May 3, 2026

02d Agit-Prop

Blurb:

There is little doubt that U.S. and Israeli strikes on military targets inside Iran have dealt a severe blow to the country’s capacity to wage war. The campaign has eliminated the first and second tiers of Iran’s leadership, destroyed more than 60 naval vessels, degraded its weapons stockpiles, and dismantled key air-defense systems — leaving large portions of the regime’s political and command infrastructure in disarray.

Yet despite the devastation, Iran’s leadership shows no sign of capitulation. Instead, it remains defiantly entrenched. As the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps exhausts its remaining military options, it has increasingly turned to another weapon: a coordinated propaganda campaign waged through its state-controlled media. And, as so often happens, the anti-American foot soldiers of the U.S. legacy press have proven more than willing to amplify it.

Blurb:

ABC News, already the worst among the Elitist Media broadcast network evening newscasts, may have plumbed a new low. A story subject’s murderous, transgender father was hit with Disney pixie dust and spun into the more anodyne “former family member.”

Watch the report in its entirety, as aired on ABC World News Tonight on Thursday, March 12th, 2026:

Originally published March 6, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence AdvisorSubscribe to get weekly issues.

By Paul Gordon Collier, Editor

“Woe to those who decree iniquitous decrees, and the writers who keep writing oppression, to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!”Isaiah 10:1-2

“Behold, upon the mountains, the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace! Keep your feasts, O Judah; fulfill your vows, for never again shall the worthless pass through you; he is utterly cut off.”Nahum 1:15

The DNC-CCP has a news war machine now openly inciting violence with clearly untruthful declarations. It does so in a coordinated manner that reflects the will and purpose of the DNC-CCP.

They hide between the claim they are the free press, but laws already exist on the books that they are clearly violating, laws which prohibit the DNC-CCP news war machine from being a content marketer for a political party (without disclosing it) using terroristic threats and incitements of violence to do so.

The Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) of 1971 prohibits campaign advertising that is not labeled campaign advertising. There is a press exemption that excludes news stories, commentaries or editorials if the publisher is not owned/controlled by a candidate, party, or committee. As it is recognized as a potential loophole for abusers, the FEC does have some power to determine whether this is actual journalism and not a disguised political ad.

The Communications Act of 1934 has sections that requires broadcast publishers to disclose all sponsorships, political or otherwise. Broadcasters must maintain records available for public inspections disclosing those sponsorships. This affects TV, cable, satellite TV, radio, and satellite radio.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has some power to regulate advertising, though it mostly uses this power to regulate commercial advertising. Yet the power to act against political advertising is not explicitly forbidden. This power comes through Section 4 of the FTC Act on Native Advertising.

Under Brandeburg v. Ohio, 1969, SCOTUS established a precedent for the limits on government to restrict speech that is deemed as “inciting” in nature. The key framework is the speech must be “directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action” and must also “likely… incite or produce such action.”

In 18 U.S.C. § 1038 (False Information and Hoaxes), spreading false information with the intent to incite violence is a criminal offense. Each penalty includes fines and usually up to 5 years in prison, but longer sentences are not prohibited.

This provision is mostly intended to target claims of terrorist or WMD attacks, such as claiming the Federal government was sending out Nazis to round up brown-skinned Americans.

These laws have been on the books for some time, available to every Department of Justice going back at least to the Nixon administration. Yet, every year since these laws have been on the books the corporate media became increasingly overtly partisan.

As media companies were absorbed, the partisanship became more pronounced. It has now come to the point that is apparent to the casual outsider that their narratives are coordinated between the corporate media outlets and the Democrat party. If this were proven to be true, many corporate media executives, journalists, and talking heads would face years in prison, as they justly should.

Today, 6 major companies control 90% of the news signal, and that number is headed to 5 soon enough with the announced merger of Paramount with Warner Bros. Discovery.

Today, these corporate news outlets have become, in part, disinformation war machines executing a brutal psychological war on American citizens, with the only major pushback coming in the form of lawsuits, mostly (with some exceptions) by the most powerful. President Trump has made media companies pay him millions for their intentional agit prop campaigns aimed at destroying his Presidency, again and again and again.

