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Did Israel Drag US Into War With Iran?
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The Majority Report • 1 week ago

Did Israel Drag US Into War With Iran?

Trump Admits Iran Will Be Chaos
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The Bitchuation Room • 1 week ago

Trump Admits Iran Will Be Chaos

BREAKING: Trump Fires ICE Barbie Kristi Noem
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Status Coup • 1 week ago

BREAKING: Trump Fires ICE Barbie Kristi Noem

BREAKING: Trump Fires Kristi Noem as DHS Secretary
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Pod Save America • 1 week ago

BREAKING: Trump Fires Kristi Noem as DHS Secretary

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr on Paramount, Warner Bros., and What He Really Thinks of Bari Weiss
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Semafor Podcasts • 1 week ago

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr on Paramount, Warner Bros., and What He Really Thinks of Bari Weiss

Lindsey Graham: Iran is "HOLY WAR!" to Remake Middle East
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Breaking Points • 1 week ago

Lindsey Graham: Iran is "HOLY WAR!" to Remake Middle East

Kristi Noem Forced to Host Event Immediately After Trump Fired Her
New Republic • 1 week ago

Kristi Noem Forced to Host Event Immediately After Trump Fired Her

Kristi Noem appeared not to know she’d been fired Thursday afternoon as she spoke before an audience of law enforcement officials. As Donald Trump announced Noem’s sudden ouster on social media, the Homeland Security secretary was in the midst of delivering the keynote address at the Major Cities Conference in Nashville, Tennessee. Law enforcement officials asked questions and offered praise to Noem—but not one asked about her dramatic title change. At one point, Noem teased Trump’s plan to unveil his “Shield of the Americas” policy on Saturday, where he would be joined by other cabinet secretaries to discuss his plan to combat cartels and drug trafficking. It was unclear whether she was aware that Trump had reassigned her as the program’s “special envoy.”Fox’s White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich reported on X that Trump had spoken to Noem shortly before posting the announcement to Truth Social. Still, Noem repeatedly spoke about her upcoming work as DHS secretary as if her schedule had not just been cleared. She promised to meet with New York state sheriffs “real soon” and said she’d “continue to talk” to governors and state legislators about coordinating with federal immigration enforcement. While Noem may be in office until the end of March, her repeated commitments sounded surreal given that she’d just been sacked.“I hope you have fun, I’m sorry I can’t stick around,” she said at the end of her speech, pausing for a brief photo op and then rushing offstage.Shortly after she disembarked the stage, Noem released a statement thanking Trump for her new made-up title. “The Western Hemisphere is absolutely critical for U.S. security. In this new role, I will be able to build on the partnerships and national security expertise, I forged over the last 13 months as Secretary of Homeland Security,” she wrote on X. Noem’s stint as head of DHS truly fell apart this week after she crumbled during back-to-back hearings before the Senate and House Judiciary Committees. In addition to repeatedly lying under oath, Noem couldn’t explain away a $220 million border security ad campaign starring herself—that Trump now claims he did not approve.Reports were already circulating earlier Thursday that Trump had begun reaching out to Republicans in search of a possible replacement for Noem—and Mullin’s name popped up as a top contender.This story has been updated.

CPAC Head Says Iranian Schoolgirls Are Better Dead Than “in a Burqa”
New Republic • 1 week ago

CPAC Head Says Iranian Schoolgirls Are Better Dead Than “in a Burqa”

Conservative MAGA ideologue Matt Schlapp has attempted to justify the killing of more than 100 young girls at an elementary school in southern Iran, by claiming they were saved from religious extremism. On Piers Morgan Uncensored, Schlapp was part of a panel discussion about the war in Iran and the bombing of the girls’ school that killed an estimated 175 people (nearly all young children). Journalist Peter Beinart argued to host Morgan that the United States and Israel were to blame even if the school was somehow hit by an Iranian missile.“We know that if the U.S. and Israel had not attacked a country that poses no serious threat to them—Israel has hundreds of nuclear weapons, America has thousands—that those girls would be alive,” Beinart said. Schlapp immediately jumped in. “They’d be alive in a burqa,” Schlapp said, adding “this is … a barbaric society,” before Morgan cut in and asked him to “hang on.” Peter Beinart: If the United States and Israel had not launched an attack on a country that poses no serious threat to them, those 180 school girls would be alive today.Matt Schlapp (interjecting): “They’d be alive in a burka… This is a barbaric society.”(Schlapp is a… https://t.co/yIS5fNdfCj pic.twitter.com/10jLgRR5Tk— Drop Site (@DropSiteNews) March 5, 2026Later, Schlapp attempted to defend his point. “It’s hypocritical to say that these attacks harmed women and children when those women and children, the young girls that you reference, would be … live a life in a barbaric, unequal society behind a burqa, with no ability to make career choices,” Schlapp said, outraging left-wing commentator Cenk Uygur.“So just kill them?” Uygur said.“No, that’s not what I’m saying either,” said Schlapp.“That is what you said,” Uygur replied, before Schlapp went on to defend President Donald Trump’s decision to bomb Iran.Schlapp is head of the influential American Conservative Union, which organizes the well-known Conservative Political Action Conference with top Republican officials every year. But despite his status (and allegations of sexual misconduct), Schlapp is peddling anti-Muslim bigotry and doesn’t even have his facts right. While women in Iran still have to deal with patriarchal laws under a theocratic government that human rights groups have criticized, Iran isn’t such a backwater that it’s preferable for women and young girls to be dead. Women in the country have high rates of education, making up the majority of university graduates. Burqas are mostly worn in Afghanistan and are not even common in Iran, although conservative religious women in the country sometimes opt for the chador, a loose garment that leaves the face and hands open. But Schlapp is repeating an unfortunately common trope in the U.S., particularly among conservatives: Muslim and Arab lives are cheap, especially when we are at war with them. To these bigots, Muslim societies are backward and if the U.S. government inflicts something bad on them, it’s their society’s fault. Schlapp and the rest of the people ought to realize that women and girls, as well as every other Iranian civilian, deserve to live full lives instead of being killed in a reckless war.  

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