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Robyn @robyn.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Article is a gift link but I’d be remiss to not point out this near treasonous behavior These Republicans are risking the lives of our troops and for no good reason

Most alarming to some senior officials is evidence that Iran has restored operational access to 30 of the 33 missile sites it maintains along the Strait of Hormuz, which could threaten American warships and oil tankers transiting the narrow waterway.

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Robyn @robyn.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

I only know because I stalk NYT polls page and always look at their “selected polls” 🤣 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Polls that were conducted by or for partisan organizations are labeled, as they often release results that are favorable only to their causes. Margins are calculated using unrounded vote shares when available.

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Robyn @robyn.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I was rereading Dobbs and this passage from the dissent struck me No precedent is safe but it will work both ways The sad part is that reliance interests are a very important purpose of our laws but republicans have ruined that

In the end, the majority
says, all it must say to override stare decisis is one thing:
that it believes Roe and Casey “egregiously wrong.” Ante,
at 70. That rule could equally spell the end of any precedent
with which a bare majority of the present Court disagrees.

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Robyn @robyn.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Auto correct (I assume) strikes the NYT and the Meg Gala 🤣 On that note, has anyone noticed auto correct has somehow gotten worse!

NYT headline says “Meg gala 2026” instead of met gala

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Robyn @robyn.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I don’t have the words to express my anger about how badly we’re being gouged while the felon and his friends are becoming billionaires

With them soon to be gone, I think we're likely to see an increase," he said. "That's on top of the airfare increases we're already seeing from the increase in jet fuel prices. This is only going to make that situation worse."

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Robyn @robyn.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

It is sure to happen considering this was on abc news

Headline: spirit airlines deal announcement expected today, trump says

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Robyn @robyn.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I guess these are the people ok with a felon and his enablers ruining our economy and American values He threw their fellow Virginians out of work so he could go start Middle East wars and raise all of our prices for everything as opposed to curing childhood cancer

Rural, mostly white counties located on Virginia’s southern border are voting overwhelmingly against the referendum. In Scott County, where Trump won by 70 percentage points in 2024, “No” is winning by 78 percentage points.

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Robyn @robyn.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

If you like police reform, becerra isn’t the guy I’ve never seen someone fail to meet the moment more. Same with the pandemic that reflected poorly on Joe Biden

He said he knows the African American community feels hurt by the shooting of Clark, but added “I think there is a lot of hurt in the Police Department too, because they are under a microscope and two of their fellow officers are now under a microscope.”

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Robyn @robyn.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Affordability is a hoax to the grifter in chief

Remarkably, Trump barely acknowledged the economic consequences of his war, as Americans around the country continue to feel the sting of high gas prices. On the few occasions that Trump did touch on those issues, he largely brushed off the concerns as temporary and argued that the economy remained strong.

Nevertheless, economists have offered an increasingly dire set of predictions about the costs of the war. Some have revised down growth estimates, and revised up their projections for inflation and unemployment. And a handful have raised their odds that the U.S. could slip into recession if the war were to worsen considerably, driving oil prices even higher.

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Robyn @robyn.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

It’s all a lie. He may have gotten an even worse regime and shouldn’t have done this!

President Trump appears to be declaring “mission accomplished” on the war in the Oval Office after signing an executive order to restrict mail-in voting in federal elections. He asserted that he had stopped Iran from gaining a nuclear weapon and that “we have had regime change.” In Trump’s signature hyperbolic language, the president suggested that he had toppled two of Iran’s governments.

“We knocked out one regime. Then we knocked out a second regime,” Trump said. “Now we have a group of people that is very different and much more reasonable, much less radicalized. We have had regime change.”

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Robyn @robyn.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

This blurb really annoys me 😂 it doesn’t come out and say WHERE she’s imprisoned. Yes you can assume Iran, but also our immigration agencies have been doing weird awful unauthorized things and I was worried so I looked it up elsewhere to be sure (it’s Iran )

The Free Narges Coalition, an Iranian advocacy group, said on Tuesday the life of the jailed human rights leader Narges Mohammadi was in “imminent danger” after she experienced a heart attack and was denied hospital treatment.

According to a report published by the organization, Mohammadi, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023, “appeared pale and weak with significant weight loss” during a March 29 visit. Known for her advocacy of women’s rights in Iran and her opposition to the death penalty, Mohammadi was imprisoned by the government on national security charges.

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Robyn @robyn.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

The media is getting their presser I’d better hear the phrase “staggering incompetence”

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will hold a news conference on Tuesday morning at 8 a.m. Eastern, the Pentagon said on Monday. The last time the two leaders took questions from reporters on the state of the war against Iran was on March 19.

