Washington Examiner investigations editor Sarah Bedford said there is a reason behind President Donald Trump’s social media posts about Iran. She explained that his messages are all part of a broader plan to “achieve strategic goals.” She said, “Trump very frequently makes big hyperbolic threats to achieve his strategic goals,” Bedford said on the Hugh Hewitt Show on Wednesday. “It’s not really surprising that Trump would use hyperbole when we now know he was on the brink of some sort of acceptable ceasefire deal.” They discussed the two-week ceasefire deal that was reached Tuesday night. “This all seems to be part of a way for Trump to buy some time to finalize a deal that would achieve his goals in a sort of lasting way without the sort of massive strike that he was promising,” she said. The Republican Party has faced internal friction over the war in Iran and Trump’s threats on social media, which could affect the midterm elections.  “People are having more skepticism that this won’t be a limited engagement with a quick, clear victory like Trump promised at the outset,” Bedford said. “He might lose the support of some Republicans who could get nervous if this looks like it might turn into some sort of protracted conflict.” Trump announced that he would be sending Vice President JD Vance to lead the negotiations team in Pakistan this weekend. Vance has long appealed to his political base as a skeptic of foreign intervention. Bedford said this points to how serious the Trump administration is about the negotiations.  US AND IRAN AGREE TO TWO-WEEK CEASEFIRE AFTER TRUMP ACCEPTS ‘WORKABLE’ 10-POINT PLAN “Notably, Vance is reported to be one of the leading anti-war voices in the administration, but he’s also the second-highest-ranking official behind Trump himself, which shows the seriousness with which Trump is taking this,” Bedford said. “He’s staked his credibility to being opposed to this kind of conflict, and he’s not exactly tamped down the speculation and reports that he’s been opposed to this the whole time,” she said. “He’s got plausible deniability right now about the war, that goes away the deeper that he is more publicly involved in whatever happens next.”

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The Alwaleed bin Talal Chair of Islamic Civilization at Georgetown University recently told social media users to “get over it” in response to concerns about a link between “rape gangs” and Islam. Professor Jonathan Brown dismissed concerns about the crisis in the United Kingdom in two now-deleted X posts, the Daily Caller reported. Rupert Lowe, an Independent Member of Parliament… Source

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Israel said it killed a senior aide to Hezbollah’s leader in a series of overnight airstrikes in Lebanon, intensifying its military campaign even as concerns grow that the escalation could undermine President Donald Trump’s fragile cease-fire with Iran. According to Israeli officials, the strikes targeted key Hezbollah positions and resulted in the death of what […]

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“Rebels and rebellion are one of the saving graces of America” – Danny Lyon, riding with The Outlaws   The Outlaws Crossing the Ohio, Louisville, Kentucky, 1966 When photographer Danny Lyon joined the Chicago Outlaws bikers, his subsequent book The Bikeriders captured a rebellious subculture. The journey began one afternoon in 1965, when asked the mechanic working on his 440lb British-made Triumph, “Do you know any gangs I can photograph?” Later that week, Lyon was at a diner in Chicago photographing the Outlaws when he was invited to join the club as a permanent member. The Outlaws had no little change since its formation in the early 1950s, with Johnny Davis, a transit truck driver, retaining the club colours after a leadership conflict.   Route 12, Wisconsin, 1963 “In early 1963, we went to a motorcycle race in Wisconsin. Skip drove his Volkswagen Bug and I sat in the front seat with my Nikon F nestled in my lap. When a small group of riders passed our car I told Skip to keep up with them. Looking through my 105mm lens, it wasn’t that hard to position the five bikes speeding away, and push the shutter button, which went off like a small guillotine, a thsssippp sound you could hear across a room” – Danny Lyon     Lyon rode in the footsteps of the writer Hunter S. Thompson, the journalist who rode with the Hells Angels around the same time. Lyon sent a letter to Thompson. Instead of advice to go for it, Thompson advised Lyon to “get the hell out of that club… I’ve seen the Angels work, and they scare the hell out of me.” As Lyon put it:  “[Thompson] advised me not to join the Outlaws and to wear a helmet. I joined the club and seldom wore a helmet.” Lyon documented the Outlaws from 1963-67, and became a full member of the club in 1965. His work was an “attempt to record and glorify the life of the American bikerider. It is a personal record, dealing mostly with bikeriders whom I know and care for.”       Funny Sonny packing with Zipco, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1965 “Zipco, the amazing and often drunk Milwaukee Outlaw who was born in Latvia, with Funny Sonny riding behind him wearing his Hells Angels colours. Zipco was run over and killed walking across the street one afternoon in Florida” – Danny Lyon   Danny’s Triumph, Broken Gearbox Spring, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1965 Danny Lyon, 1967 “I spent my senior year riding around on my Triumph. My riding buddy was Skip Richheimer, who usually wore a worn brown leather jacket with metal-rimmed glasses tinted a faint green. Once he was sitting behind me on my Triumph at night as we approached some flashing police lights at a roadblock on the Midway. I stopped for the cops at the roadblock, nothing happened, and as we passed Skip leaned forward and reached into my jacket pocket. I turned my head to ask what was up. Just prior to the roadblock he had put all the pot he was carrying into my pocket” – Danny Lyon   Cal with Little Barbara “Cal, born in Canada as Arthur Dion, was a former Hells Angel from San Bernadino. He was my best friend in the Outlaws. In my Hyde Park apartment, he narrated many of the stories that became the text of the book. A housepainter, Cal fell off a ladder and died in the 1980s” – Danny Lyon   Outside the Clubhouse of the Chicago Outlaws     “Brucie Walver and I during the Outlaw run to Springfield. I am resting the Nikon F on Brucie’s shoulder to keep it steady. Brucie was Johnny’s right-hand man. Most of the bikeriders I knew are dead. Now and then I hear from their children, often asking about parents that I knew, and they didn’t.” – Danny Lyon     Memorial Day Run, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1965   Via The Bikeriders via Magnum Photos. This Is My Life I’m Talking About is published by Damiani. All photographs Danny Lyon The post The Outlaws: On The Road With A 1960s Biker Gang appeared first on Flashbak.

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