Two-Faced Trump Proposes End to War While Planning Invasion – The Monday AM Quickie 3/30/26

By Whitney Curry Wimbish — Mar 30, 2026

Big thanks to Corey for covering for me while I went hiking in Utah. I failed to discover anything new about Skinwalker Ranch, but I did learn that one of Brigham Young’s sons was a drag queen who performed under the name Madam Pattirini. – Whitney

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THE BIG NEWS

War on Iran: Pentagon Prepares for Ground Battle

Two-Faced Trump Considering Weeks of Ground Fighting While Simultaneously Sending Iran Proposal to End War He Started The 15-point plan to end Operation Epic ~~Fury~~ Failure, delivered via Pakistan, shows “the Trump administration’s eagerness to find an offramp from the conflict as it grapples with its economic fallout.” Iranian officials “publicly rebuffed the offer” and accused Trump of playacting diplomacy while planning to invade. via the NYT and Washington Post.
US, Israel Have Killed at Least 3,461 People in Iran According to the US-based group Human Rights Activist News Agency, about half of the dead are civilians and 236 are children. via ABC News.
Foreign Ministers from Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Turkey Convene in Pakistan “Discussions are expected to focus on recent developments related to regional military escalation and ongoing diplomatic efforts to contain tensions and promote de-escalation,” according to the Egyptian government. Participating countries are “seeking to coordinate their stances and support political solutions to emerging crises.” Officials from the US and Iran didn’t go. via The Hill and the NYT.
Houthis Bomb Israel in Support of Iran and Regional Allies The fighters in Yemen joined the war for the first time and vowed more attacks “until the aggression on all resistance fronts stops.” via the AP, New York Times and Washington Post.
Israel Rocked by Iranian Missiles, Rations ‘Best Interceptors’ Iran’s ballistic missiles are scoring “direct hits” on various areas; Israel is trying and failing to intercept weapons “with modified versions of less advanced munitions” in an effort to preserve their dwindling supply of “expensive, difficult-to-manufacture” interceptors. via the WSJ.
Russia Surveilled US Airbase Before Iranian Attack, Ukraine Says President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s spy agencies found Russian satellites had captured images of the Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia on March 20, 23 and 25,” before Iran bombed it on March 26. “Zelenskyy said that based on Ukraine’s experience, Russia’s repeated photographing of installations over several days is an indication of attack planning.” via NBC News.
Global Farmers Panic Over Impending Fertilizer Shortage Trump’s war is “threatening to choke supplies of vital crop nutrients entirely” because the Gulf region is “at the heart of global fertiliser markets.” Researchers at the University of Edinburgh found that “if fertiliser prices rise from roughly $300–$350 a tonne to around $900–$1,000 and remain elevated, global food prices could increase by 60 to 100 per cent, pushing up to 100mn additional people into undernourishment — a far larger impact than disruptions to grain trade alone.” via the Financial Times.
Israel Expands Journalist Murder Spree Just as they’ve done in Palestine, the rogue state is executing reporters in the war on Iran, including bombing the car of three journalists in South Lebanon on Saturday, killing them all. The same day, Israeli soldiers attacked, beat, and damaged the equipment of a CNN crew in occupied West Bank. via CNN and the Guardian.

GOP Spending Cuts Kicked Millions of Seniors Off Health Insurance

Medicare Advantage, the privatized version of Medicare, is abandoning senior citizens by the millions because it’s no longer profitable to serve them, the Washington Post reported. Per the Post: “In all, almost 3 million people were forced off Medicare Advantage plans because their carriers pulled out of their counties, according to a recent analysis in the medical journal JAMA. Most affected seniors nationally had other Medicare Advantage options to choose from, but around 30,000 did not, according to a new analysis by KFF, a health research organization.” The communities most harmed are in Idaho and other rural states.

QUICKEST QUICKIES

Gaza Toddler Released from Israeli Custody With Torture Wounds Israeli soldiers detained 21-month-old Jawad Abu Nassar; they released him with “severe burns around and behind his knees, as well as a wound caused by a sharp object,” which doctors said were “signs of torture and cigarette burns.” via the Independent and Sky News.
Trump Signs Executive Order to Pay TSA Workers “Tens of thousands” of employees have been working without pay for 44 days as of yesterday; the Department of Homeland Security claims nearly 500 officers have quit since the shutdown began. via the AP.
Handala Hackers Crack FBI Director Kash Patel’s Personal Gmail Account, Publish Emails and Photos Patel’s agency seized some of Handala’s websites last week; hackers said he “shouldn’t have started a confrontation and conflict with us.” via NBC News.
Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content Meanwhile, an editor at Fortune bragged in a lengthy and fawning profile that he generates articles with AI, which drew 20 percent of the magazine’s web traffic last year. via 404 Media and The Guardian.

SOME NUMBER

$72.5 million

That’s how much Bank of America agreed to pay to settle a lawsuit brought by hundreds of survivors of dead convicted sex offender and Trump friend Jeffrey Epstein. If approved by a judge, it will be the third payout by a major bank to resolve claims that the bank financially benefitted from their relationship with Epstein and ignored signs that he was using his accounts to facilitate crimes against girls and women. The earlier settlements were $290 million from JPMorgan Chase and $75 million from Deutsche Bank. These amounts are nothing but pocket change; Bank of America Corp.’s settlement is about 0.022 percent of its nearly $336 billion market cap.

ON THE SHOW TODAY

3/30: Sam and Emma are in the studio today and their guest is Molly Crabapple, artist and author, on to discuss her new book, Here Where We Live is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund.

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PARTING WORDS

“I’m angry that the Canadians don’t want to come here any more. And I don’t blame them. I was thinking yesterday, I wish I didn’t live in this country, because I don’t like it anymore. I don’t like the news that I’m hearing. I don’t like the [Iran] war … It’s too much for me to handle.”

-- Judy, a 73-year-old former teacher who co-owns an antique shop in Lewiston, New York, a town on the border with Canada near Niagara Falls. She told The Guardian she’s losing hope that sales at her shop will rebound; they dropped 20 percent last year.

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