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Robyn @robyn.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

The felon is worse than Baghdad Bob Why would Iran respect someone bombing them and killing their schoolgirls? It’s not possible

President Trump said on Sunday night that Iran had agreed to release 20 more cargo ships of oil through the Strait of Hormuz starting on Monday, in what the president insisted was a “tribute” to the United States and a “sign of respect.”

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Robyn @robyn.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Media seems to be having their own “epic fury” at this regime for not providing briefings 👀 I expect we’ll see sharper criticism and we have seen some uncharacteristic descriptions at least from NYT

U.S. Central Command said on Saturday that the United States had struck more than 11,000 targets in Iran since the war began, adding that it had damaged or destroyed over 150 Iranian vessels.

The announcement, posted on social media, represents one of the few concrete updates provided by officials on the status of the war. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, have not conducted a news conference since March 19.

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Robyn @robyn.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Here’s what he specifically had to say because it almost made me fall over

There are those here that are working hard,” said Sheriff Grady Judd of Polk County, the chairman of the new council, which advises the governor and cabinet members on immigration enforcement. “They have kids in college or in school. They’re going to church on Sunday. They’re not violating the law, and they’re living the American dream.”

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Robyn @robyn.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

And they are! Thank you for bringing up the pentagon’s failure to brief the press and American people in regards to a major war @adamsmith.house.gov

Representative Adam Smith of Washington, the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, and 26 of his Democratic colleagues demanded on Friday that the Republican chairman of the panel hold a public hearing on the Iran war.

So far, Pentagon, State Department and intelligence officials have provided lawmakers only classified briefings, and legislators from both parties have complained about the paucity of information about costs, operations and munition shortages.

“We are deeply troubled by the lack of transparency from the Trump Administration and the Department of Defense, and its failure to keep the Congress and the American people informed,” the Democrats wrote in a letter.

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Robyn @robyn.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

This is not the access the media has come to expect from this administration 👀 they will turn on them Democrats can plant the seed even more by bringing this up It’s also disrespectful to the troops and America as a whole given this dire situation they’ve created

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will not hold a news conference this week, the Pentagon said on Thursday. That means it will be Monday at the earliest until the two leaders take questions from reporters on the state of the Iran war — at least 11 days since their last news conference on March 19.

Kingsley Wilson, the Pentagon press secretary, said in an email that Hegseth had provided updates at several public events with President Trump this week. And Adm. Brad Cooper, the head of U.S. Central Command, this week posted two short videotaped operational updates. But none of those events offered reporters an opportunity to question Hegseth or the admiral.

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Robyn @robyn.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

“Fresh??” This is insulting They denigrate democrats who are the only political party with adults, and then they pretend to be surprised when idiots vote for a madman when they promote the madman

Nyt headline says “the standoff with Iran raises fresh doubts about Trump’s freestyle diplomacy”

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Robyn @robyn.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Great example of what reporters should be doing. Thanks Erica Green of NYT!

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, speaking at the cabinet meeting, echoed President Trump’s claims that Iran has been at war with the United States for 47 years and that “every president should have done this,” referring to the war.

But other presidents have sought to address Iran’s nuclear plans diplomatically, including former President Barack Obama. And the glaring omission worth noting is that this is President Trump’s second term, meaning he was among the presidents in recent years who chose not to go to war with Iran. In fact, he called off a military strike against Iran in 2019 after Iran shot down a U.S. drone in international airspace. As planes were in the air, and with minutes to spare, he pulled back citing the possibility of Iranian casualties.

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Robyn @robyn.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

So the regime just sort of gave up export controls and then started a war 🤦‍♀️ This whole piece is highly disturbing and full of information that media doesn’t report

China, Russia, and Iran continue to work together to circumvent and evade Western sanctions and export controls. Meanwhile, the United States has been inconsistent in implementing economic restrictions. After the last Trump-Xi summit in October 2025, Washington suspended the Bureau of Industry and Security Affiliate Rule in exchange for China’s lifting of export controls on critical minerals, effectively revealing how much leverage Beijing retains through its dominance in rare-earth supply chains. Additionally, Washington is easing oil sanctions on Moscow and Tehran in response to rising energy prices and the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz, exposing the precise issues on which the US is willing to compromise.
As the White House diverts its attention toward the Middle East, the Trump-Xi summit, originally scheduled for next week, was postponed until May. However, a productive push on China could also advance the US position in the Iran conflict. In his meeting with Xi—if not sooner—Trump should confront China’s role in enabling these supply chains, tightening scrutiny of Chinese exports and intermediaries that facilitate sanctions evasion. The White House must make stronger export control

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Robyn @robyn.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Taco donors must be calling him 24/7

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said had spoken with President Trump on Monday, and that Trump believed it was possible to “leverage” the military achievements in the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran to “realize the objectives of the war in an agreement.” Netanyahu’s comments, in a video statement, appeared to refer obliquely to Trump’s assertion that negotiations with Iran were underway. He said Israel would nonetheless continue to strike in Iran and Lebanon. “We will preserve our vital interests in every situation,” he said.

