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Iran’s foreign minister just handed America a masterclass in diplomatic sleight of hand. The Iranians aren’t chastened — they’re already three moves ahead. Hezbollah is Tehran’s attack dog. Iran can unleash it on Israel anytime, watch Israel respond, then declare the deal dead — citing an “Israeli violation” they engineered. Israel was not even invited to the negotiating table but they are central to a trip wire that Iran has built and holds exclusively.

Iran’s foreign minister just handed America a masterclass in diplomatic sleight of hand. The Iranians aren’t chastened — they’re already three moves ahead. Hezbollah is Tehran’s attack dog. Iran can unleash it on Israel anytime, watch Israel respond, then declare the deal dead — citing an “Israeli violation” they engineered. Israel was not even invited to the negotiating table but they are central to a trip wire that Iran has built and holds exclusively.

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This is what dissent looks like when the stakes are life and death. In the West, we’re used to protest as performance. In Iran, it can be a death sentence. Do not underestimate the courage it takes for an uncovered woman, on camera, to do this.

This is what dissent looks like when the stakes are life and death. In the West, we’re used to protest as performance. In Iran, it can be a death sentence. Do not underestimate the courage it takes for an uncovered woman, on camera, to do this.

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Why is Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal — chair of the Democratic Party's Progressive Caucus — peddling a false narrative about Cuban healthcare being better than the U.S.? From my research on my book PHARMA, I know what she says is WRONG. But she keeps repeating it and I am sure many progressives believe it. No legacy journalist is calling her out so let me do the job. Most recently, she stood at a Capitol Hill press conference on July 1 — flanked by Reps. Delia Ramírez, Jonathan Jackson, and Ro Khanna, under a banner reading "Demanding an End to the Blockade Against Cuba and International Medical Solidarity" — and told the crowd that Cuba, despite all its difficulties, had done admirable work preventing “maternal mortality, neonatal mortality, and cancer,”in her words, "areas in which we in the United States are still struggling to make progress." It wasn't an ad-lib. It was a return engagement. In an April interview after her own delegation trip to Havana, Jayapal said Cuba has "the lowest infant mortality, maternal mortality — sort of the opposite of what the United States has." When the reporter mentioned Cuba's higher life expectancy, she agreed with that too. The Washington Post's editorial board flagged it then as a flawed diagnosis. She said it again in front of National Nurses United two months later. So it's worth actually running the numbers, one at a time. Maternal mortality. The U.S. rate was 18.6 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2023, and it fell further to 17.9 in 2024. Cuba's own Ministry of Public Health reported its maternal mortality rate at 40.6 per 100,000 in 2024 and rising to 44.1 in 2025 — better than two-and-a-half times the American rate, and climbing. There is no version of the current data where Cuba is "the opposite" of the U.S. on this metric. It's far worse. Neonatal/infant mortality. Cuba's official infant mortality rate did fall to a low of 4.0 per 1,000 live births in 2018 — a genuinely low number, and one Cuba has kept touting. But two things complicate that figure. First, a peer-reviewed study in Health Policy and Planning found evidence that Cuban physicians have been pressured to reclassify early neonatal deaths as late fetal deaths (effectively, miscarriages) to hit government mortality targets — a known method of statistical manipulation, flagged by demographers going back to the 1990s. Corrected for that, researchers put Cuba's real infant mortality rate somewhere between 7.45 and 11.16 per 1,000, not the sub-5 figure the government published. Second, and more damning for Jayapal's live claim: Cuba's own current numbers show infant mortality at 9.9 per 1,000 as of the end of 2025 — up 148% from that 2018 low, and now well above the U.S. rate. Havana's maternity wards are reporting sewage leaks in neonatal units and adolescent pregnancy rates spiking past 20% in some provinces. Whatever Cuba was doing right in 2018, it isn't doing now, and the 2018 number itself was likely inflated by data manipulation to begin with. Cancer. This is the claim with the least data behind it and the most against it. The most recent regional analysis of Latin America and the Caribbean, using 2022 GLOBOCAN figures, found Cuba has the highest age-standardized cancer mortality rate in the entire region — 136.6 per 100,000 for men, 91.6 per 100,000 for women — ahead of Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Colombia. There is no dataset I could find, from PAHO, WHO, or IARC, showing Cuban cancer outcomes outperforming the United States. Cuba's president, Díaz-Canel, touring a Havana maternity hospital the same week Jayapal spoke, said the healthcare system currently can't get lifesaving treatment to more than 100,000 cancer patients, including 1,200 children, due to shortages. That's not a system beating American oncology. That's a system in collapse, by the Cuban government's own telling. The bigger problem with the claim. During my reporting for PHARMA I learned that Cuba's low mortality figures have functioned as propaganda for an authoritarian government for over 30 years — repeated uncritically by public health researchers, NGOs, and now members of Congress, because the story fits a preferred narrative about what a "resource-poor" country can accomplish with universal healthcare. But the country producing those numbers has no free press, no independent statistical audit, and a documented history of reclassifying deaths to hit targets. That's not a minor asterisk. It's the whole ballgame if you're going to hold a press conference built on the premise that Cuba is quietly outperforming America. Does Pramila Jayapal know she is selling a disproven story or does she not care so long as it fits her narrative that a communist universal healthcare system is better than the one in America?

