The Morning Report — 6/ 12 /26

Good morning kids. And so the breaking news this morning is that Iran and the United States have come to terms to bring hostilities to an end, just as the clock was winding down to about three hours before the latest aerial assault by the USAF was set to take off.

The main hangup, according to the source, was “sequencing,” referring to the order in which the terms of the arrangement would be fulfilled.

Those terms have included reopening the Strait of Hormuz, lifting the US blockade of Iranian ports, releasing frozen Iranian funds and Iran’s willingness to discuss a plan to destroy, degrade or transfer its stockpile of enriched uranium and vow to never seek a nuclear weapon.

While Iran has repeatedly demanded economic incentives before it would sign an MOU, Secretary of State Marco Rubio last week told Congress that lifting sanctions would only be considered in exchange for real nuclear concessions.

Trump, meanwhile, has repeatedly refused to release frozen Iranian assets to begin the talks.

The apparent breakthrough happened after US forces pounded Iran’s coasts overnight, targeting missile and radar systems in retaliation for the Islamic Republic downing an American Apache helicopter over the Strait of Hormuz Monday night, as source familiar with the operation told The Post.

The strikes lasted approximately four hours and ended shortly before dawn broke across Iran, targeting the theocratic regime’s “military surveillance capabilities, communication systems and air defense sites,” according to US Central Command.

Trump announced the agreement hours after threatening to strike Iran “VERY HARD TONIGHT” in a Thursday morning post to Truth Social, adding that the US would also soon invade Kharg Island, a hub of Iranian oil refinement.

“At some point in the not too distant future, we will be taking Kharg Island, and other oil infrastructure points, and assume total control of their Oil and Gas Markets, much like we have with Venezuela,” Trump wrote on Truth Social after 8 a.m.

For me, the fly in the ointment as it were is that the Iranian regime and its ability to terrorize the world and its own citizenry as it has done ever since Jimmy Carter pig-piss be upon him allowed them to take over the country 47 years ago and metastasize into the sharp edge of the Islamic sword that has shed oceans of blood, quite a bit of it American, in that time. So color me highly skeptical...

If (the Houthis) and Iran’s other proxies now watch the United States reach for the familiar off-ramp — sanctions relief and a deal that lets its terror network survive intact — they’ll read it as confirmation that pain pays, just as Tehran taught them.

And a presidential administration that has shown its readiness to act would be squandering its own leverage if it trades pressure for the illusion of calm.

The key point is this: The Islamic Republic is not Venezuela. Rodriguez and her cronies are corrupt autocrats who want to survive; pressure can change their calculus.

Iran’s rulers are corrupt too, but the regime’s true believers also see themselves as participants in a religious struggle for jihad.
Therefore, breaking the cycle requires maintaining US pressure on Iran’s oil, drone and missile procurement networks — without trading sanctions relief for promises that will only evaporate.

It also requires treating Iran’s proxy network as a single target, from the Houthis astride Bab al-Mandab to the shops in Venezuela assembling Iranian drones, rather than chasing each flashpoint after it ignites.
And it requires providing US support to the millions of Iranians who want to bring down the regime — and have been on the streets for years facing the brutal Islamist security services alone. 
All of this is grounded in a refusal to allow the regime any lifeline to continue its external aggression and internal repression. 

And lest we forget, the Regime is propelled not merely by the personal venality and egomania of its leadership but primarily by Islam and its eternal quest for the subjugation of humanity, or its destruction should that goal be unobtainable. And bear in mind that with Shia Twelverism, unleashing Armageddon in the quest for global conquest is a prerequisite!

Another Taqqiya sunrise?! It sure seems that way. Can the Mullahs outlast Trump's final two years or so and are they counting on perhaps a Democrat and RINO/isolationist assisted Congress coming to power via the midterms to keep them in power, just as Congress betrayed the South Vietnamese in 1975 and unleashed the Killing Fields on southeast Asia?

We'll have to wait and see as the President is wont to say...

Just as I'm posting this, I'm hearing news that the Iranian foreign ministry is now denying that any deal at all has been reached.

