Michael Bloom

Insouciance over seriousness. Honesty over excuses. Mischief over obedience. Communication over resentment. Ownership over blame. Action over regret.

[Michael Bloom @talktobloom]

LA-area homelessness nonprofit leaders stole millions for lavish lifestyle, federal investigators say https://t.co/Q9B7wZXCXT via @ladailynews

[Michael Bloom @talktobloom]

Please read this and express or demonstrate outrage. We cannot continue the insane mass murder and mayhem.

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

According to an informed federal official, in the coming months the Trump administration plans to send a total of 40,000 Mark 84 and Blu-117 bombs to the government of Israel. Each bomb weighs 2,000 pounds. This appears to be the largest transfer of conventional explosive ordnance from the United States in modern history.

How big is this shipment? It amounts to 40,000 tons of bombs. For perspective, the largest American air raid of World War Two was the Eighth Air Force’s attack on Berlin in March of 1945. Combined, the 2,023 Allied aircraft involved dropped about 3,000 tons of bombs. That’s 7.5 percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. That same month, March of 1945, the US Army Air Forces began the single most destructive bombing raid in human history, Operation Meetinghouse over Tokyo. More than 100,000 Japanese civilians were killed. By the end of that operation, the US had dropped 1,600 tons of bombs. That’s four percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. World War Two ended five months later, when the US dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. The shipment Trump is sending to Israel amounts to more than three times the destructive power of that nuclear explosion. There is no precedent for what the Trump administration is doing.

Nor is there a justification. The government of Israel is not fighting World War Two, or even a war. It is engaged in periodic skirmishes with a guerrilla force in Lebanon, and it is working to exterminate an unarmed civilian population in Gaza. Neither front requires modern 2,000-pound bombs.

An American-made Mark 84 has a destruction radius of half a mile. It releases a thermal wave the temperature of the surface of the sun. Within 100 feet of the explosion, rock melts and human flesh turns to vapor. The bomb collapses apartment buildings and leaves craters thirty-five feet deep. Until the war with Iran, the US military generally avoided using the Mark 84 in urban areas. It kills too many civilians.

For the Netanyahu government, that’s been the upside. In the weeks after October 7, the IDF dropped nearly six hundred 2,000-pound bombs on densely populated areas in Gaza, including on more than 100 officially designated civilian evacuation zones. The slaughter was so grotesque and embarrassing that for a moment the Biden administration paused a shipment of Mark 84s. Those shipments quickly resumed under Trump. Now they’ve accelerated.

It’s hard to overstate the scale of the crime the Israeli government is committing in Gaza. Over the last three years, more than a quarter-million Palestinians have been killed or wounded by Israeli forces there. The majority of them have been noncombatants: women, the elderly and tens of thousands of children. Many thousands more remain missing, presumably entombed under the rubble of 200,000 collapsed buildings. So far the Israelis have destroyed 92 percent of all homes in Gaza, and 34 of the 36 hospitals. By comparison, the 1945 Allied bombings of Dresden, now acknowledged as a war crime, destroyed about half of the city’s inhabited buildings.

By any definition, what the Netanyahu government has done in Gaza is genocide. The 40,000 new bombs the Trump administration is sending will be used to do the same in Lebanon, and likely in other countries in the region. If you wanted to extend the Iran war into the indefinite future, this is exactly what you’d do.

So far none of this has received public scrutiny. At some point, inevitably, it will be described in media accounts as an “arms sale.” It is not an arms sale. It is a gift, funded by American taxpayers through the Foreign Military Financing program, an arrangement designed to disguise welfare as capitalism: Congress appropriates money to the executive branch, which transfers the cash to Israel to “buy” American-made weapons, in this case from General Dynamics. Politicians claim this is a win for America. Most voters have no idea they paid for it. The bill in this case is about $3 billion. Add that to the $352 billion the US Treasury has transferred to Israel since 1951.

How did this happen? The request for 40,000 new high-explosive civilian-killing bombs originated at the US Embassy in Jerusalem, which is run by Christian Zionist Ambassador Mike Huckabee and his aide David Milstein, who is the stepson of Fox News host Mark Levin. From there it moved to the State Department, where Marco Rubio enthusiastically approved it.

At this point, only four more people need to sign off before the bombs ship to Israel: Senators Jim Risch and Jeanne Shaheen, the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; and Congressmen Brian Mast and Gregory Meeks, the top two members of the equivalent House committee. All four are committed neocons. Collectively they’ve taken millions from the Israel lobby. In 2015, Brian Mast traveled to Israel to volunteer for the Israeli military. In 2023, Mast showed up in the House of Representatives wearing an IDF uniform.

