Pete Bilderback

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The extra fuel costs associated with the Iran war has cost more than $500 per U.S. household. Check out the Iran War Energy Cost Tracker: iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu

Yeah, you know you are looking at massive election fraud when a C-list reality TV star turned Republican mayoral candidate can't win in a D +30 city like Los Angeles. There is literally no other way to explain it.

Rumors to the contrary, Scrantonicity will not be playing The Freedom 250 Great American State Fair.

Breaking News: The Recess Monkeys have pulled out of The Great American State Fair.

Quote a fictional band that is not Spinal Tap: The Queen Haters, pride of "Mel's Rock Pile."

FT covers our new brief with the Costs of War project, showing that US fuel costs from the Iran War now top $41 billion, more than the estimated cost of redoing the entire air traffic control system or the 2024 federal Bridge Investment Program (Gift link) as.ft.com/r/9091dbb9-4...

When will oil inventories actually run out continues to be a crucial and slippery question 🛢️ www.wsj.com/business/ene...

My oped: the Iran war gasoline price hikes are walloping the working class in the United States. As summer driving season begins, US consumers are paying huge sums for a war that most of them didn't want. 🛢️ www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/o...

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “The cruelty of high fuel prices isn’t just about the cost, but also about the unequal burden it places on American households,” Jeff Colgan writes.

The really fascinating thing about these newly-released UFO files is that Donald Trump's name appears over 38,000 times in more than 5,300 Epstein files. The truth is out there.

She can't even say it without laughing.

In UNO, when you "have all the cards," it means you are LOSING. The object of the game is to be the first to get rid of all your cards. So, ironically, this is probably the most accurate thing Trump has ever posted. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Woke is dead.

Wonder how much the Iran war has cost U.S. consumers at the gas pump? The Watson School's Climate Solutions Lab is tracking that. So far, it's over $17 billion and rising fast.

The Iran war has already cost American households $17 billion at the pump. This doesn't count the billions the government has spent fighting the war, which we'll have to pay for eventually as well.

You can tell it's Victory for USA because now everyone has to coordinate with the Iranian military to have the ability to transit the Strait of Hormuz

I guess everyone is just praying it's TACO Tuesday.

"A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again." This is comicbook villiany. It's the kind of pronouncement Red Skull would make before Captain America steps in to stop him. Where the fuck is Captain America?

Pam Bondi proves that for Trump, you can't debase yourself enough.

We are now getting deeper into the phase where many Trump supporters know they got played but don’t want to admit it. But they know.

I didn’t watch but I’m guessing that went well.

Plenty of other countries allow birthright citizenship, but the US is the only country STUPID enough to elect DONALD J. TRUMP president. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

I assure you that if 8 million right leaning protesters had turned out against Obama it the NYT would have given it banner treatment eg POPULIST REVOLT

"I'll take 'Things that never happened' for $500, Alex."

This might not have started as an oil war but it sure looks like one now. 🛢️ Saudi Prince Is Said to Push Trump to Continue Iran War in Recent Calls www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/u...

The next person who cites "the wisdom of the markets" to me gets a slug in the gut.

Again, I know this isn’t a popular view, but turning AIPAC into this lurking bogeyman, treating it as the core villain of politics, the hidden hand behind all our woes, flies uncomfortably close to some far darker stuff. The amount we’re talking about it.. just doesn’t make a ton of sense to me.

This is insane. For $200 billion, we could do SO much to electrify America and convert to renewables instead of fighting pointless wars in the Persian Gulf.

He's not even the smartest guy in an empty room. I've met bricks who are smarter than Markwayne Mullin.

The US is no longer a liberal democracy, according to the top global watchdog on freedom and democracy. We're falling fast, and are now classed the same as Guatemala, Colombia, and Peru www.v-dem.net/documents/75...

Dear World, Don’t help him. Oppose him. Defy him. Embarrass him. Arrest him, if you’d like. We’re not with him. Sincerely, Decent Americans

Josh Marshall: Trump's war in Iran "increasingly looks like a perfect storm of open-ended military involvement and economic cataclysm." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/rube-...

No doubt it will be relased on the same day as Trump's much vaunted Obamacare replacement.

I'm sorry, this is the Great Leftist Savior? Does anyone happen to know what happened in the Indian Wars, the Philippines, Vietnam, or El Salvador?

Welcome to the New Golden Age.

A statement like this, coming from the President of the United States, should terrify every person with a conscience.

I feel safer already.

Trump then: "I'll make prices go down on day one!" MAGA: "Yes!" Trump now: "I made prices go up, and it's a great thing!" MAGA: "Yes!"

When economists say the president can't really do much to change gas prices, what they mean is he can't do much to *reduce* gas prices. Turns out they can do a lot to raise them www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-iran...

Decolonizing Afghanistan: Countering Imperial Knowledge and Power An event with Costs of War, the Center for Middle East Studies, and the Department of History at Brown March 11, 2026, 5:30 p.m. ET Register: events.brown.edu/watson/event...