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show so that you don't have to. I'm Katie Halper. I'm Mary Maddie. Good Monday morning. Thank you so much

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Yeah.

It's a great way to push back on the algorithmic suppression that we face.

And not just to get personal validation, although that's, of course, nice.

Yes.

Well, it's also nice to start the week with a barrage of pro-war propaganda. That's what we're going to do today.

And let's start with actually some breaking news. So on the Sunday morning news shows, a lot of people at the top of the Trump administration who are behind this war, like Marco Rubio, J.D. Vance, Tulsi Gabbard, have been nowhere to be found. But Markerubio

actually popped up today on Good Morning America. So we thought we'd start with that. This is

from earlier this morning. Marker Rubio on how the war is going as Trump is surging more

forces to the region, threatening a possible ground invasion. And in his latest

social media post, as we're going to air, he's just reiterated his threat to blow up all of Iran's

infrastructure, including its water desalination plants. And what he said would be retribution for 47 years

of Iranian attack. So he's just becoming more and more forthright in threatening war crimes.

And, of course, everyone just nods because this is supposedly normal for the world's top power

to just threaten a massive country with destruction of its civilian infrastructure.

But that's what he's doing.

And also being mad at them for existing and for daring to have governments that the United

States doesn't like after we meddled to overthrow their democratically elected leader,

Mossedek.

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