Sucks To Be You! | DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas

<p>Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM EST. </p><p>Today we discuss:</p><p>• <strong>Trump says that he is not weighing the economic burden</strong> of the Iran war on everyday Americans. Asked to what extent “Americans’ financial situations” were motivating him to make a deal with Iran, he replied: “<strong>Not even a little bit,</strong>” Trump said. “The only thing that matters when I’m talking about Iran — they can’t have a nuclear weapon. I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation. I don’t think about anybody. I think about one thing — we cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon. That’s all.”</p><p>• Secret new assessments say <strong>Iran has operational access to 30 of its 33 missile sites</strong> along the Strait of Hormuz, suggesting that its military remains far stronger than President Trump has asserted. <strong>Iran still fields about 70 percent of its mobile launchers</strong> across the country and has retained roughly 70 percent of its prewar missile stockpile. </p><p>• Dozens of <strong>Gulf citizens have been accused</strong> of belonging to Iran-linked terrorism cells as the war accelerates a shift toward deeper authoritarianism in the region. Shiite religious leaders in Pakistan also estimate that as many as <strong>thousands of Shiite Pakistanis have been deported</strong> from the Emirates since mid-April.</p><p>• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin <strong>Netanyahu's governing coalition may collapse next week</strong>, after one of his key ultra-Orthodox coalition partners called for the parliament to be dissolved. The political crisis comes after Netanyahu told ultra-Orthodox political leaders that he would not advance legislation to <strong>exempt ultra-Orthodox Jewish Israelis</strong> from military service.</p><p>• More than 10,000 times, judges have said <strong>ICE detentions, typically carried out with no opportunity for detainees to plead their case, are illegal</strong>. That’s roughly <strong>90 percent of all cases</strong> — a staggering rejection of a core piece of Trump’s immigration agenda. Presidents’ signature initiatives often end up in court. But this flood of adverse rulings is unique — a never-before-seen reaction to a never-before-seen policy.</p><p></p><p>MERCH STORE: <a href="https://www.deprogram.live" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.deprogram.live</a></p><p></p><p><a href="https://x.com/tedrall" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://x.com/tedrall</a></p><p><a href="https://x.com/JamarlThomas" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://x.com/JamarlThomas</a></p><p></p><p>LIVE ON RUMBLE: <a href="https://rumble.com/c/DeProgramShow" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://rumble.com/c/DeProgramShow</a></p><p>SPOTIFY: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/2kdFlw2w8sSPhKI8NRx8Zu" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://open.spotify.com/show/2kdFlw2w8sSPhKI8NRx8Zu</a></p><p>APPLE MUSIC: <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/deprogram-with-ted-rall-and-jamarl-thomas/id1825379504" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/deprogram-with-ted-rall-and-jamarl-thomas/id1825379504</a></p>