Devin Elbers

Northwood University

[Devin Elbers @devin199722]

@MSU_Basketball @BarstoolMSU @MSU_HYPE @michiganstateu Mood after the win today #FinalFour

[Devin Elbers @devin199722]

I was wrong lol it’s gotten so much worse 😭

[Devin Elbers @devin199722]

I’m not sure this administration could be doing worse.

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

Trump was desperate to sign an MOU with Iran.

Why?

Gas prices.

He is giving HUNDREDS of BILLIONS to Iran to open the Strait for only 60 days... for gas prices.

Because he knows if gas prices rise into the midterms, Dems sweep, and he has to face justice for his crimes.

[Devin Elbers @devin199722]

This is why you have to have a mentally stable President. Because if not, you end up with this guy who blabs every internal discussion to the point every enemy knows are weak points. Yikes

[Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur]

Welp, I think we're done here.

Trump himself is now saying he buckled under the pressure of Hormuz.

It's as bad as it could possibly be. He's saying aloud that Iran can have anything it wants because America can't afford the staring contest.

If this is his own explanation in his own words, then the fact that the sanctions relief is front-loaded...suddenly becomes important. The fact that the inspections regime that will verify compliance will be negotiated by an American side that has already admitted defeat, that needs this more than the opponent needs it...is now significant. And the fact that the proxy system is now recognized as legitimate by the United States -- is suddenly exactly the disaster you feared it might be.

And the fact that America has declared aloud that it's not actually capable of imposing its will even in the world's most vital energy chokepoints, causing its allies in the Gulf to already begin to seek a new accommodation with Iran -- makes all of this worse than Obama and worse than the JCPOA.

Remember: the great unfixable flaw of the JCPOA that none of its boosters ever had a good answer for was that it merely kicked the can down the road. It solved nothing.

Trump's deal, as of this moment, is not even close to accomplishing so much.

"Iran never won a war and never lost a negotiation," Trump famously said of Obama's deal (as a reporter reminded him at today's press conference). Ironic that the Iranians would win a negotiation most spectacularly against a man who styles himself the greatest negotiator to ever grace the White House.

So what does it all mean?

It means that in the coming years, nuclear programs will sprout like mushrooms after the rain throughout the Middle East. It means that many nations will now build out new and larger ballistic missile arsenals.

It means that the state system will give way before the march of the region's transnational ideological axes. Minorities will again be trampled, new wars will be fought by stronger states to dominate the power vacuums within weaker ones.

You're thinking of Israel in Lebanon -- but that's just a specific campaign against a specific enemy. Think Turkey, which right now occupies a region of Syria vastly larger than Israel's presence in Lebanon. Think heightened Iranian support for the Houthis in Yemen and a new influx of money and guns to the different sides in Libya.

It means, in other words, that we will have a few more wars to fight, a few more technologies to invent to deal with this new age of cheap missiles and drones -- and also of supersonic Chinese missiles bearing nuclear warheads that Iran will eventually, inevitably, be capable of deploying against us.

And it didn't have to be this bad. (And maybe, when he's heard all the criticism, it won't be.) He could have left something, anything, to concede later. He could have kept the Iranians a little bit in the dark, just a smidgen, as to just how defeated America feels.

Israel's position in all this is simple, and more or less unchanged from last week. America gave us more than we had a right to ask for. But we may be going it alone from here out.

Dust off the nukes. Maybe test one somewhere far away from anywhere. Quadruple the interceptor production lines, double the size of the Mossad and the Air Force. And no, don't let Hezbollah breathe, not for a second.

It's the 1960s again. And Israel will have to defeat a couple more enemies before it can once again eke out a few decades of peace.

[Devin Elbers @devin199722]

Community notes are important.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Trump: "I want to mention Iran. We appreciate the relationship we've had over a short period of time with Iran. We're not investing any money. I have the right to if we want, but we're not investing any money. We didn't pay for it like Obama did. He paid billions of dollars."

[Devin Elbers @devin199722]

@realDonaldTrump
Iran won decisively and Trump has waived the White Flag.

This Defeat is EMBARRASSING, expensive, and detrimental to America.

However, it’s even worse for Israel.

