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I had no significant interactions with Jeffrey Epstein.

First Lady asks Congress to bring Epstein survivors in for testimony. With all due respect, that’s @DAGToddBlanche’s job! @RepRoKhanna & I already gave brave survivors a chance to tell their horrific stories on Capitol Hill. @PamBondi wouldn’t even acknowledge them. PROSECUTE!

Alex Jones slams Trump, “5-6 times a day, it's, 'Oh, we won, it's over. No, it's gonna go on forever. I'll never let them have the Strait. Yes, we're giving up the Strait. I'm getting out of NATO. We're staying in NATO.’”

Reza Pahlavi still dreams to rule Iran but in an interview to French TV asks the US and Israel to keep bombing the country. What a terrible human being he is!

The previous administration was about trans politics only radicals asked for. So our administration is about Middle East wars only radicals asked for. Take that shitlibs

Good news: Israel says Operation Eternal Darkness will be a little more low-key going forward.

TRUMP: “Candace Owens is stupid, low IQ, and doesn’t have what it takes. That’s why she has a third-rate podcast that nobody is talking about and gets no views.” Trump just said this about the person with the top-ranked podcast in the world. What a retard.

Lmao. Even more danger, folks, than the nuclear holocaust threatened just this Tuesday!!!

Mark Levin is the real maga now lmao Man. Trump is so lame now.

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Tucker Carlson: "Why can't this president, or any president, say no to Israel?" "Why does this tiny country have so much control over our government?"

This is beyond shameful: x.com/atrupar/status… When asked if it "bothered him at all" when Trump "threatened to kill the entire Iranian civilization," Rutte's response was simply: "what I want you to know is I support the President and I know a large part of Europe do." If Europe cared at all about the "values" it supposedly has, this should be cause for immediate dismissal, and potentially criminal prosecution - publicly endorsing genocide would be classified as illegal hate speech in several EU countries, including in the Netherlands (Rutte's own country).

Joe Kent deserves the Nobel Peace Prize I think going forward If the US Director of the United States National Counterterrorism Center warns you that a particular country has infiltrated your government It’s worth listening to.

Horrifying scenes from Beirut #Lebanon today. Nearly 100 Israeli airstrikes in less than 10 minutes, in broad daylight, with rush hour traffic heard in background. At least 89 killed…

The US jointly charging a Strait of Hormuz toll with the Iranians isn't something that will occur in this reality. But Trump's suggestion is another example of how asinine his thinking about economics. In this scenario, the US would collect annual toll revenue of roughy $4 billion a year (back of the envelop calculation of half of take from taxing all Hormuz transitting oil shipments at 2%). That's around a third of the *daily* cost of the war in Iran. This would come at the price of a undermining freedom of transit, a core aspect of international law that the US has championed and benefited from more than anyone.

Netanyahu double down his war crimes record in Lebanon!

The war isn’t over but the picture that’s emerging is already deeply troubling. Based on the NYT piece its obvious that this war was launched with sweeping promises: regime change in Iran, the dismantling of its missile and nuclear programs, and preventing it from threatening the Strait of Hormuz. And where are we now? The regime is still firmly in power. Its missile capabilities are damaged still intact It still holds roughly 440 kg of uranium enriched to 60%. And in return? A ‘controlled’ reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, something that wasn’t even truly closed to begin with. Let’s be honest: this is not a strategic victory. If these are the outlines of the endgame, alongside Iranian demands for compensation and guarantees against renewed fighting, then we are left with a hard, unavoidable question: What, exactly, was the point of this war? Because tactical successes and operational achievements are almost meaningless if they fail to deliver a coherent strategic outcome. At the very least, one has to hope that the negotiations in Islamabad will produce a different outcome on the nuclear issue. Otherwise, we risk emerging from this war worse off than when it began. Because if the end state leaves Iran’s nuclear capabilities fundamentally intact, then the strategic reality after the war will not just fall short of expectations, it will be unequivocally worse than at the outset. #IranWar‌

The most important sentence in Trump's ceasefire post is that the ensuing negotiations will be based on the Iranian 10-point proposal (and not Trump's 15 points). These are the Key Aspects of Iran's Proposal: -Permanent End to Hostilities: A lasting peace agreement rather than a temporary ceasefire. -Security Guarantees: Assurances that Iran will not be attacked again. -Lifting Sanctions: Complete removal of all US sanctions imposed on Iran. -Strait of Hormuz Reopening: Iran would reopen the vital energy route but charge a $2 million fee per vessel, to be split with Oman. -Regional Security: End to Israeli strikes in Lebanon and other regional attacks. -Reconstruction Funding: Revenue from the Strait to be used for rebuilding infrastructure rather than direct reparations

The Iran War is revealing something important about U.S. alliances: Just because a state is an ally of the United States doesn’t mean it must enable a dumb policy or participate in a war it didn’t want in the first place. Even allies have agency.

I was no fan of Joe Biden as President, but if he had conducted the Iran war in exactly the same manner as Donald Trump has done, the MAGA supporters would be wholeheartedly condemning him. The hypocrisy of blind tribalism.