Why is Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal — chair of the Democratic Party's Progressive Caucus — peddling a false narrative about Cuban healthcare being better than the U.S.? From my research on my book PHARMA, I know what she says is WRONG. But she keeps repeating it and I am sure many progressives believe it. No legacy journalist is calling her out so let me do the job. Most recently, she stood at a Capitol Hill press conference on July 1 — flanked by Reps. Delia Ramírez, Jonathan Jackson, and Ro Khanna, under a banner reading "Demanding an End to the Blockade Against Cuba and International Medical Solidarity" — and told the crowd that Cuba, despite all its difficulties, had done admirable work preventing “maternal mortality, neonatal mortality, and cancer,”in her words, "areas in which we in the United States are still struggling to make progress." It wasn't an ad-lib. It was a return engagement. In an April interview after her own delegation trip to Havana, Jayapal said Cuba has "the lowest infant mortality, maternal mortality — sort of the opposite of what the United States has." When the reporter mentioned Cuba's higher life expectancy, she agreed with that too. The Washington Post's editorial board flagged it then as a flawed diagnosis. She said it again in front of National Nurses United two months later. So it's worth actually running the numbers, one at a time. Maternal mortality. The U.S. rate was 18.6 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2023, and it fell further to 17.9 in 2024. Cuba's own Ministry of Public Health reported its maternal mortality rate at 40.6 per 100,000 in 2024 and rising to 44.1 in 2025 — better than two-and-a-half times the American rate, and climbing. There is no version of the current data where Cuba is "the opposite" of the U.S. on this metric. It's far worse. Neonatal/infant mortality. Cuba's official infant mortality rate did fall to a low of 4.0 per 1,000 live births in 2018 — a genuinely low number, and one Cuba has kept touting. But two things complicate that figure. First, a peer-reviewed study in Health Policy and Planning found evidence that Cuban physicians have been pressured to reclassify early neonatal deaths as late fetal deaths (effectively, miscarriages) to hit government mortality targets — a known method of statistical manipulation, flagged by demographers going back to the 1990s. Corrected for that, researchers put Cuba's real infant mortality rate somewhere between 7.45 and 11.16 per 1,000, not the sub-5 figure the government published. Second, and more damning for Jayapal's live claim: Cuba's own current numbers show infant mortality at 9.9 per 1,000 as of the end of 2025 — up 148% from that 2018 low, and now well above the U.S. rate. Havana's maternity wards are reporting sewage leaks in neonatal units and adolescent pregnancy rates spiking past 20% in some provinces. Whatever Cuba was doing right in 2018, it isn't doing now, and the 2018 number itself was likely inflated by data manipulation to begin with. Cancer. This is the claim with the least data behind it and the most against it. The most recent regional analysis of Latin America and the Caribbean, using 2022 GLOBOCAN figures, found Cuba has the highest age-standardized cancer mortality rate in the entire region — 136.6 per 100,000 for men, 91.6 per 100,000 for women — ahead of Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Colombia. There is no dataset I could find, from PAHO, WHO, or IARC, showing Cuban cancer outcomes outperforming the United States. Cuba's president, Díaz-Canel, touring a Havana maternity hospital the same week Jayapal spoke, said the healthcare system currently can't get lifesaving treatment to more than 100,000 cancer patients, including 1,200 children, due to shortages. That's not a system beating American oncology. That's a system in collapse, by the Cuban government's own telling. The bigger problem with the claim. During my reporting for PHARMA I learned that Cuba's low mortality figures have functioned as propaganda for an authoritarian government for over 30 years — repeated uncritically by public health researchers, NGOs, and now members of Congress, because the story fits a preferred narrative about what a "resource-poor" country can accomplish with universal healthcare. But the country producing those numbers has no free press, no independent statistical audit, and a documented history of reclassifying deaths to hit targets. That's not a minor asterisk. It's the whole ballgame if you're going to hold a press conference built on the premise that Cuba is quietly outperforming America. Does Pramila Jayapal know she is selling a disproven story or does she not care so long as it fits her narrative that a communist universal healthcare system is better than the one in America?

