Uh-oh. Trump on Truth Social posted about the “real agreement”.

All U.S. Ships, Aircraft, and Military Personnel, with additional Ammunition, Weaponry, and anything else that is appropriate and necessary for the lethal prosecution and destruction of an already substantially degraded Enemy, will remain in place in, and around, Iran, until such time as the REAL AGREEMENT reached is fully complied with. If for any reason it is not, which is highly unlikely, then the “Shootin’ Starts,” bigger, and better, and stronger than anyone has ever seen before.

It was agreed, a long time ago, and despite all of the fake rhetoric to the contrary - NO NUCLEAR WEAPONS and, the Strait of Hormuz WILL BE OPEN & SAFE. In the meantime our great Military is Loading Up and Resting, looking forward, actually, to its next Conquest. AMERICA IS BACK!

I removed the Guardian update and made it 100% Trump but I edited it to be two paragraphs.

maybe don’t give tech companies data about your deepest desires

But what if I want my life to be an episode of Black Mirror?

‘It’s a war with no rules’: Lebanese Red Cross president makes call for blood donations - Al Jazeera update

“It’s a nightmare, a nightmare,” Antoine Zoghbi, president of the Lebanese Red Cross, said, shaking his head in disbelief in his office in the Hotel-Dieu de France Hospital in Beirut, on the night of Israel’s most devastating attack on Lebanon since the start of this latest war in early March. “It’s different today because they struck without warning,” Zoghbi told Al Jazeera.

“They struck many regions at the same time. And they struck hard to cause harm, to inflict pain. Pain, pain, pain. It’s a war with no rules. It’s a war with no limits,” he said. The Lebanese Red Cross are the sole supplier of blood banks to hospitals in Lebanon, and the organisation has made an open call for blood donations. Blood supplies are direly needed after Israel’s heavy strikes on Wednesday, which killed hundreds, particularly in hospitals overwhelmed with patients.

Many people acted quickly to donate blood shortly after the attacks, according to Zoghbi. “Whenever there is a crisis, the Lebanese people stand together,” he said.

I found this in a Bluesky thread about Trump being emo.

Cut my Strait into pieces. This is my last transport.
Suffocation, no petro

REMEMBER GREENLAND.

Remember the Alamo.

THAT BIG, POORLY RUN, PIECE OF ICE!!!

That really makes me laugh. What a nutjob Trump is.

“Mr. President, the average price of gas has reached 10 dollars. What’s your comment?”

“10 is the new 3. High so low - low-low-low-low-low. When it gets to 11 - even lower. Much low-low-low-low-low-low-low-lower.”

I think as Trump’s ultimatum got closer - at any cost - he wanted a “win” and he didn’t want to look weak. The people around him are not only yes men but evil and greedy too. Chaos with timed events is to their great benefit. They timed their prediction market bets for maximum profit after they all told Trump “Mr. President this is a fantastic deal! You are a genius negotiator!”

I tried to read the Substack post but it seemed it wasn’t going to be funny at all. Instead it seems to be 1,000s of words spinning in a gyre of pointlessness.

When you say “Trump would resign,” the immediate reaction is likely to be, “yeah, but he won’t, so what’s the point?”

It’s true that Trump is very unlikely to willingly step down. But calls for resignation can be powerful in themselves if repeated consistently and forcefully…

Also - “very unlikely”? I actually feel more pity than anger at the writer. Libs will do anything other than going to therapy even considering radical action.

Trump threatens 50% tariffs on countries supplying Iran with weapons - Al Jazeera update

Trump says imports from countries supplying Iran with military weapons will face immediate 50 percent tariffs with no exemptions, threatening the new duties just hours after agreeing to a two-week ceasefire with Tehran.

“A Country supplying Military Weapons to Iran will be immediately tariffed, on any and all goods sold to the United States of America, 50%, effective immediately, There will be no exclusions or exemptions! President DJT,” Trump wrote on social media, without naming any countries. China and Russia have helped Iran build military capacity to counter US and Israeli pressure, ‌supplying missiles, air defence systems and dual-use technologies intended to bolster deterrence.

Both Beijing and Moscow have denied supplying any weapons recently, although allegations against Russia have persisted.

Israelis celebrate end of ceasefire and mimouna holiday - AP update

Israelis marked the Moroccan Jewish holiday of Mimouna, which celebrates the end of Passover, on Wednesday night without worrying about running for cover from of Iranian missiles for the first time in a month and a half. In the southern resort city of Eilat, a local bar served the traditional fried foods, including the fried dough of mufleta, while wearing Moroccan inspired garb.

Tair Elkaim, a 27-year-old personal trainer visiting from Netanya said:

“I feel like I can finally go out and celebrate, it’s hard to celebrate anything during the war. I feel more relaxed and happy, but also I’m sad about the families broken up by this war.”

Avi Zion, 30, a municipality worker from Jerusalem, said he was looking forward to returning to his routine and finally sending his kids back to school.

“I’m really happy there’s a ceasefire and we’re here to celebrate this feeling of release.”

