“The bill contains a number of provisions designed to lower costs and boost housing supply. Among them are initiatives to change manufactured home requirements to lower their costs, simplify environmental review processes for small building projects, and tie certain state and local government grants and funding to housing production goals.
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While the portions of the bill designed to encourage building and unlock new housing funding have broad support, one section of the package could prove deeply divisive.
That provision prohibits many large investors from buying single-family homes and requires others to sell off rental home holdings to individuals after seven years. It has drawn concerns that the rules could end up worsening the housing shortage, especially for rentals, by discouraging future investment in the burgeoning build-to-rent business.
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The bill now heads to the House, where conservative Republicans have raised objections to a variety of provisions, and divisions between the two chambers could lead to an acrimonious amendment process in the weeks ahead.”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-senate-passed-its-first-major-housing-bill-since-the-subprime-mortgage-crisis-can-it-actually-become-law-174515317.html
Iran wants to make clear that if you mess with them, they will greatly damage the global economy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdABz6qsewA
Despite Iran’s military and leadership being battered badly, Iran is likely willing to outlast the US. Many Iranians, even one’s who do not like the regime, may see the US and Israel as trying to destroy Iran, and may support fighting and not giving in to Trump’s demands. Iran has aggressive goals of its own–to convince the gulf states that the US isn’t there to protect them, but to act aggressively toward Iran, and to reject US protection in the future.
Iran’s regime is fighting for its life. The US is fighting for potential security benefits. The US is likely to give up first even if its military is winning the war. Iran will likely get nukes now, because of this attack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0Um9KyI5mc
Iran is predictably limiting shipping in the Strait of Hormuz as a result of Trump’s attack on Iran, sending oil prices higher. Removing the Jones Act won’t move the needle while the war drives oil prices higher.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zenHFm60xKM
Traitor terrorists are striking the US homeland, likely inspired by attacks on Iran. These deaths are likely deaths in the war on Iran.
“First, a deadly shooting being investigated as terrorism devastated a Virginia university in a military town. Hours later, a targeted vehicle-ramming attack on a Michigan synagogue left congregants shaken to their core.
The shooting at Virginia’s Old Dominion University was committed by a veteran who was a convicted ISIS supporter. The attacker was able to kill one person and injure two others before a classroom of ROTC students subdued and killed him, the FBI said.
Then, a vehicle rammed into the Temple Israel synagogue in West Bloomfield Township in an attack the FBI said targeted the Jewish community, carried out by a US citizen who was born in Lebanon, the Department of Homeland Security said. The synagogue had been on high alert for potential violence in the weeks before the building became engulfed in flames after the suspect drove through it with a rifle and a large number of explosives, officials said.
Though the motive in the attack is still unknown, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said there is a clear “nexus” between the Iran war and the attack, adding it’s no coincidence the suspect targeted a synagogue named Temple Israel.
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Less than two weeks earlier in Austin, Texas, a shooter wearing a hoodie emblazoned with the Iranian flag killed three people and injured over a dozen others in the city’s bustling entertainment district. Though the motive is still under investigation, authorities are investigating whether the shooter was inspired in part by US and Israeli strikes on Iran that weekend, multiple law enforcement officials briefed on the case said.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/violent-attacks-michigan-synagogue-virginia-085604064.html
“A U.S. military refueling aircraft crashed in western Iraq on Thursday, in an incident the military said involved another aircraft but was not the result of hostile or friendly fire.
The deaths add to the seven U.S. service members who have already been killed as part of U.S. operations against Iran which began on February 28.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/four-us-members-killed-plane-094429672.html
There’s not a clear place or building to take over for Iranian revolutionaries.
Iran has a lot of manpower to suppress protests or revolutionaries.
If factions within the government or militaries want to rebel or implement a coup, they have a chance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0oMkL0QW4U
“High-end missile interceptors can run into the millions of dollars per shot.
Many of the drones they are designed to defeat are far cheaper and produced in large numbers — creating what defense officials have described as a growing “math problem” in modern warfare. The U.S. can end up firing expensive missiles at relatively inexpensive drones, a dynamic that becomes harder to sustain if attacks come in waves.
That imbalance is accelerating a push inside the Pentagon to expand a layered counter-drone strategy — combining short-range interceptors, electronic warfare tools and emerging technologies such as high-energy lasers.
For U.S. forces in the region, larger drone waves increase the odds that defenses are stretched, and that even one drone could reach a base or ship.
This marks the first sustained confrontation in which U.S. forces are facing large-scale, state-backed drone waves as a central feature of the battlefield — forcing commanders to adapt in real time and draw on lessons learned from Ukraine, where mass-produced Shahed drones reshaped air defense strategy.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/iran-drone-swarms-challenge-us-090020438.html
“An Iran-linked hacker group has claimed responsibility for a cyberattack on a medical tech company in what appears to be the first significant instance of Iran’s hacking an American company since the start of the war between the countries.
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A Stryker employee, who requested to not be identified because they are not authorized to speak for the company, said that employees’ work-issued phones stopped working, grinding work and communications with colleagues to a standstill.
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“Stryker is experiencing a global network disruption to our Microsoft environment as a result of a cyber attack. We have no indication of ransomware or malware and believe the incident is contained,” the statement said.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/iran-appears-conducted-significant-cyberattack-014232843.html
The Weird British Island That Isn’t Part Of The UK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ha-b2tFX3D8