Opinion

The Pentagon was locked down Thursday and partially evacuated after a hazardous materials alarm triggered a full emergency response, gas masks, hazmat teams, the works. Multiple floors and corridors were locked down and others evacuated before sources confirmed to CNN it was a false alarm.

Officers in chemical suits rushed through corridors, protecting a building from nothing.

No matter how the US’s illegal military assault on Iran ultimately turns out, Trump’s war was lost before it even started. The war was justified by a flagrant lie and constitutes among the worst, most irresponsible misuses of American military power in modern history.

Trump’s claim that Iran posed an “imminent threat” to the US by building nuclear weapons was patently false. America’s former national intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard testified before Congress that Iran wasn’t building a nuclear weapon, which was corroborated by UN nuclear chief Rafael Grossi who said in June 2025 that Iran had no plans to build nuclear weapons.

Donald Trump really might just be as mighty as he claims. He did what no NBA team has been able to do to the New York Knicks in the basketball playoffs. His very presence in Madison Square Garden caused them to lose, breaking a 13-game winning streak.

As so many have said before, everything our “president” touches tends to die.

I have several female friends who have been victims of domestic abuse. Over the past decade, they have confided in me because I’ve been open about my mental health struggles. When you make yourself vulnerable, it often gives others permission to do the same.

It is difficult to hear their stories. That’s one reason it has been personally difficult for me to hear what some of the women involved with Graham Platner have described. One friend once told me, “You will never know what it’s like when someone grabs your throat and you see that look in their eyes.”

The juvenile delinquents who have been put in charge of the White House website and social media have officially gone full Nazi by creating an “Enemies List” of “Leftist Influencers” on WhiteHouse.gov

The list is fairly short for now, but the fact that it exists at all is proof that the Trump-controlled government is continuing to follow a propaganda playbook that was originally written in German in the 1930s. It was then later translated into Russian before finally reaching our shores and becoming a hybrid of their most horrifically successful tactics, with just enough of The Handmaid’s Tale for good measure added in over the last few years.

There is nothing like spending well over a decade of life satiating the Left's unending "id" only to then corner fast and navigate having to talk politics "nicely," a duty one undertakes when doing consulting for candidates that somehow have to retain every Democrat in a district, while also reaching out to that 15-20% that voted for Trump but ah... isn't happy.

There is great news to be had in that the 20% exists, and they've never been unhappier. The bad news is that, like many victims of traumatic abuse, even though they "see" the objective landscape, they've absorbed so much of their abuser's personality that the dynamic is now one more of "identity" than a set of beliefs, more feel than fact, less character than it is a culture.

It is hard to be on left-leaning social media and not hear the panic screams directed at Congressional Democrats for not "doing something" amidst the chaos and corruption bursting forth from the reactor breach within the administration. As for actually stopping or holding up the legislation powering through all three MAGA branches, one can somewhat sympathize with Democratic pols, given how little they can do under our form of government.

But Democrats can and must fire back when holding the floor in oversight, especially during committee hearings going out to screens everywhere. And on that issue, we see signs of life — and none too soon.