Lloyd Austin says the U.S. sees the prospect of "significant escalation" in the Middle East, days after Houthis launched missiles and drones from Yemen toward Israel https://t.co/b8ATU3sKtX
— Ben Samuels (@Bsamuels0) October 22, 2023
Category: The Regime
Threats
Trump's former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper condemns the corrupt former president for threatening to execute General Mark Milley:
"That statement by the president is horrible. It’s intolerable. It should be condemned by everybody…We owe General Milley and his predecessors a… pic.twitter.com/u4HxeCeBmE
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) September 26, 2023
Disgusting
This is urgent not just for queer folks in Uganda but for the globe. Born, the original bill’s author verified for me, in a U.S.-led group, The Family, the bill will be copied by other nations & everywhere move the bar of legitimacy all the way to genocide. https://t.co/TieYbT87Dv
— THE UNDERTOW, by Jeff Sharlet (@JeffSharlet) April 20, 2023
Smells like fascism to me
Today, Minnesota Republicans wasted everyone's time with an amendment banning public funding of… necromancy and the occult.
Minnesota Republicans aren't even trying anymore. #mnleg pic.twitter.com/gZcMLtVBkj
— Brian Evans (@BriInMN) April 17, 2023
20 damn years
“We have come…to tolerate fixed opinions…each with its own baffles of invective and counterinvective, of euphemism and downright misstatement…. The inevitability of going to war with Iraq was accepted as if predestined.” —Joan Didion, November 2002 https://t.co/MnuGUmqigl
— The New York Review of Books (@nybooks) March 20, 2023
Let me guess
NEW: In face of growing threat from China, the Pentagon is moving to retire ships that won't help much in wartime. What happens when lobbyists step in to protect ships that bring military contractors billions in repair contracts? A NYT investigation. https://t.co/kdQveHZLib
— Eric Lipton (@EricLiptonNYT) February 4, 2023
What Digby said
How close did we come to nuclear war under Trump? As it turns out, very, very close.
Only the best
Bag men, caddies, personal security…any one of Trump's lackeys could get a high level White House job.https://t.co/ySoCFEh3aw
— Anne "IStandWithUkraine" McCarthy (@AM_McCarthy) September 19, 2022
No. 3
After relentlessly seeking al-Zawahiri under Presidents Bush, Obama, and Trump… I authorized a precision strike that would remove him from the battlefield pic.twitter.com/KLSnMK08R1
— Acyn (@Acyn) August 1, 2022
US conducted a "successful" counterterrorism operation against a "significant" Al Qaeda leader Ayman Al Zawahiri in #Afghanistan over the weekend, a senior official told Fox News.@POTUS tonight is expected to address the nation from the WH on the operation.https://t.co/mPCZGI5uIR
— Ali Javanmardi (@Javanmardi75) August 1, 2022
Bring them home
CNN Exclusive: The US has offered to swap convicted Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout as part of an exchange for imprisoned Americans Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan. @kylieatwood @evanperez & @jmhansler reporthttps://t.co/Xjb4iighWp
— CNN NationalSecurity (@NatSecCNN) July 27, 2022