In Trump’s egotistical haste…

…Iran is correct. The USA violated international norms, including peace negotiations that only just began. How is Iran to proceed with peace negotiations when it has no reliable partners?

Trump must be removed from office so the American people have a sincere leader rather than an administrative hate machine.

Iran needs to proceed with the UN General Assembly and the UN Security Council to demand war reparations and the end of hostilities. Iran must allow international help.

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The man that killer Democratic lawmakers…

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Hegseth has no meaningful assessment

The administration is mired in self-admiration and chest thumping.

I appreciate the meticulous detail provided by General Dan Caine. The USA is the world’s only superpower. General Caine knew its capacity and protected American lives all along the way. Thank you to all involved. 

The ongoing assessments are necessary. There were 17 bunker bombs dropped on two of the facilities. There are going to be radiation leaks. Iran doesn’t have the capacity to contain them. Early containment is crucial. Iran must come to terms with the very dangerous potential of this deployment of USA ordinance. 

Iran was an enemy target of the USA based in its alliance with Israel. Iran is due war reparations and should demand it to end the radiation danger to the Iranian people. Iran cannot prioritize war over it’s people’s safety and that of the region. The region needs to encourage a different path for Iran other than continued hatred and war.

Initially there won’t be radiation spread.

There was no mushroom cloud. Long term monitoring will tell the tale. There is an explosion with these bombs once it impacts the bottom of its self created chamber.

I have no doubt there is a death toll in Iran. The people near these facilities should be distributed potassium iodide initially as a precaution.

If the chambers can be immediately sealed it might be far less a problem for Iran and a larger community. Iran needs cooperation from the United Nations. The IAEA should be given immediate access to the safe extent possible.

Stop plotting retaliation immediately. There is a greater danger.

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We have no way of knowing the direction of any radiation leak.

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There maybe a high press system at the moment over Iran but if the radiation leaks are not contained by the depth of the disrupted earth, we could be seeing winds carrying unknown levels of radiation contamination globally. Three facilities were rawly penetrated. There is no containment.

NASA has some sophisticated satellites measuring levels of gases of Earth all the time. NASA may be able to assess the radiation early now and continue it going forward. Europe has some satellites as well. Trump is nothing but an ego driven fool.

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Come on. Iran tell the world.

Iran needs to make their case against Trump to the world as well as the ICC. Iran has plenty of drones to visualize the pain inflicted on Iran’s people.

Iran needs robots to assess the damage no different than that used at Chernobyl.

Trump broke off diplomacy almost as quickly as he says it. That is only the beginning. Iran must make its case against him. If the bombs punched wholes in the Earth at all the sites and radiation readings must be told as well as the extent it leaks to affect the people.

Assad’s barrel bombs will be nothing compared to Trump’s bunker bombs.

The Ayatollah needs to make his case. Stop being in shock and making accolades. Accept the catastrophic reality and report what he did.

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Trump has no respect for life

He needs to be removed from office.

He is dangerous internationally as well as domestically. He and the Republicans nearly starved not only every benevolent program internationally through an executive order as one of his first acts as president, but, also through his ugly budget bill in nearly cancelling the national food stamp program.

Trump is a horrid human being that practices hate, fear, and instilling pain and catastrophe. There is no good descriptor for him. He is unadulterated evil.

I can only imagine what the USA military is going through right now.

We don’t know the extent of contamination.

NATO needs to be on alert. 

Parts of Europe are within the reach of Iran. Maybe Trump is the madman Putin was hoping for after all.

The IAEA had reported the Natanz facility (click here) had contamination. I don’t know, at this point if the IAEA will be allowed into Iran or how any contamination can be contained without help from Russia or other countries. 

If Iran is to contain any leaks it may mean building more sarcophagus. Those decisions should be made soon. I doubt if Iran can conduct those operations alone.

The Iranian people are at risk.

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Russia only began to remove their people yesterday.

Trump is dangerous and unpredictable.

Two weeks is supposed to mean two weeks.

Congress must recognize a president out of control.

Iran was never a direct threat to the USA.

Iran was not an eminent threat.

