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When Extremism Becomes Moderation
Every delay has consequences.

William Baude and Richard Re on Justice Kavanaugh's sympathies toward robust presidential foreign-affairs power:
Another possibility is that Justice Kavanaugh is simply more sympathetic to certain forms of presidential power, across the board. Justice Kavanaugh worked very closely with President George W. Bush, and it was remarked during his nomination process that he had an affinity for inhabitants of the Oval Office. During President Biden’s term, this disposition made him seem more moderate — more willing to ​accommodate presidential discretion not to enforce the immigration laws, or ​a determination to enforce vaccination requirements against members of the military with religious objections. Now the same consistent ​sympathy has a different partisan valence when the President is different. But it is the same consistent sympathy.

Perhaps we can also add to the list Biden v. Texas (2022), in which the Court allowed the Biden administration to revoke Trump’s "Remain in Mexico" policy against a challenge that the rescission violated the INA. The Court relied, in part, on the President’s Article II power to “engage in direct diplomacy with foreign heads of state and their ministers” to sustain the action, and criticized the Fifth Circuit for interpreting the relevant section of the INA as a mandate that “imposed a significant burden upon the Executive’s ability to conduct diplomatic relations with Mexico.” Kavanaugh wrote a concurrence and agreed with the Court that nothing in the statute suggested that “Congress wanted the Federal Judiciary to improperly second-guess the President’s Article II judgment with respect to American foreign policy and foreign relations.”
I don’t think this completely excuses Kavanaugh from charges of inconsistency. In Biden-era immigration cases, the Court, rightly or wrongly, identified a specific foreign-affairs power of the President, while in Learning Resources he flatly refused to identify any, calling such an approach “jurisprudentially chaotic.” I am unaware of any previous Kavanaugh opinion in which he allowed the Executive to encroach on a core congressional power on the basis of the penumbra and emanations of the President’s unspecified foreign-affairs powers. It would be more helpful for his defenders if he had dissented in West Virginia v. EPA and relied on the President’s power to engage in climate diplomacy.
Or Extremism Remains Extremism...
At least Kavanaugh has some consistency in his approach, even though the degree of deference varies from administration to administration. But what about the other two who joined his dissent in the tariffs case?
In Biden v. Texas, Justice Alito wrote a dissent joined by Justice Thomas in which he complained that “enforcement of immigration laws often has foreign-relations implications, and the Constitution gives Congress broad authority to set immigration policy,” and agreed that “policies pertaining to the entry of aliens are entrusted exclusively to Congress.” But Justice Alito also joined Thomas’s dissent in Sessions v. Dimaya (2018), in which he argued that exclusion of aliens is an inherent Article II power and that “removal decisions implicate our …

‘We Are Going After the Rest’: Trump Gives Big Update on Iran Strike by the Numbers
Is this competence or optics?

By afternoon Sunday, the U.S. and Israeli strikes against Iran sunk nine Iranian ships and took out dozens of Iranian leaders, President Donald Trump announced. 

“I have just been informed that we have destroyed and sunk 9 Iranian Naval Ships, some of them relatively large and important,” Trump posted on Truth Social Sunday. 


— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) March 1, 2026

“We are going after the rest–They will soon be floating at the bottom of the sea, also!” Trump’s post continued. “In a different attack, we largely destroyed their Naval Headquarters. Other than that, their Navy is doing very well!”

Separately, Fox News reported that Trump said 48 Iranian leaders were wiped out in the strikes. 

Most notably, the air strikes killed the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and targeted Iranian military sites to stop the country’s ability to develop and deploy nuclear weapons. 

U.S. Central Command reported Suday afternoon that B-2 stealth bombers, armed with 2,000 pound bombs hit Iran’s ballistic missile facilities. 

Last night, U.S. B-2 stealth bombers, armed with 2,000 lb. bombs, struck Iran’s hardened ballistic missile facilities. No nation should ever doubt America's resolve.
— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) March 1, 2026

Minutes after Trump’s post, the Associated Press reported that a senior White House official said the “new potential leadership” in Iran suggested they were open to talks. 

