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Ed: Ahmad Vahidi rejects the idea that he has two choices. He thinks he has a third – to outwait Trump and force the US to back down. The longer Trump allows the IRGC to delay choosing between these two options, the stronger the case becomes for the third. This is what I meant earlier today when I worried that the administration didn’t understand this enemy, who sees any restraint as weakness. Weakness creates options and fractures, which Trump should know, since he’s counting on weakness and fractures to collapse the IRGC. Waiting likely won’t help. 

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Axios: A high-level Trump administration official informed Iran on Sunday of the impending U.S. operation to “guide” ships through the Strait of Hormuz and warned Tehran not to interfere, according to a U.S. official and a source with knowledge.

Why it matters: The private message suggests the White House wanted to mitigate the risk of potential escalation. But despite the warning, the Iranians launched a string of attacks on U.S. Navy ships, commercial vessels and the United Arab Emirates.

State of play: On Tuesday, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs chair Gen. Dan Caine downplayed the Iranian attacks and claimed the ceasefire remained in place.

Nevertheless, some U.S. and Israeli officials believe President Trump could give an order to resume the war later this week if the diplomatic stalemate continues.

Ed: Well, that plan didn’t work out, did it? Perhaps this is enough to convince the White House that the IRGC will never negotiate or act in good faith. Or maybe, as I suggested earlier, Trump wants to try to get as many ships out of the Persian/Arabian Gulf as possible first before launching a new offensive operation to deal with Vahidi. That’s a rational approach, but Trump better not wait too long. 

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Ed: Might I suggest the name for the new operation – Operation Let’s $£%^@(& Finish This?

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Politico: President Donald Trump’s border czar said on Tuesday that the administration will expand its enforcement operations in New York if the state approves a package of sanctuary-like measures.

“What’s going to happen with places like New York and [if] people pass ridiculous legislation not to work with us, we’re going to flood the zone,” Homan told a border security expo, according to video of the event. “You’re going to see more ICE agents than you’ve ever seen before. So, congratulations.”

The declaration is a last-minute complication for Gov. Kathy Hochul and the Democratic-led state Legislature, which is expected to pass bills aimed at protecting the state’s undocumented immigrant population and limit the Trump administration’s deportation efforts.

Ed: This is how one deals with performative obstruction. Warn, and then start arresting and charging people with felonies if they interfere. Homan does not seem daunted by the Minneapolis meltdown at all, and Hochul has to know that Homan’s serious about this. Hochul’s already complaining that Trump promised her DHS would not do this, but she’s changing the rules of the game by pushing this legislation. 

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Ed: It’s not just up to the RNC chair. Every Republican Senator and Representative that appears on mainstream media platforms has to find a way to work The Boy With the Nazi Tattoo into the conversation. Turn every policy or electoral question into an opportunity to demand answers about Platner. That goes double for questions about Trump. 

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Ed: I both hate this and love this at the same time. 

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Fox News via AOL: Michigan Democratic Rep. Debbie Dingell declined during a Saturday interview to say whether she would support Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner following controversy over his past rape comments, as scrutiny intensifies ahead of the state’s primary.

Asked directly by anchor Jessica Dean on “CNN’s Newsroom” whether Platner is “an appropriate person to represent the Democratic Party,” Dingell did not give a clear endorsement and instead pointed to the uncertainty of the race.

“We’re going to have to see what happens in Maine,” Dingell said.

Platner has faced backlash after CNN’s KFile uncovered past posts in which he described himself as a “communist,” criticized rape victims and used inflammatory rhetoric toward law enforcement, along with controversy surrounding a tattoo resembling a Nazi symbol.

Ed: Kudos to CNN for pushing Dingell to answer this question. Much of what we know about Platner’s history comes from CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski, who’s been a pro at oppo-research-style exposés for well over a decade on different platforms. But Republicans have to keep making this part of every political interview from now until the election. 

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Apologizing and coddling the man who attempted to kill the President of the United States and his cabinet is embarrassing to the entire judiciary. 

This judge has no business being on the bench let alone on this case.

Ed: This was a magistrate judge, not a full Article III federal judge. He’s basically a glorified clerk. Zia Faruqui only has a couple of years left on his term. He won’t be missed when he leaves. At any rate, this is not the judge who will handle the trial or the pretrial hearings. Congress can’t remove him, but the other judges in this district circuit could if they want. And they should.





