‼️PLEASE don't forget THIS part of Trump's Iran war declaration speech. This is what he is tragically backing away from. "To the great, proud people of Iran: The hour of your freedom is at hand. When we are finished, take over your government. It will be yours to take."

🚨JUST IN: Was just on a media briefing call with a senior US officials who confirm the MOU with Iran has been signed and outlines the following from their POV: "In general terms, the deal says if you're willing to behave like a normal country, we're willing to treat you like a normal country. It's performance based." - Strait of Hormuz is open, but it will take a few weeks to get travel back to normal. - A signing ceremony on Friday in Geneva including JD Vance, Jared Kushner, Steve Witkoff, and others, and a large Iranian contigent. - The official stressed that we're here not just because of the last 1.5 years of the Trump administration, but because of the first 4 as well. The sanctions pressures built up and they believe created leverage. - The reason negotiations have been "very fruitful" was because of the "degredation of [Iran's] economy" and the "scattering of their government which created a lot of internal pressure." - There a significant new communication channels. The official describes the initial Islamabad meeting as very fruitful, despite not resulting in a deal. It laid the groundwork. - Operation Project Freedom has been an "unsung hero" in this, resulting in over 7 million barrels of oil a day. That increased US leverage. - The nuclear talks are described as "technical" in terms of how to retrieve the enriched uranium. - Stressed this is not "pay for play." They will not get access to markets or release of their funds just for showing up for a meeting. - There are "fascinating" internal political dynamics playing out in Iran. There are constituencies that want different things. Iran, by all accounts, should be incredibly wealthy. - "We go in very clear-eyed" that Iran has been a bad faith actor in negotiations for 47 years: "Everything will be verified... all released assets and sanction relief is tied to milestones." - The US will keep the current military force posture for now to make sure Iran "does what they say they're going to do." The deal contemplates a partial draw down upon the signing of the nuclear deal." - "One of the aspects of the negotiation that was actually easier than others was the nuclear, because they need our technical expertise to get the dust out." - Iran would probably love to have a nuclear weapon, but they know US intelligence is so precise that they can't do it in secret and the threat of force is now realized. - The Gulf States generally love this deal. They saw the JCPOA as empowering Iran to be a bad actor. They see this as a regional deal that pressures Iran to behave and bring stability to the entire region. - "The full deal will be published soon, but we're still in the building trust phase."

There's a lot of speculation and analysis of this "deal" with Iran, but what's missing is any solid and clear reason to trust President Trump or his Cabinet. He might be doing the best thing, but we have no reason but "trust me, bro" to trust him. That's going to shake out badly.

Percentage of "extreme liberals" under 30 years of age who have been diagnosed with a mental health problem: 56% Percentage of "extreme conservatives": 10%

SHOCKING: The Rwandan immigrant Emmanuel Abayisenga had his asylum application in France rejected repeatedly since he filed it in 2012. Despite the deportation orders, he remained in the country illegally for years. The local priests entrusted him with the keys to the Nantes cathedral, assigning him the task of closing and caring for the building. After he set the cathedral on fire in 2020, destroying the organ and the choir, Father Maire took him into his own home, offering him shelter while awaiting trial. He then murdered Father Maire the following year. Suicidal empathy in a nutshell. Almost unbelievable.

The state didn't invent money. Carl Menger destroyed that myth in 1871 with his regression theorem, and statists have been seething ever since. Picture yourself in a primitive barter economy. You're a blacksmith who needs grain, but the farmer doesn't want your horseshoes. He wants pottery. The potter wants leather goods. The leather worker wants meat. You face what economists call the double coincidence of wants problem: finding someone who both has what you want and wants what you have. Barter works for simple trades, but complex economic coordination becomes impossible. Smart traders notice that certain goods get accepted more readily than others. Cattle, salt, shells, precious metals. These commodities share specific properties: durability, divisibility, portability, recognizability. Over generations, market participants gravitate toward the most marketable goods as media of exchange. No central authority decrees this. No committee meets to decide monetary policy. Individual actors pursuing their own interests spontaneously converge on the same solution. Money emerges from voluntary exchange, not government decree. Every unit of money traces its value back through an unbroken chain of exchanges to its original commodity value. Gold became money because people valued it first as jewelry, ornamentation, and industrial uses. Its monetary premium built on top of that foundation. When governments later monopolized monetary systems, they parasitically appropriated this organic market institution. You can observe this process today in Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Lebanon. When state currencies collapse, people don't wait for permission to adopt alternatives. They trade cigarettes, rice, Bitcoin. Markets route around monetary failure because human cooperation demands a medium of exchange.

No, the left are not Jealous of Elon Musk, We don’t want to be trillionaires. We want a world where children aren’t starving to death whilst trillionaires hoard money.

The rise of surveillance capitalism must be stopped. Charging obscene airfare because the algorithm knows you're going to a funeral should be illegal. Using our data to price gouge us should be illegal.

People ask how will we pay for childcare & healthcare? We are producing more wealth than ever before. Take it from the guy who represents all that wealth. If I can stand up to the billionaires & trillionaires to pay for childcare & education, why can’t 434 other house members?

I had to read this twice

Trial testimony from a Memorial HS student described Karmelo Anthony responding to requests to leave their tent with: “F*** y’all. I’m not going to leave. Y’all are a bunch of pussies. Y’all not going to do anything.” He also said “Touch me and see what happens” while keeping his hand in his backpack. He was asked to leave multiple times (witnesses said up to 15). No full public transcript exists yet; these are consistent accounts from sworn witnesses under oath. Anthony did not testify.

JD Vance: If you go back to WW2 or every major conflict in human history, they all ended with some kind of negotiation.

That some do not see how the rapid acceleration of wealth inequality is tearing this country apart is a misreading of history. Read about the Gilded Age or the causes of revolution. I am for Team America. If America has been good to you, you need to do good for America.