They represent Progmerica, a nation born from within us, starting in 1913, with the creation of the foundation that would build their nation, the creation of the income tax, the death of state legislative elections of the Senate, and the creation of the Federal Reserve.

With these three entities, using American language, but with changed terms, they built their Empire within, using tools that allowed them to circumvent the slow republican machine. They could appeal to the masses with emotional campaigns, promising them the moon but offering them only slavery (which they will blame on their adversaries).

They could create Wilson’s dream, a Democracy that rubber stands the true power, the regulator class, the “deep state” you’ve heard so much about.

We do understand Progmerica began as a pejorative, but nonetheless, the pejorative is accurate. Progmerica is the metastasizing Progressive parasite within America that began semi-officially in 1913. They are not Americans, but their rise depended entirely on American power to do so. The “merican” is the dead host body of America, the Prog is the parasite within now poking its head out of the corpse, becoming the new head of the new parasite nation.

Politicians are there to write vaguely-termed legislation that can be “adapted” on the fly by regulators, a power this writer presumes no founding father would approve of, an Empire of policy writers, bureaucrats, who themselves relied on corporate sponsorship and approval to rise to the ranks to be one of them someday.

Of course, it’s more complex than what I’m describing, but my description captures the overall reality of the system that has emerged since Wilson’s Hive.

These past few years, that Hive has come VERY CLOSE to fully transforming America to Progmerica, the fundamental transformation Barack Obama promised in 2008 to those who understood the dog whistle.

Their nation, however, without the American bones, will quickly dissolve into the Soviet, with no name attributed to the now-soulless land at all. It was Americanism that was allowing your profitless system to continue as long as it has so far.

Where lies are not censored, truth thrives. This is the secret power of America, not its diversity, its ability to unite disparate groups willing to let lies live to be silenced by truth alone, even when the lies are directed at themselves (something the conservatives are still not fully prepared to live out).

Just recently, the death of the Ayatollah Khamenei has revealed the seditious nature of a press whose spirit aligns with Progmerica. To the progressive, a powerful America is more of a threat to their global utopian fantasy than a powerful Ayatollah Khamenei will ever be. Within their country, the press is loyal and patriotic, but within America, they are quislings no longer hiding their treason.

Whatever you feel about America’s involvement in Iran or its support of Israel, you would not mourn the death of a bloodthirsty tyrant who only recently oversaw the slaughter of tens of thousands of his own citizens for daring to want to throw the shackles of his regime off.

If you hate America so much that you love the Ayatollah, you might be a Progmerican. The DNC 6 (the corporate media) chose violence, they chose the Ayatollah. They practically lauded this murderer-rapist. They chose to portray him as an avuncular character well-loved by his people. They knowingly spread misinformation intended to embolden the terror cells we know for a fact already exist, both Iranian and Progmerican ones.

They are reinforcing the sense of injustice in the hearts of killers who already want to murder Americans, and they are doing this intentionally. They want murder. They want chaos. They want to stop Trump. They want to finish America off once and for good.

The laws are there already to prosecute these traitors on multiple fronts. The discovery such investigations could yield will also get these corporate Progmericans life in prison (or worse), for this writer believes the connection between the DNC 6 and the CCP will be overwhelming. The depth of collusion between the CCP and our “American” (Progmerican) corporations will one day infuriate and grieve this nation.

The dilemma in Iran for the Americans and Israelis is figuring out how much of Iran’s military power you want to debase. If you leave them defenseless, you bring American soldiers to Iran, and nobody wants that. There would be no support for such an action. Therefore, the Trump administration must decide how much power to keep intact for the next regime, the next (hopefully) American-friendly regime.

This is the same dilemma Trump faces when he looks at the great sociocultural-engineering power built by Progmerica all around him. He has confidence his team will win, Trumpmerica will triumph, and if they destroy too much of Progmerica’s power, they might be defenseless against the next threat.

This, I believe, is why he is protecting the Epstein network from rightful accountability. This, also, is why I believe he is NOT using the laws on the books to dismantle the DNC-CCP’s agit prop “news” machine, because he wants to replace it, not kill it.

