The Big One is Coming to Cascadia Fault

Mega-Tsunami Threat Looms as Cascadia Fault Builds Toward 9.0 Quake, Experts Warn
Dashel Pierson
Fri, April 3, 2026

It’s not a matter of if, but when.

The big one, so to speak, is coming. And according to recent study from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, there’s a 15% chance of a rupture in the Cascadia Subduction Zone in the next 50 years, and a 29% chance by the year 2100.

Located off the Pacific Northwest, the Cascadia Subduction Zone last erupted in 1700. And according to the experts, it’s overdue for another shake. When it does, coastal communities could be devastated, with waves from the potential 9.0 quake reaching unfathomable heights. We're talking about a wave that will wipe cities off the map.

“In the Pacific Northwest, a slow-motion collision of tectonic plates known as the Cascadia Subduction Zone has been building tension for over 320 years,” says meteorologist Maiya May. “And when that tension is released, the resulting earthquake is likely to be as large as a magnitude 9.0. That would be 45-times more powerful than California’s most destructive quake in 1906. And the consequences defy imagination.”

Although the Cascadia Subduction Zone lies off the coast, the destruction on land from such a massive earthquake is expected to be devastating. And that’s before the resulting tsunami from the tremor is triggered and sent hurdling across the Pacific.

The West Coast, Japan, Hawaii – all within the path of impact.

“Subduction zone earthquakes often cause sudden movement and changes on the ocean floor, triggering tsunamis large enough to completely wipe coastal communities off the map. Remember the Fukushima power plant disaster? In 2011, Japan was hit by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake, similar to what we’re anticipating here.”

So, just how big will the resulting tsunami from the Cascadia Subduction Zone be? Hard to say. Some estimates range from 100-to-1,000 feet. But the thing about tsunamis is, it’s not always about the size. It’s often more like a massive, unrelenting tidal surge.

“Situational awareness really comes into play if you’re on the coast,” the video continues. “You’re not only facing the earthquake, which will destroy buildings and bridges, but a giant tsunami will follow right behind. High ground could save your life.”

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1,000-Foot Tall ‘Mega-Tsunami’ Could Hit West Coast, Experts Warn
Dashel Pierson
Tue, July 29, 2025


The last time the Cascadia Subduction Zone shifted was in 1700, triggering an earthquake registering between 8.7 to 9.2 on the Richter scale and resulting in a tsunami that struck the west coast and Japan.

The Big One.

For most residents of the world, particularly in California, the threat of a gigantic earthquake is always looming – one that would devastate communities, upend life as we know it, cause billions in damage, and take with it untold multitudes of casualties.

Scary stuff. But with some earthquakes, there’s also the aftermath, aka tsunamis. And scientists have been looking at one specific fault line off the west coast of North America, with regards to its imminent shifting, and the resulting, potential “mega-tsunami.”

A recent study from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences looked at the Cascadia Subduction Zone, an offshore fault line that stretches from North Vancouver Island in Canada to Cape Mendocino in California. The team primarily looked at the flood risks, coupled with sea level rise, in relation to the Cascadia Subduction Zone.

According to the study, there’s a 15% chance of a rupture in the Cascadia Subduction Zone in the next 50 years, and a 29% chance by the year 2100.

“Today, and more so in 2100 as background sea levels rise, the immediate effect of earthquake-driven subsidence will be a delay in response and recovery from the earthquake due to compromised assets. Long-term effects could render many coastal communities uninhabitable,” said lead author of the study, Tina Dura.

The team also looked at past “mega-tsunamis” to better evaluate the potential carnage in the Pacific Northwest. For example, by examining marine sediments, experts were able to confirm a 1,312-foot tsunami that struck the Hawaiian island of Lanai 105,000 years ago. That one was different, however, as it was created by a volcanic landslide.

As for the Cascadia Subduction Zone, the last time that tectonic plate shifted was in 1700. It triggered an earthquake registering somewhere between 8.7 to 9.2 on the Richter scale. And the resulting tsunami struck both the west coast and across the Pacific in Japan.

