JCPOA redux

The OAFPOTUS claims to have agreed a deal with Iran but, of course, neither side will reveal what the deal contains. One thing is known, at least: it's not going to be as good for the US as Obama's 2015 JCPOA, which the OAFPOTUS hated because a black man Obama did it. Other thoughts:

• Josh Marshall wants to see the receipts but thinks this is just getting us back to status quo ante: "[T]his is the U.S. agreeing to end the war in exchange for nothing but going back to the way things were before Trump started the war. He achieves none of his objectives and managed to strengthen Iran in important and durable ways. It’s a total failure by any definition."
• Francis Fukuyama agrees: "This “deal” was nothing of the sort. If the reports are accurate, it instead represented a total U.S. capitulation to Iran. ... Perhaps Trump’s hardcore MAGA supporters can be persuaded that he has negotiated a consummate deal and achieved a great victory. But everyone else will understand that the world’s most powerful country is being run by a feckless and ignorant president who will impose immense costs on both other countries and his own people if he thinks it will benefit himself."
• Steve Inskeep compares this rake-stomp to the War of 1812: "Whatever the exact war aims—and the cloudiness of those aims was surely part of the problem—the war didn’t achieve them. The conquest of Canada didn’t work out: One of the invading American armies retreated back into Michigan and actually surrendered Detroit."

In other stories:

• Brian Beutler suggests tying Republican policies to Republican lying might be a winning strategy in November—and in 2028.
• Paul Krugman shows his work to explain how comparing modern robber barons to their early-1900s counterparts is actually unfair to the robber barons of yore.
• 404 Media reports that the FCC may ban burner phones, though this would probably require actual legislation.
• AI agents running independently in your enterprise are the new Shadow IT. The solution: apply SDLC and build a real control plane.
• All those AI agents cost a lot, too, as formerly pro-AI managers are finding out.

Finally, psychologist Joabe Barbosa has finally completed his goal of running down every block in Chicago, a project involving all 6,500 km of Chicago streets and the help of about 1,000 other Chicagoans. He is the first person known to do this.