[Devin Elbers @devin199722]

Lmao they put Vance out to lie to their voters 😂 they are protecting Rubio because the deal is so bad and Rubio is the heir to the thrown. Vance enjoying a wonderfully crafted Shit Sandwich 🥪

[Acyn @Acyn]

Hannity: There’s a report that the Qataris are giving them $300 billion with the approval of the US. Did the U.S. Ever sign off on the Qatari paying them that money?

Vance: No, the agreement says they are not getting a single dime of American money, that is just not what this is. If the Iranians behave, we would invite other countries to invest in their country.

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

Looks like this is the same back room agreement I had reported on last month:

* Iran agreed not to call it “tolls” so Trump could call it “toll free”

* Iran would have “navigation and maintenance service fees” for ships passing through the Strait

* Would split with Oman

[FactPost @factpostnews]

The Trump administration is revising rules that protect public land, opening up to 80% of federal land to industrial development.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

The Trump administration has shuttered the Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center, which studies harmful invasive species such as the Spotted Lanternfly.

[Devin Elbers @devin199722]

Here’s why it works: Trump voters and half the country don’t care about details. Trump will say this isn’t the case as he doesn’t care about the truth, and most people will think he won. Except Israel - they will know this deal is an unmitigated disaster.

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: Iran says the US has agreed to pay $300 billion in reconstruction funds directly to Iran as part of the deal Pakistan announced, alongside the release of $24 billion in frozen funds with $12 billion released before negotiations even start, per Mehr News.

This directly contradicts Trump's & Vance's claim that no funds will be transferred to Iran at all.

If Trump denies this is true, there never was a deal. If Trump confirms, the US has fully capitulated to Iran's demands.

[Devin Elbers @devin199722]

The Art of the Deal < Obama’s Iran Agreement

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: The U.S.-Iran deal could reportedly include a $300,000,000,000.00 reconstruction fund for Iran.

[Democrats @TheDemocrats]

What?

[Devin Elbers @devin199722]

After years of tax cuts to billionaires now their pitch is to take from the poor and middle class so that you have something someday.

Rick Scott is the reason I’m afraid to go bald. - look at him 😳

[Rick Scott @SenRickScott]

Is everyone paying attention? We have just SIX YEARS before Social Security is insolvent.

Congress needs to stop burning money on fraud and crappy programs, balance the budget, and PROTECT Social Security so we can keep our promises to American seniors.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Ohio Republicans secretly awarded Google, Meta, and Amazon $600 million in tax breaks to build data centers.

The tax breaks were written to last 40 years and cannot be undone.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Republicans have slashed $125 million in funding to replace lead pipes.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

The Trump administration has waived 31 environmental laws to blast barriers and bulldoze roads in Big Bend National Park:

—Clean Air Act
—Endangered Species Act
—National Fish and Wildlife Act
—Safe Drinking Water Act
—Wilderness Act
—Federal Water Pollution Control Act
—Federal Land Policy and Management Act
—Eagle Protection Act
—Farmland Protection Policy Act
—Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
—National Historic Preservation Act
—Energy Independence and Security Act
—Archaeological and Historic Preservation Act
—National Park Service General Authorities Act
—Archaeological Resources Protection Act
—National Trails System Act
—Solid Waste Disposal Act
—Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
—Migratory Bird Conservation Act
—Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act
—Historic Sites, Buildings, and Antiquities Act
—Federal Cave Resources Protection Act
—Migratory Bird Treaty Act
—National Environmental Policy Act
—National Park Service Organic Act
—Noise Control Act
—Paleontological Resources Protection Act
—Wild and Scenic Rivers Act
—Antiquities Act
—Wild Horse and Burro Act
—Administrative Procedure Act

[FactPost @factpostnews]

The Trump administration has moved to allow dumping of toxic coal waste, shielding corporations from water pollution lawsuits.

[Devin Elbers @devin199722]

Regulation seems “unnecessary” until people realize the cost of regulation is much less than the cost of regulated industries F’king up on a scale large enough to cost Americans hundreds of billions.

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

Hey DOGE and NEWSMAX, can we get an update here?  

Turns out preventing a flesh-eating parasite from invading U.S. livestock wasn’t government waste…

[Acyn @Acyn]

Rollins on Screwworm: This does trace back to the last administration….