Perry Macdonald

Perry Macdonald

@perrymacdee.bsky.social

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Ian Kremer
@wolverinebear.bsky.social

Trump’s war on Iran is rapidly draining US navy budget, documents and interviews reveal www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... #GeneralIncompetence #WarOfChoice #MiltaryUnpreparedness #NationalInsecurity #Blues

theguardian.comTrump’s war on Iran is rapidly draining US navy budget, documents and interviews revealExclusive: Experts and former officials say accounts are running dry, and funding a war with no clear endgame is the main challenge
Perry Macdonald
@perrymacdee.bsky.social

Headlines about the 'Pentagon oil deal' are no longer surprising. Only a felonious fraud of a President has a Pentagon with an oil deal, let alone with money laundering ties. The billionaire the US investigated for money laundering now has a Pentagon oil deal - www.reuters.com/business/ene...

reuters.comThe Venezuelan billionaire the US investigated for money laundering now has a Pentagon oil dealAlejandro Betancourt, who helped U.S. authorities capture Nicolas Maduro, is now Washington’s key partner in an unusual oil deal with Caracas.
Perry Macdonald
@perrymacdee.bsky.social

Natalie Harp, the human binky, claimed that Trump saved her life. Total hogwash. As she has said herself, the immunotherapy drugs that worked for her were FDA approved but "off-label" so the legislation Ttump signed months AFTER her treatment did not apply. (Jeremy Snyder WaPo article)

Perry Macdonald
@perrymacdee.bsky.social

Media is not calling out our government for their failure in the Strait of Hormuz. This is why our democracy is crippled. Rubio said on Friday that US expected a response within hours. It did not happen. Media? Crickets. www.reuters.com/world/china/...

reuters.comUS, Iran no closer to ending war as Qatari tanker sails toward Strait of HormuzA state of relative calm prevailed around the Strait of Hormuz after days of sporadic flare-ups, as the United States waited for Iran's ‌response to its latest proposals.
Perry Macdonald
@perrymacdee.bsky.social

I imagine that Tehran knows exactly what 4 months of these gas prices would do to the United States economy. Tehran could withstand blockade for four months, CIA report shows, as fighting flares - www.reuters.com/world/middle...

reuters.comTehran could withstand blockade for four months, CIA report shows, as fighting flaresEfforts to end the war between the U.S. and Iran appeared to stall ​as the two sides traded fire in the Gulf on Friday, while a U.S. intelligence analysis concluded Tehran could withstand a naval ‌blo...
Perry Macdonald
@perrymacdee.bsky.social

Remember the 'massive' tea party protests pushed by Fox News? They claimed one million (obviously inflated 3X) attendees at 850 cities was an earth shattering event. www.foxnews.com/opinion/the-... Now 3 events in a year many times that size barely gets a mention from Fox.

foxnews.comThe Tea Party is ten years old. Here's what it's accomplished and why defeating socialism is next on its agendaIt's been ten years since the first tea party rally. Since then, the movement has accomplished much. Defeating socialism is next.
Perry Macdonald
@perrymacdee.bsky.social

I'm very disappointed in how Reuters fabricated the title of this article. The correct title should at a minimum be: Trump struggles to tell the truth on the Iran War. Trump struggles to shape the narrative on the Iran war - www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

reuters.comTrump struggles to shape the narrative on the Iran warA path to de-escalating the conflict appears nowhere in sight, nearly three weeks in, with the global economic fallout worsening and the Iranians remaining stubbornly ​defiant.

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Joey Fishkin
@fishkin.bsky.social

I'm not really into the "constitutional crisis" discourse but if this is the thing you were waiting for, it's here. Next: which media outlets will report that the President is violating two court orders that the government must immediately distribute SNAP benefits—and which will go with euphemisms.

Leah Litman@leahlitman.bsky.social

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 This is the President openly announcing that he will violate court orders - two courts had concluded that the Trump regime withholding SNAP funding was illegal - and that the government had to pay out (at least reduced) SNAP benefits starting this week

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