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“Not a great look for Israel”? No—it’s not a great look for U.S. policy on jihadists. The mullahs in Tehran must be loving American conservative media & VP Vance complaining more about Israel than Hezbollah or Iran.

“Not a great look for Israel”? No—it’s not a great look for U.S. policy on jihadists. The mullahs in Tehran must be loving American conservative media & VP Vance complaining more about Israel than Hezbollah or Iran.

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I think almost everyone agrees that the MOU with Iran is not unconditional surrender. Put aside how you feel about President Trump — that’s not a factual claim, it’s a marketing one. Asked by Axios today why he abandoned his early demand for “unconditional surrender,” he said, “Well, it really probably is unconditional surrender…I think so.” Unconditional surrender looks like Germany and Japan in 1945: occupation, war crimes tribunals, the imposed rebuilding of a democratic society. Iran’s Islamic government is intact. The IRGC is in control. This is Trump’s oldest habit — the successful builder and showman who’s always selling the bigger version of the deal. It served him very well in real estate and reality TV. It doesn’t serve the facts here. Overselling the deal with Iran only sets unrealistic expectations for what will emerge from 60 days of upcoming tough negotiations.

I think almost everyone agrees that the MOU with Iran is not unconditional surrender. Put aside how you feel about President Trump — that’s not a factual claim, it’s a marketing one. Asked by Axios today why he abandoned his early demand for “unconditional surrender,” he said, “Well, it really probably is unconditional surrender…I think so.” Unconditional surrender looks like Germany and Japan in 1945: occupation, war crimes tribunals, the imposed rebuilding of a democratic society. Iran’s Islamic government is intact. The IRGC is in control. This is Trump’s oldest habit — the successful builder and showman who’s always selling the bigger version of the deal. It served him very well in real estate and reality TV. It doesn’t serve the facts here. Overselling the deal with Iran only sets unrealistic expectations for what will emerge from 60 days of upcoming tough negotiations.

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The single fact that most shocked the Oxford Union when I debated there last June was this: Americans are just 5% of the world’s population… …but we pay for 75% of Big Pharma’s entire global profits. That’s why our drug prices are insane. Secretary Kennedy do something

The single fact that most shocked the Oxford Union when I debated there last June was this: Americans are just 5% of the world’s population… …but we pay for 75% of Big Pharma’s entire global profits. That’s why our drug prices are insane. Secretary Kennedy do something

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Wow. When I heard Press Sec Karoline Leavitt say that DOGE/OMB had cancelled $50 million in condoms for Gaza, I thought it was just about crazy govt spending. Then I learned in Jerusalem Post that Hamas uses condoms and balloons to make improvised IEDs and flammable aerial bombs

Wow. When I heard Press Sec Karoline Leavitt say that DOGE/OMB had cancelled $50 million in condoms for Gaza, I thought it was just about crazy govt spending. Then I learned in Jerusalem Post that Hamas uses condoms and balloons to make improvised IEDs and flammable aerial bombs

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To every Democratic politician touting DSA primary wins as proof the party is a 'big tent': listen closely to antisemitic Twitch influencer Hasan Piker at this weekend's College Democrats of America convention. He is not 'energizing the base' —he's declaring war on any Democrats who "compromise, who conciliate, and who betray" the revolution by funding ICE, supporting Israel, or working with "fascists." "We don't need those Democrats anymore." The new left doesn't want accommodation or coalition. They want to purge you, take over, and run it themselves. Piker is telling you exactly what comes next. "We are coming. We are unbossed. We're unbought. We're unbound. And we will become undeniable." Believe him. (And yes — that does appear to be a Mao Zedong-inspired jacket. History rhymes.)

