BREAKING: President Trump confirms that the United States has bombed the B1 bridge in Karaj. This is civilian...

[demmiblue]

BREAKING

President Trump confirms that the United States has bombed the B1 bridge in Karaj.

This is civilian infrastructure, a major transportation artery.

Where are the MIGA people now?

How’s your Amoo Lindsey doing?

BREAKING

President Trump confirms that the United States has bombed the B1 bridge in Karaj.

This is civilian infrastructure, a major transportation artery.

Where are the MIGA people now?

How’s your Amoo Lindsey doing?

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yasharali.bsky.social) 2026-04-02T16:46:16.563Z

[UpInArms]

1. He's going to think that was a "win"

for about 10 minutes

[orangecrush]

33. And we will pay for it

[Irish_Dem]

76. And we will have to pay to rebuild it I bet.

[orangecrush]

82. Very likely

[Klarkashton]

2. Trump is a madman.

[PCIntern]

3. Are and his family prepared for the Fatwa?

Say what you want about the Iranians, But I wouldn’t fuck with them without being ready to find out.

[EYESORE 9001]

17. And in my hierarchy of ways I'd prefer that he leave office

that scenario is my least favorite. Can you imagine the martyrdom? He would be apotheosisized and canonized in one fell swoop.

[MadameButterfly]

34. Agree

I want him in jail, not a coffin. While he is alive he will continue to destroy his legacy. Once dead, they'll create a myth that will be hard to touch.

[Horse with no Name]

19. My prayer is that they find him and his family

If that is our only way out, then so be it.

[harumph]

52. Despite the crazy leaders, they do seem to be an innovative people.

plucky-crazy?

[AloeVera]

53. 8,000 years of civilization taught them a few things I gather.

To them, WE are the barbarians.

And Trump is proving them right.

[róisín_dubh]

84. This.

Persian civilisation- like Chinese civilisation- has been around a long ass time. They’ve seen it all pretty much and can just wait us out.
This won’t end well for the US

[Jack Valentino]

77. ..... and if we carry them out, his threats against the electrical and drinking water Iranian infrastructure of Iran

are NOT going to lead the people of Iran to rebel against their own government---
not when some other government (us) is BOMBING them and cutting off
their water and electricity !!!!

The end result would seem to be that 'The Great Satan'
that their own government has been warning them about (us)
for 40-some years will have DESTROYED their quality of life
while killing very many of them....

Seems to me that our attacks on them will destroy any chances
for the 'internal rebellion' which we were hoping would happen,
and indeed was STARTING to happen, before we initiated this
'Epstein Files Fury War' !

Trump and his advisors FAILED basic psychology courses, or more likely never took any---
(or some instructors were 'paid off' to 'pass' them)---

[City Lights]

4. I miss Keith Olbermann's Worst Person in the World.

Rapist would win it every day, hands down.

[SheLiberal]

13. He still does them.

Keith still does worst persons on his Countdown podcast twice a week!

[City Lights]

14. Oh wow! I had no idea!

I'm not a big podcast person, but I will have to look into this! Thanks so much for letting me know!!

[Wiz Imp]

30. Keith's podcast can be found here

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-countdown-with-keith-olbe-99705496/
or
https://podcasts.apple.com/hn/podcast/countdown-with-keith-olbermann/id1633301179

They drop at midnight, Monday and Thursday mornings.

[City Lights]

42. Thank you so much!

I really appreciate it!

[Intractable]

16. He still does Worst Persons in his podcast, which drops about twice weekly.

In the latest edition, he was sticking it to Katy Tur.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1322111045

[City Lights]

20. Thanks for the info!

I appreciate it!

[Intractable]

26. The podcast is arranged in true journalistic style.

The important stuff is up front, generally consisting of newsworthy topics.

By the time you get to the end, he's dishing dirt on his ex-girlfriends (like Katy Tur) or former colleagues (like Rachel Maddow).

If you listen to enough of these podcasts, you hear the same dirt about the same people.