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Robyn @robyn.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Exactly. Chaos in the bond market is sadly what it takes to get through to these screwballs

Before President Trump’s announcement about talks with Iran to end the war, the 10-year Treasury yield, which reflects government borrowing costs over a decade, rose past 4.40 percent for the first time this year, and was close to crossing the 4.5 percent threshold before Trump issued his statement. This is around the same level that prompted Trump to cite the bond market when he pulled back from his initial tariff announcement last April.

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Robyn @robyn.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

It got even worse just WTAF! What an embarrassingly dumb thing to say Bessent! Just get out of Iran - you make no sense

That would, of course, bring more revenue to Iran, but Mr. Bessent insisted that “we will be using the Iranian barrels against the Iranians to keep the price down for the next 10 or 14 days, as we continue this campaign.”

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Robyn @robyn.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

We are suffering through the dumbest people in history #republicans

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that to calm the markets, the United States was thinking about releasing more from the Strategic Oil Reserve, which the administration had failed to refill to capacity in the run-up to the war. But more strikingly, he has discussed suspending sanctions on Iranian oil already at sea — in an effort to free up roughly 140 million barrels — as another way to tamp down prices.

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Robyn @robyn.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Love to see it!! Illinois democrats are the best 💙

The cryptocurrency industry bet big on Illinois races through its super PAC, Fairshake, but the night is not going well for the group so far. It spent nearly $10 million to oppose Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton, who is leading Raja Krishnamoorthi in the U.S. Senate primary, preliminary results show. The super PAC also spent nearly $2.5 million to oppose La Shawn Ford in the Seventh Congressional District. He currently leads with more than 80 percent of the vote in, preliminary results show.

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Robyn @robyn.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I’m not in her district but I concur!! She’ll do a great job when she wins #IL08

Ms. Bean, a businesswoman and former member of the Blue Dog Coalition, a caucus of moderate Democrats, argued that voters in the district were more concerned about overreaches by Mr. Trump, an affordability crunch and a “do-nothing Republican Congress” than they were about the candidates’ positions on Israel.

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Robyn @robyn.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Seeing a very bright future for Pritzker for whatever he wants to do I even appreciate him all the way from California!

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Robyn @robyn.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

This guy has it right (although I’d probably vote for stratton)

“I would like someone who is boring and whom I don’t wake up with their name first on my mind every single morning. There’s something to be said for just like dull competence.”

Phillip McCarthy, 45, of Chicago, who said he voted for Raja Krishnamoorthi in the Democratic primary for Senate.

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Robyn @robyn.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Oh my god this is so embarrassing

Trump says he is surprised that Iran attacked Gulf countries
BY MICHELLE L. PRICE
“They weren’t supposed to go after all these other countries in the Middle East,” Trump said, echoing a comment he made to NBC News over the weekend.

“Nobody expected that,” Trump said Monday. “We were shocked.”

Iran has long warned that, if attacked, it would retaliate on the entire Middle East, targeting the oil infrastructure that made its Gulf Arab neighbors fantastically wealthy.

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Robyn @robyn.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

He’s consolidated power and the window is closed. They should’ve moved faster after they killed his dad (I’m not in favor of any of this - just from a strategic viewpoint) Time to leave and hope you didn’t make things much worse This is disastrous and has no point

Iran’s new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei issued a second statement today saying he would retain all the officials appointed by his slain father. The supreme leader, in addition to being a top religious and political figure, also serves as the commander in chief of the armed forces.

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Robyn @robyn.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

There is no plan is there. You can’t run a military let alone a country like this!

Two weeks after calling for Iranians to rise up against their autocratic government, the president on Friday expressed skepticism they could succeed right now.

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Robyn @robyn.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Well here’s the truth for the record. As of today he’s polling worse than his first term as well as below Biden, Obama, and Bush so as usual it’s the exact opposite of what he says

Nyt poll tracker of trump approval rating showing a disapprove at +14 which is worse than his first term at +13

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Robyn @robyn.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

“Worst in history!” That’s the legacy of this clown car government 🤦‍♀️

Nyt headline calling oil disruption worst in history due to Iran war

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Robyn @robyn.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

This is ridiculous for March 🤦‍♀️ just a nightmare. I hate the heat and we got no winter #socal

SoCal temps 10 day forecast mostly in the high 80s and 91 degrees tomorrow

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Robyn @robyn.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Who the hell said this!! What an idiot(s). When has bombing a country produced “more pragmatic leadership” especially when said country is a theocracy and the holy place of Shia Islam??

Some military advisers did warn before the war that Iran could launch an aggressive campaign in response, and would view the U.S.-Israeli attack as a threat to its existence. But other advisers remained confident that killing Iran’s senior leadership would lead to more pragmatic leaders taking over who might bring an end to the war.

