Iran Makes ‘Dramatic’ Leap to Produce Near-Bomb-Grade Fuel, but to What End? The United Nations chief inspector says production has quadrupled. But it is not clear whether Iran is trying to touch off a crisis or gather bargaining chips for negotiations with the United States. 12/6/2024 - 10:48 am | View Link
Risk of Iran Building Nuclear Weapons Grows, U.S. Intelligence Says A report warns that public debate in Iran over deterrence risks “emboldening” nuclear weapons advocates there. 12/6/2024 - 2:33 am | View Link
Iran to "substantially increase" uranium enrichment capacity over IAEA rebuke led by U.S. and allies A rebuke of Iran led by the U.S. and its close allies at the global nuclear watchdog agency has drawn a vow by the Islamic republic to further ramp up uranium enrichment. 11/21/2024 - 11:35 pm | View Link
Iran Told U.S. It Wasn’t Trying to Kill Trump Iran offered written assurances to the Biden administration last month that it wasn’t seeking to kill Donald Trump, U.S. officials said, a secret exchange meant to cool tensions between Tehran and ... 11/15/2024 - 2:38 am | View Link
Adam Kinzinger, who was one of only two Republicans on the Jan. 6 committee, wrote a scathing Substack post in which he threw down with El Cheato's threat to imprison him and the rest of the committee members. Via IBT Times:
"[Former Rep. Liz] Cheney was behind it. So is Benny Thompson and everybody on that committee, honestly, they should go to jail," Trump said during an NBC "Meet the Press" interview on Sunday.
Hours later, Kinzinger, who served as an Illinois rep.
"It's disgusting how everyone is turning this guy into some kind of folk hero. Insurance companies, like any company, have a duty to shareholders to maximize profits, no matter how ruthlessly. The radical left espousing otherwise needs to grow the hell up."
-- Grandpa Ketamine, aka Elmo
It's been a crazy week, and it's even crazier now that a suspect has been arrested.
by Jeremy Kohler
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One month after Missouri voters approved a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to abortion, Republican lawmakers in the deeply red state are already working to overturn it — or at least undermine it.
One measure would ask voters to amend the state constitution to define life as beginning at conception, declaring that embryos are people with rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
The result would be to classify abortion as an unlawful killing.
Another proposal, aimed at repealing the abortion rights amendment, would ask voters to ban gender transition procedures for minors, tying the two issues together, despite the fact that the amendment did not address gender surgery and gender-affirming care for transgender children is already illegal in Missouri.read more
On this day in 1973 the CBGB Club opened in the lower East side of New York City. Television, "Marquee Moon".
Digby's Hullabaloo: Everything Old Is New Again -- The new Fugitive Slave Law.
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I'm not 100% certain that we know the motive for the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. The obvious answer is that he was killed by a policyholder who was denied coverage, although it also seems possible that the shooting is connected to an insider trading investigation of Thompson and other executives.