Barbara Stedman

Political junkie, outdoor enthusiast, bike commuter, wife, mom, scientist lover, proud Oregonian, German-American. She/her🇺🇸🇩🇪🇪🇺

[Robert Downen @RobertDownen_]

Over the weekend the former head of Trump's Border Patrol attended a summit with fascists from around the world who are calling for "Weimar solutions" and it for some reason has received almost no press coverage.
https://t.co/nI5SyCBuS2

[Will Christou @will_christou]

Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil was found dead after hours of searching under rubble. She was killed in an Israeli strike, after the Israeli army fired at ambulances trying to reach her, delaying her rescue.

She is the fourth journalist killed by Israel while in the field since 2 March.

She was a professional, kind and dedicated journalist, and always a pleasure to run into in the field.

[Barbara Stedman @StedmanBarbara]

Hey @worldmarket, humans aren’t the only one who like your wreaths!

[Frank Luntz @FrankLuntz]

• 60% of American adults now have an unfavorable view of Israel 🇮🇱.

• That’s up from 53% last year and 42% in 2022.

• In both political parties, a majority of adults under age 50 view Israel negatively. (84% of Democrats, 57% of Republicans)

👉🏻 https://t.co/NKFKwERQjY

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

One expert analysis I saw calculated that if Iran charges a $2mm per ship toll, and Hormuz transits return to average levels, it would earn Iran up to $71B annually. Even just a toll on oil/gas earns $21B, which is 3x Iran's current defense budget. This is a huge win for Iran.

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

WSJ: Iran says 12 ships per day can pass through Hormuz, per the cease-fire agreement

(More than 100 per day passed through before the war)

[Barbara Stedman @StedmanBarbara]

#nokings protest Portland

[Seung Min Kim @seungminkim]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Pentagon tells Congress the first week of the Iran war cost the US $11.3 billion, an AP source says.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 Two MAJOR bombshells in 30 minutes.

CBS News: The Trump administration concealed the true extent of Iran’s strike on a US base in Kuwait. Dozens of service members suffered severe injuries. 30 remain hospitalized right now.

They hid it.

The New York Times: A US military investigation has concluded the United States was responsible for the strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ elementary school in Minab, Iran.

165 girls. Ages 7 to 12.

Trump said the Tomahawk was “very generic.”

Trump said Iran bombed its own school.
Trump said he’s “willing to live with” whatever the report shows.

The report shows it was us.

And while Trump was lying about dead children, his administration was hiding dozens of wounded American service members from their own families and the American public.

Concealing American casualties.
Lying about dead Iranian children.
Blocking terror warnings to law enforcement.

Sealing the Epstein files.

This is a pattern.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.

I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.

1/ Here's what I can share:

[Senator Patty Murray @PattyMurray]

ICYMI: Republicans BLOCKED my bill to fund TSA.

Republicans are punishing travelers and forcing TSA agents to work without pay because they want to cut another blank check for ICE & Border Patrol.

It's shameful.

[Aaron Blake @AaronBlake]

Big news from @npwcnn:

Russia is giving Iran specific advice on drone tactics, Western intelligence source says

https://t.co/3u5v1YKuit

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

View from a cargo ship at the Omani port of Salalah this evening, surrounded by burning port facilities after an Iranian drone strike.

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

A Chinese-owned cargo ship attempting to run the Strait of Hormuz made a complete U-turn this morning after the ship in front of it was attacked by an Iranian USV.

[Barbara Stedman @StedmanBarbara]

@georgemillo @AageWinther @MattWelch @joshgerstein Maybe you should learn about the actual free speech laws in Germany and not what you are told by social media. You can criticize whoever you want but you can’t insult somebody. That includes hate speech. Dignity is the first line in the German constitution for good reason.

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

Deporting a Trump voter’s spouse back to a country that we are actively trying to starve out.

[Ruben Gallego @RubenGallego]

We are about to enter another war. What is the reasoning? The American public or Congress hasn’t been told.
No reason for us to go to war for oil, for Israel, or for regime change. It’s time to stop the drum beats of war.

[Brendan Fischer @brendan_fischer]

Wow. New FEC reports show billionaire Matt Moroun gave Trump’s super PAC $1 million last month.

A few weeks later, Moroun met with Trump officials, and the next day, the president came out publicly against a rival bridge project that would cut into Moroun’s profits.

[Gregory Brew @gbrew24]

USS Ford is on track for an 11-month deployment, nearly twice as long as normal.

Sailors are missing family. Equipment is under strain. The toilets don't work properly. https://t.co/tmd6kccB84

[grand danois 🇩🇰🇬🇱🌻 @AageWinther]

@MattWelch @joshgerstein