jo3 flores

Heavy on Retweets of Real Time Citation / OSINT & NatSec aficionado. Rights advocate covering the clash between the oppressed & those doing the oppressing.

[jo3 flores @jo3_f]

#AsktheWH Should Intelligence Director Clapper resign over lies he told Congress, under oath, about #NSA's programs? http://t.co/MwIzwHwe3p

[CBS LA @CBSLosAngeles]

Garden Grove Police Chief Amir El-Farra said that seven arrests have been made since the start of the toxic chemical incident at GKN Aerospace on Thursday night, when evacuation orders were first issued.

[Laura Rozen @lrozen]

Trump schedule Tuesday has him at Walter Reed for medical stuff til midday

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

This is amazing.

The New York Times put together a graphic of how much time cabinet members spend kissing up to Trump in meetings.

"On average, at least one of every six sentences either flattered Mr. Trump, gave him credit or criticized his political opponents."

North Korea.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

They did, it was called America

[Mindy Fischer Writer @mindys4Biden]

Not-so-fun fact....According to AARP, 3.3 million retired seniors were forced to unretire and rejoin the workforce in the past few months thanks to Trump.

[All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris]

Republican Sen. Thom Tillis says Trump’s DOJ can’t seek billions for anti-fraud efforts while backing a Jan. 6 payout fund he calls “politically tone deaf.” https://t.co/7Mf0xGKxAV

[Ellen Nakashima @nakashimae]

SCOOP: Mauricio Claver-Carone -- Trump's unofficial Venezuela viceroy -- doesn’t work for the U.S. government but has an outsize role in shaping policy there.

@schmidtsam7 @Anthony_Faiola @karendeyoung1 @samueloakford

https://t.co/92ufwjiLiq

[Phil Stewart @phildstewart]

!! RUBIO: NEGOTIATING LANGUAGE OF DEAL WITH IRAN COULD ‘TAKE A FEW DAYS’

[Paul D (@[email protected] @Paulmd199]

Foia evasion is generally treated as either a sacred obligation, or a sport. Going after a scientist, just because RFK has a vendetta against vaccines is nonsense.

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

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[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

Israel appears to be resisting the regional ceasefire encompassed in the pending US-Iran deal. But even if Trump forces Israel to comply, Israel will likely wiggle itself out of the agreement and start attacking Lebanon, citing self-defense.

At that point, Iran would face a painful dilemma. Tehran would almost certainly pressure Trump to intervene and might even threaten to abandon the agreement altogether.

But if Washington failed to act, would Iran truly sacrifice sanctions relief, economic recovery, and an end to open warfare merely to register its objections? Moreover, walking away from the deal might not compel Trump to restrain Israel. Iran could end up with neither an agreement nor a ceasefire in Lebanon. In fact, it would be an outcome Israel would welcome.

One option increasingly discussed within segments of Iran’s security establishment is more ominous still: remaining within the agreement while imposing costs elsewhere — namely on the United Arab Emirates, one of Israel’s closest regional partners.

The logic is brutally simple. If the broader US-Iran arrangement tolerates Israel attacking an Iranian ally in Lebanon, then Tehran may conclude that the same arrangement can tolerate Iran targeting an Israeli ally in the Persian Gulf.

Under such a scenario, Iran could retaliate against Emirati territory or Israeli operatives based there for every Israeli strike conducted in Lebanon. Rather than collapsing the agreement outright, Tehran would seek to exact a calibrated price for Israeli noncompliance.

Read the full analysis here:
https://t.co/1tpxvwHAC2

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

A Trump Tower planned for the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, is to be built on land currently part-owned by the son of the leader of the country who is under US sanctions for undermining democracy. https://t.co/z7tscqfsb1

[John Hudson @John_Hudson]

Before boarding a plane in Jaipur, Rubio was asked about the renewed hostilities with Iran. He said the United States would continue to pursue a diplomatic solution, noting that talks were currently playing out in Qatar on the original framework for ending the war:

[The New Republic @newrepublic]

Samuel Alito Quoted Fake Data in His Ruling Gutting Voting Rights Act https://t.co/yUtgJhylNt

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Absolute bombshell. Top journalist Glenn Greenwald exposes staggering corruption. He confirms Donald Trump launched the disastrous Iran war solely to appease Gulf dictatorships that just funneled billions into his new crypto company.

The White House is entirely for sale!

[Not Your Average Liberal @NotAvgLiberal]

“We don’t take an oath to a King”….

“We don't take an oath to a wannabe dictator”

“We take an oath to the Constitution.…and we're willing to die to protect it"

- General Mark Milley
#MemorialDay

[Hala Jaber @HalaJaber]

Tonight, entire families were wiped out in Israel’s bombardment of Mashghara in the Bekaa.

Among the dead:
Samir Rizk.
Hamza Rizk & his two children.
Hassan Mansour, his wife, & their two daughters.

Killed inside their homes, late at night, as Israeli warplanes unleashed wave after wave of heavy strikes on the town.

The footage from the scene is hellish. Homes burning. Entire buildings torn open. Families buried beneath the rubble in their sleep.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

DISGRACEFUL: ICE agents tear-gassed U.S. Senator Andy Kim at Delaney Hall detention facility in NJ today!

Kim was supporting hunger-striking detainees protesting spoiled food, no medical care & extreme heat when federal agents unleashed tear gas & pepper spray. Kim struggled to breathe & injured his hand in the chaos.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Thought experiment:

If you said “I support Israel’s onslaught against Gaza” there would be no consequences for your career.

What would happen if you said “I want to do to Israel what they’ve done to Gaza”?

Easy way of testing whose lives matter and whose don’t!

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

If these are actually Trump’s new terms, doesn’t seem like a deal is very close