CBS News reported that Trump told CBS News Sunday morning a diplomatic solution is “Much easier now than it was a day ago, obviously.” He said that’s since “they are getting beat up badly.”

U.S. Central Command also reported three U.S. service members had been killed, five were seriously wounded in Operation Epic Fury. 

Trump called for Iran, the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism, to fully dismantle its nuclear program, which Iran’s government had been unwilling to do. Trump indicated on Friday the negotiations were not going well.

The Iranian regime has reportedly killed tens of thousands of protesters.

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said Sunday that a new leadership council “has begun its work” after death of Khamenei. Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said a new supreme leader will be chosen in “one or two days,” the Associated Press reported. 

The post ‘We Are Going After the Rest’: Trump Gives Big Update on Iran Strike by the Numbers appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Why is no one trying to sue to enjoin Trump from declaring war on Iran?
Ask who never gets charged.

I get the Supreme Court doesn’t like to meddle in foreign affairs. But this is such an obvious Youngstown twilight analysis that you’d think public interest lawyers would at least try and find the right plaintiff to mount a legal challenge

Bishops as Pawns Over Birthright Citizenship
Every delay has consequences.

Viewing the U.S. public policy and political scene as a chessboard, the prelates of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops have downgraded themselves from their historic leadership role as bishops to the subservient position of mere pawns.

Specifically, on birthright citizenship, the bishops willingly allow themselves to be manipulated by leftists pushing secular humanist, globalist ideologies.

The Conference of Catholic Bishops issued an “amicus” brief to the Supreme Court, which will soon rule on President Donald Trump’s executive order to rescind the long-debated precedent of American citizenship by birthright.

Does every birth occurring on U.S. soil mean automatic citizenship, even if the parents trespassed into America as illegal aliens?

Here is the crux of the bishops’ misbegotten argument:

“Birthright citizenship aligns with the Church’s teaching that humans were created as social beings and that political authority is morally bound to affirm and protect the inherent dignity of every human person in the community.”

Of course, the inherent logical flaw here contends that the human dignity of every person can only be ratified by virtue of conferring U.S. citizenship. Given this absurd line of thinking, the United States is then bound to grant American citizenship to every single human on the planet, since they all possess clear human dignity as sons and daughters of the eternal Creator.

Kelsey Reinhardt, president of CatholicVote, correctly deconstructs the actual philosophical danger with this clearly politicized tactic, masked within the language of pastoral teaching:

“That argument does not strengthen the Church’s moral witness—it weakens it. By tying dignity to civil status, the bishops inadvertently echo the logic of the abortion industry: rights exist because the state recognizes them.”

After all, legitimate civil authority is validated by God himself precisely because it intrinsically leads to human flourishing. Societies can only succeed—and only seek the will of God freely—when governed by the rule of law. As such, prudential judgment about identifying the qualifications for citizenship lies with civil authorities who must prioritize the common good of existing citizens before admitting newcomers, especially at a massive scale.

These principles have been taught by the Church for time immemorial and were perhaps best elucidated by St. Thomas Aquinas in the Summa Theologica. Aquinas weighed the prerogatives of citizens against any arguments for indiscriminate openness. His Thomistic vision flowed from the timeless maxim that “charity begins at home.”

As such, Aquinas even argued that full citizenship for immigrants should not be granted until the second or third generation. St. Thomas, Doctor of the Church, would surely be branded as some sort of heartless immigration hawk by the bishops today.

But Aquinas understood the crucial role of enlightened patriotism within God’s earthly kingdom. He observed: “Man is debtor chiefly to his parents and his country, after God. Wherefore just as it belongs to religion to give worship to God, so does it belong to piety, in the second place, to give worship to one’s …

The U.S. Olympic Men's Hockey Team Did It the Right Way
Every delay has consequences.

        If men's basketball is the most popular and professional athlete-filled team sport at the quadrennial Summer Olympic Games, then men's ice hockey is its Winter Olympic Games analogue. Every four years, the two-week Summer and Winter Olympics provide a respite, for NBA and NHL fans, from the annual domestic calendar. Stars who might normally be teammates instead pick up the jerseys of rival nations, competing against one another for love of home and hearth on the world's grandest sporting stage. Each Olympic sport has had its iconic American triumphs too: Who can forget the 1992 basketball "Dream Team" in Barcelona, or the 1980 "Miracle on Ice" in Lake Placid?

