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President Donald Trump declared Iran's latest peace proposal "totally unacceptable" in a blistering Truth Social post on Sunday, signaling that negotiations to end the Iran war remain deeply deadlocked.

"I have just read the response from Iran's so-called 'Representatives,'" Trump wrote. "I don't like it — TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE!"

A Democratic strategist's nightmare vision of an all-Republican governor's race has ballooned into a full-blown campaign to overhaul California's primary system.

Steven Maviglio, a longtime Democratic consultant, filed a ballot initiative Friday to scrap California's 15-year-old "top-two" open primary, the system that lets the two highest finishers advance to the general election regardless of party, and revert to a traditional partisan primary, according to The New York Times.

Congressional Democrats are quietly kicking around a long-shot scheme to clear out Virginia's entire Supreme Court, which just torched their gerrymandered congressional map.

During a private Saturday call that included Virginia's Democratic House delegation and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), lawmakers vented over Friday's ruling and floated what The New York Times described as "an audacious and possibly far-fetched idea" to replace every sitting justice and reinstate their map, according to a Sunday report.

President Donald Trump took to Truth Social on Sunday to demand federal agencies stop buying foreign-made products and rail against bureaucrats handing out waivers — but his all-caps tirade glossed over the awkward reality that American manufacturing has actually shed tens of thousands of jobs since he returned to office.

"ALL FEDERAL AGENCIES MUST BUY AMERICAN — NO EXCUSES!" Trump wrote in a vintage all-caps post, accusing Washington politicians of having spent "decades" sending taxpayer dollars overseas and allowing foreign countries to "rip us off" while American workers and factories were left behind.

President Donald Trump lashed out at Iran on Sunday with a menacing remark amid Washington and Tehran’s ongoing, back-and-forth peace negotiations, and critics believe they’ve identified a potential reason for the president’s latest outburst.

The United States and Iran agreed to a ceasefire last month that remains ongoing, despite both sides having lobbed attacks on each other within the past week. While peace talks between the two nations have largely stalled, the Trump administration sent Tehran a proposal to end the war last week, with Trump telling the press that he expected a response by Friday night.

Actor Randy Quaid posted a rambling message on social media that drew connections between his own legal battles and Michael Jackson's prosecution, while tagging FBI Director Kash Patel in an apparent call for federal intervention.

"My career was one film after another, sometimes two at once. I didn't have time to know Michael Jackson or his work until I was maliciously prosecuted by the same office he was," Quaid wrote on Sunday, referencing Jackson's 2005 acquittal in Santa Barbara.

Republican Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy won last week’s GOP primary and will face Democrat Amy Acton in November, but one political science expert warned Sunday that his close ties to President Donald Trump could sink his campaign amid the administration’s growing unpopularity with voters.

“Retired professor of political science from Baldwin Wallace University, Tom Sutton, believes Ramaswamy’s close ties to President Donald Trump could become a political challenge depending on how national issues develop over the coming months,” reads a report from WFMJ Weekend Today published on Sunday.

President Donald Trump launched into a lengthy tirade Sunday against Iran as its leaders continue to slow-walk peace negotiations with Washington as the U.S. war against Iran continues to sink Republicans’ midterm election prospects.

“Iran has been playing games with the United States, and the rest of the World, for 47 years (DELAY, DELAY, DELAY!), and then finally hit ‘pay dirt’ when Barack Hussein Obama became President,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social, referencing the Iran nuclear deal reached in 2015. “He was not only good to them, he was great, actually going to their side, jettisoning Israel, and all other Allies, and giving Iran a major and very powerful new lease on life."

Fascism historian Federico Finchelstein publicly corrected Senator Mike Lee's characterization of fascism and Nazism, challenging the Utah Republican's claim that the two ideologies represent a form of socialism.

Lee posted on social media: "Fascism and Nazism aren't the opposite of socialism, as the modern left would have you believe. They *are* socialism."

Former Trump administration official and right-wing commentator Sebastian Gorka left onlookers baffled Sunday after offering a puzzling explanation as to why President Donald Trump failed to adhere to his own timeline for ending his war against Iran.

Shortly after launching the U.S. attack on Iran, dubbed Operation Epic Fury, Trump indicated that the campaign would finish “within two to three weeks,” Fox News reported back on April 1. With the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran now stretching into its 71st day as of Sunday, Gorka was pressed on the discrepancy during an appearance on Newsnation.

Legendary Democratic strategist James Carville is raising urgent warnings about the New Hampshire Senate race, saying it demands far more attention than it's currently receiving.

"What I'm seeing in New Hampshire right now is keeping me up at night — and it should concern y'all too," Carville wrote in a campaign memo, emphasizing he rarely writes such alerts.

Republican strategist Scott Jennings was issued a fierce rebuke Sunday after championing the GOP’s recent gerrymandering blitz, remarks that one Democratic strategist characterized as dismissive to the “surgical attack” on Black voters spearheaded by the Trump administration.

Last week, the Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling that effectively gutted a provision of the Voting Rights Act that prohibited racially discriminatory voting policies. Republican-led states subsequently scrambled to redraw their states’ congressional district maps to benefit Republicans, and in most cases, at the expense of Black voters.