The merger of Paramount with Warner Discovery will put a Trump supporter in the seat of power of one of the remaining 5, but that 1 is not American, he is a Trumpian, for Americans would wish to see the whole system dismantled, the info-terrorists brought to justice, and their assets sold to Americans.

This could be done, today, if Trump didn’t want to preserve the sociocultural engineering agit prop news power for himself, or at least for his “progeny.”

Since its inception, the printed word as “news” has been used intentionally often to knowingly spread misinformation to incite violence against their enemies or raise soldiers for their cause. Our American journalistic tradition starts in England, during the English Civil War, when pamphleteers fired off sensationalist stories that the writers most likely knew were false or were based on the rumors that supported their cause.

Wherever there is news, there is some degree of deceptive content marketing going on, so governing news, in general, is difficult, until it gets so obvious that talking heads are on tv news shows telling their viewers Trump will re-enslave black people if he’s elected.

We’re supposed to believe the person(s) who said that didn’t know this wasn’t true. We’re supposed to believe that person(s) didn’t know such a statement would incite violence.

The bar to prove intentional dissemination of obviously false information should be very high. It should be so high that more people will get away with doing this than the people who would be successfully prosecuted for it.

Proving intent to incite violence should be equally difficult for the state, but not impossible. In some instance, intent is prima fasci, like telling listeners ICE agents are Nazis after ICE agents have been ambushed and attacked by terror cells (which are now including children).

If we get out of here alive, so to speak, “history” will marvel in horror at the level of psychological terror inflicted on the American people by their own corporations. Yet as horrible as that has been, and continues to be, what has been going on in state schools for children is far, far worse, and crosses over into war crime territory.

Telling white children their parents are the devil, and they now have sin skins is pure unadulterated evil, and many state agents, “teachers” deliver this terrorist assault on children every day, paid by taxpayers to do so.

If the motivation wasn’t evil from the start, the phenomenon of majorityism would be taught as a universal human problem, not an exclusively white one, as these teachers deceptively tell their children (to the detriment of that child’s psycho-social well-being).

But I will save that for another day.

In light of this reality, I am asking our readers to make it a habit to take in news from multiple sources. I aggregate news and archive blurbs, along with the ones I write, on mindfulintelligence.news. We analyze and write from an Americanist Christian perspective.

We speak in prophetic language, meaning we seek to unveil sterile terms to reveal the depravity these terms really conceal. Isaiah, Ezekial, and Jeremiah are our plumblines. For instance, we often call the DNC the DNC-CCP because, in spirit and most likely materially, these two factions are working together even as they also hope one day to be the hegemon of the same dream, ecumenical socialism.

You can go to mindfulintelligence.news and use the search to get an aggregate sample of news from the DNC 6, independent media, global media, regional global media, and conservative corporate media.

As surely as the Apostle Paul lauded the Bereans for checking his words against scripture, so I would ask you to never assume any news outlet, including ours, is speaking infallible truth. Do not take our word for anything until you’ve stewarded that belief for yourself. Be a Berean with the news.

In the midst of the aggregates alone, can one hope to find truth in today’s agit-prop heavy news environment.

The DNC has far more in common with the CCP than it does America (which members of this faction routinely call Nazi, Fascist, or dog whistles of white supremacism. BOTH are existentially threatened by Americanism, and both are most likely working to vanquish their common enemy, America.

“Dog Whistle” in the mouth of a Progmerican itself is a dog whistle for gnostic truth, truth based on the status of the individual, not the context of the individual’s truth claims within observable reality.

President Trump is not willing to end the deep state power because he wants to preserve it. He’s not brave enough to be called an American and he’s doesn’t hate America enough to be called a Progressive.

He is a liminal figure who has created space to change what was (An America slowly being taken over from within by Progmericans) to something new. That new thing can STILL BE to pivot to full-on Progressivism. Yet it can also change to an America restored and fulfilled or it can follow the Trumpmerican path he’s set us on (America-lite, which will collapse into full-on Progmericanism soon enough).

He can be the delay to the “inevitable takeover” by the progressives or he can be the path to full-on fulfillment of America’s promise.

