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Dean Obeidallah on The Weekend Primetime:

"Praise be to Allah?" Maybe Trump's Muslim and we never knew! I dunno - 3 wives, he doesn't drink alcohol. Who knows!
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(Prolly not with that mouth on him, tho.)

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NYT reporting: Some active-duty Marines are already calling Mr. Hegseth’s agency the “Department of War Crimes” rather than the “Department of War,” the president’s name for the Defense Department, said Representative Seth Moulton, Democrat of Massachusetts, who served in Iraq as a Marine.

Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/us/politics/trump-iran-war-crimes-truth-social.html?unlocked_article_code=1.YlA.hn2S.IhkhS2DtVo9z

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More Iranian war satire

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Interview: what are the US's long-term goals for Iran?

Trump may not even know what the US's long-term agenda is about.

He's not the one shaping it.

~Col. Lawrence Wilkerson

Plus a great deal more on what's what with the war.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlArwg-2vvM

#USPol #EUpol #IranWar #China #USImperialism #news .

Iranian war satire

https://aje.news/9i4iv5?update=4461014

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Losing Gulf desalination plants "would bring entire cities to a standstill".

"In a region built on engineered water, the next escalation may... strike the systems that make life possible".

Qatar relies on desalination for 99% of its water; Bahrain & Kuwait, 90%; Oman, 86%; UAE, 42%. Saudi Arabia, 70% to major cities.

https://thecradle.co/articles/water-on-the-brink-gulf-desalination-frontlines-in-a-widening-war

#USPol #EUPol #IranWar #GulfDesalination #news .

Eric Trump & Donald Trump Jr. are set to "benefit from a conflict started by their father."

The two have joined Powerus, a drone manufacturing company trying to sell drones to Gulf countries amid Iranian attacks.

"These countries are under enormous pressure to buy from the sons of the president so he will do what they want. This is going to be the first family of a president to make a lot of money off war".

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260403-trump-sons-backed-company-seeks-to-sell-interceptor-drones-to-gulf-states/

#USPol #TrumpFamilyCorruption #GulfStates #IranWar #news .

Report: Jared Kushner & Israeli-aligned White House officials are supplying Trump with false intelligence about the war on Iran.

The disinformation "downplays Iran’s missile attack frequency & minimizes the casualties caused by Iraqi & Lebanese resistance strikes."

"Senior officials, including... Hegseth & Rubio, have been steering Trump toward a broader escalation plan”.

https://thecradle.co/articles/exclusive-israel-aligned-officials-supply-trump-false-intel-on-scope-of-resistance-axis-attacks

#USPol #EUPol #IranWar #news #palestine #USCrimes #IsraeliCrimes #Islamophobia .