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"During a discussion hosted by Senator Bernie Sanders, Iranian journalist and analyst Negar Mortazavi criticized what she described as uneven coverage of the conflict in the United States media.
'Mainstream media is not covering this objectively enough.'"
~ Brian Karem
#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #school #children #Minab #girls #media
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"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
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
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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
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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)
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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."
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"Yesterday, after Reuters reporter Phil Stewart reported that as many as 150 U.S. troops had been wounded so far in the Iran conflict, the Pentagon publicly revised its estimate of fewer than a dozen U.S. service members wounded upward to about 140. The wounds include brain trauma, shrapnel wounds, and burns. Seven service members have died."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #Iran #war #death #casualties #destruction
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March 11, 2026
In a brief call with Barak Ravid of Axios today, President Donald J.Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)
"The Trump regime is seeking to deflect blame and avoid responsibility for the largest civilian massacre by the U.S. military [at a girls' school in Minab, Iran] since the My Lai massacre in Vietnam. It’s vitally important to understand what has actually happened and how the White House is now seeking to shift the narrative and evade accountability."
~ Jay Kuo
#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #children
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Gaslighting Over Atrocities
The Trump White House’s deflections and false claims around a massacre of children cannot be allowed to stand.Jay Kuo (The Status Kuo)
As Aaron Parnas reports this morning, Trump is now threatening to rain "Death, Fire, and Fury" on Iran (though, of course, he imagines the word "rain" is spelled "reign" — since he truly knows no better).
His threats have to do with the fact that the Strait of Hormuz is now impassable due to his war, and this is affecting the global economy, creating political problems for him and Republicans in the US.
#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction
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"Trump blundered his way into a war in which one of the first acts was the killing of more than 160 innocent schoolgirls. Neither he nor the senior US military comm and has the decency or humanity to admit that they killed hundreds of Iranian children through their recklessness."
#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #children
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