Friday Afternoon Updates: Reality Gets in the Way of Trump's Lies — 3/13/26
It’s Friday, we’ve made it to the end of the week.Ben Meiselas (Meidas+)
(continued from /19)
"his insistence that tuning the economy to the benefit of a few favored producers is a victory, even if it harms the vast majority of consumers."
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #prices #affordability #economy #MAGA #billionaires #oligarchy #EconomicElites
/20
The Bulwark today headlines its morning report: "Trump to America: Thank Me for Your Gas Bill." Andrew Egger writes:
"[Trump's statement about how *we* benefit from higher gas prices is] an illustration of the exact mindset that led Trump to do so much damage to the U.S. economy even before the war:"
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #prices #affordability #economy #MAGA #billionaires #oligarchy #EconomicElites
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Trump to America: Thank Me for Your Gas Bill
Higher prices = more money, according to the president.William Kristol (The Bulwark)
"According to petroleum analyst, Patrick DeHaan, Americans today will spend roughly $250 million more on gasoline than they did 30 days ago. That’s over $1.5 billion per week."
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #prices #affordability #economy #MAGA #billionaires #oligarchy #EconomicElites
/18
"Trump isn’t even trying to hide it anymore. When he says 'we' make a lot of money, he means oil executives, and he means himself. Because that’s all Trump cares about. How he can put more money in his own pocket and deliver a payout for his billionaire cronies."
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #prices #affordability #economy #MAGA #billionaires #oligarchy #EconomicElites
/17
"Trump, in his latest spiral, just tried to rebrand soaring gas prices as a good thing.
'The United States is the largest Oil Producer in the World, by far, so when oil prices go up, we make a lot of money,' he wrote on Truth Social.
Who is 'we?' I’ll tell you who it’s not: the voters who put this guy in office."
~ Brian Tyler Cohen
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #prices #affordability #economy #MAGA
/16
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Trump's Soaring Gas Prices are a "Good Thing" for Anyone but You
Trump claims “we” stand to make a ton of money off the war in Iran. But the “we” does not include you.Brian Tyler Cohen
"We should face the honest, painful truth. It took America 20 tortured years, an unspeakable death toll, and finally the image of desperate people climbing toward helicopters on an embassy roof to acknowledge the bitter reality that our nation had lost a war."
~ Will Bunch
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It took U.S. years to lose a war in Vietnam. Trump lost one in days.
It's increasingly clear that Trump's war of choice in Iran has failed spectacularly. America learned nothing from past war failures.Will Bunch (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
"A stupid war started by a stupid man for stupid reasons not even he can figure out.
This war will go down in history. So will the man who started it, as the biggest loser of this century."
~ Lucian K. Truscott
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Iran’s war of pinpricks that bleed gallons
The wars carried out by the United States against Iraq and Afghanistan are not perfectly analogous to Trump’s war on Iran, but they are close enough.Lucian K. Truscott IV (Lucian Truscott Newsletter)
Then:
"In a second incident, a terror suspect entered a Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) class at Old Dominion University and opened fire, killing Lt. Col. Brandon Shah, an ROTC instructor.
And:
"Finally, a hacker group linked to Iran infiltrated the computer systems of a US-based medical company."
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #antisemitism #islamophobia
/12
"The reverberations of Trump’s illegal war reached America’s shores on Thursday in three separate attacks. Although the facts are still developing, it appears that the attacks were carried out by terrorists responding to the US war on Iran." Number one:
"The first attack targeted a Jewish synagogue, Temple Israel, in Detroit (West Bloomfield), Michigan."
Robert B. Hubbell
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #antisemitism #islamophobia
/11
Greg Olear notes that David Ignatius says Trump has now taken us over the waterfall:
"I think up until this point, all of the stuff that Trump has done, while horrifying and awful, is also reversible, with the right leadership in place, over time. This is not."
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #Russia #Putin
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Ramble On: Over the Waterfall
Morning thoughts on the Iran war, the Iraq war, and the end of American empire.Greg Olear (PREVAIL by Greg Olear)
As Aaron Rupar says, Peter Thiel's pal Alex Karp, Palantir CEO, loves the macho bluster of Trump's war, as he proclaims:
"What makes America special right now is our lethal capacities. Our ability to fight war."
The techbros, the broligarchy, are all in on the brutality, lethality, cruelty, and want credit for its technological base.