Britain’s Fragile Vote
Transparency shouldn't be controversial.

There is a clear American interest at stake in Gorton and Denton by-election outcome. The British parliamentary contest, held Thursday, shocked many with a Green Party victory.

Candidate Hannah Spencer overturned Labour’s 13,000 vote majority from 2024 to win with 40.7% of the vote, totaling 14,980 ballots under the U.K.’s first past the post system. Reform UK candidate Matt Goodwin placed second with 28.7% with 10,578 votes. The margin of victory was only approximately 4,402 votes in a contest decided by 36,903 total ballots.

Like elections at home, the maps are what tell this story.

Before the election, the area of Gorton and Denton was known to be very demographically bifurcated. Denton is almost entirely English working class, whereas Gorton contains a substantial Muslim population, including significant Bangladeshi and Pakistani communities.

The illegal and legal immigrant population from the Middle East and India has exploded in the U.K. in the past decade and the formation of high-density enclaves like those in Gorton are not uncommon.

The constituency’s stark ethnic and religious lines was where this election results were drawn, with the Green Party taking the area of Gorton decisively. The Green Party conducted targeted outreach to Muslim and Indian voters, including open support of Palestine and distributing literature in Urdu.

This is not only ridiculous in principle but means that campaign communication was obfuscated from the British electorate, miring transparency and political accountability in a distinct civic space.

The Green Party has formed what is termed in U.S. circles as a “red-green” alliance, whereby segments of the political Left consolidate electoral partnerships with organized Islamic voting blocs.

It is bizarre how the Left’s objective to expand its electorate merits a partnership with a voting bloc that is diametrically opposed to them on significant issues like sexuality, drugs, pornography, and prostitution. Power inspires interesting allies, and indeed their ideological alliance coalesces around two major streams of hatred: America and Israel.

In the U.S., the Islamic lobby has successfully coalesced with the Left, producing disastrous consequences like the election of Mayor Zohran Mamdani in New York, a man who openly supports communism, Palestine, and rejects our own nation’s values. 

The results of the Gorton and Denton by-election, accompanied with a damming election observation report prove how deadly the Red-Green alliance is to election integrity. Around 10 p.m. on election night, the official UK election observers Democracy Volunteers reported unusually high levels of “family voting,” describing instances in which multiple family members entered polling booths together in ways that compromise the secret ballot.

They reported 12% of voters were either impacted by or involved in such activity, representing 4,428 affected votes in an election decided by 4,402 votes.

This represents massive cause for concern in Britain’s democracy.

Family voting is illegal under British electoral law because it undermines the principle of individual political autonomy.

British law permits election results to …

Enemy within: Counterterrorism experts fear sleeper cells could be poised inside US
Law enforcement shouldn't be political.

American counterterrorism agencies are quietly monitoring suspected sleeper cells on U.S. soil in the wake of joint U.S.–Israel strikes on Iran, stepping up surveillance amid heightened fears of possible retaliation from Iran-linked operatives or sympathizers.
Federal and local law enforcement have also boosted on-the-ground security in major U.S. cities as part of a precautionary posture, even though no specific, credible threats have been publicly identified.
The move comes on the heels of a Saturday morning operation, dubbed Operation Epic Fury, that resulted in the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and several senior Iranian officials in a coordinated U.S.–Israeli military campaign.
US, ISRAEL STRIKE IRAN: AYATOLLAH KHAMENEI, 40 TOP IRANIAN LEADERS KILLED
Security experts warn that the fallout could extend beyond the Middle East.
"If ever there's going to be a Hezbollah cell or a Hamas cell act in the United States in a violent way, it's now," Chris Swecker, a former assistant FBI director, told Fox News.
"Both organizations are Iranian-backed all the way. Both organizations have had a presence in the United States since the 1980s," he added.
Swecker said U.S. authorities have long been aware of domestic networks and sympathizers.
"We know that they have cells here. We also know that there are lone sympathizers, many of whom have come out in these protest groups," he added.
TOMAHAWKS SPEARHEADED US STRIKE ON IRAN — WHY PRESIDENTS REACH FOR THIS MISSILE FIRST
He also warned that border security vulnerabilities may have compounded the risk.
"We just come off four years of open borders, and I have said before that that was an open door for terrorists to terrorist cells and terror sympathizers to infiltrate. Many were already here, but it's impossible that they would not infiltrate into these particular groups and sort of act as catalysts, as enablers."
Against that backdrop, the FBI is moving to reinforce its domestic security posture.
FBI Director Kash Patel said Saturday that counterterrorism and intelligence teams are now on high alert amid ongoing U.S. actions involving Iran.
"Last night, I instructed our Counterterrorism and intelligence teams to be on high alert and mobilize all assisting security assets needed," Patel wrote on X.
Patel added that while the U.S. military is handling force protection overseas, the FBI "remains at the forefront of deterring attacks here at home" and will continue working around the clock to protect Americans.
FBI RAISES COUNTERTERROR TEAMS TO HIGH ALERT AMID IRAN TENSIONS
Jason Pack, a retired …