To every Democratic politician touting DSA primary wins as proof the party is a 'big tent': listen closely to antisemitic Twitch influencer Hasan Piker at this weekend's College Democrats of America convention. He is not 'energizing the base' —he's declaring war on any Democrats who "compromise, who conciliate, and who betray" the revolution by funding ICE, supporting Israel, or working with "fascists." "We don't need those Democrats anymore." The new left doesn't want accommodation or coalition. They want to purge you, take over, and run it themselves. Piker is telling you exactly what comes next. "We are coming. We are unbossed. We're unbought. We're unbound. And we will become undeniable." Believe him. (And yes — that does appear to be a Mao Zedong-inspired jacket. History rhymes.)

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Former Secretaries of State are usually diplomatic. Not Mike Pompeo this morning regarding NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s boast about arresting Israel’s Prime Minister: “This is a communist, antisemitic mayor, trying to make news for his own audience… There’s no chance he’s going to arrest Prime Minister Netanyahu.” His follow-up landed even harder: Mamdani never named Putin, who’s abducted tens of thousands of Ukrainian children — or Iran’s leaders, accused of mass war crimes. Just the one Jewish state’s leader.

Former Secretaries of State are usually diplomatic. Not Mike Pompeo this morning regarding NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s boast about arresting Israel’s Prime Minister: “This is a communist, antisemitic mayor, trying to make news for his own audience… There’s no chance he’s going to arrest Prime Minister Netanyahu.” His follow-up landed even harder: Mamdani never named Putin, who’s abducted tens of thousands of Ukrainian children — or Iran’s leaders, accused of mass war crimes. Just the one Jewish state’s leader.

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The New York DSA co-chair says his parents fled Peru to escape what he calls “the imposition of capitalism and American imperialism.” Their solution? They moved to America. This sounds like the level of illogic that was the hallmark of my freshman year political science classes at UC Berkeley. He doesn’t realize he is not making a talking point as much as giving an example that collapses his entire argument.

The New York DSA co-chair says his parents fled Peru to escape what he calls “the imposition of capitalism and American imperialism.” Their solution? They moved to America. This sounds like the level of illogic that was the hallmark of my freshman year political science classes at UC Berkeley. He doesn’t realize he is not making a talking point as much as giving an example that collapses his entire argument.

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I hope Vance, Witkoff and Kushner were watching Secretary Rubio in Bahrain this morning. He just told reporters that confronting Iranian proxies Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis is "critical and important" and says "ultimately you're not going to have peace and stability in this region as long as there are non-state actors operating within the boundaries and borders of sovereign countries and being funded by Iran" Funny, the MOU the three of you negotiated doesn't say that.

I hope Vance, Witkoff and Kushner were watching Secretary Rubio in Bahrain this morning. He just told reporters that confronting Iranian proxies Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis is "critical and important" and says "ultimately you're not going to have peace and stability in this region as long as there are non-state actors operating within the boundaries and borders of sovereign countries and being funded by Iran" Funny, the MOU the three of you negotiated doesn't say that.

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Nikki Haley just dropped some tough-love advice on Iran for the Trump administration: "If you started it, you have to finish it... Finish the job, bring Iran to their knees, stop with the release of the frozen assets, stop with the sanction waivers, and finish what you started. We had them at the weakest they had ever been — and then we caved. That can't happen." She's right. Iran walking away stronger than before the war — still threatening the Strait of Hormuz, still funding its proxies, still chasing a bomb — isn not an acceptable outcome. This administration needs to hear her unfiltered analysis.

Nikki Haley just dropped some tough-love advice on Iran for the Trump administration: "If you started it, you have to finish it... Finish the job, bring Iran to their knees, stop with the release of the frozen assets, stop with the sanction waivers, and finish what you started. We had them at the weakest they had ever been — and then we caved. That can't happen." She's right. Iran walking away stronger than before the war — still threatening the Strait of Hormuz, still funding its proxies, still chasing a bomb — isn not an acceptable outcome. This administration needs to hear her unfiltered analysis.

