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Della Street does it all!! She's so much more than a secretary. Here, we see that she is also a great detective!! She's so subtle and efficient in getting the room number!! I love Della!! ❤️ Gorgeous and brilliant!! The perfect combination 😍

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“It hasn’t gotten nearly enough play in the U.S. press that this entire situation is very literally Donald Trump’s fault. He tore up Obama’s painstakingly negotiated nuclear deal for really no reason but spite and advisors telling him it would be cool. Then he did nothing to replace it. We’re here really entirely because of Trump’s impulsive decisions.”

— Tweet Storms and Bunker Busters—War in a Time of Trump 

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“There is nothing to support Rubio’s claim that the material was somehow all at Isfahan and destroyed as part of the attack. Indeed, keeping it all in one place would not have been prudent given the risks it could all be destroyed by missiles or bombs. And if it had been destroyed, we would likely have seen a sharp increase in radiation levels around the sites hit. But according to a UN watchdog, “Following attacks on three nuclear sites in Iran… the IAEA can confirm that no increase in off-site radiation levels has been reported as of this time.” If it was moved rather than destroyed, as intelligence experts generally believe, the nuclear material could be anywhere in Iran by now given how few vehicles are needed to transport it.”

— Their Iran Narrative Is Unraveling - by Jay Kuo

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And so it goes...

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republicans suck

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“For decades, Israeli leaders have ignored American objections and done what they wanted to do as U.S. presidents fumed privately, issuing occasional public warnings before ultimately deciding to go along. That’s why Israel now occupies so large a chunk of the West Bank with so many hundreds of thousands of settlers that the creation of a viable Palestinian state is now likely foreclosed (by the way, Netanyahu announced the biggest expansion in about three decades just three weeks ago). It’s why Israel can plan unimpeded to occupy as much of Gaza as it wishes for as long as it wishes, as it has done since the October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attack. It’s why, since Israel’s 1948 creation, more than half of the 89 U.S. vetoes in the U.N. Security Council have been taken in support of the Jewish state.”

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Exactly Why Is It that All American Presidents Dance to Bibi’s Tune?

Netanyahu is a war criminal and a murderer. The unwavering fealty my government gives to that loathsome monster is sickening.

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Reportedly, Trump wants this photo removed from the Internet. Please share.

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Las Vegas Strip c. 1960. Aerial by Las Vegas News Bureau.

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“We are at an inflection point in our nation’s ability to govern itself, and whether or not the would-be opposition party is up to the task, the messaging from the party is that they are not. And it is this seeming contempt for the issues that voters care about—the exact issues that caused the largest mass protests in U.S. history not even a full week ago—that convinces voters that the two parties are not, in fact, consequentially different. It’s not true; decades of back-and-forth between Republican-backed deficits and economic chaos and Democratic-backed stability and growth has proven the differences quite thoroughly, at point. But it feels true to voters who are seeing the footage of masked, paramilitary-geared ICE officers one moment, only to be met with implicit chastisement from Democratic leaders who publicly announce you ought to be more concerned with something else.”

— Democratic leaders need to stop gaslighting voters with ridiculous ‘distraction’ claims

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“This rhetoric veers quickly into being offensive. The idea that something is a “distraction” pretty plainly implies that it’s not worthy of our political energy, and maybe not even worthy of our attention. That’s a pretty grotesque thing to say about people being forcibly taken from their homes and communities while the military is sent in to crush any resulting dissent. It’s a pretty grotesque thing to say about a man who was shipped off El Salvador without so much as a hearing. Even if Trump was doing these things to divert media attention, the human toll would obligate the Democrats to action.”

— The Politics of Eternal Distraction

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“We are in the midst of a crisis unprecedented in modern American political history: the President is deploying the military domestically, with the very openly stated purpose not just of quelling civil unrest but violently subjugating his political opponents. It’s a significant authoritarian escalation, and the President has made it clear that he’s going to run the same playbook across the country. But there’s a big lingering question: is it all just a distraction? Many elected Democrats seem to think so. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer claims Trump is “attempting to distract from his many failures.” Senator Ed Markey said he’s trying to distract the public from the budget fight. Senator Alex Padilla said the same thing. So did Rep. Robert Garcia, a California congressman. Even California Governor Gavin Newsom, who is at the forefront of the political fight in Los Angeles, has adopted the “distraction” language. It’s not limited to politicians, either. Jon Stewart said that the ICE raids that sparked protest in Los Angeles were a distraction from the Elon/Trump feud. Which is interesting, because just a few days prior several Democrats were arguing that the Elon/Trump feud was itself a distraction.”

— The Politics of Eternal Distraction