Iran's military response to the US and Israel cannot be viewed in a vacuum — its decision to attack Tel Aviv and American military bases in the region was preceded by Israel's egregious war crime of killing negotiators working on behalf of Iran twice as well as the initial launching of hostilities by the Trump administration and Israel. Trump believed he could replicate the Venezuela outcome in Iran. The reality, however, is that Iran holds all the cards in these talks, and it will not give them up.
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Olivia Rodrigo talked about Robert Smith & The Cure on Jimmy Kimmel tonight, mentioning her dad being a huge Cure fan and that he got to see them with Olivia at Primavera. It was his 30th Cure show.
Said his screen saver is a selfie he took with Robert. I love the Rodrigos.
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💰 Iran War’s Real Price Tag: $72 Billion in 60 Days, Nearly Triple What Pentagon Told Congress
The Pentagon told Congress the Iran war cost $25 billion for its first 60 days, then revised it to $29 billion, without providing a single breakdown to back up either figure.
Stephen Semler of the Security Policy Reform Institute puts the real figure at $72 billion, broken into four categories:
▪️ Operations: Deployment and fuel costs
▪️ Weapons: Over $40 billion, driven by interceptor missile burn rates
▪️ Losses: Base damage the Pentagon conceals through deals with satellite imagery companies to suppress or delay imagery
▪️ Subsidies: U.S. funding and support for Israel’s war costs, including weapons transfers that bypass congressional oversight
A key hidden cost: the Pentagon tracks munitions at their original purchase price. Each SM-2 missile fired logs at $1.2 million, its 2010 cost, but its replacement, the SM-6, costs over $6 million.
The $72 billion covers direct war costs only, excluding veterans’ disability payments and broader economic ripple effects Semler warns will compound for decades.
(Full episode of the American Prestige podcast with guest @stephensemler is linked below)
In 2017, we created a shelter -- @abrigo_hope -- for homeless dogs.
The idea was to hire homeless people on the street with their dogs, then help them us their income to leave the street permanently.
We're super excited about our newly built shelter that doubles our capacity:
🎥 The sixty-fourth night of Tehran’s residents rallying at Revolution Square
🔹 “Death is better for me than living in disgrace.”
🔹 “We are the soldiers of al-Mujtaba, the valiant one.”
Source: Fars
🇺🇸US: Give us your bases.
🇪🇸Spain: NO.
🇺🇸US: We'll suspend the trade agreement.
🇪🇸Spain: We don't care
🇺🇸US: We'll erase Spain from NATO
Spain 🇪🇸: "Do whatever you want" 🔥
Meet Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, What a leader🫡
On this day in 1982, The Cure released their fourth studio album "Pornography" featuring single "The Hanging Garden" and fan favorites "One Hundred Years" “A Strange Day" and "Siamese Twins"
"THIS IS WHAT YOU ARE PAYING FOR"
Chris Helali (@ChrisHelali) holding shrapnel from a missile that killed an entire Iranian family except for one child, has a message for the American people.
🚨 Military LEGO AI just dropped another SAVAGE Lego Diss exposing the real priorities in America 💀🔥
“ALWAYS money for war… but NEVER for the people” 🤔
Iraq → $2.1 TRILLION
Afghanistan → $2.3 TRILLION
Now Donnie & Co. are lining up another casual $1 TRILLION for Iran like it’s nothing…
They’ll happily bleed America DRY for endless overseas wars… but suddenly “budget’s tight, sorry” when it’s time to fix roads, hospitals, help our vets, lower grocery bills, or take care of the poor and teachers back home?!
Clown priorities on full display. 🤦🏾♂️🤡
#MilitaryLegoAI #WarSpending #LegoTrump #Trump #IranVsUS #PeopleLeftBehind #PeopleOverWar #LEGO #PoliticalSatire #LegoStopMotion #LegoNews #AmericaFirst #Savage #Viral #fyp #Trending #StopMotion
White House Correspondents’ Dinner turned into absolute chaos.
Trump tried to control every single thing… but the whole event went off the rails.
No comedians allowed. Empty plates everywhere. Full SWAT evacuation mid-dinner. Diaper change cover-up on stage while everyone else casually ate salads like nothing happened.
Epstein survivors protesting right outside and MAGA starting to wake up broke.
Fragile ego in full meltdown mode
Sacred Defense.
#NoComedians #FragileEgo #TrumpDinnerChaos #LegoRap #SacredDefense #Iran #PersiaBoi #whitehousecorrespondentsdinner #trump #lego #legonews