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<\/a><\/p>\nMostafa Salem @ CNN<\/em>: Iran\u2019s \u2018garbage\u2019 peace offering is proof it thinks it has won the war<\/a><\/h2>\nThe United States waited 10 days for Iran\u2019s response to its framework for ending the war. When Tehran\u2019s demands arrived Sunday, they signaled that the Islamic Republic remains intent on extracting victory despite President Donald Trump\u2019s push for regime surrender.<\/p>\n
Neither side has publicly released the exact terms under negotiation, but Iranian state media reported that Tehran sought in its response a complete end to the war, formal recognition of its sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz and full sanctions relief.<\/p>\n
The emboldened demands formed a counterproposal that Trump swiftly rejected. He deemed it \u201ctotally unacceptable\u201d before calling it \u201ca piece of garbage.\u201d<\/p>\n
It remains unclear which specific elements Trump objected to amid the obscurity shrouding the proposal. Iranian state media have consistently framed Tehran\u2019s position throughout the war as one of strength in keeping with the government\u2019s apparent effort to project an Iranian victory to its domestic audience.<\/p>\n
Laurence Norman, Robbie Gramer @ WSJ<\/em>: U.S. and Iran Are Locked in a Stalemate That\u2019s Neither Peace nor War<\/a><\/h2>\nThe two sides are far apart from a deal but also don\u2019t want to resume fighting<\/em>
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Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – May 12, 2026<\/a><\/h2>\nThe biggest story in the country, today and always, is that the president of the United States is mentally unwell.<\/p>\n
Over the course of three hours last night, he posted on social media fifty-five times. Those posts accused a number of those Trump considers his personal enemies, including former president Barack Obama, of treason; claimed that investigations of the ties between his 2016 campaign and Russian operatives were an attempt to damage Trump; insisted the 2020 presidential election was stolen; reposted a fake quotation from Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) accusing Obama of making a personal fortune of $120 million from the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare; labeled Obama and others \u201ctraitors\u201d and called for their arrest; and demanded to know why acting attorney general Todd Blanche hadn\u2019t indicted any of those people yet.<\/p>\n
This morning, he started in again with a long screed attacking the New York Times<\/em> …
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Julian Gewirtz @ NY Times<\/em>: Xi Has Trump Right Where He Wants Him<\/a><\/h2>\nWhen President Trump imposed<\/a> 145 percent tariffs on China a year ago, Chinese state media urged the public to revisit a nearly 90-year-old essay by Mao Zedong. The Beijing Daily<\/a> declared that the text was essential to understanding China\u2019s responses to the \u201cchaotic\u201d attacks of the United States and why China will ultimately achieve a \u201cfinal victory\u201d against its geopolitical rival.<\/p>\nThis required reading was Mao\u2019s \u201cOn Protracted War<\/a>,\u201d a 1938 tract laying out his strategy for defeating the Japanese forces that had invaded China. At its core, it is a meditation on how China can come from behind in a life-or-death contest against a stronger adversary.<\/p>\nPresident Xi Jinping has praised<\/a> the strategic foresight, discipline and patience espoused by Mao in the essay, which has emerged as a guiding framework for how China aims to face the United States. He has pointed specifically to Mao\u2019s description of a dynamic, long-term struggle unfolding in three phases: A weaker China initially plays dogged defense, followed by a period of stalemate between equally matched forces, eventually culminating in a powerful, victorious Chinese counteroffensive.<\/p>\nChina\u2019s leaders are through with playing defense and have shifted into Phase 2 of Mao\u2019s theory.
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Chao Deng @ WSJ<\/em>: Inflation Soared to 3.8% in April, Driven by Gasoline Prices<\/a><\/h2>\nConsumer prices rose 3.8% in April from a year earlier, a clear impact of higher gas prices since the start of the war with Iran.<\/p>\n
The figures, reported Tuesday by the Labor Department, surpassed the previous month\u2019s reported increase of 3.3%. Economists polled by The Wall Street Journal had expected inflation of 3.7%. The April increase was the highest in three years.