Trump’s election, his power, represents indecision, a hedging of bets on the Progmerican emergent plan, but not a complete rejection of it. Let us hope there are far more of us Americans than there are Progmericans and Trumpmericans, for failure to restore and fulfill our republic will ultimately end in the disintegration of our unity and the rise of competing tyrant kingdoms desperately racing to build the one AI machine that will control them all.

America’s greatness is in her future potential to consistently live out her self-stewardship standards, not in her past struggles, failures, and even her successes. Failure to reach that potential will result in the failure of the American project.

So long as the news war machines continue to whir and spew disinformation campaigns intended to demoralize Americans, infuriate Progmericans, and incite violence in general, our future remains in grave doubt. Handing that power over to Trumpmerica will not save or fulfill America, it will only assure America is never fulfilled.

Blurb:

It’s come to the point for CNN where the only thing worse than people not watching their channel is when people watch their channel.

Oh, sure, the former Don Lemon Network™ has plenty of issues with the former. You’re not going to have to give up your jokes about measuring CNN viewership by airport delays anytime soon. But with those airport delays (thanks for the DHS shutdown, Democrats!) comes additional opportunities to check out what they’re doing over there — and holy moly, are they still screwing things up.

Take the attempted terror attack near Gracie Mansion in New York City on Saturday, purportedly by a couple of Islamic State group-inspired nutjobs. (Or, as the network might have called it back in 2020, “fiery but mostly peaceful protesters.”)

Blurb:

For almost two weeks now, the US and Israel have been waging war on Iran. What Washington initially presented as a military campaign that would swiftly alter the strategic balance and put Tehran in a vulnerable position has proven to be far more complex. Over the past months, the White House has maintained that Iran could be on the brink of total defeat by the end of the first, or at most, the second day of a conflict. Apparently, the American side expected a rapid dismantling of Iran’s capabilities and a serious destabilization of its government. However, recent developments tell a different story.

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FRANCE 24’s François Picard is pleased to welcome Dr. Rouzbeh Parsi, Adjunct Senior Lecturer at Lund University in Sweden. According to Dr. Parsi, the current political situation in Iran should be approached with caution, too much attention is being paid to the potential rise of Mojtaba Khamenei. Yet the Islamic Republic is not a system built around a single person, especially during a time of war. Decision-making power lies with institutions such as the Revolutionary Guards and the broader security establishment.

This institutional dynamic also complicates efforts to understand Khamenei himself, explains Dr. Parsi. Whether he intends to maintain continuity with the political baseline established by his late father or eventually chart his own course remains difficult to assess. For now, the Islamic Republic is fundamentally focused on survival, and that struggle will likely shape both internal politics and foreign policy.

Militarily, there is also a tendency among outside observers to misinterpret Iranian behaviour. A reduction in missile launches, for example, should not automatically be interpreted as a lack of capability. It may simply reflect a deliberate strategic approach aimed at weakening defensive systems first, thereby increasing the effectiveness of later strikes. Ultimately, Iran’s objective appears to be political as much as military: to demonstrate that attacking Iran carries costs, and to ensure that any eventual negotiations with the United States occur under more serious terms than those previously attempted. And so, Dr. Parsi argues, “the Iranians are going to play this game their own way”.

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With jagged cliffs rising from the Arabian Sea, the Strait of Hormuz is striking in its scenery — and these days, its emptiness. This resource superhighway, which normally hosts more than a hundred of the world’s largest oil and liquid natural gas (LNG) tankers every day, has seen no more than a handful all week.

They are the brave ones, daring to run these front lines where U.S. and Iranian naval forces face off. At least 14 commercial vessels have suffered some kind of violent incident, leaving at least eight mariners dead.

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Confusion on whether Iran truly needed only “two weeks to four weeks” to make a nuclear weapon, as President Donald Trump suggested on Monday, hangs over the ongoing U.S. and Israeli war on the Persian Gulf nation. Nuclear experts call this claim unlikely—but the confusion may stem from some basics of atomic chemistry.

“There was no evidence that Iran was close to a nuclear weapon,” says Jeffrey Lewis of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies. His comment echoed those of other experts after the war’s start, as well as statements from International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi at that time and in 2025 and last year’s “threat assessment” report by U.S. intelligence agencies.

