May Allah bless his efforts with success, and humiliate the #Donjjal. 🤲
From the article: "The First Amendment is not a dial: it's on or it's off."
'We, the People' choose ON. This fall, #DefendDemocracy: #DefeatRepublicans. Signed, a #GOPRefugee.
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/10/nx-s1-5716101/mahmoud-khalil-legal-fight
RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116200132981949218
I've been cautioning for years, as the #Donjjal ramped up rhetoric & hostility toward Iran just as cooler heads(on BOTH sides) had begun to prevail, that Iran has spent DECADES building a global network of cells that isn't as loud & obnoxious at the Quds Force--a network whose remarkable SILENCE has been the clearest indicator that it was being reserved as the #FauxlamicRepublic's "nuclear option," should the regime ever feel the hostilities have crossed the line from unending gray zone warfare to existential threat.
It seems pretty clear that #DementiaDonOld has now leaptacross that line with both feet.
Y'all be careful out there. "America" may deserve what's coming, but unless you're a MAGAt or a Talibangelical, YOU probably don't.
RE: https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei/116196173658201845
Also, the #Donjjal doesnt get to 'install' bupkus.
And treating #IsraelAtWarCrimes 'fairly' at this point -- you know, after TWO YEARS OF #GENOCIDE -- would frankly involve regime change THERE.
Kudos to the Assembly of Experts for delivering the appropriate, finely-crafted FUCK YOU to the #Donjjal and #KingBibiAntipas.
"Trump’s top aides are aligned on their desire to keep the war relatively brief, hoping it lasts weeks rather than months, the people familiar with the matter said. Since launching the initial strikes, they’ve stressed that their goals do not include regime change, wary of setting a standard for victory that’s not necessarily within the US’ control."
Meanwhile--highlighting the truth behind Rubio's initial concession that #KingBibiAntipas is driving this conflict--#IsraelAtWarCrimes is unequivocally emphasizing that regime change IS the goal, vowing to assassinate not only any future successor to Khamenei, but ANYONE SEEKING TO APPOINT ONE. And now that America is so aggressively engaged, so long as Israel keeps pursuing that goal, it will be difficult for us to extract ourselves from the mess that the #Donjjal has chosen.
Iran's best strategy--and the most favorable one to America's true strategic interests--might well be to direct their proxies around the world to target any & all Israeli officials abroad, anywhere, to put pressure on the Zionist regime to reconsider.
ʾInnā li-llāhi wa-ʾinnā ʾilayhi rājiʿūn.
Man, NEVER IN A MILLION YEARS would I have seen myself feeling AT ALL bad about the death of this guy, who was the kind of brutal, oppressive authoritarian & violent meddler in the affairs of others that Donald J. Trump has wet dreams about becoming before HE gets sent to his final judgment. Khamenei, too, was every bit a bad dude.
But he deserved to be held accountable in a lawful trial BY THE IRANIAN PEOPLE--not dispatched with two generations of his family in an illegal act of aggression by the unholy alliance of the #Donjjal and the genocidal #IsraelAtWarCrimes of #KingBibiAntipas.
We commend him now to Allah's infinite justice--whatever that may entail.
I'm in a reflective mood today, with the start of Ramadan, and so when I saw this great post by my friend Mark Hertling, DBA, I reacted to it JOINTLY as a believer and a (also retired) GO-level leader. Because God designed this dunya--this worldly life--as a trial (and He knows what we do not!), we get the tests THAT WE NEED, not necessarily (to adapt some Rumsfeld!) the tests we might WANT to have!
So perhaps the takeaway here is that the test we NEED in this moment, as a professional class, is--while not the one the #Donjjal might be thinking of--EXACTLY this: will we honor our collective Oath, "to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against ALL enemies, foreign AND DOMESTIC" (emphasis added)...or will we "go along to get along," using our (in this case, competing) duty to carry out, to the best of our ability, the policies of whoever 'We, the People' elected over us as a tattered and increasingly flimsy excuse NOT TO support and defend the Constitution against these open enemies--even as they planfully dismantle the liberties it guarantees and demolish it around us, and a majority of the American people signal their increasing rage & anxiety against their betrayal?
Should democracy--and our Flag and General Officer Corps--survive this test, in sha' Allah, I would love to one day return to the U.S. Naval War College to again lead (or perhaps CO-lead with my wife, who is the actual ethics scholar and author of a framework for ethics not merely as moral philosophizing, but as INTENTIONAL DECISION MAKING) the professional ethics program for a few years--for which a thoughtful & frank contention with how we must balance these obligations when they ARE in opposition must surely be the organizing theme for a few years.
RE: https://mstdn.social/@DemocracyMattersALot/116077292014162290
Murder? Treason? Blackmail? Graft? Fraud? Pedophilia? Rape? Nope, he's done them all--AND GOT RE-ELECTED FOR IT. He's the Teflon #Donjjal.
Dr. Jim Ellsworth
