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[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

After the Free Press ran that hit piece on my claiming the State Department was trying to deport me, @TuckerCarlson messaged me to invite me onto his show. He had read my Substack explaining the backstory and wanted to get deeper into both that issue and the war, the negotiations, and Israel's role in US-Iran tensions. We taped it this morning up in Maine, and Tucker put it up on his Twitter and YouTube just a few hours ago.

https://t.co/RZ1HqFkxsd

[Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb]

ESPN implies that Gianni Infantino personally told Iran plans had changed and they had to leave the US for Mexico immediately after last night’s game in LA, leaving no time whatsoever for recovery.

Iran’s next game is in… LA.

[Bob @bobbobbobing]

@citrinowicz "increasingly view Israel not as a source of stability".....??? At what time has Israel ever been seen as a source of stability?

[Rick Sanchez @RickSanchezTV]

Scott Ritter tells me that CNN and the BBC should stop being treated as journalistic outlets and be called what they are: propaganda tools.

He argues that voices like his are smeared as “Russian propagandists” while real open discussion is more possible here than on major Western networks.

“We’re having a fair and freer conversation here right now than CNN or BBC will ever have.”

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

I have fought the neocons and warmongers in Washington for more than 25 years. Throughout, they have tried to silence, discredit, slander, and cancel me. Only recently, however, have they tried to deport me.

At least, that appears to have been the aim of a hit piece in Bari Weiss’s The Free Press, which claimed that Marco Rubio’s State Department was “investigating” me for allegedly seeking to “undermine the U.S.”—presumably because of my opposition to war with Iran.

Yet just hours later, the State Department issued a statement to reporters clarifying that “the State Department has no plans to revoke the green card of Mr. Parsi at this time.” Nor did it provide any confirmation for the central premise of the Free Press story—that an investigation of me existed in the first place.

So here’s what I think happened.

Read the full piece on my Substack: https://t.co/bjh5aEoLnL

[Robert Wright @robertwrighter]

Jay Solomon, who wrote a piece in The Free Press (Bari Weiss's neocon propaganda outlet) aimed at getting Iran War critic @tparsi of @QuincyInst deported for exercising free speech, was fired by the Wall Street Journal for unethical conduct nine years ago.

[Katie Halper @kthalps]

Solidarity w/ Trita Parsi, the Iranian-American analyst (& friend of Katie Halper Show) who is allegedly being investigated by Trump Admin. I say allegedly bc it's possible that the story is an attempt to scare & silence anti-war voices & pressure... https://t.co/gwbWkYiTpH

[Ghida Fakhry @ghida_fakhry]

Interesting how the ‘ceasefire’ always disappears from the headline when Israel is breaking it.

[Ghida Fakhry @ghida_fakhry]

The 2026 World Cup won’t just showcase football — it’ll showcase America’s double standards in 4K.

“World-class hospitality” from a government that treats some visitors as honored guests and others as security threats, depending on where they’re from and what’s politically convenient.

[Ghida Fakhry @ghida_fakhry]

IDF claims continue to be read out as established fact, while a full-fledged invasion simply becomes “Israel operating an enormous force in southern Lebanon.”

This isn’t trustworthy reporting. It’s propaganda, not journalism.

[pap1pap @pap1pap]

12 milioni
il 25/26 chiuderà cmq in attivo
il pareggio di bilancio fatta salva la partecipazione alla CL è ormai strutturale a parità di costi...
il costo squadra 26/27 può serenamente rimanere invariato ripetendo esattamente gli stessi piazzamenti di quest'anno e finendo di nuovo fuori con il bodo, e anzi puoi persino azzardare di aumentarlo di 12 milioni con obiettivo ottavi.
Non cercare scuse facilmente disintegrabili nel tempo massimo di 1'23" e 11 a giustificare comportamenti illogici da parte di chi in Italia non è che abbia fatto faville, per usare un eufemismo, visto conbipel e banca progetto.

[AIPAC Tracker @TrackAIPAC]

Donate NOW to help Darializa beat AIPAC!
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[Will Schryver @imetatronink]

https://t.co/tgaMa5Am1m

[Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu @SholaMos1]

A Miscarriage Of Justice sentencing Palestine Action Activists as terrorists. They Are Not. British Jews serving in IDF are the terrorists but no prosecution against them. Never forgive what Labour Party has done.

