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Nobody will ever accuse President Donald Trump of being a linguist. But in a recent prescient moment, the oft-rambling, mercurial commander in chief stumbled upon an unconventional interpretation of a word that may be more accurate than the agreed-upon definition. “How do you define ceasefire?” asked a reporter at the White House, questioning the dizzying, on-again, off-again nature of the volatile negotiations between the U.S., Israel, Iran, and Lebanon. “In that part of the world, a ceasefire is when you’re shooting in a more moderate manner,” Trump said. The clumsy comment, of course, provoked criticism. Shireen Akram-Boshar of TruthOut accused…
Joshua Scheer Just a few months ago, investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill was reporting that the Trump administration appeared determined to force Iran into submission through military pressure, economic warfare, and demands that Tehran abandon key elements of its defense and nuclear programs. Iranian officials, meanwhile, insisted they would not capitulate and described Washington’s negotiating strategy as erratic, contradictory, and driven as much by President Donald Trump’s personal impulses as by coherent policy. Now, in a remarkable new report for Drop Site News, Iranian officials suggest they responded to that challenge in an unconventional way: by bringing psychologists into the…
Adolescents Stop Reading as Middle Schools Struggle Source link
Docusign diplomacy: A digital preliminary memorandum of understanding between the U.S. and Iran has been signed, leading to an opening of the Strait of Hormuz and a 60-day pause in fighting while final details get hashed out. The Reason Roundup Newsletter by Liz Wolfe Liz and Reason help you make sense of the day’s news every morning. On Friday, a more formal signing will take place, and negotiations will begin on the more challenging details of the agreement. MOU SIGNED, PER SENIOR U.S. OFFICIALOFFICIAL SAYS: * TRUMP, VANCE SIGNED MOU, SO DID IRANIAN PARLIAMENTARY SPEAKER* DEAL PROVIDES FOR IMMEDIATE OPENING…
Kenneth Carlson ScheerPost There was a time in America when the moral instruction offered to children in kindergarten sounded almost embarrassingly simple. Share. Be kind. Play fair. Clean up your messes. Say you’re sorry. Then adulthood arrived, followed by cable news, social media, billionaires with rocket ships, and eventually Donald Trump — a man who somehow transformed every kindergarten rule into a governing strategy for doing the exact opposite, which raises an uncomfortable question for the rest of us: What happens when the President of the United States behaves like the child who would have been sent to the…
I’ve been following the Maine Senate race between Graham Platner (D) and Susan Collins (R). I’ve identified as a Democrat all my life (while keeping my political views out of the mix while serving as a Justice on Montana’s non-partisan Supreme Court). But I have to say character matters—especially his. Graham Platner is exactly the type of candidate our Congress has too many of already—on both sides of the aisle: people with little moral character; extreme views; homophobic; racist; and who cannot tell the truth with a straight face. The New York Times has reported accounts from several of Platner’s…
A GOP Gift to the Cultural Left Source link
A 9-0 Supreme Court Rebuke for Corner-Cutting Prosecutions Source link
McFarland police don’t respond to calls at detention centers, citing agreement with GEO Group. Crimes go uninvestigated, say attorneys and alleged sexual abuse victim. Robin Urevich for Capital and Main Two years ago, immigration attorney Mario Valenzuela visited a client at the Golden State Annex, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center operated by the private prison giant The GEO Group Inc. in the small agricultural town of McFarland in California’s San Joaquin Valley. Valenzuela’s client had a black eye and bruises on his body, he said. The client told Valenzuela that he’d been surrounded and beaten by seven…
No matter what happens now, the world is facing a very painful energy crisis. Let’s be as wildly optimistic as we possibly can and assume that Iran agrees to allow free passage through the Strait of Hormuz with absolutely no tolls or restrictions starting tomorrow. Before normal traffic through the Strait could resume, Iran would first have to remove all of the mines that they have laid in the Strait, and that could take months. Once all of the mines have been removed, it will take the tankers that are currently trapped in the Persian Gulf weeks to arrive at…