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Robyn @robyn.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

It should outrage everyone that the republicans who have the majority are NOT demanding any of this. Oversight is their job!! This is a very basic function of congress and republicans are derelict

The uproar among Democrats over the Trump administration’s refusal to answer basic questions about the war in Iran continues to grow louder. They have few levers to pull as members in the minority, but a group of six Democratic senators warned the Senate majority leader, John Thune, on Wednesday that if he does not immediately cell
Off for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio to testify publicly to Congress before lawmakers head into a two-week recess on March 27, they would
force votes on war powers resolutions, occupying floor time Thune usually controls to advanced Republican legislation. Senator Jack Reed, the top Democrat on the Armed Services Committee, also wrote to Hegseth on Wednesday demanding more information on the cost of the war, which he said the Pentagon had not shared with Congress.

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Robyn @robyn.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Macron is the new leader of the free world

Just Now
Catherine Porter
Following the International Energy Agency's decision to release 400 million barrels of reserve oil, President Emmanuel Macron of France said in "no case" should sanctions on Russia be lifted. He commended the Ukrainian government for offering to help Gulf countries coming under Iranian attack with drones.

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Robyn @robyn.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I just learned this quote and love it. I struggle with patience

“To lose patience is to lose the battle” - Mahatma Gandhi

Pic from AZ quotes

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Robyn @robyn.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Go ahead and pass the SAVE act. These people (and I can guarantee this represents a major cross section of the felon’s voters) don’t know what a passport is

Hillbillies with caption “Trump supporters in their natural habitat”

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Robyn @robyn.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Tell me you have no objectives with this Iran war without telling me you have no objectives

In a briefing at the White House, the press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, is asked about President Trump’s shifting definitions of victory in the war with Iran. She said Trump would be the one to decide whether one of the conditions he has laid out — Iran’s “unconditional surrender” — has been met.

“When President Trump says that Iran is in a place of unconditional surrender, he’s not claiming the Iranian regime is going to come out and say that themselves,” she said.

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Robyn @robyn.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

It’s hard to put into words how ill-informed this man is 🤦‍♀️ we have no business doing this and it merely strengthens the resolve of who you’re bombing. Total disaster

That has not yet happened, and Mr. Trump has changed his public position by the day — or the hour — about just how big a role the United States would take in trying to engineer Iran’s political future. On Friday, he said he would be happy if Iran was left with an autocratic, religious leader after the war, as long as the new leadership treated the United States and Israel “fairly

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Robyn @robyn.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Guess it’s important to have allies after all! Screw you republicans! You don’t deserve Zelensky’s kindness and patience

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine says the United States has now requested “specific support” from his country to help protect against Iran’s drones in the Middle East. Zelensky in recent days has repeatedly emphasized how Kyiv’s expertise in combating the drones — which have been launched by Russia throughout the war in Ukraine — could be useful to countries under attack now in the Mideast.

“I gave instructions to provide the necessary means and ensure the presence of Ukrainian specialists who can guarantee the required security,” Zelensky wrote on social media. “Ukraine helps partners who help ensure our security and protect the lives of our people.” Read more about how the Mideast crisis is reverberating in Ukraine.

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Robyn @robyn.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

I am so sick of dumb, incompetent republicans

Headline of breaking news Trump says strikes killed Iranians US saw as future leaders

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Robyn @robyn.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Unacceptable - America cannot afford or allow republicans in power. We are ALL endangered now. Republicans have no right to kidnap or kill world leaders no matter who they are and when they aren’t a threat to Americans. Shameful quagmire

Picture of current AP News homepage showing widening Iran war disaster as of 3/1/26

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Robyn @robyn.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I do think Ms. Alian has it right

Bahareh Ebne Alian, a junior fellow at the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies at The New School who has studied Iran extensively, was among those who were wary.

“There are people who are extremely fearful of what this war — that doesn’t seem to have a very clear end — is going to bring to Iran,” Ms. Ebne Alian said, “in terms of civil war, in terms of the disintegration of Iran, or in terms of just another failed state in the region.”

Ms. Ebne Alian, 38, who has lived in New York since 2009, added: “There are those of us who have seen that no country receives democracy with bombs, or freedom with bombs. And actually, I think this really complicates any prospect of a peaceful transition to democracy by Iranian people.”

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Robyn @robyn.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Well I vehemently disagree and that’s all I’ll say

Ny times headline showing Iranian Americans in LA happy about Iran strikes

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Robyn @robyn.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Yes he sucked but they’ll just get another one No excuse to shun diplomacy for this lawless incursion

Iranian state media announced early on Sunday that Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed. “To Allah we belong and to Him we shall return,” the news agency said. He died after U.S. and Israeli military strikes on Iran on Saturday.

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