Have a great weekend,

AMERICA & ISRAEL STRIKE IRAN!
• Trump says Iran’s leader has agreed to a peace plan — and Islamic Republic will not have a nuclear weapon (if you believe that last bit -jjs)
  EXCLUSIVE DETAILS—Path to peace Trump calls off Iran strikes... US-Tehran deal is ‘all wrapped up’
  
• “Based on the fact that discussions with the Islamic Republic of Iran have been brought to the highest level of Iranian leadership and approved, I have, as President of the United States of America, cancelled the scheduled strikes and bombings against Iran this evening,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
  Trump Cancels Strikes, Says Iran Deal ‘Approved by All Parties Involved’
  
• NBC News: The 14-week-old “ceasefire is effectively dead and has now been replaced by negotiations under fire.”
  President Trump Vows to Take Iran’s Kharg Island, Seize Oil Infrastructure as Regime Escalates
  
• . . . the peril of changing the dictator but not the underlying regime, as Washington will likely discover in the coming months and years. (The underlying regime is ISLAM, and it's' been in power for 1500 years - jjs)
  Don’t buy Iran’s charade — this regime can’t afford peace at ANY price

• IDF's calculated targets.
  What Israel Hit in Iran
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• Ending the war in Iran means exerting extraordinary pressure on the regime — full stop.
  The One Outcome The Left Can’t Stomach

  ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH . . . AND LEFTISTS. . . The U.N... AND HISTORY
  

• . . . as a result of the alleged “20,000 deaths” in the war in Gaza.
  Colombia’s Gustavo Petro at the U.N.: ‘We’re Returning to the Nazis’
  
• Hamas can’t invade or bomb Israel right now, so it’s using the ceasefire to show the "Palestinian" people that it’s just as ruthless as ever. And none of the Westerners who spent the war screaming “genocide” say a word, because that would mean admitting to the world that Hamas was always the combatant with total disregard for Palestinian life.
  The world ignores Gaza’s suffering when it’s at Hamas’ hands

  CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION

• Grassley’s press release comes on the heels of various attempts by Dems to pack the Supreme Court.
  Grassley: Democrats Want To ‘Rig The Supreme Court’ So They Can Ignore The Constitution (So, Grassley awakens from a coma? - jjs)
  
• The mirror they refuse to look into.
  A Conservative Audit of the Left’s Ruling Assumptions

  "DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST/GLOBALIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• The poll also affirms the importance of immigration policy to Americans, showing that politicians cannot afford to ignore concerns about border security, illegal migrant crime, and demographic change. This strengthens the cause of groups like The Mass Deportation Coalition, which aims to ecnourage President Donald J. Trump to fulfill his campaign promise of mass deportations.
  DATA: Clear Majority of Americans Support Mass Deportation of All Illegal Aliens.
  
• Gianforte, who is the leader of the Republican Governors Association, walked through what he did in his state on the issue of illegal immigration, offering an example for other red states facing similar opposition.
  Exclusive — Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte: This Northern Border State Still Has a ‘Southern Border Problem’
  
• The completion of the border wall should bolster national security as well as deter illegal crossings and drug trafficking. The completion of the border wall also represents the fulfillment of arguably President Trump’s most well-known and long-standing promise, with the America First leader famously proposing the idea over a decade ago in 2015.
  Border Protection Chief: Wall Set to Finish Early and Under Budget.

  THE GREAT SOMALIAN SIMOLEON SWINDLE

• “Today’s arrest is historic – the first ever arrest of a subject on our Most Wanted Fraudsters List released last week with the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud,” Patel said in a statement.
  FBI Makes First Arrest on DOJ’s ‘Most Wanted Fraudsters’ List, Minnesota Man in Custody

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• Senators largely spoke highly of Trump’s pick to become the next director of National Intelligence (DNI) Thursday, but some criticized President Donald Trump for not nominating him sooner.
  Here’s What Lawmakers Are Saying About Trump’s Nominee To Replace Tulsi Gabbard
  
• The federal action comes amid a broader anti-fraud drive led by Vice President J.D. Vance, and growing scrutiny of LAHSA, which has long been criticized for its inability to address the LA homeless crisis. The suspension of federal funds could lead to a significant overhaul of homelessness programs, with both city and county officials already moving to bypass LAHSA.
  Trump Admin Defunds LA Homeless Agency Amid Investigation Into Fraud and Mismanagement.
  
• Nathan Hochman urged a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge to stop payments until Dec. 31 amid an ongoing criminal investigation, which was launched in November last year, according to a motion filed on Thursday
  LA DA Nathan Hochman says 81 percent of claims in $4B sex abuse settlement may be ‘fraudulent’
  
• ‘Every judge who gets crosswise with her chief judge or her colleagues must now worry whether similar tactics could be used to remove them.’
  SCOTUS To Decide Whether Rogue Judges Can Sideline Constitution To Oust Their Colleague
  
• What happened under Newsom to reverse the state's long-term population growth?
  Driving People Out of California
  
  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• The good ol' days for the deceptive special interest group are numbered.
  CAIR Lashes Out in a Panic Against the Sharia-Free America Congressional Caucus
  
• The Council on American-Islamic Relations recently demanded that Concordia University cancel its event featuring Islam critics. The school has yet to respond.
  CAIR Threatens Chicago-Area University For Allowing Conservative Event On Campus
  
• And this isn’t even the only way that the West is bringing on its own destruction.
  Leftism in Action: UK Gave Billions to Jihad Terrorist Groups

  OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY, PLUS VARIOUS & SUNDRY GODLESS HEATHENS

• Commemorating a propaganda fiction.
  Rancid Taliban Rashida Tlaib and the ‘Ongoing Nakba’

  FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH

• They lie about our past so that they can repeat the same tactics over and over again.
  They Lied About Karmelo Anthony. What Else Have They Lied About?
  
• The outlet called the protestors in Belfast ‘far-right radicals,’ but called BLM protestors ‘peaceful protestors with “room for rage.”
  After Beheading Attempt In Ireland, New York Times Says The Real ‘Violence’ Is From Right-Wingers
  
• And the media won't say why.
  Belfast Burning
  
• 'Oh God, this was awful,' multimillionaire laments after corporation restructures to compete in dying industry
  Lesley Stahl-in Says Journalists Getting Fired Is Worse Than Child Trafficking, Nazi Torture Dungeons
  * * * * *

• “These were risky moves... Milei’s Argentina is trying to accelerate toward the world to come.”
  The Meaning of Milei’s AI Gamble

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• ‘Increasing the retirement age by one year each year through 2033 is an essential change’
  Heartland Institute Reacts to Social Security Shortfall
  
• CEO Kaz Nejatian announced the move as part of Opendoor 2.0, the company’s push to simplify operations, use more AI, and better serve American customers. The company is bringing the work back to the U.S., which will affect about 250 employees in Chennai and Bengaluru, India.
  Real Estate Company Dumps Entire Indian Workforce In Favor Of Homegrown Talent
  
• ‘Bond Villain communists who hate human flourishing,’ says Asness
  Economists Face Backlash After Enlisting UN for Openly Anti-Growth, ‘Public Control of Strategic Assets’ Agenda
  
• “For the first time, children in foster care will have access to a dedicated investment and savings vehicle."
  The Trump Administration Just Solved A Problem Most Americans Never Think About

  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,

• Another reason to kill CAFE once and for all.
  Did Trump Accidentally Create An EV Mandate? (Or, Why CAFE Must Be Ended, Not Mended)

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• “He murdered that boy because he was raised to hate white people and to view himself as a victim in every situation. It’s a culture thing.”
  Irate Karmelo Anthony Supporter Asks What to Tell Her ‘Five Boys’; X Users Offer Suggestions
  
• Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson reportedly built a wall to mitigate violent crime in her city. Seattle built barriers along Aurora Avenue in response to shootings and sex trafficking in the area, The Seattle Times reported Thursday. The new effort began amid backlash from locals over the mayor’s crime policies.
  Taxpayers Revolt As Socialist Mayor Tries Solving Pimp Epidemic With ‘Barricades’

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• MAYA Consulting described its work as 'rooted in' DEI and donated to a Defund Police group
  James Talarico Worked As ‘Equitable Education’ Consultant at Left-Wing Firm Developing DEI Plans for Texas School Districts
  
• “a 10 count indictment for allegedly targeting University of Michigan leaders and businesses in the Eastern Michigan region with violent threats and attacks”
  FBI Arrests Multiple Anti-Israel Activists for Allegedly Targeting Leaders at U Michigan and Others
  
• Meeting minutes show the American Association of University Professors is trying to undermine civic leadership schools.
  The Mellon Foundation Is Funding a Resistance Against Civics Schools

  THE 2020 AND OTHER ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH

• “Are they done counting yet?” Pratt wrote in a post on X.
  Spencer Pratt skewers LA election officials with pointed 5-word question
  
• While a good step toward greater ballot protection, conservative critics say the measures ‘leave a lot of legal loopholes.’
  Ohio Photo ID Constitutional Amendment Question Goes To Voters

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY

  
  

• Graham Platner’s Senate candidacy exposes the lie that Democrats believe in anything other than their own power.
  For the Left, Power Always Trumps Principle (their only principle is holding absolute power at all costs - jjs)
  
• “As a person who is a leftist, I immediately looked at him and asked him, ‘Is that a Totenkopf?’ and he told me a whole...
  Ex-Girlfriend Says Graham Platner Cheated on Fiancée, Said Nazi Tattoo Reminded Him ‘U.S. Was the Evil Bad Guy’
  
• David Harsanyi:  After hearing so much about Platner’s everyman appeal, I went down a rabbit hole, watching his speeches and listening to his interviews. Virtually every one of them is crammed with brain-numbing platitudes and freshman-level socialist sloganeering.
  Graham Platner’s brain-dead baloney is the REAL scandal
  * * * * *

• Wallace-Jones declined to answer a series of questions from Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) regarding alleged foreign donations, fraud controls, and the departure of ActBlue’s legal team.
  ActBlue CEO Repeatedly Pleads the Fifth as Congress Probes Foreign Donations
  
• One course that Darializa Avila Chevalier co-created and taught advocated for the abolition of schools that are 'parallel to prisons'
  The Nutty Professor: Socialist in Close House Race Taught Ultra-Woke College Classes on 'Whiteness,' 'Prison Industrial Complex,' and 'Genocidal Practices of the Nationstate'
  
• The congresswoman has supported organized labor, but her auto repair shop was listed as 'NonUnion' on a federal form that shows five workplace violations in 2017
  Marie Gluesenkamp Perez Calls Herself a 'Business Owner in SW Washington.' Her Shop Is in Oregon, Where Employers Can Pay Much Lower Salaries.
  
• Trump's Oval Office criticism landed because it carried a familiar truth: the swamp doesn't always wear a Democratic label. Every so often it wears an R, quotes procedure, talks about institutional norms, and waits for the worst possible moment to reappear.
  McConnell and Murkowski Remind Trump What He’s Up Against (Death to the RINOs - jjs)

  POLITICS

• There is a way to turn things around in California...just not right now, and not as fast as I would like.
  Lessons From The California 2026 Primary
  
• “Um, you know, I think that, uh … this is … such a … you know, I think that this is a, um … this is of course a … a very longstanding, um … policy of the United States.”
  Titty-Caca Ocasio-Cortez, Democrats Think She Has Real Shot For Higher Office. One Claims Some Republicans Like Her
  
• “After scandal-plagued Graham Platner’s likely primary win Tuesday in Maine, El-Sayed is the next anti-establishment progressive who has a serious chance of winning a Senate nomination.”
  El-Sayed’s Rise Turns MI Primary Into a ‘Proxy War’ for Direction of the Democrat Party
  
• Latinos are like other Americans, which makes them a tougher sell for Democrats than they'd like.
  It suddenly dawns on Democrats that ethnic pandering is bombing with Latino voters
  
• ...there was a lot of hope that he wouldn't be petulant in defeat. When he was gracious the night he was soundly defeated by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in the GOP primary runoff, I had hope that Cornyn was going to be the decent guy that all of his die-hard supporters kept saying that he was. Oh well. 
  So Much for Hoping Cornyn Wouldn't Be a Crybaby on His Way Out

