UNVERIFIED BUT TOO GOOD TO CHECK:

🔴 پزشكيان يتنصل من أي مسؤوليات ويقول إنه "بلا صلاحيات ومنقطع تماما عن الأطر القيادية ولا مبرر لاستهدافه".

دولة خليجية – خاص

أكد مستشار سياسي في دولة خليجية أن الرئيس الإيراني مسعود پزشكيان أبلغ عددا من نظرائه في الخليج العربي ودول أخرى منها روسيا وتركيا أنه "في ظل انهيار… pic.twitter.com/g9W01v27Vm

— أنور مالك (@anwarmalek) March 18, 2026

Translation:

[President of Iran Masoud] Pezeshkian disavows any responsibilities and says he is “without authority, completely cut off from the leadership structures, and there is no justification for targeting him.”

A political advisor in a Gulf state confirmed that Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian informed a number of his counterparts in the Arab Gulf and other countries, including Russia and Turkey, that “in light of the collapse of the constitutional leadership structure in the country and his disconnection from communicating with its components, he absolves himself of responsibility and emphasizes that there is no justification for targeting him.”

Pezeshkian fancies himself a moderate — whatever that means in the Islamic Republic regime — so who knows?

THIS ISN’T JUST AN EMBARRASSMENT, IT INVITES AGGRESSION: 82 Percent Of U.S. Navy Warships Being Built Are Behind Schedule And It Won’t Be Easy To Solve.

Not only do we have too few ships, but in a major war, each one lost to enemy action is almost certainly an irreplaceable lost within the duration of the war.

I WANT TO BELIEVE:

🚨Well this is interesting… https://t.co/FxX7z1YCjY

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Registry Domain ID: DF133F918-GOV
Domain Status: serverTransferProhibited

Nameservers:https://t.co/But0rJixvU
Dates

Registry Expiration: 2027-03-17 18:55:49 UTC

Updated:… pic.twitter.com/1xy3e1YrGn

— Skywatch Signal (@UAPWatchers) March 18, 2026

ICYMI: Israel Is Now the Regional Hegemon Iran Wanted to Be.

THANKS, FELLAS:

Ukraine has deployed roughly 200 personnel across the Middle East to aid gulf countries in shooting down Iranian drones

Ukrainian teams are already in the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, and are on the way to Kuwait -Zelensky to the British Parliament

— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) March 18, 2026

SAY ANYTHING:

Raskin: "Thomas Paine was an undocumented immigrant."

Jordan: "How was he an illegal immigrant? He was born in the UK and came to America, then a British colony."

Raskin: "I didn't say he was an illegal immigrant. He was an undocumented immigrant." pic.twitter.com/3H6fDV02rf

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) March 18, 2026

Kyle Becker summed it up best in the replies: “These people are absolute freaking morons.”

JOANNE JACOBS: Why teachers quit: ‘It was the wild West.’ “Another complained that behavior expectations kept changing. Instead of automatic punishments for disrespect, insubordination and violence, teachers were told to ‘have a buddy role.'”

DON’T GET COCKY:

Eugene is great. Best thing to happen for the state party Democrats in 15 years.
But the emphasis on this just as emphasis are on all special elections are often overblown.
Per the great Kyle Kondik there have been nearly 300 U.S. House special elections since the mid-1950s more… https://t.co/pfQldkO96f pic.twitter.com/jDPBtINJxO

— ZitoSalena (@ZitoSalena) March 18, 2026

I DUNNO, ASIDE FROM A TEMPORARY SPIKE IN OIL PRICES, SO FAR THEIR FREE-RIDERSHIP SEEMS TO BE WORKING FOR THEM: Trump Wonders if Crushing Iran Would Wake Up U.S. ‘Allies.’

Maybe this might wake them up: What are the odds that Trump puts a tariff-like “security fee” on all oil transiting the Strait of Hormuz? . . .

MUCH MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE:

A federal court revoked the U.S. citizenship of a man who orchestrated a massive $3.8 million COVID-19 relief fraud scheme, ruling he obtained naturalization through lies while actively committing fraud. The defendant submitted numerous fraudulent loan applications using false… pic.twitter.com/K9o80N2tPP

— US Attorney Reding Quiñones (@USAO_SDFL) March 17, 2026

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Trump Effect? Oscar Ratings Crater in Second Term.

These celebrity galas often feast on anti-Trump lectures, be it those “ICE out” pins or mocking the First Family. The messages may differ, but the target is typically the same.

President Trump.

And, as a result, Hollywood, Inc. watched awards show ratings slump.

Their ratings stabilized somewhat during the Biden years, but with Trump back in office, the ratings decline resumed. Just look at the just-released Oscar numbers.

Also, Hollywood largely stopped making (and awarding) movies people want to see. Trump or no Trump, why tune in to see which movie you never even heard of won Best Picture?

