The Political Thread

[O-Blaze]

Thats just fucking ridiculous.

 

[Barry Poppins]

It also leads to a dangerous precedent where if immigrants, regardless of legal status, can be black bagged and disappeared, then tourists and foreign workers on visas can also be black bagged.

 

[Barry Poppins]

After that, you know who's next?

Jews, Muslims, then LGBTQ people, then Ethnic minorities.

Finally it'll be you and me.

 

[Chris]

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/iran-israel-us-latest-news

President Trump said on Monday night that Israel and Iran agreed to a cease-fire that could lead to the end of the war. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said hours later on X that his country would halt its attacks as long as Israel’s bombardments ended by 4 a.m. Tuesday local time, or 8:30 p.m. Eastern time on Monday.

He later said Iran’s forces had fought right up to the last minute of that deadline. It wasn’t immediately clear whether the fighting had halted. Araghchi said earlier there had yet to be agreement on a cease-fire. Israel hadn’t commented on the president’s announcement. Neither side replied to requests for comment.

 

[O-Blaze]

So. Trump lied? that doesn't sound like him at all.

 

[Loochblade]

You're right, Blaze. Sounds like #FakeNews really.

Airstrikes during the Iran–Israel war

• Israel continues to launch airstrikes on Iran while Iran launches a wave of ballistic missiles at Israel despite the United States claiming a ceasefire had been reached between the warring sides. The ceasefire has not been confirmed by either Iran or Israel. (Al Jazeera) (The Guardian)

This whole ceasefire business is as muddy as the big Israel-Palestine one was some months ago. Basically the same playbook being run right now.

 

[Tommy Shelby]

Explosions heard after Iran launches missile strike on US bases in Qatar and Iraq

UK Foreign Office advised British nationals in Qatar to ‘shelter in place’ following US security alert

www.independent.co.uk

So guessing they're not going to fly anyone to the Middle East if any US-aligned country is a target

Mum's sister and husband ares stuck there. Untill they open the air space. We've had no contact for four days now, which is very frightening.

 

[Chris]

Some next level coping

'Do not drop those bombs,' Trump warns Israel after it vows 'powerful strikes' on Iran - live updates

Trump uses an expletive as he criticises Israel and Iran after both sides accuse each other of breaking the ceasefire.

www.bbc.com

Moments after Air Force One departed with Donald Trump on board, the US president has posted a fresh Truth Social insisting that "the ceasefire is in effect".

Trump writes: "Israel is not going to attack Iran. All planes will turn around and head home, while doing a friendly 'plane wave' to Iran.

"Nobody will be hurt, the ceasefire is in effect! Thank you for your attention to this matter!"

 

[Sky]

Delusional individual

 

[King Kota]

Delusional individual

I agree. He said Israel and Iran had a ceasefire. Both countries denied they had a ceasefire. So Trump is so delusional, he believes in a ceasefire that doesn't exist.

 

[Chris]

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/us/politics/justice-department-emil-bove-trump-deportations-reuveni.html

A senior Justice Department official, Emil Bove III, told subordinates he was willing to ignore court orders in order to fulfill the president’s aggressive deportation campaign, according to a whistle-blower complaint by a department lawyer who has since been fired.

The account by the dismissed lawyer, Erez Reuveni, paints a disturbing portrait of his final three weeks on the front lines of the Trump administration’s legal efforts to ship immigrants overseas, often with little notice or recourse. In Mr. Reuveni’s telling, Mr. Bove used an expletive as he discussed disregarding court orders, and other top law enforcement officials showed themselves ready to stonewall judges or lie to them to get their way.

Mr. Reuveni’s account, which was reviewed by The New York Times, was filed to lawmakers and the Justice Department inspector general on Tuesday, just one day before Mr. Bove is scheduled to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee for a nomination to a federal appeals court. Mr. Reuveni was a career lawyer at the Justice Department for nearly 15 years until April, when he appeared in a federal court in Maryland and expressed concern that the administration had mistakenly deported a migrant to a megaprison in El Salvador. Mr. Reuveni was put on administrative leave a day later and ultimately fired.

 

[Chris]

$100M stolen from disabled Americans, I wonder how much Medicaid and social security benefits we'll have to take from those same people to make up for this

Two Tampa Bay Men Indicted in $100 Million Fraud Scheme Targeting Disabled Individuals - Florida Daily

TAMPA, Fla. — Federal prosecutors have unsealed an indictment charging two Tampa Bay men in connection with a sweeping fraud and money laundering scheme that allegedly siphoned more than $100 million from a Clearwater-based nonprofit that managed funds for individuals with disabilities and...

floridadaily.com

 

[Butters]

Definitely not the most important piece of news but Trump out here tossing f bombs on live tv looks classy as hell

 

[Chris]

It turns out they may not have been TOTALLY OBLITERATED @Butters don't tell your boss's son

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/24/politics/intel-assessment-us-strikes-iran-nuclear-sites

The US military strikes on three of Iran’s nuclear facilities last weekend did not destroy the core components of the country’s nuclear program and likely only set it back by months, according to an early US intelligence assessment that was described by four people briefed on it.

The assessment, which has not been previously reported, was produced by the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon’s intelligence arm. It is based on a battle damage assessment conducted by US Central Command in the aftermath of the US strikes, one of the sources said.

The analysis of the damage to the sites and the impact of the strikes on Iran’s nuclear ambitions is ongoing, and could change as more intelligence becomes available. But the early findings are at odds with President Donald Trump’s repeated claims that the strikes “completely and totally obliterated” Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth also said on Sunday that Iran’s nuclear ambitions “have been obliterated.”

Two of the people familiar with the assessment said Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium was not destroyed. One of the people said the centrifuges are largely “intact.”

“So the (DIA) assessment is that the US set them back maybe a few months, tops,” this person added.

The White House acknowledged the existence of the assessment but said they disagreed with it.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told CNN in a statement: “This alleged assessment is flat-out wrong and was classified as ‘top secret’ but was still leaked to CNN by an anonymous, low-level loser in the intelligence community. The leaking of this alleged assessment is a clear attempt to demean President Trump, and discredit the brave fighter pilots who conducted a perfectly executed mission to obliterate Iran’s nuclear program. Everyone knows what happens when you drop fourteen 30,000 pound bombs perfectly on their targets: total obliteration.”

 

[Barry Poppins]