#Trump #Iran #war
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substack.com/live-stream/37573…

Breaking News- U.S enters War

A recording from Ilan Goldenberg and Jennifer Rubin's live video

^{Ilan Goldenberg (Dialogue and Dissonance)}

Bass writes,

"While the rest of us are trying to discern signs of fascism, many American are discerning the 'signs of the times.'

We think Hitler. They think Jesus. We think of the innocent suffering. They think of the final judgment. We pray for peace. They believe that the Prince of Peace is returning with a sword.

That's how completely far apart the narrative worlds are."

#Trump #Iran #war #evangelicals
/19

"Last night, Trump bombed three nuclear sites in Iran.

In the wake of these events, there has been little to no discussion of the theological motives behind all this. But theology matters, and it may be what tipped the scales in favor of attacking Iran."

~ Diana Butler Bass

Bass then points to the recent text of Mike Huckabee, ambassador to Israel, telling Trump he was spared by God to be the "most consequential" president ever.

#Trump #Iran #war #evangelicals
/17

dianabutlerbass.substack.com/p…

War and Prophetic Ecstasy

Bombing Iran and Evangelical Dreams

^{Diana Butler Bass (The Cottage)}

Mike Huckabee is an ordained Southern Baptist minister who buys into the very modern, untraditional (and, many would say, completely aberrant) notion that Israel has a special role to play in ushering in the end times — and Israel must be supported at all cost and without any criticism by true-believing Christians.

This notion is powerful in US evangelicalism and the MAGA movement.

#Trump #Iran #war #evangelicals
/18

"A few short comments:

As the NYTimes declared, 'The US has entered Israel’s war on Iran.'

As Scott Schapiro of Yale Law School commented, 'I’ll say it again. It was a huge mistake for Congress to abolish itself.'

United States Constitution, Article I, Sec. 8, Clause 11: '[The Congress shall have Power . . . ] To declare War.'

Everything Trump says is a lie."

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Trump #Iran #war
/16

roberthubbell.substack.com/p/s…

Sunday Comments Open

June 22, 2025

^{Robert B. Hubbell (Today's Edition Newsletter)}

"It's worth remembering that this is a war of aggression started by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a criminal who is massively unpopular in his own country."

~ Rebecca Solnit

#Trump #Netanyahu #Iran #war
/15

meditationsinanemergency.com/w…

We're at War and We're Not (Because Only Congress Can Declare War): Some Notes Tonight

I was writing about last week's news when I was interrupted by this week's news, – I joked a few days ago that the whole country would love a slow news week, and I sure would.

^{Rebecca Solnit (Meditations in an Emergency)}

"If I was now in the MAGA camp — and I talk to a lot of people there — I know there's a lot of ambivalent feelings. Some of them are very upset. A person who tends to email me every time I write an article criticizing Trump just emailed me minutes before I got on the show here with you saying that he's devastated and that he feels completely betrayed. Because a lot of these people genuinely did not want to see more wars."

~ Trita Parsi

#Trump #Iran #war #MAGA
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thelefthook.substack.com/p/tru…

Trump Joins Israel's War with Iran. What's Next?

Donald Trump has decided America First means joining Israel's reckless war with Iran. Now, the world holds its breath and awaits escalation and blowback.

^{THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali (The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali)}

"They genuinely believed that this was a candidate that would deliver that to them. And they generally are against these wars because they have paid a higher price for America's war than most liberal-leaning congressional districts in the United States have because they send more soldiers to the front lines than blue states tend to do."

#Trump #Iran #war #MAGA
/14

"If you live in the United States, you are in greater jeopardy today than you were six months ago. So is your family. So are your friends and neighbors."

~ David Rothkopf

And not just the United States….

#Trump #Iran #war
/11

newrepublic.com/article/196860…

We Better Pray That No Unexpected Crisis Hits While Trump Is President

It’s a world exploding with crises waiting to happen. Donald Trump has made us less prepared for every one of them.

^{The New Republic}

"Trump is unpopular. His agenda is repulsive. And the Republicans who abet him want to follow him like automatons, but the stink of failure easily unmoors them.

He’s seeking a way to restore his veneer of being impervious to dissent."

~ Jason Sattler

#Trump #Iran #war
/12

thecause.substack.com/p/trumps…

Trump's war on Iran is illegal and immoral

And here's why only morality can stop him.

^{L O L G O P (The Cause)}

"What’s good for Trump isn't necessarily what’s good for America — or the world."

~ Robert Reich

#Trump #Iran #war
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alternet.org/iran-trump-267241…

What’s good for Trump isn't necessarily what’s good for America — or the world

The United States is now at war with Iran. A single person — Donald J. Trump — has released the dogs of war on one of the most dangerous countries in the world, and done it without the consent of Congress, our allies, or even a clear explanation to t…

^{Robert Reich (Alternet.org)}

Let’s just stop for a moment and try to square the concept of end times of the apocalypse of Judgment Day where rivers of blood flow over the Earth with peace.

