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What happens now that the US-Iran peace deal has been called off?
With the first round of talks disrupted and the 60-day clock already ticking, negotiators are under pressure to prove the deal can survive beyond its opening days.
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Top GOP lawmaker rallies around conservative school board member facing calls to resign
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The moment is just the most recent clash between Republicans and school boards over policies that, in their view, are gatekeeping schools against diversity of thought and accountability.
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Top GOP lawmaker rallies around conservative school board member facing calls to resign
Rep. Lisa McClain rebukes a Michigan school board for trying to remove a conservative member who missed meetings while on military deployment.
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Alternet.org
'It’s not the same thing': Anchor grills GOP lawmaker over support of Iran deal
CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins took Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) to task over his support of President Donald Trump’s widely panned Memorandum of Understanding, forcing him to defend several of the plan's more outrageous points.“My point of view is that we have to give peace a chance to get done,” Moreno told Collins. “We have absolutely not made Iran stronger. We've killed almost 80 of their top leaders. We've destroyed their army, their navy, their ballistic missile program. Like I said, they are absolutely in a dramatically worse position as a result of president Trump's actions. And he prevented them from actually using a nuclear weapon that they could have cobbled together.”“[But] this deal lets them have waivers,” Collins pointed out. “They can start selling oil tonight. Eventually it will potentially unfreeze billions of dollars, hundreds of billions of dollars in frozen assets. Iran is still a state sponsor of terrorism, according to the United States. Do you have an issue with the U.S. doing things that allows them to have money to potentially rebuild all of those things that you just mentioned?”“What's the alternative, Kaitlan?" Moreno demanded. "What would you want the president to do? Allow them to have built a nuclear weapon?”“That's a question for some Republicans, too, it sounds like,” said Collins, referring to many GOP critics who find the deal offensive. She also pointed out that Iran now stands “make more money because they're selling it at competitive market prices to buyers with more attractive currencies.”She also reminded Moreno that he said in April that money from Iran’s oil sales doesn't “go to the people. It goes to a corrupt leadership.”“Aren't you worried that corrupt leadership is now going to get tens of billions of dollars from these sales?” she asked.“Yeah, but we'll be watching exactly what they do with the money,” said Moreno.“But the president pledged not to get involved in their domestic affairs in the MOU that he signed,” Collins quickly countered, to which Moreno could only repeat: “We're going to make certain that they behave, and they do exactly what they need to do.”Moreno then made a comparison to Trump’s intervention in Venezuela, saying Trump “saved Latin America,” and promised “you’re gonna see that happen in Cuba.”“It’s not the same thing. You can’t really compare the two,” said Collins, before then asking Moreno about the plight of the Iranian people. “[Trump] told that Iranian people that this was their chance to rise up and take back their government. Their government is being run by the former leader’s son. Do you think that they have been left hung out to dry here?”“Look, I don't know what's going to happen there,” said Moreno. “Again. We don't know.” - YouTube youtu.be
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New York Post
Mamdani, Bernie Sanders tout radical ‘movement’ in rally boosting DSA NY House hopefuls: ‘Need leaders across our city’
“The Democratic Party must change. The party of the past will not be what leads us into the future, for we need a democratic party with a backbone," Mayor Zohran Mamdani told the crowd.
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Raw Story
JD Vance's defense of Trump's tone toward voters immediately blows up in his face
Vice President JD Vance tried defending President Donald Trump's tone by describing it as in line with the working class, and it backfired.The New York Times opinion columnist Ross Douthat asked Vance about the tone of Trump and the administration, saying that it "is not consistently a Christian tone. There is a tone of aggressive uncharity."Vance responded that "tonal arguments are ways of, frankly, policing working-class ways of communication and covering them in elite preferences."However, online commentators expressed offense at hearing Vance equate the Trump administration's tone with the way the working class speaks.Tim Miller, the host of The Bulwark podcast, summarized Vance's defense as "Working class people are all a— who don't care about their neighbor's feelings" in a post on X."It seems like he thinks that regular people are all sociopaths like him," Miller wrote. "Classic"MS NOW host and former Republican congressman Joe Scarborough said, "How insulting to suggest that hateful rhetoric that runs counter to the Gospel of Jesus Christ is just the way working class people talk—and that elites don’t get that.""What an absurd response," Reason reporter Billy Binion sounded off. "Donald Trump is not 'working class.' And this is very condescending toward people who actually *are* working class because it implies they're all mean and uncharitable by default. Is that all the respect JD Vance has for working people?"Journalist Jane Coaston, the host of What A Day, agreed, "I really think some people think that working class Americans are the worst human beings to ever live."Christian broadcaster Erick Erickson simply said, "Bad answer."
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Raw Story
GOP members blame Iranian deal anger on JD Vance
President Donald Trump joked Vice President JD Vance would bear blame if the Iran peace deal fails, but Republicans are already privately criticizing the agreement while publicly remaining silent. Oil industry insiders and GOP lawmakers object to economic support for Iran and Trump's defense of Iran's ballistic missile rights, with one Republican calling it total surrender, reported Politico's Playbook. "Plenty of Republican lawmakers are also uncomfortable, in private at least," Playbook wrote. Vance's team welcomes the deal being framed as the "Vance Peace Deal," given the war's broad unpopularity, reports Dasha [Burns] on the Playbook Podcast. White House officials view ending the conflict as politically necessary, and Vance's willingness to front the agreement reflects this. A White House insider noted that GOP attacks inadvertently inoculate Vance from the war's unpopularity while positioning him to defend Trump from criticism. The dynamic paradoxically strengthens Vance's political standing as he defends the president against his own party's complaints.Watch the video below. Your browser does not support the video tag.
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The Gateway Pundit
NEW: Trump Calls for Ceasefire on All Fronts – Blasts “Fools” Attacking Him Over MOU: “Jealous, Bad People, or Stupid”
President Trump on Thursday reemphasized the terms of the memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Iran, calling on all countries in the Middle East to "maintain their commitment to allowing our negotiations to beautifully unfold." Trump signed the 14-point MOU on Wednesday while having dinner at the Palace of Versailles with European leaders. The post NEW: Trump Calls for Ceasefire on All Fronts – Blasts “Fools” Attacking Him Over MOU: “Jealous, Bad People, or Stupid” appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
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Pentagon investigation into Iran school strike being finalized
WASHINGTON — Senior U.S. military officials are in the final stages of reviewing an internal investigation into a deadly airstrike on an Iranian elementary school and preparing to share it with lawmakers, according to a person familiar with the probe.
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