His decorum is not one of a president. No one uses the word spectacular in describing a bombing of another country. Trump is out of line and grossly inappropriate.

Trump doesn’t know that anything has been obliterated. Dropping a bomb is not a guarantee of anything except dropping a bomb. 

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I respect Justice Jackson a great deal.

From where I sit she has the greatest accuracy in decision making of the cases before the court. I hold her in higher regard than the Late Justice Ginsberg.  

Justice Jackson has it correct. The conservatives are losing their legitimacy. Maybe they want to make that shift.

This decision is political through and through. The Late Justice Ginsberg not only included global climate change in her decisions she included allies when it applied to the focus of the law. 

Justice Jackson should keep writing like it matters. We keep reading it like it does.

The fact of the matter is no matter how much the current administration wishes the climate crisis away to suit it’s cronies, Earth is non-partisan and it’s climate isn’t accommodating increases in greenhouse gas emissions at all. California has been experiencing some of the worst of the climate crisis. And, oh by the way, it was all happening within the sovereign borders of California, not the the globe.

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People don’t like it.

It was cited in “Reddit.”

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We have him on the run.

In all honesty, it looks like Trump has the risk in attempting to oppress a free society. 

Hobble the First Amendment? Now, is the time for the opposite, unleash freedom of speech.

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The Federal Reserve Chair?

That person had to be able to perform math functions. Trump can’t. He has had a bankruptcy every time the law allowed.

War

Wars are not an answer to anything. Wars are temporary and unsustainable. How long was the USA in Iraq and today all we hear is how we should have never left. The USA was in Afghanistan for twenty years and longer considering the history before bin Laden and where is Afghanistan today?

A free country should only go to war when forced into it. It is the respect we deserve. Other countries don’t want to waken the beast of our bombs, war machines, and soldiers. They are wicked. 

The USA can sustain a battlefield forever as its people are highly industrious and determined. The question is why? Is a forever sustainable war actually a victory?

Peace can be the foundation of the world if it chooses it. The ideologies of difference can be propagated into a sustainable world that is prosperous but it has to choose it. In the USA there is an ideology in Christian Nationalism that is toxic to any hope for peace. 

The world has to choose peace. It won’t happen with war as it’s under pinning. It will happen out of free will and determination.

Tragedy

That is what is to be expected when powers go it alone.

I would think Iraq was enough. 

Did the Republicans say tax cuts? 

I think they call it mission creep.

Iran has some of the most sophisticated USA military technology that exists.

This isn’t the only time Iran has retrieved drone technology. A top of the line drone was shot down while running surveillance out of Afghanistan. Where do you think Russian drones originated from? Who is assisting Russia with its Ukraine assaults?

The only reason Iran isn’t more successful with Israel already is because of sanctions on it and on Russia. 

War? Attempting to bomb Iran into oblivion when the global community already has protested the killing in Gaza? What makes anyone think Iran is going to be alone when it’s allies like Russia, China, and North Korea want nothing more than end NATO.

Trump is lining up the USA military to engage Iran as an ally of Israel, does Trump assume Iran’s allies are sitting on their hands? The truth is they are waiting to spring a much larger trap.

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Why. does Israel assume it can’t be destroyed?

Iran is not Gaza.

There is no doubt Iran has been enriching uranium beyond that of any peaceful use. That came out at the UN Security Council meeting. The IAEA has been diligently following Iran’s progression. Why does Israel believe bombing is going to yield the desired outcome?

Attempting to bomb Iran’s nuclear tendencies into oblivion will result in only one thing; Iran’s determination to have nuclear military capacity. War will not bring Iran from the breech, it will force the country into nuclear military capacity. With war raging there is absolutely no reason to stop the progression forward into nuclear armament. 

The strategy Trump is proposing with Israel is based in ego and not military capacity. The foolishness being proposed as if it was at all possible will not result in a failed state in Iran, but, Israel could be destroyed. The land mass of the two countries alone dictates a far different outcome than what is being envisioned. Israel cannot sustain major assaults on its land for any reasonable period.

