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'Flailing' Trump Lies About Iran Talks - the Wednesday AM Quickie 3/25/26

By Corey Pein —

Gavin Newsom regrets calling Israel an apartheid state. Others regret calling Gavin Newsom governor. - Corey

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THE BIG NEWS

Wider War Watch: Pentagon Sends 3,000 More Troops to Middle East

  • Israelis Surprised By US Offer of 15-Point Ceasefire Plan to Iran "It's clear that he is flailing right now," former CIA director John Brennan says of Donald Trump. "He's trying to figure out how he's going to get out of this debacle that he has created. And so he's going to make these claims about negotiations that the Iranians now are sending signals that they really want to make a deal and indicates that it's going to make a deal on our terms. ... I don't believe there's anybody speaking authoritatively right now on behalf of the Iranian government with the Trump administration." via the Associated Press, the Washington Post, the Guardian, and HuffPost.
  • Iran Opens Strait of Hormuz to 'Non-Hostile' Ships Meanwhile, Bahrain proposed a United Nations Security Council resolution that would authorize military action against Iran to open the Strait, which is vital to global oil supply lines; China, Russia and other countries are opposed. via the New York Times, the AP, and the Wall Street Journal.
  • Israel Seizes Territory in Southern Lebanon Meanwhile, Lebanon declared Iran's ambassador persona non grata, "the clearest sign yet of deteriorating relations between the two countries." via the Guardian, the AP, and Politico.
  • Russia Attacks Ukraine with Nearly 1,000 Drones, as far West as Lviv Meanwhile, Israel's navy struck a Caspian Sea port where Iran transports attack drones to Russia that are used to attack Ukraine. via Al Jazeera, the Wall Street Journal, and the AP.
  • Russian Weapons Power Myanmar Junta in Bloody Civil War "Beyond technology and equipment, the generals also appear to have adopted Russia’s so-called 'meat assaults' tactics – waves of infantry thrown at enemy defensive lines with little regard for casualties." via Al Jazeera.
  • US Military Helped Ecuadorian Forces Bomb a Dairy Farm, Falsely Claiming It Was a Narcoterror Training Camp "Residents said the strike was part of a broader, multiday operation by Ecuadorean soldiers, who burned two nearby abandoned homes earlier in the week, then bombed one of them by plane." via the New York Times.
  • Marco Rubio Testifies Against Friend, Former Rep. David Rivera, Who Was Secretly on Payroll of Venezuelan Oil Company The Secretary of State "said he had no idea Rivera had secured the highly profitable agreement with PDV USA when he met with him twice in 2017 to discuss the plan to oust Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and make way for an opposition leader." via the Miami Herald, NBC News, and Politico.
  • Nuestra America Aid Flotilla Arrives in Cuba in Show of Resistance Against US 'Economic Warfare' "Cuba's Deputy Minister of Energy and Mines Argelio Abad Vigo stated last week that the island, which produces only about 40 percent of the fuel it needs, has gone for three months without access to vital supplies of diesel, fuel oil, petrol, jet fuel, and liquefied petroleum gas." via Al Jazeera, the New York Times, and the AP.

Democrats Flip State House Seat in Trump's Backyard

First-time Democratic candidate Emily Gregory yesterday defeated Jon Maples, a Republican former officeholder endorsed by Donald Trump, in special election for a Florida legislative seat in Palm Beach County – indeed, in the very district that includes Trump's Mar-a-Lago compound. Gregory has "a background in public health and mental health administration who now runs a fitness center for postpartum moms." Maples was personally promoted by Trump just days ago at a Palm Beach Republican event.

Gregory's win won't tip the balance of power in the Florida legislature, but it is the latest sign that Democrats are heavily favored in the upcoming midterm elections. "If Mar-a-Lago is vulnerable, imagine what’s possible this November," Heather Williams, president of the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, tells the Associated Press, adding that Gregory's Florida victory marked the 29th seat that Democrats have flipped since the start of Trump's second term.

Senate Republicans Ready to Cave on ICE Funding?