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This 3-minute Michael Smerconish about America might be the best “feel good” clip you’ll watch this 4th of July. Over a million foreign World Cup fans arrived expecting the tense, angry, divided America their screens had shown them. Then they met us and found the friendly, generous, welcoming country we were promised growing up. The polls measure Washington. The visitors measured us. The gap between the two might be the most American story of all. Happy 250th, America. 🇺🇸

This 3-minute Michael Smerconish about America might be the best “feel good” clip you’ll watch this 4th of July. Over a million foreign World Cup fans arrived expecting the tense, angry, divided America their screens had shown them. Then they met us and found the friendly, generous, welcoming country we were promised growing up. The polls measure Washington. The visitors measured us. The gap between the two might be the most American story of all. Happy 250th, America. 🇺🇸

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30 second truth bomb from veteran FOX News host Brian Kilmeade: “I wish [JD Vance] would be as tough on Iran” as he was on Israel yesterday. “If you want [Israel] to go along with the plan, you should tell them what’s in the plan. They were not even in the talks. All of a sudden they are roped into it.” “It’s up to Iran to tell Hezbollah, who does whatever you tell them, to knock it off, and then Israel will knock it off.” Listen:

30 second truth bomb from veteran FOX News host Brian Kilmeade: “I wish [JD Vance] would be as tough on Iran” as he was on Israel yesterday. “If you want [Israel] to go along with the plan, you should tell them what’s in the plan. They were not even in the talks. All of a sudden they are roped into it.” “It’s up to Iran to tell Hezbollah, who does whatever you tell them, to knock it off, and then Israel will knock it off.” Listen:

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Want to know why the next generation of doctors increasingly thinks men can get pregnant? Look no further than elite med schools like UCSF. Their official ‘Framework for Gender and Sex Concepts in Teaching’ advises faculty and students to ditch ‘pregnant women’ for ‘pregnant people.’ In yesterday’s House hearing, Rep. Mary Miller pressed UCSF pediatrician and Chancellor Sam Hawgood on it. He mumbled about ‘a wide diversity of patients,’ and conceded the ‘vast majority of pregnancies are in women’ — while defending the trans language. This is how biology gets erased in the training of physicians. Ideology over science. As someone who’s reported on the harm from the ongoing pediatric gender experiment, this isn’t inclusion — it’s institutional capture with real consequences for women. We’re training doctors to deny basic biology. What could go wrong?

Want to know why the next generation of doctors increasingly thinks men can get pregnant? Look no further than elite med schools like UCSF. Their official ‘Framework for Gender and Sex Concepts in Teaching’ advises faculty and students to ditch ‘pregnant women’ for ‘pregnant people.’ In yesterday’s House hearing, Rep. Mary Miller pressed UCSF pediatrician and Chancellor Sam Hawgood on it. He mumbled about ‘a wide diversity of patients,’ and conceded the ‘vast majority of pregnancies are in women’ — while defending the trans language. This is how biology gets erased in the training of physicians. Ideology over science. As someone who’s reported on the harm from the ongoing pediatric gender experiment, this isn’t inclusion — it’s institutional capture with real consequences for women. We’re training doctors to deny basic biology. What could go wrong?

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Mamdani-backed ultra-progressive Bruce Lander just ousted the two-term Dan Goldman in NY House 10. And it took no time to tell CNN that maybe there is no place in the new Democratic party for John Fetterman

Mamdani-backed ultra-progressive Bruce Lander just ousted the two-term Dan Goldman in NY House 10. And it took no time to tell CNN that maybe there is no place in the new Democratic party for John Fetterman

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Want to know how upside down the world of women’s sports is in Washington state? A 15-year-old girl refused to play against an 18-year-old male in a JV basketball game. The result? She’s charged w/ bullying, harassment, and intimidation for MISGENDERING. Crazy. #savewomenssports

Want to know how upside down the world of women’s sports is in Washington state? A 15-year-old girl refused to play against an 18-year-old male in a JV basketball game. The result? She’s charged w/ bullying, harassment, and intimidation for MISGENDERING. Crazy. #savewomenssports

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Before any Iran deal celebration — Jack Keane's reality check this morning: The Islamic regime's goal is to "survive, recover and rebuild," then reverse whatever they sign. "That is who they are." That does not change with any agreement.

Before any Iran deal celebration — Jack Keane's reality check this morning: The Islamic regime's goal is to "survive, recover and rebuild," then reverse whatever they sign. "That is who they are." That does not change with any agreement.