Strikes at Iran could reshape primary election dynamics
This is performative politics again.

The United States’ attack on Iran is stirring up an already-roiling Democratic debate over Israel, just as primary season kicks off.

The joint U.S.-Israel military operation has put the countries’ relationship squarely at the center of the national political debate — and the role of its big-spending allies like the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which praised President Donald Trump’s strikes, front-and-center in the Democratic primaries where the group is spending.

A heated House race in North Carolina whose election is Tuesday, several contests in Illinois two weeks later and an already stormy Michigan Senate primary have been impacted by tensions over Israel’s war in Gaza and fury over heavy spending by pro-Israel organizations.

“Palestine has become a litmus test in the party,” said Matt Duss, a former foreign policy adviser to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and executive vice president at the progressive think tank Center for International Policy. “You see this in both the Michigan and Illinois primaries, where candidates are being pushed to acknowledge that Gaza is a genocide and to pledge not to take AIPAC donations. That was definitely going to continue as we move toward the 2028 presidential primary. This war [in Iran] will amplify it even more.”

AIPAC’s involvement has already upended multiple elections in Illinois, where groups aligned with the lobbying group have spent close to $14 million on four House races ahead of the state’s mid-March primary. In Tuesday’s North Carolina primaries, Israel has been a hot topic in Democratic Rep. Valerie Foushee’s reelection bid. And Middle Eastern politics loom large in Michigan’s blockbuster three-way Democratic Senate race, where there have already been sharp divisions between the candidates over Israel. Elected officials and operatives there have been fretting for months about how AIPAC could turn the race on its head and pave a way for a Republican victory for the first time since 1994.

“The war [in Iran] accentuates the risk that AIPAC's intervention will result in electing the most anti-war, anti-Israel progressive of the available candidates in some of these districts — just as it did in mine,” said former Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-N.J.), who recently lost a hotly contested House primary to now-Rep. Analilia Mejia, a much sharper critic of Israel, after AIPAC spent more than $2 million against him in a failed bid to elevate a more unabashedly pro-Israel candidate.

AIPAC isn’t backing down. In a statement Saturday, the group hailed the U.S.-Israel-led strikes as “decisive action against the terror-supporting regime in Iran.” Its super PAC, United Democracy Project, had nearly $100 million in the bank at the end of January and plans to be active in dozens of races this year, including …

FBI terrorism task force joins investigation into Texas bar shooting that left three dead

The FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force has joined the investigation into a mass shooting that left three dead, including the alleged gunman, and 14 injured at a popular bar in downtown Austin, Texas, in the early hours of Sunday.

Austin police responded shortly before 2 a.m. to reports of a shooter at Buford’s, a beer garden located along the city’s busy West Sixth Street entertainment district, Austin Police Chief Lisa David said during a news conference. 

The FBI’s terrorism task force is reportedly assisting based on preliminary evidence found at the scene. The evidence includes a pistol and an assault-style rifle suspected to be used by the gunman to commit the attack.