Now, researchers warn that the same zone is due for another shake.

“Given the global prevalence of subduction zones, these insights hold relevance beyond Cascadia, informing hazard assessments and mitigation strategies for tectonically active regions worldwide,” Dura added.

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Warmongering Racist Sot Hegseth Wants Exclusively WHITE MALE US ARMY

Pentagon Pete’s Bigoted Reason for Firing Top General Leaks
Cameron Adams
Fri, April 3, 2026

The alarming reason behind Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth pushing out the U.S. Army’s highest-ranking officer during wartime has been leaked. Hegseth, 45, asked Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George, 61, to quit his role and take immediate retirement, according to reporting by CBS News on Thursday.

That was followed by Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell releasing a statement on X that read, “General Randy A. George will be retiring from his position as the 41st Chief of Staff of the Army effective immediately. The Department of War is grateful for General George’s decades of service to our nation. We wish him well in his retirement.”

General Randy George speaks during a ceremony honoring prisoners of war in September 2025. / Daniel Becerril/REUTERS

However, a new report reveals that George was removed because he and Army Secretary Daniel P. Driscoll refused to remove two Black and two female officers from a list of military members to be promoted to one-star generals.

George and Driscoll defied Hegseth, according to The New York Times, and cited the long and exemplary service of the four officers as justification for their being in line for promotion.

The publication said most of the 29 other officers on the list for promotion are white men, leading some senior military officials to question whether the four officers were being singled out for their race or gender.

Hegseth refused Gen. George’s request to meet two weeks ago to discuss the four officers set to be booted from the promotion list, military officials told the Times. George also reportedly wanted to raise the issue of Hegseth “interfering unnecessarily” with Army personnel decisions at the meeting that the defense secretary declined.

A report by NBC on Thursday suggested Hegseth had a history of racial and gender discrimination when it came to military promotions of qualified officers in the Army, the Air Force, the Marines, and the Navy.

Nine U.S. officials familiar with the matter said Hegseth had either blocked or delayed promotions for more than a dozen Black and female senior officers across all four branches of the military.

The officials suggested the individuals had been targeted by Hegseth because of their race, gender, or links to Biden administration policies.

Hegseth’s intervention in the promotion process has raised concerns, with one U.S. official stating, “There is not a single service that has been immune to this level of involvement by Hegseth.”

Hegseth has been one of Trump's main cheerleaders regarding the war. / Evan Vucci / REUTERS

Since taking over his role leading the Pentagon, Hegseth has been outspoken about ending “wokeness” at the department and eliminating Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programs.

Speaking in February last year, Hegseth said, “I think the single dumbest phrase in military history is ‘our diversity is our strength.’”

Hegseth also oversaw the removal of two other Army officers on Thursday, Gen. David Hodne, who ran the Army’s Transformation and Training Command, and Maj. Gen. William Green, a Baptist minister who steered the Army’s Chaplain Corps. A Pentagon spokesperson confirmed the exits to the Daily Beast.

Hodne’s command had been created under George’s watch, according to The Washington Post, while the deeply religious evangelical Christian Hegseth has aimed to overhaul how military chaplains operate.

The defense secretary caused controversy when he invited Christian nationalist Pastor Doug Wilson to speak at the Pentagon’s monthly worship service, which Hegseth launched. Wilson has pushed for a return to patriarchal values, including scrapping women’s right to vote.

The Daily Beast has reached out to the Pentagon and the Army for comment.

Hegseth, who has christened himself the “Secretary of War,” reportedly wanted to oust George to install someone to put his own Army agenda into action, as well as follow the wishes of President Donald Trump, a source told CBS News.

“We are grateful for his service, but it was time for a leadership change in the Army,” a senior Defense Department official told the outlet of the Purple Heart recipient.

CNN has reported that George will be replaced as Army chief of staff by Gen. Chris LaNeve, who is already firmly on Trump’s radar.

LaNeve quickly proved his dedication to Trump with a gushing exchange at the Commander in Chief’s Ball, held in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 20, 2025, following his inauguration.

