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It depends on the (((context))).

@mikeeisenberg Would love to share your excellent analysis with a colleague who does not read Hebrew. Is there a translation?

What he said.

@ScottJenningsKY @SpencerGuard What about the ballistic missile stockpiles?

🚨After receiving a briefing from a Senior TRUMP Administration Official on the status of the Iran negotiations (someone in the know & not just speculating), I can tell you the following: -USA IS NOT GIVING IRANIANS MONEY FOR NOTHING. All speculation and propaganda to the contrary is false. Some hardline elements of Iran’s govt (IRGC) have pushed fake stories & propaganda to try to kill this negotiation. -Iran deal is NOT done (95%, but still haggling over some language). No deal being signed today. May be a few more days before this is done. -Iran will NOT get any money or sanctions relief up front. -Iran must turn over nuclear stockpile to get anything. USA position is that failure to meet deal commitments means Iran gets nothing. -Long term USA objective is preventing Iran from having nuclear weapon. -Initial deal point is to re-establish free flow of commerce by reopening Strait of Hormuz. Deal should have 2 phases: Step 1 - Open Strait of Hormuz. Give world economy breathing room. Iran agrees to give up enriched uranium. Step 2 - Get the nuclear material turned over. Only then can Iran get sanctions relief. Bottom line: goal is to make a deal that lowers costs for Americans, calms world energy markets, and guarantees that Iranians cannot have a nuclear weapon over the long term. We aren’t there yet. Iran takes forever to get you a response on even small things. But we are close although it still could be a few days. “If we get what we are demanding, this is going to be a historic deal,” SAO says. SAO sounds prepared to do no deal at all if all Iran will do is a “bad deal.” SAO admits deal could fall apart yet. But if a deal is reached, SAO expects very senior USA admin officials to take part in a signing ceremony of some sort. Iran has agreed in principle to the framework but there are still a couple points USA isn’t satisfied with. 95% done. But literally changing words sometimes requires days in Iran’s system. Haggling over language. But USA feels like we have a commitment on nuclear stockpile and on opening Strait of Hormuz. If IRAN doesn’t deliver on commitments, they get nothing. “Iran’s ability to project power is a lot more limited than it was two months ago,” SAO says. “Their industrial base for building ballistic missiles has been substantially destroyed.”

@ZeviFischer @ClayTravis Rubio beats him easily.

@ClayTravis I disagree. Rahm Emmanuel will run and get the nomination

Kamala is going to be the nominee. The more Gavin Newsom talks the less people like him. If he were a black woman that wouldn’t matter, but Newsom has no base. He and Mayor Pete will battle for the white wine moms. Shapiro is Jewish and done. It’s going to be Kamala.

@VivianBercovici @EylonALevy Nah. His Orangeness isn’t at the Chamberlain level. Yet.

Either this is the most brilliant psy op. Ever. Or the most humiliating capitulation by the putative leader of the free world. Sometimes there is no middle ground. You do not negotiate with religious terrorist fanatics who are committed to destroying the West. Never surrender.

@davidfrum Epic troll, if true.

The verse Lander recited was an Arabic-language denunciation of the Christian doctrine of the divinity of Jesus Christ. Jewish candidates for office normally show more respect for the majority faith in this country.

@GilStudent Only הרה״ג? You should add at least כ״ק מרן…

@EphraimGopin You have a 2 day Yom Tov.

Is today Thursday or Friday?

@HowieRose Argh it was Torve, not Brogna. Howie, you are the font of all Mets knowledge.

We might have a latter day Kelvin Torve story brewing. At the end of the day, a fun little anecdote for years from now. If you don’t know the saga of Kelvin Torve look it up. I’m late for the early bird.

@HowieRose Absolutely agree. It is a slap in the face to both Gary Carter and Yogi Berra. Even if not officially retired, the number should never have been assigned to anyone else. Same as Rico Brogna getting #24 back in the day.

It appears that most fans are opposed to the Mets releasing #8 (to call up Nick Morabito) after having not issued it for 25 years. There’s been a debate over whether Gary Carter’s number should be retired, but to release it this 40th anniversary season of 1986 just seems wrong.

@YeahThatsKosher @DanAmira @NoahMallin It still sucks less than NJTransit.

@DanAmira @NoahMallin I call it the LIAR

I’ve never felt more gaslit. I’m from Long Island. I’ve taken the LIRR my whole life. I’ve never once heard a single person pronounce it “lurr,” ever

@JYuter @AmiDar In the seventies we didn’t have Claude. We had ed.

@GeekYUAlum @AmiDar *Real* geeks don't communicate with humans.