THE US AND ISRAEL ATTACKED IRAN: WHAT WE KNOW

Officers already assigned to patrol near the nightlife corridor arrived and confronted an armed man. Police exchanged gunfire with the suspect, who was fatally shot at the scene, Davis said, and there are no outstanding suspects. 

Emergency medical crews treated 17 people at the scene after the shooting unfolded as bars were closing for the night. Three people, including the suspect, were pronounced dead, while 14 victims were transported to area hospitals. 

Austin-Travis County EMS Chief Robert Luckritz said first responders arrived within a minute of receiving the emergency call, allowing medics and officers to begin treating victims almost immediately. 

The shooting sent crowds fleeing from one of Austin’s most popular nightlife areas, located near the University of Texas campus and known for heavy weekend foot traffic. 

Austin Mayor Kirk Watson praised police, firefighters, and paramedics for their swift response, saying their actions saved lives during what he described as a chaotic and frightening incident for the city.

IRANIAN ATTACKS KILL NEARLY A DOZEN ACROSS ISRAEL, UAE, AND KUWAIT, AS CAMPAIGN EXPANDS

Officials have not yet released the identities of those killed or injured, and investigators said a motive for the shooting remains unclear, though the FBI terrorism task force’s presence indicates a link to a terrorism motive.

Police urged anyone searching for loved ones connected to the incident to contact the department’s victim services unit.

GOP warns Democrats' DHS shutdown could jeopardize World Cup security
This is performative politics again.

The ongoing government shutdown over Homeland Security funding could disrupt security planning for the FIFA World Cup, raising concerns among lawmakers as U.S. cities prepare to host matches this summer.
Congressional Republicans warn that with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shuttered amid the funding lapse, host cities in both blue and red states gearing up for the games later this year could fall behind in planning.
"I think it'll be a concern real fast if we're not able to get [DHS] reopened," Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., told Fox News Digital.
AGENCY THAT NABBED 'EL CHAPO,' 'DIDDY' THREATENED AS DEMOCRATS' DHS SHUTDOWN DRAGS ON
The World Cup kicks off in June and will be held across the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Several U.S. cities are set to host matches, including New Jersey, New York, Boston, Dallas, Houston, St. Louis, Atlanta, Miami, Philadelphia, the San Francisco Bay Area and Seattle.
DHS is the chief agency responsible for securing host cities as local officials prepare for an influx of fans from around the world. The agency has been shuttered for two weeks, with negotiations between the White House and Senate Democrats stalled.
Sen. Andy Kim, D-N.J., told Fox News Digital he frequently discusses World Cup preparations with local officials but has not yet heard concerns about the shutdown’s impact.
SCHUMER, DEMS AGAIN BLOCK DHS FUNDING, FORCE STATE OF THE UNION SHOWDOWN
"I mean, look, if that's the concern that Republican senators have, then have them press the White House to move forward on these negotiations," Kim said. "You know, I just feel like they are not moving forward with the urgency that the American people want to see."
Congressional Democrats have blocked funding for DHS in a bid to enact reforms to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), but neither side has reached an agreement on a path forward.
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, told Fox News Digital it was clear to him the shutdown could affect the ramp-up effort to prepare for the World Cup, though he said he had not yet heard concerns from local officials.
"I think the Democrats took the wrong hostage," Cornyn said. "I mean, they're mad at immigration enforcement, which they don't believe in, but they are taking TSA and FEMA and the Coast Guard hostage, and they didn't have anything to do with that."
DEMOCRATS RISK FEMA DISASTER FUNDING COLLAPSE AS DHS SHUTDOWN HITS DAY 5
Senate Democrats argue there has been little urgency from the White House to move toward reopening DHS, citing a slowdown in negotiations over the past week.
They have put the responsibility for ending …

New Iranian supreme leader to be chosen in ‘one or two days’ after Khamenei killed
Why resist verification?

Iran’s next supreme leader could be selected within “one or two days,” Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Sunday as the country moves to fill the position left vacant after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in joint U.S. and Israeli strikes. 

Pezeshkian said the leadership transition process is already underway despite U.S.-Israeli airstrikes and Iranian retaliatory attacks across the region. 

