Richard Haass: "Russian drones and missiles are being used against Ukraine’s civilians. Putin’s goal is to break the will of the Ukrainian people and to end the country’s independence. All of which makes it unconscionable that the Trump administration refuses to allow Ukraine to use Starlink to target missile and drone production and storage facilities deep inside Russia. Instead, the administration blames Ukraine (rather than its own misguided war against Iran) for the high price of diesel."
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth "leads, the single largest organization in the United States, and he is focused on these very small-ball issues that we actually pay sergeants and sergeants major to do on his behalf. He is harming military leadership by purging those innovators who currently exist and replacing them with sycophants. Most of Secretary Hegseth’s stuff or ideas are bad ideas — counterproductive and potentially damaging in the long term": https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/opinion/pete-hegseth-pentagon-iran-war.html#WorstCabinetEver
Axios reports this way that Trump's #IranWar affects America children: "Cherry Creek Public Schools, in the Denver metro area, budgeted $1.5 million for fuel this year. It now expects to spend roughly $2 million–$2.3 million." Now multiply this by all of the other schools in the United States. #TrumpMakesEverythingWorse#OperationEpicFailure#quagmire
JoJoFromJerz wrote about Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth: "He’s replacing people who know what they’re doing with people who know whose ass to kiss, and HE has the nerve to lecture ANYBODY about DEI? Pete, you failed upward from a Fox weekend couch into a job where mistakes come home in flag-draped coffins. So spare us the pull-up sermon, you chin-up-cheating, camera-courting corporal of counterfeit courage." #NationalSecurity#military#SpeakingTruthToPower copy: @renewedresistance#politics
Paul Rudnick: "Pete Hegseth has appointed Elon Musk and Newt Gingrich to a task force on the future of warfare. These three men have been married a total of nine times, while often trying to avoid paying child support, so they understand war." #villains
Natalie Harp is often helpful to Donald Trump and she is always needy. Viewers of The Jimmy Kimmel Show had a chance to laugh at Natalie Harp because Kimmel had someone who looked like and acted like Natalie treat him as many of us imagine Natalie Harp treats Trump. This was #Comedy Gold. #television
Nate Silver: "Donald Trump running on the issues of lower gas prices and no more foreign wars, and then starting a war with Iran that literally everyone except for Pete Hegseth knew was going to be a quagmire, has to be on the shortlist for dumbest political blunders in American history." copy: @renewedresistance#NationalSecurity#IranWar#politics
Jay Kuo wrote about oil: "Brent crude is currently trading above $108 a barrel. Consumers are paying roughly 40 percent more at the pump than they were on Feb. 28, the day the U.S. and Israel began the war on Iran. Iran and its proxies now hold meaningful leverage over two of the world’s major oil chokepoints at once: the Strait of Hormuz on one side of the Arabian Peninsula and the Bab el-Mandeb on the other. Our strategic position is worsening the longer it drags on": https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/we-warned-about-the-gate-of-tears
ProPublica: "Donald Trump Jr.’s Bahamas Wedding Was Secretly Bankrolled by Russian Oligarch Close to Putin. Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on Don Jr.'s wedding, on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Don Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large group of other Russian guests." #corruption#NotCaringHowCorruptHeLooks#PutinsPuppet#ForeignPolicyForSale#ethics copy: @renewedresistance#politics
Natasha Korecki: "After years of steering voters to vote by mail, more Democratic groups are pushing their voters to cast their ballots in person."
Democratic groups are pushing their voters to cast their ballots in person or in drop boxes because Pres. Donald Trump has authority over the US Postal Service and Trump is acting to sabotage votes that will be cast by mail. #MakeYourVoteCount copy: @renewedresistance#politics#USPS