[City Lights]

40. Good to know, thanks! nt

[Volaris]

62. He does, and trump is. Everyone else is now OTHER Worst Persons.

[dalton99a]

5. Trump Gives Netanyahu Another Orgasm

[H2O Man]

7. Thank you.

[leftstreet]

10. +1

[generalbetrayus]

31. PLEASE, no video!

[MustLoveBeagles]

6. Isn't it a war crime to deliberately destroy civilian infrastructure?

[leftstreet]

21. BONDI! BONDI! BONDI!

Stop asking important questions

[MustLoveBeagles]

67. Yeah a little birdie told me Bondi was leaving

But seriously I know mistakes happen in war but this seems like a deliberate act.

[EX500rider]

50. Bridges are considered dual use & have always been legitimate targets

Their classification as "dual-use" infrastructure (civilian and military use) allows for targeting, provided the attack offers a clear military advantage and follows proportionality rules.

[MustLoveBeagles]

68. I see

Thanks for the information.

[dpibel]

80. Legitimate, with restrictions

The "provided by" seems rather to heavily qualify your "always been" subject line declaration.

I realize that there are people in the world for whom "because I say so" is sufficient clear military advantage, but I hope we do not find them here.

[Lovie777]

8. Did they kill civilians?.....

[BeyondGeography]

9. Neener neener...Look what I just did to your country!

Madness. He’s putting a big fat target on all things American.

[Doodley]

11. This is an act of terrorism.

[malaise]

15. Tut tut

It’s only terror when it’s inflicted on the US

[Fiendish Thingy]

12. Ukraine has bombed bridges too

AFAIK, bridges are considered valid targets.

[Lovie777]

22. Not when civilians are on them..............

If that's the case, a enemy can bomb one of our bridges while civilians are traveling on them.

That is a war crime.

[Fiendish Thingy]

25. There were civilian vehicles on the Crimean bridge

When Ukraine bombed it (although just a few as it was 3am)

[GCG]

23. It depends.

No, not all bridges are legal targets in war. Under international humanitarian law (the law of armed conflict), a bridge only becomes a legitimate military target if it makes an effective contribution to military action and its destruction offers a definite military advantage.

Bridges are classic examples of "dual-use" targets. While they are crucial for civilian transportation and infrastructure, their utility in moving military assets often makes them targets. The legality of targeting them often hinges on the Principle of Distinction, which requires parties to distinguish between civilian objects and military objectives.

If a bridge is used for civilian purposes, attacking it when there is no significant military advantage—or when the damage to civilians is disproportionate—is a violation of international law.

[Dixiegrrrl]

48. Hysterically ironic to me that war has rules, thus has war "crimes"

which has punishments.
War itself is not a crime, but has rules that people break and often get away with.

Insane.

[Wednesdays]

54. As said in "The Bridge on the River Kwai"

when British Colonel Nicholson told Japanese Colonel Saito that his mistreatment of prisoners of war violated the Geneva Convention, Saito snapped, "This war, not a game of cricket!"

[BeyondGeography]

28. Ukraine was invaded, we're looking to steal oil

So at best we’re talking about a valid act of war in a war of legitimate self-defense and a valid act of war in an unprovoked war of aggression.

[Johonny]

24. Has he prepared the American people for

The wave of symmetrical terrorism that is sure to follow?

[durablend]

72. "Sucks to be you"

[Greg_In_SF]

27. Bridges are generally considered

legitimate military targets under international humanitarian law (IHL), also known as the law of armed conflict, if their destruction offers a definite military advantage.

[malthaussen]

35. That usually requires a war to be declared.

Otherwise, it is just state-sponsored terrorism.

-- Mal

[leftstreet]

43. +1

[Greg_In_SF]

73. That is

incorrect.

[EX500rider]

79. When's the last time a war was "declared" ?

The United States last formally declared war during World War II, with the final declarations approved by Congress on June 4, 1942, against Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania
Yet Korea, Vietnam, Iraq I/II etc were all wars.

