Final count by #Egypt medics: 16 killed around Cairo University in clashes last night between pro-Morsi demonstrators and protesters.
— Sheera Frenkel (@sheeraf) July 3, 2013
New chant in #Tahrir: "bus, shouf/al thawra ya kharouf!" 'come see the revolution, you sheep!"
— ashraf khalil (@ashrafkhalil) July 3, 2013
Soldiers close to pro Morsi rally appear ready to move: armoured vehicles idling at parking lot entrance. Soldiers w/riot shields in jeeps.
— Kareem Fahim (@kfahim) July 3, 2013
Dear Egyptian revolutionaries: Just remember, we in US already have dibs on July 4; so hurry up or slow down
— Juan Cole (@jricole) July 3, 2013
Josh Marshall updates us on the situation:
This morning the military will or already has convened a meeting of all political factions to discuss its ‘road map’ for post-Morsi Egypt. With the military, the Interior Ministry lined up against it, significant non-MB Islamist factions standing apart and millions remaining in the street, Morsi and the Brotherhood appear already to have lost control of the state. The ‘coup’ seems almost to have happened in advance of itself. But the prospect of deadly street battles seems very real regardless.
Juan Cole was surprised by “the brevity and completely uncompromising character of the speech” Morsi gave last night:
Morsi did not offer to revise the hated constitution. He did not offer to form a government of national unity, with cabinet members from the opposition parties. This, even though his cabinet is collapsing, with six resignations, and even his own spokesmen have resigned. He did call for a reconciliation commission, and promised parliamentary elections in a few months. But these are not new ideas and are unlikely to resolve the conflict.
Marc Champion wishes that Morsi had taken a different approach:
What Mursi should have said in his rambling speech last night was that the military’s ultimatum was unnecessary, and that when he had earlier offered to engage with the protesters, he had in mind creating just the kind of road map and transitional coalition government that the armed forces appeared themselves to be proposing. What would he have had to lose? By then, at least five members of his cabinet had resigned, abandoning what they saw as a sinking ship.
Instead, Mursi decided to call the military’s bluff, always a bad move when the other side has tanks and you don’t.
The Dish 