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CBS News: A Nashua, New Hampshire man who works for the Federal Aviation Administration is charged with threatening President Trump.

Dean DelleChiaie, a 35-year-old FAA contractor who was working as a mechanical engineer, allegedly searched for the phrase “I am going to kill Donald John Trump” on his government-issued work computer in late January, the U.S. Attorney for New Hampshire alleges.

An affidavit from a Secret Service agent said he also looked up how to get a gun into a federal facility, previous assassination attempts against Mr. Trump, the percentage of the population that wants the president dead and countdown timers/clicks estimating when the president will die. Additionally, the affidavit said DelleChiaie also searched for details about the families of Vice President JD Vance and Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth.

Ed: It’s not the heat, it’s the stupidity. He looked up all this on his government-issued work computer. What did he expect to happen? More seriously, this is yet another example of how far-Left demagoguery of Trump impacts the weak-minded, and how it effectively incentivizes violence. 

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We comply with it in terms of notification because we want to preserve good relations with Congress… but even as a senator, I would say that the War Powers Act is 100% unconstitutional.”

Ed: I can say that both Congress and the White House 100% want to avoid this going to the Supreme Court for adjudication. The Supreme Court would probably like to avoid it, too. Barack Obama didn’t even bother to comply with the reporting requirements. But still, it matters politically, and an unpopular military action doesn’t have to be unconstitutional to erode your standing with voters. 





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Heather Mac Donald at City Journal: Three days before a 31-year-old male stormed the White House Correspondents Dinner, hoping to assassinate President Donald Trump and members of his cabinet, the New York Times published a 35-minute video titled: “‘The Rich Don’t Play by the Rules. So Why Should I?’ Why petty theft might be the new political protest.” In it, a Times editor interviewed two other members of the media aristocracy about the moral code shared by a large swathe of young Americans.

That code justifies theft—and even violence—when harnessed to a fashionably left-wing cause. None of the participants—podcasting celebrity Hasan Piker, New Yorker writer Jia Tolentino, and Times opinion editor Nadja Spiegelman—expressed alarm at the glorification of crime. They smirked and giggled through the discussion, betraying a breezy indifference to lawbreaking.

It was striking enough that the Times published the video after reviewing the final cut. The paper was not embarrassed by the participants’ ignorance and entitlement. Nor was it troubled, apparently, by their debate over whether the December 2024 murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was “actually effective political action” or merely—and disappointingly—effective “political consciousness-raising.”

But after the assassination attempt on Trump on April 25 by yet another young megalomaniac, one might have thought that the Times would want to distance itself from its hipster commentators and their ends-justify-the-means morality.

Ed: Spoiler alert – it did not prompt any distancing by the NYT. That is because that’s the NYT’s own morality. The Left is all about “by any means necessary.” And the erosion of cultural norms and mores is part of the project to replace objective truth and shared mores with Queer Theory relativism and revolution. 

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Ed: Looks like Rubio had a lot of fun today and did an outstanding job. Will J.D. Vance do the same?

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T. Becket Adams: Ask any ordinary Republican legislator how right is too far right, and he’ll give you names: Nick Fuentes, Alex Jones, Tucker Carlson, etc. Demand that a Republican apologize for acts of right-wing violence, and he’ll almost certainly do it. As for the conservative commentariat: it’s still locked in a yearslong civil war over who should be admitted into the tent.

Meanwhile, you can’t get Democrats to condemn even a nepo-baby streamer who believes, among other things, that communism is great, that Mao did nothing wrong, that the murdered UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson got what he deserved, that theft is good, and that Jews are “inbred” “pig-dogs.” These same people aren’t even embarrassed to support a Maine Senate candidate who, until very recently, had an SS “death’s head” tattoo prominently displayed on his chest.

In the wake of the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., in which one woman was killed, Republicans wasted no time condemning far-right extremism and violence. You barely even had to ask. The irony now is: If it’s true, as the Justice Department alleges, that the Southern Poverty Law Center had a hand in organizing the rally, it means that Republicans will even apologize for left-wing-involved extremism!

Meanwhile, the left-wing base is over here holding the dual positions that the most serious attempt on the president’s life was faked, but that if it had been real and succeeded, it would have been “at least somewhat justified.”

The problem with the left is that they won’t even admit they have a problem. And as we all know, the first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem.

Ed: They don’t have a problem. They have a plan. Big difference. 

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