At the event, where Trump and JD Vance cut a cake with swords, LaNeve called into the ball with his troops from South Korea as part of a teleconference, saying it was a “profound honor” to stand before the president.

After congratulating him on his election victory, LaNeve told Trump, “Sir, every day we train, we stay hard, we plan for anything that you possibly could need us to do. The alliance is strong. We’re ready to receive you, Mr. President.”

An ego-stroked Trump gushed, “Is this man central casting or what? If I’m doing a movie, I’d pick him to play my lead.”

U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Christopher LaNeve impressed Trump from the get-go. / Alex Brandon/Pool via REUTERS

The president then continued to flatter LaNeve, saying, “They’re not going to play games with you. That’s good. I like to see that. Nobody is playing games with that man.” He then added, “You look really sharp, really special, and you are a special guy.”

MAGA's Ku Klux Klan legacy: Pentagon Good Friday for Protestants, not Catholics

I told you that the fanatic descendants of Euro-trash Anglo-saxon peasants hate Black Africans, they hate Asians, they hate Hispanics, they hate Catholics, they hate Muslims, they hate Hindus, they hate Buddhists, and claim they are "Christians". And we all know that they've always hated Jews long before, and since, their ancestors arrived to Plymouth, Mass., on the Mayflower in 1620. 

The Ku Klux Klan legacy of the MAGA Evangelical protestant movement is known to all. They may pretend to love Jews because they use (or are used by) their Jewish colonial militia in Israel to steal land and oil, kill, bomb, rape, and all of the other fine methods they have to "civilize" (i.e. to submit into geopolitical slavery) the Middle East.

And this is their drunkard mysogynist imbecile Pete Hegseth demonstrating to the country how much they hate Catholics as well, especially that the American Pope in the Vatican has been scolding them for their wanton reckless violence.

Keep in mind that Hegseth and MAGA Evangelicals are the "Christian" equivalent of the Afghan Taliban or the Wahhabi Saudis or the Iranian Mullahs. They are implementing a Christian Sharia Law across the US: Hate everyone who is not like us. 

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Pentagon To Host Good Friday Service Just For Protestants, Not Catholics

Jennifer Bendery

Updated Fri, April 3, 2026

The Pentagon has invited more than 3,500 employees to attend a Good Friday service at its in-house chapel. Except it’s only for Protestants, not Catholics.

“Just a friendly reminder: There will be a Protestant Service (No Catholic Mass) for Good Friday today at the Pentagon Chapel,” reads a Friday email sent by Air Force leadership, a copy of which was shared by an employee.

“I guess so the Catholics know their kind ain’t welcome,” said this employee, who requested anonymity to speak about internal communications. “It’s so ridiculous.”

A Pentagon spokesperson confirmed it is not hosting another, separate religious service for Catholic employees.

“The Protestant service is the only service scheduled in the Pentagon chapel today,” they said in a statement.

The Pentagon Memorial Chapel is a 24-hour interfaith space that employees can use for prayer and reflection, and that is used for religious services.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, a far-right evangelical Christian, has tried to infuse his religious views into Pentagon activities.

Last May, he brought his Tennessee pastor and controversial spiritual advisor Brooks Potteiger to the Pentagon to lead a prayer service, during which he hailed President Donald Trump as a divinely appointed leader. Hegseth said at the time he wanted to make his prayer service a monthly tradition.

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The Moron-in-Chief criminal is a huge Bigot. He practices no religion and has no ethics whatsoever. Yet, to please his faithful peasant morons from the sticks of America, he says he is bringing religion back to the US government. Not only is it against the law of the land, BUT he is bringing one denomination only - not religion in general - to the government: The racist Evangelical Taliban.

The good news is that a good third of Americans have wisened and evolved into the modern world: They are non-religious.

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Trump Said "We Cast Them Aside." His Easter Lunch Had a Darker Story Than the Jesus Clip
Niel Randi
Fri, April 3, 2026


Credit: Forbes Breaking News/Youtube

Everyone already saw the Paula White-Cain moment. Trump’s spiritual adviser compared his suffering to Jesus'. The clip spread fast, and the White House later removed the video from public view. That was always going to eat the coverage. It was strange, vain, and perfectly built for the internet. But it was not the darkest thing said at that Easter lunch.

