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This underscores the central dilemma in trying to get Iran to a deal: "Iranian officials made clear to the mediators they don't want to be caught in a Gaza or Lebanon situation where there is a ceasefire on paper, but the US and Israel can attack again whenever they want to."
For now, Iran believes its control of Hormuz is the thing that will prevent such an outcome: that the ability to cause chaos in the global economy will serve as a deterrent in the future. Plus it wants to use the strait as a revenue stream.
Yet for America (and Gulf states) there is no acceptable deal in which Iran retains such control.
So for the American negotiators, Hormuz looks like a point of leverage that Iran should trade for security and economic benefits; for the Iranians, Hormuz itself is a security and economic benefit. axios.com/2026/04/06/ira…
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@AN1Guitarman @Wade__Appleby @JerryDunleavy He voted for Trump, supports Trump, and ran DOGE with Trump. Seems right wing as things are currently affiliated.
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@Wade__Appleby @JerryDunleavy lol no I just held onto my common sense for more than a decade.
Just because you’re a radical leftist doesn’t make him right wing, he’s just right of you lol
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Jackson Hinkle is a self-described Marxist-Leninist and is a founder of the American Communist Party. Labeling him as right wing is insane.
Nate Silver@NateSilver538
These are the Twitter/X accounts with the most engagement so far in 2026. I suppose I had some intuition for how bad it was, but jeez, this is what you get when the ecosystem is broken.
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@cturnbull1968 They would probably be fine with a ceasefire with everything locked in the way it is now. They control the Strait.
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The Iranians have said that Trump is “negotiating with himself.”
BRICS News@BRICSinfo
JUST IN: 🇺🇸🇮🇷 United States and Iran discuss terms for a 45-day ceasefire that could lead to a permanent end to the war, Axios reports.
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@DoucheFinder_ @RpsAgainstTrump lol. The deadline was Monday.
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@RpsAgainstTrump This is a true leader who does what he says he will.
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We’re living in the dumbest timeline
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Weird how Iran and the US are always close to reaching a deal every weekend just before the stock market opens.
Republicans against Trump@RpsAgainstTrump
BREAKING: Trump tells Axios the United States is “in deep negotiations” with Iran and says a deal could be reached before his Tuesday deadline. “There is a good chance, but if they don’t make a deal, I am blowing up everything over there,” he said.
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Part of what makes Trump’s reluctance to aid Ukraine so maddening is that “resist conquest by a neighboring country” is a classic achievable goal.
Ukrainians need a lot of help because Russia is much bigger, but it’s totally doable.
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A consistent theme of the last 25 years is that the American military is tactically brilliant, which repeatedly leads politicians to come up with ambitious strategic goals for the use of military force that can’t really be achieved.
The Wall Street Journal@WSJ
Friday marked one of the most complex search-and-rescue efforts for the Air Force in decades. on.wsj.com/4mdKoaP
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Our political culture and national leadership are now so degraded by MAGA that a US president has no problem dropping f-bombs in public communications, threatening war crimes, and mocking the second-biggest religion in the world.
(And, yes, destroying any of the power plants in Tehran would clearly meet the definition of a war crime.)
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@JonahDispatch That’s a real post? Hmmm. Does not look real.
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@neoavatara @KurtSchlichter Anyone rational would take that trade.
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@KurtSchlichter I mean...90% of Americans happily will take that trade.
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Wrong, I remember repeated claims 4+ weeks.
“Early Statements
• He told outlets like the Daily Mail and The New York Times that the operation was planned to last four to five weeks, while noting the US had the capability to go “far longer” if needed.
• Trump and his administration described the US as being “ahead of schedule” in the early weeks, even as the conflict extended beyond the initial projection. “
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Keep seeing tweets like "hopefully Trump uses the rescue of the downed airmen as an off-ramp to end the war" and I am amazed at how many people on this website seem to have been born yesterday
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@rr1955 @glcarlstrom Give me a break. According to him, he thought it would last three days only. ynetnews.com/article/rj4xwe…
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Right, he says plans and timeline in plane English, but with TDS, they don’t believe him. They claim no plans or timeline, I wasn’t born yesterday, why I know Trump will end it with a bang and get out in short order. If you don’t know that you were born yesterday and have zero business sense.
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@danielbarkeley @ModeledBehavior You are moving the goalposts. The original post was accurate.
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@ModeledBehavior Is the Chrysler brand's decline worse than Pontiac, Saturn, Oldsmobile, Eagle, or Mercury?
Those brands have significantly less than 120k in annual unit sales (none), and yet their parent companies are doing just fine.
The focus one historic brand is not sensible.
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Chrysler makes 13 models of vehicles across 3 brands and sold 1.2 million vehicles last year.
But by all means, keep spouting those auto industry hot takes.
You're doing great, champ.
Adam Ozimek@ModeledBehavior
Big 3 is a bit of a misnomer now. Chrysler is owned by Stellantis, only makes one model of vehicle, sold 126,000 vehicles last year.
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@neoavatara @AGHamilton29 Seems high probability that she is anti Iran regime. Lots of daughters reject the politics of their parents.
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@AGHamilton29 YUP.
I keep saying that this is really the biggest immigration question confronting us.
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This is absolutely be the question people should be asking. It’s crazy.
We have zero real standards and vetting. This isn’t some estranged daughter who escaped from Iran. The result is so to undermine the otherwise valid arguments for the benefits of legal immigration.
Sunny@sunnyright
Why the fuck did Ali Larijani’s daughter have permanent residency in the United States?
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@DIREWOLF817 @Nwotnot @ShaykhSulaiman @TheProleStar It doesn’t matter if everyone he ever talked to is dead. The regime is still in place.
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@FlattsBridge @Nwotnot @ShaykhSulaiman @TheProleStar Yeah that one is dead too they are just not admitting it and because he likely died in Russia it will be a long time before it leaks out.
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TWO STATEMENTS BY TRUMP 7 MINUTES APART:
Trump at 9:00: "Regime change was not our goal. We don't want that"
Trump at 9:07: "Regime change is what we want. It is needed"
These statements were made 7 minutes apart in the same speech
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And on Monday morning, an hour before the markets open, Trump will announce that Iran has agreed to a deal.
Later in the day, Iran will say they have no idea what he is talking about and they will launch more missiles.
*Walter Bloomberg@DeItaone
Trump says Iran has 48 hours to make deal or US will unleash 'Hell'
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@ianbremmer Also, taking the island oil terminal is not the same as taking the oil. The oil comes from other places.
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“taking the oil” is a coherent response. but it’s unacceptable as justification for war—this is not a war goal americans would support.
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if the united states has
1) already destroyed iran’s military capabilities
2) has the ability to hit iran at any point if they try to gain access to their enriched uranium and
3) isn’t interested in (or has already achieved) regime change
all of which president trump has said repeatedly
what is the point of continuing the war?
how can it be justified to the american people, never mind the rest of the world?
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@Nwotnot @ShaykhSulaiman @TheProleStar I love “regime change” when the guy in power has the same name as the last guy in power.
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@mattyglesias It’s too hot in much of the south to walk everywhere.
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What’s perverse about America is that we have the most walkable built environment mostly in the places with the worst weather.
Boston MSA leads in walking commute mode share, imagine if they had San Diego’s weather.
Benjamin NetanYolo@NetanYolo
I would guess 75% of this country deals with either freezing winters or 105+ degree summers. Shut the fuck up already about “walkability”.
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