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[ad_1] President Donald Trump said that “Dumocrats” and “unpatriotic Republicans” are harming his negotiating position with Iran.  “Iran really wants to make a deal, and it will be a good one for the U.S.A. and those that are with us,” the President wrote on Truth Social Monday. “But don’t the Dumocrats, and various seemingly unpatriotic Republicans,  understand that it is MUCH tougher for me to properly do my job and negotiate, when political hacks keep negatively ‘chirping,’ at levels never seen before.” Trump did not receive any authorization from Congress before starting the war with Iran. The House and Senate…

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[ad_1] Independent conservative journalist Nick Sortor says he infiltrated a leftist “medic” training class preparing to protest against ICE in New Jersey, where demonstrations against an immigration detention center have spiraled out of control into violence this week. Attendees receive brand-new high-end gear, including respirators, gloves, goggles, and more, to prepare for organized demonstrations outside a federal immigration detention facility in Newark. Sortor describes it as evidence of well-funded, Antifa-style support networks rather than spontaneous protests. “These people are basically Antifa’s support staff,” Sortor said. “Rioters are each handed ~$100 of equipment to pretend to be medics,” he said. “And…

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[ad_1] I’m a humanistic weirdo, and as such I’m not sure where I belong in this modern culture war. I love truth and reason — I’ve built a career on them — but I belong to a humanistic tradition that refuses to stop at the head and leave the heart out of it. And these days there aren’t many of us. So when I look at the people we’ve come to call “anti-woke intellectuals”—many of whom have written for Skeptic or appeared as guests on The Michael Shermer Show podcast—I don’t see them the way either side wants me to.…

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[ad_1] PATRICK MCHENRY: But the facts remain. So he’s raised money. He’s fixed fountains. He’s restored statues. Parks are now accessible here in Washington, D.C. That’ll live far beyond this presidency. That should be a public good, and I think is a public good.JON KARL: And it is, I mean, it’s a priority for him to fix this stuff and needs fixing up.MCHENRY: The 250th anniversary is fantastic. And that should be beyond politics. But everything is so political now. Fixing all the stuff in the National Mall, what I can say, and I agree, Jon, Washington is a beautiful…

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[ad_1] Tehran says it will suspend exchanging messages with Washington because the US is not forcing Israel to comply with the ceasefire in Lebanon.  “Due to the continuation of the Zionist regime’s actions in Lebanon and given that Lebanon was one of the preconditions of the ceasefire and that this ceasefire has now been violated on all fronts, Iran’s semiofficial Tasmin news agency reported Monday. “The Iranian negotiating team will suspend ‘talks and the exchange of texts through mediators.’” Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi wrote on X that the ceasefire must apply to all fronts of the war and that…

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[ad_1] Today the Supreme Court summarily reversed an Eleventh Circuit capital case, Whitton v. Dixon. Justice Thomas dissented, joined for the most part by Justice Alito. The Eleventh Circuit issued a 60-page decision, but the Court found objectionable two sentences. As Justice Thomas points out in his dissent, the Eleventh Circuit can simply strip out those two sentences, and the outcome would remain unchanged. This seems to be the essence of harmless error. Why, then, did the Court waste everyone’s time with a summary reversal? Justice Thomas charges his colleagues with an inconsistent approach to summary reversal. This Court has increasingly…

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[ad_1] Lisa Xu Labor Notes Effective troublemakers need many skills. One of the most important, though not the most glamorous, is list-building. If you otherwise have the fundamentals of organizing in place but you’re still struggling to reach more people, make sure you’re paying attention to your list and not leaving an opportunity on the table. KEY COMPONENTS What is a list? Well, it’s a list of your co-workers. It should contain their names, of course, but also each person’s job, their department or shift, and how to get in touch with them, especially their phone number and email address. Your list…

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