Jeb Blount

Editor of PANAMORAMA, a Substack journal of Pan-American news & views on politics, economics, energy, ecology and culture.

[Jeb Blount @JebBlount]

@SaraGonzalesTX No, you were just a c**t. Whatever your views, or Ms Crockett's, nobody deserves to be treated the way you treat people. When you talk of "fakes" and "rats" you seem to be projecting. Grow the F. up.

[Curtis Houck @CurtisHouck]

CNN's Fareed Zakaria on Trump bombing Iran: " It is extraordinary. I think trump has managed to do something that he, to be fair to him, had always marked out, which was he did not want Iran to have a nuclear program, but what's clear is in the last few weeks, he shifted ground on two issues. The first was he had started out in a position which was Iran can have some enrichment, just has to be monitored, things like that. He moved to what was essentially the Israeli position, which was zero enrichment, and he and he outlined that in the middle of about two weeks ago, the second is that he seemed to have lost faith that the Iranians were negotiating in, in earnest and he got -- he seems to have gotten frustrated because I think this was not his first option. His first option was a deal with the Iranians, but the maximalist condition he placed was zero enrichment was was one the Iranians didn't seem willing to go to and he was I think he thought the Iranians were not negotiating earnestly, so the result is you have you have this extraordinary move, which almost certainly has destroyed almost all of Iran's enrichment. The question, however, is you still need diplomacy. You still need a political solution, because the Iranians can rebuild."

[Not Your Average Liberal @NotAvgLiberal]

I’ll just leave this right here.

[Jeb Blount @JebBlount]

‘I Feel Like I’ve Been Lied To’: When a Measles Outbreak Hits Home https://t.co/zztlsSVM3o Allowing children get unnecessarily sick or die is where we are at in the United States. Shame on every vaccine denier. #Measles @RobertKennedyJc #Texas #NorthDakota

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

the united states is not at war with iran. it’s more of a special military operation.

[Jeb Blount @JebBlount]

@edukrieger Hilario, Wonderful. Adeus passaporte, alo Interpol!!!!

[Jeb Blount @JebBlount]

@sillyrabbitfafo FOXTROT-DELTA-TANGO!!!!! #FoxtrotDeltaTango #ElbowsUp

[Jeb Blount @JebBlount]

@ianbremmer FOXTROT-DELTA-TANGO!!!!!!! #FoxtrotDeltaTango

[Jeb Blount @JebBlount]

France to Trump: You are a Quarter-Pounder-with-Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkey! Vive La #France!🚨French Senator BLASTS #Trump & #Musk, Goes INSTANTLY VIRAL https://t.co/hN2DdJoQrr via @YouTube

[Jeb Blount @JebBlount]

Most of the people who built the #PanamaCanal, the ones that #Trump just cited as dying to build it, were from the West Indies, places like #Barbados & #Jamaica, not the United States.

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

flying under the radar today: claudia sheinbaum being sworn in as mexico’s president

north america’s first female elected head of state

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

Rudy Giuliani's daughter just endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris.

"Donald Trump took my dad from me. Please don’t let him take our country, too." - Caroline Giuliani

[David Frum @davidfrum]

It's network TV, so Harris sadly cannot culminate the list with, "and his former secretary of state called him a fucking moron."

[Marcelo Teixeira @tx_marcelo]

#Brazil's #sugar industry group @UNICA_cana said on Friday 230,000 hectares of sugarcane were hit by fires in Sao Paulo state. It said 132,000 of those has will still be harvested, but the rest amounted to fields that were growing for next season, so probably lost

[Jeb Blount @JebBlount]

@JohnLeFevre I wouldn't go so far as to call that crowd "massive".

[David Frum @davidfrum]

Can you imagine if Republicans worried even 1/20 as much that their presidential candidate is a convicted criminal infatuated with hostile foreign dictators as Democrats worry that their candidate may be too old?

[Jeb Blount @JebBlount]

The latest from PANAMORAMA, by @JebBlount. Read, comment, share, subscribe. https://t.co/nojfjKaDWW #UkraineWar #Russia #Putin #RussiaCivilWar #WagnerGroup #Brazil #Lula #Mexico #Colombia #NATO

[Soledad O'Brien @soledadobrien]

Utterly stupid framing:

[Jeb Blount @JebBlount]

@tribelaw They don't make them like they used to. Real Câmara de Leitura Portuguesa in Rio de Janeiro. More details: https://t.co/ELigXX5wUO

[ProPublica @propublica]

“If you were good friends, what were you doing ruling on his case?” said Charles Geyh, an Indiana U. law professor & leading expert on recusals. “And if you weren’t good friends, what were you doing accepting this?” referring to the the private jet flight. https://t.co/kq18x4YQGk