It’s hard to imagine any of them hesitating before sending more free bombs to Israel. Only public outrage can stop this.

[Melanie King @realmelanieking]

Have you heard what the first guy to film the Pentagon on 9/11 said?

[Michael Bloom @talktobloom]

@irlandarra2019 Where do we think the bullet from behind CK went after it exited his neck? How was the danger of it striking somebody else dealt with by the perpetrators?

[Michael Bloom @talktobloom]

@hicasamadim 29... (4*5) + (9*1)

[Michael Bloom @talktobloom]

@liadreaamy I am a genius!... 78

[Michael Bloom @talktobloom]

Great rant on corruption of "public servants."

[Bruce @FireNewz]

🚨 Hear me out…

I’m sick of pretending this is a functioning country with a functioning government.

Congress is not “divided.” It’s not “gridlocked.” It’s not “just politics.” It is a criminal class of 535 people who have spent decades selling this country piece by piece while lecturing the rest of us about democracy, values, and the rule of law.

They pass spending bills they don’t read. They pile debt on people who weren’t even born yet. They take money from foreign interests, lobbyists, PACs, and industries they regulate, then act shocked when anyone calls it what it is: influence-peddling.

They protect their own. They investigate their enemies. They never investigate themselves with the same hunger.

The worst part isn’t even the money. It’s the moral rot. A government that can lecture parents, churches, and working people about morality while shielding predators, burying files, redacting names, and treating elite sex-crime networks like a scheduling inconvenience has no moral authority left. If the same evidence, the same flight logs, the same sealed names, and the same “we can’t comment” stonewalling applied to anyone outside their class, those people would already be in prison. For this crowd, it becomes “complicated,” “ongoing,” or “not the right time.”

Foreign interference isn’t some abstract threat they discovered last week. It’s a business model. They take the money, take the trips, take the talking points, then wrap themselves in the flag and tell you anyone who notices is a conspiracy theorist.

They will fight harder to protect their donors and their secrets than they will fight to protect the border, the budget, or the people who actually pay for all of it.

I don’t hate “government” as an idea. I hate this government, the one that treats citizens like a revenue stream, treats accountability like an attack, and treats the most disgusting crimes as a club you only get punished for if you’re not connected.
No more polite language.

No more “both sides” anesthesia. If Congress had a shred of honor left, they would open every sealed file, name every protector, cut the foreign cash pipelines, and submit themselves to the same laws they impose on everyone else. They won’t. That’s the point.

They are not public servants. They are a protected class. And the country is rotting under them.

- B

[Michael Bloom @talktobloom]

Here is a well written article regarding the over reliance of Americans on pharmaceutical solutions to illness and health problems... (7-minute read)
https://t.co/MvbdQH5fBa

[Robin Monotti @robinmonotti]

JULIAN ASSANGE: "The goal is to have an endless war, not a successful war."

War is a Taxation Based Money Laundering Racket for the Transnational Security Elite - It matters very little to them whether it's in Afghanistan or Ukraine, the real goal is theft of public money.

[Michael Bloom @talktobloom]

@larayapmaaq i found it in about 4 seconds. I timed it on the guys watch!

[Michael Bloom @talktobloom]

A non-radical policy advisor argues against U.S. policy in Middle East
https://t.co/PLdEvfMRIJ

[Michael Bloom @talktobloom]

Since 2021, the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority(LAHSA) has paid out to a taxpayer-funded Southern California nonprofit called 1736 Family Crisis Center at least $25 million in grants. That "non-profit" organization paid its longtime CEO more than $1.6 million over two years. The organization is charged with providing domestic violence shelters and homelessness services in Southern California. https://t.co/uLade20SxQ

[Michael Bloom @talktobloom]

“Year after year, hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars were funneled to LAHSA [Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority] with little accountability. Meanwhile, homelessness skyrocketed..."
https://t.co/waDQdc7cd6

[Michael Bloom @talktobloom]

@tennesseetexanj @Texan_2013 Move along. Nothing to see here...

[Michael Bloom @talktobloom]

@linadreaamy 12.... 2*3=6 | 0*5=0 | 3*4=12

[Michael Bloom @talktobloom]

@linadreaamy 98

[Voice of Rabbis @voiceofrabbis]

If there was an award for the worst tweet in human history, this would win by a landslide.

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🚨 HOLY CRAP! President Trump issued a DIRECT THREAT to Iranian negotiators in Switzerland

"You close [the Strait] and you won't have a country. You won’t even make it BACK to your f**king country.”