1 Apr, 2025 14:28

Iran addresses Trump bombing threat at UN Security Council

Tehran has urged international action against the US president’s “reckless and belligerent” remarks

Iran has lodged a formal complaint with the United Nations Security Council over US President Donald Trump’s threats of military action, branding his remarks “reckless and belligerent.”

Trump recently threatened Iran with bombing strikes “the likes of which it has never seen” if it does not accept a nuclear deal. The Iranian leadership condemned the statement and vowed retaliation if attacked.

In a letter to the Security Council on Monday, Iranian UN Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani accused the US of committing an “egregious violation of international law.”

Tehran “strongly warns against any military adventurism and will respond swiftly and decisively to any act of aggression or attack by the United States or its proxy, the Israeli regime, against its sovereignty, territorial integrity, or national interests,” the letter read.

The document also urged the international body to “fulfil its responsibility under the UN Charter to maintain international peace and security”and to “unequivocally condemn” the US threats.(that’s not gonna happen)

In an interview with NBC News on Sunday, Trump threatened to attack Iran if it does not accept a deal to wind down its nuclear program.

“If they don’t make a deal there will be bombing. And it will be bombing the likes of which they have never seen before,” he was quoted as saying.

The escalating rhetoric follows years of tension over Tehran’s nuclear program. During his first presidential term, Trump unilaterally withdrew from the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), an international agreement to scale down the Iranian nuclear program in return for the easing of international sanctions.

Following the US withdrawal and resumed sanctions, Iran reportedly reduced its compliance with the agreement.

International Atomic Energy Agency head Rafael Grossi said in December that Iran was ramping up its enrichment of uranium to 60% purity and expressed concern. The material needs to be around 90% enriched to be considered weapons-grade.

Iran has long insisted that its nuclear program is peaceful and legal under “international frameworks.”

In early March, Trump said he sent a letter to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei suggesting that talks on the deal be resumed and specifying that he was giving Iran two months to comply.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian responded by calling on Washington to first rebuild trust with Tehran. During a cabinet meeting on Sunday, Pezeshkian refused direct talks but said “the path of indirect negotiations is open.”

https://www.rt.com/news/615097-iran-trump-threat-un-security-council/

(Sometimes I get the feeling that Trump has been speaking with Iran since he got in office, and they agreed to have a nasty public fight so that when it’s done, both sides are heroes in the countries.What do you think that anons?Russia is friendly with Iran, so if Trump and Iran hasn’t worked this out, it wouldn’t surprise me if the “indirect negotiations” may be going through Putin, if necessary.)

Randy Fine already won in FL

Apr 1, 2025, 7:46 PM

Select a county: Tallahassee

2025 Fla. UNEXPIRED TERM Special General

U.S. HouseAP logo estimates 83% of votes counted

Randy Fine wins. AP race call at 7:30 p.m. on April 1, 2025.

Candidate votes pct.

Randy FineGOP 89,428 54.1%

Josh Weil Dem 74,678 45.2%

Andrew Parrott Lib 641 0.4%

Randall Terry NPA 490 0.3%

Updated

Apr 1, 2025, 7:48 PM

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/live-results-florida-special-elections-to-replace-gaetz-and-waltz

Brand New Video, Elon on The Five

Elon Musk urges authorities to go after the 'generals' in Tesla attacks

DOGE leader Elon Musk discusses the Wisconsin Supreme Court race, stopping fraud and Tesla protests on 'The Five.'

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https://youtu.be/LQLZTIIW5ug

Man charged in Colorado Tesla firebomb attack denies trying to ‘run’ from feds

By Andy Rose, CNN Tue April 1, 2025 CNN —

A Colorado man facing two federal felony charges for allegedly firebombing a Tesla dealership denies a suggestion from the US Attorney General that he was trying to “run” from authorities.

Cooper Frederick, 24, of Fort Collins, is charged with possession of an unregistered destructive device and malicious attempted destruction of property in the March 7 attackon Tesla property in Loveland, Colorado.

“An incendiary device was ignited and thrown at the Tesla building, landing between two vehicles,” the Loveland Police Department said in a news release. “Several people inside, who were cleaning the building, were put at risk; however, our responding officer quickly extinguished the fire, preventing further harm.”

Multiple Tesla locations around the country have been attacked in recent weeks with gunfire and Molotov cocktails, law enforcement agencies report.

The Trump administration is calling those incidents “domestic terrorism” intended to intimidate White House adviser Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla.