[malthaussen]

88. No, they weren't.

Legally, they were bullshit operations that evaded Constitutionally-mandated procedures because the US Congress is a bunch of spineless eunuchs who have cravenly and systematically surrendered their duties to the Administration. The simple act of bombing places and killing people is not "war," or every two-bit terrorist with a pipe bomb in his mother's basement is fighting a war.

That these actions are colloquially called "war" by just about everybody does not make them wars by the legal definition of the word.

And it is utter bullshit to call state-sponsered murder "war" just because it makes you feel better.

-- Mal

[EX500rider]

89. So N Korea invading S Korea & the UN voting to stop them was a "bullshit operation"?

A total of 22 nations supported South Korea under the United Nations flag, with 16 countries providing combat troops and six additional countries providing medical or non-combat assistance.

And any conflict where 2 opposing uniformed militaries go at it is a war whether you think so or not.

war
noun
a state of armed conflict between different nations or states or different groups within a nation or state.

[malthaussen]

90. You betcha.

Not a single one of the participating nations declared war. For that matter, neither did North Korea nor China. So not "wars" by any legal definition of the word.

-- Mal

[EX500rider]

91. So since Russia hasn't declared war on the Ukraine

You agree with Putin it's just a "special military operation"?

Everyone else thinks it's a war.

Modern international law (such as the Geneva Conventions) focuses on the existence of "armed conflict" rather than a formal declaration, meaning intense, sustained violence.

[malthaussen]

92. Naw, I just call it murder.

I'm simplistic like that. I am leery of anyone who uses "war" as an excuse to misbehave.

Seems to me that allowing state actors to just unload on anybody they want anytime they want and call it "war" is a step back from the Enlightenment, which while not all it was cracked up to be still tried to lessen the amount of barbarism in the world, not increase it. That was kind of the whole point of Article 1 Section 8 of the US Constitution. International law uses "armed conflict" intentionally, so that countries can't weasel out of the law by saying "it's not a war." The US Constitution attempts to be more rigorous, but of course Congress has decided to violate it, consistently and continuously. But Congress is no more above the Constitution than is the Executive: their cravenness is not legitimization.

-- Mal

[Mysterian]

44. Not relevant here because destroying the bridge has nothing to do with military objectives

But thanks for playing. We have some nice parting gifts for you backstage.

[Greg_In_SF]

74. Are you in Iran

and able to confirm that there was zero Iranian military activity on the bridge?

[dpibel]

81. So it's your position this was obviously justified?

Just want to make sure I'm understanding you correctly.

Put another way: In your jurisprudence, if an Iranian soldier has crossed that bridge, it's a legitimate target?

[Greg_In_SF]

83. No

absolutely not! What I'm saying is that no one knows.

Now, technically, if the bridge was used to transport military equipment, it is an approved target.

[Mysterian]

86. LMAO

What a foolish post.

[AloeVera]

65. Nice try.

Proportionality and distinction play a role too, not just military advantage.

Good luck fitting in those principles to this obviously wanton act of destruction, terrorism against civilians and blackmail.

Though IHL doesn't apply to "excursions" in the first place, does it?

[pwb]

29. Arrest this Trump guy

and Netanyahu and Putin and put them all on trial together for the world to see. Only a few men are causing all this. The world will be better without their fucked up leadership. What an example all three set ? It is like a game for them, who can be the biggest asshole to humanity?

[orangecrush]

32. He has flipped his lid completely

God help us

[Harker]

36. He exhibits the sort of childish joy he felt when the East Wing was demolished.

[IcyPeas]

37. Who chooses the targets? Hegseth?

[Dixiegrrrl]

49. Miller has been reported to be actively involved also. n/t

[Mblaze]

38. I can hear the abusive father now...

"This is going to hurt me more than it hurts you".

It was bullshit then, it's bullshit now.