According to an IAEA estimate, as of June 2025, Iran possessed 441 kilograms of 60 percent enriched uranium, where the percentage refers to the share of the isotope uranium 235 (U 235) found in the material. That would be enough for 10 nuclear weapons if the material could be enriched further to full 90 percent weapons-grade concentrations, according to the IAEA. That further enrichment would take a matter of weeks in a fully functioning Iranian nuclear complex, perhaps explaining the time line within Trump’s declaration.

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Tuesday on MS NOW’s “The Briefing,” Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said President Donald Trump would try to “seize ballot boxes’ to “subvert the vote” in the midterm elections.

Host Jen Psaki said, “The administration subpoenaed records from 2020 from Arizona. We know that’s not about changing the outcome of the 2020 election. We know that they’ve already gone through that. It’s obviously about 2026. What do you make of that and what’s your level of concern about it?”

Schiff said, “I think the subpoenas in Arizona, America, Maricopa County, the FBI raid in Georgia, this is all trying to establish some kind of phony predicate for them to say that the election system is so flawed, the machines don’t work. There’s too much fraud and absentee ballots that come November, they can nationalize the elections, they can somehow outlaw absentee ballots, or they can seize ballot boxes and they will have some pretext to do it. So this is, I think, part of laying the foundation to interfere with, suppress the vote or ultimately subvert the vote. They understand, as we do in the Democratic Party, that they are likely to get clobbered in the midterms and, you know, they’re willing to resort to anything.”

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It’s  the Great Fear that is just eating away at the poor folks at Politico. It was first expressed by that periodical in December when they suddenly realized that with so many Democrats (and none clearly in the lead) that in the open primary for governor of California that it was possible that with only  two Republicans in that race, that both of them could end up in first and second place due to the Democrats splitting up the rest of the votes among themselves.

A couple of months later in February that fear not only did not go away but intensified with poor Politico going full delusional to the extent of pretending that if they only concentrated on the top two Democrat candidates while absurdly ignoring the two GOP candidates whom many polls are showing in the first and second spot, thus qualifying to run against each other in the general election, that maybe the problem would just go away. The result of completely ignoring the Republican candidates who could both qualify for the general election earned Politico some well deserved mockery.

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DORAL, Florida — President Donald Trump told House Republicans Monday he had one overriding legislative priority for 2026. Then they spent Tuesday talking about just about anything else.

Trump’s demand for passage of an updated SAVE America Act — a GOP elections bill that the House has advanced two versions of already — was met with less than complete enthusiasm from leaders gathered for the annual Republican policy retreat.

Speaker Mike Johnson and other senior lawmakers gave the unmistakable impression they now consider that bill to be a Senate problem — even after Trump insisted the House take it up a third time and add on more controversial provisions, such as a near-total ban on mail voting.

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That post, however, quickly drew heavy backlash for appearing to downplay the attempted bombing that took place.

CNN later deleted the post, then apologized, writing on X, “A post regarding the two individuals arrested for throwing homemade bombs outside of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s home failed to reflect the gravity of the incident thereby breaching the editorial standards we require for all our reporting. It has therefore been deleted.”

Balat was seen on video throwing the explosive device that failed to detonate. At the same time, he yelled “Allahu Akbar.” Kayumi and Balat indicated to police that they carried out the actions because they had pledged allegiance to ISIS, according to the criminal complaint.

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Anytime something happens in these United States of America that makes the left look bad, we on the right snark to each other about how the media will gloss over it, glorify the perpetrators, and make the progressive in question seem less bad. Like the two ISIS-inspired bombers in NYC. Sure, attempting to people up with and IED is bad, but the real villains were the tens of people Islamophobiaing in the street. Even by our usual low standards for the journalsiming industrial complex, this CNN framing is something.

Terrorists inspired by ISIS? Meh. Emir Balat and Ibraham Kayumi were just two teens who, on an unseasonably sunny day, made a mistake that could change their lives forever.

Two Pennsylvania teenagers crossed into New York City Saturday morning for what could’ve been a normal day enjoying the city during abnormally warm weather.

