Who knows if there will be a final agreement. But if there is, two things will be true at the same time:
a) It's essentially surrender to Iran.
b) We should be glad about it, because every day this insane, illegal war continues, we get weaker.
1/ Let me explain.
omar is right that sanctions have a mixed record but that's because they are primarily used to try to pressure a country into doing something it doesn't want to do. the sanctions on russia are not there to persuade russia---they are there to make russia weaker so it's easier for ukraine to defend itself against them
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Charge deserved better in those first two games. Gotta give credit where it's due. Hope they can improve the reffing moving forward, you can be your own league, allow penalty reviews, do something unique.
This is a desperate move by Doug Ford to ram his shady FOI changes through legislature.
The Premier so clearly has something to hide.
This is shameful. Ontarians deserve better. They deserve a government who will be honest with them.
Only one chance in this lifetime…
Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.
I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.
The Iran nuclear deal that Trump withdrew from came after 12 years of negotiations. Yet Vance thought Iran would accept US terms after 21 hours. The US thinks Iran lost this war, so they can dictate terms. Iran thinks it won, and - to use Trump's terms - has many cards to play.
And splashdown!
America is back in the business of sending astronauts to the Moon and bringing them home safely.
Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy did an outstanding job. These talented astronauts inspired the world and represented their space agencies and nations as humanity’s ambassadors to the stars.
This was a test mission, the first crewed flight of SLS and Orion, pushing farther into the unforgiving environment of space than ever before, and it carried real risk. They accepted that risk for all we stood to learn and for the exciting missions that follow, as we return to the lunar surface, build a Moon base, and prepare for what comes next.
And they were not alone. The entire NASA workforce, our commercial and international partners, and the hopes and dreams of people all over the world were with them. The astronauts know it, and you should too. This mission would not have been possible without you.
Congratulations. Artemis II, mission accomplished.
Here's a really powerful summary of what the 2 social media court cases mean. @jonfavs explains why anyone running for office would do well to embrace and champion reforms.
The Bondi firing will get all the attention but what Hegseth is doing with the upper echelons of the military is much more dangerous over time than Bondi’s tenure as AG.
And it won’t get 1% of the coverage.
Someday it will get a lot of coverage, and those will be dark days.
“No wonder the government’s self promotion budget now runs north of $100 million a year. Since 2018, the Ford government has spent about $450 million on advertising, enough to have doubled the number of MRI machines across Ontario.”
When Obama sent Iran $400m + $1.3bn in interest in 2016 Trump called it "insane" and he and others spent a decade mocking the idea of "pallets of cash" even though it was Iran's own money, American prisoners were released, courts were likely to require the U.S. payment, and Iran had just agreed to significant and verified reductions and restrictions on its nuclear program for 15+ years. Now Trump is giving Iran up to ten times that amount of revenue--one of the most significant measures of sanctions relief provided to the Islamic Republic since its founding--in exchange for marginal and temporary relief from the big increase in oil prices his actions have caused, without any concessions from Tehran, and even as Iran continues to target the United States, its allies, and world oil supplies. No way to read as anything other than desperate recognition of the situation Trump's own actions have created and the lack of available alternatives for dealing with it.
Just saw this and was about to post something amusingly ironic along the lines of : I'm sure Trump will be magnanimous in his response to a former foe. Then I saw his response and even my jaw hit the floor.
Bush: "He helped prevent another terrorist attack on US soil."
Obama: "One of the finest directors in the history of the FBI"
Trump: "I'm glad he's dead."
The current President of The United States is not a normal human being. He's a vicious, crude, unhinged cunt of a man.
While Trump dodged the draft, Robert Mueller volunteered for the Marines after graduating Princeton. He was awarded a Bronze Star with combat V, rescuing a wounded Marine while under fire. He was later shot in the thigh, awarded a Purple Heart, and returned to lead his platoon.
Breaking. Ford admitted he changed freedom of information law to hide his cell phone records as Ford's cabinet had large stretches of inactivity on their gov phones including Sylvia Jones when for-profit-surgical-clinics opened with unprecedented profits.