Ken Oda

Play-by-play voice and more of the Minot Minotauros. In the Magic City via the Magnificent Mile. Alum of OLW, Loyola Academy, DePaul U.

[Lauren @cabsav456]

This is insane. AFTER the IAEA verified Iran's compliance and 97% of its enriched uranium stockpile was shipped out, Obama's JCPOA unfroze ~$100B in Iran's own frozen assets abroad.

What JD Vance is discussing now is a separate proposed $300B "reconstruction/investment fund" — so not just sanctions relief, not just unfrozen assets, but NEW international money for postwar rebuilding. This is a disaster.

[Carlos Abadi @NewSamawal]

The US secretly approved a financial and maritime arrangement between Qatar and Iran, under which billions of dollars were paid to Tehran in exchange for free passage for Qatari tankers and ships through the Strait of Hormuz, three diplomatic officials now confirm.

This was a deliberate and conscious course of action by the US administration, which allowed its navy to turn a blind eye to the arrangement, in complete contradiction of its declared policy. The move was intended to ease the crisis in global energy markets and curb rising oil prices.
https://t.co/xDCmqWLT3B

[Dr Nafeez Ahmed @NafeezAhmed]

bloody hell - US colluded with Qatar and Iran to undermine its own blockade. This is nuts.

[VoteVets @votevets]

BREAKING: In a SCATHING statement, Major General (Ret.) Paul Eaton just called out Donald Trump's War In Iran for what it is: a complete and utter FAILURE.

[Ben Rhodes @brhodes]

Um: preamble to 2015 JCPOA that Trump tore up: "Iran reaffirms that under no circumstances will Iran ever seek, develop, or acquire any nuclear weapons." Literally the same.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

Iran Says Strait of Hormuz Won’t Have ‘Tolls’ but It Will Have ‘Fees’

lol

https://t.co/1jIh68Zv3F

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Not joking but @elonmusk should have to pay for this right?

You broke it, why do we all have to pay for it?

[Philip Klein @philipaklein]

This is insane. The admin claims to have a document that has been signed by both governments and Trump hasn’t even shared it with the Senate Majority Leader — from his own party!

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In a stunning moment on Fox News, Bret Baier and Fox's News correspondent admit that Donald Trump is not telling the truth when he says Iran's military, Navy and IRGC have been completely destroyed. Things must be awful if Trump is losing Fox like this.

[Sam Stein @samstein]

Dying a bit here. All these provisions being touted as major successes are laid out explicitly in the jcpoa

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Stephen Miller wants to flip a switch and erase one of your oldest rights.

It’s called habeas corpus.

Fancy words but a simple idea that the government can’t just grab you and lock you away. It has to prove to a judge why you’re behind bars. That right is 800 years old.

It’s older than America itself.

And Miller tried to kill it.

New reporting confirms it. Inside the White House, Miller pushed to suspend habeas corpus so agents could seize people, detain them, and deport them with no judge, no hearing, no chance to say “you’ve got the wrong guy.”

Even Trump’s own lawyers put in writing that this is illegal. Miller pushed anyway.
Miller screams “invasion” because the Constitution only allows this sort of thing during an invasion. But this same crowd brags every day that border crossings hit record lows. So which is it?

The right to challenge your own detention is the line between a republic and a regime. Lose it, and the government can disappear anyone.

I will fight this with everything I have.

The Constitution is not optional.

Not for Stephen Miller. Not for anyone.
https://t.co/cklllxnJMd

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Hey @Jim_Jordan and @freedomcaucus just checking in to see if the same idea applies? You wanted to see the side car agreement from Obama and opposed the money he gave Iran. How is that today?

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

This is NEWS.

1. Obama: $1.7B in unfrozen assets/cash for 98% reduction in uranium & limit enrichment to 3.7%

2. Trump: $24B in unfrozen assets/cash, $300B reconstruction fund, lifted sanctions in exchange for opened Strait under Iran/Oman control

-From @TheMaineWonk

[Luke Miani @LukeMiani]

> save $15M a year by cutting a screwworm monitoring program

> screwworm outbreak almost immediately

> $1B to combat it

Government efficiency

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

The America 250 4th of July celebration is now officially a "Trump Rally."

[Andrew Egger @EggerDC]

"The problem with Trump is how he keeps proving his critics, who deserve to be wrong, right"

[laurence norman @laurnorman]

It really fundamentally boils down to this. @JDVance gave 2 reasons this morning why MoU deal is “great” for American people.
1/ strait of Hormuz is reopening.
Was open on Feb 28th
2/ Iran commits in LT to no nuke weapon. A promise Iran long made with dubious follow through.

[David Marcus @BlueBoxDave]

I’ve defended the administration’s America 250 plans, because I trusted they really would be non partisan, really would bring us together. But I was wrong. And it sucks. I also apologize to the musical acts who dropped out who I criticized. They saw it.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

BREAKING: JD Vance confirms that Iran could gain access to a $300 billion reconstruction fund:

“That’s the sort of thing they could have access to, so long as they honor their end of the obligation.”

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

It feels like this is turning out like most "deals" Trump does. Nothing they announce actually ends up existing in reality.