But in less than an hour, their lives would drastically change as the pair would be arrested for throwing homemade bombs during an anti-Muslim protest outside of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s home. Here’s what we know so far.

Blurb:

Kristen Welker’s softball Sunday interview on NBC with the Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi reminded everyone again of an anti-American double standard. The liberals inside newsrooms put enormous pressure on interviewers to question Trump fiercely, while representatives of mass-murdering Islamist regimes get open-ended softballs.

Blurb:

According to CNN’s Data Analyst Harry Enten, you should not be surprised that people who have served in the military largely approve of the U.S. strikes on Iran when compared to voters overall.

He cites a Fox News Poll:

Among Republicans, more than 8 in 10 approve of the current U.S. use of force, while only 6 in 10 say the president’s actions on Iran are making the U.S. safer.

Nearly 8 in 10 Democrats disapprove of the U.S. strikes and think things are less safe because of Trump’s performance, while 6 in 10 or more independents think the same on both counts.

Among voters who have served in the military, 59% approve of the U.S. strikes on Iran (39% disapprove). Compared to voters overall, who say the U.S. is less safe by a wide margin, veterans are more closely divided on the question of whether Trump’s actions have made the country safer (37%) or less safe (44%).

Blurb:

Hours after an Oliver Darcy underling screeched Sunday about CBS News’s social media platforms as having gone full MAGA for covering unsavory stories such as a Jewish Insider investigation into the radical social media history of New York City’s first lady, Monday’s CBS Mornings showed the liberal media are unsurprisingly not living in reality as the newscast welcomed far-left Texas senatorial candidate James Talarico (D) for an embarrassingly soft interview.

In just over six minutes, the co-hosts never offered an adversarial question to Talarico and strayed from the network’s own role in arguably endorsing Talarico’s primary campaign or any mention of the litany of radical statements over the course of his young life, such as these compiled in one convenient mash-up by our friends at Conservative War Machine:

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There are times when the Elitist Media Sunday shows will staff their talking head panels in such a way so as to at least present the pretense of viewpoint diversity. Not so today, with the war in Iran being the focal point of coverage on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos.

Watch as ABC’s Chief White House Correspondent Mary Bruce, at her Mary Bruciest, dumps all over the ongoing operation and its underlying rationale:

MARTHA RADDATZ: Mary, I want to start with you. You’ve heard the explanation from the president and his cabinet about why they started this war, why it will end, and how. But is anything clearer now?

MARY BRUCE:  Martha, the explanations from this administration and the president have been absolutely head-spinning this week. I mean, I think the clearest explanation from the president is probably the broadest at this point, which is him saying that this was an evil regime and that something had to be done. He said, quote, “Somebody had to do it”.

But we have heard vastly different explanations and contradictions about why now, was — what was the imminent threat? The president said it was his opinion — quote, “his opinion” — that Iran was going to strike first. But we have seen no evidence of that and they’ve offered wildly different explanations for what comes next.

Blurb:

 

Republicans on Capitol Hill are preparing to confront a staggering price tag for the war in the Middle East after closed-door briefings this week detailed the rapid consumption of expensive munitions and the lack of any firm deadline for the end of the military campaign.

Asked how much the Iran offensive would cost, House Appropriations Chair Tom Cole (R-Okla.) didn’t sugarcoat it.

“A lot,” he replied.

Blurb:

U.S. negotiations with Iran broke down after Iranian officials openly declared their intention to enrich uranium to levels capable of producing nuclear weapons, according to President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff.

Witkoff revealed the details in an interview with Fox News, describing a moment during the talks when Iranian negotiators made their position unmistakably clear.

“The Iranians made it clear from the start that they believe they have an undeniable right to enrich all the uranium they possess,” Witkoff said.

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Initially, I thought this was a different publication. How did The Washington Post publish this, especially from the editorial board? It was a solid op-ed emphasizing the importance of keeping the agency fully operational during a period of increased terrorist reprisals, due to our air campaign against Iran. It also pointed out that the Democrats’ strategy—trying to limit ICE raids via more legal procedures like judicial warrants—is essentially ineffective. They acknowledged it’s not practical. Additionally, the recent shutdown doesn’t affect the deportation raids, as they’ve been funded by the Big, Beautiful Bill (via WaPo):

 

…it’s embarrassing that it is taking this long to reach a deal that boosts training and accountability without impeding ICE agents from pursuing legitimate public safety threats.