The darker line came from Trump himself. Speaking in the East Room on April 1, he praised the national motto, “In God We Trust,” and then turned on the people he said reject that vision of America. There are “groups of people,” he said, for whom that model is “unacceptable.” His answer was not debate. “We don’t deal with them. We cast them aside,” Trump said. “There’s no talking to these people. They’re crazy.” He followed that with the line that made the whole speech harder to shrug off: “That’s why this Easter we are bringing back religion to America.”

That changes the story. This was not Trump winging it at a rally in front of a crowd that came to be entertained. This was an official White House Easter lunch. It was closed to the press. It included top administration figures and faith leaders. And the clip became public only because the White House briefly posted the video and then pulled it back.
The Line Under the Line

Earlier in the same event, Trump had already gone into the kind of riff that turns everything into a grievance. While talking about Palm Sunday, he noted that Jesus entered Jerusalem as crowds honored him as king, then added, “They call me king now.” He used the joke to complain about the legal fight over his planned White House ballroom. That line got attention because it was cartoonishly Trump. The “cast them aside” line mattered more because it said something cleaner and uglier about the project underneath it.

This isn't new language operating in a vacuum. Trump has been building that project for more than a year. At the 2025 National Prayer Breakfast, he said he wanted to bring religion back “stronger, bigger, better than ever before.” In February 2025, he created the White House Faith Office, and the White House announced Paula White-Cain as a senior adviser in it. That same office was sold as part of a broader push to defend religious liberty and address anti-Christian bias. The Easter lunch gave that pitch a much harder edge. It sounded less like protection and more like sorting.

White-Cain was not operating from the sidelines. She had an official role. Credit: The White House/Wikimedia Commons

The Split Is Real, and It Is Not Simple

Trump supporters are going to hear this very differently from his critics. Plenty of religious conservatives think public life has spent years treating traditional faith as something embarrassing or disposable. They hear Trump say he is “bringing back religion to America,” and they hear a president finally siding with them in a culture fight they think they have been losing for years. That reaction is real.

The problem is that presidents are not pastors for one faction. They are supposed to govern a country full of people who do not share the same theology, the same church, or any church at all. Pew’s latest Religious Landscape Study found that 29% of U.S. adults identify as religiously unaffiliated, up from 16% in 2007. That does not mean all of them reject the national motto or want religion banished from public life. It does mean tens of millions of Americans just heard the president talk about people who resist his preferred religious framing as crazy and fit to be cast aside.

Trump’s rhetoric is aimed at a group that is no longer small. Chart by Wealth of Geeks

That is why the Jesus comparison, for all its obvious click value, is not the whole story. Even some Christian critics recoiled from Paula White-Cain’s remarks during Holy Week. But Trump’s own words are what turned the lunch from cringe theater into something more revealing. He was not simply praising faith. He was drawing a line between the America he was blessing and the people he was prepared to dismiss.

The video got pulled. The clips stayed alive. But the line about casting people aside got buried under the Jesus comparison.

And that is the part no one should let slide just because the clip looked ridiculous. Trump says he is bringing religion back to America. Fine. But if that promise comes with a list of people who are “crazy,” unreachable, and ready to be cast aside, then what exactly is being restored here — faith in public life, or power dressed up in church language?

Israel Cements its Apartheid: Death Penalty for Palestinian- Not Zionist -Terrorists

Grotesque. Illegal. Inhumane. Degrading, Draconian, Discriminatory.... are some of the qualifiers of Israel's new law adopting the death penalty for Palestinians, whose land it illegally occupies and confiscates, who resist the occupation.

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'This is apartheid’: International politicians, governments condemn terror death penalty law
Mathilda Heller
Tue, March 31, 2026

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez also responded to the bill on Tuesday, calling its passing "one more step toward apartheid."

Scores of politicians and governments around the world have condemned the Israeli Knesset’s approval of a law mandating the death penalty for terrorists, calling it an act of “apartheid.”