Netanyahu sees this as an opportunity to end Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Iran is a sovereign power with capacity beyond what Israel estimates. How many scientists did Israel kill? Yet, the enrichment went forward. Israel forgets the Iran that was before the fall of the Shah. Those people and their intellectual culture still persists. The Iranian protesters are more successful than Israel will ever be.

There is no doubt Iran’s nuclear capacity has to be stopped. But, war? Bombing? The global community needs to take a hard line against such a strategy before it is too late.

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It’s gotten to be a little ridiculous.

Trump’s big push to violate the USA Constitution is that no one is safe. In this case the country is not safe from Harvard’s admission standards in recruiting and accepting foreign students. There is no basis of truth to it.

The judge has allowed the greatest deference to Trump in hearing the reason for such bizarre executive orders and decisions. Harvard has stood steadfast and allowed democracy to work its powers through the court. Trump has been allowed Due Process.

Look.

The USA is a strong democracy. While elements of society and politics would see a coupe to allow a king to control the structure of law enforcement to certain outcomes, it isn’t going to happen. The laws of the USA bend toward freedom. Why would anyone ever believe Harvard was a national security threat?

The students that demonstrated on college campuses were looking for recognition no different than any other person(s) in our history. Those that remember the illegal wars of Vietnam and Iraq remember the demonstrations that would eventually end the corruption that fed them. This isn’t any different. 

Students who saw injustice in Gaza wanted it ended. You mean to tell me Harvard or Columbia or any other University didn’t have control of their campuses so that nuclear secrets would end up in the hands of Hamas? If any of that danger were to end up with Hamas check Iran and not Harvard.

So, in distilling all this down Trump’s bizarre executive orders were racism. The students had rights. They were on USA soil and they exerted those rights. I am proud to say. 

I realize the demonstrators that were to benefit Palestine were considered anti-semitic. No one dismissed those concerns either. But, at the end of the day freedom won and the USA and their magnificent universities are still standing. A little battered and bruised, but, very much still standing.

Hopefully, now the universities will recover from an onslaught of hate and racism. 

Jeeze!

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Governor Gavin Newsome is doing a great job.

Anyone who believes in democracy and freedom knew it would take a great deal of patience to turn this ship around and right it again. The misdirection of the United States of America happened over time. It won’t take long to return to a benevolent circumstance for all, but, it does take a great deal of patience and steadfast insight.

Governor Newsome is one of those men who presides over an enormous state. California is a big chuck of the west coast of the United States. Anyone who has been governor of that incredibly free state would have experienced the USA in a way no other had unless perhaps the president of the country. It is prophetic and somewhat welcome for Trump to pick as his first victim, California.

It is a relief to realize California has been able to secure the proper attention of the judiciary in the request for briefs to be filed in this head to head battle of freedom versus authoritarianism. I know many governors in this country are up to the challenge, but, Governor Newsome has a state that demands freedom in the way Trump most wants to oppress it including a very dynamic economy that rivals most of the world’s economies. 

Judges in the USA mostly have a practice free of oppression. They don’t anticipate hatred, anger, corruption, or authoritarianism to win the day. The USA has developed over centuries and next year it will be two and a half centuries old. Many like to call the governance of the USA an experiment, but, 250 years of practicing democratic principles with the outcomes we have witnessed in our lifetime is not really an experiment at all. It is an odds on favorite the USA has already been there and done that in any judicial decision.

I believe judges all along the path from local to Supreme Court have to get a clear picture of bad intent for this democracy before they will call it. No judge that I have read yet dating back to the January 6th insurrection has acted against the democracy. They yield to allow freedom of legal expression in their courts of law, but, ultimately they are interested in upholding justice and not pretense.

In requesting briefs to be submitted in California it is a way to bring to focus the law, its application, and some great legal argument that will result in clarity.

The problem with Trump’s application of the law is corruption. Republicans play a game of “word meaning” in their politics. In the case of the USA Constitution there is more than wordy definition entering the decisions of justice. Justice is dynamic and not just a word. 

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…the Council must speak with one voice…

There are casualties and destroyed or damaged infrastructure including Israel’s largest hospital.

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