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After the House voted to direct Donald Trump to end the Iran war, he exploded in fury at the four Republicans who turned against him, terming them “grandstanders” who “should be ashamed of themselves.” This comes as The New York Times reports that extensive internal war games among military officials established that Iran would react to an attack by closing the Strait of Hormuz—which Trump ignored. And incredibly, officials just leaked to The Atlantic that Trump is privately “irritated” by commentary casting his emerging framework as weaker than Barack Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal. Trump also wants a way to argue that Iran “accepted terms from him that Obama never managed to extract.” We talked to former National Security Council veteran Emily Horne, author of the Spin Class Substack. We discuss how all those leaks themselves signal Trump’s growing weakness, why his demand for a “better” deal than Obama’s may be hopeless, and whether that leaves us any way out of this fiasco. Listen to this episode here. A transcript is here.

Former Obama adviser Vali Nasr talks to Mehdi about the latest in the U.S. war in Iran and how Lebanon, the Strait of Hormuz, and Israel all fit into the picture.

Amid public funding chaos, post-Helene housing recovery has been slow, uneven and deeply community-driven. Kim Pierce paid $387,000 in cash for the east Asheville townhome she moved into on Monday, Sept. 23, 2024. A divorced mother of six, the 57-year-old moved to the River Knoll community to downsize, slow down from work and spend more [...] The post Uprooted: 18 Months After Helene, Thousands in Western North Carolina Are Still Waiting to Come Home appeared first on DCReport.org.