What started as a basketball league no one cared about saw Caitlin Clark step in and revolutionize the sport. Then Sophie Cunningham expressed her true feelings about riding wrong. Do not be fooled: this is not about basketball anymore. Cultural and social debates on race, gender, and player safety are now flashpoints in the WNBA, fueled by surging popularity, scrutinized rivalries, and national discourse.
Contentious thesis.
Iran Isn’t the Prize.
Many look at the Iran war and conclude Trump has no strategy, no focus, no off‑ramp, that frustration is understandable, it is also overstated. The mistake is treating Iran as both a monolith and the main event, it is neither.
Iran is not a monolith because the IRGC’s ideological core is not the whole country, weakening the Guards also buys time for unarmed resistance and for the rest of Iran to breathe, and Iran is not the prize because the larger contest is not Washington versus Tehran, but the United States versus China.
President Trump’s Iran strategy is about constraint, not regime change, the goals are to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, keep the Strait of Hormuz open, and disrupt the IRGC’s ability to finance terrorism and proxy warfare, on those metrics, the picture is far stronger than the daily noise suggests.
Iran’s strategic position is deteriorating, under repeated strikes, tightening sanctions, and episodic embargoes, its room to maneuver is smaller and its leverage more costly to generate. U.S. and Israeli operations have damaged nuclear and conventional capabilities and forced Tehran into a ceasefire that reopened Hormuz, Sec Bessent’s campaign against Iran’s shadow banking, exchange houses, front companies, and shipping networks has gone after tens of billions in sanctions evasion, the IRGC’s funding channels are being systematically attacked.
Regionally, Trump’s Saudi civilian nuclear deal, explicitly conditioned on Riyadh joining the Abraham Accords, turns the nuclear file into leverage for a balancing bloc, the Israel–Lebanon framework, with Lebanese army “pilot zones” and phased Israeli withdrawal, is designed to unwind Hezbollah’s forward base in stages rather than through occupation, and looming behind all of this is Beijing, China has long used Iran as a pawn, both to pin down U.S. attention in the Middle East and as a discounted, sanctions‑shadowed source of energy.
If this holds, the dialectic resolves in one direction, Iran is not an end in itself, Iran is about China. As the Iran risk premium comes out of oil, prices will drift lower, inflation fears will ease, rate cuts will come back on the table, growth will accelerate, risk premia will compress and multiples will expand, a peace dividend is on its way. In my view, the Iranian nuclear threat is effectively off the table for the foreseeable future, the financing of global terror has been materially reduced, and the West has accepted that Pax Americana is over, we are back in a hard great‑power game, where hard power is once again the core instrument of policy, and where the Thucydides Trap between the United States and China is the central danger that must be managed.
So don’t kid yourself, by the standards that matter, reopening Hormuz, degrading Iran’s military and financial leverage, and tightening the regional ring around the IRGC, Trump has largely won the Iran war. The Iran file will be settled, and to be frank, it is a sideshow, the real focus is the great game between the United States and China, and boxing in Tehran is about clearing the board for the contest that will define the century.
HOW MANY ARE TOO MANY?
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I have now posted 1,427 names of people killed or allegedly killed by an illegal
@TomiLahren Did you hear about Cooper & Islami’s preventable deaths? Of course not, that’s why I do this. MSM doesn’t report these deaths because they don’t want you to know about illegal immigrant crime. IMO, that’s also why X hides this account.
Please repost so Islami & Cooper aren’t forgotten and inform people of their preventable deaths.
I’m not selling anything, not monetizing this, not writing a book, not making a documentary, etc. There’s nothing in this for me. I see what’s happening to our country & trying to do something about it.
I post a photo of the victim so you can see that these preventable deaths happened to real people, to real children and families that had their lives taken from them by someone illegally in our country.
“If This Is It” - Huey Lewis and the News
It became the band’s fifth Top 10 hit and their third consecutive #6 single on the Billboard Hot 100 (peaking on September 15, 1984).
This brilliant video of Mamdani’s New York called “Commietown”, created by the genius of Greg Abbott, was first posted a few weeks before Mamdani came into office.
It’s just mind boggling how prophetic this video is. And holy shit did Frank Sinatra nail it 🤣😂
Goosebumps!
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“Kiss Me” by Sixpence None The Richer is a romantic hit from their 1997 album, capturing a sweet, dreamy innocence that made the song timeless and instantly recognizable. 💫🎶