Death Toll Now 104 in Texas Floods, 10 Camp Girls Still Missing
No Marshmallows: Iran President Says U.S. So Damaged 3 Iran Nuke Sites, Officials Haven't Been Able To Enter
Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian says that U.S. airstrikes so badly damaged three of his country’s nuclear facilities last month that Iranian authorities have still not been able to access them to survey the destruction.
Pezeshkian said in an interview published Monday with conservative American broadcaster Tucker Carlson that Iran would be willing to resume cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog but cannot yet commit to allowing them unfettered access to monitor the sites.
“We are ready to hold talks over it,” Pezeshkian said. “We have never been the party that has run away from verification. We stand ready to have such supervision, unfortunately, as a result of the United States’ unlawful attacks against our nuclear centers and installations, many of the pieces of equipment and the facilities there have been severely damaged. Therefore, we don’t have any access to them, we cannot see. And this access will have to wait for that.”
5:32 pm:
Seeing this literally on top of the 1:39 pm Axios report is premonition. It is going to happen. There is going to be armed street conflict.
[Military] Troops and federal agents briefly descend on LA’s MacArthur Park in largely immigrant neighborhood
5:04 pm:
Defense officials had said the troops and over a dozen military vehicles would help protect immigration officers as they carried out a raid in MacArthur Park.
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Among those who spoke with [LA Mayor Karen] Bass were health care outreach workers who were working with homeless residents Monday when troops pointed guns at them and told them to get out of the park.
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The operation in the large park about 2 miles west of downtown LA included 17 Humvees, four tactical vehicles, two ambulances and the armed soldiers, defense officials said. ...
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The defense officials told reporters that it was not a military operation but acknowledged that the size and scope of the Guard’s participation could make it look like one to the public. ...
“It’s just going to be more overt and larger than we usually participate in,” one of the officials said before the raid ended abruptly with no explanation.
The primary role of the service members would be to protect the immigration enforcement officers in case a hostile crowd gathered, that official said. ...
ICE agents wearing masks add new levels of intimidation, confusion during L.A. raids
Democratic Rank-and File: . "Some of them have suggested ... what we really need to do is be willing to get shot"
- "Our own base is telling us that what we're doing is not good enough ... [that] there needs to be blood to grab the attention of the press and the public," the same [Democratic] lawmaker said.
- A fourth House Democrat said constituents have told them "civility isn't working" and to prepare for "violence ... to fight to protect our democracy."
- Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), a high-profile progressive, said he believes "the most effective pushback to Trump's unconstitutional actions is to model a reverence for the Constitution and the rule of law."
But that is not resonating with increasing numbers of Democrats:
- A fourth House Democrat said constituents have told them "civility isn't working" and to prepare for "violence ... to fight to protect our democracy."
Many lawmakers said these voters tend to be white, well-educated and live in upscale suburban or urban neighborhoods.
- "What I have seen is a demand that we get ourselves arrested intentionally or allow ourselves to be victims of violence, and ... a lot of times that's coming from economically very secure white people," said an eighth House Democrat.
- A ninth lawmaker told Axios: "I actually said in a meeting, 'When they light a fire, my thought is to grab an extinguisher,'" a ninth House Democrat told Axios.
- "And someone at the table said, 'Have you tried gasoline?'"
Texas Floods: Did Officials Do Enough to Warn People?
No. But that's Texas. Life is cheap.