Vice President JD Vance said Wednesday there have been three different 10-point proposals, which has contributed to confusion about what’s forming the basis of negotiations. - CNN update

“The first 10-point proposal was something that was submitted, and we think, frankly, was probably written by ChatGPT, that was submitted to Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner that immediately went in the garbage and was rejected,” Vance told reporters as he was leaving Hungary.

“There was a second 10-point proposal that was much more reasonable that was based on some back and forth between us, between the Pakistanis and between the Iranians. That is the 10-point proposal that the president was referencing in his Truth yesterday,” Vance added.

He criticized a third 10-point proposal that he said he’s seen on social media as “even more maximalist” than the first. That initial proposal was put forward by “little more than a random yahoo in Iran,” Vance said, as he lashed out at the media for its coverage of it.

But that statement — which said Iran achieved a great victory and forced the United States to accept its 10-point plan as a basis for negotiations — was obtained by CNN from Iranian officials and reported on by multiple Iranian state media outlets.

Even amid continued confusion on Wednesday about the terms of the cease-fire, investors welcomed the broader signal of de-escalation between Iran and the United States. - NYT update

Stocks rose around the world, sovereign bond yields fell — particularly in Europe — and the dollar weakened. The S&P 500 rose 2.5 percent. The Stoxx 600 index, a broad European index, bounced 3.9 percent, and stocks in Asia posted big gains.

US has violated three clauses of ceasefire deal, says Iran’s parliament speaker - Guardian update

Earlier, Iran’s powerful parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said that three key clauses of the hours-old ceasefire had been violated ahead of planned negotiations, and described further talks as “unreasonable”. In a statement on X, Ghalibaf said Iran’s “deep historical distrust” toward the US stems from its “repeated violations of all forms of commitments — a pattern that has regrettably been repeated once again”.

He noted that Donald Trump had described Iran’s proposal as a “workable basis on which to negotiate” and the main framework for these talks” (which Trump did say on Truth Social, but the White House attempted to walk that back earlier).

The three violations, Ghalibaf said, were:

• Non-compliance with the first clause of the 10-point proposal regarding the ceasefire in Lebanon – a commitment which Pakistan’s prime minister Shehbaz Sharif has also explicitly referred to and declared as “an immediate ceasefire everywhere, including Lebanon and other regions, effective immediately”.

• The entry of an intruding drone into Iran’s airspace, which was destroyed in Lar, “in clear violation of the clause prohibiting any further violation of Iranian airspace”.

• Denial of Iran’s right to enrichment, which was included in the sixth clause of the framework.

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Serious question - what do you think will happen in the next week or so? And beyond too.

The scale of killing amid Israel’s strikes on Lebanon is “horrific”, UN high commissioner for human rights, Volker Türk, has said. – Guardian update

[He urged] the international community to “bring an end to this nightmare”. At least 112 people were killed and 837 more wounded on Wednesday, according to the latest Lebanese health ministry toll.

The scale of the killing and destruction in Lebanon today is nothing short of horrific. Such carnage, within hours of agreeing to a ceasefire with Iran, defies belief.

Türk also deplored Hezbollah’s missile and drone attacks on northern Israel, and urged both parties to stop, immediately.

If Trump pulls out of NATO, and Europe turns around and says they will be buying their weapons elsewhere, the MIC might have some words for Trump.

A Business Plot 2.0 would be pretty funny. Also - Smedley heh.

Business Plot

The Business Plot, also called the Wall Street Putsch and the White House Putsch, was a political conspiracy in 1933 in the United States to overthrow the government of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and install [retired Major General] Smedley Butler as dictator.

I know Trump isn’t able to leave NATO by just doing his accordion hands and saying “The US has withdrawn from NATO.” But how easy or hard is it for Trump to functionally make the US a sort of non-partner?

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I keep googling and the “best” results are like this.

Could Trump simply withdraw such a vast panoply of armed backing?

It appears complicated. Legislation passed in 2024 prevents a US president withdrawing the US from Nato without a two-thirds Senate majority or an act of Congress. But Trump has shown himself willing to flout existing legislation to bypass Congress – for example, by attacking Iran without seeking congressional approval, as the 1973 War Powers Act says he must.

And there are hostile actions Trump could take short of outright withdrawal. Ivo Daalder, the Obama administration’s ambassador to Nato, has suggested a scenario in which Trump could withdraw all US troops and pull US officers from the command structure – all while saying he is within the terms of article 5, but not providing any military support.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/01/trump-nato-explainer

Hezbollah [issued] a statement telling the hundreds of thousands of displaced people not to return home immediately because Israel was still attacking in the country. - NYT update.

In a statement carried by Hezbollah’s official Al-Manar broadcaster, the group urged people to wait for “the official and final cease-fire announcement in Lebanon.” While the United States, Israel and Iran have agreed to a truce, Israel says it is continuing to strike in Lebanon, part of a broader ground invasion against Hezbollah. Nonetheless, Hezbollah said, “Today, we stand on the threshold of a great historical victory.”

I bet OpenAI can do a countdown to zero - if you give it your bank info.

The Israelis played a video for Trump? Hmm. Did it feature this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpakk_RgKAQ

I got my colors mixed up. Norway is the same as the US, etc.