// by: Eliana Jonshon May 26 2026 -----------------------: Elsewhere: After a weekend of reports from President Donald Trump and others that an initial peace deal between the United States and Iran was imminent, Trump went public on Monday with a demand that suggests a deal is not as close as suggested. “It should be mandatory,” Trump said, that any agreement requires Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt, and Jordan to join the Abraham Accords and normalize relations with Israel. “The reason for this is that the Abraham Accords have been great for them, and will be even better for everybody, and bring true Power, Strength, and Peace to the Middle East for the first time in 5,000 years,” Trump said, adding that “it will only be a Great Deal for all or, no Deal at all.” The widow of the late war hero and “American Sniper” Chris Kyle unloaded on Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner over his comments, first reported in the Free Beacon, smearing Kyle as a criminal who deliberately shot innocent civilians in Iraq in order to inflate his kill numbers. “Nothing says I want attention more than disparaging a national hero who’s also dead,” said Taya Kyle. “It is cowardly, it’s lowbrow to lie about somebody else, and it distracts from what you’ve probably said.” Federal law enforcement officials served subpoenas to anti-American influencer (and New Jersey native) Hasan Piker and the American founder of far-left Chinese Communist Party front group Code Pink, Medea Benjamin, “as part of a wider investigation into whether U.S. organizations and leaders violated U.S. laws and sanctions in supporting Cuba’s communist regime,” Fox News reported. It couldn’t have happened to two nicer people. The Democratic Party isn’t done sniping at DNC chair Ken Martin over his release of the embarrassing 2024 election autopsy report that he himself commissioned. Party activists “are beginning to reach out to donors and elected officials to put pressure on Martin to step down and are brainstorming potential replacements,” including former Montana senator Jon Tester (not interested), Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer (not interested), and former DNC chair and ex-Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe (lost his last race in embarrassing fashion), Politico reported. Good luck to all! Taylor Lorenz, the “internet culture” reporter formerly of the New York Times and the Washington Post, said—publicly—that she hopes New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani will remedy the lack of cashew-based cream cheese on offer at the city’s bagel shops: “NYC bagel shops need to get with the times. The bagels in LA suck, but all the LA bagel shops at least use cashew-based vegan cream cheese. NYC bagel shops almost never have vegan cc or they’re using hyper processed Tofutti. I hope Zohran can remedy this.” Check out our full Tuesday lineup below. Israel-Hating ‘TrackAIPAC’ Attack Account Used To Be Elizabeth Warren-Boosting ‘California for Warren,’ Raising Money for Her Presidential Bid Meet the New Leader of Massachusetts’s Top Teachers’ Union, a DSA Member Who Says the US Is ‘Fascist,’ Borders Are for ‘Colonizers,’ and Israel Is ‘Genocidal’ Foreign Donors Fuel US Data Center Opposition, Records Show For Communist Cuba, the Clock Is Ticking American Odyssey New Blow to New York Times Gaza Rape Report: Key Source Gets Caught Quietly Removing Terrorists’ Names from List of Slain ‘Palestinian Journalists’ Cotton Pushes Sanctions on Any Nation Backing Iran’s Hormuz Strait ‘Toll Booth’