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“They needed a gesture of transparency to appease an increasingly angry base, but also a way to convey the message that the president was sympathetic to his supporters’ concerns. Which itself was a problem, because he clearly wasn’t.”
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The vice president said he thought the president would be OK with releasing the nipple-related documents…“It would cause people to say we’re going further than we need to.” Wiles quickly responded that the president would not, in fact, be OK with it.
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“Trump is one of the worst negotiators in the world, and the public image of him is built completely on self-promotion of the idea that he knows how to make a deal. I am hard pressed to think of any agreement Trump has actually negotiated that has had a lasting impact,” thehill.com/homenews/adm...
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The Left’s Reckoning on Gaza, Elites and American Power www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/o...
President Trump’s reputation as a self-described master negotiator is on the line as his push to bring an end to the Iran war is beset by missed deadlines and setbacks on the ground. The war,…
Think it’s just a coincidence that the day this story breaks, Trump orders more bombing of Iran?
“The president himself still had no interest in transparency. He wanted the whole Epstein issue buried, and he was snapping at anyone who mentioned it.”
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Countries urge Tehran and Washington to pull back from the brink after helicopter downing in Hormuz Strait.
Trump may not care about Americans' financial situation, but his illegal war is hurting working people every day.
Inflation is at the highest level since 2023 & prices on everything from gas to groceries have gone up.
This war is making us less safe & worse off. We must end it.
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Inflation hit 4 percent for the first time in three years in May, driven by surging gas prices from the Iran war.
Nuclear historian Alex @Wellerstein.bsky.social says President Truman didn't know there was a second A Bomb. But after Nagasaki he takes control of nuclear weapons. And for a moral reason. Morality, a concept foreign to our current President.
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We should be worried that Trump has his finger on the Nucelar button. The great historian of Nuclear Power, Alex @Wellerstein.bsky.social, says the Trump Administration has ceded the Moral High Ground on Nuclear Weapons. One more guardrail shattered.
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Trump is desperate for an Iran deal. But his constantly shifting irrational delusions make it almost impossible for Iran to trust the United States to make a deal that WE will honor over time. Historian Alex @wellerstein.bsky.social explains.
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