Banning agents from wearing masks and requiring a form of identification is normal across American law enforcement. Requiring judicial warrants isn’t practical for every single deportation, but there are reasonable compromises short of that. Mandating the use of body cameras and requiring better training wouldn’t just help restore public trust. It would boost the credibility of agents.

Not everyone will get what they want. Congressional Republicans can’t simply ban sanctuary cities. And Democrats won’t get Republicans to ban every ICE operation in residential areas. They might look to savvy politicians like Collins, who was able to announce the end of an enhanced ICE operation in her state after appealing directly to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem. In an interview, Collins said that “sitting down with DHS and discussing strategies to focus on detention and deportation of criminals” is a good way to prevent ICE surges.

Blurb:

On Wednesday, ABC and CBS were nauseatingly in awe on their flagship newscasts of far-left Texas State Representative James Talarico — who believes, among other things, God was non-binary and that Mary would support abortion — as possessing “cross-partisan appeal” in a campaign “emphasizing unity” to pull in “moderates” to deliver Texas the first statewide Democrat win since 1994.

CBS sent senior White House and campaign correspondent Ed O’Keefe to Austin, Texas, who reported back on CBS Mornings that Talarico had “put off his seminary studies in order to launch this campaign, believing he can combine support from Democrats, independents in this state and Republicans upset with the President.”

In a second live-shot that aired in some time zones (due to a CBS News Special Report on a Pentagon briefing), O’Keefe boasted of Talarico’s “cross-partisan appeal” with a “Christian progressive approach, that you can be rooted in your faith” and “make a faith-based argument as to why the country needs to change.”

Blurb:

It is one thing to watch the Elitist Media be as unpredictably biased as they go about their business. It is entirely another to watch them inject their biases into stories from the weirdest angles, as ABC’s James Longman just did.

Watch as the network’s Chief International Correspondent James Longman closes out the videotaped portion of his report by foisting the American “forever war” terminology upon an Iranian Kurdish leader who may soon send his troops to take on the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC):

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MS NOW All In host Chris Hayes made a morally obscene analogy on his Monday show as he lamented that the United States allegedly does not appreciate the fact that the people who die in war are real human beings. To prove his point, Hayes tried to claim that the terror Americans felt after 9/11 is “commonplace” in other parts of the world because of “the kinds of war of aggression that Donald Trump just started.”

Hayes started with what may have seemed to be a friendly reminder that this war is taking place in the real world with real people being caught in the middle, “But outside these borders, war is having a bomb dropped on your daughter’s elementary school, seeing some alert or getting a panicked call, or on your apartment building, or the hospital where you are receiving care. Death from above. And when you only view war through our perspective, the understanding that bombs are never coming for us, it becomes nothing more than an abstraction. Gets far too easy to wave away the loss of human life. It’s priced in. It’s the cost of doing business.”

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The Washington Post and New York Times are facing a furious backlash after publishing glowing eulogies for the Iranian regime’s slain dictator, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

The Post, opening its obituary of Khamenei with language that softened the image of a brutal regime figure responsible for decades of repression and bloodshed.

Khamenei, who was killed Saturday during “Operation Epic Fury,” a coordinated U.S.–Israeli strike on Tehran, was described by the Post as having a “bushy white beard and an easy smile.”

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If you thought The Washington Post’s infamous decision to describe ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as an “austere religious scholar” was a once in a lifetime lapse in editorial judgement, you were mistaken. With the death of Iran’s brutal dictatorial supreme leader, both The New York Times and The Post are back to remind you that legacy media still has no shame.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s longtime supreme leader responsible for executions, censorship, repression, and sponsoring terrorist groups worldwide, was killed in an airstrike on Saturday. His death comes weeks after his regime oversaw the execution of tens of thousands of Iranians who took to the streets to protest his very rule.