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Jon Favreau: "When you say Hamas is a thousand times better, do you mean that?" Hasan Piker: "I do mean it … I would vote for Hamas over Israel every single time.”

US Central Command issues notice to seafarers about the blockade going into effect in less than two hours, warning any vessel going to or from Iran is "subject to interception, diversion, and capture." The blockade "encompasses the entirety of the Iranian coastline to include but not limited to ports and oil terminals", the note said, adding that humanitarian shipments including food, medical supplies, and other essential goods would be permitted, subject to inspection.

Netanyahu at a cabinet meeting: "I spoke yesterday with Vice President J.D. Vance. He called me from his plane on his way back from Islamabad. He reported to me in detail, as this administration does every day, about the development of the negotiations. In this case, the explosion in the negotiations. The explosion came from the American side, which could not tolerate Iran's blatant violation of the agreement to enter the negotiations. The agreement was that they would cease fire, and the Iranians would immediately open the gates. They did not do that. The Americans could not accept that. He also made it clear to me that the main issue on the agenda for President Trump and the United States is the removal of all enriched material, and ensuring that there is no more enrichment in the coming years, and that could be in decades, no enrichment within Iran. That is their focus, and of course it is also important to us."

He’s saying this like it’s a novel act of rebellion, but this kind of thing has been done on repeat for the majority of the mass media age. We live under pretty extreme levels of this kind of propaganda.

You cannot have a multiethnic democracy without consensus and unity. That this fact eludes such an erudite thinker as Shadi signals to me Americas “elite” is broken. It is a question of order over chaos, growth together over decline and fragmentation.