IT WOULD TAKE A HEART OF STONE NOT TO LAUGH:

Today in this episode of “Twitter is not real life,” Ro Khanna’s supposedly immense influence resulted in every single one of these socialists losing. https://t.co/vbwap6nGad

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) March 18, 2026

EVERGREEN: Beware the ‘Demonstration-Industrial Complex’ and Its Connections to Foreign Funding.

UM…:

Amazon received 10,044 H-1B approvals in 2025, the most of any company in America, while laying off 14,000 American employees. They are the single largest H-1B sponsor in the country. https://t.co/f1SRUXm68l

— bitchuneedsoap (@bitchuneedsoap) March 17, 2026

ABOLISH THE TSA: TSA official warns some airports may have to close if shutdown continues: ‘Not hyperbole.’

RABBI MICHAEL BARCLAY: Iran Shows That It Is Truly Evil and Must Be Stopped.

BLUE STATE BLUES: Virginians At More Risk Thanks to Soros-Funded Prosecutors. “At the exact moment Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger and a Democrat-majority legislature are ramming through additional gun control measures restricting the Constitutional rights of law-abiding Virginians, those responsible for putting bad guys who break the law behind bars are instead going easy and putting peaceful Virginians at risk. That includes the risk of getting murdered.”

More details at the link than I would have imagined.

OCTOBER 7 DID NOT WORK OUT AS INTENDED: Israel Is Now the Regional Hegemon Iran Wanted to Be.

THIS IS A SPECIES OF CORRUPTION:

This is a demonstration of "unity" by district judges with their colleagues in other districts who have an actual dispute.

It is a disingenuous effort to demonstrate "non-partisanship" in the judiciary. https://t.co/Tn2KY5aY67

— Shipwreckedcrew (@shipwreckedcrew) March 18, 2026

From the replies: “Yet Chief Justice Roberts backhands the President, whilst doing nothing to stop political activists masquerading as Judges.”

Related:

Activists in black robes cosplaying as presidents aren’t judges

They’re imposters—subverters of the constitutional order—pretending to be something they’re not

They have earned every bit of the “hostility” hardworking Americans feel toward them https://t.co/fMfKyY23s7

— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) March 18, 2026

Moral authority is the judiciary’s real currency, and they’re embarrassing drunken sailors with their reckless spending.

GOODER AND HARDER, NEW YORK: Mamdani’s 15 mph speed limit isn’t about safety, it’s a money grab.

At a time when New Yorkers are already struggling with affordability, the mayor’s proposal risks becoming something else entirely: another automated toll on drivers.

Let’s start with the obvious question critics have already raised: Why would school-zone limits apply 24 hours a day?

Kids aren’t walking to school at midnight.

They aren’t crossing streets at 3 a.m.

Yet drivers could still be ticketed in the middle of the night for exceeding the limit in an empty school zone.

That’s not a safety policy. It turns speed cameras into toll booths.

And the money involved isn’t trivial.

New York City already collects hundreds of millions of dollars each year from speed-camera tickets, according to city reports. Expanding enforcement to thousands of locations means dramatically increasing the number of places where those cameras can issue fines.

One way or another, New Yorkers will be made to pay for Mamdani’s schemes.

ARM THE BRITS:

Prediction: Just as the Iranian people are cheering on the US-Israeli campaign to end mullah rule, so will the English, Scots, Welsh and Irish welcome the inevitable campaign against Britainistan. pic.twitter.com/JrhpJevT5P

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) March 18, 2026

PAST PERFORMANCE DOES NOT GUARANTEE FUTURE RESULTS…:

Media said Tesla would fail.

Today, Tesla is worth $1.25 trillion.

Media said SpaceX would fail.

Today, SpaceX is dominating the space industry.

Media said 𝕏 would fail.

Today, 𝕏 is the #1 source of News.

Now they are saying Grok will fail. 👀

— DogeDesigner (@cb_doge) March 18, 2026

…but I wouldn’t bet against Elon, either.

YES: It’s Always Been Telling That Dems Won’t Even Acknowledge the Possibility of Election Fraud.

SOCIAL MEDIA — OR AT LEAST X — IS THE PLACE TO GIVE THEM THE ATTENTION THEY DESERVE:

The way many American commentators and even elected officials are rooting for the US to lose, sometimes subtly, sometimes rather obviously, is not getting enough attention. https://t.co/L4OJgpXGZX

— David Bernstein (@ProfDBernstein) March 18, 2026

MAKE IRAN ZOROASTRIAN AGAIN: Defiant Iranians celebrate ancient fire festival despite war.

As dusk falls across Iran on Tuesday, bonfires, fireworks and street gatherings take place to mark Chaharshanbeh Suri, an ancient fire festival that has also become a public act of defiance, this year unfolding under war, heavy security and fears of bloodshed.

Iranian authorities have issued stark warnings ahead of Chaharshanbeh Suri, pointing to what they describe as wartime conditions and the risk of unrest.

Nevertheless, Iranians celebrated the festival.

I guess stark warnings don’t mean much right now.