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[bernard @Frickios]

@LoftusSteve Wasn’t terrorism though was it.

[bernard @Frickios]

@ciabaudo @Keir_Starmer @DavidLammy Of course

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[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Surprise!

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

I'd never condone violence against a police officer - this is utterly dishonest.

The jury weren't judging them on a terrorism offence. This is an awful sleight of hand.

The creeping encroachment of terror laws onto protest & removal of our juries should worry all of us.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

So what is in "The Deal with Islamic Republic of Iran"?

If you're confused, it's normal: the US and Iran already publicly disagree on what they agreed to, and it's not even a "deal": just a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that sets the terms for negotiating the actual deal within the next 60 days.

We do, however, know a few things:

1) Israel is actively trying to undermine the deal - for instance by striking Beirut yesterday Sunday.

Israeli media say that the deal is causing "profound concern among Israeli officials," that "Israel, despite having started the war alongside the US, was not involved in the negotiations," and that "the deal do[es] not achieve the goals of the war that were set out by the US and Israel" (https://t.co/hMqvezz08J).

That last part is clear: the very existence of this MOU proves the objectives of the war were not met, as they certainly didn't include the US negotiating an exit with an undefeated Iran while Israel is freaking out about it on the sidelines.

2) We know, because both parties and Pakistan (the mediator) confirmed it, that a finalized MOU does exist and that it's due to be formally signed on Friday in Switzerland by JD Vance and maybe Trump himself (Vance told Fox News: “I certainly plan to be there, but it’s possible the president himself could be there” https://t.co/sTmdfAv7DS)

3) We know Trump ordered the US naval blockade to be lifted (supposedly today, Monday)

4) The Strait of Hormuz will reopen on the Iranian side (though both parties publicly spun the terms differently - Trump says "toll-free," Iran's FM Araghchi says with "service fees")

5) The war would end on all fronts including Lebanon - both sides used this exact phrase. Israel, obviously, is trying hard to spoil this.

6) Some form of sanctions relief is included - Iran speaks of "termination of all sanctions" (https://t.co/3v7Xa3n9lv) and a senior US official confirmed the structure is "Iran would earn economic rewards each time it met a set of US demands"

7) The MOU apparently does not agree on anything wrt nuclear, just that it will be discussed during the 60-day negotiation window, with Iran maintaining its current nuclear status quo in the meantime

8) In fact I suspect the MOU defers most things truly contested - like nuclear - to later negotiations while resolving in the immediate only the problems the war itself created: stop shooting, reopen the strait (under updated Iranian rules), and lift the blockade.

Which means that, most likely, this "deal" is - at this stage - less a deal than an acknowledgement of the new status quo reached in the war. It differs from the April 5 ceasefire in that, this time, the US is lifting all coercion it introduced in the war - including the naval blockade it imposed on April 13.

So in effect the war had two phases of failed coercion (military, then economic with the blockade), and the MOU formalizes the failure of both.

In exchange what the US is getting is a conversation about its initial stated war objectives (like nuclear), which it will now have to pursue after having proven it cannot impose them by force.

Needless to say, you don't get better terms at the table after showing you couldn't get them on the battlefield 🤷

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

I see Sam Harris, the Gaza genocide apologist and ‘New Atheist’ apologist for a self-proclaimed Jewish state, is doing the usual pro-Israel whataboutism by cynically asking why people aren’t protesting, or didn’t protest or condemn, the killing Yemeni kids by a Saudi coalition backed by the US.

So here’s my challenge to Sam Harris. Let’s compare records. Let’s compare what I have said and written about Yemen over the years with what Harris has said/written.

Let’s compare what Ro Khanna or Bernie Sanders has said about Yemen, and what Harris has said.

Let’s see who uses Yemen cynically as whataboutism to defend Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and who actually gives a damn about the people of Yemen and is consistent when it comes to objecting to US-backed foreign wars and genocides.

Shame on Sam Harris.

[bernard @Frickios]

@mehdirhasan Pity isn’t quite right though is it.

[Defend Our Juries @DefendOurJuries]

No, they didn’t.

One of them, Sam Corner, was found to have injured Sgt Evans without intent.

There was no such accusation against any of the others.

Kemi Badenoch committed contempt of court on live television during their trial.

[bernard @Frickios]

@RaggedTP Whereas he’ll likely be knighted in the new year’s honours list.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Nobody wants a city on Mars. Nobody wants AI in every app. Nobody wants a robot butler. Nobody wants data centers everywhere. Nobody wants flying cars or humanoid robots. We want clean water, we want bees to survive, and we want a habitable planet.

[bernard @Frickios]

@JamieMetzl @TheLancet Discrediting @TheLancet.

[bernard @Frickios]

@DavidBCohen1 “Play victim”

[bernard @Frickios]

@jconricus Obviously the US should stop bailing out the genocide regime. Obvs

[bernard @Frickios]

@Jonathan_K_Cook Bringing the UK justice system into disrepute. Shameful.

[Paweł Wargan @pawelwargan]

In my lifetime, China lifted 850 million people out of poverty, while the US created one trillionaire. It is clear as day that socialism is the key to our future.

[Ben Goren @BanGaoRen]

In my opinion only, without asserting it as empirical fact or directing others to share this opinion as fact, Justice Jeremy Johnson appears to have politically perverted the course of justice in the Filton 24 trial, deliberately misled the Jury, & denied defendants a fair trial.

[Zach W. Lambert @ZachWLambert]

Elon Musk is now a trillionaire. More specifically, his net worth is $1.2 trillion or $1200 billion. That number doesn’t even compute for most of us, so here is some helpful context:

The USDA needs $18.8 billion to feed every child in the US school system breakfast and lunch each day. Elon could pay for that 64x and still have money leftover.

The World Food Program needs $13 billion to feed the 110 million hungriest people on earth. Elon could pay for that 92x and still have money leftover.

The National Alliance to End Homelessness needs $9.6 billion to provide housing for every unhoused person in the United States. Elon could pay for that 125x and still have money leftover.

The average American teacher makes $74,495 per year. Elon could pay the annual salary of over 16 million teachers and still have money leftover.

The problem is not that we don’t have enough money. The problem is that we have built a world where one person can accumulate more wealth than the GDP of 180 countries while children go hungry, families drown in medical debt, teachers are forced to buy school supplies for their students, and people sleep on the streets.

This is a complete moral failure.

[bernard @Frickios]

@DerbyChrisW @TadhgHickey A national disgrace.

[bernard @Frickios]

@TomLondon6 “Others” captures a whole lot of people.