Frederick was arrested March 13 on state charges in the Colorado case,charged with multiple felonies and released on bond the following day, Larimer County jail records show. He was arrested March 28 in Plano, Texas, on federal charges.

“Let this be a warning. You can run, but you cannot hide,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a video statement posted to X Monday night.

Frederick’s attorney called Bondi’s suggestion that Frederick was on the run a “material misrepresentation” of the case.

“Mr. Frederick lived in Colorado until March 19 when the decision was made for him to move home to Texas to live with his parents,”attorney Kelly Page told CNN. “Despite the insinuation by Ms. Bondi that Mr. Frederick fled and was apprehended in Texas, DOJ was notified of this move by counsel, and Mr. Frederick remained fully cooperative with the courts and the investigation until he was arrested on the warrant at his home in Texas.”

The Justice Department has mounted a furious response to the attacks on Tesla, launching an FBI task force, promising that attackers would face federal charges and suggesting there would be no plea bargains.

“All of these cases are a serious threat to public safety. Therefore, there will be no negotiating,” Bondi said Monday. “We are seeking 20 years in prison.”

Frederick has not yet entered a plea in the case and is currently in federal custody without bond. A hearing in the federal case had not yet been set in Colorado as of Tuesday.

“We are still in the process of gathering information and facts about the allegations and will rely on the professionalism of the U.S. Attorney in our district to treat Mr. Frederick fairly despite the recent inflammatory press statements from Washington, D.C.,” Page said. “We intend to litigate this case in court, like any other federal criminal matter, and not in the media.”

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/01/us/tesla-firebomb-attack-colorado-man-arrest/index.html

The Democrats and leftists are ruining young people's lives with the propaganda. He's 24 and may get 20 years in jail, that is horrible.

Trump administration suspends several dozen grants to Princeton

Christopher Bao and Cynthia Torres April 1, 2025 | 12:12pm EDT

The Trump administration has suspended several dozen research grants to Princeton, University President Christopher Eisgruber’83 wrote in a campus-wide email on Tuesday.The grants were issued from several federal agencies, including the Department of Energy, NASA, and the Defense Department.

The exact amount in question and the reasoning for the pause itself are unclear, and Eisgruber acknowledged only the latter in his statement. But the Daily Caller, a right-wing news organization,reported last night that the government would halt $210 million in federal funding to Princeton due to an ongoing investigation of antisemitism on campus, citing an anonymous Trump official.

“Princeton University will comply with the law. We are committed to fighting antisemitism and all forms of discrimination, and we will cooperate with the government in combating antisemitism. Princeton will alsovigorously defend academic freedom and the due process rightsof this University,” Eisgruber’s email read. It also said that the University had been notified of the suspensions yesterday and today. (He shouldn’t insinuate that the Trump Admin is not upholding due process rights.)

This pause comes on the heels of recent pauses or cuts to funding at Harvard, Penn, and Columbia. The government also announced yesterday that it would review more than $8 billion in grants at Harvard as part of a federal task force on antisemitism. According to anadministration official said that the funds would be pausedwhile the Department of Education continues to investigate Princeton for allegations of antisemitism under Title VI.The investigation dates back to last April, when Zachary Marschall, the editor-in-chief of the conservative website Campus Reform,filed antisemitism complaints with the Department of Educationagainst Princeton and at least a dozen other universities. Marschall does not have any Princeton affiliation.

Marschall’s complaint cites several instances of alleged antisemitism during the pro-Palestine protests of last year. The complaint includes, among other events,chants from an Oct. 25 walkout, including “Brick by brick, wall by wall, apartheid has got to fall” and calls for “intifada.”

The amount paused reported by the Daily Callerwould represent nearly half of Princeton’s government funding pool. The University received $455 million in grants and contracts from government sources in the 2024 fiscal year.

Eisgruber has been unusually outspoken about the Trump administration’s threatsto federal university funding, taking to thepages of the Atlanticearlier this month tocriticize the cancellation of $400 million in grants to Columbia University. He reiterated the importance of academic freedom in alater interview to PBSand warned about making concessions to the government, saying that “once you make concessions once, it's hard not to make them again.”

Until now,Princeton had received less national scrutiny than many of its peer institutions, especially for its actions during the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment.” The University has not seen any significant high-level administrative turnover in the past year and a half, with Eisgruber being the second longest-serving president in the Ivy League.

Butlast week, the University announced it would freeze most faculty hiring and avoid staff growth, a sign that the University perceives that funding threats from the federal government could significantly disrupt its usual operations.