The bill, sponsored by far Right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s Otzma Yehudit Party, aims to act as a deterrent against terror and serve a measure of justice for victims of terrorism.

The foreign ministers of Australia, Germany, France, Italy, and the United Kingdom released a joint statement, saying that the death penalty “is an inhumane and degrading form of punishment without any deterring effect.”

The Spanish government called it a “draconian law,” which is “discriminatory against the Palestinian population.”

“The text also implies the illegal exercise of Israeli jurisdiction in the Occupied Territory belonging to the state of Palestine, which is particularly serious in the case of the application of capital punishment,” Spain’s Foreign Ministry added.

Knesset approves death penalty for terrorists bill, March 30, 2026. (credit: KNESSET)
Europe slams Israel's death penalty for terror bill

Spain reiterates its firm rejection of the death penalty in all cases and circumstances, considering it a cruel, inhuman, and degrading punishment that has no proven deterrent effect and causes irreparable harm in the event of a miscarriage of justice.

The Irish government said the right to life was a fundamental human right and called the bill “de facto discriminatory” because it may disproportionately target Palestinians.

The UK’s Green Party leader Zack Polanski said, “This is apartheid,” adding, “It’s morally disgusting – and comes at the same time as Israel is committing an ongoing genocide.”

These claims of apartheid were echoed by many groups, both governmental and non-governmental (such as pro-Palestinian NGOs.) Amnesty UK claimed “The death penalty will now become part of the system of apartheid, genocide, and occupation that Palestinians continue to suffer,” adding, “Israel is brazenly granting itself free rein to execute Palestinians while stripping away the most basic fair-trial safeguards.”

Extra criticism was directed at Ben-Gvir, who was pictured celebrating the bill’s passage with champagne.

The Irish Sinn Fein party said its “revulsion at this law was compounded by the grotesque sight of Ben-Gvir celebrating with bottles of champagne.”

European Deputy with the France Insoumise Party Manon Aubry called for Europe to suspend the association agreement with Israel on account of Ben-Gvir’s actions, saying “Europe can no longer be complicit.”

Former Labour UK leader Jeremy Corbyn said, “The Israeli government is raising a toast to genocidal apartheid. The UK government is arming and funding it.”

A US State Department spokesperson, however, said it respects Israel’s “sovereign right to determine its own laws and penalties for individuals convicted of terrorism.”

“We trust that any such measures will be carried out with a fair trial and respect for all applicable fair trial guarantees and protections,” the spokesperson said.

The United States is the only NATO country that still practices capital punishment.

Expats Flee the Muslim Arab Gulf Trucial States. US Troops Moving In.

It looks like Trump's Iran war is writing the final chapter in the Boom and Bust story of the politically virgin-prostitute Arab Gulf states! The British colonial crooks called them Trucial States i.e. they provided them protection (against who-the-hell-knows) in exchange for their oil. They rose from the desert to replace their beige tents and dark slaves with shimmering high rises and a still dark foreign workforce. You see, Gulf Arabs had never worked, neither before discovering oil beneath the sands, nor afterwards. Unless tending to one's camels and goats is considered work.

Suddenly, Western expats - who otherwise hate their hosts in the Islamic Gulf Arab States, but have kept low profile so as not to jeopardize their lucrative jobs as prostitutes to the Sheikhs - are revealing the true nature of their hosts: Repressive, xenophobic, and deeply Islamic: even non-Islamic schools in the UAE are forced by law to make their non-Muslim schoolchildren chant a Koran-laden, Islam-praising, national anthem!! Yes, my dear MAGA morons: Trump is sending your children to be killed to protect Sharia-embracing Islamists.

The Sheikhs, Emirs, Sultans and such Bronze Age potentates wail and nag, but they don't fight. They have purchased - more likely were made to purchase - trillions of dollars worth of US weapons (It's how the girls pay their pimp). But they don't use them. They take the blows of the Iranians without responding BECAUSE the American and British pimps are supposed to protect their virgin girls in their flowing robes and gigantic cars. 