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Most Americans are clueless about what the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) really stands for. This morning on Michael Smerconish, national DSA co-chair Ashik Siddique tried to sell the full platform to Middle America. And made it clear that Elon Musk is a piñata talking point for them now. This clip pulled back the curtain on what their own website and spokespeople openly advocate. • “Public ownership of large corporations” • Free everything: Medicare for All with zero cost-sharing, tuition-free college + free room & board, full student debt cancellation, universal childcare, universal rent control • Voting rights for non-citizens • Open borders / “freedom of movement” — let workers migrate freely without “restrictive immigration controls” • End the “war on drugs” by fighting “mass incarceration and police brutality” Ashik Siddique’s pitch? All the radical policies are hidden under “affordability…people feeling like they have to work harder to get by. People can’t pay rent, they can’t afford groceries. They see the billionaires getting richer while their own lives are getting worse.” As a UC Berkeley political science graduate from the 1970s, I can recognize classic class warfare framing when I see it. This rhetoric may poll well in deep-blue corners, but can it actually sell in the heartland? New York City is “America’s city,” claims Siddique, but most of the country isn’t. The affordability cloak will only work if voters don’t read the fine print.

Most Americans are clueless about what the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) really stands for. This morning on Michael Smerconish, national DSA co-chair Ashik Siddique tried to sell the full platform to Middle America. And made it clear that Elon Musk is a piñata talking point for them now. This clip pulled back the curtain on what their own website and spokespeople openly advocate. • “Public ownership of large corporations” • Free everything: Medicare for All with zero cost-sharing, tuition-free college + free room & board, full student debt cancellation, universal childcare, universal rent control • Voting rights for non-citizens • Open borders / “freedom of movement” — let workers migrate freely without “restrictive immigration controls” • End the “war on drugs” by fighting “mass incarceration and police brutality” Ashik Siddique’s pitch? All the radical policies are hidden under “affordability…people feeling like they have to work harder to get by. People can’t pay rent, they can’t afford groceries. They see the billionaires getting richer while their own lives are getting worse.” As a UC Berkeley political science graduate from the 1970s, I can recognize classic class warfare framing when I see it. This rhetoric may poll well in deep-blue corners, but can it actually sell in the heartland? New York City is “America’s city,” claims Siddique, but most of the country isn’t. The affordability cloak will only work if voters don’t read the fine print.

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Every journalist who knows the importance of "follow the money" admires the data driven investigations that are the hallmark of Asra Nomani. Last October, a week before the New York mayoral election, she stitched together the complex ethno-religious web of progressive nonprofits and radical imams who had engineered Mamdani's rise to power. At the time, I was taping my "Journalism 101" course for the Peterson Academy, and I cited her meticulous reporting of what she called the "Mamdani Machine" as a prime example of data journalism. I'm glad to see she is back on familiar ground today, at the 'spontaneous' No Kings protest in Washington D.C., where she is talking about the more than 400 organizing groups, with a $3 billion annual revenue, and the familiar big-money funders, including George Soros, Neville Roy Singham, the Tides Foundation, and many others. What I like about Asra's reporting is that most of her work relies on publicly available sources of information, including the often dense 990 tax filings of the groups themselves. It is tedious and time-consuming work but the results never cease to surprise.

Every journalist who knows the importance of "follow the money" admires the data driven investigations that are the hallmark of Asra Nomani. Last October, a week before the New York mayoral election, she stitched together the complex ethno-religious web of progressive nonprofits and radical imams who had engineered Mamdani's rise to power. At the time, I was taping my "Journalism 101" course for the Peterson Academy, and I cited her meticulous reporting of what she called the "Mamdani Machine" as a prime example of data journalism. I'm glad to see she is back on familiar ground today, at the 'spontaneous' No Kings protest in Washington D.C., where she is talking about the more than 400 organizing groups, with a $3 billion annual revenue, and the familiar big-money funders, including George Soros, Neville Roy Singham, the Tides Foundation, and many others. What I like about Asra's reporting is that most of her work relies on publicly available sources of information, including the often dense 990 tax filings of the groups themselves. It is tedious and time-consuming work but the results never cease to surprise.

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VP Vance was asked yesterday why the U.S. won’t release the Iran agreement text. His answer: Qatar and Pakistan “asked us to sequence” the rollout, and “I frankly don’t understand it.” Worth sitting with that. Qatar has hosted Hamas’s political leadership since 2011 and has funneled over $1.8 billion into Hamas-run Gaza since 2007. Pakistan still refuses to recognize Israel. These are the two governments deciding when Americans get to see the terms of a deal with the IRGC-controlled regime in Tehran. Not the U.S. The mediators. VP Vance admitted that, “the Qataris and Pakistanis have been mediating this entire negotiation with the Iranians” Americans now need permission from Doha and Islamabad to see what their own government signed?