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #cruelty #lethality #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
/8
As Aaron Parnas notes, Trump just posted the following on his Truth Social outfit:
"I, as the 47th President of the United States of America, am killing them. What a great honor it is to do so."
War, wielding weapons, killing others with big booms, makes tiny men imagine they're big ones.
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #cruelty #lethality #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
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"Now that Trump has his war, he doesn’t seem to know what to do with it. He appears to have had no plans in place for either the future or Iran or protection for the straits of Hormuz. Instead, the White House account on Twitter is posting videos that equate war with video games or football."
~ Joyce Vance
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #cruelty #lethality #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
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Thursday in America
Justice Amy Coney Barrett was in conversation with the Chief Justice’s Counselor, Judge Robert M.Joyce Vance (Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance)
"War is BOOM BOOM, death raining from the sky, hell wrought on others from thousands of miles away by American soldiers with joysticks. The mangled bodies are not seen. They must be presumed."
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #cruelty #lethality #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
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"Never has any party in power shown such gloating bloodlust as Trump and his dimwitted amoral ideologues are, with their infernal infotainment.
On TikTok and X they are peddling short videos romanticizing the war, glorifying cruelty."
~ Gene Weingarten
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #cruelty #lethality #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
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War Porn
In the 1960s, there was no shortage of pro-war propaganda in the United States aimed at young men, even in comic books — but not the image above or anything quite so nakedly and revoltingly … political.gene weingarten (The Gene Pool)
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"caused the military to lose focus on its main task, killing the enemy, and led to costly defeats in both wars.
In his view, the U.S. military’s strength is not rooted in its high ideals, humanity or moral purpose, but rather its ability to punish adversaries. Anything that distracts from that singular mission, he has said, is weakness."
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #cruelty #lethality #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
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"Even though the truth was often more complicated, they cast U.S. troops as liberators bringing democracy and freedom to those living under tyranny and oppression.
Mr. Hegseth has largely dispensed with that talk. His bellicose, at times vengeful, rhetoric reflects his belief that the United States’ lofty goals in Iraq and Afghanistan" (continued in /3)
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #cruelty #lethality #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
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Greg Jaffe reports on how the choice of “'Epic Fury,' a name that connotes retribution and rage," to name Trump's war captures its deliberate intent to maximize brutality and lethality.
"For decades, presidents and their secretaries of defense have framed American military interventions in altruistic terms."
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #cruelty #lethality #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
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"And so now nearly all tanker traffic there is at an indefinite standstill and there’s a line of about 3,000 boats with some 20,000 crew members stuck."
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #StraitofHormuz #prices #groceries #affordability #economy
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"Bad news, weirdos! The Gas prices have surged 20 percent over the past two weeks, after the Strait of Hormuz — which connects the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman and through which 30 percent of the world’s boat-shipped oil and 20 percent of its natural gas flows — was deemed by insurance companies to be too dangerous to allow tankers to go through after the US attack on Feb. 28."
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #StraitofHormuz #prices #groceries #affordability #economy
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"Remember how a bunch of low-information voters — that inexplicable some 4 to 6-ish percent of people who also voted for Barack Obama and also Joe Biden, or who previously didn’t vote at all — came out for Trump in ‘24 because of The Groceries and The Gas and The Inflation and the Masculine Penis Insecurities or whatever?"
~ Marcie Jones
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #StraitofHormuz #prices #groceries #affordability #economy
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"The idea that 'we' all benefit prompted intense criticism and underscores his chaotic approach to this fiasco. Meanwhile, CNN reports that Trump officials have started to 'panic' and are in a state of 'alarm' about the situation, even as its global impact is rapidly worsening."
~ Greg Sargent
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Trump Outbursts Over Oil Shock Go Off Rails as His Aides Quietly Panic
As Trump’s handling of soaring oil prices due to his war grows shakier, an international relations expert explains why this saga will likely get worse—and what it reveals about Trump’s deeper failings.The New Republic
"The only major American news outlet that I’ve seen calling for an end to war in its editorials is… actually British. It’s the Guardian. And even they were pretty meek about it."
~Dan Froomkin
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #media
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STOP THE WAR! How hard is that for an editorial board to say?
A survey of what editorials are saying, and a plea for them to say moreDan Froomkin (Press Watch)