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Andrew Roth and Patrick Wintour at The Guardian:

Donald Trump has signed a 14-point agreement with Iran, claiming it delivered a “major win” for the United States – even as it made significant political and financial concessions to Iran to reopen the strait of Hormuz and prevent a “worldwide depression”. In extraordinary remarks on Wednesday, Donald Trump went from threatening Iran with a new wave of attacks to suggesting the country had basic rights to enrich uranium for civilian use, that he would not pressure Tehran to abandon its ballistic missiles programme and the US was “going to have to give back” billions of dollars in frozen Iranian assets.

Those remarks, as well as the full text of the agreement – which was hailed by the Hezbollah chief, Naim Qassem, as a “great victory” – are likely to fuel anger in Israel and among hardliners in the Republican party who had urged Trump not to make a deal with Tehran. Iran’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, signed the agreement on Wednesday from Tehran. The US vice-president, JD Vance, is also expected to sign the deal at a more formal ceremony in Geneva on Friday. Iran’s chief negotiator, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, said: “The agreement is a record of US failure. People will see it and judge.” Defending the deal, Trump said no US president had ever been as tough on Iran as him, and “there is nothing as smart as the market – and the market loves it”. Trump said that “the alternative would be a worldwide depression”, arguing that if he had not struck a deal, “the strait [of Hormuz] would never have been opened. They don’t like floating billion-dollar ships up and down the strait when their rockets are flying overhead and there are mines all over the place.” Senior administration officials said the deal would help prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, pointing to an agreement to discuss down-blending its 440kg stockpile of highly enriched uranium, which could be further enriched for use in a nuclear weapon. Trump has said he was open to the stockpile being diluted inside Iran under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

The Trump administration had delayed the release of the full text of the memorandum of understanding, which is essentially a 60-day ceasefire agreement, in order to hold more comprehensive nuclear and permanent peace talks with Iran. The 14-point plan was dictated to journalists during a background briefing by senior administration officials as Trump spoke at the end of the G7. The deal would provide important financial incentives to Iran, including the immediate lifting of a US naval blockade on Iranian ports and the issuance of waivers for Iranian crude oil to be shipped abroad, as well as the potential lifting of all international sanctions against Iran, the unfreezing of billions of dollars in Iranian assets, and plans to develop a $300bn (£224bn) reconstruction fund for Iran funded by regional partners in the Gulf.

Trump angrily rejected suggestions that the US would be contributing to the $300bn fund, instead saying payouts by Gulf states were likely to be conditional on Iran’s good behaviour. “Anyone who wants to can invest. What do you expect me to say: no one is allowed to invest? But we’re not investing; we’re not putting up even 10 cents,” he said. The ceasefire deal included Lebanon, a key Iranian demand, which would restrain Israel from conducting military operations in the country, according to a senior administration official. It also included a clause ensuring the “territorial integrity” of Lebanon, although an administration official when asked did not confirm that meant Israel would be forced to withdraw from the swathe of the country it has occupied as a “buffer zone” against Hezbollah.

In return, Iran would agree to restrain its foreign allies including Hezbollah in Lebanon, and “reaffirms that it shall not procure or develop nuclear weapons”. The agreement would also allow the toll-free passage of ships for 60 days through the strait of Hormuz, but on Wednesday Ghalibaf said Iran would charge ships travelling through the waterway at the end of the period stipulated in the memorandum of understanding.

The new Iran “deal” signed by Trump is a massive downgrade from the Obama JCPOA Iran Deal that he tore up out of spite and a massive giveaway to the despotic Iranian regime.

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Jack Wheatley at MMFA:

Right-wing media figures are split on Nick Fuentes, a white nationalist streamer and Holocaust denier who has recently achieved growing influence in Republican politics and within the right-wing media landscape. Following a slew of appearances on right-wing and right-leaning online shows in 2025, Fuentes has continued to appear in such venues this year, earning millions of views via at least 25 appearances alongside at least 13 influencers. Some right-wing and right-leaning influencers and hosts have praised Fuentes this year, touting his rhetorical skills and “aura,” while others have criticized him and his commentary, calling him a “nutjob” and a “raging racist.”

Fuentes and his rhetoric are gaining popularity amid a fractured media environment

Fuentes is known for peddling extreme white nationalism, Holocaust denial, and misogyny. He has called Jewish people “money changers, bullshit artists, psychopaths, charlatans, grifters, manipulators” and stated that “Blacks need to be imprisoned for the most part.” Yet right-wing media figures and conservative lawmakers have increasingly adopted some of the extreme rhetoric and policy ideas Fuentes is known for.

Fuentes’ popularity online appeared to accelerate in 2025, when he appeared as a guest on numerous online shows viewed millions of times. Skipping over legacy right-wing media spaces like Fox News and Newsmax, he appeared instead on right-leaning online shows, including those hosted by Tucker Carlson, Patrick Bet-David, and Glenn Greenwald. Fuentes has also appeared with “manosphere” streamers including Adin Ross, Sneako, and the Nelk Boys, who offered him the chance to exchange friendly banter before their audiences of predominantly young men. According to Media Matters’ research, from June to December of 2025, Fuentes added nearly 450,000 followers on his Rumble channel, a roughly 300% increase from 150,000 followers to nearly 600,000. Amid these appearances and growth, Fuentes bragged that he had become “ubiquitous” on the right, celebrating “how the Overton window has been shattered” and “how far we’ve come in a year and a half … how similar to me they all sound.”

