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Quote and headline: New York Times, 6/13/2026
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GET ME REWRITE: U.S. intelligence report makes Trump look clueless. (5/13/2026)
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Iran still fields about 70 percent of its mobile launchers across the country and has retained roughly 70 percent of its prewar missile stockpile, according to the assessments. That stockpile encompasses both ballistic missiles, which can target other nations in the region, and a smaller supply of cruise missiles, which can be used against shorter-range targets on land or at sea.
Military intelligence agencies have also reported, based on information from multiple collection streams including satellite imagery and other surveillance technologies, that Iran has regained access to roughly 90 percent of its underground missile storage and launch facilities nationwide, which are now assessed to be “partially or fully operational,” the people with knowledge of the assessments said.
The findings undercut months of public assurances from President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who have told Americans that the Iranian military was “decimated” and “no longer” a threat. [emphasis added]
The decision didn't come without fiery opposition from most in attendance.
Board members voted, 7-1, May 12 to prohibit the wind symphony from playing "A Mother of a Revolution" by Omar Thomas, a work inspired by Marsha Johnson, a trans woman credited with being an instigator of the 1969 Stonewall uprising, considered to be a pivotal event of the LGBTQ liberation movement, according to Thomas' website.
Laurie Hoffmann [top left], the board's president, was the only board member to vote against banning the piece. Board member Craig Wortman [bottom right] was not at the meeting. The board's decision was met with a loud round of boos and shouting from most of the people in attendance before they walked out. [emphasis added]