Originally published at: Declaring Victory and Walking Away Can’t Conceal the Scale of Trump’s Folly - TPM – Talking Points Memo
A Ceasefire … or a Fig-Leaf? Despite some initial reports that a tenuous two-week ceasefire is holding in the Middle East, Kuwait, the UAE, and Qatar all claimed to have subsequently received incoming missile fire. For its part, Iran claimed that one of its oil refinery on a island in the Persian Gulf had come…
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Okey dokey.
Just who is the person in Iran making decisions, now? Is there more than 1?
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Morning all. That “ceasefire” lasted about as long as I thought it would. Bibi thinks ceasefires, international boundaries, and any kind of treaties or agreements are for other folks.
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So TSF thinks he can line his pockets and Bibi thinks the agreement is a blank check. Should work out just fine.
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Looks like Editor’s Blog needs to be changed to Editors’ Blog.
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“A mass bombardment of civilian areas”
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He was holding a camera, filming - not just a cell phone - when he was shot in the eye. He is at least the third person in the LA area that has had that happen.
Federal judges have issued preliminary injunctions restricting Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from using tear gas, pepper-ball munitions and other less-lethal projectiles against protesters — banning the targeting of the head, neck or torso, except when deadly force is justified.
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Kuwait, the UAE, and Qatar all claimed to have subsequently received incoming missile fire.
Stopping this will require Iran to trust Trump’s word. Ain’t happening.
The only thing that’s going to resolve this is the removal of Trump.
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We are not out of this mess by a long shot, regardless of how many posts Der Pumpkinfuhrer shits out. We are in a crisis of massive proportions, when does he start talking to the pictures hanging on the wall?
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Donald Trump lies all the time about everything to everyone.
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This looks like a job for the Grammar Police!
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The White House just buys a $70 million plane and no one gives a shit? Way to control the power of the purse there Congress!
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- Annie Ramos, the undocumented wife of an Army sergeant who was detained by ICE at Ft. Polk as they were moving into base housing has been released from detention after five days.
This is the kind of story that makes Stephen Miller wet his pants with feral excitement. Just to elaborate a bit, the wife is a dreamer brought to America as a child. She is a new bride. The husband is about to deploy to Iran. Like I said this is the kind of story that makes Stephen Millaer and ICE look like dicks.
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Did it come with new sheets on the bed?
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A two week delay. So, I guess the war will restart at the same time we get an infrastructure plan.
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Beirut used to be called “The Paris of the Middle East.” The Guardian pictures of the devastation are sobering.
Israel is killing unarmed civilians in Lebanon, says Lebanese PM
The prime minister of Lebanon, Nawaf Salam, has accused Israel of killing unarmed civilians in Lebanon and attacking densely populated areas, particularly in the capital city of Beirut.
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