from executive producer isaac saul this is tangle good morning good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangled Podcast, a place where you get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of our take.

I'm your host today, senior editor, Will Quebec. Today we're going to be covering the end of the shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security. The shutdown began all the way back on February 14th of this year, and it spanned 76 days until Congress passed a funding measure to reopen the department last week. So we're going to be taking a 30,000 foot view and asking the core question of

what was the point of this shutdown? What did it accomplish? What norms were potentially

undermined or made more fragile? And what can we expect the longer term consequences to be?

We'll get into the full details in a second, but before we

jump into today's topic, I wanted to flag that Isaac is appearing on breaking points with

Crystal Ball and Sager and Jetty this morning to discuss his much-discussed Friday edition

from last week about the allegations of corruption in the second Trump

administration. We've done a lot of promotion of that piece on our end, and it is driven a massive

response across the Tangle community, across social media, on our website, in the comment section,

over email, on our texting service substack, on our Reddit page,

all of the above. And that engagement has started to get the piece noticed by some people

outside of the community, including Sagar and Crystal, who reached out and invited Isaac on

to talk more about the piece. It was a great interview. It was conducted this morning. It's up on

their YouTube channel now. We'll drop a link to it in the show notes for today. And if you're interested in hearing Isaac talk a little bit more about what went into that piece and what he discovered over the process of reporting on it, you can hear it in that interview. All right, now I'm going to pass it over to John to get us started on today's topic, and then I will be back in a bit to read

my take. John, over to you.

Thanks, Isaac, and welcome, everybody. Here are your quick hits for today. First up,

the United Arab Emirates said that multiple missiles were launched

toward its territory from Iran. The missiles were intercepted or fell into the sea. The country also

blamed Iran for a series of fires at UAE fuel facilities and on ships off of its coast. Separately,

the United States said it sank several Iranian military boats that had fired missiles at commercial

vessels in the Strait of Hermuz. The incidents potentially imperil the U.S. Iran ceasefire.

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