🚨 Talks with Iran have collapsed before they even began.
Iran refuses to negotiate under a U.S. naval blockade and threats, and Trump says he expects bombing to resume once the ceasefire ends.
Iran is warning it will retaliate if attacked—and planned talks in Pakistan appear dead.
Breaking NYT:
JD Vance's diplomatic trip to Islamabad has been put on hold after Tehran failed to respond to American negotiating positions, according to a U.S. official with direct knowledge of the situation.
Go, Senator Booker.
All the far-leftists are mad at him in the comments.
And not because he’s wrong — he’s not.
It’s because he’s publicly shedding light on them and their choices — in MICHIGAN of all places, and letting the public know that they WANTED THIS — to throw the Party under the bus and elevate their own!
"..the White House has shown an eagerness to resolve the conflict quickly. "If one side perceives the other needs an agreement more … that shapes the entire negotiation," [Mark Freeman] said."
“Across war-torn Sudan, women and girls ‘are telling a consistent story of continued experience of danger, and risks for gender-based violence’ whether when fleeing to safety or arriving at displacement camps, a senior official with the UN reproductive and sexual health agency UNFPA said on Friday.”
The Mission chief underscored the dilemma faced by UNMISS and the Council: “the scale and urgency of needs on the ground,” she said, “are not yet matched by the type of sustained commitment and investment required to fully meet the shared ambition of a sustainable path to peace.”
Amanda Ungaro was 16 when she was flown to the US on an Epstein plane. She later became close to the Trumps
On Apr. 8, she went on X to threaten legal action vs Melania “and your pedophile husband”
On Apr. 9, Melania made that odd public statement about Epstein
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“It’s the 11th hour. It’s the 11th hour of this. He is a lame duck. He is gone in two years. What took you so long?”
"You cannot do a negotiation with Iran in one day. You can't even do it in a week." To get agreement on the JCPOA, it took "a good 18 months."
“The papers expose what critics have called the weakness at the heart of the shadow docket: an absence of the kind of rigorous debate that the justices devote to their normal cases.”
“There is a wide gap between what the president is claiming Iran has agreed to and what the Islamic Republic’s leadership is saying.
That leaves much of the world holding its breath — and waiting to see if Trump’s bullishness is borne out, or if his statements give way to a more uncertain reality.”
“Iran has told mediators it will continue to limit the number of ships allowed to cross the Strait of Hormuz and charge tolls for the remaining period of the cease-fire, officials familiar with the matter said.”
“Jet fuel prices have doubled since the start of the Iran conflict, affecting some lower profitability routes and flights which now are no longer economically feasible,” Air Canada said in a statement on Friday. “Schedule adjustments including some frequency reductions are being made in response.”
UN officials stressed that the effectiveness of peacekeeping depends not only on operational improvements, but on political will.
“The collective credibility of the United Nations depends on its ability and its determination to act when civilians are in danger.”
“The safest thing to be in Sudan today is a soldier,” said Kholood Khair, founder of Confluence Advisory, a research organisation. “And the unsafest thing to be in Sudan is a civilian.”
“In 2025, MSF teams alone treated more than 7,700 patients for physical violence, including gunshots, provided more than 250,000 emergency consultations and carried out over 4,200 consultations for sexual violence, which is very often used as a weapon of war, with women bearing the heaviest burden.”
“Iran’s foreign ministry says the country’s stockpile of enriched uranium will not be transferred ‘anywhere,’ denying an earlier claim by US President Donald Trump that the Islamic Republic agreed to hand it over.”
On California farms, workers say threats to deport them are on the rise.
They described instances in which bosses threatened to call ICE on them, sometimes because they complained about workplace violations.
@melissagomez.bsky.social
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So what I'm hearing is that ICE will execute civilians on the streets of Minneapolis, jail journalists on their jobs, and disappear students for writing op-eds, but will let the spy chief for a foreign coup plotter walk free?
And from the "Annals of Being Surprised that Water is Wet," a new study found that ICE has been hiring people with "questionable qualifications" and histories of lying to frame innocent people.
Seriously, though, it is good that they did the careful study even though the results are obvious.
“Israel agreed Thursday to a 10-day ceasefire in Lebanon, a truce that could pause fighting with the Hezbollah militant group and boost attempts to extend the ceasefire between Iran, the United States and Israel after weeks of devastating war.”
“With high gas prices cutting deeply into many families’ budgets, the U.S. economy is under increasing strain, raising the odds that inflation will worsen, unemployment will rise and growth will slow this year.”
“Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told reporters at a White House briefing Wednesday that the U.S. plans to ramp up economic pain on Iran, and said the new moves will be the ‘financial equivalent’ of a bombing campaign.”
“Ukraine said it forced Russian soldiers to surrender and captured their position using only aerial drones and ground robots, no infantry, in a first for the war.”
Trump's problem is that he wants to be God.
“Democratic Representative Yassamin Ansari, an Iranian American, on Wednesday introduced articles of impeachment against Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth over the U.S. war in Iran.”
“The world’s top 100 oil and gas companies banked more than $30m every hour in unearned profit in the first month of the US-Israeli war in Iran, according to exclusive analysis for the Guardian. Saudi Aramco, Gazprom and ExxonMobil are among the biggest beneficiaries of the bonanza.”