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Jennifer Rubin: What do you call a weak \u2018strongman\u2019?<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nThese days, Putin does not project the aura of a strongman, as an anonymous Russian writer explains<\/a>:<\/p>\nAs recently as last spring, everything was \u201cwe\u201d and \u201cours\u201d. Mr Putin\u2019s war on Ukraine may be reckless and failing, but it was shared. \u201cWe\u201d were inside it, and it would be better for all of \u201cus\u201d if it ended sooner. Now they describe what is happening as \u201chis\u201d story, not \u201cours\u201d. Not our project, not our agenda, not our war.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Ouch.<\/em> When all the Great Leader can offer is \u201crepression, intrusion, and censorship,\u201d the populace drifts away. Putin\u2019s May 9 parade (like Trump\u2019s skimpy birthday party parade in 2025) was downright pitiful. With \u201cno victories to celebrate\u201d and drone strikes forcing Putin to ask for a ceasefire, the parade was \u201cdramatically downgraded,\u201d and the usual display of tanks eliminated, the Wall Street Journal<\/em> reported<\/a>.<\/p>\nNo one can miss the parallels to Donald Trump. With an approval rating in the 30\u2019s<\/a>, overwhelming opposition to his war, his party facing a midterm defeat, and no domestic accomplishments, his Truth Social rants have become even more unhinged. He is a prisoner of his own anger, panic, and desperation. He has started throwing aides overboard as he frantically tries to dispel the stench of failure.<\/p>\nMoreover, both Trump and Putin now appear physically and mentally decrepit. …
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Kyiv Post<\/em>: Zelensky Says Coalition to Return Abducted Ukrainian Children Nears 50 Countries<\/a><\/h2>\nAt a Brussels meeting co-chaired by Ukraine, Canada and EU officials, partners discussed efforts to bring home Ukrainian children abducted by Russia, document crimes and support reintegration. Zelensky urged continued global pressure on Moscow as Switzerland and Cyprus joined the initiative and the UK, Canada and EU announced new sanctions.
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Rook T. Winchester: Cali Overs vs. The Warehouse<\/a><\/h2>\nA high school senior took on a $38 billion detention strategy and made it wobble<\/em><\/p>\nThe warehouse is still standing. It\u2019s still sitting there at the corner of Waddell and Dysart roads, 418,000 square feet of beige industrial nothing, baking in the Arizona sun across the street from a chemical facility full of enough hazardous material to kill everyone within a quarter mile. The Department of Homeland Security still owns it. GardaWorld\u2019s contract is still technically alive.<\/p>\n
But the work has stopped.
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Michele Hornish: Nobody knows what November will look like. So run \u2013 hard \u2013 everywhere<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Chris Caurla @ zeteo<\/em>: Gaza’s Students Face a Near Impossible Test to Study Abroad<\/a><\/h2>\nPalestinians are turning to Duolingo to get the English certification needed to get scholarships. But adhering to the app’s rules has become increasingly difficult after two-and-a-half years of war.<\/em><\/p>\n
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fern @ MSN<\/em>: Bears now roam the Chernobyl dead zone – and the mutations are hard to ignore<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Ed Zitron: Where Are All The Data Centers?<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Ken Klippenstein: New Counterterror Strategy Eyes Tucker Carlson<\/a><\/h2>\nAdministration deems anti-Trump right wingers terrorists<\/em><\/p>\n
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Joseph Cox @ 404 Media<\/em>: ICE Agents Have List of 20 Million People on Their iPhones Thanks to Palantir<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Jonathan Cohn @ Bulwark<\/em>: RFK Jr.\u2019s War on Science Is Really a War on Scientists<\/a><\/h2>\nA unified theory that makes sense of MAHA\u2019s contradictions\u2014and Kennedy\u2019s place in the Trump administration.<\/em><\/p>\n
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Simon Dudley: Hantavirus: Why Low Numbers Can Still Create Big Problems<\/a><\/h2>\nKatelyn Jetelina @ Your Local Epidemiologist: 4 hantavirus updates and other things that can impact your health right now<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Gideon M-K: The Most Persistent Myth About COVID-19<\/a><\/h2>\nSix years on and people are still making this ridiculous claim.<\/p>\n
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The two sides are far apart from a deal but also don\u2019t want to resume fighting<\/em> The biggest story in the country, today and always, is that the president of the United States is mentally unwell.<\/p>\n Over the course of three hours last night, he posted on social media fifty-five times. Those posts accused a number of those Trump considers his personal enemies, including former president Barack Obama, of treason; claimed that investigations of the ties between his 2016 campaign and Russian operatives were an attempt to damage Trump; insisted the 2020 presidential election was stolen; reposted a fake quotation from Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) accusing Obama of making a personal fortune of $120 million from the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare; labeled Obama and others \u201ctraitors\u201d and called for their arrest; and demanded to know why acting attorney general Todd Blanche hadn\u2019t indicted any of those people yet.<\/p>\n This morning, he started in again with a long screed attacking the New York Times<\/em> … When President Trump imposed<\/a> 145 percent tariffs on China a year ago, Chinese state media urged the public to revisit a nearly 90-year-old essay by Mao Zedong. The Beijing Daily<\/a> declared that the text was essential to understanding China\u2019s responses to the \u201cchaotic\u201d attacks of the United States and why China will ultimately achieve a \u201cfinal victory\u201d against its geopolitical rival.<\/p>\n This required reading was Mao\u2019s \u201cOn Protracted War<\/a>,\u201d a 1938 tract laying out his strategy for defeating the Japanese forces that had invaded China. At its core, it is a meditation on how China can come from behind in a life-or-death contest against a stronger adversary.