With Transportation Security Administration officers quitting left and right after working without pay, ICE goons patrolling the gates, and hours-long security lines, America's airports are an especially miserable place at the moment. Congress has snapped into action. Cynics may suggest this in no small part because Delta Air Lines announced yesterday that it was suspending special treatment for members, forcing Reps. and Sens. into the same grueling lines as everyone else until a deal is reached to fund the Homeland Security Department, which oversees TSA.

In any event, Senate Republicans have offered a deal to fund DHS without funding ICE deportations, partially conceding to Democrats' demands not to fund the agency without key reforms. But "I'm pretty much not happy with it," says Donald Trump, who wants nothing to move until Congress passes the SAVE voter suppression Act. And Democrats aren't sold either. "This offer doesn’t have reforms and funds most of their immigration enforcement operations," Connecticut Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy says, per the Washington Post. All the same, it's nice to see the Senate GOP finally put some pressure on Trump.

QUICKEST QUICKIES

  • Jeffrey Epstein's Lawyer and Accountant Tell Congress They Were Never Interviewed By Feds Yesterday's testimony from accountant Richard Kahn and lawyer Darren Indyke "raises questions about the depth of the Justice Department's review" of the late elite sex trafficker. via NBC News and Politico.
  • Supreme Court Conservatives May Sign Off on Unlawful Regime Policy of Refusing Asylum Seekers at Mexico Border "Kelsi Corkran, an attorney arguing for the humanitarian group Al Otro Lado and a group of asylum seekers, said the government was offering a 'nonsensical' reading of the law that failed the United States’ ideals and treaty obligations." via the New York Times and HuffPost.
  • Trump Names 'Manosphere' Fool Nick Adams 'Special Presidential for American Tourism, Exceptionalism, and Values' Adams, who frequently proclaims his love for Hooters, was previously nominated as ambassador to Malaysia, though his nomination was pulled without explanation. via the New York Times and the Sydney Morning Herald.
  • Minnesota Sues Trump Regime, Demanding Withheld Evidence in Killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti "'I have to stress, friends, how absolutely extraordinary it is, how rare and unprecedented it is, how completely unnecessary it is, if justice is our goal, for us to have to file this lawsuit,' Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said at a news conference to announce the lawsuit. 'The federal government has refused to cooperate with state law enforcement. ... We cannot let them do it.'" via the Associated Press, the Minnesota Star-Tribune, and the Washington Post.

SOME NUMBER

$375 million

That's how much Meta must pay in damages for violating New Mexico's consumer protection laws thanks to a verdict yesterday in a lawsuit brought by the state's Democratic Attorney General, Raúl Torrez. Meta "put profits over kids' safety," Torrez says. "Meta executives knew their products harmed children, disregarded warnings from their own employees and lied to the public about what they knew."

The Big Tech company is eyeing a $9 trillion valuation by 2031, a 500 percent increase from its current market capitalization, the Wall Street Journal reports.

ON THE SHOW TODAY

3/25: Sam will be hosting solo. The first guests will be Lisa Xu and Caitlyn Clark, reporters at Labor Notes, discussing the first meatpackers strike in the US in 40 years. Then Sam will interview Xavier de Janon, director of mass defense at the National Lawyers Guild, about the 9 people convicted of terrorism-related charges over a shooting at the Prairieland, Texas ICE camp.

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PARTING WORDS

"Don't go anywhere near a checkpoint, and if your papers are in processing, just lay low. Trump meant what he said – he is trying to get rid of everyone, whether they are good or bad."

-- Tania Warner, a Canadian woman married to a US citizen who is being held with her autistic daughter, Ayla, at an ICE camp in Texas, offering advice to her fellow immigrants. The Guardian reports that Warner and her daughter were detained at a border patrol checkpoint this month; she was accused of overstaying her visa even though she has a work permit valid until 2030.

Meanwhile, ICE released a 5-year-old nonverbal boy, Gael, from the same ICE camp in Texas after he appeared in a video with Ms. Rachel, the children's entertainer.

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