An unarmed Iranian ship was invited to take part in an Indian naval exercise alongside the United States.
Its sailors were welcomed on land and paraded before the president as a gesture of cooperation.
Then, at the last moment, the United States abruptly withdrew from the exercise,only to turn around and torpedo the very ship it had just stood beside.
What followed was even more grotesque.
After attacking an unarmed vessel, the US refused to rescue the sailors it had thrown into the sea, abandoning them to drown.
The grim work of recovering bodies was left to the Sri Lankan Navy.
This wasn’t warfare,it was treachery of the most disgraceful kind: an ambush carried out under the pretense of diplomacy, followed by a cold refusal to show even the most basic human decency to the dying.
It would represent a collapse of every norm that supposedly governs civilized conduct at sea.
And yet, instead of outrage, much of the American media response has been indifference or rationalization.
The bombing of a girls’ school is brushed aside; talk of carpet-bombing Tehran is floated as if it were just another policy option.
When atrocities are normalized and cruelty is laundered into “strategy,” the line between reporting and complicity begins to disappear.
If your church leaders and elected leaders are telling you the way to bring Jesus back is by killing innocent children of innocent foreign people you’ve never met in a foreign land you’ve never been to, then your believing the lies of wolves dressed in sheep’s clothing.
White House's War Powers Report to Congress on Iran⬇️
Two conspicuous absences
1. The word "imminent" appears nowhere. Go figure.
Thus no justification in Report for US attack without prior congressional authorization
2. No reference to wellbeing/protection of Iranian people
Any one of us could be detained for hours by ICE despite being a U.S. citizen.
Any one of us could be in the next apartment building that ICE raids in the middle of the night.
Any one of us could be the next to be brutalized by ICE for speaking out.
Authoritarianism hurts all of us.
NEW: Comedian Shane Gillis jokes about the Jeffrey Epstein drama while hosting the ESPYs in Los Angeles.
“There was supposed to be an Epstein joke here, but it got deleted, must have probably deleted itself, right?”
“Probably never existed. Actually. Let's move on as a country and ignore that.”
Trump is deporting people with legal status and no criminal convictions to foreign hellhole’s without due process.
His idiot team is sharing classified attack plans on insecure channels and accidentally including a reporter.
He’s pushing us toward a recession.
He’s threatening to invade allies.
They’re grabbing students off the streets and deporting them for legally protected speech.
He’s attacking every part of our judicial system from judges to law firms.
He’s letting an unaccountable MAGA billionaire illegally dismantle the government.
That same MAGA billionaire is working to buy elections by literally handing out million dollar checks to people.
Republicans are helping him.
We’re losing the things that are great about America—free speech, due process, strong allies, a functional legal system—right in front of our eyes.
America better find its backbone, and soon.
Is it just me or am I not the only one seeing lots of right wing content being pumped on X right now?
@elonmusk working hard to try and tip another election?
Asshat.