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Iran Taunts and Tempts Trump with Pre-Midterms Peace Offer

Outside addled MAGA circles, it's conventional wisdom at this point that the United States has lost its six-month war on Iran and that the instigator, Donald Trump, is desperate to find a way out of the mess he created. Not only do high energy prices resulting from Iran's control of the Strait of Hormuz threaten Republican prospects in the November general elections, a military quagmire and economic chaos restrain his ability to actually do anything with the powers available to the White House.

Iran has pressed its advantage, with its leaders repeatedly declaring over the past few months that they intend to drag out the war through the end of Trump's term as a lesson to future US presidents and other governments not to mess with their country. But yesterday, Iran seemed to change tack, and offered Trump the exit he so craves.

With the United Nations General Assembly as a venue, Iran's foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, yesterday told reporters that his country has proposed what the New York Times summarizes as "a seven-day plan to cease hostilities, reopen the Strait of Hormuz and then begin comprehensive talks on his country’s nuclear program." In case anyone at the White House missed the subtext of the offer, Araghchi said "it would be better" if the deal was reached "before the midterms."

Araghchi described the deal on the table as essentially the same as a memorandum of understanding both sides agreed to in June. "But," the Washington Post notes, "Tehran interpreted that deal as giving Iran control over the strait, the chokepoint through which one-fifth to a quarter of the world's oil ordinarily flows, a condition the United States and its allies in the region have rejected." So the question is, is Trump so politically desperate at this moment that he would give Iran permanent control over the strait? Personally, I doubt it; he seems utterly disinterested in the fate of downballot Republicans and spends more and more time sleeping. Besides which, Arab allies are lobbying against a deal with Iran.

Meanwhile, Republican senators shot down the chamber's latest attempt to block Trump's illegal war. The vote was 50-49 with four GOP defections. Another vote could come next week before the Senate adjourns. That's it, keep putting the bastards on the record.

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After Banning the Press, Trump Complains About Lack of News Coverage of Xi Visit

Donald Trump seemed more interested in showing off his White House construction site to Chinese President Xi Jinping yesterday than in advancing any diplomatic or trade goals for the United States. The Financial Times calls sums up the press reaction to the state visit by calling it more pomp than substance, noting that it "was also deeply ironic that Trump was flattering the head of the Chinese Communist Party as his Republican Party warns of a looming socialist scourge if Democrats win control of Congress in November's midterm elections." Chinese state media was more welcome to cover the ceremonies than the American press. All that said, it was encouraging that the summit happened at all, given the typical Republican bellicosity toward China. "We should coexist in peace," Xi said. "China and the United States, as two major countries, stand to gain from cooperation and will both lose in confrontation."

Mamdani Calls for Peace While Netanyahu Denies Genocide

Some 100 people were arrested in Manhattan yesterday for protesting far-right Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Mayor Zohran Mamdani's speech to the United Nations General Assembly, the New York Times reports. Among them were actor and activist Susan Sarandon and democratic socialist New York House candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani did not attend the protests, but denounced Netanyahu's lies to the UN and, last evening, planted an olive tree at Gracie Mansion with Palestinian families from Gaza. "May peace be our future," Mamdani wrote.

Netanyahu took a different tack, using his UN platform to spew venom at Mamdani, rant about a leftist Twitch streamer, and cast his Gaza slaughter as "the opposite of genocide." Large numbers of delegates walked out, leaving him to speak to a mostly empty chamber, the embodiment of Israel's growing isolation.

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• White House 'Repeatedly Violated' Court Order By Denying Access to Press Corps "Trump referred to his directive as 'the ban on the free press.'" via NBC News, the Washington Post, and the New York Times.
• Trump Regime Asks Supreme Court to Resume Unspeakably Cruel Renditions for Immigrants "The Department of Homeland Security has sent more than 25,000 migrants to 'third countries' — mostly in Latin America and Africa — since Trump enacted the policy after taking office last year." via the Washington Post and Politico.
• New Jersey Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill Tells Lt. Gov. Dale Caldwell to Resign Over Ethics Scandal "The 61-page report delivered to Sherrill on Wednesday details claims that [Caldwell] sexually harassed a female staffer by making a comment about 'young sperm,' and that he violated state ethics rules by bringing personal guests to ticketed events without paying or reimbursing their admission, and by using his office to seek a promotion for a state employee with whom he had a romantic relationship, without disclosing that relationship." via the New York Times and the New Jersey Globe.
• California Supreme Court Orders Crackpot Republican County Sheriff to Return 650,000 Illegally Seized Ballots After seizing the ballots in February, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, a MAGA conspiracy theorist, "directed his underlings to begin counting those ballots by hand — a potential felony under state law, which forbids anyone other than an election official from so much as touching a ballot container." via the Los Angeles Times and Politico.

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That's how many noncitizen voters the state of Nevada found after investigating a list of 185 names sent to it by the Department of Homeland Security last month, the New York Times reports. "DHS officials continue their attempts to intimidate election officials into compliance and deter voters with huge claims of fraud with no evidence," says Francisco Aguilar, the Nevada's Democratic secretary of state. "Repeating unsupported claims does not make them true."

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9/25: Sam and Emma will be in studio. The guest will be Jeet Heer national affairs correspondent at The Nation and host of The Times Of Monsters Podcast.

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"Paid for by the US Government."

-- The disclosure on a 30-second pro-Trump ad in which Donald vows to "defeat communism, socialism, [and] Marxism in America" as the soundtrack vocals repeat the words "love me" over and over again. The ad has run on Fox News and Newsmax. According to the Associated Press, the airtime so far cost $14,000. Government ethics experts and Democrats like Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin say the ad an illegal violation of the Hatch Act, other laws forbidding the use of public funds for political campaigns, and "numerous federal ethics provisions." The White House is attempting to justify the unlawful propaganda by calling it a "public service announcement."

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