Fuentes’ appearances on right-wing and right-leaning online shows and streams have continued into 2026

This year, Fuentes has appeared at least 25 times on right-wing and right-leaning online shows and streams alongside at least 13 different influencers and media figures: Joel Webbon, Alex Jones, Tim Pool, Elijah Schaffer, Jake Shields, Steven Crowder, Dave Smith, Andrew Tate, Sneako, Clavicular, Myron Gaines, Keith Woods, and Bradley Martyn.

Jacob Ogles at The Advocate:

A friendly message created by a gay-straight alliance has angered anti-LGBTQ+ activists, who are now calling for Massachusetts educators to be fired. A Facebook message by conservative activist Lynne Turner takes issue with a bulletin board display at Dartmouth High School that reads “Have a Gay Summer” and is posted on rainbow-colored construction paper. “This is NOT ok. It needs to be removed and an apology needs to be made to the children and parents of Dartmouth kids,” Turner posted. “Schools are supposed to educate and prepare students for successful careers, as well as give them skills for life. DHS, pushing gay ideology on our youth is NOT your place!!!” The display also includes a pair of rainbow flags and images of historic LGBTQ leaders, including Harvey Milk and Marsha P. Johnson.

Turner said she contacted the school administration and superintendent’s office, and eventually spoke with principal Ryan O’Shea, who said the display was created by students in the Gay-Straight Alliance on campus. Turner said she considered the message “grooming.” “This message is NOT inclusive, it is suggesting their gay orientation for everyone, or for "gay" acts to occur over summer,” Turner posted. But O’Shea, according to Turner, said he doubts anyone walking by the display will want to become gay as a result. He said the display was created under the supervision of an adult educator but contained only positive messages. The Advocate has reached out to Dartmouth High and Dartmouth Public Schools for comment. After Turner posted the message online, it was shared by other anti-LGBTQ activists across the country, most notably by Libs of TikTok, a far-right account that has led online harassment campaigns against the families of slain ICE protesters Alex Pretti and Renee Good, doxxed gay educators, and attacked trans athletes participating in sports.

Right=wing anti-LGBTQ+ extremist killjoys such as Libs of TikTok rage over a “Have A Gay Summer” bulletin board piece at Dartmouth High School in Dartmouth, MA by their Gay-Straight Alliance. 🏳️‍🌈

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Greg Owen at LGBTQ Nation:

The Trump administration took the next step in its attack on gender-affirming care for trans youth on Wednesday, filing a lawsuit against the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), the leading global organization focused on transgender health and the primary developer of clinical guidelines for gender-affirming medicine. The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, follows an earlier Federal Trade Commission (FTC) investigation of WPATH over the same claims in the lawsuit, which accuses the 46-year-old organization of defrauding parents for the financial benefit of health care professionals.

The FTC, which is not a medical regulator, brought the suit, joined by Republican attorneys general in Texas, Iowa, Nebraska, and Alaska. “Today, the FTC filed a lawsuit against WPATH alleging that the organization made false and unsubstantiated claims regarding the necessity, effectiveness and safety of puberty blockers, hormones and sex-change surgeries,” said FTC Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson in a statement announcing the filing.

WPATH “has provided the means for medical providers to make false and unsubstantiated claims to parents in order to sell pediatric medical transition services,” the FTC alleges.

Ken Paxton, a MAGA loyalist who was endorsed by President Donald Trump in his bid for a U.S. Senate seat, signed on to the suit in his role as that state’s attorney general. “Any group that illegally promotes irreversible, life-altering ‘transitioning’ procedures to kids as safe and necessary will face the full force of the law for harming children,” Paxton was quoted in the FTC announcement. “We will not allow WPATH or any other organization to illegally promote or perform dangerous ‘transitioning’ procedures on our kids that leave them with permanent trauma and lifelong health consequences.”

Among the complaint’s allegations, the FTC says WPATH deceptively promoted the benefits of “breast amputation” and “penis removal” for trans minors (even though such procedures are almost never performed on minors); failed to disclose the side effects “cross-sex” hormones for minors, including “pelvic pain, clitoral discomfort, vaginal pain, inability to orgasm, incontinence and erectile pain”; and blackmailed parents into the organization’s “profit” scheme by asking whether they “would rather have a live daughter or a dead son,” in the case of gender dysphoria diagnoses for boys. According to the FTC, parents in search of life-saving treatment for their children are dupes in a decades-long grift perpetrated by doctors associated with WPATH and the organization itself. Doctors’ characterization of gender-affirming care as “life-saving” is only a means of forcing insurance companies to pay for the treatments, thereby profiting health care professionals and WPATH, according to the suit.

The Trump Regime’s FTC, along with 4 far-right extremist GOP AGs, sues World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) by baselessly accusing the organization of “blackmailing” parents as part of the Regime’s war on gender-affirming care (and trans people more generally, esp. trans minors).

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