We must fight the evil power Israel & Zionists hold in Britain.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

Friends, many of you have contacted me about the FreePress "story" and that I am set to be deported. I haven't had a chance to write, but will do so shortly on my Substack to explain what happened. Thank you all for all the support you have shown!

https://t.co/5FlhMigPRv

[Hassan Ahmadian حسن احمدیان @hasanahmadian]

The shift from a "destroy Iran" rhetoric to a "deal on the table" did not happen in a vacuum.

The initial Iranian terms—previously agreed upon in principle—had left Trump no room to claim a clear victory. So, after that preliminary agreement, he backtracked, sending his own amendments back to Tehran through mediators.

But Iran did not respond. Instead, it left him in a state of wait-and-see for days, while signaling its readiness to resume the war—by striking Israel first and the “incident” in Hormuz second. Through these gestures, Tehran was saying: You cannot spin your way out of military failure.

In response, Trump attempted military pressure, synchronizing it with the mediators' presence in Tehran. Yet Iran answered on both nights of escalation—hitting twice as many targets as were struck inside Iran. At that point, he seems to have lost any hope of forcing Tehran into acceptance.

The announcement of a deal, after all this, is essentially an announcement of retreat—back to what had already been agreed upon. It is, above all, a diplomatic translation of military failure. If this framework agreement is indeed signed, we are looking at the beginning of a new era—for Iran and the region alike.

This will frighten some and please others, as winners and losers are now clearly exposed. More to come in the days ahead.

[MC @behemothMB]

@GildaMundson @pati_marins64 I would recommend the South Pole

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

⚽️🇲🇽 Mexico has opened the 2026 FIFA World Cup and currently holds a 1-0 halftime lead over South Africa at a packed Estadio Azteca, but the tournament is unfolding against a backdrop of protests.

A teachers’ union encampment in Mexico City’s Zócalo has blocked access to the plaza where the official FIFA Fan Festival was set to be held, while teachers demanding pension reforms and higher pay, families searching for missing relatives, and other activist groups have used the World Cup spotlight to pressure the government, arguing that authorities have prioritized tournament investments over unresolved social and security crises.

Officials have deployed thousands of police and pledged a safe and successful World Cup, while President Claudia Sheinbaum has sought to reassure the public that there will be no repeat of the repression that marked the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, when soldiers opened fire on protesting students.

🎥 Drop Site’s @GranadosCeja spoke to Democracy Now about it below ⬇️

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

What a deranged, despicable comment. Fuck you and your terrible organization. All you do is demand that other people fight wars for you. No one has been more disgraced and discredited than Mark Dubowitz.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

You have noticed it. ChatGPT feels dumber than it used to. Your prompts that worked six months ago produce worse results now. The writing sounds flatter. The ideas sound safer. The internet itself feels like it is shrinking. Every article reads the same. Every email sounds the same. Every answer sounds like it was written by the same voice.

You thought it was you. It is not you.

Researchers at Oxford and Cambridge published a paper in Nature proving what is happening. They call it Model Collapse.

Here is the mechanism in one sentence. AI trained on AI-generated data gets dumber every generation until it forgets what real human data looked like.

The internet is filling with AI-generated content. Blog posts. Articles. Reviews. Comments. Social media. AI companies scrape the internet to train the next generation of models. Which means the next generation of AI is being trained on the output of the current generation.

Each cycle loses information. Not randomly. It loses the rarest, most unusual, most creative parts first. The researchers call these the "tails of the distribution." The weird ideas. The unexpected perspectives. The things that made the internet feel human. Those disappear first.

What remains is the average. The safe. The expected. The bland.

Then the next generation trains on that. And loses more. And the next generation trains on that. And loses more. The researchers proved this is not a slow decline. Major degradation happens within just a few iterations. Even when some of the original human data is preserved.

They tested it on large language models. On image generators. On statistical models. The pattern was the same every time. The output converges toward a narrow, flattened version of reality that looks nothing like the original data.

The lead researcher put it plainly. "Large language models are like fire. A useful tool. But one that pollutes the environment."

The pollution is invisible. You cannot see which sentence on the internet was written by a human and which was written by AI. Neither can the AI that is about to train on it. And once the tails are gone, they do not come back. The damage is irreversible.

This is not a prediction anymore. It is a diagnosis.

The internet you grew up on was built by humans writing things no algorithm would have written. Strange, personal, imperfect, alive. That internet is being diluted. One generation of AI at a time. And the models trained on what remains are learning a smaller and smaller version of the world.

Model Collapse is not a technical problem. It is a cultural one. The thing that made the internet worth reading is the thing that disappears first.