Informants inside the DOD have advised the Intercept that USCENTCOM is undercounting American casualties in the illegal, reckless, and costly war launched by the US on behalf of Israel on 28 Feb 2026.
Operation "Epic Mistake"
Iran's president has written an open letter to America asking whether the Trump administration's war with his country is putting "America First." "Exactly which of the American people's interests are truly being served by this war?," Masoud Pezeshkian wrote in the letter, addressed "to the people of the United States of America" and posted on X late Wednesday local time, hours before US President Donald Trump gave his first national address on the Iran war. "Is America First' truly among the priorities of the US government today?" Pezeshkian asked. Read more
Trump's national address 'embarrassing, incoherent' Harlan Ullman, a former senior US naval officer, has slammed Trump's address to the nation, saying it failed to outline a clear strategy for the war on Iran. "The speech was embarrassing, depressing, incoherent and full of contradictions," Ullman told Al Jazeera, warning that the administration's focus on targeting Iranian oil infrastructure will likely backfire by driving up global fuel prices. "I think Iran will be looking at that as a victory speech for them," he said. Read more
President Donald Trump has privately mused about firing his Attorney General Pam Bondi and replacing her with EPA administrator Lee Zeldin, multiple sources familiar with the matter told CNN. Frustrated by the backlash and anger in his base over the administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, Trump has asked people about replacing Bondi, who faces a deposition later this month on Capitol Hill related to the congressional investigation into the late sex trafficker, the sources said. He has also fumed that she hasn't investigated enough of his political opponents.
Software giant Oracle on Tuesday started laying off workers as it looks to rein in costs and double down on artificial intelligence. On LinkedIn, Oracle employees, including software engineers, account executives and program managers, shared publicly that they were affected by a mass layoff at the company and were looking for new jobs. Oracle was founded in California, but moved its headquarters to Austin, Texas, in 2020. U.S.-based tech employers announced more than 33,000 job cuts from January to February, up 51% compared with the same period last year, outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas said in March. Read more
House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Republican leader John Thune said Republicans would pursue a two-track strategy to fully fund the Department of Homeland Security, days after Johnson had dismissed a Senate-passed stopgap bill as "a joke."
President Trump's net approval dropped to a new low in this week's YouGov/The Economist poll, fueled by declining support from the president's core backers.
The Montana Supreme Court has dismissed a challenge from a coalition of business and industry groups over a proposed ballot initiative seeking to limit corporate spending in Montana elections.
In a unanimous decision, the court said reviewing the constitutionality of an initiative is "disfavored" because Montanans have a right to go through the initiative process.
Organizers behind the Transparent Election Initiative were cleared to begin gathering signatures last month to put I-194, or Ballot Issue 10, on the ballot in November. Read more
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Far-right conspiracy theorist webcaster Alex Jones urged his followers to abandon Dummkopf Trumpf and move on to fighting the left without him, arguing that he is showing clear signs of both mental and physical deterioration. "When your ankles swell up three times the size they were before, that means heart failure," bleated Jones. "And he does look sick. And he does babble, and it sounds like the brain's not doing too hot. And so, we just cut bait on Trumpf, and we just mobilize against the Democrats."
Alex Jones is not a good human being
James Farthing (51), who miraculously won Kentucky's $167 million Powerball lottery almost a year ago, has been arrested again, this time for burglary and possession of marijuana. In April 2025, Farthing was arrested in Florida on misdemeanor charges of battery and resisting an officer to which he pled guilty. The multimillionaire still has two active cases against him; one for a hit-and-run charge and the other for intimidation.
Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) claimed on Tuesday that the United States "won" the Vietnam War while arguing that putting boots on the Iran would bring the conflict to a swift end. McCormick joined Newsmax host Todd Starnes on Tuesday to discuss, among other topics, the ongoing military operation in Iran and the controversial option of putting U.S. troops on the ground to end the month-long conflict. We were horrible in Afghanistan and Iraq until we did surge ops, and then we won. We were horrible in Vietnam until we did Thunder One" Rolling Thunder One and Rolling Thunder Two, and then we won.
The University of Pennsylvania must comply with a subpoena from the Trump administration seeking information related to Jewish employees, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. The subpoena comes as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a federal agency, investigates a "pattern or practice" of harassment of Jews at the Ivy League school. It requested, among other things, lists of school groups and organizations "related to the Jewish religion," including personal contact information for Penn employees in those groups.
Latest strikes: A 10-year-old girl was seriously wounded after Iranian missile fragments hit central Israel, while the country was also intercepting a missile from Yemen. The US and Israel continue to bombard Iran's capital Tehran. And in Kuwait, the international airport's fuel depots were hit by an Iranian drone attack.
Jewish Currents magazine editor Arielle Angel:
