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The Potemkin Superpower: How The New York Times Confused Iran’s Death Throes for "Confidence" (opens the original)
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On September 4, 2026, The New York Times published a front-page intelligence assessment by Julian E. Barnes and Dustin Volz entitled A More Confident Iran Emerges After Six Months of War With the U.S. Quoting intelligence committee lawmakers and anonymous national security officials, the piece wove a narrative of a resilient, emboldened clerical regime... Iranians are supposedly “feeling pretty bullish” (Rep. Jason Crow), hold “maximum leverage” (Rep. Josh Gottheimer), enjoy a “more united” lead
The Government Knew (opens the original)
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They told you to trust the system. They ordered you… ordered you… to trust an election system their own files describe as penetrated, exposed, and unpoliced. President Trump handed the country five documented failures, recorded by the government’s own agencies, all running through one election system. And behind those five sits a sixth… the big one… the years-long effort to make sure you never got to see the whole picture. They almost pulled it off. Almost....Read the files the way a grand jury
At America’s 250th Birthday, the Mayor of New York Read the Country Its Charges (opens the original)
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On July 3rd, 2026, Zohran Mamdani sat behind George Washington’s desk and used the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence to indict the nation that document created. The words are his. Read them plainly and the speech is a prosecution of America, delivered from the desk of the man who freed it.He called federal officers terrorists. His words… “We see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by our undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans.”
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