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During an interview with Axios reporter Barak Ravid on Wednesday, March 11, U.S. President Donald Trump insisted that "the war is going great in Iran." But Trump's claim that Operation Epic Fury is a raging success is drawing a lot of pushback. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Connecticut), during a March 12 appearance on MS NOW's "Morning Joe," described the war as an "epic disaster" that has "gone off the rails" by spreading to a long list of Middle Eastern countries and resulting in Iran installing a

According to New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie, Donald Trump may claim that he’s more popular than ever, but the evidence actually shows that his is “a presidency in terminal decline, if not outright collapse.” In fact, according to the numbers, “Trump is nearly as unpopular now as he has ever been.”As evidence of this, Bouie cites several recent occurrences. First, there are Trump’s latest poll numbers. With approval ratings stuck in the high 30s, he is “underwater on every issue that counts,” and voters are making it clear that they do not like the way he’s gone about his a

A former top Pentagon employee is blaming American "blood lust" that he says comes from "the top" as a key reason the U.S. is not only at war, but also bombed a girls' school that killed 168 people, primarily children. Retired Master Sgt. Wes J. Bryant previously conducted a kind of war-risk assessment for the military, serving as the Pentagon Civilian Harm Policy Adviser and Analyst. On Thursday, CNN's Wolf Blitzer asked how the Iran school bombing could have been avoided. Under the previous administration, there were about 200 people on the team that extended beyond the Pentagon to the entire national security apparatus. At the Pentagon specifically, there were about 30-35 on the team. They were

After a year of spiraling public opinion due to heavy-handed deportation tactics that culminated in the on-camera murder of two US citizens, Trump seeks to give the Department of Homeland Security a refreshed image by replacing Kristi Noem with Senator Markwayne Mullin. But according to reporters at the Bulwark, the switch is unlikely to bring real change, and amounts to “an effort to put lipstick on a pig.”Under Noem, perceptions of DHS suffered due to a combination of the agency’s aggressive tactics and her highly controversial actions, from spending $220 million of publ

Former Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin called out Republican John Cornyn over his flip-flop on nuking the filibuster, using the Texas Senate candidate's own words against him in a lengthy post to social media.Previously serving as a Senator for West Virginia, Manchin made headlines throughout Joe Biden's presidency for his opposition to more progressive policy proposals, earning him widespread condemnation for holding back the former president's agenda. One position he held strong to during that period was his opposition to ending the filibuster, an idea ma

Katie Miller, the podcaster and wife of White House Senior Advisor Stephen Miller, has taken a sudden interest in solar energy. Many observers are wondering why, with the specter of paid shilling looming.A confidential strategy memo obtained by Politico raises that possibility. There is a campaign underway by members of the renewable energy lobby group to “MAGA-fy solar power,” as the publication terms the bolstering trend. The memo shows the American Clean Power Association launched the “American Energy First” campaign to engage former President Donald Trump counselor Kellyanne Conway and conservative influencers like Miller “to amplify the benefits of solar energy” and “note the harm that could result from reckless trade policy.”T

Faced with grim reelection odds in the face of California's recent gerrymander, GOP Rep. Kevin Kiley opted to change his party affiliation, which a new analysis from The Atlantic called the latest example of the party "eating its own" as Donald Trump demands "near-total fealty" from every lawmaker.California recently adopted a newly gerrymandered congressional district map designed to create five new majority Democratic districts. This came as an explicit response to Texas doing the same th

U.S. President Donald Trump is describing his military strikes against Iran as Operation Epic Fury, but in an article published by The Bulwark on March 12, Never Trump conservative Bill Kristol warns that Trump's war is becoming an "epic disaster."Kristol brutally mocks the name Operation Epic Fury in his article, arguing that it underscores how silly and performative Trump can be."It's a ridiculous and embarrassing name," Kristol writes. "After all, this is a war that Trump has characterized as merely a 'little excursion.'

Retired Army Colonel Jeff McCausland accused Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth of taking something serious like a war and turning it into nothing more than another one of his Fox News "performances."Writing for MS NOW, McCausland said that Hegseth is doing nothing more than playing war, "replete with braggadocio and empty phrases like 'we’re playing for keeps' and 'death and destruction from the sky all day.'"Meanwhile, the White House is promoting the war through Hollywood films and video games, thereby diminishing its seriousness. It's no surprise that "White House officials reportedly believe the Trump adm

President Donald Trump says not only does he not know if his war against Iran will help win him the Nobel Peace Prize, he also doesn’t care, and doesn’t want to talk about it.“Trump claimed to have ‘no idea’ if Operation Epic Fury will ‘get him over the finish line’ with committee members,'” the Washington Examiner reported on Thursday, after a telephone call with the president. “I don’t know,” Trump told the Washington Examiner. “I’m not interest