President Donald Trump has also hinted at having a possible new leader in mind, saying, “There are some good candidates.”

EDITORIAL: THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC WAS ALWAYS DESTINED FOR THE ASH BIN OF HISTORY

Former Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi has been leading the opposition and has previously stated he would lead any transition government. Pahlavi, whose family ruled Iran before the 1979 revolution, has not yet received an endorsement from Trump.

Under Iran’s constitution, an interim leadership structure has temporarily assumed the duties of the supreme leader while a permanent successor is chosen. The caretaker body includes Pezeshkian, judiciary chief Mohseni Ejei, and senior cleric from the Guardian Council Alireza Arafi. 

THREE US SERVICE MEMBERS KILLED IN OPERATIONS AGAINST IRAN, CENTCOM SAYS

The country’s Assembly of Experts, which is an 88-member clerical body, is responsible for selecting the new supreme leader. The group is required to move quickly following a leader’s death and meets behind closed doors to deliberate among qualified senior clerics before announcing a decision. 

Khamenei’s killing during the opening phase of the U.S.-Israel military campaign has created a consequential leadership crisis in Iran, as Khamenei has ruled for 37 years. The compressed timeline reflects both constitutional requirements and pressure on Iran’s leadership to demonstrate continuity as the country faces active military conflict and internal uncertainty. 

Iranian authorities have declared national mourning while simultaneously coordinating military responses to continued Israeli strikes and defending against attacks across multiple fronts. 

Possible successors have not been publicly named, and the selection could shape Iran’s domestic direction and foreign policy posture at a moment of escalating confrontation. 

TRUMP TEASES ‘GOOD CANDIDATES’ TO LEAD AFTER KHAMENEI’S DEATH

Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) said there is looming uncertainty about how conflict in Iran will play out following Khamenei’s death.  

“We have had very little visibility into what happens next …

Democrats’ divide over Israel erupts after attacks on Iran
Are they actually going to vote on something real?

The United States’ attack on Iran is stirring up an already-roiling Democratic debate over Israel, just as primary season kicks off.

The joint U.S.-Israel military operation has put the countries’ relationship squarely at the center of the national political debate — and the role of its big-spending allies like the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which praised President Donald Trump’s strikes, front-and-center in the Democratic primaries where the group is spending.

A heated House race in North Carolina whose election is Tuesday, several contests in Illinois two weeks later and an already stormy Michigan Senate primary have been impacted by tensions over Israel’s war in Gaza and fury over heavy spending by pro-Israel organizations.

“Palestine has become a litmus test in the party,” said Matt Duss, a former foreign policy adviser to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and executive vice president at the progressive think tank Center for International Policy. “You see this in both the Michigan and Illinois primaries, where candidates are being pushed to acknowledge that Gaza is a genocide and to pledge not to take AIPAC donations. That was definitely going to continue as we move toward the 2028 presidential primary. This war [in Iran] will amplify it even more.”

AIPAC’s involvement has already upended multiple elections in Illinois, where groups aligned with the lobbying group have spent close to $14 million on four House races ahead of the state’s mid-March primary. In Tuesday’s North Carolina primaries, Israel has been a hot topic in Democratic Rep. Valerie Foushee’s reelection bid. And Middle Eastern politics loom large in Michigan’s blockbuster three-way Democratic Senate race, where there have already been sharp divisions between the candidates over Israel. Elected officials and operatives there have been fretting for months about how AIPAC could turn the race on its head and pave a way for a Republican victory for the first time since 1994.

“The war [in Iran] accentuates the risk that AIPAC's intervention will result in electing the most anti-war, anti-Israel progressive of the available candidates in some of these districts — just as it did in mine,” said former Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-N.J.), who recently lost a hotly contested House primary to now-Rep. Analilia Mejia, a much sharper critic of Israel, after AIPAC spent more than $2 million against him in a failed bid to elevate a more unabashedly pro-Israel candidate.

AIPAC isn’t backing down. In a statement Saturday, the group hailed the U.S.-Israel-led strikes as “decisive action against the terror-supporting regime in Iran.” Its super PAC, United Democracy Project, had nearly $100 million in the bank at the end of January and plans to be active in dozens of races this year, including …