I want to tell the end day Christians that the rapture has already happened and they aren’t in it

"Trump swept into office amid promises of peace. But now that he’s got power, he’s wholly disinterested in upholding his promises. He views himself as completely unaccountable to anyone and everyone, because that’s what autocrats do. And now the United States is being dragged into another war at the hands of an autocrat drunk on power."

~ Brian Tyler Cohen

#Trump #Iran #war
/20

plus.briantylercohen.com/p/tru…

Trump plunges the US into a new war

In fewer than six months in office, the self-proclaimed anti-war president has engrossed the US into a new war in the Middle East

^{Brian Tyler Cohen}

"Trump’s Presidency is failing and unpopular, and he had to do something. Elon attacked and emasculated him, and made him weak and stupid. Global leaders are not bending the knee, and there has been no 90 trade deals in 90 days. Putin is treating him like a coffee boy, and Zelensky has made him look like a clown."

~ Simon Rosenberg

#Trump #Iran #war
/24

"The big reality is that wars don’t end just because you say they do or you want them to. They’re inherently unpredictable and have impacts which play into the future in ways you can’t control. Donald Trump has taken us right into the center of a major war with a major regional power, albeit one that is for the moment on its knees militarily."

~ Josh Marshall

#Trump #Iran #war
/22

talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a…

A Few Thoughts on Trump’s Bombing Raid

A few quick thoughts on Trump’s military strike on the Iranian nuclear facilities, in no particular order. Trump has referred to this as very successful and…

^{Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)}

"When he was elected, Donald Trump suggested he could hammer out a new relationship with Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister who was used to getting his way with the White House. But after just over 150 days in office, it appears Trump has fallen into the same trap as his predecessors – and launched the most consequential strike on Iran in generations."

#Trump #Netanyahu #Iran #war
/23

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…

What a difference a week makes: Trump falls into the Netanyahu trap

People were starting to laud the US president for his resistance to the Israeli PM’s pull, but what now?

^{Andrew Roth (The Guardian)}

"None of this had to happen. In 2015, President Obama—together with China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, Germany and the European Union—signed a deal with Iran that would’ve prevented the country from developing nuclear weapons. …

But that deal was ended in 2018 by Trump."

~ Dean Obeidallah

#Trump #Iran #war
/21

deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/…

Trump did not end wars, he just dragged the U.S. into Netanyahu’s war!

The US is now at war.

^{Dean Obeidallah (The Dean's Report by Dean Obeidallah)}

@GhostOnTheHalfShell every version of the Rapture I ever heard about had the majority of Christians 'in name only' fall for and follow the AntiChrist for a period of years, as he led them into War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death.

I'm not even a Christian, but I could never imagine a more Anti-Christ like figure than Trump.

He's also a lying, rapist, loser.

You keep following him, Mike Johnson. Earn that Beast, or Angel of Death, or whatever you are nickname.

"By refusing to alert Democratic lawmakers of the attack — by violating not just the War Powers Act (which has become a three decade habit) but also the National Security Act — Trump launched this war as an attack on democracy, both on the Democratic Party as the legitimate opposition but also on Congress as a coequal brach of power, as much as on Iran."

#Trump #Netanyahu #Iran #war #MAGA
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"Trump cares more about the feeling of domination than he does about success for anyone but himself and loyal allies, much less than the country as a whole. And that psychological craving for the feeling of domination is what Bibi played to — in the wake of Trump’s flaccid military parade and the contrasting joy of the No Kings protests — to get him to join a war of choice against Iran."

#Trump #Netanyahu #Iran #war #MAGA
/31

"Trump's military parade failed to give him the psychological fulfillment he sought, and so Bibi Netanyahu was able to sell him on an illegal invasion of Iran that would fill that need instead."

~ Marcy Wheeler

#Trump #Netanyahu #Iran #war #MAGA
/29

emptywheel.net/2025/06/22/when…

When Hegemons Backslide - emptywheel

^emptywheel

"Once the rush of excitement among his base over the massive display of U.S. firepower recedes, and the reality sets in around what yet another war really means for our country, Trump will be more heavily burdened politically than before. The anti-war candidate will be a wartime president, and his MAGA coalition could begin to fracture."

#Trump #Iran #war #MAGA
/28

"His economic policy is slowing the economy down in every country in the world including the US, has caused our credit to go through an unprecedented downgrade, and the American people have figured out this budget bill will make their lives worse (as it will). All across the country local news organizations are reporting on how his cuts and plans will do harm to their communities. He keeps losing in court, badly."

#Trump #Iran #war
/25

"The Vatican elected an American cardinal who has been very critical of his Administration. He had to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia home. No one showed up for his sad birthday parade. His ugliness has spawned what appears to be the biggest protest movement in American history. His immigration enforcement escalation has backfired. His intel community has called bullshit on his claims of Iran’s nuclear progress."

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@GhostOnTheHalfShell
the best way to make a christian nationalist short circuit is ask them

what if you are wrong?

they will bluster and say it is obvious they are right, but it will plant a seed of doubt that will keep them up at night