VP Vance was asked yesterday why the U.S. won’t release the Iran agreement text. His answer: Qatar and Pakistan “asked us to sequence” the rollout, and “I frankly don’t understand it.” Worth sitting with that. Qatar has hosted Hamas’s political leadership since 2011 and has funneled over $1.8 billion into Hamas-run Gaza since 2007. Pakistan still refuses to recognize Israel. These are the two governments deciding when Americans get to see the terms of a deal with the IRGC-controlled regime in Tehran. Not the U.S. The mediators. VP Vance admitted that, “the Qataris and Pakistanis have been mediating this entire negotiation with the Iranians” Americans now need permission from Doha and Islamabad to see what their own government signed?

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Funny how it always ends the same way. No matter the conspiracy — JFK included — it eventually circles back to “the Jews did it.” As I told Ben Shapiro it's a classic antisemitic conspiracy theory of first resort and last resort, just wearing a fresh coat of paint 👇

Funny how it always ends the same way. No matter the conspiracy — JFK included — it eventually circles back to “the Jews did it.” As I told Ben Shapiro it's a classic antisemitic conspiracy theory of first resort and last resort, just wearing a fresh coat of paint 👇

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Nearly two million Iranians turned out for Ali Khamenei's funeral over the weekend. Notably absent: every one of his sons except Mojtaba, the new Supreme Leader — who hasn't been seen in public since the strike that killed his father, and whose own security detail reportedly won't let him near the burial for fear Israel finishes the job. That's not a footnote. That's the clearest evidence yet of how serious his wounds were. Pakistan — one of the two countries (with Qatar) actually running point on the US-Iran MOU — logged record viewership of the funeral coverage. When your own negotiating partner's public is glued to the broadcast, that tells you something about where the emotional center of gravity sits. Trump, for his part, told Axios he was "shocked" by the turnout — he'd assumed Iranians hated Khamenei enough that the streets would be empty. That comment is getting replayed across the Arab world right now, including in Gulf state coverage that rarely misses a chance to note when Washington misreads Tehran. Meanwhile, at the funeral itself: a poet took the mic in front of hundreds of thousands and asked why "the most bastard man in the world" — Trump — was "still alive," declaring the world "no longer a good place" for him. The crowd cheered. Banners called for killing Trump and Netanyahu outright. Chants of revenge against America were the soundtrack, not the exception. So ask yourself plainly: does this look like a country about to roll over and do whatever Washington wants? The hatred of the U.S. and of Trump personally hasn't cooled since the war — it's hit a fever pitch. Any diplomat pretending otherwise is negotiating with a fantasy version of Iran, not the one that just buried its leader in front of millions of true believers.

Nearly two million Iranians turned out for Ali Khamenei's funeral over the weekend. Notably absent: every one of his sons except Mojtaba, the new Supreme Leader — who hasn't been seen in public since the strike that killed his father, and whose own security detail reportedly won't let him near the burial for fear Israel finishes the job. That's not a footnote. That's the clearest evidence yet of how serious his wounds were. Pakistan — one of the two countries (with Qatar) actually running point on the US-Iran MOU — logged record viewership of the funeral coverage. When your own negotiating partner's public is glued to the broadcast, that tells you something about where the emotional center of gravity sits. Trump, for his part, told Axios he was "shocked" by the turnout — he'd assumed Iranians hated Khamenei enough that the streets would be empty. That comment is getting replayed across the Arab world right now, including in Gulf state coverage that rarely misses a chance to note when Washington misreads Tehran. Meanwhile, at the funeral itself: a poet took the mic in front of hundreds of thousands and asked why "the most bastard man in the world" — Trump — was "still alive," declaring the world "no longer a good place" for him. The crowd cheered. Banners called for killing Trump and Netanyahu outright. Chants of revenge against America were the soundtrack, not the exception. So ask yourself plainly: does this look like a country about to roll over and do whatever Washington wants? The hatred of the U.S. and of Trump personally hasn't cooled since the war — it's hit a fever pitch. Any diplomat pretending otherwise is negotiating with a fantasy version of Iran, not the one that just buried its leader in front of millions of true believers.