In nearby Iran, the Iranians refused the extortion protection of the British (and more recently American) pimps, which prompted the latter to mount a coup, arrest the democratically elected Mohamed Mosaddegh, and replace him with the decadent stooge Shah. That was in 1953. Iran, by the way, had been a neutral partner of the western alliance against the Turkish Ottoman and Russian empires. Ever since, the Iranians loathe westerners, and much of the present mutual hostility can be traced back to that violent overturn by the CIA and its British accolytes of a democratically elected government just to steal the Iranian nation's oil. 

The West tried it too in Egypt in 1956 (not for oil, but for control of the Suez Cana) but failed. The US did it also in Chile, killing the democractically elected Salvador Allende (1973), supposedly as part of the US fight against the Quixotic windmill of Communism. 

And now, the imbecile Trump thinks we are still somewhere between late 19th - early 20th century. But as Chief Justice John Roberts just told the Trumpian goons at a SCOTUS hearing on Birthright Citizenship: "It’s a new world. [But] it’s the same Constitution.” 

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Expats flee Dubai over snitches in their WhatsApp groups

Our Foreign Staff

Expats have fled the United Arab Emirates (UAE) over fears of being reported to police by fellow WhatsApp group members after sharing images of the Iran war, a campaigner said. “People who previously shared content but deleted it later are concerned they may have been reported at the time of sharing it and could thus still be arrested. Some people at risk have left the country.” Ms Stirling explained that in both cases the expats had been approached by police at their homes.

“They were informed that the authorities had been told they had material on their phones,” she added.

Detained in Dubai is supporting several people arrested under the UAE’s cybercrime laws. These include a British air steward in his twenties, who was allegedly detained over a privately shared airport photo and is currently in a single “overcrowded cell” with 60 others.

The London-based air steward for the low-cost airline FlyDubai is said to have taken a photo of the aftermath of an Iranian drone crash near Dubai airport on March 7 and sent it to colleagues, asking whether the area had become safe.

Cybercrime laws in the UAE are among the strictest in the world and any commentary about regional conflict, government policy or security matters could be seen as a criminal offence.

Those found guilty of breaking the Gulf state’s strictest laws on taking pictures of attacks could receive a sentence of 10 years in prison or fines of up to £200,000.

The Telegraph previously revealed how a 60-year-old British tourist was arrested after allegedly filming missiles.

The London-based holidaymaker was later charged along with 20 other people under the Gulf state’s cybercrime laws. This was despite the man deleting the video from his phone immediately when asked and telling police he had no intention of doing anything wrong.

As of Tuesday, the Foreign Office is understood to be assisting six British nationals who have been detained on charges relating to pictures of Iranian attacks.

It is understood some have been released, while others may not have informed the Government of their arrest.

A Foreign Office spokesman said: “We are providing consular assistance to a small number of British nationals detained in the UAE in connection with issues related to images of Iranian attacks, and our Ambassador is engaging with the Emirati authorities about their cases.”

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US moves troops to hotels in Middle East – seemingly in violation of its own rules of war: report
Ariana Baio
Thu, April 2, 2026

The Pentagon may have violated its own rules of war by moving troops from U.S. bases, targeted by Iran, to hotels and other civilian locations in the Middle East region, the New York Times reported.

Since the start of the conflict, initiated by President Donald Trump’s missile strikes, Iranian forces have been targeting U.S. bases throughout the region. Bases, such as the Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia and the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, have been damaged and at least a dozen service members have been killed.

As a result, troops have been moved to office spaces and hotels throughout the region where they’ve been working remotely, military personnel told the New York Times last month.

If true, this could mean the Defense Department has violated a U.S. Law of War, which says officials must use their best efforts to distinguish military forces from others to mitigate civilian casualties and property damage.

The Independent has asked the Pentagon for comment.

Iranian forces have damaged US airbases throughout the Gulf region, which has led some troops to be relocated to other civilian areas, according to a recent report (SOCIAL MEDIA via REUTERS)

Iran has launched a retaliatory missile strike campaign against the U.S. since America and Israel began their attack in late February. Iran has targeted U.S. military bases in addition to U.S. embassies and recently warned it would attack U.S. businesses throughout the Gulf region.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had already asked people to report locations where troops are located, which U.S. officials said would not intimidate them from ceasing attacks.

