Tré Graves

passionate about a few things

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

.@JamesTalarico: 50 years ago, a corporate lawyer named Lewis Powell circulated a memo around DC — a blueprint for how corporations could amass political power, reverse the gains of the Great Society and the New Deal, and rig the system for themselves.

The Powell memo outlined a strategy. Unite corporate special interests, privilege corporate perspectives in the media, appoint sympathetic judges to the court, and buy politicians in both political parties.

And it worked. Republicans and some Democrats sold the false gospel of trickle-down economics. Trickle-down economics is not a theory, it is theft.

Since the late 1970s, mega donors and corporate special interests have been buying politicians in both political parties. And then those politicians turned around and rigged the economy to benefit their wealthy donors at our expense.

We have an affordability crisis because we have a corruption crisis.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

It’s only been a few hours since the first viable Muslim
Senate candidate won a primary and his GOP opponent is already running ads featuring Osama bin Laden and 9/11.

The Islamophobia over the next few months is gonna be vicious.

[jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill]

This post is filled with lies about what Hamas agreed to & it’s part of a longstanding pattern: When Palestinian negotiators make agreements, the Israelis then demand new terms and the US and its lackeys pretend like these new edicts are part of the deal and then blame Hamas.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

People often say, why don’t villagers in the West Bank ever hit back when Israeli settlers are brutalizing them or burning their homes? The answer was always obvious, but this is it. Netanyahu will use it as justification to accelerate slaughter and destruction in the West Bank:

[Emma Vigeland @EmmaVigeland]

Mamdani, ever conscious of his role as a leader and in legitimizing the broader democratic socialist movement, is setting the standard for 2028 Democratic presidential candidates by flatly declaring that the federal government has the authority to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

BREAKING: Jake Tapper: “…why were you worried about offending people who support the Ayatollah?”

Abdul El-Sayed: “Jake, on a day where we’re mourning the loss of two more service members in a war we never should have fought I think all of us ought to step back and ask whether or not everybody in Michigan, frankly everybody in America shouldn’t be sad about the fact that this president backed by the prime minister of a foreign government took us to a war we had no business fighting in. So yeah, I didn’t want to comment on it then because it’s a ridiculous pretext, and now you’re asking me about the Ayatollah who’s dead by the way, and you’re not asking me about the service members who’ve died. You’re not asking me about whether or not this war should have ever been fought. You’re not asking me about whether or not the costs that are being borne by Michiganders in the tax dollars we pay or the gas prices that are insane right now, are worth it…”😳

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

“ Shut your mouth about their murders or there will be more murders!” This statement alone should be grounds for firing this grifting, disgraceful excuse for a human being.

[Brett Erickson @BrettErickson28]

As I predicted prior to the start of the renewed U.S./Iran War, the United States is systemically targeting civilian infrastructure inside of Iran with the intent of causing a humanitarian crisis. This is seen below with EVIDENCE of the United States striking water desalination inside of Iran.

In just the past week, we have seen wheat storage facilities wiped out, multiple water storage and infrastructure facilities wiped out, water desalination (as seen here) wiped out, but also roads, bridges, and rail lines wiped out.

While many are pointing to, in particular, the roads/bridges/rail being connected to a potential ground operation against Iran… I don’t see that that.

A ground operation is a FANTASTIC way for President Trump to become Herbert Hoover. I don’t believe ANY military expert has seriously put forth that the United States could secure our core strategic outcomes in the Iran War without extremely high casualties. That is an amazing way for Trump to turn an embarrassing defeat into becoming the worst President in U.S. history, and not just in the eyes of Democrats.

No, I believe that we are waging an all-out, and morally reprehensible economic warfare campaign predicated on the following pillars:

1) A renewed blockade meant to cause: hyperinflation, the collapse of the Rial to the USD, but also to cut off imports of wheat, medical supplies, cooking oil, and proteins.

2) Maximum-Pressure sanctions that follow a “Cuba-like” model wherein “everything” is de facto government-controlled. (See: GAESA/Cuba).

3) The direct targeting of roads, bridges, and rail lines meant to cut off imports via seaports (see: Bandar Abbas) and via land corridors to neighboring countries (see: Belt and Road rail line struck connecting Iran to China and Russia).

4) The direct targeting of economic and civilian infrastructure to bring about job less, desperation, and group gatherings. This will come from the targeting of: power plants, water infrastructure/storage/desalination, petrochemical facilities, steel and manufacturing plants, and pharmaceutical facilities.

5) A continuation of Operation Freedom 2.0 that attempts to move vessels along the Omani coastline to extend the economic runway in which furthers the timeline for the United States to wage said economic warfare.

I do not believe President Trump is willing to see a mass casualty event take place with American boots on the ground. He would inevitably then be forced into yet another forever war in the Middle East… in July… against a country of 95M people… in an extraordinarily challenging terrain… with insufficient troops in theater…

No, I believe that we are continuing forward with an extreme economic warfare campaign predicated on delving the entire country of Iran into anarchy.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days.

ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

[David J. Bier @David_J_Bier]

The New York Times shows the damning evidence that ICE is offloading its racial profiling onto local cops, as we predicted. Abhorrent behavior. A conspiracy against our rights.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

New reporting reveals the CDC suppressed a report showing the COVID vaccine cut hospitalizations for healthy adults by more than half.

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

Breaking: Trump orders the dismantling of the US Forest Service.

All regional offices are being shut down and the research program destroyed.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

If any other president had pardoned - pardoned! - a man like this, they would have probably been impeached by now.

Trump gets away with this kind of gross shit, day after day:
https://t.co/EjfiSBwqoX

[Ben Thomson 🇵🇸 (He/Him) @BenNephrology]

Muhammad was in his final year of medical school in Gaza when he was kidnapped and imprisoned by Israeli military while caring for his patients.

Two weeks from his final exams, he begged to be released, so he could live his dream of being a surgeon.

The Israeli guard then shot off both his thumbs. Did Canada give Israel the bullets?

Watch the press conference demanding an end to Canadas support for Israel's ongoing genocide

@AnitaAnandMP @MarkJCarney stop weapon transfers now. End diplomatic relations now.

[Clash Report @clashreport]

U.S. commanders across more than 30 military bases told troops the Iran war is part of “God’s plan” and linked it to “Armageddon.”

A commander said Trump was “anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon.”

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) says it has received over 110 similar complaints describing the war as “biblically-sanctioned” and a sign of the Christian “End Times.”

Source: Jonathan Larsen / Substack

[Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 @mtgreenee]

I did not campaign for this.
I did not donate money for this.
I did not vote for this, in elections or Congress.
This is heartbreaking and tragic.
And how many more innocent will die?
What about our own military?
This is not what we thought MAGA was supposed to be.
Shame!

[Isi Breen @isaiah_bb]

It drives me up the fucking wall that it’s Tucker that interviews this admin this way.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

I had different problems with AOC’s Munich talks but the Taiwan criticism is kind of silly, because she’s being knocked for babbling incoherently about what the U.S. response should be, when babbling incoherently is quite specifically the actual policy of the U.S. Except we call it “strategic ambiguity.”

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

More Israel coded ICE behavior. I’m reminded of when Israel used audio of crying babies to lure people outside for their quadcopters to kill.