@JYuter @AmiDar Please. Real geeks use write(1)

@AmiDar ICQ even allowed for live chatting (not unlike the "talk" command in *nix)

@AmitSegal Kind of funny that you are using the Hail Mary metaphor, of Christian origin, to describe Haredi Kremlinology.

It’s the fourth quarter, last down, and Benjamin Netanyahu is throwing a Hail Mary. After admitting to ultra-Orthodox leaders that he lacked the votes to pass their conscription exemption, the coalition found itself barreling toward a Wednesday vote on dissolution. While Haredi factions are pushing for a September election, Netanyahu is desperate to run the clock down to its legal limit in October. This delay would buy him crucial time to fast-track his legislative agenda and secure potential political victories abroad. To force this delay, the prime minister is executing one final play: returning the controversial draft bill to the agenda for advancement this Wednesday. Will this preserve his coalition? Quite possibly. The Haredi United Torah Judaism party is currently split in its strategy. Half of the party is threatening to dissolve the coalition because of the draft bill, while the other half is using the draft bill as a pretext to dissolve the coalition. The pro-alliance half wants to maintain the current government to secure further gains. Its goals include a five-year plan that transfers hundreds of millions of shekels to ultra-Orthodox community programs, alongside an amenable draft bill. Even if the Supreme Court will inevitably strike the new legislation down, it would still grant the community a few crucial months free from government sanctions. Meanwhile, the pro-election half is done with Netanyahu. They believe a brighter, more amenable political alliance awaits them on the other side of an election. Motti Babchik, a top aide to UTJ Chairman Yitzhak Goldknopf, belongs to this faction. He argues that nothing has functionally changed regarding the coalition’s lack of a majority, dismissing Netanyahu’s latest maneuver as a mere “noise-making” tactic designed solely to delay the inevitable election. Still, they wouldn’t call it a Hail Mary if it wasn’t a prayer. Netanyahu is betting on the pro-alliance faction winning out and is marshaling his team for the final push. The prime minister’s office spent the weekend aggressively whipping votes, calling nearly all coalition members and threatening to publicly shame Likud MKs who secretly oppose the bill but fear political blowback. With Likud primaries set to determine electoral list positions before the elections, members must weigh which carries the darker mark: Likud traitor or draft dodger. But behind the scenes, Netanyahu is working on a backup plan. The coalition is launching a legislative blitz in a race to advance controversial judicial and media overhaul bills before the dissolution vote. This includes a media regulation bill and a proposal to split the role of the attorney general into three distinct positions. Without getting too deeply into the technicalities, the latter bill would effectively remove the biggest thorn in the coalition’s side: Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara. Netanyahu initially cited this legislation as a reason for the Haredim—the attorney general’s archrivals—to delay leaving the coalition. Ultimately, this legislative push serves one of two purposes. It is either an incentive to keep the coalition together, or it’s an insurance policy, ensuring that even if the government falls, the coalition racks up some serious ideological points before the election.

People say the left and the right can’t agree on anything these days. But there is this one thing:

Cause the reporting is bullshit? Ya know, shot in the dark.

@brhodes Because the conduct is a hoax based on Hamas sources. But I recall you were nicknamed Hamas so makes sense you’d endorse this libel.

@simmy_cohen 2027-2028 Mac. Cool.

Does this mean it’s official?

I think @YUathletics should refuse to play SLC until this is resolved.

@sfrantzman I am 55. Was 31 on 9/11, and can definitely say that 10/7 was more significant in changing my world view.

A personal observation. 9/11 was certainly a defining moment for me and I'd say that for a short period after it was a kind of radicalizing moment in terms of my views. For a short time. Years later the October 7 attack which I experienced directly and then covered the war throughout; was not as radicalizing. It was hardening, to be sure. Traumatic, yes; and that is ongoing. However, what I've observed among some people who are my generation or a bit older or younger, is that Oct. 7 was radicalizing. The comments I get today from people wouldn't have been normal for those people years ago. There are always extremists, of course; and bigots. All I can say is that for me the attack didn't change my fundamental views. It was, for a time, a hardening experience. I grew out my beard, I was back and forth to the front and to communities that were destroyed. It was difficult. But war is difficult and so is massacre. I'd seen it in Iraq with the ISIS genocide of Yazidis. Maybe that is one reason that for me it wasn't world changing. I'd seen the genocide in Iraq, even been to the mass graves when bones were being unearthed and pieces of clothing. I knew what extremists are capable of. I would have argued that is why one shouldn't have a Hamas on the border and have a border lightly defended. Sadly, large numbers paid for that unlearned lesson. Anyway, not sure what the point overall is here, but I found 9/11 to be a more world changing event for me, than October 7. I think a lot of my views were baked in by the time of October 7. It reinforced a few.