The U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia issued a travel advisory this week, warning American citizens that “gathering” areas could be potential targets.

Mitigating civilian casualties is a main pillar of the U.S. rules of war as well as the Geneva Conventions. Forces are not to target civilians unnecessarily and are asked to do what they can to ensure civilians are kept out of harm's way.

Section II of the U.S. Law of War states that parties in conflict should “physically separate, as feasible, their military objectives from civilian population and other protected persons and objects.”

However, the manual also says it may not always be feasible to do so in cases where forces are “housed in populated areas to take advantage of existing facilities.”

The US has launched thousands of strikes on Iran, hitting military, industrial and civilian site since the attack began in late February (AFP via Getty Images)

More than 300 American service members have been injured since the beginning of the attacks, and at least 13 service members have been killed. Roughly 20 U.S. aircraft, including a critical American spy plane, have been damaged.

Trump is expected to deliver an address to the nation on April 1 after publicly vacillating between increased military threats to Iran and claims of diplomatic progress in reaching an agreement to end the war, which has spiked domestic gas prices and roiled global energy markets with Iran’s effective control over the Strait of Hormuz, a key waterway for global oil supplies.

Trump initially said American naval vessels would escort ships through the passage but has since repeatedly demanded European allies to contribute naval support for an operation to reopen the strait to maritime traffic.

The administration is also reportedly weighing a potentially risky ground operation to seize uranium from deep inside Iran, what would mark a major escalation of a conflict that has entered a second month.

This week, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters that the U.S. will “operate within the confines of the law” when questioned about the president’s threats to destroy Iran’s electricity plants and desalination plants, civilian infrastructure that could amount to war crimes under international law if targeted.

Trump is Declared Insane by His Own People.

While drunkard, womanizing, violent, 'saved-by-Jesus' creep, the Secretary of War Crimes Pete Hegseth prays Jesus to kill his enemies on his behalf (per the distorted Sermon on the Mount), his cuckoo boss Donald Dumb is TACOing on Iran: He doesn't give a damn about anything else other than stealing oil from other countries, making money before it is too late (deadline is November 2026), and renaming every friggin' shack after his disgusting name. He's one of those temple merchants Jesus would have kicked in the ass ...

Luckily for the rest of us, Trump is inexorably taking the easy chair down the slide to the insane asylum that he is building for himself in downtown Miami. To me, the word "library" next to the name "Trump" is a giant oxymoron.

But we learned in childhood to share and be nice to others. So, to the man who will descend in the history books as the Most Supreme Moron of the United States of America, and to his 22% remaining diehard illiterate MAGA morons from the swampy boonies of America, I say:

I don't want to play in your yard
I won't climb your apple tree
I don't want to play in your yard
If you can't be good to me.
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Trump’s former White House lawyer says he is ‘clearly insane’ and questions the president’s mental fitness
Josh Marcus
Thu, April 2, 2026


Former White House lawyer Ty Cobb believes President Trump is mentally unstable based on his behavior during the ongoing Iran war, White House renovation project, and social media outbursts.

 “The cabinet will not invoke the 25th Amendment for a man who is clearly insane,” Ty Cobb, who served as a senior attorney during the first Trump term, told former CNN anchor Jim Acosta in an interview released Tuesday.

The 25th Amendment allows the vice president and cabinet to remove a president whom they decide is unfit for office.

Cobb argued that the ongoing war with Iran, his ballroom project and the president’s late-night social media tirades are evidence of a declining mental state.

“Trump historically and continuously has been guided exclusively by his narcissism. His whims, desires, impulses, have been on full display‚” Cobb said on the Jim Acosta Show. “We’re going to see more and more crazy stuff.”