31,032 görüntüleme • 15 gün önce

Under oath before Congress, Loudoun Virginia County Schools Supt. Aaron Spence was asked if biological men should be in locker rooms and shower rooms with biological girls. His answer: “Federal law requires it. Yes.” It does NOT. The Dept. of Education ruled the opposite — LCPS’s policy violates Title IX, and the district is under active federal investigation for it. This is what ideological capture looks like.👇

Under oath before Congress, Loudoun Virginia County Schools Supt. Aaron Spence was asked if biological men should be in locker rooms and shower rooms with biological girls. His answer: “Federal law requires it. Yes.” It does NOT. The Dept. of Education ruled the opposite — LCPS’s policy violates Title IX, and the district is under active federal investigation for it. This is what ideological capture looks like.👇

65,140 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce

You will hear endless analysis today about the geopolitical meaning of the US removal of Maduro. But sometimes the story is simpler and more human. This morning in Miami, a Venezuelan exile spoke about hoping to see his country for the first time in 15 years, his mother’s childhood home, his grandfather’s legacy. Politics aside, this moment hits "Doralzuela," the largest Venezuelan community in the US, right in the heart.

You will hear endless analysis today about the geopolitical meaning of the US removal of Maduro. But sometimes the story is simpler and more human. This morning in Miami, a Venezuelan exile spoke about hoping to see his country for the first time in 15 years, his mother’s childhood home, his grandfather’s legacy. Politics aside, this moment hits "Doralzuela," the largest Venezuelan community in the US, right in the heart.

276,426 görüntüleme • 6 ay önce

Mamdani-backed progressive Jewish candidate Brad Lander, who just ousted Dan Goldman in NY-10, explaining on CNN why his anti-Israel stance won voters: He slams aid to Israel, calls for blocking bombs that “destroyed all the schools and hospitals in Gaza,” vows to sign the Block the Bombs Act & Ceasefire Compliance Act, and refuses more money for Israel while it “violates Palestinian human rights.” Make no mistake about it. This is the new face of the Democratic Party — even from “progressive Jewish” candidates. Lander at least says he believes in the right of the state of Israel to exist, something the two DSA candidates who won NY Congressional seats will not do. Jews and Israelis have every reason to be alarmed. #Antisemitism #NY10 #Democrats

Mamdani-backed progressive Jewish candidate Brad Lander, who just ousted Dan Goldman in NY-10, explaining on CNN why his anti-Israel stance won voters: He slams aid to Israel, calls for blocking bombs that “destroyed all the schools and hospitals in Gaza,” vows to sign the Block the Bombs Act & Ceasefire Compliance Act, and refuses more money for Israel while it “violates Palestinian human rights.” Make no mistake about it. This is the new face of the Democratic Party — even from “progressive Jewish” candidates. Lander at least says he believes in the right of the state of Israel to exist, something the two DSA candidates who won NY Congressional seats will not do. Jews and Israelis have every reason to be alarmed. #Antisemitism #NY10 #Democrats

39,362 görüntüleme • 26 gün önce

I first went on Bill Maher’s show in 1996, back when he was on Comedy Central, talking about my book on Ross Perot. I’ve been back a number of time—most recently for God’s Bankers (Covid derailed Pharma). We’ve agreed and disagreed on plenty over the years. But here’s the uncomfortable truth: on antisemitism, a comedian is now one of the clearest voices in the Democratic Party. Maher’s monologue last night cuts through the noise—calling out both the left and the right for fueling this frenzy of anti-Jewish hatred. What he said shouldn’t be controversial. Yet it is. I sent him the latest piece Trisha Posner and I wrote on antisemitism. Watching this, maybe he read it. It’s a must listen

I first went on Bill Maher’s show in 1996, back when he was on Comedy Central, talking about my book on Ross Perot. I’ve been back a number of time—most recently for God’s Bankers (Covid derailed Pharma). We’ve agreed and disagreed on plenty over the years. But here’s the uncomfortable truth: on antisemitism, a comedian is now one of the clearest voices in the Democratic Party. Maher’s monologue last night cuts through the noise—calling out both the left and the right for fueling this frenzy of anti-Jewish hatred. What he said shouldn’t be controversial. Yet it is. I sent him the latest piece Trisha Posner and I wrote on antisemitism. Watching this, maybe he read it. It’s a must listen

80,946 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce