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[Richard loves our once-great democracy. Even now! @Richcomputerguy]

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[Governor Hochul Press Office @NYGovPress]

It’s still Kathy.

Not everyone changes their name every year.

[Jessica Tarlov @JessicaTarlov]

So the MOU was exactly what everyone said it was. And it’s a disaster for us.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

McFAUL: I want to applaud Trump for trying to end the war. The problem is they talk to Russians, but after that, you don't see a strategy for ending the war in place.

First, Trump likes to talk about cards. Well, they gave away their two best ones — denying Ukraine membership in NATO and ending U.S. assistance to Ukraine — and they got nothing from Putin in return.

Number two, the structure is chaotic. These guys, Kushner and Witkoff, fly to Moscow all the time. Neither of them has ever been to Kyiv.

Henry Kissinger famously coined the term "shuttle diplomacy." They're just shuttling to Moscow, not to Kyiv.

Number three, this administration has no interagency team engaged in the details.

Therefore, I'm not very optimistic that they're going to achieve results.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

Here’s the exact moment that police found cocaine on Steve Witkoff’s son Zach Witkoff, who also happens to be Donald Trump JR’s best friend as well as CEO of their crypto scheme partnership World Liberty Financial.

Note that Steve Whitkoff is the top negotiator with Iran right now.

[Democratic Coalition @TheDemCoalition]

It's been nearly 10 years since she left the White House, but they keep insulting Michelle Obama because nothing intimidates them more than an intelligent successful black woman.

#ResistTrump

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

HAINES: I can tell my kids why it's important to have borders. It's much harder to explain when I see someone dragged out of a house who isn't a violent criminal

NAVARRO: I would urge you as a Christian and father to visit detention centers where children are being held

JD VANCE: I see we have 30 seconds left here

[Reverend Raphael Warnock @ReverendWarnock]

We must condemn hate and bigotry in all forms. Donald Trump and JD Vance do not get a pass.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 WTF?! NYT confirms JD Vance demanded the Insurrection Act be invoked to violently crush protests after ICE killed two American citizens.

He coldly admitted it would be painful but wanted to send a terrifying message. The White House is eager to unleash troops on us!

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

MAJOR BREAKING: Trump's full Iran deal LEAKS out of Saudi Arabia — and it's a thousand times worse than even his harshest critics predicted.

This is a historic surrender by Trump and Vance.

#6 is a real doozy...

According to Al Arabiya, a state-owned news channel out of Saudi Arabia, the agreement between the White House and Tehran is a 14-point "Memorandum of Understanding."

Here are those points in summary:

1) Iran, the United States, and their allies declare upon signing that there will be "an immediate and permanent end to the war on all fronts, including Lebanon." They vow not to "launch any hostile attack against each other" and will "will refrain from the threat or use of force against each other."

That means no more Truth Social threats from Trump ranting that a "whole civilization will die tonight."

2) The Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States undertake to respect each other's sovereignty and territorial integrity, and to refrain from interfering in each other's internal affairs.

3) The Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States undertake to negotiate and reach a final agreement within a maximum period of 60 days, extendable by mutual consent.

4) The U.S. will lift its naval blockade and "prevent any interference or obstruction against" Iran. Traffic through the region will be restored within 30 days to "full capacity" and "pre-war volume of traffic on the part of the Islamic Republic of Iran."

The U.S. agrees to withdraw its military forces from the surrounding region within 30 days of the final agreement (which still has to be written and ratified).

5) Iran agrees to immediately "take steps" to ensure that the movement of merchant ships from the Persian Gulf to the Sea of Oman and vice versa is resumed within 30 days to the pre-war volume, taking into account the need for the removal of technical obstacles and the neutralization of mines by Iran.

6) The U.S. and its allies will create a "comprehensive plan" for the "rehabilitation and economic development of the Islamic Republic of Iran." It must amount to AT LEAST $300 billion. The full design of the program will be written into the final agreement.

In other words: Trump wasted billions of your tax dollars to blow up Iran and now he's spending billions more to rebuild it.

7) The U.S. agrees to end "all types of sanctions" on Iran, including those implemented by the U.N. Security Council and the International Atomic Energy Agency, as well as all "unilateral U.S. sanctions, both primary and secondary."

This is an absolutely MASSIVE concession. Sanctions have long been the primary tool of imperial oppression wielded by the U.S. against Iran. While ostensibly designed to weaken the Ayatollah and the theocratic mullahs, in practice the sanctions have done nothing but inflict pointless suffering and misery on the Iranian people.

Iranian elites exist in a pampered bubble much like the elites do in the United States. It's the normal people who suffer under sanctions because they're denied access to food, medicine, technology, and other imports. Because those supplies are restricted, prices inflate, choking the middle and lower classes.

With the removal of these sanctions, the Iranian people have a chance to enter into a new era of economic blossoming. In his genocidal, nihilistic quest to weaken and destroy Iran on behalf of Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump may have accidentally Made Iran Great Again.

8) The Islamic Republic of Iran reiterates that it will never produce nuclear weapons. The Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States have agreed that the fate of enriched material and the fate of all other mutually agreed nuclear-related issues, including Iran’s nuclear needs, will be adequately addressed in a final agreement; the final agreement will confirm the provisions of this Article.

While Trump will try to claim point 8 as some big victory, the use of the word "reiterates" here is crucial. Iran was never pursuing nuclear weapons in the first place. The White House and Israel lied about Iran's intentions as a pretext to start this war. Tellingly, Iran has not agreed to surrender its enriched uranium in this memo.

9) The Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States agree that, pending a final agreement, they will maintain the status quo: Iran will maintain the status quo on its nuclear program, and the United States will not impose new sanctions on Iran or strengthen its forces in the region.

To put it more succinctly: Trump accomplished nothing.

10) The U.S. agrees to "immediately" issue waivers for exports of Iranian crude oil, petrochemical products and their derivatives, and all related services, including banking, insurance, transportation, and the like. Those waivers will no longer be required once the sanctions are lifted in full.

11) The U.S. agrees to release "frozen or restricted funds and assets of the Islamic Republic of Iran" so long as negotiations progress towards a "final agreement." Those funds will "fully available for use" by Iran.

12) The U.S. and Iran agree that "an implementation mechanism will be established to oversee the successful implementation of and future commitment to the Final Agreement."

The final agreement will be approved through a binding resolution of the UN Security Council.

Let us be very clear about what this deal memo represents: a complete, and total surrender by the United States of America to the Islamic Republic of Iran.

It constitutes the greatest military defeat in American history.

It's also a cause for celebration.

The deal is good for Iran, but more importantly it's good for the world. This conflict accomplished nothing beyond aiding Israeli's territorial expansion into Lebanon. Innocent people were slaughtered and Americans were forced to pay the price in the form of skyrocketing groceries and gas.

It would have been far better if Trump had never started this war. But since he did, it's a blessing that it's finally (possibly) coming to an end.

Please ❤️ and share if you think that Obama got a better deal!

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

Hey MAGA,

You have to agree that this petty shit, trump covering up the name of the Kennedy Center with a tarp since he had to take his own name down, really makes him look like a little bitch.

A tiny, whiny, pathetic little bitch.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: FBI Director accused of BLOWING UP a sealed terror probe with one reckless social media post.

Kash Patel just may have SABOTAGED an active counterterrorism investigation into a drone plot against the White House — because he couldn't resist posting about it on social media first.

According to MS Now's Ken Dilanian, Secret Service officials are FURIOUS that the FBI director prematurely announced details of a SEALED, ONGOING criminal investigation into a plot to attack this weekend's UFC event with drones — and possibly snipers — on the White House South Lawn.

Here's why this is so dangerous: at the time Patel ran to social media to brag, the case was sealed in court and roughly TEN suspects had NOT yet been arrested. The Secret Service and FBI had been working the case together, and had planned to make more arrests, unseal the case later that afternoon, and issue a JOINT statement.

Patel torched all of it for a Twitter post.

"We all woke up this morning to see this on Twitter," one stunned administration official said.

The plot was uncovered when a relative of one suspect contacted Cincinnati-area police, reporting their family member was talking about a vague plot in DC. A Secret Service threat team, with FBI help, subpoenaed an encrypted Signal chat and identified the conspirators discussing drones and snipers. One suspect was arrested June 13th, and the case was IMMEDIATELY sealed so investigators could find and arrest the others.

Then Patel blew the operation wide open.

Secret Service Deputy Director Matt Quinn called Patel out at a Tuesday news conference — pointedly without naming him: "I learned early in my career a phrase: 'Don't choke on your own smoke.'" Quinn emphasized the Secret Service "led that investigation from the beginning" and that they "chose NOT to leak it" to protect the investigation's integrity.

In other words, the FBI director endangered a terror probe and roughly ten un-arrested suspects to feed his own ego.

This is the same Patel accused of running a secret FBI slush fund to pay bonuses to MAGA loyalists, partying at the Olympics, and snorkeling over war graves. And now he can't keep a sealed terror case off Twitter.

The man is a danger to national security — all because of an overly inflated ego (to match his boss’s) and a disturbing lack of maturity and competence.

Please like and share if you think the FBI needs a new director with some actual law enforcement experience!

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Today, Ukrainian drones attacked Moscow’s largest oil refinery.

To understand the scale of the strike, a few key facts about Moscow Oil Refinery:

- Located just 15 kilometers from the Kremlin.
- Supplies up to 40% of Moscow’s gasoline and about 50% of its diesel fuel.
- Overall, it meets around 70% of gasoline needs for Russian capital and surrounding region.
- One in every three cars in Moscow is fueled by products from this refinery.
- Bitumen from the plant is used to build or repair every second street in Moscow.

Drones struck and damaged a key refining unit at Moscow oil refinery, likely causing the facility to halt operations for an extended period of time!

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

Compare and contrast.

#G7

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Congratulations to Mexico for getting universal health care! 🇲🇽

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

CARNEY: The tide is turning as expected in this war, and it's a part of what we just discussed. Ukraine will win, it’s just a question of time. It’s just a question of how much senseless slaughter Russia perpetrates. What we see today is unity in the G7 and unity behind Ukraine.

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

No one wants to associate with a bully and loser like Trump! 🤣

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

Nothing says “morning motivation” like fresh drone footage of Russian oil refineries doing their best impression of a $500 million bonfire.

Keep the fireworks coming, Ukraine — best reality show on the internet right now! 🔥🇺🇦

#SlavaUkraïni

[ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ @LePapillonBlu2]

“Art of the deal?”LOCK THEM UP!