[Whip-poor-will]

47. Amen

Amen again

[SamuelTheThird]

39. I thought they were begging for a deal

[0rganism]

41. And now all civilian infrastructure in the USA becomes fair game, nice work dumbass

F47 and the entire chain of command responsible for executing this obviously-illegal order are now war criminals, state terrorists. Top to bottom. This event marks the absolute end of a century where America and our ideals were widely seen as aspirational. Now we've become transparently evil, a warning flag to the rest of the world. And when the next terror attack on the mainland happens, we will respond with the usual barrage of awful things once again, but we will do them alone.

[flashman13]

55. Some sort of significant retaliation is inevitable. Trump and his minions have laid us open to attack.

Was that just a function of his stupidity or was it intentional?

BTW Don't get bit by a skunk. There will be no one at CDC to test you for rabies. There is also no one at the Iranian desk in the FBI. Thomas Fugate is a nobody 22 year old Trump campaign staffer, U of Texas class of 2024, that sits at the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships security desk to combat violent extremism.

Good Luck! We are going to need it.

[EuterpeThelo]

60. Yes, sadly

this time, there will be no headlines from the former allies we've repeatedly insulted proclaiming "we are all Americans now."

[bluestarone]

45. Too much bad news in TSF's future. He KNOWS his goose is cooked this election. (if no cheating takes place)

So Expect what you would expect if a RAT is cornered. Even a nuclear device being used in Iran.

[BidenRocks]

46. Fuck his deal!

Anything signed under duress and extortion is not valid.

[Doodley]

57. He has already said their oil is there for the taking, so we can see what his "deal" would look like.

[bucolic_frolic]

51. Mexico will pay for that bridge!

This is sadistic.

[Doodley]

56. This proves Trump lied.repeatedly 1/ The war has been won. 2/ This isn't a war. 3/ They are reasonable people because

they sent me a prize. 4/ We are negotiating with them. 5/ We don't need help from our allies because we have already won. 6/ We have achieved our objectives. None of these things can be true if he is still destroying their infrastructure and threatening to send them back to the stone age. He is a deranged lunatic who single-handedly has created a global crisis.

[EuterpeThelo]

71. Agreed

except for the part about single-handedly. Every one of his corrupt, cowardly, incompetent enablers has blood on their hands.

[Doodley]

75. Good point!

[blue-wave]

58. Putin definitely approves this war

The whole mess is a page or two out of Putin's playbook.

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

59. Bridge over troubled water(s). Water/s equals: theology.

Religious war.

[Passages]

61. USA, the pariah state.

Just think of the hatred just among Americans for this guy. 8 million on the streets last Saturday, visible in defiance of his presidency.

Across the globe, remember that he intentionally hurt Cubans and their babies, his threats to Greenland, his coup in Venezuela, what he allows for in Gaza, and what we fund.

His ICE agents across our country, the terror and death alone by that agency under his orders.

Blowback: unintended consequences, side-effects, or repercussions that result from an activity that has a negative effect on U.S. national security interests.
https://www.cia.gov/resources/spy-glossary/

[ShazzieB]

63. When one meme just isn't enough...

I could literally do this all day. But I'll stop now.

[ShazzieB]

64. Let me be the first to say this...

[ananda]

66. You can see where this is going. No bridge...

in the ME is safe now.

Iran says bridges are fair game now.

https://bsky.app/search?q=karaj

[Nanjeanne]

69. Making us safer by making enemies all over the world.

[pat_k]

70. The felon's list of war crimes are mounting. The U.S. is a global pariah on all fronts.

Any military leader with a moral fiber left should go public with refusals.

[David__77]

78. I wonder if citizens of another country are picking the targets.

[Martin Eden]

85. Maybe he'll join his pal Putie on the ICC list of war criminals with arrest warrants

Should he step foot on any country that is a member of the International Criminal Court.

[Kingofalldems]

87. I see a couple of Trump's not so secret pals jumped into this thread.

It was an act of terrorism from the guy who said "Kill all Muslims!"

Link to tweet