Jeffrey Weil

[Sam Stein @samstein]

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

[Patrick Skinner @SkinnerPm]

When the crimes of this administration come out, and they will come out, the amount and scope will be as staggering. Even as openly corrupt and contemptuous of the law as this administration is, what remains hidden is an iceberg of crime.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: CBS National Security Analyst Aaron MacLean Just Highlighted A Pretty Extraordinary Situation.

According to MacLean, the Iran agreement is already signed.

It's already in effect.

And the public still hasn't seen the text.

For days, the White House has accused Iranian media of mischaracterizing the deal.

Iranian outlets have accused the U.S. of misrepresenting key provisions.

Yet neither side has released the actual document.

MacLean's question was simple:

If the administration wants to settle the debate, why not release the text?

Think about that.

The agreement is reportedly active.

Global markets are reacting to it.

The Strait of Hormuz is being discussed in relation to it.

Yet the public is still being asked to trust competing descriptions of a document it cannot read.

That's becoming a story in itself.

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

CORRUPT

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

No one should be surprised at Trump using government power and money to celebrate himself instead of the nation on July 4, but greater outrage at the accumulation of such vile acts would be welcome. What do Republican "patriots" have to say?

[Chuck Todd @chucktodd]

The story is even more alarming when you read the whole thing. A normal American president would be rallying the G7 today to confront the Russians on this and all the incidents Putin has been efforting to destabilize the West. Alas…

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In a stunning admission on Fox News, Fox News' top Defense Correspondent just admitted that Donald Trump's deal will not end Iran's nuclear ambitions. This is terrible.

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

"This is worse than a failure. It is a strategic calamity."

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

We spent over $70B bombing them.
We will spend $300B to rebuild them.
We lost this war, and now we will be funding Iran.

[Brett Meiselas @BMeiselas]

They don’t even have an agreement on THE MOST BASIC PART OF A DEAL!!

[Fred Wellman @FPWellman]

That’s an insane number. This should not be legal.

[Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar]

John and Yvette Hoffman survived an unthinkable attack one year ago — and their daughter Hope saved their lives by calling 911. Today, John is back serving in the State Senate, committed to making Minnesota better and Yvette is as strong and engaged with the world as ever. That is Minnesota's courage and hope.

[Joe Scarborough @ScarboroughNow]

Does the deal really make a $12 billion payoff to the Islamic Republic of Iran?

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

🇺🇸 🇮🇷 If you’re keeping track at home:

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

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

[Vfynn_🥷🏼 𐙚 @Vfynn_]

🚨🗣️New: Thierry Henry reacts to the USA vs Paraguay stoppage for TV commercials:

“I’ve spent my entire life in this beautiful game — as a player at the highest level, as a fan, and now as someone who analyses it every week — and what unfolded during that USA versus Paraguay match left me deeply frustrated. The fourth official standing there on the touchline, arm raised high, instructing the referee to hold the restart… not for any injury, not for tactical reasons, and not even primarily for player hydration in that scorching heat. No. It was because the broadcast team hadn’t finished airing all their commercials. That’s not football. That’s a television show pretending to be a World Cup match.

The beautiful game is being strangled by greed. Players are out there in the heat, ready to restart, momentum building like a storm about to break — and we pause everything so the sponsors can cash in. It’s like stopping a symphony mid-crescendo because the advertisers want their jingle heard. Football didn’t conquer the world by turning into American sports with endless timeouts and ad breaks. We had rhythm, flow, emotion that flowed like a river. Now? It’s dammed up for dollars.

This isn’t about hydration or player welfare anymore — it’s a slippery slope where the soul of the game is sold piece by piece. Fans deserve better. Players deserve better. The referee on that pitch looked like a puppet on strings controlled from some broadcast truck. Enough is enough. We need to protect what made this sport the greatest on Earth before it disappears completely.”

The World Cup should be football’s cathedral. Instead, we’re turning it into a shopping mall with a pitch in the middle.

And here’s the question nobody wants to answer: if the fourth official is waiting for commercials, then who is really running the game? FIFA? The referee? Or the broadcasters?

Because the moment football starts asking advertisers for permission before asking the players, you’ve crossed a line.

The World Cup is supposed to be the showcase of football. Not the showcase of who paid the most for airtime.”

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

HEGSETH: We have controlled the straits this entire time

BRENNAN: You're negotiating with them to reopen it

[Wajahat Ali @WajahatAli]

Trump just approved the Paramount-Warner Bros merger for The Ellisons, who paid $7 billion for UFC Streaming Rights.

Guess who showed up to the fight tonight? David Ellison.

It's all a grift.

[Turnbull @cturnbull1968]

That’s about $298B more than Obama agreed to.

The difference being that Obama gave back Iranian money and Trump will be using our money.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

$347 million in soybean losses. $104 million in corn. $607 million total in one year.

North Dakota State University. Peer-reviewed accounting. Indiana was among the hardest-hit states nationally.

Jim Banks hasn't said a word about it. The farmers in Benton and White and Jasper counties are still paying for it.

[Patrick Skinner @SkinnerPm]

So this admin lets a private company, that the president owns stock in, use the White House and grounds for a pay-per-view spectacle using troops & staff, rents out ads everywhere, and has it streaming on the company whose monopolistic merger it just approved.
Grift never ending