Former Trump administration attorney Ty Cobb argues that President Trump is ‘clearly insane,’ based on the ongoing Iran war, the destructive renovation of the White House and the president’s frequent social media rants (Getty Images / CNN)
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Cobb also took issue with Trump’s destruction of the White House East Wing to build a new ballroom, and he praised a court for halting the renovation project this week pending congressional approval.

Cobb called the ballroom effort an “ego-driven insane exercise, destroying one of the most beautiful sites and historical sites in our country just out of hubris.” The white-collar attorney was brought into the first Trump administration White House for a brief stint as the president navigated special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into potential Russian election meddling.

He has since become a prominent critic of Donald Trump. Last year, Cobb told The Independent that President Trump would govern dangerously, based on personal narcissism and little else.

“Trump is 100 percent ruled by his narcissistic impulses,” Cobb said. “Any slight gets an immediate reaction, any criticism creates an enemy and purpose for vengeance, any opportunity to enhance his power or popularity gets an immediate idiotic statement, like, ‘I'm going to take over Gaza.’ … Trump doesn't have a plan. He’s sort of enjoying the ride. The reality is there are no speed bumps. There are no guardrails.”

He has also slammed Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt as “creepy” and argued Attorney General Pam Bondi should be disbarred for the prosecution of Trump critic James Comey, the former FBI director.

Critics have long claimed that Trump is mentally unfit for office, allegations that also dogged his predecessor, Joe Biden, who was replaced on the 2024 presidential ticket after an incoherent debate performance.

One out of million pieces of evidence of Trump's insanity is his dealings with judges he himself appointed:
Trump blows off [Justice ] John Roberts’ concerns, ups the ante in offensive against judges
Steve Benen
Wed, April 1, 2026 

As March got underway, CBS News’ “60 Minutes” ran a segment on federal judges who have ruled against the Trump administration, only to face a wave of threats from the president’s followers. Retired federal Judge John Jones, a George W. Bush appointee, told the program, “If we’re not careful, we’re going to get a judge killed. It’s just that stark.”

He was hardly the only one with these concerns. In mid-March, Politico reported on a trio of federal judges who “offered a blistering assessment of the Trump administration’s attacks on the judiciary, with one comparing them to the behavior of authoritarian regimes.” The jurists added that the president’s condemnations of jurists are responsible for fueling threats to their safety.

Two days later, after a federal judge threw out a baseless criminal case against Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, Trump called Judge James Boasberg, the chief federal judge for the District of Columbia, “a Wacky, Nasty, Crooked, and totally Out of Control Judge.” 

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts soon after warned that personal condemnations of federal judges is dangerous and “it’s got to stop.”

The president is aware of the concerns. He just doesn’t seem to care. 

“The judges are really hurting this country,” Trump said last week at his White House Cabinet meeting. “Justice Roberts doesn’t like when I say it, but the judges are really hurting this country. And frankly, the justices, the Supreme Court has really hurt our country, too.”

A day earlier, he suggested, in reference to the court’s ruling on tariffs, that Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch “sicken” him “because they are bad for our country.”

The president kept the offensive going on Tuesday at a White House event, when he suggested justices who rule in ways he doesn’t like are guilty of either “stupidity” or being “disloyal.”

A day earlier, Trump published an item to his social media platform that concluded, “Dumb Judges and Justices will not a great Country make!” 

He’s not just whining. The president last week also called on Congress to approve a crime bill that “cracks down on rogue judges.”

“We got rogue judges that are criminals,” Trump said. “They are criminals, what they do to our country. The decisions that they hand down and hurt our country.”

It might seem like ancient history, but in the run-up to Election Day 2024, Trump invested a fair amount of time in condemning those who criticize judges — as if his own rhetorical record didn’t exist. Such criticisms, the Republican said in August, are “probably illegal.” Two weeks later, he went a little further, adding that judicial criticism should be “illegal.”

If that wasn’t quite enough, Trump — who’d spent years publicly chastising judges — went so far as to declare, “These people should be put in jail the way they talk about our judges.”

 Soon after, Trump won the election, and — wouldn’t you know it — he seems to have decided condemnations of judges and justices aren’t so bad after all.

 This article was originally published on ms.now