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• A near-beheading brings British rage to a boil. (Maybe the IRA should switch from Protestants to going after the Muzzies - jjs)
  Unrest in Belfast
  
• PRIORITIES: British Labour Party slams Elon Musk for his post in support of the demonstrations in the wake of the brutal attack.
  Belfast Assault Victim Suffers Life-Altering Injuries as Police Charge Suspect
  
• "This is state terrorism against our people."
  JACK POSOBIEC: 'Stop pretending everything is fine—they are killing white people'
  
• Carns’ resignation is the second high-profile resignation from the Department of Defence in a day. Several government ministers have resigned in frustration at Keir Starmer’s performance as Prime Minister, particularly following heavy losses to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party in local and regional elections in May.
  Another Resignation Hits UK PM Starmer’s Government.
  
• China's industrial policy promises economic dominance but delivers a costly lesson: government-picked winners often create more waste, distortion, and inefficiency than innovation.
  China’s Industrial Policy: Ambition, Inefficiency, and a Cautionary Tale for America
  
• After resisting the military invasions of the Caliphate for centuries, Europe, led by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, decided to open its borders wide to migrants with entrenched supremacist beliefs.
  The Hollow Laurels Of Angela Merkel

  AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE+Fauci-created CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS

• New declassified documents released by Sen. Rand Paul on Thursday reveal in unprecedented detail Fauci’s influence over the U.S. intelligence community as the government’s top biodefense official, and how this influence distorted the public’s understanding of the most consequential pandemic in a century.
  Fauci’s Warm Relationship With Intel Community Exposed In Declassified Docs

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• Monkeypox, Measles, Syphilis: the sickest city has got it all.
  Mamdani Distributes Chocolate Condoms to Fight Disease Outbreak
  
• Europe shows what can happen when countries let bureaucratic procedures take precedence over the well-being of people suffering from rare diseases.
  The FDA Imitates Backwards Europe on Drug Regulations 

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• Sadly, this pattern of arrogance by cosmologists is not new. It has grated on my nerves since my first interview with a cosmologist in 1995, when she got insulted and huffy because I dared ask her some tough questions. This arrogance has gotten so bad that in 2022 24 scientists signed a petition protesting the censorship of their work for questioning the Big Bang theory.
  Cosmologists: “We are STILL right! Dark energy does exist!”
  
• Evidence of supernova remnant near the center of the Milky Way?
  Evidence of supernova remnant near the center of the Milky Way?

  FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY

• ED’s OCR determined in April 2026 that the districts allegedly violated Title IX by allowing male students to use female restrooms, locker rooms, and changing rooms.
  Several Kansas School Districts Face Losing Federal Funds over Allegedly Allowing Boys in Girls’ Bathrooms, Locker Rooms
  
• I wonder if the revolutionaries could have seen what France would become, how many would have stopped the Reign of Terror from ever happening, throwing their own necks into the guillotine. What happened in 1793 is happening again in 2026, just with a new coat of paint and a different slogan.
  Let Them Eat Dick-Shaped Cake

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• America hasn’t “fully reckoned with its racist past and its original founding sin of slavery.”
  Ali Velshi’s ‘Deep Unease’ Over America at 250Velshi, sounds like a digestive disease among swine. Nothing about Islam's 1500-year ongoing sin of global bloodletting.
  
• Christian Toto: Far-left activist finally mentions Nazi tattoo fan, twists truth in craziest way
  Kimmel’s Graham Platner Joke Proves Trump Broke His Brain
  
• ...Individualism and liberty itself are an anathema to the demons, for it is not groups, governments, or nations that are saved; “only individuals can be saved or damned.” It is often said that “idle hands are the devil’s workshop,” but ignorance and relativism are the devil’s fertile fields.
  C.S. Lewis Warned Us That Dark Forces Would Distort the Meaning of 'Democracy' and 'Equality'

  HITHER & YON

• What if UAP sightings and alien abduction accounts aren’t evidence of extraterrestrial life, but of supernatural life?
  The Hype About Aliens, UAPs, And ‘Disclosure’ Isn’t What It Appears To Be

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