Is the Iran Deal Already Falling Apart Three Days After Trump Signed It?

The Iran ceasefire was supposed to be the win of the year. Three days after the signatures, the Strait of Hormuz is closed again, Lebanon is still burning, and the only people who seem sure it is holding are the ones who signed it. This week's Purple Political Breakdown pulls one thread through everything: the decisions that shape your life keep getting made in rooms you are not allowed to see.

We get into the Iran memorandum and why a deal neither Israel nor Hezbollah signed is now supposed to end their war. The Justice Department turning toward Gavin Newsom, and what it does to all of us when prosecution becomes a tool either party reaches for. The leak of Peter Thiel's invitation-only Dialog society, the senators, cabinet officials, and generals who registered for it, and the one real conflict worth your attention. Then the inward turn: is AI actually coming for your job, the collapse of "learn to code," and the rise of the optimized, lonely, enhanced self. Plus four Senate races you should actually understand (Massachusetts, Georgia, Alabama, Maine) and three pieces of good news, ending with a man living with ALS who got his voice back.

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