James Handley

Attorney, former soldier. Views are my own. RTs are not endorsements.

[Luna Jade @lunajade]

Trump and Hegseth are breaking our military.
They like to state we have the strongest military in the world, yet they are actively destroying it.

[Natalie Korach @NatalieKorach]

Bari Weiss personally directed this morning’s CBS News headline about Abdul El-Sayed to be tweaked to specifically mention deleted tweets referencing the September 11 terrorist attacks

New from @oliverdarcy

https://t.co/vR0sNlaIZP

[Rosemary Kelanic @RKelanic]

A few days ago, this reporter wrote a fantastic piece for Stars and Stripes on the hardships endured by US military families forced to evacuate Persian Gulf bases by the Iran War.

The DoD just fired her.

[Eric Michael Garcia @EricMGarcia]

Why should Canada (or France, or Ukraine or anyone really) just hope that a handful of voters in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan will make a decision every four years not to elect a president who will torpedo alliances?

[Amy Siskind @Amy_Siskind]

Wonder why Hegseth fired senior staffers at Stars and Stripes? It’s because of reporting like this:

“Nearly six months after the U.S. Navy evacuated 1,300 family members from Bahrain at the start of the Iran war, officials are saying the evacuees cannot return for the foreseeable future and should find new homes elsewhere. The evacuation has left families in limbo and forced military officials to improvise solutions for support programs that were never designed to sustain a displacement lasting this long. Some evacuees say they have spent tens of thousands of dollars out of pocket for basic living expenses. Others are sleeping on the floors of temporary housing, while their cars and furniture are stranded in Bahrain or aboard ships unable to leave the region.”

https://t.co/RDPGHi5gzn

[Travis Akers 🇺🇸 @travisakers]

Remember when Pete Hegseth told Americans that Iran has only inflicted minimum damage to our base in Bahrain?

He lied.

[Captain Mark Kelly @CaptMarkKelly]

More than 750 servicemembers wounded and another 18 dead. Trump and Hegseth have failed and refuse to take accountability. They have no idea what they’re doing, and it’s made our country weaker and you less safe.

[Steve Rosenberg @BBCSteveR]

A party barred from an election.
A politician jailed for 11 years.
Our @BBCNews report from Moscow. Producer @BBCBenTavener

[Jayne Miller @jemillerbalt]

These recalls due to food contamination are happening with frequency.
Further evidence of the weakening of the food safety infrastructure

[Ishaan Tharoor @ishaantharoor]

Every day in the White House offers a new admission of defeat and bafflement. This war has gone so far off the rails from what they envisioned that Trump is left sputtering, vowing to bomb Oman, of all places, lashing out at South Korea to compensate for his impotence in the Gulf, and claiming territory by tweet like a mad king.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Republican Rep. Glenn Grothman:

Actually, I think we should be doing a little more for the rich.

[Garrett Haake @GarrettHaake]

Senator Bill Cassidy - a medical doctor and liver disease specialist - cast the deciding vote to confirm @SecKennedy and spoke on the floor about the assurances he received that Kennedy - and the admin - would not change existing vaccine recommendations.

[Sam Stein @samstein]

We've had mass deportations for, what, 1.5 years now. JD Vance and Stephen Miller said it would be a boon for US workers cuz it would free up jobs. And yet, the labor market appears incredibly bleak. Per WSJ:

"In recent months, almost three in 10 of the unemployed have been looking to work for more than six months, the greatest share since the pandemic recovery four years ago."

[Jim Sciutto @jimsciutto]

When I returned from covering Russia’s fullscale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Washington unequivocally and loudly backed Kyiv and condemned Russia. Lawmakers of both parties vowed aid “as long as it takes”. Now, as Russia has found a new way to burn down the country, the U.S. is virtually AWOL. The fundamentals of the war haven’t changed. Only the politics - exacerbated now by the hollowing out of US munitions stockpiles.

[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.

[Ben Rhodes @brhodes]

The cost of this war is astonishing and we know very little about it. Munitions spent. Damage to bases. Cost of deployments. Injuries to service-members. Taxpayer price tag will easily reach into hundreds of billions. All to accomplish...what?

[Preston Stewart @prestonstew_]

Pretty scathing comments about the Iran war in a New York Times article this morning.

Robert Niblett, former director of the Chatham House called it a "strategic loss and an embarrassment" adding, "For U.S. allies and those who rely on the U.S. for security, this is confirmation that you can’t trust the United States.”

He continued, “people won’t forget that their security and their future were dragged into question by an unpredictable and wavering U.S. foreign policy.”

Ali Vaez, the Iran project director for the International Crisis Group said "This is the crisis of credibility of the U.S. Neither its military prowess nor its diplomatic promises can be trusted.”

Aaron David Miller, a former American negotiator and now a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace said the conflict "has undermined U.S. deterrence and credibility, antagonized America’s allies and delighted its adversaries,”

[ProPublica @propublica]

After Emily Waldorf was denied care for a life-threatening miscarriage, her mother and stepfather, who considered themselves “pro-life,” were outraged:

“If I took my dog to a vet and it had this problem, that dog would get better treatment.”
https://t.co/ShPLddKjVy

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

North Korea sends troops to wage war in Europe. Iran sends Shahed drones and missiles to Russia to wage war in Europe, and IRGC trainers to Crimea to show them how to use the drones. China helps Russia evade sanctions to wage war in Europe and now, per Reuters, even trains Russian troops to wage war in Europe. Ukraine hits one Iranian cargo ship carrying military equipment and suddenly wars are merging and it might even be World War III.

[PBS News @NewsHour]

It's been four years since the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision opened the door to state abortion bans.

Now, a new study finds those bans are hurting women who aren't seeking abortions at all. Researchers found delays in miscarriage treatment increase the risk to a woman’s health and fertility and prolong the grief of a lost pregnancy.

@SarahVarney4 has more.