In a rare statement yesterday directly from its board of directors, which Eisgruber chairs, theAmerican Association of Universities (AAU) condemned the “withdrawal of research funding for reasons unrelated to research.”The statement did not address the case of any specific school, but the AAU broadly represents a coalition of 70 research universities.

“We urge the administration and Congress … to work through the established Department of Education and Department of Justice procedures for investigating allegations of discrimination,” the statement read. “Following these established procedures is the best way to ensure accountability by universities and to preserve our nation’s place as the global leader in science and innovation.”

https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025/04/princeton-news-adpol-federal-government-trump-administration-funding-pause-antisemitism-investigation

Pentagon Eliminates Lower Fitness Standards for Women in Combat Roles

Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, mandated that physical fitness requirements for combat jobs be “sex-neutral,” a move that is likely to significantly reduce the number of women who qualify.

By Chris Cameron Reporting from Washington April 1, 2025, 12:18 a.m. ET

The Pentagon this week ordered the elimination of lower physical fitness standards for women in combat units, a move that is likely to hinder the recruitment and retention of women in particularly dangerous military jobs.

An order by Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, dated Sunday and announced on Monday, mandated that all physical fitness requirements for combat arms positions — units likely to see significant fighting in wartime — be “sex-neutral,” which is likely to significantly reduce the number of women who meet the requirements. The order directs military leadership to implement the new fitness standards by the end of October.

The U.S. military has fiercely debated the issue of how to fairly grade women’s physical fitness in testing to determine their placement into physically demanding combat jobs and their advancement in leadership roles.

After years of internal deliberation over new annual fitness tests, the Army eased the grading standards for women and older service members in 2022. A study by the RAND research corporation published that year found that women and older troops were failing the new test at significantly higher rates than men and younger troops.

Other branches of the military have also had different fitness test standards for men and women. For example, the Marines have a strength test for all recruits: Men must complete three pull-ups or 34 push-ups in under two minutes. Women must complete one pull-up or 15 push-ups in the same time frame.

Those gender-specific standards will remain for some military jobs, Mr. Hegseth said in a statement accompanying the order. But he argued thatwomen should not be allowed in combat units if they could not meet the same fitness standards as men.

Mr. Hegseth has previously opposed the inclusion of women in combat jobs like the infantry, artillery, tank crews and special forces, writing in a recent book that “women cannot physically meet the same standards as men.” He later backtracked on that stance, saying in December that “if we have the right standard and women meet that standard, roger, let’s go.”

The struggle over the fitness tests began after the military removed some of the last barriers segregating the genders in the armed forces, opening all combat jobs to women in 2015. (Obama Of Course, "I will fundamentally change America to a weak and fragile country that cannot protect itself!")

As women pushed to break new ground and advance into elite combat roles, such as the infantry officer corps and special forces, questions arose over whether women should be held to a different fitness standard to ensure the roles were accessible to them.The most elite jobs, such as the Army Rangers and Navy SEALS, have always mandated equal standards for men and women.

In an early, limited rollout of theArmy’s new fitness test, 65 percent of a small set of women failed, while 10 percent of men did. The later independent review by RAND produced similar results: Nearly half of enlisted women in the Army failed the test, while less than 10 percent of their male counterparts did. (How small is the set of women?)

Maj. Kristen Griest, the first woman Army infantry officer and one of the first two women to graduate from Army Ranger School, wrote an opinion article published in 2021 by The Modern War Institute at West Point thatcalled for gender-neutral fitness testing standards. She argued that lower standards for women “reinforce the belief that women cannot perform the same job as men, therefore making it difficult for women to earn the trust and confidence of their teammates.” (Oh so she’s the one that started this bullshit, sorry but women cannot some of the same jobs as men, they don’t have muscles mass or other things that make men men. The NYTs knows that their stance is BS.)

https://archive.is/YcTqh#selection-333.0-756.0

Jimmy Patronis the Republican won in FL

2025 Fla. UNEXPIRED TERM Special General

U.S. House

AP logoestimates 97% of votes counted

Jimmy Patronis wins. AP race call at 8:20 p.m. on April 1, 2025.

Candidate votes pct.

Jimmy PatronisGOP, 96,087 57.0%

Gay Valimont Dem 71,146 42.2%

Stephen Broden,NPA 1,359 0.8%

Updated Apr 1, 2025, 8:48 PM

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/live-results-florida-special-elections-to-replace-gaetz-and-waltz