<\/p>\n President Xi Jinping has praised<\/a> the strategic foresight, discipline and patience espoused by Mao in the essay, which has emerged as a guiding framework for how China aims to face the United States. He has pointed specifically to Mao\u2019s description of a dynamic, long-term struggle unfolding in three phases: A weaker China initially plays dogged defense, followed by a period of stalemate between equally matched forces, eventually culminating in a powerful, victorious Chinese counteroffensive.<\/p>\n China\u2019s leaders are through with playing defense and have shifted into Phase 2 of Mao\u2019s theory. Consumer prices rose 3.8% in April from a year earlier, a clear impact of higher gas prices since the start of the war with Iran.<\/p>\n The figures, reported Tuesday by the Labor Department, surpassed the previous month\u2019s reported increase of 3.3%. Economists polled by The Wall Street Journal had expected inflation of 3.7%. The April increase was the highest in three years. … As recently as last spring, everything was \u201cwe\u201d and \u201cours\u201d. Mr Putin\u2019s war on Ukraine may be reckless and failing, but it was shared. \u201cWe\u201d were inside it, and it would be better for all of \u201cus\u201d if it ended sooner. Now they describe what is happening as \u201chis\u201d story, not \u201cours\u201d. Not our project, not our agenda, not our war.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Ouch.<\/em> When all the Great Leader can offer is \u201crepression, intrusion, and censorship,\u201d the populace drifts away. Putin\u2019s May 9 parade (like Trump\u2019s skimpy birthday party parade in 2025) was downright pitiful. With \u201cno victories to celebrate\u201d and drone strikes forcing Putin to ask for a ceasefire, the parade was \u201cdramatically downgraded,\u201d and the usual display of tanks eliminated, the Wall Street Journal<\/em> reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n No one can miss the parallels to Donald Trump. With an approval rating in the 30\u2019s<\/a>, overwhelming opposition to his war, his party facing a midterm defeat, and no domestic accomplishments, his Truth Social rants have become even more unhinged. He is a prisoner of his own anger, panic, and desperation. He has started throwing aides overboard as he frantically tries to dispel the stench of failure.<\/p>\n Moreover, both Trump and Putin now appear physically and mentally decrepit. … At a Brussels meeting co-chaired by Ukraine, Canada and EU officials, partners discussed efforts to bring home Ukrainian children abducted by Russia, document crimes and support reintegration. Zelensky urged continued global pressure on Moscow as Switzerland and Cyprus joined the initiative and the UK, Canada and EU announced new sanctions. A high school senior took on a $38 billion detention strategy and made it wobble<\/em><\/p>\n The warehouse is still standing. It\u2019s still sitting there at the corner of Waddell and Dysart roads, 418,000 square feet of beige industrial nothing, baking in the Arizona sun across the street from a chemical facility full of enough hazardous material to kill everyone within a quarter mile. The Department of Homeland Security still owns it. GardaWorld\u2019s contract is still technically alive.<\/p>\n But the work has stopped. Palestinians are turning to Duolingo to get the English certification needed to get scholarships. But adhering to the app’s rules has become increasingly difficult after two-and-a-half years of war.<\/em><\/p>\n Administration deems anti-Trump right wingers terrorists<\/em><\/p>\n A unified theory that makes sense of MAHA\u2019s contradictions\u2014and Kennedy\u2019s place in the Trump administration.<\/em><\/p>\n Six years on and people are still making this ridiculous claim.<\/p>\n
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Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – May 12, 2026<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nJulian Gewirtz @ NY Times<\/em>: Xi Has Trump Right Where He Wants Him<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n(Julian Gewirtz @ NY Times<\/em> more…)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nChao Deng @ WSJ<\/em>: Inflation Soared to 3.8% in April, Driven by Gasoline Prices<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n(Chao Deng @ WSJ<\/em> more…)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nJennifer Rubin: What do you call a weak \u2018strongman\u2019?<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nThese days, Putin does not project the aura of a strongman, as an anonymous Russian writer explains<\/a>:<\/p>\n
\n(Jennifer Rubin more…)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nKyiv Post<\/em>: Zelensky Says Coalition to Return Abducted Ukrainian Children Nears 50 Countries<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\nRook T. Winchester: Cali Overs vs. The Warehouse<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\nMichele Hornish: Nobody knows what November will look like. So run \u2013 hard \u2013 everywhere<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nChris Caurla @ zeteo<\/em>: Gaza’s Students Face a Near Impossible Test to Study Abroad<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nfern @ MSN<\/em>: Bears now roam the Chernobyl dead zone – and the mutations are hard to ignore<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nEd Zitron: Where Are All The Data Centers?<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nKen Klippenstein: New Counterterror Strategy Eyes Tucker Carlson<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nJoseph Cox @ 404 Media<\/em>: ICE Agents Have List of 20 Million People on Their iPhones Thanks to Palantir<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nJonathan Cohn @ Bulwark<\/em>: RFK Jr.\u2019s War on Science Is Really a War on Scientists<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nSimon Dudley: Hantavirus: Why Low Numbers Can Still Create Big Problems<\/a><\/h2>\n
Katelyn Jetelina @ Your Local Epidemiologist: 4 hantavirus updates and other things that can impact your health right now<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nGideon M-K: The Most Persistent Myth About COVID-19<\/a><\/h2>\n
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